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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 56m

Smells like flop sweat bsky.app/profile/hoov...

Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 13h

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 4h

1)You may remember the articles criticizing liberal students for their hesitancy to make friends with conservative students—alleging that they were less open-minded than their conservative counterparts.

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 12h

Here are the little darlings they’ve created. Horrifying.

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‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2h

They know, even when they pretend to be offended

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 11h

Damn, folks. This left-wing political correctness on campus at (*checks notes*) … er, Indiana University? — is out of control.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 12h

Australia golazo from Bos

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 13h

Literally nothing coming from the Pentagon, DHS, or DOJ should be considered credible unless backed up by an independent source outside of government. (This, for the record, is a huge problem!)

MFordTheRiver @prynnford.bsky.social · 14h

Of all the things that didn’t happen

Screen shot of ABC article with the headline “cartels issuing bounties up to 50k for hits on ICE and CBP agents, DHS says.”

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 22h

Butters is gone, but the dream of Killing All Humans lives

Orange kitty benne and tortie kitten jimmi pickles discuss strategy with neighborhood orange creamsicle cat mcavity, who is joining the meeting from the window

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 18h

I know it smell crazy in there

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 19h

It’s been fun being attacked for years for saying bigotry motivates these people more than low taxes and small government

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 19h

Turns out your assumptions about what republican group chats are like is correct www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23h

the position of the administration it seems is that it is illegal discrimination and divisive racism for historically excluded groups to organize on that basis to improve their position. it’s basically just a genteel version of david duke’s complaint that there wasn’t a NAACP for white people

Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 1d

I know it is beside the point because this administration simply wants resegregation but conferences for Black professional associations have always been open to everyone. Typically, the started as a response to white exclusion, and did not replicate that.

Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 1d

Very bad: OSU unilaterally cancelled the registration of grad students attending the joint conference of the National Society of Black Physicists and the National Society of Hispanic Physicists. And OSU won't fund recruiting at the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 21h

You will very rarely see this type of identity politics named and condemned as such bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 21h

Political violence/adventurism isn’t going to save anyone. That’s why they’re begging for it and insisting it’s happening when it’s not.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 22h

If that’s your position then your criticisms should be directed at figures with the authority to recruit a militia, not protesters who are exhibiting remarkable discipline in not responding to provocations. But to be clear, armed overthrow of the us government is not in the cards here.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 22h

Please clarify. I understand how nonviolence inhibits the WH desire to use military force to quell protests. How does announcing "we're learning to use guns" alter anything at all? Or is there a next step? Please be specific about what you mean.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 22h

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Why Conservatives Invented a ‘Right to Post’

You have a right to free speech as long as you are saying what conservatives want you to say.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 22h

Free speech is when Republicans can say what they want and when you can say what they want. bsky.app/profile/noup...

Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 22h

I'm sorry, is the Trump Administration talking to a tech platform?

Is it...requesting content moderation?

Today following outreach from @thejusticedept, Facebook removed a large group page that was being used to dox and target @ICEgov agents in Chicago.
The wave of violence against ICE has been driven by online apps and social media campaigns designed to put ICE officers at risk just for doing their jobs. The Department of Justice will continue engaging tech companies to eliminate platforms where radicals can incite imminent violence against federal law enforcement.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 22h

Yeah not rewarding the opposition’s strategy is good. Do you have suggestions for what they should do instead?

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 22h

They are pursing a "strategy of tension" but there's no red brigades to help them out. bsky.app/profile/sjsh...

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 1d

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

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MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 22h

Butters is gone, but the dream of Killing All Humans lives

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 1d

Du Bois basically did a version of this in his bibliography in Black Reconstruction

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(These authors believe the Negro to be sub-human and congenitally un-
fitted for citizenship and the suffrage.)
Burgess, John W., Reconstruction and the Constitution, 1 866-1 876.
Coulter, E. Merton, Civil War and Reconstruction in Kentucky.
Davis, William W ., The Civil War and Reconstruction in Florida.
Dunning, William A., Reconstruction, Political and Economic .
Eckenrode, F. Hamilton, Political History of Virginia During Reconstruc·
tion.
Fertig, James Walter, The Secession and Reconstruction of Tennessee.
Ficklen, John R., History of Reconstruction in Louisiana.
Fleming, Walter F., Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama.
--, Documentary History of Reconstruction, 1 906, 1907.
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Hollis, John Porter, The Early Period of Reconstruction in South Carolina.
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liam K. Boyd.
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litical, l 805-1 872.
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Gore Vidal Sassoon @jimmyjazz1968.bsky.social · 1d

Do not speak to me or my very smol daughter ever again

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d

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Orange creamsicle kitty Eggsy and tortie kitten jimmi pickles making eye contact

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 1d

How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:

"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”

Federal agents invaded even the offices of The Crisis and the National Association for the advancement of colored people and asked searching questions: " just what, after all, were our objects and activities?” I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, “We are seeking to have the constitution of the United states thoroughly and completely enforced.” It took some ingenuity, even for Southerners, to make treason out of that.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

I disagree www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carls...

PragerU posts a video about Christopher Columbus that features a racist depiction of indigenous people

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