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Matthew Doyle @mattdoyle.bsky.social · 6h

10 years ago I knew this all was going to be so fucking stupid but damn, man

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Jason Briggeman @jbriggeman.liberalcurrents.com · 30/07/2024

Today in @liberalcurrents.com I have a one-minute explainer of how the deportation policy that the guy in this photo wants is gonna go: www.liberalcurrents.com/mass-deporta...

MASS DEPORTATION NOW! sign held aloft by Kentucky state senator Phillip Wheeler (mostly out of frame, under MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN hat) at the Republican National Convention, July 18, 2024

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Jason Briggeman @jbriggeman.liberalcurrents.com · 07/09/2024

If you do it, the camps will be riddled with death. www.liberalcurrents.com/mass-deporta...

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Mass Deportation: If You Do It

What you'll do.

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Jason Briggeman @jbriggeman.liberalcurrents.com · 13h

"They're pulled from their homes," literally the first sentence www.liberalcurrents.com/mass-deporta...

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Mass Deportation: If You Do It

What you'll do.

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Jason Briggeman @jbriggeman.liberalcurrents.com · 14h

A good point that James Talarico might want to consider

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honor sachs @drhonor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One of the main reasons fraternities still exist is that membership signals to potential employers that you’re capable of keeping institutional secrets, even when it means covering up illegal behavior.

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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 29/09/2026

Paid for by the U.S. Government

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Accusing Jack Smith of attending a 23-24 Atlanta Hawks game, how rude

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Jason Briggeman @jbriggeman.liberalcurrents.com · 29/09/2026

This year, Austin basically had 10 straight weeks of ~100°F highs every day and ~zero rain. I guess you could maybe argue it cooled very slightly last week. But this week is the first week of something else. 🙌

Austin forecast highs: Monday 95°F, Tuesday 91°F, Wednesday 93°F, Thursday 83°F, Friday 80°F, Saturday 78°F

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Jason Briggeman @jbriggeman.liberalcurrents.com · 29/09/2026

Heard a Rolling Stones song on the radio, thought it was unusually good for a Rolling Stones song, turned out it was a cover of Amy Winehouse

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Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There is something so vulgar about the kind of conservative who came from a modest background, but strives to climb the same social hierarchies that once disadvantaged him by endlessly and shamelessly flattering those he now insists are our social betters.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the two big ai stories to kick off the week are - meta ai giving your address to strangers on fb marketplace - stole a scientific breakthrough and presented it as its own work this is what we get instead of healthcare or third spaces or public transportation or pick literally anything else

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Jason Briggeman @jbriggeman.liberalcurrents.com · 28/09/2026

"Donald Trump runs the White House and the world alongside a high school clique of dumb jocks (Pete Hegseth!) and hot cheerleaders (Natalie Harp!) and nerdy suck-ups (Mike Johnson!)." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/o...

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Opinion | The Mean Girls Presidency

Our government is being run by a clique of middle-aged guys.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I like that in becoming a nazi, you get glowing coverage as a brave iconoclast, and then when you stop being a nazi, you’re get glowing coverage as a brave dissident. Money coming and going. Only way you lose is having normal opinions like “racism bad” bsky.app/profile/trac...

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Jason Briggeman @jbriggeman.liberalcurrents.com · 27/09/2026

www.austinchronicle.com/news/misael-...

Ramos’ attorney, Skip Davis, provided the Chronicle with copies of the probable-cause affidavit authorizing his client’s arrest, which refers to the Sunday protest as a riot. “Recorded and observed on Open Source Social Media Videos, Ramos is seen dragging a traffic control device and sandbags to obstruct the street without the authority to do so,” the affidavit states, stating that such an offense violates state law.

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Jason Briggeman @jbriggeman.liberalcurrents.com · 27/09/2026

Saw this today (it's along I-35 at Georgetown), it is gigantic

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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 25/09/2026

Gotta love a New York mayor shitposting about English football and certain people just not being able to cope.

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Jason Briggeman @jbriggeman.liberalcurrents.com · 25/09/2026

I got people (okay, just @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com) in the Discord telling me that Boomers deserve credit for "Network," apparently on account of being the only generation who'd have seen it in theaters and are still actively discoursing in large numbers. Boomers never lose—they did everything.

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“Network” at 50: Now We’re All Mad as Hell

Paddy Chayefsky’s take on television captured the Long 1970s—and anticipated the rise of social media.

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I spent way too much of the last 25 years watching TV, and by my count I've only seen (at least a season of) 67 of the shows on the NYT Top 100 list, just 2/3.

