U.S. conservatism "was fatally poisoned when many of its leading figures incorporated the view that winning was everything. As Mitch McConnell said in 2010, 'The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.' The good of the country...was ignored."

Every time I've seen the headline since we published it this has been in my head

in conclusion www.liberalcurrents.com/the-bloody-r...

Every time I've seen the headline since we published it this has been in my head

Liberals are like "How DARE you disrespect Ron Swanson"

Sheesh www.liberalcurrents.com/the-dirtbags...

Sorry for not wanting to elect a rapist, I guess? Thanks for admitting you'd happily vote for one in order to pwn the libs, I guess?

"Mass deportation is happening, and people are dying. It's going to keep on happening as long as Trump and Stephen Miller remain in the White House. We have to keep our eye on the ball, and do what we can to help as many as we can for the next two and a half years, and beyond."

"When Stephen Miller or other MAGA types suggest banning pregnant tourists from visiting the US, this is a view of children not only as objects but as essentially a material resource in a race war." @aselrod.bsky.social is good in digging out the deep and sinister narratives underneath MAGA tropes:

The whole "parents' rights" framing collapses the moment we consider the parents who are happy with their kids exercising autonomy about their gender. www.liberalcurrents.com/what-to-the-...

"The birthright citizenship fight cannot only be about the constitutional view of a child born in America. It must be, as all truly great liberal principles are, about the universal birthrights of dignity, liberty, and equality that every human has from the moment they enter this world."

1) You gonna pay the author, who has a newborn at home he has to provide for? 2) Is it your argument that publication with login/pay gates have failed to achieve political influence?

Book bans, laws about trans people & other coercive horrors promoted by MAGA politicians seek to actualize “an authoritarian vision of parenthood beyond one’s own children, whose individualism and dignity they disdain, to all the children of their community.” www.liberalcurrents.com/what-to-the-...

In the wake of the birthright citizenship decision, I decided to examine some of the ways the American right talks about and treats children. I think it’s hard to conclude they cherish children quite as much as they say. www.liberalcurrents.com/what-to-the-...

so ICE did a kavanaugh stop and murdered a man www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/u...

ICE agents must be tried for the murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.

Molly Jong-Fast Talks About The Reconstruction Papers With Adam Gurri On Fast Politics www.liberalcurrents.com/molly-jong-f...

"This is the administration that, since November has brought in over 7,000 white South Africans and no one else. This is the administration that is firing black leadership across the military and federal government and replacing them with incompetent hacks." www.liberalcurrents.com/editors-note...

this is really well said www.liberalcurrents.com/graham-platn... @liberalcurrents.com

This is important and even more meaningful given that Platner and Swalwell came from different wings of the party. The establishment, the DSA, the left, the center — we all have this same principle and red line.

“A reader enamored of outsider candidates might also find it incredible that, Somehow, They Just Had These Guys And This Article All Ready To Go by this morning.” www.liberalcurrents.com/editors-note...

We published like three essays along these lines at the time www.liberalcurrents.com/gender-graha...

Yeah NGL one of the few good things to come out of Swalwell and Platner's campaigns is that Dems reiterated their position that sexual assault is a like we will not cross. It's a low bar, but still good that it held

rapid lowering of political standards since 2016 has massively damaged the country, not really the time for people arguing we need to lower them more

On all ends of the ideological divide, mind you. Swalwell was as "establishment dem" as they come. He was a memory 72 hours later.

There is no bottom with these people

I am glad that we have twice now recently confirmed Democrats will not stand for rapists. The Republican Party is once again a cautionary tale about where you can very quickly end up

The struggle is real

"Even as elite liberals lost their way, a thunderous reaction to Trump was rising in the streets… That thunder demands change. It demands that we fight." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-reconstr...

Listen in today as @mollyjongfast.bsky.social talks with @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com about The Reconstruction Papers www.liberalcurrents.com/molly-jong-f...

Individual households can't face mounting disaster risks alone. In @liberalcurrents.com's The Reconstruction Papers, CCI's Moira Birss argues for a national disaster insurance program that shares risk fairly, keeping people safely and affordably housed rather than prioritizing insurer profits:

"We must restore federal civilian employment outside defense and security toward pre-sequestration benchmarks… The costs of underfunding the government, and of starving American state capacity, as well as the benefits of restoring that capacity, are immense." www.liberalcurrents.com/how-to-rebui...

“In a must-win state for Democrats eager to flip the Senate, the decision of the Maine Democratic Party, which must pick a candidate by July 27, could not carry higher stakes.” www.liberalcurrents.com/three-potent...

Okay, now it’s Republicans’ turn to kick out the most prominent rapist in their party

One thing about the whole "we have to run rough-hewn manly dudebros to beat them at their own game" theory is this describes, to within a rounding error, zero notable Republican politicians.

fantasy GOP: salt of the earth blue collar guys who really connect to regular non-coastal-elite folks actual GOP politicians in R+73 seats: Harvard law degree, has worn a suit and tie every day of his adult life, half-heartedly affects an accent that sounds like a drag queen doing Foghorn Leghorn

and it also looks like an obvious campaign leak too

this is seriously gross and beneath contempt

Democrats Need a Reconstruction Agenda—Not an Affordability One Liberal Currents publisher Adam Gurri calls for a sweeping “Reconstruction” agenda for Democrats if they win the presidency in 2028. www.youtube.com/watch?v=81rY...

Dilettantism remains, I think, the clearest explanation of Platner’s behavior www.liberalcurrents.com/graham-platn...

“To say that we should have standards for those who govern us, and hold them to higher ones than we may hold a private citizen, is not elitism. It is a bulwark against everything we’re now fighting against” www.liberalcurrents.com/graham-platn...

David Brooks is probably in the top ten of reasons we need to give publications like @liberalcurrents.com a bigger reach in our media, not because he is terrible but because he hasn’t had a thought in decades but the NYT and The Atlantic keep publishing and paying the man

Make sure to get your pre-orders in now before The Reconstruction Papers begins shipping on Monday! www.liberalcurrents.com/the-reconstr...

The only downside to @radtranslib.bsky.social's civil service reform plan is that we didn't get it in time to include it in The Reconstruction Papers, where it would have fit right in! www.liberalcurrents.com/the-reconstr...

All of this, especially … ❝ if he won, he would’ve been used as a template to be imitated ❞

“The federal government is the nation’s largest employer; its defaults are standards, and with the measures above it would grow larger still. As such, it should set the standard for how work is done and how workers are treated in America.” www.liberalcurrents.com/how-to-rebui...

Liberal Currents has been consistently v good on this & I remain really impressed by how on many issues they are doing such great, morally & politically clear, creative & thought-provoking & surprising work Their other big piece today (to read while my kid naps!) is on rebuilding the civil service