“For the COVID contrarians, an anti-lockdown, pro-infection lobby from the start, the national loss of more than 1.2 million people, a population equivalent to Dallas or San Diego, fails to move or generate concern.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-covid-pr...

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You should talk to @liberalcurrents.com about this.

"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...

"Crenshaw is no more responsible for the appropriation of her work than King is responsible for conservatives taking his 'content of their character' quote out of context. The responsible parties are bad actors hoping to undermine clear thinking about the causes and consequences of discrimination."

"it is well past time for liberals, progressives, and leftists of all stripes to stop talking about eating the vegetables of climate politics and start praising the sweet, heady nectar of the ongoing energy revolution." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-biggest-...

"He hopes that his young, unmarried readers will start a career in the military, a paramilitary group, or—I assure you the author isn’t kidding—as a pirate." www.liberalcurrents.com/reviewer-jud...

Half the Answer #56: Trent and Caitlin talk with philosophy of science expert Nathan Oseroff-Spicer about his review of the book "The War On Science," how the book misses the mark, and what strategies its authors use to downplay the threats from the right and fabricate a threat from the left.

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Thinking a little today about peace, goodwill, and the violence that resides in all of us. It’s a good day to recommit to those higher virtues Enjoy my holiday essay for @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/merry-christ...

"They are not to conceive that power gives a right to oppress, and to punish those who murmur at oppression. They are to look upon their power, and their greatness, as instruments placed in their hands, to be employed for the publick advantage." www.liberalcurrents.com/sermon-xxiv/

"The Bloomsbury of the unbridled twenties unexpectedly turned out numerous disciplined Marxists around 1930." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-eclipse-...

“For three hours, he contemplated an ancient Greek kouros sculpture until, without touching himself, he experienced an orgasm—a feat of eroticism that this reviewer has never equaled in all his years as a practicing homosexual.” Read @jkuznicki.bsky.social on Bronze Age Pervert

This administration is animated by abuse

For sports-politics fans, this is excellent -- a smarter take than the old "T fell into wrestling because he failed as a pro football owner." Elrod shows it's less about sport, more aligned w/ other dishonest hallmarks of new conservatism: male supremacy & grifting, n.b.: bsky.app/profile/dani...

"MMA doesn’t by default have to be a lurid exercise in alpha male bravado, exploitation, and bloodlust. But that is exactly how it’s touted by right-wing figures like Andrew Tate and Conor McGregor. And, of course, that’s precisely its function in Trumpian terms."

Some Christmas Eve idealism from @liberalcurrents.com. I endorse this message. www.liberalcurrents.com/merry-christ...

“Joshua, a former world number one and highly-decorated boxer, reduced Paul to a bloody pulp over six rounds, eventually breaking Paul’s jaw and drawing a knockout victory. Many people of my general political disposition took to social media to gleefully share images of Paul”

Consider supporting @liberalcurrents.com, we will not publish people like Sally Jenkins because we will call a spade a spade. For example: www.liberalcurrents.com/brains-poiso...

its not just that reactionaries dont read the western canon they valorize, its also that they *cant* read it, not in the sense that theyre illiterate, though they are, but in the sense that substantive engagement with the texts would demystify and refute their cloying, sophomoric disinterpretations

"Read and share sources of news that are positive and in the fight. Don’t engage in doom, gloom, or be tempted into being dupes for the regime." www.liberalcurrents.com/a-new-season...

"What Do Republicans Know?": @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social and @trentrichardnelson.bsky.social with @matthew.flux.community, on our Half the Answer podcast www.liberalcurrents.com/half-the-ans...

Bring yourself some holiday cheer by listening to my conversation with @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com about the rationalists, bad philosophy, cosmic horror, and the role of emotion in guiding what we believe.

"I think of Ovid’s Pygmalion: Here was a fool who sculpted a woman because he hated actual women. Bronze Age Pervert, the enemy of actual men, likewise prefers a statue." www.liberalcurrents.com/reviewer-jud...

"The author hopes his readers will sweep away the reigning orthodoxy—literate, peaceable, feminized, and specialized... It laments the monopolization of conquest by professional militaries. If conquest were more accessible to young white men, then the best of us would be happier."

"Homer wasn’t writing to glorify the Bronze Age. He lived in the wreckage of the Bronze Age. Every day his shattered society reminded him of that age’s failures." www.liberalcurrents.com/reviewer-jud...

This is a fantastic review of an unfortunately significant piece of garbage.

“People say is racist book. Not wrong. They say is fascist book. Not wrong also. They’ll say that the book is illiterate, but that’s where they’ll stumble. It’s not illiterate. It’s anti-literate.” www.liberalcurrents.com/reviewer-jud...

"A realization like that should send every nationalist running for the shelter of cosmopolitan liberalism. Here we will treat you as a man and a brother, no matter who you are, and nowhere else can promise that." www.liberalcurrents.com/they-were-al...

Best article I've read from @rcsmitheco.bsky.social on why renewables promise a better world 🌎 than our fossil fueled one — energy scarcity can become a thing of the past

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“Just as renewables have experienced a dramatic transformation, batteries and hydrogen fuel have risen to meet the challenges of our energy future.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-biggest-...

"There are many disempowered and stigmatized people who are silenced not so much because of what they say as because of who they are. "One important example is prisoners." (from 2020) www.liberalcurrents.com/free-speech-...

"We have had more than a decade of anti-cancel culture commentary insisting that the most important thing is the character of the speech system—its empirical openness—rather than whether the government specifically is the one doing the censoring." (from February 2025)

this was a really great conversation with @buddyyakov.bsky.social. one of my favorite lines: "stagnation didn't kill the ussr. reform did."

Neon Liberalism #57: It's time to look back at the first Cold War and try to understand why America won—and, more importantly, why the USSR lost. Samantha and guest Yakov Feygin talk about the fundamental story of Soviet economic success, stagnation, and ultimate implosion.

Democrats are hiding their 2024 postmortem, luckily, I was invited by the great @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social and @trentrichardnelson.bsky.social to talk about what Democrats have been doing wrong and where they can improve: plus.flux.community/p/democrats-...

www.liberalcurrents.com/the-american... The corollary to the old maxim—If it’s broken, you have to fix it.

I was told by a friend who lived in China for several decades as a persecuted religious minority that with this @liberalcurrents article I committed ‘Chinese-visa’ suicide. In his case, he cannot return to China because he and his family are on a no-entry list for practicing their religion.

"Mill was an employee of the East India Company; Locke invested in slavery; Kant believed that Black people should be 'whipped with split canes'... Liberal pretensions of universalism were betrayed as people of color were largely written out of the social contract."

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Dictators actually all suck! www.tiktok.com/@liberal.cur...

The myth of the dictator is that he will be more decisive, effective, less beholden to special interests, and less unstable than his democratic equivalents youtu.be/IYB1hqqDG8Q?...

The gist seems to be, "Conservativism is built on patriarchal domination, and CSA is both enabled by and a form of enactment of patriarchal domination." Which, yeah.

This was a great recording. Please do click through and watch!