Sign in

Chance Phillips

@chancephillips.bsky.social
2.2K followers 507 following 1.3K posts

A student in the economics PhD program at UMass Amherst. Recreationally reading: ??? Most bylines in @alreporter.com and @liberalcurrents.com Substack: someconvenienttree.com

PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by Chance Phillips
Sara Nelson @flyingwithsara.bsky.social · 9h
Congratulations @uaw.org President Shawn Fain and the entire UAW United ticket! Thank you, UAW members!
Solidarity House 2023 after the historic contract fight with the Stand Up Strike.
311013
Reposted by Chance Phillips
Ryan LaRochelle @rlarochelle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Today's the day! The APD Workshop Series will host our first session this afternoon, with Benjamin Rohr and Jeffrey Broxmeyer discussing "Parties and Patronage in the Early American Republic." So excited for this new initiative to get underway. sites.google.com/maine.edu/ap...
sites.google.com
APD Workshop Series
Mission: The APD Workshop Series provides opportunities for scholars of American Political Development--especially advanced graduate students, post-docs, junior faculty, and faculty at institutions wi...
253
Chance Phillips @chancephillips.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Oh nice! I'll try to give that a read later when I have more free time.
010
Chance Phillips @chancephillips.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"What! think you these places would satisfy an Alexander, a Caesar, or a Napoleon? ... And when such a one does [arise], it will require the people to be united with each other, attached to the government and laws, and generally intelligent, to successfully frustrate his designs."
010
Chance Phillips @chancephillips.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Lincoln's Lyceum Address is a really poignant text on these themes, especially because he delivered the speech decades before his election to the presidency. www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
abrahamlincolnonline.org
Abraham Lincoln's Lyceum Address
210
Reposted by Chance Phillips
Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
An incredible piece of reporting by @naomibethune.bsky.social and @jamesjbaratta.bsky.social in @prospect.org today about a struggle in Alabama against yet another excruciating data center.
prospect.org
‘I Know I Couldn’t Live Here’: Standing Up to a Data Center in Alabama’s Black Belt - The American Prospect
Faced with little transparency about a mammoth facility, Lowndes County fights back.
12114
Reposted by Chance Phillips
Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
"Far from being an amoral free-for-all, liberalism is, in fact, extremely difficult and constraining, far too much so for those who cannot endure contradiction, complexity, diversity, and the risks of freedom.” ― Judith N. Shklar, Ordinary Vices
010319
Reposted by Chance Phillips
Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 29/09/2026
1.87 American employees quit their job for each one fired in Aug. This #LaborLeverageRatio proxies for worker bargaining power in the job. Pretty flat over last 2 years, below immediate pre-pandemic level. www.upjohn.org/labor-levera...
173
Chance Phillips @chancephillips.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I was excitedly planning to go to the last Red Sox game this past Sunday and then the rain ruined that plan :(
011
Reposted by Chance Phillips
Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 28/09/2026
For those unfamiliar with Keeperman you should read @chancephillips.bsky.social www.liberalcurrents.com/the-new-york...
liberalcurrents.com
The New York Times Launders Another Fascist
Misogyny, racism, and antisemitism all were glossed over in Ross Douthat's softball interview of Jonathan Keeperman.
1173
Reposted by Chance Phillips
David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Kate Wilson is the socialist mayor of Seattle, and she's up against a aggressive moneyed class, a moderate city council, and a vocal base unafraid to be critical. Still she is making some gains. Chance Phillips went to Seattle to check things out. prospect.org/2026/09/28/o...
prospect.org
Socialist in Seattle - The American Prospect
A year after her election, Mayor Katie Wilson wants to upgrade housing and transit in the Emerald City. But moderate councilors and divisions within her own base are undermining her.
20831224
Reposted by Chance Phillips
The American Prospect @prospect.org · 28/09/2026
Katie Wilson must handle a multiyear budget deficit in the hundreds of millions and keep together an increasingly fractious coalition, while overseeing meaningful “sewer socialist” reforms to housing and public transit. prospect.org?p=145341
Headshot of Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson
0213
Chance Phillips @chancephillips.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Please check out my latest article in @prospect.org! Seattle politics is a fascinating topic and I’m very grateful to all the folks who took the time to talk with me about their experiences and organizing in the city. prospect.org/2026/09/28/o...
