As someone in our discord server put it, it’s important to avoid both apologist and pathologizing. Neither are a useful path to understanding how the system actually operated or why, e.g., North Korea is still around today despite making many of the same (bad) choices as the USSR

did a video a few days ago making the case for supreme court expansion www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjB_...

Tell me again how schools are biased against boys? "Boys at her school shared AI-generated, nude images of her. After a fight, she was the one expelled" apnews.com/article/scho...

Folks, you can’t have Christian Nationalism without the antisemitism. It’s a central tenet of the ideology. The fact some of these Jewish Heritage folks are just realizing this is wild to me.

The most impressive thing about Bari is her ability to violate ethical principles while indignantly claiming to defend them.

"I hate Jews, the anabaptists, the Mohammedans, the Turk, and the perfidious Boer" you are a 19th century British military officer named Colonel Wilburton J. Fairfax III. Get off the internet and go back to the Northwest Military Frontier.

A fantastic NYT report: Donors to Trump get pardons, jobs, & access - and benefited from regulatory decisions the Trump admin has made. SUPER timely as SCOTUS is about to kill agency independence & give POTUS more control over agencies (likely to donors' benefit) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

On further consideration, last weekend’s 60 Minutes was suspicious

If you're mad about what's going on at CBS right now, please consider helping us influence the media system for the better

Renewable energy is cool as hell, just as steam was in the industrial revolution. This truly is one area we can and should be pumped about. Solarpunk.

“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-...

Live look of all the Harper’s letter signatories:

In an internal memo, seen by CNN, Sharyn Alfonsi predicted that "the public will correctly identify this" as corporate censorship. WaPo has more from Alfonsi here >>>

"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 is the actual divide, more broadly. It's not liberal/leftist, it's "do you know what time it is and are you willing to act like it?" People want fighters. And there are variations on that theme across the left spectrum.

appreciate this post about the technocratic libs' confused messaging: "it would be like Coca-Cola commercials saying 'but Pepsi is pretty good too.'" substack.com/home/post/p-...

Which future broadcast specifically

Hell yeah @buddyyakov.bsky.social on Neon Liberalism

In WSJ, a detailed unraveling of how Putin came to pick Trump's negotiating team for Ukraine, kicking out Gen Kellogg and putting Steve Witkoff in his place. Astonishing detail here. www.wsj.com/world/putin-...

Blentucky www.kentucky.com/news/busines...

one of four in a week www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...

The Epstein file is the only thing Trump has ever taken his name off of

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

Why edgy anti-lib post when you can edgy turbo-lib post

HUGE NEWS from the new Epstein files: Records show that Maria Farmer, who worked for Epstein, filed a "child pornography" report to the FBI in 1996. The FBI has never before acknowledged that complaint. The case went nowhere, and mass abuse followed. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...

This was a human being. What the fuck is wrong with you?

the main reward you are likely to get for total loyalty to trump is the destruction of your career and your reputation www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...

He rides on the coattails of the serious left-communitarians of the 80s

In actual policy, MAGA oppose (famously!) the very positive-sum policy of liberal immigration and prefer to poison resource-pooling institutions because minorities benefit from them. But, gotta trust the survey. There's a chart and everything.

Presumably the thinking goes like this: MAGA: "Anyone can succeed in America through hard work. But immigrants and brown people are cheating." Nonzero-sum. Dems: "Oligarchs are reaping unfair gains in our economy. We should tax them more." Zero-sum.

IMO worse than this would be an actual president at the helm who effectively acted to stay permanently in power

Here’s @zeblarson.bsky.social in March www.liberalcurrents.com/american-con...

We have to be committed to a total rebuilding of our government when these ghouls are out of power. We can build agencies and institutions fitted for a new century of progress. For inspiration, read @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/roadmap-to-a...

If anyone wants to learn more about why dictatorships suck on multiple fronts, especially compared to democracies, you would be wise to read the work of @chknutsen.bsky.social scholar.google.com.au/citations?us...

Things are going great over at X, The Everything App

Short version below, longer version here www.liberalcurrents.com/the-case-aga...

yes! i am a bit of a broken record on this but among elite male commentators there is such obvious gender anxiety

China is moving at breakneck speed to recover its spot as world leader—ethics, human rights, and climate be damned. As I argue in the @liberalcurrents.com this disregard for liberal values will limit China’s ability to extend its network of moral support. www.liberalcurrents.com/china-betwee...

I've been a fan of both @theunpopulist.net and @liberalcurrents.com for the past couple of years. They are both great publications that naturally go well together like peanut butter and jelly. I'd love to see more team-ups and crossovers between the writers and even leadership.

And ditto in return! Liberal Currents is an incredible and important voice. Be the media ecosystem you want to see in the world.

he doesn’t and the most likely outcome of this is that it doesn’t happen

Vaccination rates are plummeting across the country, as part of a larger, troubling trend of growing vaccine hesitancy that is fueling a resurgence of preventable diseases, an NBC News and Stanford University investigation found.

anyways. come for the discussion of enough concrete to bury hawaii, stay for the revival of a surprisingly relevant eighteenth-century liberal thinker www.liberalcurrents.com/china-betwee...

new piece up from guillaume attia--a long-form look at the power of the chinese state, for good and for ill. it's a striking essay about a striking country and, more and more, we all need to reckon with that www.liberalcurrents.com/china-betwee...

NYT: “In a newly obtained recording of a phone call from late 2020, President Trump can be heard pressing the speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives to hold a special legislative session to overturn Mr. Trump’s election loss.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...

The more online they are the more repulsive they are to normies. Inflation is still more important than the fact that they're self radicalizing in an echo chamber, but the echo chamber is in fact making them less popular

Fascinating read on the measures China tried, weeks too late and far too rigid, to try to reach zero-Covid.

If this is your response to a random Jewish person talking about the news cycle making for a bad Hanukkah, you might be an antisemite piece of shit