Here is the video of the interview newrepublic.com/article/2125...

"Taking cues from Brett Kavanaugh’s opinion in Barbara, Republican political elites are floating the idea of doing away with birthright citizenship by statute." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-war-on-r...

"Just like we’re trying to transform the Democratic Party through primaries, we’re also trying to transform the media and think-tank environment around the Democratic Party. We want to be a big part of that. That’s what we’re trying to do." newrepublic.com/article/2125...

Right-wingers are waging war on Reconstruction. Yesterday’s decision in Trump v. Barbara was a narrow 5-4 victory, but the reactionaries are not going to stop. Shame on some people for serving as foot soldiers for MAGA. My essay for @liberalcurrents.com: www.liberalcurrents.com/the-war-on-r...

“Trump's executive order (EO) and subsequent defenses of that EO by right-wing lawyers, legal scholars, political elites, and Justices Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh, mark a war on Reconstruction.” @patsobkowski.com on the birthright citizenship ruling www.liberalcurrents.com/the-war-on-r...

Considering picking this up. In my college years, during the George W administration, Larouche folks were everywhere, and I started going to their meetings. Actually still pretty left at that time, but they were pretty reactionary culturally. Lots of harm done across the board.

"Reconstruction, the original one, is both an inspiration and a caution, because they had the right idea." @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com talks to @perrybaconjr.bsky.social about The Reconstruction Papers newrepublic.com/article/2125...

Thank you @perrybaconjr.bsky.social for having me on to talk about The Reconstruction Papers!

“Overlooked figures like Lind mingle with Buchanan, spreading ideas lifted from LaRouche’s esoteric style of politicking and allowing them to mingle and spread into the mainstream through modern conservatives like Tucker Carlson, Chris Rufo, and James Lindsay.”

“The problem is that Roberts expressly declines to define “executive power.” As a practical matter, this means that the Court will be the final arbiter of what Congress may or may not do under the Constitution.” www.liberalcurrents.com/slaughtering...

"Brainrot is America’s biggest political export. What was once a theory by a crackpot thinker is today shorthand for social policy for right-wing leaders in the G7 and around the world." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-ever-shi...

There have been so many big cases this week but you should read @patsobkowski.com on the two cases that contradict one another www.liberalcurrents.com/slaughtering...

“In Woods’s telling, the phrase "Cultural Marxism" has its origins among noted conspiracy theorist and cult-adjacent personality Lyndon LaRouche.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-ever-shi...

The Liberal Currents staff who organized this collection are not DC or media insiders. We are ordinary liberals who have built an extraordinary community. It is the support of that community which made The Reconstruction Papers possible. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-reconstr...

“One can track the ideas and thinking of Trumpist conservatives through this genealogy: something that was once at the fringes slowly percolates up and into the mainstream through a network of newsletters, satellite TV, and Washington think tanks” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-ever-shi...

"At time of writing, the Roberts Court is hearing Donald Trump’s preposterous challenge to birthright citizenship—a constitutional knot so neatly tied that not even the court that gave us Plessy could feign to find fault with it in 1896." (from April 19) www.liberalcurrents.com/break-up-the...

"People hunger for community. They strive to belong… They need to know who will have their backs. This is in no way an abstract question. Who is going to fight alongside you, right now? Who will understand the moment and act accordingly?" www.liberalcurrents.com/rebuilding-c...

"Slaughter and Cook represent significant, though perhaps not final, steps in a reconstitution of the administrative state overseen by a President with powers that exceed those of the British monarchy...Congress is left with few tools to effectively check aggressive uses of presidential power."

The Liberal Currents staff who organized this collection are not DC or media insiders. We are ordinary liberals who have built an extraordinary community. It is the support of that community which made The Reconstruction Papers possible. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-reconstr...

"Christians are taught to account all men their neighbours; and love their neighbour as themselves; and do to all men as they would be done by… Is the barbarous enslaving our inoffensive neighbours, and treating them like wild beasts subdued by force, reconcilable with all these Divine precepts?"

"Congress can no longer protect officials from removal if they exercise—in the Court’s determination—executive power. According to Roberts, Congress may create an independent agency 'to assist it with its functions,' but it may not 'foist' such agencies on the President."

Where you find community can be anywhere -- at the protest, with your literal neighbors, with an online solarpunk bookclub or an offline crafting class -- the important thing is to find your people and build that resilience for each other. www.liberalcurrents.com/rebuilding-c...

The way the Senate operates "doesn’t fit with the way the rest of the American political system has come to operate in the 21st century—namely, with two ideologically sorted parties in a polarized political landscape." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-pdf-of-t...

“We cannot continue going as we have. The six are out of control.” www.liberalcurrents.com/editors-note...

