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ejdionne.bsky.social
This description by @AdamSerwer of the logic of the Alito ruling completing the demolition the Voting Rights is devastating—and right

“Trying to disenfranchise Black voters isn’t racist; preventing Louisiana from disenfranchising Black voters is racist.”

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Voters Can Be Disenfranchised Now
Just say it’s because they’re Democrats.
www.theatlantic.com
April 30, 2026 at 2:01 AM
yinkadoubledare.bsky.social
The classic of the genre
(from www.buzzfeed.com/adamserwer/h...)
February 6, 2025 at 11:05 PM
dennisbhooper.bsky.social
Adam Serwer @AdamSerwer Two kinds of stories i just assume are fake until proven otherwise: Stuff in food Nasty message on receipt 7:10 AM • 6/16/20 - Twitter for iPhone
January 13, 2026 at 1:58 AM
yinkadoubledare.bsky.social
Ah yes, reminds me of this classic
www.buzzfeed.com/adamserwer/h...
January 28, 2025 at 5:50 PM
rolandsmartin.bsky.social
We are gonna #BringTheFunk on tonight’s #RolandMartinUnfiltered! Topics: @TheAtlantic’s @AdamSerwer will join us to talk Donald Trump and @elonmusk’s plan to re-segregate America. Read: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...;
The Great Resegregation
The Trump administration’s attacks on DEI are aimed at reversing the civil-rights movement.
www.theatlantic.com
February 24, 2025 at 10:35 PM
adamserwer.bsky.social
Tiny letter is folding, so I’m moving my (long dormant) newsletter to buttondown. If you were subscribed you still are, if you want to you can subscribe here. I’m gonna figure out some way to make it useful soon buttondown.email/adamserwer
January 4, 2024 at 1:18 AM
adamserwer.bsky.social
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As for the grand jury in New Orleans empowered to look into the lynchings, their report demanded that Congress enact tougher immigration laws, concluding that Italy had conspired to send its criminals to the United States. “We doubt not that the Italian government would rather be rid of them than charged with their custody and punishment,” the report reads. “The time has passed when this country can be made a dumping ground for the worthless and depraved of every nation.”
December 23, 2025 at 1:03 PM
marynlm.bsky.social
The Trump administration’s attempt to demote Senator Mark Kelly has a broader aim, @AdamSerwer argues: “to silence other service members who might speak out about the Trump administration’s actions”:
January 7, 2026 at 10:25 PM
michaelby.bsky.social
"This matter is no longer just about deportations or undocumented immigrants. The Trump administration's defiance of a Supreme Court order is a new step into presidential lawlessness," writes @AdamSerwer:
April 14, 2025 at 8:37 PM
gjabberbox.bsky.social
The Trump administration’s attempt to demote Senator Mark Kelly has a broader aim, @AdamSerwer argues: “to silence other service members who might speak out about the Trump administration’s actions”: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
The Military Isn’t MAGA
The Trump administration attempts to silence veterans.
www.theatlantic.com
January 8, 2026 at 11:40 AM
artd.bsky.social
not a joke.
source
www.buzzfeed.com/adamserwer/h...
joshksky.bsky.social Josh K-sky @joshksky.bsky.social · Jan 12
Never forget
Men's rights activists often cite the first time they realized it's a woman's world. They call these "red pill" moments, after the scene in The Matrix when the main character is faced with the decision to swallow a red pill and recognize the true nature of the world or take a blue pill and continue living a lie. For Elam, that revelation came at age 13, when his mother tried to force him to take his diarrhea medicine.
January 12, 2026 at 2:29 PM
adamserwer.bsky.social
Earlier if we’re counting! www.buzzfeed.com/adamserwer/h...
How A 125-Year-Old Mass Lynching Tried To Make America Great Again
In the hysteria following the murder of a New Orleans police chief, 11 Italian-Americans were lynched by a vigilante mob angry about the city's influx of immigrants. Here's how the past and future of ...
www.buzzfeed.com
April 23, 2025 at 4:06 PM
gjabberbox.bsky.social
“America has been at war for nearly a week, but the president who started the war can’t explain why,” @AdamSerwer writes:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
The American King Goes to War
This is not what the Founders intended.
www.theatlantic.com
March 13, 2026 at 10:32 AM
jimhenleymusic.bsky.social
“But Jim!” you object. “Putting detained immigrants back on the job defeats the whole point!” Oh no my friend. For as the sage (@adamserwer) taught us: the point is cruelty. Among Trump’s base, chained immigrants under the gun will just hit different than those same folks living freely. 8/
May 21, 2024 at 4:01 PM
amandamarcotte.bsky.social
Read this piece by @AdamSerwer and not just because he hat tips my work on this concern trolling of women to marry Trumpers. He's a lot nicer than I am about it, but same point: Women are not obliged to sacrifice themselves so redhats are less lonely.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Marriage Plot
There’s a reason politics is reshaping relationships.
www.theatlantic.com
December 22, 2023 at 3:12 PM
gjabberbox.bsky.social
The longevity of the Mafia in Italy serves as a warning that, once this style of rule embeds itself in the state, it is “very difficult to extract,” @AdamSerwer argues. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
The Mafia Presidency
Trump is saying, essentially, If you don’t want to get hurt, you’ll do what I say.
www.theatlantic.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:01 AM
espiers.bsky.social
And I think I wanted to do opinion writing because there are writers that have made me think more rigorously through an issue via opinion. I posted earlier “today in the cruelty is the point” and most of you know that frame. It’s from an @adamserwer column
April 11, 2025 at 8:25 PM
gen3sf.bsky.social
"Hungarians decided that a major source of their problems was Orbán himself," @AdamSerwer writes. "Maybe someday Americans will come to a similar realization about Orbán’s great admirer, Donald Trump":

