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Adam Gussow

@adamgussow.bsky.social
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Husband, father, professor, author, musician, aging runner, car guy, Satan & Adam www.youtube.com/watch?v=xShEK6bKTfo www.amazon.com/stores/author/B001HD…?

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Adam Gussow @adamgussow.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I finally caught up with Sydney Sweeney's ad for Novig. It's cheeky, witty, and perfectly calibrated to provoke the outrage it has provoked. A fan of women's sports, I found it unobjectionable. Unusual, too, in the way it configures Aphrodite as a trickster. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bp0T...
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Novig is Just Sports
YouTube video by Novig
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Adam Gussow @adamgussow.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Really fun time with the Memphis table tennis club this morning. I’m working on comeback #4. (In the mid 70s I was briefly top 25 under 17 nationally.) No photo. All praise due to my brilliant teachers over the past 50 years: Dell Sweeris, George Brathwaite, Atanda Musa, Danny Seemiller,
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Since becoming president again, Trump has promised: -$5000 stimulus checks via "DOGE dividend" -$2000 stimulus checks via "tariff dividend" -$1000+ checks via "savings" from expiring ACA subsidies -$5000 "dividend" if Rs win midterms No checks have been issued www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-magi...
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Adam Gussow @adamgussow.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Graff’s article is spot-on analysis and gripping narrative.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 19/08/2026
According to a report from MS NOW, the USS Abraham Lincoln wasn’t resupplied because Iranian strikes destroyed a key Navy resupply base in the Middle East. trib.al/4kILIc6
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Hegseth Covered Up the Real Reason the USS Lincoln Wasn’t Resupplied
According to a report from MS NOW, the USS Abraham Lincoln wasn’t resupplied because Iranian strikes destroyed a key Navy resupply base in the Middle East.
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Adam Gussow @adamgussow.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
What she worry? (With apologies to Alfred E. Neumann.)
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Adam Gussow @adamgussow.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
A needed piece, written with coruscating clarity. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Jason Arday’s Final Self-Delusion
Elevating a fraud is shameful. Exposing one isn’t.
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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Well what a fucked story, from beginning to end. He clearly needed to be removed from his position before it ever got to this point. A whole lot of people enabled him to build a life on lies, and when the lies finally collapsed, they did so in the most public way and he couldn't live with it.
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Adam Gussow @adamgussow.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I did a deep dive into the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson in my 2025 memoir, "My Family and I." My take is slightly different than Eli Steele's--not in the matter of the lie by Dorian Johson, nor in Ferguson at Twelve: The Lie That Divided a Nation manofsteele.substack.com/p/ferguson-a...
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Ferguson at Twelve: The Lie That Divided a Nation
They knew which bodies were innocent and not and it had nothing to do with truth.
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Adam Gussow @adamgussow.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Please don’t eat the daisies was the title of a book by Erma Bombeck. The things you didn’t realize needed to be explicitly stated.
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Adam Gussow @adamgussow.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
A thorough and fair accounting of dismal institutional failure. A Top Scholar’s Fall Shows That Universities Don’t Get It www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/o...
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Opinion | A Top Scholar’s Fall Shows That Universities Don’t Get It
By protecting a star from plagiarism charges, a storied college undermined its values.
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Adam Gussow @adamgussow.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Too many inconsistencies between his claims and the truth, as it’s slowly coming into focus. Star Scholar Resigns as Cambridge Announces Investigation Into His Record www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/b...
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Star Scholar Jason Arday Resigns From Cambridge
Jason Arday was hired by the University of Cambridge in 2023 as the youngest Black professor in its history. Doubt has since been cast on his academic qualifications and claims about his life.
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Adam Gussow @adamgussow.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
My blues quartet just returned from a tour. My son, 20, joined us for the first time. m.youtube.com/watch?v=5ETl...
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Sir Rod & the Blues Doctors, I Got You (I Feel Good) (2026)
YouTube video by Gussow's classic blues harmonica videos
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Adam Gussow @adamgussow.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Carolyn Rouse blew it in a way that you’d hope a Princeton professor would manage not to. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Explaining Sex to an Anthropologist
The president of the field’s leading professional association was asked about a polarizing topic—and showed that she doesn’t understand the position she is dismissing.
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Adam Gussow @adamgussow.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Congratulations to Robert Serrano for being very clear about the presence of AI-assisted cheating in his classroom, and for holding all the right people's hands--not just students, but academic admins who should know better--to the fire. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
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The Ivy League Cheating Scandal No One Wants to Talk About
Roberto Serrano believes half his class used AI to cheat. He says administrators at Brown don’t seem to care.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 07/07/2026
The GOP nominated Ken Paxton 6 weeks ago
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Adam Gussow @adamgussow.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Re: Team USA soccer. “Blues isn’t about good vs evil. It’s about good and evil eaten off the same plate.” F Trump. Go team!
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Adam Gussow @adamgussow.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
It’s a bad idea to imitate the Puritans—unless you’re a Puritan.
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Ted Gioia @tedgioia.bsky.social · 18/11/2023
What happens when you ask a blues legend to give you a music lesson (from Adam Gussow).
