Adam Serwer
@adamserwer.bsky.social
Romanista. Buy my book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/665171/the-cruelty-is-the-point-by-adam-serwer/
I guess some knowledge IS forbidden! www.chron.com/culture/arti...
Texas' 'anti-Harvard' university is losing its founders
Who will teach the "Forbidden Courses" now?
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December 18, 2025 at 9:44 PM
I guess some knowledge IS forbidden! www.chron.com/culture/arti...
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And, really, what else is the point of government?
December 18, 2025 at 9:36 PM
And, really, what else is the point of government?
Metaphors getting ever more didactic bsky.app/profile/zach...
December 18, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Metaphors getting ever more didactic bsky.app/profile/zach...
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They booked a bunch of 14 year old models to come to a Mar A Lago party, told them to dress sexy and tried to ply them with alcohol.
These are the people who are willing to go on the record.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
December 18, 2025 at 5:58 PM
They booked a bunch of 14 year old models to come to a Mar A Lago party, told them to dress sexy and tried to ply them with alcohol.
The wildest part is when it leaks whatever fallout they were trying to avoid will be ten times worse. In its own way that explains quite a bit www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
The D.N.C. Is Scrapping Its Report on What Went Wrong in 2024
www.nytimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:02 PM
The wildest part is when it leaks whatever fallout they were trying to avoid will be ten times worse. In its own way that explains quite a bit www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
the "cancel culture" panic was mostly about the feeling that the Wrong People were controlling The Discourse, once the billionaires got their hands on the wheel speech magically became free again because they could decide who got platformed bsky.app/profile/pale...
CNN has a show with a similar line. That the problem with this country is we just aren’t talking to each other.
It’s the kind of diagnosis that a toddler would land on.
It’s the kind of diagnosis that a toddler would land on.
December 18, 2025 at 4:15 PM
the "cancel culture" panic was mostly about the feeling that the Wrong People were controlling The Discourse, once the billionaires got their hands on the wheel speech magically became free again because they could decide who got platformed bsky.app/profile/pale...
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the president is illegitimate and only holds office thanks in large part to a de facto judicial coup on the part of SCOTUS
NYT: “In a newly obtained recording of a phone call from late 2020, President Trump can be heard pressing the speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives to hold a special legislative session to overturn Mr. Trump’s election loss.”
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December 18, 2025 at 12:56 PM
the president is illegitimate and only holds office thanks in large part to a de facto judicial coup on the part of SCOTUS
The collective delusion here is useful in that it has provoked conservatives to dispense with decades of bootstrap rhetoric and reveal what they would say if they thought black people were people, that is to say, if these things were happening to them
December 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
The collective delusion here is useful in that it has provoked conservatives to dispense with decades of bootstrap rhetoric and reveal what they would say if they thought black people were people, that is to say, if these things were happening to them
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weiss does not know how to run a news organization, and so she's doing what she does best: hosting fatuous "debates" involving the people in her group chats www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
Bari Weiss’ Next CBS News Move: Town Halls With JD Vance, Sam Altman and Debates About God and Feminism
The news division is also planning a town hall with Maryland Gov. Wes Moore in the 'Things That Matter' series, with Bank of America lined up as a sponsor.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:11 PM
weiss does not know how to run a news organization, and so she's doing what she does best: hosting fatuous "debates" involving the people in her group chats www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
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Saying Texas isn't a Republican state it's a nonvoting state is cope www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
The Biggest Lie in Texas Politics
Ahead of the midterm elections, the state Democratic party is leaning on an old message.
www.texasmonthly.com
December 18, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Saying Texas isn't a Republican state it's a nonvoting state is cope www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
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i was especially struck by these paragraphs, which rang very true to me. libs who grew up around conservatives aren't embarrassed to be liberals--or confused about what conservatives want. there's a certain kind of elite media man, on the other hand--
December 18, 2025 at 1:26 PM
i was especially struck by these paragraphs, which rang very true to me. libs who grew up around conservatives aren't embarrassed to be liberals--or confused about what conservatives want. there's a certain kind of elite media man, on the other hand--
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This is The Blecks fault bsky.app/profile/karl...
"Zaslav will receive $30 million in "Golden Parachute' compensation along with $537 million in equity for a total of $567 million in a transaction-associated pay."
half a billion dollars for being terrible at your job
half a billion dollars for being terrible at your job
Warner Bros. Golden Parachutes Revealed: What David Zaslav and C-Suite Will Get In a Deal
The CEO stands to gain $567 million if a deal is sealed to sell the WB empire while longtime lieutenant Gunnar Wiedenfels will see $144 million in cash and stock considerations if a transaction close...
www.hollywoodreporter.com
December 18, 2025 at 12:30 AM
This is The Blecks fault bsky.app/profile/karl...
conservatives embrace disparate impact theory exclusively when it is (not) happening to them bsky.app/profile/anth...