prospect.org
Socialist in Seattle - The American Prospect
A year after her election, Mayor Katie Wilson wants to upgrade housing and transit in the Emerald City. But moderate councilors and divisions within her own base are undermining her.
143
Reposted by Chance Phillips
FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 23/09/2026
www.ft.com/content/d13b...
ft.com
The argument for Kalshi taking bets on its own legality
Predictor, predict thyself
1101
Reposted by Chance Phillips
Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 21/09/2026
I’ve been a bit puzzled by why some have taken this poll, which puts Harris at the top and Newsom in second place, as being in some way pro-DSA. I get the org is who they are but like…the results are not somehow skewed towards that flank of the party in any way
5316
Reposted by Chance Phillips
Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 21/09/2026
Our poll asked Democratic voters "Should the next Democratic administration pursue criminal prosecution of members of the Trump and Biden administrations for actions taken related to Israel’s genocide in Gaza?" Yes: 57% No: 22% Don't know: 22% www.liberalcurrents.com/what-are-dem...
liberalcurrents.com
What Are Democrats Thinking?
Democratic voters want to end the filibuster, nationalize artificial intelligence, and prosecute every Trump toady.
57719
Reposted by Chance Phillips
Center for Strategic Politics @stratpolitics.org · 21/09/2026
Read more analysis on our poll from Chance Phillips at Liberal Currents: www.liberalcurrents.com/what-are-dem...
liberalcurrents.com
What Are Democrats Thinking?
Democratic voters want to end the filibuster, nationalize artificial intelligence, and prosecute every Trump toady.
182
Reposted by Chance Phillips
Center for Strategic Politics @stratpolitics.org · 21/09/2026
🚨 NEW POLL of Democratic voters w/ @liberalcurrents.com 🔹 Harris, Newsom, Buttigieg lead the 2028 field 🔹 59% of Dems support military coup against Trump 🔹 57% of Dems want Biden officials in jail over Gaza 🧵 Read the thread for more insights
34312
Reposted by Chance Phillips
Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This poll aligns with my general feel for where things stand going into the 2028 cycle, which is that the primary is currently anyone’s game. Numbers like this combined w/ the name recognition responses suggest voters aren’t decided. There’s plenty of room for candidates to break through or falter.
16918
Reposted by Chance Phillips
Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 21/09/2026
"I am more likely to support a candidate in a Democratic primary if they regularly criticize the Democratic Party establishment" The reactions of Democratic voters (n=683) to that statement: 46% Strongly agree / Somewhat agree 27% Neither agree nor disagree 27% Strongly disagree / Somewhat disagree
liberalcurrents.com
What Are Democrats Thinking?
Democratic voters want to end the filibuster, nationalize artificial intelligence, and prosecute every Trump toady.
63710
Chance Phillips @chancephillips.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
(As the full tables/charts highlight, as well as the title of the article, this is a poll of *Democratic voters*, not the U.S. population. Commenting this here because some of the folks quote posting seem to have missed that.)
0100
Chance Phillips @chancephillips.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
(The more interesting results to me are actually the responses to the other questions, including the open-ended question about what the next Democratic president should do. You just can’t exactly run a large poll of Democratic voters without also asking about the primary, haha.)
010
Reposted by Chance Phillips
Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 21/09/2026
If the 2028 Democratic presidential primary were held today, which of the following candidates would you vote for? Harris 25% Newsom 15% Buttigieg 13% Ossoff 10% Kelly 9% Ocasio-Cortez 8% Shapiro 6% Pritzker 4% Beshear 3% www.liberalcurrents.com/what-are-dem...
liberalcurrents.com
What Are Democrats Thinking?
Democratic voters want to end the filibuster, nationalize artificial intelligence, and prosecute every Trump toady.
13314329
Reposted by Chance Phillips
Simon Weschle @simonweschle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"a different doctorate"
512720
Reposted by Chance Phillips
Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 20/09/2026
The statistically average top-20 political donor this midterm cycle gave over $60 million, but your first year as a Premium Subscriber to Liberal Currents will cost you only one-millionth of that amount. www.liberalcurrents.com/drive/
liberalcurrents.com
Redeem This Deal to Subscribe to Liberal Currents Today!
Reserve your copy of next year's issue of The Reconstruction Papers.
1185