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
The Scapegoat Scam
Hungarians stopped falling for an authoritarian’s trick.
www.theatlantic.com
April 18, 2026 at 8:37 PM
davidho.bsky.social
It's not even 8 am here in Hawaiʻi, and this will already be my favorite thing on the internet today.

@adamserwer.bsky.social
A screenshot of a Bluesky social media post thread in dark mode. At the top, a post by user Joe Gordon (@joegordon.bsky.social, Joined Aug '23, posted 15m ago) features a profile picture of a smiling man with glasses, captioned: "Things Atlantic writers / Bari/ subpar NYT op-ed writers DON'T say:". Embedded within Joe's post is a quoted post by Adam Serwer (@adamserwer... 1h, Joined May '23) with a blue checkmark, which reads: "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". Below Joe's post, Adam Serwer (@adamserwer.bsky.social, Joined May '23) replies with a blue butterfly icon next to his profile picture, stating: "I am literally an atlantic writer", posted at 7:37 AM · Aug 4, 2026.
August 4, 2026 at 5:55 PM
gjabberbox.bsky.social
Renee Nicole Good was killed yesterday by an ICE officer in Minneapolis—now her family has to cope not only with their loss “but with a campaign designed to justify her killing,” @AdamSerwer argues: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
First the Shooting. Then the Lies.
The Trump administration has perfected the smear campaign.
www.theatlantic.com
January 8, 2026 at 8:30 PM
gjabberbox.bsky.social
“Americans are facing a bizarre epidemic of gullibility and cynicism”—one “that is drawing people into a world of conspiracism and falsehoods,” @AdamSerwer argues. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Gullible, Cynical America
The trouble with believing anything and nothing at the same time
www.theatlantic.com
March 17, 2026 at 9:40 AM
gjabberbox.bsky.social
Louisiana's case against the FDA would affect access to the abortion drug mifepristone nationwide—and “whatever happens next, the legal battle reveals that the paradise of abortion federalism is a fraud,” @AdamSerwer argues.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
So Much for Leaving Abortion Up to the States
Louisiana’s case against the FDA is not just about one drug.
www.theatlantic.com
June 14, 2026 at 6:36 PM
greene.haus
Mm-hm. (h/t @adamserwer.bsky.social: twitter.com/adamserwer/s...)
Adam Serwer commenting in Jan. 2020 on a then-new Christopher Caldwell tome that condemned the civil rights movement as a mistake: “Whenever people make this absurd point it's supposed to be a reaction to present circumstances, but it's the exact same argument Redeemers made before they overthrew the Reconstruction governments by force: Minorities having the same rights as white men is tyranny.” From a review of the book: “The civil rights revolution, to Caldwell, is nothing less than constitutional in scope — or, more precisely, anti-constitutional, because it overturns ‘the de jure constitution of 1788, with all the traditional forms of jurisprudential legitimacy and centuries of American culture behind it,’ replacing it with a ‘new, minoritarian constitution’ that pushes race-consciousness into every cranny of society. “White men, the losers in the new order, responded by adopting their own identitarian, victim-group mind-set. …”
January 12, 2024 at 7:37 PM
ericmgarcia.bsky.social
The great @adamserwer.bsky.social wrote about how the city of New Orleans committed the biggest mass-lynching of Italian Americans when it killed 11 people in broad daylight and punished no one. www.buzzfeed.com/adamserwer/h...
How A 125-Year-Old Mass Lynching Tried To Make America Great Again
In the hysteria following the murder of a New Orleans police chief, 11 Italian-Americans were lynched by a vigilante mob angry about the city’s influx of immigrants. Here’s how the past and future of ...
www.buzzfeed.com
April 27, 2026 at 3:22 PM
barbiesayswhat.bsky.social
As @adamSerwer wrote: The Cruelty is the Point. Applies to EVERYTHING drump musk and republicans are doing TO the American people. Disgusting & hateful. Why do they hate Americans? They just Do.Not.Care. #Maddow
March 20, 2025 at 1:58 AM