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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 9m

I honestly can’t remember i am sorry

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 15m

😭

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 16m

No but calling cats “cars” is a cat internet meme

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 4h

Eggsy: *slurp slurp* o hai
Jimmi Pickles: *papapapap*
Eggsy: 😾

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 56m

2017 conservatives: dumb libs think words are violence
2025 conseratives: words are literally violence omg bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Homan: "If the hateful rhetoric continues, there will be bloodshed. People are going to die ... there is going to be more bloodshed unless this hateful rhetoric stops."

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1h

oh i have, perfect game, 10/10, no notes

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1h

had to nope out of silksong after the sands of karak. time-limited hard ass platforming with runbacks was just too much

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 2h

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

Post from WH about Chicago "in chaos," showing scene from another state.

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Yair Rosenberg @yair-rosenberg.bsky.social · 15h

I wrote this a little over a month ago:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Yair Rosenberg @yair-rosenberg.bsky.social · 15h

I wrote this a year ago:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 2h

In 2024, I wrote a story for Texas Monthly about Michelle Haas, whose complaints resulted in the removal of books about slavery from historic Texas slave plantations. Haas sued us, alleging defamation, and was represented by the preferred lawyer of billionaire J.P. Bryan. Today, we won on appeal.

The header of the appeals court decision:

NUMBER 13-25-00005-CV

COURT OF APPEALS

THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

The conclusion of the appeals court decision, which states: The trial court's judgment is reversed. We remand the cause to the trial court with

instructions to (1) grant appellants' TCPA motion to dismiss, (2) award court costs and reasonable attorney's fees to appellants in accordance with the statute, (3) consider whether to assess sanctions against Haas in accordance with the statute. See TEX. Civ. PRAC. & REM. CODE ANN. § 27.009(a).

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 4h

We're seeing relentless attacks on freedom of speech in America today, and they reveal the ideology that's driving the Republican Party

I talked to @adamserwer.bsky.social and @maryannefranks.bsky.social about that for my newsletter

Republicans want to protect free speech for themselves and no one else

The Trump administration and Republicans in Congress continue to attack free speech in numerous ways.

madness.ghost.io

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WIRED @wired.com · 2h

Former GOP operative Scott Leiendecker just bought Dominion Voting Systems, giving him ownership of voting systems used in 27 states. Election experts have concerns.

One Republican Now Controls a Huge Chunk of US Election Infrastructure

Former GOP operative Scott Leiendecker just bought Dominion Voting Systems, giving him ownership of voting systems used in 27 states. Election experts have concerns.

wrd.cm

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 3h

Perfect game imo

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 3h

It’s fine i just wanted one easier to clean

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 4h

If you were “prematurely anti fascist” about this you were a hysterical lib, if you were wrong about it you’re a respectable intellectual with lots of billionaire connections bsky.app/profile/gtco...

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 8h

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14h

Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone.

And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.

26 U.S. Code § 7217 - Prohibition on executive branch influence over taxpayer audits and other investigations
U.S. Code
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(a)Prohibition
It shall be unlawful for any applicable person to request, directly or indirectly, any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service to conduct or terminate an audit or other investigation of any particular taxpayer with respect to the tax liability of such taxpayer.

(b)Reporting requirement
Any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service receiving any request prohibited by subsection (a) shall report the receipt of such request to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.

(c)Exceptions
Subsection (a) shall not apply to any written request made—
(1)to an applicable person by or on behalf of the taxpayer and forwarded by such applicable person to the Internal Revenue Service;
(2)by an applicable person for disclosure of return or return information under section 6103 if such request is made in accordance with the requirements of such section; or
(3)by the Secretary of the Treasury as a consequence of the implementation of a change in tax policy.
(d)Penalty
Any person who willfully violates subsection (a) or fails to report under subsection (b) shall be punished upon conviction by a fine in any amount not exceeding $5,000, or imprisonment of not more than 5 years, or both, together with the costs of prosecution.

(e)Applicable person
For purposes of this section, the term “applicable person” means—
(1)the President, the Vice President, any employee of the executive office of the President, and any employee of the executive office of the Vice President; and
(2)any individual (other than the Attorney General of the United States) serving in a position specified in section 5312 of title 5, United States Code.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 4h

Flight of the navigator reboot starring jim carrey is gonna be crazy

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 4h

Trying to monetize the nostalgia of middle aged men in a way that won’t provoke a reactionary backlash

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 4h

Coupe and minivan

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 4h

Eggsy: *slurp slurp* o hai
Jimmi Pickles: *papapapap*
Eggsy: 😾

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 5h

They’re really bad.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 5h

www.motherjones.com/politics/201...

Chief Justice Roberts’ Long War Against the Voting Rights Act

Roberts has been a critic of the Voting Rights Act for 30 years. Now he will help decide whether the law's most important section lives or dies.

www.motherjones.com

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 5h

Roberts has always felt that the suggestion that white people might discriminate on the basis of race is a profound moral injustice, much greater than black people being denied the right to vote bsky.app/profile/jayw...

Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 1d

Everything about John Roberts's approach to the Voting Rights Act makes sense when you remember that John Roberts has has always been hostile to the Voting Rights Act, never believed it was appropriate, and has spent most of his 45-year legal career working to hollow it out.

One of the Biggest Cases of the Supreme Court’s Term Is John Roberts’ Decadeslong Pet Project

If there’s one thing the Roberts court has been consistent on, it’s this.

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 20h

Glad to see this from Brown. Let's hope other universities follow the example set by Brown and MIT. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Brown University Rejects White House Deal for Special Treatment

www.nytimes.com

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