Reposted by Chance Phillips
Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 17/09/2026
We are live! www.youtube.com/live/ePADoW_...
youtube.com
America's Millions of Millionaires Are a Nice Problem to Have
YouTube video by Liberal Currents
162
Reposted by Chance Phillips
Alabama Political Reporter @alreporter.com · 16/09/2026
Mercedes has frequently faced criticism from pro-labor groups since the 2024 unionization campaign at its plant in Tuscaloosa County. #alpolitics
buff.ly
Union-backed investment group sends letter to Mercedes requesting recommitment to company principles
Mercedes has frequently faced criticism from pro-labor groups since the 2024 unionization campaign at its plant in Tuscaloosa County.
031
Reposted by Chance Phillips
Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW: @talkingpointsmemo.com can reveal GOP nominee for Florida legislature: -marched at deadly Charlottesville Nazi rally w/ white supremacist group's flag -has *many* white supremacist donors -appears to advocate lynching He is expected to win Nov. election talkingpointsmemo.com/news/florida...
talkingpointsmemo.com
Exclusive: He Marched With Nazis in Charlottesville. Now He’s Expected to Join the Florida Legislature.
The Republican nominee for a seat in the Florida House of Representatives...
7022781251
Chance Phillips @chancephillips.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Some great work by my friend Alex Jobin documenting the difficulty of accessing HRT in Alabama today: www.alreporter.com/2026/09/14/b...
alreporter.com
Birmingham clinic faces scrutiny over delays in care for transgender patients
Patients and providers describe a bottleneck that leaves some waiting years, while advocates push for broader hormone therapy training.
011
Reposted by Chance Phillips
Ej Dickson @ejdickson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
There is a corner of the internet I had never heard of before I started reporting this story. It’s called the “burnerverse”: a network of anon burner accounts ostensibly discussing college sports. But they have another goal: destroying young girls’ lives.🧵: www.wired.com/story/burner...
wired.com
A College Girl Was Exploited on Camera. A Network of Anonymous Men Got to Work
Maddie Kowalski is one of countless young women who’ve had their lives destroyed by the burnerverse, a loosely connected online community of sports fans. Now she’s fighting back.
7923291007
Reposted by Chance Phillips
Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 14/09/2026
The Reconstruction Papers was the first print run we've ever done. We're very happy with the result, and we have learned a lot. We always planned to see how it went and determine if it was the kind of thing we could do regularly. It is, and we will. www.liberalcurrents.com/join-the-lib...
liberalcurrents.com
Join the Liberal Currents Community Today and Be Part of Our Fight for the Future of Liberal Democracy
Get a copy of The Reconstruction Papers while inventory lasts, and reserve a copy of next year’s issue.
2326
Chance Phillips @chancephillips.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I will say, it's quite funny to be worried about our world becoming the real Cyberpunk 2020 and then pop on your mirrored circular sunglasses for an interview.
011
Reposted by Chance Phillips
Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 06/09/2026
Neon Liberalism #89: Samantha Hancox-Li interviews labor economist Kathryn Anne Edwards on the fundamentals of a healthy economy. They talk housing, childcare, and the politics of being a "smart-stupid" economist who knows how to be cynical about what matters. www.liberalcurrents.com/labor-econom...
liberalcurrents.com
Labor Economist Explains: To Fix Inequality, Start Young (Neon Liberalism #89, with Kathryn Anne Edwards)
What makes for a good economy on a generational scale?
1124
Chance Phillips @chancephillips.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Additionally, the Times article does not note, but I did last year, that Hochman's writing output before his return to professional politics was fully completed happens to have consisted largely of apologias for and endorsements of basing a government on a social order defined by race and sex.
Another screenshot from the 2025 article: "In these interregnum columns, Hochman cited Jonathan “L0m3z” Keeperman, who says women in the workplace are the cause of societal decline and proudly publishes antisemitic ravings, in order to second Keeperman’s argument that men have to retake the world from women and “the Longhouse.” He wrote a puff piece about El Salvadorian leader Nayib Bukele, calling the self-described dictator’s mass imprisonment scheme “one of the greatest public policy miracles in modern history.” And, intentionally or unintentionally echoing a twenty-odd year old column by Steve Sailer, he put pen to paper in order to argue Trump calling Kamala Harris not really black really shows Republicans need to focus more on white voters and less on people of color.

