Adam Serwer
@adamserwer.bsky.social
Romanista. Buy my book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/665171/the-cruelty-is-the-point-by-adam-serwer/
I wrote about the triumph of Doing Your Own Research and the stupid, nasty thing that is replacing some very recent history in real time. defector.com/were-just-go...
We're Just Going To Keep Doing 2020 Again Until All The Wrong Stuff Is True | Defector
In a bunch of ways, there is no real percentage in remembering what things were actually like during the worst years of the COVID-19 pandemic. Beyond all the uncertainty and suffering and death, there...
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Ok this is great. Enjoying reading while I have my coffee.
Spencer McDaniel@spencermcdaniel.bsky.social · 2w agoI have a master's degree in Ancient Greek and Roman Studies, I've studied the 'Odyssey' in Ancient Greek, and I've been writing about the ancient world for over a decade. This is my exhaustive review of Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey'. #Odyssey #classics talesoftimesforgotten.com/2026/07/23/a...
Schumer/Gillibrand on @abdulelsayed.bsky.social's nomination: "Democrats are united by a common purpose: putting a check on Donald Trump by defeating his Republican enablers and taking back the Senate. We look forward to working with Abdul and Democrats across Michigan to win this seat in November."
Biden’s bet that the Inflation Reduction Act could address climate change and create jobs for voters is widely considered to have been a bust—but this is the wrong lesson to draw from his administration’s experience, @leahstokes.bsky.social argues.
Bidenomics Was More Successful Than People Think
Conventional wisdom holds that Joe Biden’s bet on climate investment was a bust. The data suggest otherwise.
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i can't be the only person who decided to replay hades ii after seeing the odyssey
my total speculation is that the social media panopticon has made social desirability bias insurmountable, and so people just don't tell the truth (this is not a dunk on the poster) bsky.app/profile/sarw...
Nicholas Sarwark@sarwark.org · 3h agoDo you think respondents are falsifying responses or that pollsters are not contacting a representative sample?
Takes like this are very tempting but IMO go too far. The polling miss last night was historically exactly average for a primary — no evidence polls have gotten worse recently. And remember 2022 had the most accurate House and Senate polls in history! bsky.app/profile/gell...
Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 5h agoThere’s no actual alternative to polling but I just don’t believe they capture public sentiment in any reliable way anymore
There’s no actual alternative to polling but I just don’t believe they capture public sentiment in any reliable way anymore
"Do unto others before they can do what you imagine they'd do unto you" Perverse
Remember the Obama-era freakout over Jade Helm, and how the fantasies fueling that GOP panic turned out to prefigure this year’s occupation of Minneapolis? This is the same dynamic. They don’t feel bad about atrocities, as long as they solely experience them as perpetrators.
Jonathan Howard@joho.bsky.social · yesterdayThese guys are freaking out over their own imaginations again.
They got people dying in camps now and they’re happy about it. bsky.app/profile/joho...
Jonathan Howard@joho.bsky.social · yesterdayThese guys are freaking out over their own imaginations again.
As a writer I try to remember that the fact that something annoys me personally does not necessarily make that thing important enough to write about
i think the death penalty should only exist for phone scammers
this is a really dumb insult because by definition he is also a "cum trophy" bsky.app/profile/stev...
steven monacelli@stevanzetti.bsky.social · yesterdaySomething I missed in this reporting... Brandon Herrera said in 2023: “Just because you let somebody creampie you doesn’t mean I have to give a shit about your political opinions. The fact that you kept your cum trophy doesn’t make you any less wrong about the dumb shit they say.” His response...
Most Black Texas voters back James Talarico over Ken Paxton in the U.S. Senate race, a poll finds, despite primary tensions. Fewer than one in 10 Black voters in Texas say they are less likely to vote in November due to U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett’s defeat in the Democratic primary. bit.ly/3TWvw6F
Senate poll: Black Texas voters stick with Talarico over Paxton
In the survey released Tuesday, just 7% of Black Texans who voted in recent elections said they are less likely to vote in November due to Rep. Jasmine Crockett’s Democratic primary loss.
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there is a strain of lefty discourse where you can’t come to any unflattering conclusions about the populace—those must be explained away by how they are being acted upon by capital—but I think you’ll understand things better if you understand capital can also exploit weaknesses it didn’t create
It’s a good sign that he feels like he has to lie. He’s absolutely full of it but it’s good that he feels like he has to do something other than blow the sun up Trump’s ass to get what he wants. bsky.app/profile/jeff...
Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis@jeffjarvis.bsky.social · yesterdayShameful: The #BrokenTimes hands David Ellison op-ed space rather than challenging his bullshit pap and propaganda about journalism with the receipts he has already delivered at CBS. That would be journalism. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/o...
they want something more like roman religion, where the empire has its state gods you must respect and which their symbols of power are linked to
James Austin@jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 2d agoA huge issue for the populist right in adopting Christianity so heavily as a identity marker against Muslims, is that the core theology of Christianity very explicitly rejects their ideas.
New polls show Trump losing support among the groups at the heart of his supposed 2024 political realignment, @dgraham.bsky.social argues in The Atlantic Daily: theatln.tc/IgEG1z6R
How ICE Is Weaponizing Social Media Against its Critics
How ICE Is Weaponizing Social Media Against its Critics
Agency says its surveillance program searches for threats to agents, but critics see free-speech infringements.
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You should be embarassed to be in middle age and doing this “my dad could beat up your dad” type shit. Unfortunately this seems to be the majority of American middle aged men bsky.app/profile/down...
Dan of the Year@downwithdan.bsky.social · 2d agoHe will never understand that being "the fat guy from Superbad" is infinitely better than being "the martial arts chud nobody likes"
"It's about protecting women's sports which, by the way, I hate more than anything in the world."
Sonicscrewdriv4@sonicscrewdriv4.bsky.social · 2d agoWhat sort of delusional BS is this??? www.mediaite.com/media/news/c...
MAGA is raging at DHS Sec Markwayne Mullin for discussing immigration reform. But the real reason MAGA is so furious is he admitted immigration can be managed in a way that benefits our country. This is absolutely lethal to white nationalist ideology. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2138...
MAGA Erupts at Trump DHS Chief—and Accidentally Exposes Big MAGA Scam
Markwayne Mullin just said the unsayable: That immigration can sometimes help the economy and the country. Now MAGA wants his head.
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Apparently DEI was the only thing standing between us and death lettuce
Reuters@reuters.com · 2d agoMichigan reports two deaths in ongoing cyclosporiasis outbreak reut.rs/4w4bd4E
no agreement with trump is binding, it's impossible that anyone at this point fails to understand that. All that's happening here is spineless toadies folding as anticipated bsky.app/profile/matt...
Matthew Gertz@mattgertz.bsky.social · 2d agoYou’d have to be a fool and/or desperate to get to yes to accept this, so it’ll probably be enough to get him confirmed. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...
Another example of the lunacy of thinking discrimination against a marginalized group won't affect you if you're not part of that group bsky.app/profile/gbbr...
Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d agoAn initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play