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Jason Briggeman @jbriggeman.liberalcurrents.com · 25/09/2026

It would have taken, what, 2% of the 21st century, to watch the full run of all those shows

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Jason Briggeman @jbriggeman.liberalcurrents.com · 25/09/2026

Has anyone on this site with more followers than @nymag.com ever been profiled in @nymag.com

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Phil Costa @philcosta.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hearing Mikel Arteta has actually won four Premier League titles

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Jason Briggeman @jbriggeman.liberalcurrents.com · 25/09/2026

A certain type of conservative used to, and probably still does, go around ominously dropping the abbreviation "CCP" into otherwise normal conversations as if everyone would know what they meant

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Jason Briggeman @jbriggeman.liberalcurrents.com · 25/09/2026

Conservatives I think do generally imagine that written law is simple, straightforward, uncontradictory, neutral and fair, plus that deviations from the spirit of that written law by law enforcement are rare and random, all of which is of course absurd, but also this man is a Supreme Court justice

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Jason Briggeman @jbriggeman.liberalcurrents.com · 25/09/2026

Trump's nominee to lead the Food and Drug Administration cannot wipe the smirk off her face as she refuses to answer the question of a sitting U.S. Senator.

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Jason Briggeman @jbriggeman.liberalcurrents.com · 24/09/2026

If you enjoy reading our stuff at Liberal Currents and haven't checked out a podcast, Caitlin and Trent are a big part of what we do, and you have a hundred episodes to binge

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 24/09/2026

At the top of the hour, join us as we talk Republican bigotry and how Democratic candidates are responding to it. www.liberalcurrents.com/liberal-curr...

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Liberal Currents Live: Talarico, El-Sayed, and How to Handle the GOP's Trans Hate

How should Democratic candidates for office react to open bigotry from their opponents?

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 24/09/2026

Can a candidate for office try hard to triangulate their position on issues that voters don't care much about and thereby catapult themselves to a big election win? We'll talk about it on Liberal Currents Live today. 1 p.m. on Mackinac Island, 12 noon in Fort Worth, 10 a.m. in Tracy

James Talarico Press Conference, CC BY-SA 4.0 Antonio Esparza 2025. Abdul El-Sayed Meets Voters, CC BY-SA 4.0 Conlan Houston 2025.

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Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

An ongoing story during the Obama administration was the Big Problem of policy uncertainty.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Kavanaugh Stops were a particularly egregious example of SCOTUS members just making up facts to fit their desired policy outcomes, that they then get to enshrine in law. But they've been doing it FOREVER. And the legal community hasn't just shrugged it off. It FINDS IT FUNNY.

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Joel Pinckney @jpinckney.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I wrote this to try and bear witness; I hope you'll read it. If you do, I hope you'll later find some quiet to think about this man, pray for him if you'd like, and then find out what you can do to help those impacted by this violence and terror in your community.

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His car is still sitting there

An ICE kidnapping in Austin

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Jason Briggeman @jbriggeman.liberalcurrents.com · 23/09/2026

Smith is great of course, the real Smith is, anyway, but in a U.S. government and politics course, in high school, and surely it's some conservatized economized simplified received version of Smith, what are we doing here

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/09/2026

i think you can fairly say that the second trump administration is the most racist federal administration since woodrow wilson and honestly i'm not sure that it isn't more racist than wilson's

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Rep. Lloyd Doggett @doggett.house.gov · 22/09/2026

[1/2] Wilber Garces Perez has no criminal record and was out working to provide for his family when ICE shot him. ICE never seems to have the body camera working when violence occurs. youtu.be/L2-m_hAm_zE

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Rep. Lloyd Doggett on Spectrum News discussing the ICE shooting in Austin

YouTube video by U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

One of the basic points in Mills' The Racial Contract (originally published in 1997!) was that, if nothing else, White Supremacy deserves to be taken seriously as one of the great motivating ideologies of modernity and it's bizarre that political philosophers are so disinclined to treat it as such.

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Ashley Murray @ashleymurray.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Trump also used the speech to announce that all U.S. federal documents will use the term "super intelligence" rather than "artificial intelligence."

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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Thanks to the community speaking up, Wilber has left the detention center to get medical care. This is important news & a positive first step. Now, we have to make sure he fully recovers, is reunited with family, & gets to tell law enforcement the full story of how he was shot in the back by ICE.

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KXAN News @kxan.com · 21/09/2026

The attorney who says she represents Wilber Rafael Garces Perez said that she and his wife spent much of Sunday seeking information about his whereabouts and condition. www.kxan.com/investigations/its-cru…

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Jason Briggeman @jbriggeman.liberalcurrents.com · 21/09/2026

I'm enjoying some of the wilder results in the @liberalcurrents.com poll on the rationalization that they humanize Democrats, somehow the most ignored group in America: 'Oh wow, Democrat voters *are* real people, bro, they're crazy, they want a coup, a lot of them want to nationalize restaurants,'

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Jason Briggeman @jbriggeman.liberalcurrents.com · 21/09/2026

America might like a do-over. Might relish it actually. What more of a kick in the rear could we deliver to Trump than to have Harris, of all people, succeed him

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