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"When norms are sufficiently broken, with impunity, and entirely by one side, you do have to break norms in response. That doesn't mean you have to break the law. It is perfectly lawful to expand the Court." www.liberalcurrents.com/tit-for-tat-...

"Electoral realignment in which college-educated people increasingly identify as Democrats opened a space for Republicans to effectively drag higher education into the culture wars, in which university leaders proved to be inept combatants." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-reconstr...

something worth noting is that employment discrimination is a part of every trans persons life. if not legal, it is encouraged by framing us as "unprofessional" for existing or expressing ourselves.

I am in this article. (Not literally, but I am very much one of the displaced in this phenomenon.)

"Congress has the power of the purse, the power to decide on spending. This means Congress can mandate money for specific purposes and recipients, removing the president’s discretion about when to spend money and who gets it." www.liberalcurrents.com/dems-need-a-...

Handbasket and Liberal Currents are both absolutely indispensable in this moment and you are doing yourself a disservice if you haven't already subscribed to get Marisa's work.

"After the Supreme Court permitted states to bar trans girls from school sports, the White House press office published a document under the following headline: 'Supreme Court Bolsters President Trump's Push to Eliminate Transgender Insanity.' Not restrict. Not regulate. Eliminate."

It's arrived... 😁🙏@liberalcurrents.com

“Freedom of movement is one of the most basic freedoms there is, moreso than even freedom of expression. Its absence crushes down on us and leads to the sharp edges of the state being wielded against the innocent and the helpless.” www.liberalcurrents.com/editors-note...

"This talk of maintaining stability and relative homogeneity are nothing more than quitter talk, the realism of cowards." www.liberalcurrents.com/editors-note...

"There’s nowhere in the southeastern United States I can’t find a conversation partner with college football. None. In fact, there are few places anywhere in America that I couldn’t find someone to talk college football with. "But in 2018, the Supreme Court issued a ruling that changed something."

"The United States still lacks a rational framework for managing public finances. Instead of meaningful debates, we have debt-ceiling standoffs, government shutdown threats, or piecemeal tax and spending measures." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-reconstr...

"Trans Americans are increasingly being forced, by economic, legal and social factors, into a shrinking pool of cities that combine reasonable cost of living with strong legal protections—cities that are struggling to provide for this unprecedented internal displacement."

In Texas, in many instances, the only care that a health care provider can offer a person wishing to transition is to suggest they move to another state.

“If this were occurring abroad, to an ethnic minority, we would call it ethnic cleansing.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-american...

“There has been persecution in the form of increased social scrutiny, harassment and violence. And there has been persecution in the undercutting of access to vital, lifesaving gender-affirming medication despite the overwhelming medical consensus for it.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-american...

"Peter Magyar won in Hungary on an anti-corruption campaign. Corruption is one of those issues where the entirety of the anti-Trump coalition does not need to sort out our differences in order to agree this is bad, and we need to do something about it." www.liberalcurrents.com/editors-note...

“Small talk is a critical social game. Ubiquitous live stakes radically alter the nature of that social game. The role of sports as small talk par excellence is eroded by the introduction of money on the line.” Can’t express how much I agree with this Justin Briley essay.

"Today, much of the president's power comes from Congress rather than the Constitution itself. … Any rebinding of the unbound executive will require Congress to assert itself." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-reconstr...

"Noted Christian nationalist Andrew Isker directly accused classicists Mary Beard and Emily Wilson, the latter of whom produced the translation of The Odyssey that Nolan adapted, of being out to destroy Western civilization." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-new-vand...