Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 7hIt’s really nice when these kinds of face-meltingly bad numbers for an SEC rival come at the hands of Kentucky football 0120
Reposted by Alan ElrodJerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 10hGood lord that’s a brutal stat line. 5515
Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 7hYeah, 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) 000
Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 9hWatching 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. 3161
Reposted by Alan ElrodPOTUS @sentientpotato.bsky.social · 12hAgain, despite needing improvement, the Democratic Party is one of the best if not *the* best major parties on trans rights anywhere in the world 1374
Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 16hI 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. 821917
Reposted by Alan ElrodAlan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I 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...liberalcurrents.comThe Illusion of Consent: A Rape at Cornell and the MAGA RightFor the new right, when a man is accused of rape, he is first and foremost a victim of feminism. 16513160
Reposted by Alan ElrodAlan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 07/10/2026To collect all of these www.liberalcurrents.com/guys-win-and... www.liberalcurrents.com/the-illusion... www.liberalcurrents.com/sex-is-gay-r...liberalcurrents.comSex Is Gay, Rape Is Epic, No Fatties: Young Right-Wing Men Are Obsessed With Male Power and Male BodiesThe group chat leak reveals what over a decade of incel messaging and Bronze Age Pervert have done to Young Republicans. 513120
Reposted by Alan ElrodTheDemCon @thedemcon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Today! 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 062
Reposted by Alan ElrodPositiveEnerG @positiveenerg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026GOP 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...liberalcurrents.comThe Party of RapeBernadette Greene-Placentia, Victor Marx, and Donald Trump, now practically bribing voters. 0237
Reposted by Alan ElrodLiberal 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...liberalcurrents.comDonald Trump Wants to Bury America With HimHis speech at the GOP's midterm convention came off like a Jim Jones sermon. 57722
Reposted by Alan ElrodGreg 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...liberalcurrents.comYou Can't Run From Christian NationalismWhite evangelicals are the single most influential voting bloc in American politics. They cannot be ignored. 15314116
Reposted by Alan ElrodAlan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I 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...liberalcurrents.comThe Barely Legal Type: Purity Culture, Rape Culture, and America’s Lose-Lose Proposition for GirlsThe 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. 24612
Reposted by Alan ElrodAdam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 17hIn which @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com provides hard headed analysis, and I provide, something else, youtube.com/shorts/P1f2k...youtube.comWartime Air Defense Is ComplicatedYouTube video by Liberal Currents 093
Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 17hMy 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. 3420
Reposted by Alan ElrodYeti Blood Oath Exorcist @greatemuwarvet.bsky.social · 18hThere’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 1101
Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 18hKansas has a D governor. That’s the only one I’ve got off the top of my head 110
Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 18hLabour 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. 910312
Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 18hDemocrats 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. 917230
Reposted by Alan ElrodYohannanx @yohannanx.bsky.social · 18hPeople 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. 3678
Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 18hDemocrats 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. 1014521
Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 18hThe 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. 518833
Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 18hYes, that includes Alaska, which abolished it before even becoming a state and did so at the urging of its Democratic Speaker of the House. 314915
Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 18hAll 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. 228758
Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 18hWithout the Democratic Party, no state in the country would have banned the death penalty 190
Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 18h“Republicans may be bad, but Democrats, whom I hate more, are not perfect.” 3501
Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 19hOne 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 3172
Reposted by Alan ElrodMaria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 19hHow 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...themarginalian.orgHow 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 SufferingHere 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… 03010
Reposted by Alan ElrodLunaNuna @lunanuna.bsky.social · 10/10/2026As 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. 310222
Reposted by Alan Elrodtmbhmltn.bsky.social @tmbhmltn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I 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 431266231
Reposted by Alan ElrodGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 09/10/2026This ICE agent’s entire Instagram feed, “shooter.914,” is guns, watches, energy drinks, and alcohol. 7075583033
Reposted by Alan ElrodBill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Figuring 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 1372592305
Reposted by Alan ElrodDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 19hi 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 33110398
Reposted by Alan ElrodParkscope Joe @parkscopejoe.bsky.social · 09/10/2026the death penalty was abolished in VA in 2021. by a Dem governor. 38913
Reposted by Alan Elrod🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 09/10/2026i 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. 721165132
Reposted by Alan ElrodNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 19hI 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.”washingtonpost.comThe dads who are speaking up about the Cornell rape caseOn social media, fathers are modeling age-appropriate conversations they’re having with their kids about consent. 29832
Reposted by Alan ElrodThe Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 23hThe taboo against naming Trump's dementia is fading. A THREAD. 22685186
Reposted by Alan Elrodjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2026a livestreamed execution is just a lynching 284103102005