Luke Thomas

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1,281 appearances 7 recordings 6 series first heard Oct 2024 last heard 18 Jun

Luke Thomas’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Bulwark Daily · Jon Ossoff: Trump Is a Lifelong Racist · 30 Apr 2026 podcast

But like just taking a step back, whether it's this or just the necessity of oversight and investigations, there does have to be accountability for misconduct just as a governance question.

And I don't think that the choice is between economic policies in the

exposing wrongdoing and ensuring there's accountability for it on the other.

I think both of those things are necessary.

If I were to post on social media every hour, that would not be authentic.

I don't like social media.

I don't have it on my phone.

You don't?

I see the importance of the power of reaching and organizing people using this technology, but I'm not going to pretend to be, you know, extremely online hour by hour when that's actually not how I live my life.

I'm concerned about, first of all,

the mental health crisis that's impacting a lot of young people who experience intense loneliness and who struggle with addiction to social media.

And a generation of young people whose high school and college experiences were so disrupted by the pandemic

That at the same time, this technology was getting better and better at hooking us and drawing us in.

They were also deprived of the kinds of relationships and social interactions that bring meaning to life.

And I think we've got to make a decision as a society to re-engage in genuine togetherness, whether we're in our 20s or my folks' generation.

Because the...

The folks running Silicon Valley would be perfectly happy for us all to just sit on the couch with blue light in our eyes, scrolling mindlessly and consuming whatever the algorithm serves us and forgetting how to actually be with each other because that sells more ads and gets more engagement.

But they're spying on us and manipulating us and addicting us to these technologies.

And in order for us to, I think, achieve our potential together as a nation and in order for us to be happy and functional, we got to have to get back together in physical space and recreate shared experience.

So I grew up with Daniel Platzman, who is a very close friend of mine and was the founding drummer of that band.

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