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Adam Gussow @adamgussow.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Is this true? Doesn’t Amazon pay corporate income tax? If they do, some proportion of those taxes goes to the DOT, and some proportion of those funds goes to the Federal Highway Administration Administration.
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Adam Gussow @adamgussow.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
I like it.
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Adam Gussow @adamgussow.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Uh oh.
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Adam Gussow @adamgussow.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Proud to be an American. #artemis
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly: - Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat) - Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex) - Humming (stimulates vagus nerve) - Exercise (anything helps, outside even better) - Impeachment and removal
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Adam Gussow @adamgussow.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
As one who remembers well the humiliation of Jimmy Carter’s failed desert rescue mission in Iran, with the charred bodies and helicopters on the cover of Newsweek, I’m proud of what the US military managed to do over the weekend. Trump remains a madman, an anathema. But I’m proud.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
There is no excuse for downplaying or eliding the insanity of Trump’s morning post. It is the most unhinged public comment by a president in US history and should be reported and remarked upon as such.
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Adam Gussow @adamgussow.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
The poor man needs an intervention.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
You might forward this story to every Marine you know.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Let's focus on something we ALL agree on: #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files
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Adam Gussow @adamgussow.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Hard to argue with this summary.
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Adam Gussow @adamgussow.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
A paean to Robert Mueller and the masculine virtues he exemplified. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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No Mercy / No Malice: The Manosphere & Robert Mueller
Podcast Episode · The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway · March 28 · 16m
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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
The new $200 billion request is basically equivalent to the cost for universal free school breakfasts and lunches for all students across the United States for a decade
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Adam Gussow @adamgussow.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
How’s that heel doing, Achilles?
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Adam Gussow @adamgussow.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Thanks, @bariweiss.skystack.xyz . Another excellent episode of @60minutes.bsky.social. You are giving the US government hell, in the best way: without fear or favor.
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Adam Gussow @adamgussow.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
GrrrrrrrrrrrrrRUFFFFF!
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Adam Gussow @adamgussow.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Who will tell him?
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Marcus Rediker @marcusrediker.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Writing tip #1: No matter where you are in the writing process, imagine your ideal audience and write for it – small, large, simple, complex: friends, family, community, scholars, activists, children, theatre-goers, the general public. You pick the combination & decide to whom you want to speak.
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Adam Gussow @adamgussow.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Sheesh is the only appropriate response.
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Adam Gussow @adamgussow.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
@60minutes.bsky.social keeps cranking out interesting stories, including the one right now about how federal judges are under the gun thanks to Trump. Amazing how all this gets through when “MAGA Bari” is in charge. Maybe she’s not the Antichrist but actually doing a good job.
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Adam Gussow @adamgussow.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
This seems like something the DOJ should pursue. newrepublic.com/post/206957/...
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Adam Gussow @adamgussow.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Evidence-free judgement is a bad look.
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Adam Gussow @adamgussow.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Amazing how many here were delighted—salivating, snarling—to write off 60 Minutes, Bari, CBS. Did they watch the show this evening? Or have they already moved on?
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Adam Gussow @adamgussow.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
x.com/i/grok/share... Thanks, Grok.
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I believe that my video, linked below, is the very first video on YouTube in which somebody is speaking to the camera from the front seat of a car. Am I wrong? It was uploaded on February 24, 2007. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wwRb7G3nJw4
It looks like your video "Blues Harmonica Secrets Revealed (Gussow.006)" from the Modern Blues Harmonica channel, uploaded in late February 2007, is indeed the earliest documented example on YouTube of someone delivering direct-to-camera content (in this case, an instructional talk) from the front seat of a car. While early YouTube had plenty of car-related clips—like drive footage, music videos, or kids messing around in back seats—none of the searches turned up anything predating yours that matches the specific format of a person addressing viewers head-on from the driver's seat. Your ongoing series popularized that raw, in-car tutorial style, and it's cool to see how it's influenced harmonica players over the years.
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Adam Gussow @adamgussow.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Does anybody think it IS a sin to be white? Oh that’s right—the wokeness stuff circa 2015-2021, where some social justice fundamentalists actually did talk about white sinfulness, white guilt, etc. It’s not surprising that some red state politicos take that bad idea and run with it.
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Adam Gussow @adamgussow.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
I don’t speak or understand Spanish. Just English and French. So I’m having a hard time here and am inclined to change the channel.
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Adam Gussow @adamgussow.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
www.facebook.com/share/r/1GUR... He’s got it.
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Redirecting...
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Adam Gussow @adamgussow.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
After the North Mississippi ice apocalypse, I just spent a week making coffee and cooking beans over a tiny white gas stove on the back porch in 20 degree temps. Then I brought hot stuff back into the living room. Speak for yourself.
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Adam Gussow @adamgussow.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Messy! Those who know, know.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
A reminder that the Kennedy Center is the literal and legal and congressional designated presidential memorial to JFK. This would be like Trump tearing down the Lincoln Memorial to build something “better.”
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Adam Gussow @adamgussow.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Nice job, Bari Weiss and 60 Minutes. That was a fair and balanced, MAGA-unfriendly report on the troubles in Minneapolis. Rumors of your demise are greatly exaggerated.
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