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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 9h

There’s no reason why I, a person who listens to basically zero country music, should enjoy darius rucker’s version of wagon wheel so much. Also on this playlist it leads into pharoahe monch’s queens and that shouldn’t work well either

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 17h

It's not just that they're going to strike down a law against conversion therapy, it's that they're going to do it on behalf of made-up claims from a straw plaintiff who can't honestly show the law affected her at all

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 17h

One thing about American's widespread distrust and disapproval of the Supreme Court is that mainstream news coverage mostly doesn't dwell on stuff like standing, so people don't even begin to grasp how rigged the Court truly is www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Supreme Court Live Updates: Justices Seem Set to Rule Against Colorado’s Ban on Conversion Therapy

www.nytimes.com

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 16h

like every red blooded rock ribbed heterosexual, I constantly publicly declare how not gay i am

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 20h

the best part is there's no evidence for any of the assumptions in the piece at all, just assertions that segregation is good but completely in euphemism

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 20h

There's no justice department to prosecute them for any abuses so they feel like they can do anything they want

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 21h

To be clear those guys are all idiots and the fact that people get their news from comedians who are trying to get a laugh and don't care about a single fucking detail of anything beyond that is very bad

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 21h

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 1d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 22h

I like that there’s not a single argument here for why discrimination makes the military more effective or even a frank admission that’s what he wants

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 1d

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
trib.al/9Sxu9IN

Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Glo @gloteal.bsky.social · 1d

The Atlantic staff writer @adamserwer.bsky.social on why law firms, universities, and tech companies have been cutting deals with the Trump administration — and what happens to everyday Americans as a result. www.youtube.com/shorts/XLDlO...

Why Are U.S. Companies Cutting Deals with Trump?

YouTube video by Amanpour and Company

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

If you don’t want the us military being used against its own population you just don’t love the troops enough

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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 1d

Last week: When I heard Marwan Marouf had been swept up in connection with decades-old charitable donations, my mind went to his gentle voice we sometimes had to strain to hear at the mosque.

Trump's ICE Has Arrested a Pillar of the Dallas Muslim Community. I Grew Up Hearing His Calls for Compassion.

When I heard Marwan Marouf had been swept up in connection with decades-old charitable donations, my mind went to his gentle voice we sometimes had to strain to hear at the mosque.

www.texasobserver.org

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

Lawyer brain =\= being a lawyer

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

Get back to work is such a funny thing for a congressman to say but i bet there are a lot of conservatives looking up from a few hours playing candy crush or hay fever and nodding their heads solemnly bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "We said, 'don't sit on your couch and play video games'- by the way, also not a talking point. There was an AEI study, I think one of the organizations that polled this, and most of these young men who are not working are sitting around literally playing video games. Get back to work"

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

Lawyer brain. “He can’t do x y z that’s against the law.”

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 1d

Megyn Kelly has now made multiple denigrating posts about me across X, YouTube, her podcast so I’m sharing this. Unlike her, I don't perform dislike and disdain in public,then become my real self when the cameras are off. That's the definition of the grift she accuses me of;I find it profoundly sad.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 1d

David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

That phrasing doesn’t appear in the post. learn english, thanks

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

John Roberts’ Constitution: The federal government protecting people’s right to vote or giving them health care violates the sacred principle of state sovereignty but if the deranged POTUS and his bloodthirsty advisers want to use the military to invade other states for being too liberal that’s fine

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d

The key thing about toxic fans is this: they lowkey despise the team for not winning every time and letting them live vicariously through that

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d

There’s an essay to be written about how maga patriotism is just shitty fandom. Anyone who follows sports knows fans like this, it’s always the ref’s fault, the other team doesn’t exist, there’s some plot/player/coach holding the team back otherwise they’d always win easy bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "The problem with Vietnam, we, you know, we stopped fighting to win. We would've won easy. We would've won Afghanistan easy. We would've won every war easy. But we got politically correct. 'Oh, let's take it easy.' We're not politically correct anymore, just so you understand."

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d

The president is trying to deploy military force against American citizens based on deranged fantasies bsky.app/profile/acyn...

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

Trump: Portland is burning to the ground—insurrectionists all over the place. The politicians are afraid for their lives. That’s the only reason they say there’s nothing happening.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d

The “alliance” is that conservatives want to discriminate and people to their left think that’s bad

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