***as i was just saying*** again, 2nd time this week www.liberalcurrents.com/respecting-r...

In reality I just wanted to talk about the nature of persuasion again, a fixation of mine for over a decade now that a lot of political debates don't seem to develop a specific enough theory of the case for

What I am saying in this essay: think strategically. Whether it's about casting votes in elections, protesting, direct action of various kinds (including mutual aid), or public persuasion: think about what action you, specifically, can take, that will nudge us closer to our goals.

The Washington Post when handouts that could be going to Jeff Bezos are paying for free diapers instead

Why is it rather than instead of both and lol I can bitch while I fight, watch me

21 century liberals have been slow to grapple with the exercise of power. Now, at long last, someone has explained the stakes.

I wrote this for you—yes you: Bluesky, where a lot of people whine that we cannot win because the media isn’t our friend. The media isn’t our friend, it’s true. Let’s win anyway.

this is somehow *even more corrupt* than him suing for the money, even though it’s a smaller amount, this is a taxpayer-funded bribes fund over which he wants sole control and no oversight

He’s running

total failure of lib billionaires that there isn't a cable news channel talking constantly about this guy and semi-spuriously connecting him to jd vance

"A revolutionary moment is here, and the future belongs to those who are willing to seize it and set the course of the nation." THIS. www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-ne...

I spent the last six years closely following all of the claims by MAGA Inc. of so called "weaponization" of the Biden admin against them and literally every last bit of it was total and complete bullshit. It was fabricated nonsense. And now they're all gonna get rich.

The prison system continues to postpone or reject incarcerated people’s requests to be closer to their minor children. How cruel.

Enough already www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-ne...

Redistricting in response to what the GOP is doing isn’t another wrong. It is *correcting* the wrong that the GOP is inflicting on democracy. Punching someone in self-defense is not the same thing as punching someone unprovoked.

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"We are experiencing a widespread GOP attempt to undo the Reconstruction Amendments that, along w/later civil rights reforms, form the constitutional foundation for our multiracial democracy." Good @aselrod.bsky.social intervention (cites my reporting on VA): www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-ne...

**as i was just saying** www.liberalcurrents.com/respecting-r...

this truly is the thing that makes the united states exceptional, and right wingers hate it so much they want to destroy it

See here www.reddit.com/r/nyt/s/oZIw... Looks related to white pixels becoming black (maybe transparent so it shows as black in dark mode?)

Did this really happen? Can anyone confirm? www.reddit.com/r/Kamala/com...

"The Republicans and their Supreme Court are waging revolution by demolishing the institutions and rules of American liberty. Democrats who stand on procedure and pontificate about exercising caution and restraint are catastrophically out of step with events." www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-ne...

Great conversation between @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com and our CEO @elizabethwwilkins.bsky.social on why progressives should be in favor of a strong tax base to support a strong social democracy, rather than chase austerity or tax-cut politics that ultimately hollow out public capacity. 🎙️⬇️

Goddam. Congrats to @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social @jvl.bsky.social @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social @timmiller.bsky.social and team at @thebulwark.com open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

@aselrod.bsky.social says VA must use its new map, Dems must expand the Supreme Court, and the new rulebook is all hardball all the time: "Democrats need to wake up and realize what time it is. And I’ll be clear, I’m not a radical. The moment is." Exactly. www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-ne...

“What we need to grasp about this moment, and what Democrats in particular need to understand, is that a revolution is already underway in this country.” Ohio Republicans kept their gerrymander in defiance of their court. Virginia Dems *must* do the same. www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-ne...

Alan really gets at it here:

Democrats need to understand we’re already in a revolutionary moment. The American republic built in the 60s and 70s is being swept away by Republicans and the Supreme Court. It’s up to us to fight for a liberal democratic future. My latest: www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-ne...

My new one @slate.com: Why is John Roberts in a Rush All of a Sudden? slate.com/news-and-pol...

I read this entire article and could not for the life of me figure out why it was news. They picked a speaker, some students wrote a letter saying they don’t like the speaker. This is the sum total of what happened. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/u...

"Thomas Paine—a Founding era liberal read by the likes of Washington and Jefferson—argued for taxing land value long before even Henry George. In Agrarian Justice, he argued that land belongs to all of humanity in common—that its value is collectively created by society’s presence and labor"

“The revealed preference is their core voters actively enjoy being taken for a ride by the most obvious scam artists you’ve ever seen, as long as they validate their morbid pathologies about race and gender as they do so.” www.liberalcurrents.com/respecting-r...

New @ms.now column on the self-pitying, soft-MAGA bro-fest between Bill Maher and John Fetterman on “Club Random” — and why they’re Trump’s useful snowflakes.

This is very much in keeping with the elite "free speech" movement of the last decade, which has almost exclusively been focused on questions of hierarchy and institutional fealty, and the reassertion of authority by superiors over their inferiors.

The e-mail newsletter from @liberalcurrents.com announcing that this one had dropped went with this image, which, well.

So pissed off at Virginia Democrats for backing down, at the VA supreme court for sandbagging democracy, at the Roberts Court for its successful 13 year campaign to destroy the VRA, at the many many people who could have stopped it from getting to this point youtu.be/2itX6ip1MkE

"The liberal tradition and the socialist tradition are sisters, and daughters of the Enlightenment. A project that sought to undermine entrenched power, and sought to assert that power fundamentally belongs to the people." www.liberalcurrents.com/socialism-an...

"She 'married the rank,' she 'lives off his benefits,' she is loud, uneducated, and spendthrift. But the stereotype obscures an undeniable truth. Military spouses are actively encouraged, both culturally and structurally, to be dependent." www.liberalcurrents.com/tradwives-de...

Revisited this piece from @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com, and holding onto the lesson learned by General Grant in the excerpt at the end Our enemies are afraid of us, and we must continue the fight with that in mind

Always a good time to remember that Marc Andreessen is a traitor www.liberalcurrents.com/marc-andrees...

Adding to this: Trump in 2016 specifically was more a product of the televised RNC debates than of Twitter He was also a product of the Electoral College, a thing that was created in the 18th century He was also a product of the direct primary, another uniquely American institution

The mobilization and rapid coordination on the ground in Minneapolis would not have been possible without modern communication tech, while the DHS invasion side of that equation very much was possible without it. Trump as a figure was a product of pre-internet media tech (papers, broadcast, cable)

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So pissed off at Virginia Democrats for backing down, at the VA supreme court for sandbagging democracy, at the Roberts Court for its successful 13 year campaign to destroy the VRA, at the many many people who could have stopped it from getting to this point youtu.be/2itX6ip1MkE

"We have to confront reality: if you weren't born here, aren't white, in these election results we once again have confirmation that millions of your neighbours hate you & will prioritise hurting you over their own livelihoods."

National Guard troops were photographed playing arcade games satirizing Trump’s war in Iran in Washington, D.C.

Here's @polphilpod.bsky.social explaining why that is not the case youtube.com/shorts/0nIaJ...