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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 22h

The right wing crash out over asian students celebrating at a UT football game reveals that all along the true goal of reactionary colorblindness was never “meritocracy” but resegregation. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

Color-blind meritocracy was, for many years, a successful rhetorical strategy for undermining antidiscrimination law and excluding Black people from selective schools and prominent positions. That’s why so many former segregationists seemed to suddenly embrace the concept in the 1970s. For them, resegregation—not color-blindness—was always the goal. As long as the success of some immigrants could be used to paint Black students as undeserving, color-blind meritocracy was good. But now many on the right see a new problem: too many Asian Americans in elite spaces. Their success, therefore, must be portrayed as a sinister theft of real (white) Americans’ birthright.

The declining “social trust” that the administration warned against is, of course, not the fault of these students. The problem is bigots like Bo French who cannot accept into their community people who do not share their race and religion, and those who monetize or otherwise profit from that bigotry by spreading it through social media. Like the proverbial child who kills their parents and asks for mercy as an orphan, they are responsible for the problem they are decrying.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"The US will endorse war criminals and attempt to ruin the lives of people working to bring them to justice" was something every elite understood to be the actual stakes of the 2024 election but the news outlets the elites controlled told voters Tim Walz's trip to China in 1989 was a bigger deal

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

He’s mad our country is run by crooks and murderers and so am I. I’m no longer interested in negotiating with these people and neither is he.

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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 09/10/2026

Because he's one of the only people standing next to a Republican going, "this person is a piece of shit, I don't respect him, neither should you, he's fucking evil and he needs to go, and I don't care if it makes me sound rude saying it" LIKE EVERY DEMOCRAT SHOULD BE DOING??? MAYBE???

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Sam Altman said people are just gonna have to die in order to implement AI. In the very same week, Anthropic claimed it’s a human rights violation to be mean to the computer. These people need to be held accountable. They think lines of code are a person with rights but living people are debris.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026

huh, interesting that vance thinks this is the worst terrorist attack and not oklahoma city

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Mamdani, in closing, on today's ICE shooting: "This is an agency that must be abolished."

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Okay fine. I will win the NFC East.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The American white collar workforce started working from home three days a week for like six months a year into COVID and executives so thoroughly lost their minds over this that they installed Trump II. If anything, AI will create the 7-day workweek.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026

Ossoff: "If John Lewis were marching today from Selma to Montgomery, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club"

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026

jesus christ i have never heard a democratic talk this bluntly about an opponent

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

the scary thing is that this story probably isn't even true, it's probably some guy typing "Generate a ragebait story about AI use to juice my Twitter engagement" into an LLM

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2026

a livestreamed execution is just a lynching

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

they did the thing

an october 11 2025 post from me reading: every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

how can you not want to read to a kid, you get to do all the voices and shit like what tf is wrong with these people

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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

the Vice President of the United States has gone on record citing this man as one of his biggest intellectual influences if you didn't know this, it's probably because for some reason literally no mainstream political media outlets think it's worth mentioning

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2026

the funny thing about this of course is that "athenian democracy" was a cautionary tale to the framers, who saw it as unstable and prone to demagogues and tyrants like the one rubio works for

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Horrifying: Arizona Democratic congressional candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia was raped by a man after he knocked her out. Another man approached her to do the same. “She began swinging her foot at him. ‘Not even worth it,’ she heard the man say as he moved away.”

phoenixnewtimes.com

Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs

Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This thing where reporters simply do not check trump supporters' public social media posts at all, and editors don't give a shit either, has to stop

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

lmao the piece literally argues children are the problem for wanting positive relationships with their parents

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

why would you cite a survey of parents and not children to uncover the behavior of the children

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

they're taking over the country and destroying it as revenge for MeToo

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

imagine if the mainstream media covered Republicans' number one donor — the biggest political donor in US history! — and his controversial views with as much scrutiny as they covered Hasan Piker's

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

they were *lying* when they were "worried" about Asian-American college applicants, and they are *lying* now when they're "worried" about "strivers." They do not want non-white people being in any way superior (or evident) to white people. that's it. that's the whole thing.

