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Alan Elrod

@aselrod.bsky.social
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Arkie (AR-02). Anti-Dirtbagist. President & CEO, Pulaski Institution. Columnist & Contrib. Editor, @LiberalCurrents.com Words: @thebulwark.com, @ms.now, @foreignpolicy.com, @theunpopulist.net Writing a book (Broadleaf) Go Knicks, Cubs, Birds He/Him

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 6h
Alright, I’m for Cleveland winning a WS now
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 7h
It’s really nice when these kinds of face-meltingly bad numbers for an SEC rival come at the hands of Kentucky football
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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 10h
Good lord that’s a brutal stat line.
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LAST SEC ROAD WIN
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LAST WIN IN LEXINGTON
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 7h
Yeah, on the one hand they are the nemesis of the Cubs (good for White Sox fans). On the other hand, they are a St Louis sports team (bad for anyone not from St. Louis and especially bad for any Chicago sports fan)
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 9h
Watching the 6th episode of the Ken Burns Baseball doc with my father-in-law. Seen it plenty of times. But I can’t say how much I hate watching the Cardinals win a World Series, even one on old footage from 80 years ago.
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POTUS @sentientpotato.bsky.social · 12h
Again, despite needing improvement, the Democratic Party is one of the best if not *the* best major parties on trans rights anywhere in the world
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 16h
it's not even close
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 17h
It me
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 16h
I regret to inform you that, yes, Democrats today are more progressive than Labour on trans rights and on migrant issues. I realize this is hard to accept.
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I wrote about the Cornell rape case, specifically about how MAGA responses to it highlight the male supremacism on the American right. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-illusion...
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The Illusion of Consent: A Rape at Cornell and the MAGA Right
For the new right, when a man is accused of rape, he is first and foremost a victim of feminism.
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
To collect all of these www.liberalcurrents.com/guys-win-and... www.liberalcurrents.com/the-illusion... www.liberalcurrents.com/sex-is-gay-r...
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Sex Is Gay, Rape Is Epic, No Fatties: Young Right-Wing Men Are Obsessed With Male Power and Male Bodies
The group chat leak reveals what over a decade of incel messaging and Bronze Age Pervert have done to Young Republicans.
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TheDemCon @thedemcon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Today! Today! Today DemCon hosts @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com the cofounder and publisher of @liberalcurrents.com. Save your spot for this free digital event at www.thedemcon.org/salons
*DEMON X The Parlor
Democracy
SALONS
EPISODE // 02
MEET THE SPEAKER
Adam Gurri
Publisher & Co-Founder,
Liberal Currents
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PositiveEnerG @positiveenerg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
GOP main themes the last 12 years seems to be pro-rape and pro-child rape. The Party of Rape www.liberalcurrents.com/the-party-of...
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The Party of Rape
Bernadette Greene-Placentia, Victor Marx, and Donald Trump, now practically bribing voters.
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 08/10/2026
"I really cannot maintain enough that my current theory of Donald Trump is that he is utterly gripped by the terror of death, and is desperately attempting to leave some mark on the world that history cannot erase." www.liberalcurrents.com/donald-trump...
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Donald Trump Wants to Bury America With Him
His speech at the GOP's midterm convention came off like a Jim Jones sermon.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"The only way to truly end the threat of authoritarianism is to address the white Christian elephant in the room." Interesting stuff in @hollybfletcher.bsky.social's new piece, including a nod to James Talarico's message of Christian pluralism: www.liberalcurrents.com/you-cant-run...
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You Can't Run From Christian Nationalism
White evangelicals are the single most influential voting bloc in American politics. They cannot be ignored.
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I think this is a good time to re-post this essay I wrote last year about Megyn Kelly excusing Epstein’s interest in teenage girls. These comments are of a piece in that they are wholly in service of rape culture. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-barely-l...
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The Barely Legal Type: Purity Culture, Rape Culture, and America’s Lose-Lose Proposition for Girls
The very parts of American culture that claim to promote teen abstinence and sexual purity operate on a parallel logic to the rape culture that enables the darkest misogynistic violence against women.
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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 17h
In which @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com provides hard headed analysis, and I provide, something else, youtube.com/shorts/P1f2k...
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Wartime Air Defense Is Complicated
YouTube video by Liberal Currents
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 17h
Me
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 17h
My posting today would almost certainly have gotten be dogpiled by the most viscerally unlikable tankies on this website if I hadn’t recently gone on a blocking spree. Blocking works, folks. Occasionally I unblock in fits of grace and jubilee, but this has typically proven to be unwise.
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 17h
Mon dieu
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Yeti Blood Oath Exorcist @greatemuwarvet.bsky.social · 18h
There’s this really unfortunate phenomena whereby people with deep knowledge of how various interest groups have historically contributed to inhumane policy lose the ability or desire to give proper weight to the current drivers of inhumane policy
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 18h
Kansas has a D governor. That’s the only one I’ve got off the top of my head
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 18h
Labour in the U.K.? Well to the Democrats’ right on immigration and trans rights. The SPD in Germany? A flailing party that just had one of its former chancellors pay Putin a birthday visit. Socialist Party in France? A rump. The left-wing parties? Weirdly chauvinistic and conspiratorial.
