ICYMI my piece about passports, thank you Liberal Currents for putting this back up on such an infuriating day.

Jury trials remain a bastion against encroachment, too bad immigrants instead get fake judges and no juries

The more democratic elements of the American constitutional and economic order are actually throwing up road blocks to Trumpism. Protests and boycotts and low level courts and juries and cetera. Elite actors on the other hand are all too frequently caving. Fascinating study in who actually cares!

MAGA is crashing out so hard over getting wrecked yesterday they want to repeal the 19th amendment 😂🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️ www.liberalcurrents.com/women-should...

Em dashes are better than alternatives. If that makes me AI slop I’m AI slop

lol I’m not sure he knows what AI slop actually reads like. Though I am angry that my love of the em dash has been made suspect these days.

on behalf of @liberalcurrents.com, i promise you and zack pearlman from the 2010 found footage comedy film The Virginity Hit that we do not and never will use chatgpt to write our articles www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMse3qvA/

got to talk with @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social and @trentrichardnelson.bsky.social over at @liberalcurrents.com about * gestures broadly at everything * www.liberalcurrents.com/half-the-ans...

The Handmaid's Tale is fiction. The Handmaid's Tale is fact. The Handmaid's Tale is coming for American women — "Women Should Make Babies, Not Vote. Why Some on the Far Right Want to Repeal the 19th Amendment" www.liberalcurrents.com/women-should...

You really never expect this sort of timing with anything you write

Seems to be a theme today

People on the far right are literally citing the fact that a lot of women voted for Democrats, and instead of saying, "hmm, maybe we should try to rethink how not to alienate them," they're saying, "let's repeal their right to vote." Via @aselrod.bsky.social

I mean we're all making fun of the insanity of the interview but it is also genuinely disgusting to publish something like this.

looking forward to more hard-hitting journalism from the times like "Does the Negro Belong in the Modern Office?" and "Do Homosexuals Have a Place in Schools?"

Amen. I woke up to find a next from a friend having a heart attack about Douthat. I sent Liberal Currents back to him.

One of us has been rejected multiple times by the NYT Opinion pages

Did Helen Andrews ever acknowledge that COVID killed a few more people than the flu, or does she just think anyone over 50 is just a burden to society anyway

The front page of the New York Times is asking if women belong the workplace and @aselrod.bsky.social and @liberalcurrents.com, come through with this. Incredible timing.

Half the Answer #46: Caitlin and Trent check in with attorney and legal scholar Madiba K. Dennie about the Supreme Court and the originalist reading of the US Constitution—and why the originalist reading is a trap. www.liberalcurrents.com/half-the-ans...

If Democrats go out of their way to scandalize Republicans for this, some reporter might ask Trump if he plans on repealing it, and given the state of his brain, he could scandalize it further. Either way, you reap the rewards of going on the front foot.

Tell everyone about this story. Make it the face of the ICE invasion

Getting new details on this now: As the arrest unfolded, teachers pleaded with the agents telling them the teacher had a work permit. The agents went into multiple rooms looking for teachers while children were present. One teacher hid with a child in her care while the agents stormed the facility.

To the right, a lost election is proof either of an unfair election or that someone ought to lose their right to vote. Alan discusses the latter today

I remember that Keeperman piece. Douthat isn't a columnist; he's A Fifth Columnist! I just feel like there's this high minded call for Intellectual Diversity, and then D parades a bunch of twerps into his office that thinks slavery should be legal and women shouldn't have the vote.

The dramatic repudiation of Trump this week wrecks a number of absurd narratives the media has pushed lately. In the runup to the election, NYT pieces kept telling us Dems were overly obsessed with attacking Trump. That dumb idea now lies in ruins. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2027...

Seems @aselrod.bsky.social somehow knew what Douthat’s pod would be about today

Extremely solid analysis from @jvl.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

ICE is a domestic terrorist organization.

Checking in on Rudy Giuliani, I see he's having an insane one

Not either/or, but yes that would also help. www.liberalcurrents.com/age-limits-f...

They thought "mass deportations" meant millions of cartel members getting shipped out, but now they're starting to realize that if Trump is going after random grandmas it's because either (A) there aren't millions of cartel members or (B) Trump is choosing not to deport them (and both are Bad).

/ we are zoh back

when the president isn't mad online

"Should we get the chance...we must institute a multiparty democracy (via proportional representation like most democracies) and an executive more like a prime minister than the imperial president we seem doomed to endure under our current constitution." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-american...

"Democrats want to make rents lower and buses free" oh nooo please do not notify the nation

“Talking with some of the interns I think that there are a growing number of them who actually agree” with Nick Fuentes — one Heritage Foundation employee, per the NY Post. The Republican staffer class has a major Nazi infestation that’s not going away anytime soon. nypost.com/2025/11/03/u...

Universal swing in action: "What we saw last night was a directional shift toward Democrats in 99.8% of counties that held partisan elections." www.gelliottmorris.com/p/seven-data...

me when im postin

That’s an extraordinary vote of confidence for a third term www.fox29.com/news/electio...

I like how Krasner winning an almost unprecedented third term as Philly DA by stomping the walrus mustached city court judge who quit the bench to try to take him out first in the primary and again as a Republican in the general isn’t even folded into the national Dem sweep coverage.

i wouldn't be a total glenn youngkin hater if i didn't mention that the results tonight mean that his total tenure amounted to presiding over the destruction — at least for the next few years — of the virginia republican party. lmao.

he did not respond to the Heritage Foundation endorsing Holocaust denial and antisemitism as an acceptable position on the right except to crawl on his belly to praise them for reversing their position, whereas with Mamdani, threats.

The last month of the anti-Mamdani campaign was an absolutely shameful undertaking, an attempt to rip the city and Democratic coalition apart and I'm very happy to see it failed.

It's Spanbergover

You know I don't think that the Republican messaging strategy on the shutdown actually did hurt Democrats 🤔

even if you knew that a spanberger win was a given, it is really wild to see this kind of electoral dunk in virginia. the last thing like it was bob mcdonnell's win in 2009 over creigh deeds

What others treat as a boring regulatory detail is a critical defining characteristic of US political parties - anyone has by-right access to the party label on a ballot I languished on it in my recent piece on @liberalcurrents.com as it is just so aberrant www.liberalcurrents.com/the-american...

the actual contrast is between spanberger/mamdani (focused message, vigorous campaigns) and sherrill (unfocused, half-hearted)