Adam Serwer

The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced. I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

Some personal news:

I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.

Thread incoming.

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Long-term unemployment at post-pandemic high, straining workers and economy The US economy is seeing a rise in long-term unemployment, with over 1.9 million Americans out of work for 27 weeks or more, sparking concerns about the labor market.

Long-term unemployment at post-pandemic high, straining workers and economy www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Hello, I'm back. I was on book leave and didn't want to be distracted.

The United States Is About to Embark on a Terrifying Experiment in Mass Statelessness This scenario, until recently, might have read like a dystopian projection. But after the court’s decision on Friday, it is no longer hypothetical.

"For the child born this summer in Texas, whose parents receive no documents, whose name never appears in any system, and who grows up asking why she can’t go on field trips, apply for scholarships, or open a bank account, the consequences are not legal theory. They are her life."

The Supreme Court's Birthright Citizenship Ruling Is a Five-Alarm Catastrophe In Trump v. CASA, the court hands the president yet more unaccountable authority—and yanks us into a neo-Confederate legal nightmare.

Make no mistake, the SCOTUS decision about birthright citizenship IS ALSO ABOUT *birthright citizenship.*
The Court is using nationwide injunctions as the tail, wagging the dog, to take us back to an Antebellum view of citizenship.
That way led to war once.
My latest in @thenation.com

Protests have sprung up in response to Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez's Venice wedding, including a variety of life-size mannequins placed throughout the city.

The satirical project is protesting the billionaire's wedding as a symbol of unchecked wealth inequality. wapo.st/3I1z8hU

I really do think this might be the worst Supreme Court of all time, which is saying something for an institution that coexisted with slavery

These motherfuckers are even worse imo bc they are *also* out here using antebellum reasoning and pursuing antebellum goals but well post bellum!

if constitutional rights only apply to individuals or states that have sued for relief, you don't actually have constitutional _rights_, you have _privileges_ that can sometimes (but not always) be secured for you by your lawyer

Not unlike free speech conservatives think religious freedom is when they can believe what they want and when you can believe what they want.

I’m not a Dem and neither are you, go back to twitter

It’s bad that Trump thinks he got elected Boss of America and the whole government is just his staff, but it’s much worse that a majority of the Supreme Court and the leaders of both chambers of Congress agree

oh the couple was gay and mixed? You know alito had steam blowing out of his ears like a bugs bunny cartoon bsky.app/profile/mmas...

The end-result of this will be a religious minority demanding an injunction against a christian display of some kind, and the supreme court ruling that christianity has privileges other faiths don't bsky.app/profile/reic...

This is an assault on the Reconstruction Amendments by a Neo-Confederate Court wedded to the far-right argument that those amendments were illegitimate and destroyed the original intent of the Founders, which was to create a white man's country

The Supreme Court Is Headed Back to the 19th Century The justices again appear poised to pursue a purely theoretical liberty at the expense of the lives of people of color.

This is the most prescient thing i've ever written, this is a court of roger taneys wearing polite masks www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Trump Is Tired of Courts Telling Him He’s Breaking the Law Beneath the technical arguments at the Supreme Court last week was an effort to take away one of the only really effective legal tools for reining in the executive branch.

For the Trump Justices, if Trump is breaking the law too much, the problem is the law, not Trump, because the law should let Trump do whatever he wants www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The thought behind this is basically, "how can we let Trump get away with committing any crime he wants as long as possible?" Which is the motivating factor behind virtually every Roberts Court ruling related to Trump bsky.app/profile/elie...

i don’t practice trans sharia
i aint got no crystal ball

If voters are not responsible for their decisions, that's an argument against having elections at all.

Trump won a plurality of the votes and per Pew, would have won a majority if all nonvoters had cast ballots.

they would have gotten a majority of the votes even without it

Woman Says She Was ‘Blindsided’ After ICE Detained Her Trump-Supporting Husband Morgan Gardner, who is seven months pregnant, said she felt betrayed after her Iranian spouse was targeted amid ongoing tension between the U.S. and Iran.

A Trump supporter married to an immigrant said she was "blindsided" by the president's immigration policies after her husband was detained by ICE

Behind Trump’s 2024 Victory, a More Racially and Ethnically Diverse Voter Coalition Pew Research Center’s in-depth study of its survey respondents who voted in the 2024 election examines turnout, voting patterns and demographics.

www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...

Texas Man Born to U.S. Soldier on U.S. Army Base Abroad Deported He has no citizenship to any country, despite SCOTUS case

I don't know what to do with the fact that most of the American electorate WOULD have voted for shit like this if they had voted. www.austinchronicle.com/daily/news/2...

Texas Man Born to U.S. Soldier on U.S. Army Base Abroad Deported He has no citizenship to any country, despite SCOTUS case

Your reminder… you 🫵🏿 also don’t look like you belong here 👇🏿

It may not be our turn… it’s definitely our time

www.austinchronicle.com/daily/news/2...

But it was their critique of communism

But they’ll pay less!!

I’m not saying it can’t get worse either, but it seems pretty clear now that an oppressive state arbitrarily exercising power was not the part of communism they didn’t like

We’ve got secret police black bagging people and sending them to gulags, the scary parts of communism are already here idk what these people think a public grocery store will lead to bsky.app/profile/jame...