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Deborah Baker
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Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist. Guggenheim, Cullman, Whiting Fellow. Charlottesville: An American Story June 2025 Graywolf Press. www.deborahbaker.net
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The full article is well worth reading. Here’s the gift link from the author—and the only reason to pay attention to the Atlantic—Adam Serwer 2/2 @adamserwer.bsky.social
Conservatives Want the Antebellum Constitution Back
The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments are in trouble.
www.theatlantic.com
December 22, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Conservatives: The constitution is colorblind, discrimination does not justify reverse discrimination

Also conservatives: white men deserve reparations for not having 100 percent of the jobs they apply for
December 18, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Oceans of data on job, education and housing discrimination:
Try harder, losers, stop blaming everyone else

Anecdotal evidence and innumeracy:
There's no point in trying, the deck is stacked against us and it is a great injustice that must be rectified
December 18, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Me too
December 11, 2025 at 12:22 AM