Radical left scum. Possibly even *woke*.
"We cannot afford that kind of nonsense. The stakes are too high. We need to ask what works, and that is exactly what Samantha asks, what we always try to ask when considering direct action." www.liberalcurrents.com/editors-note...
Editors' Notes: This Is Your Brain On StrategyToday, executive editor Samantha Hancox-Li has a contentious essay on the incident that occurred at the Prairieland ICE detention facility in Texas last year. To summarize for those unaware of the cas...www.liberalcurrents.com
The Weak Pollsters are afraid to ask questions about whether and how to get revenge on this administration
Djinn & Tonic 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱I think this is descriptively correct, although I'll point out that, interestingly, pollsters aren't really polling Revenge (which is interesting in itself), so it's sort of a tough issue to get clarity on, whether you're a candidate or a citizen
there is a reason this essay ends with a quote from a stasi officer. since the election, i have become extremely interested in the question of authoritarian regimes, and how they can be defeated. some remarks, on prairieland.
Prairieland: A Tactical and Strategic AnalysisGreat evils require effective remedies.www.liberalcurrents.com
Hey, fellow #TerryPratchett fans: heads up! 😃 https://downthetubes.net/first-volume-of-the-terry-pratchett-readers-guide-gets-early-launch-at-discworld-convention/
Exploring Terry Pratchett: A Reader's Guide to His WorkExplore the legacy of Terry Pratchett with Marc Burrows' new Reader’s Guide, launching at the Discworld Convention in August 2026downthetubes.net"John Rawls, in 'Justice as Fairness: A Restatement,' when he's defending liberal socialism as the proper regime, says welfare-state capitalism is not enough because it still allows extreme inequalities that should be impermissible from a liberal standpoint." www.liberalcurrents.com/is-liberal-s...
Is Liberal Socialism a Contradiction in Terms? (Out of the Jaws #7, with Matthew McManus and Paul Crider)Are liberalism and socialism completely incompatible? Ryan and Adam talk with University of Michigan lecturer in political science Matthew McManus and Liberal Currents co-founder and associate editor ...www.liberalcurrents.com
Coming out as trans convinced me that both things are true because Republicans are stupid and cannot see basic connections between things. They can like every trans person they know, think trans people should be wiped out, and not understand how the trans people they know would be impacted by this.
Because we glorify wealth above all else and it breaks people's brains to realize that the world's richest man is basically a stormfront poster and is responsible for killing millions of people. They'd rather not think about it at all. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o...
Opinion | Why Do We Tolerate Elon Musk’s Racist Commentary? (Gift Article)Why does the owner of X get a pass for what he says and does there?www.nytimes.com"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...
Editor's Notes: Trump Is a Crook, and the Concern Trolling Over Fraud Is Beneath ContemptThis administration has gutted the machinery of anti-fraud enforcement and pilfered the country on an unprecedented scale.www.liberalcurrents.com
Reception theory is being vindicated left and right in the 21st. Real heavyweight champ stuff: www.ebsco.com/research-sta...
Reception theory | Social Sciences and Humanities | Research Starters | EBSCO Research<p>Reception theory is a framework within communication studies that examines how audiences interpret and respond to various forms of media. Emerging in the 1960s, the theory highlights that audience ...www.ebsco.com
"I imagined America’s institutions would resist Trumpism. I thought the Republican party would rather lose an election than submit...the conservative movement would rather go into the wilderness...the business community...the media establishment. I was incorrect." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
Trump Was Right About the Corporate MediaThe White House Correspondents’ Association surrenders.open.substack.com
The outside strategy (campaigning) should be: -accountability for corruption -fix the broken court -free but balanced trade -reindustrialization The inside strategy: www.liberalcurrents.com/the-reconstr...
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For nearly a century, the conservative movement's white w...www.liberalcurrents.comDon MoynihanI do find it amazing that even in this moment, the Dems can't come up with some sort of "Contract for America" like language that offers an alternative to Trump. Maybe they have it, but whatever governing vision they have is lost in the noise.