those who predicted authoritarianism were both dismissed, & deeply misunderstood, by the media my latest for @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/2042...

“We are going to keep mobilizing against the regime. We are going to keep showing our fellow citizens that huge segments of the country are against what is happening and the administration is powerless to stop us from telling them so.” A rousing call to arms from @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com

"But we are also a federalist system, and our state governments are quite strong by the standards of such systems, and our local governments also wield considerable de facto power." Federalism scholars, get your rest and eat your Wheaties.

“Whether we want it or not, our next constitutional moment is upon us. At Liberal Currents, we intend to arm liberals to take advantage of that moment, rather than allowing ourselves to be dragged along by events.”

Read all of this, and decide what part you will play.

The past year has been terrifying. Really, the past two—I lost a lot of sleep in 2024 over the promises of the Trump campaign, promises they immediately sought to make good on. But at the end of the first year of his would-be dictatorship, I am calling it: we are going to win.

You should read this before New Years. And start off 2026 hopeful, steadfast, and ready to fight.

Road tripping to DFW with our two existing toddlers

I hate these charts so much because they imply chatgpt is comparable to the internet or phones You could create the same graphic for full screen pop-up advertising on websites and make them look like ultra-rapid technology adoption when really they were just baked unavoidably into the internet

I see he managed to squeeze some drive-by birtherism in there. Which, I think, at least partly answers the freaks question. These people will never recover from having a Black man named “Barack Obama” as president.

requiring the odyssey is not right wing

"Accurately colored" is so inutterably depressing

“Norman Rockwell is a great American artist”

As I was saying, Trump isn't a mediator in the Russo-Ukrainian war, he has sided with the russian aggressor.

"Like Lindsey's vision or find it repugnant, whatever: the problem is that it is macroeconomically incoherent." www.liberalcurrents.com/are-we-prome...

My wife said it best, so I’m just copying her post over here. Needless to say, we are very excited.

...competitive individuals looking to make the most money and out-compete each other, married...to another group of less-competitive individuals who stay at home and take care of kids and elders and generally build community. "Just say women, Brink, this is taking forever."

@sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com "a world of market relations, full of competitive individuals looking to make the most money and out-compete each other, married—quite literally—to another group of less-competitive individuals who stay at home and take care of kids and elders...

This characterization is going to stick with me. Per @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com’s review, it’s like Brink Lindsey wants a world where radically transformative technologies have changed the world completely but household formation hasn’t changed since the Flintstones (both on a ‘50s model)

. @crampell.bsky.social takes an interesting look back at Norman Rockwell, and defends his work against its shameless misappropriation by the Trump administration. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

This is called "freedom" and it's pissing off the new Commissars who believe that artists must perform at the State's command

In case you need to go to bed on an encouraging note youtu.be/mmXNG2M0lUE?...

My memoir-essay on growing up with Norman Rockwell Thanksgivings is up in Vogue this morning. Here’s a small extract: www.vogue.com/article/norm...

Profound interview here with @crampell.bsky.social and Daisy Rockwell, Norman’s granddaughter and an accomplished artist and translator. It’s a lovely reminder of what Norman Rockwell’s art was really about and the childish indecency of the people who now rule us. youtu.be/WKKwUcbOECM?...

The American officer corps not reconciling with how a guy like Flynn could reach the highest levels of American military intelligence is part of the reason we’re in this mess

vance is a genuine lunatic

The same person who told you that immigrants eat cats—and tripled down on that filthy, idiotic lie when challenged—regrets to inform you that immigrants also cause nuclear war.

Trump’s White House UFC fight is an elevation of brutality. Fascism has appeal because its energies exist within all of us. We all have the capacity for hate and violence. What makes liberal democracy unique is how it asks us to transcend our basest selves. www.liberalcurrents.com/merry-christ...

FIFA Peace Prize recipient.

"The Trump administration has frequently adorned its violent actions with religious affectations." www.liberalcurrents.com/merry-christ...

I suspect this is going to make a lot of women not wanting to have children now, and run more for political races. To be honest we need to have a walkout protest like Iceland did.

In 2025, the US launched strikes on the Houthis in Yemen, al-Shabab in Somalia, ISIS in Syria, alleged drug traffickers in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific, plus Iran’s nuclear program. Now some into Nigeria. All killed people and damaged things, but none appear to have achieved anything lasting.

It’s very weird—and telling—to treat politics as something unimportant that’s wrong for people to act on, while treating a jazz concert as an issue of public concern so serious it calls for legal action.

I don’t understand how legal obligations do not apply to the president, any executive branch officials, or the Kennedy Center, but the strictest reading applies to performing artists.

“To my mind, the choice to use the White House as a site of bloody, barbaric combat is a stomach-turning indication of how far our politics have fallen and a troubling affirmation of the dark impulses that helped give us Trump in the first place.” It does reinforce the patriarchy.

Pairs really well with this:

Writer @aselrod.bsky.social then rejects that perverse formulation of Christianity as violence: "Yet Christ was the lamb, not the lion. Christianity and liberal democracy, properly understood, share in common [an ask of us to engage in] mutual respect and community"

Same when I point out they're coming for birth control & domestic violence laws first. How do I know? It's what white evangelical pastors have been preaching for years, decades even. Many of these MAGA politicians think it's how the world is supposed to function.

At @liberalcurrents.com we have multiple ways for you to stay in the know about different subjects. Read, listen, watch. However you learn best, LC is trying to make it easy and reliable to know what the hell is happening in the country and around the world!

"Instead of taking steps to contain outbreaks of covid and measles in schools from Florida to Utah, including by recommending mass vaccination, the infectious disease contrarians are now sitting on their hands." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-covid-pr...

“Fascism, for all its evils, is a politics that speaks to the human condition. It does not invent the domination, hate, and madness it imposes on the world, but rather elevates those things from within us. Violence and brutality are compelling because we are predisposed to find them compelling.”

Really great stuff here. I went to a co-educational undergrad but with men’s and women’s dorms. We were only allowed into the opposite gender dorms on set nights and under supervision. We had male & female dress codes and would sometimes have our daily all-campus worship service divided by gender.

Incredible, comprehensive piece on the far right's vision of gender, where I would humbly add an example of how it is being operationalized: newrepublic.com/article/2045...

more confirmation that lurking clearly behind this idea of the “heritage american” is a straightforward contempt for the actual history and tradition of this country, such that vermeule has to hallucinate a framework to justify his desire to jettison the clear meaning of the 14th amendment

"Like fascism itself, this male supremacist worldview is punishingly hierarchical—women are on the bottom, but they are just below the men who cannot compete in this system. They are Tate’s cursed 'losers.'" www.liberalcurrents.com/merry-christ...

I recommend that they start a petition. And sign their names to it.

From Andrew Tate's lips (ew) to the Vice President's ears, wouldn't be surprised if he started presenting this on the podcast interview circuit they've got him doing

A necessary discussion of a disturbing trend. And it's refreshing to see Bernini used to illustrate an article on contemporary American politics!

Somehow I don’t think my dogs would be acceptable to him