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

they're all just lying, it is tremendous lying, but it is just lying

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Other than an aside on the "white nationalism that has emerged out of the dark corners of the internet," (which she she pairs with the "excesses of work") Slade makes no mention of the role of race in the construction of the modern conservative movement. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/o...

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Opinion | With Trump Flailing, Some Conservatives Are Having Second Thoughts About Trumpism

What is the future of the conservative movement?

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The New York Times employs hundreds of reporters and thousands of staff overall and I think there are like 12 total people at the paper who like Trump and want to help him. Unfortunately a bunch of them are editors or work on the national politics desk bsky.app/profile/thor...

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

one of the ways the media shows which side they prefer, is which politicians they quote uncharitably out-of-context and which they clean up for even when what they actually say and do is offensive (the Biden story ran on the front page less than a week before the 24 election)

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

this is all a joke to them because far-right conservatives think that rape is good, and that high status men should be entitled to rape any women around them who are not also already attached to other high-status men. this is their actual ideology

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Luis Paez-Pumar @lpp.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Queen Hayley

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Saying he'd be cool with Iran nuking my home city is pretty bad but not quite as bad as when Hillary said some trump supporters were deplorable so I can see why the media turned the latter into a major scandal and not the former

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Why is reducing ideological bias a goal? To what end? Politics is almost always a fight over values, not facts. I don’t care if I am “biased” towards social justice, whatever that means.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"De-Trumpification" has to be one of the top agenda items if Dems win power. All the lawlessness and every last one of his efforts to turn DC into an imperial capital should be undone.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Seems like if you're going to make a national story out of Hasan Piker, who campaigned a few times with the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, saying Israel causes antisemitism, you should also make a national story out of the favorite intellectual of the US Vice President supporting Hitler.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026

anyway in a just world a giant cartoon piano would fall on hanania and tracey in the middle of their pro rape podcast

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.

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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’

Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Impossible to understand how anyone could look at Rufo's career and conclude he was someone engaged in a "forthright defense of meritocracy." Rufo's entire career is built on the idea of purging people who don't think or look like him from positions of power.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

rfk and the cdc are now recommending against tender forehead kisses good night

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

incredible to take days saying you’re verifying doe’s identity and then be tricked by a clearly fake court website

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If USA Today is indeed unilaterally putting source interviews in some sort of database, in their entirety, allowing them to be cherry-picked by other reporters—and *AI*(!!)—that is journalistically indefensible and no one should ever talk to them again. Is this true? Is it Gannett wide?

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Mike Pompeo has been rewarded with a teaching fellowship at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. The same school that canceled my class on media, race and international affairs. @columbiasipa.bsky.social share.google/KEvTy5yER71U...

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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to join SIPA faculty

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will join the School of International and Public Affairs as a fellow at SIPA’s Institute of Global Politics in March, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 02/10/2026

For my Friday Sick Burns paid newsletter post, I wrote about the Democratic party consultant problem and how it's killing a key Senate race. www.burnsnotice.com/fire-the-con...

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Fire the Consultants

The Democratic Party will win this fall in spite of the consultants, not because of them

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 02/10/2026

So former NFL kicker Jay Feely is running for Congress as a MAGA guy and his opponent just put out an ad with a bunch of his missed kicks lol

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

When job growth was 5-10x this per month under Joe Biden, we were having a nonstop National Conversation™️ about the imminent recession & being told that only the unemployed cared about jobs, but everyone cared about inflation.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"I have a harem of dozens of women who are my employees to fuck and have my children as I please" is one of the ultimate goals of the billionaire class and one of the main reasons they are so keen to fuck the labor market (so desirable women are desperate enough to sign up for this)

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