"The unspoken initial promise we made to our members, in those early months of 2017, was that the country had temporarily spun off its axis. We were asking people to show up to complete discrete, tangible tasks in the hopes of defeating Trump and restoring the familiar American order"

"I do think we will get court reform. I just hope that it will be enough, and that the trifecta that passes it will have the will to see it through regardless of what the current majority does to try to subvert it." www.liberalcurrents.com/editors-note...

You can’t reconcile Slaughter and Cook. It’s just the Supreme Court saying “we don’t want to mess up the world economy, but trust us, we’re principled interpreters of the Constitution.” My latest in @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/slaughtering...

"The only way to explain the differing results in the two cases is to conclude that the Roberts Court realizes the consistent application of their reasoning would jeopardize the world economy, and make a poorly-rationalized exception to avoid that outcome." www.liberalcurrents.com/slaughtering...

"Sometimes, people arrived with a fully sketched portrait of themselves as organizers. Other times, it was our job to suggest the selves they might become. The mission, though, was not to be right so much as it was to look carefully." www.liberalcurrents.com/rebuilding-c...

"Just know that no defeat is permanent. We can keep fighting, we must keep fighting. We must Reconstruct this country. Starting with its Supreme Court." www.liberalcurrents.com/editors-note...

💯💯💯💯💯💯 I wrote about the escalating assaults on trans people for @liberalcurrents.com, and the imperative for new interpretations of 'protection' that include recognition, personal support, and sanctuary policies. This should include kids as well: www.liberalcurrents.com/rose-knife-p...

This is a good piece, and articulates a stance I've long held better than I could. One that has always made me instinctively, viscerally suspicious whenever people start waxing lyrical about The People, The Arc of History, The Revolution, or some other romantic upswell and final reconciliation.

"We should recognize that these organizations may be utilizing this seemingly rational façade to advance their broader agenda of opposing all forms of transitioning, regardless of age or circumstances." (from January 2025) www.liberalcurrents.com/misagainst-t...

Today @princetonupress.bsky.social is publishing a new six-volume set of Thomas Paine's Collected Writings. But "African Slavery in America" isn't in it, for the minor reason that Paine didn't write it. The prominent theologian Samuel Hopkins did, which makes sense given its Christian grounding.

"Whether, then, all ought not immediately to discontinue and renounce it, with grief and abhorrence? Should not every society bear testimony against it, and account obstinate persisters in it bad men, enemies to their country, and exclude them from fellowship?"

"To counteract authoritarianism, we must model a world that looks like the one we want to build collectively. It is to be a place where neighbors know each other and come together in the service of others." www.liberalcurrents.com/rebuilding-c...

This has me in it! Talking about how patriarchy is at the core of fascism, and how to undo it by making sure children and families get what they need.

"The federal government should more aggressively act as the guarantor that state governments are democratic in their design, in a form that encourages multiparty competition to emerge." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-pdf-of-t...

"This year, we have made a point of asking our members, personally, to keep showing up. After Renée Good and Alex Pretti were murdered, we checked in with hundreds of our members, one person at a time." www.liberalcurrents.com/rebuilding-c...

"The thirty-eight smallest states have a combined population of about 133 million. The twelve largest states, though, have a population of nearly 200 million. An entire constitutional amendment amendment could be ratified with only the support of a minority" www.liberalcurrents.com/the-pdf-of-t...

"Each life update sent my way was a statement that this was a community. This was their community. Democracy could not be salvaged as a solo mission." www.liberalcurrents.com/rebuilding-c...

"Because independence is integral to the function of an inspector general, if an IG position remains vacant for a lengthy period of time, there is a strong case for placing interim appointment authority with a neutral judiciary" www.liberalcurrents.com/the-pdf-of-t...

“It only really clicked for me when a new member, who had become a Freedom Friday stalwart, approached one of my co-leaders to say that stumbling on our group had saved her life. Our group had not only provided her with political purpose; it had given her a social lifeline”

"To counteract authoritarianism, we must model a world that looks like the one we want to build collectively... a place where neighbors know each other and come together in the service of others...where we all think about ourselves a whole lot less and about others a whole lot more." Exactly.

“The better our members knew each other, the more likely they would be to show up to the next event. And the better they knew each other, the less likely they would be to walk away, giving in to despair about the future.” www.liberalcurrents.com/rebuilding-c...

"Liberals need to find new moral, political, and economic vocabulary. They cannot simply repeat the mantras of John Stuart Mill, the Ordo-Liberals, Isaiah Berlin, or John Rawls… They were all, with the partial exception of Berlin, too optimistic by far." www.liberalcurrents.com/for-a-libera...

The Reconstruction Papers provides an ambitious but achievable path forward beyond the Trump era, but also beyond the decades of institutional decay that preceded it. Buy a print copy or download the PDF (or both) today www.liberalcurrents.com/the-reconstr...

"It doesn't beg. It doesn't plead for a return to normal, whatever that was. It doesn't ask nicely for the old institutions back." Jesse Dollemore on The Reconstruction Papers: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkR1...

the proposals in here are the sole and absolute measure of “meeting the moment”