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Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · last wk.

“Racism is good and policy should be designed to reflect that principle,” couched in euphemism, is an acceptable opinion in the anglosphere leadership class but “racism is bad and policy should be designed to reflect that principle” is wokeness gone amok and unacceptable bsky.app/profile/okwo...

Musa Okwonga@okwonga.bsky.social · 2w ago

The editor in chief of The Economist referring here to the AfD’s leader as a “perfectly thoughtful person“ instead of what she truly is - a driver and enabler of German fascism - is a huge part of the problem.

Iron Spike@ironspike.bsky.social · last wk.

The closest I've ever come to a genuine "WTF?! Since when did YOU like this?? You MADE FUN OF ME for liking this in college!!" moment was watching anime take off in the US. I've told this story before, but when I was at Spelman, I had to go to a Princess Mononoke screening totally alone. (cont)

Zero Utopia@zeroutopia.bsky.social · last wk.

Genuinely impossible to make people understand how much most the United States in the 90s hated and looked down on anime if they didn't live through it.

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 3w ago

Trump doesn’t force people to do bad things. All he did was show people they could get away with being horrible if they really wanted to, and a lot of powerful people decided they didn’t need to pretend anymore. Especially those in influential positions who could push back but did not.

Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social · 4w ago

The son of the man shot and killed by ICE: I am Ronaldo Salgado, the oldest son of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. He should've been picking up the last of his guys before heading to finish up construction. Unbeknownst to all of us, my dad had been shot inside his van by ICE agents in unmarked cars.

Reconstructionist@unavaleable.bsky.social · 4w ago

I think this presidency has been very clarifying to me personally in what I exactly I believe and who the threats to that are and which of my fellow travelers or elites don't actually give a shit (distressingly many)

Anil Dash@anildash.com · last mo.

People are always telling me the tech guys need to take humanities classes like Peter Thiel didn’t study philosophy. Perrhaps the folks advocating this line of bullshit are maybe just sort of doing the same “the solution to the problem is that I should be paid” as everybody else. The issue is power!

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Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · last mo.

Oh and it’s precisely because this is their definition that no amount of flag waving will convince them that dems or the left are patriotic; the definition of patriotism is “holding right wing beliefs”

mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · last mo.

The key difference is that they wanted Biden to lose and they want Trump to win and rule over us.

Soumya Rangarajan, MD, MPP@soumya-goblue.bsky.social · last mo.

June 2024- 206,000 jobs "U.S. Job Growth Extends Streak, but Signs of Concern Emerge" July 2024 - 114,000 jobs "Job Market Slows Significantly, Raising Economic Jitters" .... June 2026 - 57,000 jobs (with #economists predicting 115,000) - "U.S. Hiring Continues at Steady Pace...wage gains solid" 🤔

King Algamemnon@adamrothman.bsky.social · last mo.

More seriously, Adams put his finger on something vitally important to the history of the Revolution in this letter: the networks of communication and debate that created an insurgent political community in the mainland colonies.

But on the other Hand, the Delay of this Declaration to this Time, has many great Advantages attending it.—The Hopes of Reconciliation, which were fondly entertained by Multitudes of honest and well meaning tho weak and mistaken People, have been gradually and at last totally extinguished.—Time has been given for the whole People, maturely to consider the great Question of Independence and to ripen their Judgments, dissipate their Fears, and allure their Hopes, by discussing it in News Papers and Pamphletts, by debating it, in Assemblies, Conventions, Committees of Safety and Inspection, in Town and County Meetings, as well as in private Conversations, so that the whole People in every Colony of the 13, have now adopted it, as their own Act.—This will cement the Union, and avoid those Heats and perhaps Convulsions which might have been occasioned, by such a Declaration Six Months ago.
King Algamemnon@adamrothman.bsky.social · last mo.

"The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America.—I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival." - John Adams, 3 July 1776 founders.archives.gov/documents/Ad...

jamelle@jamellebouie.net · last mo.

here is what i think: we're not consumers or spectators, we are participants with agency. you should not hope that democrats will do anything. you must work to force them to do the right thing. the odds are long, but we are far from the first americans to face long odds. we will win.

jamelle@jamellebouie.net · last mo.

you know, when someone says something like "these are the things that need to be done to avert disaster" and your response is "you think democrats will do that?!?" all you're telling me is that you think politics is a spectator sport

BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · last mo.

you see the difference between Iran and America is that in one country ultimate power lies with a cabal of robed theocrats that pays only lip service to democracy, whereas the other is in the Middle East.

Max Berger@maxberger.bsky.social · last mo.

My hot take is we should listen to constitutional scholars and lawyers way, way less, and listen to comparative political scientists a lot more.

Stan Oklobdzija@stano.bsky.social · last mo.

One of the bleakest things about American politics is that we're reflexively anti expert on issues that truly have right and wrong answers, but are slavishly obsequious to experts in "the law and the constitution" despite that field being completely made up and fake.