December 17, 2025 at 10:09 PM
conservatives embrace disparate impact theory exclusively when it is (not) happening to them bsky.app/profile/anth...
Support workers, not slop. bsky.app/profile/prop...
1/ At bargaining yesterday, @propublica.org management said that they should have 100% discretion to replace workers with AI and would not commit to labeling future AI-generated content.
December 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Support workers, not slop. bsky.app/profile/prop...
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I am reminded of Lincoln's famous letter to Joshua Speed in 1855
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![Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal, except negroes." When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and catholics." When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty-to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocracy [sic].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kok4aqdr3qnsj6ktfkq76kqz/bafkreibv56orcjfhjc2czd5kkydlzapnuem3xkzbhna4fia27pyajprzvq@jpeg)
December 17, 2025 at 12:40 PM
I am reminded of Lincoln's famous letter to Joshua Speed in 1855
quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/li...
quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/li...
December 17, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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"New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s 46-31% statewide favorability rating is up from 40-40% last month, and stands at 61-23% in New York City."
That's a surprising amount of good will, given his rivals' vitriol during and after the campaign.
That's a surprising amount of good will, given his rivals' vitriol during and after the campaign.
Kathy Hochul doing 11% points better on making New York more affordable than Stefanik is a pretty good place for Hochul to be one year out from re-election — sri.siena.edu/2025/12/16/h...
Hochul Holds 19-Point Lead Over Stefanik & Leads Blakeman by 25 Points – Siena Research Institute
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December 17, 2025 at 3:46 PM
"New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s 46-31% statewide favorability rating is up from 40-40% last month, and stands at 61-23% in New York City."
That's a surprising amount of good will, given his rivals' vitriol during and after the campaign.
That's a surprising amount of good will, given his rivals' vitriol during and after the campaign.
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NEW: Without USAID funding to help buy food for refugees, the World Food Program rushed to prioritize families based on need, determining that only half the population would get food.
Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.
Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.
After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death
“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.
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December 17, 2025 at 12:00 PM
NEW: Without USAID funding to help buy food for refugees, the World Food Program rushed to prioritize families based on need, determining that only half the population would get food.
Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.
Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.
No thesis more vindicated www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/622555... bsky.app/profile/rgoo...
December 17, 2025 at 1:04 AM
No thesis more vindicated www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/622555... bsky.app/profile/rgoo...
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Now that Trump has banned migration from 20 more countries, most in Africa, worth recalling this quote from Stephen Miller that we dredged up: "If you import the Third World, you become the Third World."
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
December 16, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Now that Trump has banned migration from 20 more countries, most in Africa, worth recalling this quote from Stephen Miller that we dredged up: "If you import the Third World, you become the Third World."
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
good luck staffing up those rural hospitals bsky.app/profile/reic...
Here is a map of the affected countries (excluding Tonga), to give you a sense of how much this new ban restricts immigration from Africa in particular.
Of the newly-added country, Nigeria faces the largest impact, with tens of thousands of visas issued every year to Nigerians.
Of the newly-added country, Nigeria faces the largest impact, with tens of thousands of visas issued every year to Nigerians.
December 16, 2025 at 10:42 PM
good luck staffing up those rural hospitals bsky.app/profile/reic...
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oh look a real unemployment problem
US jobless rate for Blacks and teens surges in November reut.rs/49gilCM
US jobless rate for Blacks and teens surges in November
The unemployment rate for two U.S. groups that are often the most vulnerable to job loss in a softening economy - Blacks and teenagers - surged to the highest levels in more than four years in November, Labor Department data showed on Tuesday.
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December 16, 2025 at 8:28 PM
oh look a real unemployment problem
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Want to circle back to this because they have gotten what they want and a big part of what they’re doing is justifying why we should continue pushing Black people out of public life regardless of who’s in office.
What's crazy is the author of this piece got his wish, but the existence of even one black writer, lead or showrunner is theft of white collective property www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
Hollywood diversity in decline despite audience demand, study finds: 'The writing was on the wall'
Despite the popularity of films like 'Wicked,' opportunities for people of color in Hollywood declined in 2024, according to the latest UCLA Hollywood Diversity Report.
www.latimes.com
December 16, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Want to circle back to this because they have gotten what they want and a big part of what they’re doing is justifying why we should continue pushing Black people out of public life regardless of who’s in office.
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I don't know, Aaron. I think we need to take this seriously. In fact, after surveying hundreds of years of history in the past few days, I've written an article assessing the originalist case here:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
December 16, 2025 at 3:58 AM
I don't know, Aaron. I think we need to take this seriously. In fact, after surveying hundreds of years of history in the past few days, I've written an article assessing the originalist case here:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....