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Adam Serwer
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Romanista. Buy my book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/665171/the-cruelty-is-the-point-by-adam-serwer/
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America’s chickenshit elites problem continues to be the biggest obstacle to fighting Trump www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
If Trump has been right about anything, it is that there is a deep rot in the upper echelons of American society, among people who have been put in positions of power and leadership. Trump understands that many of these people are weak, that their public commitment to civic principles can crumble under sustained pressure. In many cases, those folding have had ample resources to resist Trump’s shakedowns but haven’t been brave enough to do so. They are, in a word, chickenshit.
November 10, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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STOP THE COUNT
Table showing Roma in first place in Serie A, followed by Milan, Napoli, and Inter
November 9, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Went back to the history of the Sicilian Mafia to illustrate something obvious but worth stating explicitly: The Trump administration behaves like an organized crime syndicate running a protection racket, not a representative government www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Elections in democracies determine who administers the government; they do not alter whom the government is for. Under any administration, Republican or Democratic, the United States government exists to serve the people of the United States, regardless of their partisan affiliation. Besides, Americans are not as easily divided as Trump might think. Millions of Republican voters live in New York, just as millions of Democrats live in Texas. He cannot tell whom he is punishing by glancing at an electoral map. But even if he could, Trump’s acts of extortion have no place in a democracy. They belong in a protection racket: If you support Trump, you are protected; if you do not, you are vulnerable. If you donate enough cash to Trump, you may receive favorable treatment, including immunity from the law. If you oppose Trump, you may be prosecuted. This is not how a representative government works. It is how the Mafia works.
November 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Look I get publishing a broad spectrum of opinions but I already fed them this morning
Parody of Times headline "Did Humans Going to Work Ruin Everything?" Dek: That wasn't enough wet food, I'm STARVING
November 6, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Cool. What would you call the other wing then? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...
“I’m in the ‘Hitler sucks’ wing of the Republican Party,” Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, said over the weekend at the R.J.C. event. “Here’s what I do know: You can sit in a basement with weird people and say weird things. It’s a free country.”
November 6, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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The scent of Benne’s tail activates Jimmi Pickles’ Berzerker Mode
Tortie kitten Jimmi Pickles getting crazy eyes sniffing Benne’s tail A closeup of jimmi pickles crazy eyes reaction to benne’s tail
November 5, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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The fact that the demarcation between good and bad jews is support for Israel is not actually a counterargument

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October 31, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Ben Shapiro post from 2011: The Jewish people has always been plagued by Bad Jews, who undermine it from within. In America, those Bad Jews largely vote Democrat.
October 31, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Tobin came by for breakfast and Jimmi Pickles is FLIPPING OUT
Tortie kitten jimmi pickles stares at the camera while neighborhood kitty Tobin eats breakfast
October 30, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Finally someone bold enough to ask, is new york ready for a mayor who opposes slavery? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u...
It wasn’t so much what Zohran Mamdani said. It was how he said it. “We’re going to stand up for Haiti, because you taught the world about freedom!” the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York exclaimed to an elated crowd at a Haitian music festival in June, fresh off his upset victory in the primary. Mr. Mamdani pronounced the island nation’s name “AH-ee-tee” — near-perfect Creole elocution. “When I heard him say that, I smiled,” recalled Brian Purnell, one of Mr. Mamdani’s former professors at Bowdoin College. He also noted that Mr. Mamdani’s reference to freedom was a nod to Haiti’s status as the first republic founded by former slaves. “That’s straight out of the lessons from the Haitian Revolution that we teach in Africana studies,” said Dr. Purnell, who is now the chair of the Africana studies department at Mr. Mamdani’s alma mater. “I will claim that,” he added with a laugh.
October 29, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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You CAN pet the direwolf

(this is Tobin’s big bro for those of you who remember the garfield’s Outside Friends)
October 28, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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This table is crazy bcos all of Roma’s strikers put together have precisely one goal (but they are third defensively in Europe behind Arsenal and Bayern)
Serie A table showing Napoli and Roma top with 18 points each after matchday 8. Milan, Inter, Bologna, Como, Atalanta, Juventus, Udinese and Lazio finish out the top 10.
October 27, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Time to share a sunbeam with your sibling after a full morning of matrix choreo fighting
Tortie kitten Jimmi Pickles and her big brother orange kitty Benne sharing a sunbeam
October 26, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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www.motherjones.com/politics/201...
D’Souza became a hero to young conservatives across the nation (and the right-wing foundations looking to fund them). While he helmed the Review, it published a “lighthearted interview with a former Klan leader”—accompanied by a staged photo of a black person hanging from a tree—and an assault on affirmative action titled, “Dis Sho Ain’t No Jive, Bro,” which was written in Ebonics. (“Now we be comin’ to Dartmut and be up over our ‘fros in studies, but we still be not graduatin’ Phi Beta Kappa.”) The “Jive” article caused Jack Kemp, a conservative icon mindful of the right’s problems with minority outreach, to resign from the Review‘s advisory board. Decades later, it’s clear that D’Souza chose the path of the foul at an early point. But he also had trouble with trustworthiness—as I discovered in an early encounter.
October 22, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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The “we’re all trying to find the guy who did this” meme
October 22, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Oh that’s my cat. This is the neighbor’s cat (no paps here he was just being cautious bc new cat)
Jimmi Pickles meeting orange creamsicle cat mcavity
October 21, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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A look at how Trump’s culture war economics works in practice www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Behind all of the culture-war nonsense, the administration’s political allies—the ultra-wealthy, the fossil-fuel industry, and many in the corporate elite—are making out quite well. Some politically connected companies have even managed to get convenient exemptions from the tariffs. It’s all of those regular Americans Trump promised to fight for who are seeing their dollars buy less because of a conscious, deliberate effort to make things anti-woke. One might almost suspect that was the idea all along. But, hey, better broke than woke, right?
October 20, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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The Trump shit video is basically this, but I will reiterate that if a Dem is critical of conservative voters it’s a generational scandal and when Republican pols literally post themselves shitting on their opposition virtually the entire elite politics and media class treats it as fine and normal
When someone uses this emoji 🤣 they are more mad than they have ever been in their entire life
October 19, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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Abbott not only “tolerates” political violence, he encourages it by pardoning the perpetrators when they kill people he doesn’t like www.expressnews.com/news/politic...
Violence and destruction will never be tolerated in Texas," Abbott said in a statement announcing the deployment. “Texas will deter criminal mischief and work with local law enforcement to arrest anyone engaging in acts of violence or damaging property."
October 16, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Eggsy: *slurp slurp* o hai
Jimmi Pickles: *papapapap*
Eggsy: 😾
October 16, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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I’m really frustrated so here is an Eggsy appreciation post. Look how easy he is to appreciate
My orange creamsicle cat eggsy rolling around on the floor
October 15, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Butters is gone, but the dream of Killing All Humans lives
Orange kitty benne and tortie kitten jimmi pickles discuss strategy with neighborhood orange creamsicle cat mcavity, who is joining the meeting from the window Orange kitty benne and tortie kitten jimmi pickles discuss strategy with neighborhood orange creamsicle cat mcavity, who is joining the meeting from the window
October 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Who doesn’t love their new trump taxes
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October 13, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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?????
Orange creamsicle kitty Eggsy and tortie kitten jimmi pickles making eye contact Eggsy and jimmi pickles staring at me
October 12, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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“You just gonna let her do this to me?????”
Tortie kitten jimmi pickles tackling orange creamsicle kitty eggsy, who is three times her size A close up of eggsy’s dismayed face
October 10, 2025 at 1:38 PM