liberal's must match fascist resolve - but i don't think we can, or should, mirror their *style* of politics macho, dominance orientated, ironic, endlessly insincere - that isn't us www.liberalcurrents.com/cringe-is-go...

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Honestly look forward to the day when Fox News is scaring its viewers with @liberalcurrents.com quotes

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SCOOP — Select State Department offices will start moving into the US Institute of Peace building as early as next week, The Handbasket is first to report, with Kristi Noem’s “Shield of the Americas” among them. This is despite ongoing litigation since the DOGE raid on the building last March.

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Sophie de Grouchy would "make these heaps of gold disappear, the smallest and least illegitimate of which probably has, in secret, a thousand victims to its name."

Of nerdy urbanist interest: Next week the D.C. Council will cast a first vote on @brianneknadeau.bsky.social's bill to allow for new D.C. buildings up to six stories tall to have only a single stairwell in them, instead of the current two. Proponents say it creates more residential space.

‘Visibly upset and struggling’: Acting ICE head hospitalized twice over stress, officials say

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The details here are pretty bad. Hegesth personally intervened after the military officers in charge refused to block the promotion. The officer was told "President Trump would not want to stand next to a Black female officer at military events" by Hegseth's Chief of Staff.

Part of this is that Hegseth seems to truly believe in White Christian Nationalism or at least a version that says that some people should not be in positions of leadership. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-save-a...

Chad Bianco saying "it's coincidence" that the judge is a friend. calmatters.org/politics/202...

When you’re right you’re right, gotta hand it to him and the Senate caucus for this one

1/ It's not just that unilaterally paying TSA agents is illegal. It's that Trump has now repeatedly undermined the core of the congressional power of the purse. He's not spending money that has been appropriated by law (impoundments) and he's spending money that has not been appropriated.

“In the span of a year, he has turned The United States—the main author and guarantor of the post-Second World War, rules-based international order—into the biggest threat to that order” www.liberalcurrents.com/why-we-fight/

What are the correct ways to measure athleticism? When does it actually matter? How should we think about fairness and the right to participate? www.liberalcurrents.com/half-the-ans...

With another No Kings coming up, a reminder that irony and coolness will never save us. Cringe is good. www.liberalcurrents.com/cringe-is-go...

Boasting of serving a personalist regime

They destroyed USAID for this

Robert Cover reading this transcript like

This bit drives me mad. As she said in another one of the hearings, what's even the point of having a lawyer if the judge is simply going to ignore her?

Glad to see @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com take on David Leonhardt over 1965 immigration act. I'd add Leonhardt's theory of 2024 (positing durable anti-immigrant cultural shift) is now discredited, yet fellow restrictionists have circled wagons (see below): www.liberalcurrents.com/editors-note...

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Some immigrants with chronic health problems were swept up by ICE in Minnesota, leading to missed medications and, for one man, missed chemotherapy sessions.

His choice to use the arcane term lit up social media

ending car dealerships would cut the heart out of Republican suburbia a million little fiefdoms for the biggest asshole in town, spreading poison all across the country

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Earnestness is the counter to this awful historical moment. It’s the way out. Unabashedly caring about others, about community and ideas, speaking the truth, standing for values. People want to believe in something more than a group sneer that looks down at others. @aselrod.bsky.social nails it.

Am I crazy, getting ahead of myself, or is the Iran war already shaping up to be systemically significant? Unless the US gets a military victory or clear concessions—not looking good—then Iran keeping Hormuz closed breaks the post-WWII US military dominance in the Gulf, with wide reverberations.

I think we should send one million ICE agents to secure the moon.

"Just one more airstrike bro. This war is almost over just need one more airstrike."

Sure pal www.liberalcurrents.com/what-if-iran...

So glad somebody took the time to effectively articulate this. Been feeling it in my bones since 1993. www.liberalcurrents.com/cringe-is-go...

Sign me up for Team Cringe. www.liberalcurrents.com/cringe-is-go...

"Only 20 percent want more immigration than the current level (whatever respondents imagine that to mean) and 40 percent want it to stay at its current level (. . .). The unfortunate reality is that it will take a coalition of that 20 and 40 percent together to enact any meaningful change"

"Iran is likely thinking of longer-term security. If they can endure more U.S.-Israeli bombing—and the war so far indicates that they can—then they can increasingly establish their ability to crash the global economy, a deterrent even the United States must respect."

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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com on the Library Pizza podcast. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

ICE misinformed DOJ prosecutors about its authorization to arrest migrants at immigration courts, according to the Manhattan US Attorney's office—which is withdrawing briefs that relied on bad info and has told a judge he will need to revisit past orders storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Speaking as a woman who is absolutely not from a rich family: Can we put this creep on no-fly and terror-watch lists? It doesn’t matter who she is; she doesn’t deserve it.

Good points from @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social here about how Trump boxed himself in on Iran by boasting about how easy winning the war would be:

According to documents filed this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY, ICE has been lying for a year — not only to the public, but to the courts and to prosecutors — about being authorized to make arrests at 26 Federal Plaza and other immigration courts. (1/2)

Trump is seeking a deal with Iran, presumably to stop the economic damage, but what if Iran doesn't want the war to end yet? They've got a stranglehold on global energy, they rejected the US peace offer, and America's leadership doesn't seem to know what to do. My latest, in @liberalcurrents.com:

very exciting that a bunch of fox news grandpas have the power to interpret the constitution

The theme of public excellence is something Mamdani emphasized in his inauguration address. One big potential he mentions here is inhousing tech talent rather than spending too much on contracts that don't deliver.

Love seeing Ryan on one of our pods