Adam Gussow
@adamgussow.bsky.social
Husband, father, professor, author, musician, aging runner, car guy, Satan & Adam
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Adam Gussow
@adamgussow.bsky.social
· Jan 20
My Family and I: A Mississippi Memoir, by Adam Gussow #olemiss #interracial #belovedcommunity
YouTube video by Gussow's classic blues harmonica videos
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Here's a preview video for my new book. If you're despairing for America on this MLK Day, don't. Watch this video. There is more life yet to live.
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#mlk #belovedcommunity #interracial #olemiss
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#mlk #belovedcommunity #interracial #olemiss
Great conversation live now: The Toll of Cancellation on the Human Spirit.
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The Toll of Cancellation on the Human Spirit
YouTube video by Fair For All
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December 19, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Great conversation live now: The Toll of Cancellation on the Human Spirit.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqVe...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqVe...
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This is how my local paper in the swing state of Nevada covered it: Huge picture, AP story with nary a hint that this was weird or corrupt.
As low as Trump’s approval ratings are, they’d be much lower if he didn’t have the help of large swaths of the media
As low as Trump’s approval ratings are, they’d be much lower if he didn’t have the help of large swaths of the media
December 6, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This is how my local paper in the swing state of Nevada covered it: Huge picture, AP story with nary a hint that this was weird or corrupt.
As low as Trump’s approval ratings are, they’d be much lower if he didn’t have the help of large swaths of the media
As low as Trump’s approval ratings are, they’d be much lower if he didn’t have the help of large swaths of the media
Some of us think that the largest union in the country should strive to create a big tent, not wholly center itself in particular ideological perspectives--a misplaced focus, in my view.
The Teachers' Union I Once Belonged to Has Turned into an Insane Asylum
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The Teachers' Union I Once Belonged to Has Turned into an Insane Asylum
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The Teachers' Union I Once Belonged to Has Turned into an Insane Asylum
at the expense of its members and their students, who both deserve better
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December 6, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Some of us think that the largest union in the country should strive to create a big tent, not wholly center itself in particular ideological perspectives--a misplaced focus, in my view.
The Teachers' Union I Once Belonged to Has Turned into an Insane Asylum
open.substack.com/pub/sanzi/p/...
The Teachers' Union I Once Belonged to Has Turned into an Insane Asylum
open.substack.com/pub/sanzi/p/...
Here's my response to Chris Rufo
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Adam Gussow on X: "@christopherrufo Your take on Italy, especially where immigration is concerned, is notably ahistorical. A good corrective, I suggest, is the close-up view offered by the "Dictionary of Races and Peoples" (1910), published as Italian immigrants, mostly from the southern regions, had been swarming https://t.co/pHMMEbzegN" / X
@christopherrufo Your take on Italy, especially where immigration is concerned, is notably ahistorical. A good corrective, I suggest, is the close-up view offered by the "Dictionary of Races and Peoples" (1910), published as Italian immigrants, mostly from the southern regions, had been swarming https://t.co/pHMMEbzegN
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November 25, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Here's my response to Chris Rufo
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He’s going down
Lol
November 23, 2025 at 3:07 AM
He’s going down
Louisiana Book Festival today in Baton Rouge. (Lower left corner of The Wall.)
November 2, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Louisiana Book Festival today in Baton Rouge. (Lower left corner of The Wall.)
Feels strange to say, but: congratulations to President Trump and his team for bringing the hostages home. This is a great day
October 13, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Feels strange to say, but: congratulations to President Trump and his team for bringing the hostages home. This is a great day
It’s just so depressing, the way that anti-immigrant feeling in the USA expresses itself as an implacable antipathy for Taco Bell and Modelo.
October 12, 2025 at 1:29 AM
It’s just so depressing, the way that anti-immigrant feeling in the USA expresses itself as an implacable antipathy for Taco Bell and Modelo.
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George was just trying to get to work.
ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.
This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.
ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.
This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.
"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."
@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized
@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized
October 10, 2025 at 7:02 PM
George was just trying to get to work.
ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.
This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.
ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.
This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.
It would be both more honest and more strategically sound to brand any Trump admin actions involving ICE, the border, claims of “domestic insurrection,” etc., as Stephen Miller actions: “Stephen Miller’s ICE,” “Stephen Miller’s war on Chicago,” and so forth.
Give Miller the glory—and infamy—he
Give Miller the glory—and infamy—he
October 11, 2025 at 2:48 PM
It would be both more honest and more strategically sound to brand any Trump admin actions involving ICE, the border, claims of “domestic insurrection,” etc., as Stephen Miller actions: “Stephen Miller’s ICE,” “Stephen Miller’s war on Chicago,” and so forth.
Give Miller the glory—and infamy—he
Give Miller the glory—and infamy—he
I’ve been unable to post here for quite a few weeks, because Mississippi prohibited access. I’m back. Did I miss anything?
October 10, 2025 at 12:10 PM
I’ve been unable to post here for quite a few weeks, because Mississippi prohibited access. I’m back. Did I miss anything?
Lakecia Benjamin’s set at the Detroit Jazz Festival yesterday afternoon was the most exhilarating live music I’ve heard in many years. She’s working her own new/old magic with Coltrane’s over-the-top spiritual legacy, and she is utterly, magnificently fearless.
