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Radical Liberal. Anti-Authoritarian. We live in deeply unconstitutional and upsetting times.

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Digger Defender @danielhall.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
To be honest I am sports entertained. I am not gonna pretend I'm not.
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Jason Kuznicki @jkuznicki.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It's that wonderful time in the election cycle when I can imagine, for a couple of months, that the median voter is finally coming around to my view of things.
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Dan Rafael @danrafael1.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Poster in my #boxing collection from when Canelo scored a controversial majority decision over GGG in their mega rematch to win the unified middleweight title in the last HBO PPV event, which I was ringside to cover 8 years ago today.
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Aaron Ross Powell @aaronrosspowell.com · 29/08/2026
We are working on a v2.0 of the @liberalism.org website. It's exceptionally cool and will enable all sorts of neat new ways to explore the ideas developing in our community of liberal scholars, and I can't wait for everyone to see it.
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Aaron Ross Powell @aaronrosspowell.com · 07/08/2026
MAGA is, ultimately, a movement of people without basic competence who view real competence as instead more pretending, but from people they hate. And so they assume it's not real, which means they can tell themselves they're actually the competent ones. Until they have to prove it, and fail.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
He wants his myrmidons to draw that inference, obviously, but if you scrape away the breathless rambling there isn’t even really a concrete fraud claim there.
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Digger Defender @danielhall.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Is the biggest cope in sports when a home team fan throws the away team’s home run ball back?
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Digger Defender @danielhall.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
🧡🤍🤎
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Jason Kuznicki @jkuznicki.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
The pope, making me agree with him again.
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Jason Kuznicki @jkuznicki.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
This used to be the consensus view of America, shared by liberals and conservatives alike.
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Jason Kuznicki @jkuznicki.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
The anti-immigrant right brings destruction, disorder, and criminality.
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GGG @ggg50.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
My grandmother was hospitalized after a fall recently, but has been cleared to leave! Soon to be 86 years old but still strong.
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
don’t think it will solve problem because point of opinion columnists is to serve a market niche. and one niche is the guy your older relatives email to you with “thought he made some good points”
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Aaron Ross Powell @aaronrosspowell.com · 23/05/2026
There are so many people who convinced themselves American fascism would, in practice, mean that they'd get to do whatever they want, and their lives would be made significantly better, and only the people they dislike would be harmed.
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Jason Kuznicki @jkuznicki.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
The same ʻōhiʻa lehua from a few days ago, now with a lot more blooms. 🌱🌴🌸
Photo: Seven fuzzy bright red ʻōhiʻa lehua blooms are now open on our little tree. Other plants in the picture: to the left, a tree fern; behind, an areca palm; behind it and to the right, a couple of mango trees.
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Aaron Ross Powell @aaronrosspowell.com · 11/05/2026
You don't want to harm your enemies. You want them to be less harmful. The Buddhist mette tradition makes this explicit: the wish extended to enemies isn't that they suffer, but that they be free from the dispositions that make them dangerous.
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Don't Harm Your Enemies. Make Them Less Harmful.
Speaking with intent to harm trains the speaker in habits of hatred. The cost of online cruelty isn't only to the target.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
If you want to talk about “political violence” let’s talk about people being abducted and shipped off for torture without due process.
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Jonathan Blanks @blanksslate.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
TFW you wonder if your criticism literally earned an FBI investigation
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Aaron Ross Powell @aaronrosspowell.com · 22/04/2026
I've been thinking about why I've never felt the specific kind of offense that powers plenty of moral panics—the sense that a distant creative act has desecrated something sacred. And why the people who do feel it are making a category error with real ethical stakes.
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The Ethics of Not Being Offended
Discomfort isn't harm. Treating it as harm burns the finite moral attention we need for the suffering that actually exists.
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Patrick G. Eddington @pgeddington.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Tomorrow, I'll have breaking news on confirmed FBI #surveillance and investigative targeting of a prominent domestic civil society organization that is not SPLC. Stay tuned.
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Patrick G. Eddington @pgeddington.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
FBI confirms it spied on, investigated @cato.org . Piece live now: www.cato.org/blog/fbi-fin... cc: @radleybalko.bsky.social @adamkeiper.com @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com @blanksslate.bsky.social @attackerman.bsky.social @dell.bsky.social @steve.czmyt.com @heidikitrosser.bsky.social
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FBI Finally Admits It Investigated Cato—Is It Still?
Cato will be flagging for the relevant congressional committees this baseless Bureau surveillance and investigative activity targeting the Institute and its employees as yet another example of why Exe...
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Patrick G. Eddington @pgeddington.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Science matters. Vaccine development really matters. Just two more reasons why the current regime needs to be in the rear view mirror ASAP.
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Jason Kuznicki @jkuznicki.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Three things were always completely obvious in 2024: More tariffs, mass deportation, and taking revenge against political enemies. Everyone who was paying attention and speaking in good faith said it at the time. So did Trump. If anyone is surprised, they weren’t paying attention.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
An underrated sense in which power corrupts: It’s not just that the power in itself tempts people to act badly, but that the social consequences of power mean you get less & less honest feedback about the wisdom & morality of your actions from the people around you.
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Paul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com · 17/04/2026
lol this sounds great. Only movie I'm more excited for is the Monopoly movie being produced by Margot Robbie, which I assume will be a grand dramatization of radical Georgism.
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Aaron Ross Powell @aaronrosspowell.com · 13/04/2026
Good. 9to5google.com/2026/04/13/g...