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 18h
Democrats are also more progressive on immigration than pretty much all their European counterparts today. American progressives should enthusiastically embrace these facts and embrace having one of the world’s leading parties on social justice and equality.
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Yohannanx @yohannanx.bsky.social · 18h
People really don’t realize how much of their perception of Europe being significantly more progressive is largely status quo bias protecting policy choices made almost a century ago.
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 18h
Democrats delivered some of the earliest jurisdictions in the world to allow gay marriage. Democrats today are more progressive on LGBTQ rights than nearly any center-left party in Europe.
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 18h
The Democratic Party is a huge tent in a huge country. And it has a dark and convoluted pre-Civil Rights Era past. But in the modern age, it has been one of the most progressive governing parties in the Western world.
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 18h
Charlie Brown had hoes
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 18h
Yes, that includes Alaska, which abolished it before even becoming a state and did so at the urging of its Democratic Speaker of the House.
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 18h
All of the more than 100 million Americans who live in states without the death penalty, either by abolition or executive moratorium, *have Democrats to thank* for this fact.
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 18h
Without the Democratic Party, no state in the country would have banned the death penalty
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 18h
“Republicans may be bad, but Democrats, whom I hate more, are not perfect.”
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 19h
One of my first joys when I joined Twitter in 2010 was following Maria and becoming absolutely hooked on her site, which was then called Brain Pickings. A delight to realize she’s here on Bluesky
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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 19h
How to be an instrument of kindness in a harsh world – George Saunders on unthinking the mind, unstorying the self, and the 3 antidotes to your suffering www.themarginalian.org/2026/01/20/g...
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How to Be an Instrument of Kindness in a Harsh World: George Saunders on Unthinking the Mind, Unstorying the Self, and the 3 Antidotes to Your Suffering
Here is the mathematical logic of the spirit: If love is the quality of attention we pay something other than ourselves and hate is the veil of not understanding ourselves, then loving the world mo…
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 19h
No it isn’t. No they don’t.
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LunaNuna @lunanuna.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
As someone who represented death row inmates in a state that abolished (DE), a state with a long moratorium (PA) and on the fed row (client received clemency from Biden), this bothsides argument is ridiculous. The difference in fates between an inmate in a Dem state & in a GOP state is stark.
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tmbhmltn.bsky.social @tmbhmltn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I posted a little while back that no one ever talks about this but I really wonder if people just didn’t see this or store it in their memory
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 19h
Note that he is a *supervisor*
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 09/10/2026
This ICE agent’s entire Instagram feed, “shooter.914,” is guns, watches, energy drinks, and alcohol.
A shooter.914 post showing a blue handgun and Reign energy drinkThe console of a car with an energy drink and handgun in the cup holders. In the foreground, shooter.914’s wrist with a fancy watch in it. Background: Two assault rifles and a Monster energy drink A screenshot of his whole account showing more of the same
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 22h
Abolish ICE.
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Figuring out why Ossoff is so effective is an interesting task. I think he's mastering a kind of stern dignity that is uniquely compelling in contrast to the clownish cruelty of the other side. I think the other person who's kind of hit on the same thing is AOC, though in a different register
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 19h
Wannabe strongman with absolute purée between the ears
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 19h
i personally would like to live in a large house in a nature preserve with no neighbors that is a five minute walk from grocery stores, nightlife and amenities, a good school, and my six-figure job. i don't see why this is so difficult
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Oh Donald,
There’s not going to be any Russian diesel you stupid slut
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Parkscope Joe @parkscopejoe.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
the death penalty was abolished in VA in 2021. by a Dem governor.
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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 09/10/2026
i take issue with the idea that dems play a central role in executions. at the federal level, no dem president has overseen an execution since JFK. at the state level, there are more than i would like, but they’re typically states with purple or red legislatures.
One more thing about the death penalty before going offline. As disgusted as we should be by Trump's bloodlust, we should NOT lose sight of the CENTRAL role of Democrats in upholding, expanding, and enabling this system that seems to horrify so many people right now. It really cannot be said enough
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 19h
Some important stuff here
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 19h
I spoke to @washingtonpost.com about how dads can teach their sons nonviolence. “When we’re talking about fathers in particular, they can lead by example. Your kids watch you… Continuing to learn about gender inequality, continuing to hold yourself to a higher standard — that’s a lifelong process.”
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The dads who are speaking up about the Cornell rape case
On social media, fathers are modeling age-appropriate conversations they’re having with their kids about consent.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 23h
The taboo against naming Trump's dementia is fading. A THREAD.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2026
a livestreamed execution is just a lynching
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