On the question of whether to quit over principles or stay and try to resist from within, the answer seems clear as far as lawyers who are needed to file cases is concerned: quit

“An administration official gave away the game to Punchbowl News, admitting that these “de-escalatory measures” are about placating Senate Democrats so they don’t seize this moment to demand restrictions on ICE as part of any government funding package.” newrepublic.com/article/2057...

Why were Renée Good and especially Alex Pretti the ICE killings that broke through, resonating in non-political spaces? Why is this the time the Trump regime's lies failed, and what does it mean for MAGA? Is Minnesota a turning point? I explore that and more in @liberalcurrents.com.

But what is too much to bear? Not being alive. So we kept being alive even as they destroyed us. So we buried our secrets though they tried to extinguish our secrets with us. Up until this very day. They keep coming, they never stop. You couldn't kill us all. - Dead Astronauts

"Neighbors in neon vests dot the neighborhood... Information-sharing networks have been built. Residents have connected with non-profits and churches to deliver food to people who are locked in their homes out of fear. Resistance signs are everywhere..." www.liberalcurrents.com/so-hows-the-...

“N.J. girl, 6, found alone by neighbors crying ‘Where's papi?' after dad was detained by ICE while picking up food, mom claims.” people.com/nj-girl-foun...

"Officers threw flash bangs and tear gas in my car. I got six kids in the car" "His wife, Destiny Jackson, told FOX 9 their 6-month-old infant stopped breathing and lost consciousness. She then performed CPR on her baby."

One of the most important articles I’ve read in the last year. I didn’t even know LC existed before this showed up on my feed; now I’m a paid supporter because of work like this.

Interesting thread and responses. Props to @dollspace.gay 👏 bsky.app/profile/maxi...

Wrote about the Labour Party's failed popularist experiment as feckless quant-brain U.S. liberals toy with the idea of a popularist agenda in 2026 and beyond: badfaithtimes.com/a-blaring-wa...

We are going to win www.liberalcurrents.com/we-are-going...

The cause of the male loneliness crisis is that they arrested Jeffrey Epstein, the only man who appears to have had friends.

A thorough smackdown at @theunpopulist.net by the brilliant @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com of Helen Andrews' recent anti-woman (not just anti-feminist) screed: open.substack.com/pub/theunpop...

This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...

Well argued takedown of Yglesias brand centrism. The civil rights era war against Jim Crowe disparate impact must be fought again and again. So called friends of liberalism are all too willing to join forces with modern kkk white nationalists to make a mockery of openly race conscious opponents.

“I think the subnivean domain will define the 21st century.”

From rockstar @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com: We Need to Talk About Pedocon Theory www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-t... A New Gender Synthesis www.liberalcurrents.com/the-new-gend... The Crisis of Democratic Governance www.liberalcurrents.com/the-crisis-o... Roadmap to American Reconstruction 👇

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maybe i am going insane

Learning that Annemarie Gray (no relation) of Open New York, NYC's YIMBY group, has been appointed to Mayor-elect Mamdani's housing transition team. This is FANTASTIC news!

Good morning. I've got a banger new post out today that develops a new method for placing voters on the left-right ideological spectrum, and adds a new, "non-ideological"/affordability axis to usual way we chart & think about US voters (esp swing voters). www.gelliottmorris.com/p/not-just-l...

omg they made Jeffrey Epstein Inbox Simulator '25 jmail.world

This is a nuts story. An AI chatbot and image platform left millions of images exposed. They show what people are actually using the AI for: taking random women's yearbook, graduation, and social media photos and making super realistic hardcore porn with them www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...

CHOTINER: So you asked for a Birkin bag? KOKO: Yes. Possession Bag. CHOTINER: And you had the funds to acquire this? KOKO: No, Professor Purchase Koko Gorilla CHOTINER: That doesn't sound like the funds were justifiable. KOKO: Hostility Interviewer

This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.

What policy: - increases competition, - lowers prices, - lowers high-end taxes, - lowers inequality? @deanbaker13.bsky.social tells us. Preredistribution? substack.com/inbox/post/1...

CW: protester being struck in the head by a pepper ball Footage I took earlier of the moment Reverend David Black, a regular protester outside of the Broadview Detention Center, was shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE agents on the roof of the facility.

yes, also the democratic base *wants* to fight our politicians don't have to raise an army, just lead it www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...

Video: a Japanese scientist was attacked by flies while giving the acceptance speech for his Ig Nobel Prize-winning research paper that proved painting Zebra-like stripes on cows led to a decrease in biting fly attacks.

Unironically think the Ferris Beuller's day off remake could be a really fun watch

CHOTINER: So your son is 14, is that right? IKARI: It's complex, Isaac. If— CHOTINER: And the “robot” he pilots, that’s actually the child of an alien you keep crucified in the basement, which is possessed by the spirit of his dead mother? IKARI: Look, let me answer the question. CHOTINER: Sure.

“Kirk was not an example of healthy political discourse, and we should not pretend otherwise just because he was the victim of what appears to be more senseless political violence.” www.liberalcurrents.com/not-all-vict...

Kirk was one of the organizers of January 6; he defended stop the steal for years. the main goal of his org was silencing and terrorizing liberal professors. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/whitewashi...

how the media could cover kirk's death more responsibly: 1. don't just assume the shooter was from the left

Tom Clancy's Siddhartha

Hero jury saves hoagie hurler from legal grinder www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...

I hold some small quantity of Intel stock, is it possible to sue the Trump or the federal government for unlawful taking? Intel is doing a 10% dilution to pay for this Trump 10%. If @warren.senate.gov 's wealth tax was unconstitutional, how can the admin spot 10% be legal?

Been messing around with inserting this prompt into LLM conversations and it massively improves the “tends to over validate the user” issue. I kind of feel like consumer models should all have this by default

I made a new game where you guess how people voted in the British general election of 2024. red-autumn.itch.io/british-vote... Based on @britishvoter.bsky.social

the reason that the right believes that the left is entirely astroturf funded by USAID and USIP is that this is how their own institutions work

For decades, we've stood by and been shocked at the rising cost of housing. We’re finally taking steps to change that. My bipartisan bill gives states and localities the tools to lower building costs and boost housing supply across the country.

It is fucking insane that we had a decade of people complaining about the dangers of cancel culture, and now literally hundreds of thousands of people are being purged from government jobs for ideological reasons, but that is not cancel culture.

@regmonkey.bsky.social "Pedocon theory is a theory like gravity is a theory."

“Once people get a taste for humiliating, they will fight very hard to be able to keep doing it. Like an addiction, the competitively powerful will often put this urge above all else and behave in profoundly self-destructive ways to chase it.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-politi/