9to5google.com
Google Search to classify ‘back button hijacking’ as spam
Websites that engage in “back button hijacking” might soon appear less prominently in Google Search results as part of a new spam policy.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
You know who else was soft on criminals?
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Aaron Ross Powell @aaronrosspowell.com · 11/04/2026
The line looks relatively stable until, oh, around 2016.
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Aaron Ross Powell @aaronrosspowell.com · 10/04/2026
People are mad at this, but it's true. Chocolate is overrated and overused, and sweet things that don't have chocolate are typically more tasty than sweet things that do.
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GGG @ggg50.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
@aaronrosspowell.com @jkuznicki.bsky.social @normative.bsky.social Am I the only one who sees this as weird framing from the… Cato Institute?
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Shikha Dalmia @shikhadalmia.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Iranians are feeling sheer terror today. Americans are feeling sheer helplessness that their mad ruler is terrorizing them and they are powerless to stop him. Those who voted for him despite being warned that he would generate crisis after crisis and bring the world to a brink, are you happy now?
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Patrick G. Eddington @pgeddington.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I know people are desperate for some kind of Trump presidency off-ramp but I'm afraid we're in "Downfall"/Fürhrer bunker territory at this point. The people around him have tied their fate to his. The notion that any of his people will move against him re: 25th amendment is magical thinking.
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Jason Kuznicki @jkuznicki.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
“High” political theory needs “low” pop culture if it’s to work as intended.
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Sitcoms: A Defense
Liberalism is in crisis. How about some television?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/04/2026
Trump: "Davy Crockett, obviously a distant relative of Jasmine Crockett, and a very High IQ Frontiersman, would be proud of the legacy that he began long ago, and especially Jasmine’s Great Success as a Politician from the Great State of Texas! President DONALD J. TRUMP"
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Digger Defender @danielhall.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Void is a total lover boy and velcro cat. So happy to have him.
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
"Mass immigration is good, socially and economically; is the single most significant factor in America’s current position as the global locus of commerce and culture; we’ve been lucky to have it; and we should want more," writes @felipedlh.bsky.social. newrepublic.com/article/2080...
newrepublic.com
This Is a Historic Opportunity for Democrats to Get Immigration Right
As the public turns against Trump and the Republicans on immigration, the Democrats can seize the moment with a new, positive vision. Here’s what that might look like.
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The UnPopulist @theunpopulist.net · 22/03/2026
RFK Jr. believes Wi-Fi causes cancer and that HIV doesn't cause AIDS. Disastrous to have him as the federal government's top health official.
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RFK Jr. Lied His Way Into Office and American Health Is the Victim
He is pushing quackery as science as health secretary
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Aaron Ross Powell @aaronrosspowell.com · 07/03/2026
I just made my wife an espresso, a beautifully pulled shot, into which she poured flavored non-dairy creamer, then decided it made it too cold, so she put the whole thing in the microwave. And I still love her, but marriage brings its share of challenges.
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Jason Kuznicki @jkuznicki.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Not a world where speaking Spanish is forbidden. Just a world where you surrender your dignity to speak it.
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Patrick G. Eddington @pgeddington.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
DHS is one bloated, Bill of Rights-violating constitutional obscenity that should be abolished in its entirety. Send the Coast Guard back to Transportation, the Secret Service back to Treasury, and just trash the rest.
nytimes.com
Congress Jets Off as D.H.S. Shuts Down
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Patrick G. Eddington @pgeddington.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
State sponsored barbarism.
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Aaron Ross Powell @aaronrosspowell.com · 18/02/2026
I asked @andycraig.bsky.social to write this and I'm glad he did. Too many people around here are over-committed to the bit of constantly shouting that it's over and we've lost, and part of pushing back is calmly explaining the mechanics of how elections actually work.
theunpopulist.net
Worry, Don't Panic, Over Trump's Efforts to Subvert the Elections
America's system is quite foolproof but he can still try to delegitimize it
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
I have never understood why this debate exists. Are you doing a third grade readathon? Then probably audiobooks don’t “count.” Are you an adult? Then who the hell is “counting”?
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Jason Kuznicki @jkuznicki.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
🌱🌴🌺
Photo taken just now shows an orchid bloom that has three big white petals on the outside and a magenta cone on the inside with a yellow center. It’s one of three on its stalk.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 10/02/2026
This is why domestic "shuffle" flights between ICE detention centers have skyrocketed, much moreso than ICE deportation flights. When you are moved to a different jurisdiction, you have to refile your habeas petition all over again. They want to wear people down so they'll give up on their cases.
A chart from ICE Flight Monitor showing that while ICE deportations went up 44% yoy, domestic shuffle ICE flights went up 123%.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
It also remains one of the saddest things about this whole sordid era: Bad enough to have a major party succumb to a demagogue, but it’s a personality cult around a doddering buffoon who is, along every personal, professional, and moral dimension, one of the least admirable humans on earth.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
I'm sure they would plead that doesn't mean they agree with all the rest, and yet you never see them on the speaker lineup at any kind of left-coded liberal event. And it's not because such events won't have right of center anti-Trump figures. They're generally very eager to, I've done them.
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Jason Kuznicki @jkuznicki.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
In 2022 I was at Cato, working to launch a journal intended to oppose national conservatism. I quit when my boss told me that I shouldn’t single Trump out for criticism, and I should describe Biden as about equally bad. They say everyone should quit on principle at least once. That one was mine.
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