#lakeciabenjamin
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#lakeciabenjamin
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Home - Lakecia Benjamin
New Single! “Noble Rise” Release date: June 27, 2025 “Noble Rise” is an enthralling introduction to Benjamin’s new chapter. We’re leaning into a more regal expression,” There’s a sense of heroic eleva...
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September 1, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Lakecia Benjamin’s set at the Detroit Jazz Festival yesterday afternoon was the most exhilarating live music I’ve heard in many years. She’s working her own new/old magic with Coltrane’s over-the-top spiritual legacy, and she is utterly, magnificently fearless.
#lakeciabenjamin
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#lakeciabenjamin
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In Detroit for the jazz festival and loving it. Not just superior music but a mellow vibe.
Motor City, fwiw, is 76% black, vs. Chicago’s 28% and ATL’s 30%. Did you know that? News to me.
Motor City, fwiw, is 76% black, vs. Chicago’s 28% and ATL’s 30%. Did you know that? News to me.
August 31, 2025 at 2:52 AM
In Detroit for the jazz festival and loving it. Not just superior music but a mellow vibe.
Motor City, fwiw, is 76% black, vs. Chicago’s 28% and ATL’s 30%. Did you know that? News to me.
Motor City, fwiw, is 76% black, vs. Chicago’s 28% and ATL’s 30%. Did you know that? News to me.
This might be the most cogent, clear-sighted, and clarifying piece I’ve read on exactly where we are now. It’s terrifying, but it’s not fear-mongering. Lucidity in a dark time is a paramount virtue.
The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...
America Tips Into Fascism
Today is different than before.
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August 25, 2025 at 7:58 PM
This might be the most cogent, clear-sighted, and clarifying piece I’ve read on exactly where we are now. It’s terrifying, but it’s not fear-mongering. Lucidity in a dark time is a paramount virtue.
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From "highly CONFLICTED" to "Highly Respected" in just weeks — and all it took was for him to give away 10% of his company
August 22, 2025 at 9:50 PM
From "highly CONFLICTED" to "Highly Respected" in just weeks — and all it took was for him to give away 10% of his company
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Tremendous crossover move right here:
August 22, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Tremendous crossover move right here:
Why does nobody love me enough to hand me a bag filled with cash and potato chips?
Literally nothing happens in American politics that hasn’t already happened in college sports
BREAKING: Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips
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www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...
August 21, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Why does nobody love me enough to hand me a bag filled with cash and potato chips?
Haitian-American influencer Nadia and her Alabama-based family are an elegant rejoinder to the 2014-15 era racist spew of New Yorker author Doreen St. Felix.
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Redirecting...
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August 19, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Haitian-American influencer Nadia and her Alabama-based family are an elegant rejoinder to the 2014-15 era racist spew of New Yorker author Doreen St. Felix.
www.facebook.com/share/r/1CDD...
www.facebook.com/share/r/1CDD...
The deadly 2012 encounter between #trayvonmartin and #georgezimmerman at The Retreat in Sanford, Fla. has been misremembered in American popular culture. In my new book, I offer a fact-based, stringently non-ideological deep dive into the encounter.
www.amazon.com/My-Family-I-...
www.amazon.com/My-Family-I-...
My Family and I: A Mississippi Memoir
My Family and I: A Mississippi Memoir [Gussow, Adam] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. My Family and I: A Mississippi Memoir
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August 18, 2025 at 6:42 PM
The deadly 2012 encounter between #trayvonmartin and #georgezimmerman at The Retreat in Sanford, Fla. has been misremembered in American popular culture. In my new book, I offer a fact-based, stringently non-ideological deep dive into the encounter.
www.amazon.com/My-Family-I-...
www.amazon.com/My-Family-I-...
Great piece by Meghan Daum.
Christopher Rufo vs. The New Yorker open.substack.com/pub/persuasi...
Christopher Rufo vs. The New Yorker open.substack.com/pub/persuasi...
Adam Gussow on Persuasion
Really nice piece. In 2020-21 I was a fan of Rufo's, because his muckraking journalism--see his piece on Sandia National Labs white-male shame-training (https://reason.com/2020/08/13/sandia-laborator...
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August 18, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Great piece by Meghan Daum.
Christopher Rufo vs. The New Yorker open.substack.com/pub/persuasi...
Christopher Rufo vs. The New Yorker open.substack.com/pub/persuasi...
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When Trump declared a public safety emergency in D.C. Monday & took control of the Metro Police, also announcing he'd bring in the National Guard, the rules that apply everywhere else were not in play. The situation is unique & it’s important for us to understand. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
When The President Becomes The Police
The Posse Comitatus Act reserves the police power to the states, prohibiting the federal government from using the military for domestic law enforcement absent truly compelling circumstances.
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August 12, 2025 at 4:45 AM
When Trump declared a public safety emergency in D.C. Monday & took control of the Metro Police, also announcing he'd bring in the National Guard, the rules that apply everywhere else were not in play. The situation is unique & it’s important for us to understand. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
This seems flagrant and crazy.
August 10, 2025 at 11:13 PM
This seems flagrant and crazy.
What the hell is this?
Just pure cruelty.
Just pure cruelty.
August 8, 2025 at 2:21 AM
What the hell is this?
Just pure cruelty.
Just pure cruelty.