In yet other columns, he called Juneteenth and Martin Luther King Jr. Day “part and parcel of the mythology of the New America, which vies to destroy and replace the myths, heroes, and traditions of the old republic,” argued conservatives should join white supremacist website VDARE’s war against NY AG Letitia James, and bemoaned the modern day lack of appreciation for the antebellum South and the good name of Robert E. Lee. These, unfortunately, are just a few of the many, many examples anyone could have picked out of his portfolio."
084
Chance Phillips @chancephillips.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
To be honest, I'm not surprised that Hochman ended up in the State Department. I wrote about his stint in Sen. Schmitt's office for @liberalcurrents.com last year and the trajectory was pretty evident then. www.liberalcurrents.com/missouri-sen...
A screenshot from the linked article reading: "But I do want people to recognize that, as someone more observant than me posted in a now-deleted tweet, “ur average young republican is some groyper with a copy of bronze age pervert.” Maybe it wasn’t futile to hope for a return to normal politics back in 2017, when Republican senators not named Collins or Murkowski might still condemn Trump’s racist remarks on occasion. But it certainly is now.

Making neo-Nazi propaganda, arguing the Confederacy was really a noble endeavor, and palling around with anonymous fascists just isn’t a dealbreaker for the modern right in 2025. God knows what that means for the future of America."
192
Reposted by Chance Phillips
Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 06/09/2026
"Making neo-Nazi propaganda, arguing the Confederacy was really a noble endeavor, and palling around with anonymous fascists just isn’t a dealbreaker for the modern right." (from May 2025)
liberalcurrents.com
Missouri Senator Eric Schmitt's Nazi Staffer
Nathan Hochman was fired from the DeSantis campaign for making a transparently neoNazi video featuring the Governor, and has only doubled down on his white nationalism since.
27229
Reposted by Chance Phillips
jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/09/2026
it is the same story everywhere. young men convinced by their phones that the reason they are unhappy is that they don’t live in the imaginary utopian ethnostate they think existed before they were born
2503121
Reposted by Chance Phillips
Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 04/09/2026
"The struggle between Shaheen, Sullivan, and Beriont to appeal to the Democratic base reflects the ongoing turmoil roiling the Democratic Party as they attempt to respond to Trump 2.0." www.liberalcurrents.com/a-progressiv...
A Progressive Push in Purple New Hampshire

Congressional hopeful Carleigh Beriont says left-leaning politics can succeed in the Granite State.
0132
Chance Phillips @chancephillips.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The annual percent change graph is interesting though.
060
Reposted by Chance Phillips
Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Spreadsheet people know. fred.stlouisfed.org/series/TRP60...
fred.stlouisfed.org
Government social benefits: to persons: Federal: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
Government social benefits: to persons: Federal: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
0433
Chance Phillips @chancephillips.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
How will we run experiments on monopsony in labor markets now???
000
Reposted by Chance Phillips
Jordan Barab @jbarab.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
If one-quarter of the employees in an occupation suffered irreversible, incurable, degenerative brain disease, #OSHA would act. But OSHA has failed to act to protect football players against degenerative brain disease known as C.T.E. Why not? www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/u...
nytimes.com
Many N.F.L. Players Get Brain Disease. Why Hasn’t OSHA Intervened? (Gift Article)
“We never see things that are this dire,” a former chief scientist of the agency said about rates of C.T.E. in former players.
267
Reposted by Chance Phillips
Kathryn Anne Edwards @kedseconomist.com · 25/08/2026
I managed to take the Fed to task for bad leadership and discuss W.E.B. Du Bois's "The Philadelphia Negro," a real win of a column. Walking away from public data is going backwards in time, as the history of measuring the economic status of Black people shows. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
bloomberg.com
The Fed’s Data Task Force Is a Step Backward
The logic seems straightforward enough: To make its decisions, the Federal Reserve needs timely and reliable information. A lot of that is public, but increasingly, there is relevant data in private h...
24622
Chance Phillips @chancephillips.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
A really incredible book, the Pulitzer was well-deserved.
050
Chance Phillips @chancephillips.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I mean, if it really bothers you, you could always move to LA.
000
Reposted by Chance Phillips
public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
i’m dying. i’m dead
zohran holding a the power broker book up in front of his face. caption reads “but robert moses is another video entirely)
814725686
Reposted by Chance Phillips
Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Fascinating piece on the art market this:
ft.com
3212
Chance Phillips @chancephillips.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
It looks like only Osborn had been sponsoring polls as well, so could imply that their results are starting to look worse for him.
020
Reposted by Chance Phillips
Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
New: 3 yrs ago I published exposé revealing Richard Hanania used pseudonym to write for Nazi sites Ever since I've watched centrist media rehabilitate him, accepting his ludicrous claim to have left white nationalism behind. My look at what it means, for @marisakabas.bsky.social' The Handbasket
thehandbasket.co
You don’t have to hand it to Richard Hanania
The so-called "former" white supremacist's work doesn't show accountability—or that he's actually moved on from his earlier views, Christopher Mathias writes.
3836691081
Reposted by Chance Phillips
advait @advaitarun.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I’m in @dissentmag.bsky.social TODAY recounting how the SpaceX IPO warped markets around it. It makes me doubt the efficacy of advocating for “market transparency” when oligarchs can so easily bend public markets to their whims. dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
dissentmagazine.org
The SpaceX Sham - Dissent Magazine
The chief scandal of the AI boom is not the secretive financial machinations of tech oligarchs, but how much money they have raised on the open promise of an automated, transhumanist future.
13111