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@radtranslib.bsky.social
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the only moral position on immigration is open borders. she/her. socialist in the liberal tradition. Reconstructionist. Liberal Currents Contributing Editor, i guess??? boycott the New York Times Pessimismus intellectus, optimismus voluntatis

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open borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social · 4h
Why not both
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Justin Wallace @justingwallace.bsky.social · 15h
Certainly among them. The fact that I can get in my car and be at a Walgreens or CVS inside of 20 minutes and that every single shelf in there is full of things that would have made kings and queens throw whole armies at to obtain is not lost upon me.
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Alice Jane Grimm (she/her) @alice-j-grimm.bsky.social · 21h
Bless every loud, angry, and rude trans person who ever resisted an act of transphobia so that even Third Way - the centrist’s centrist - is going “don’t poke that bear unless you want to get mauled” Damn right
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open borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social · 14h
"left" nimbys i can't overstate how much contempt i have for "leftist" NIMBYs, and no, don't true scotsman me, there's a point where you're just a different thing than the label, and "actively advocating for the material interests of landowners/rentiers" is very much that
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Well, That Was Spooky @thediscoveryofzero.com · 29/09/2026
One thing we could do a better job with is distinguishing between capitalism, markets, trade, and private property.
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open borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
megalothymia vs isothymia in one screenshot
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Egghead @abstractivism.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Economics is all about incentivizing behavior, but we can incentivize all kinds of work without purposely constructing an uncomfortable underclass to exploit We have the resources to restructure work to be comfortable and equatably rewarded so that jobs are voluntary and still worthwhile
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open borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I've done the numbers it is absolutely true, AND doing so would likely make America richer
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Spicy Big Dad @spicybigdad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The post says “we possess the wealth necessary” to do that and that’s very clearly true and supported by every piece of economic data we have - more than enough material wealth currently exists in America to feed, house, clothe, and provide healthcare to everyone with plenty left over
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open borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So as someone who is considerably to the left of the writer, I am actually im agreement that wealth taxes aren't a good vehicle for revenue (with the exception of land/property taxes), and I think a lot of leftier types are coming around to this.
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 29/09/2026
"The idea that liberalism is the ideology of forbearance—the ideology of technocratic tinkering—would have been news to our liberal forebears, who sought to reshape the world and remake their societies according to a vision of human freedom and human equality."
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Remember Who You Are, Liberal
Chapter 20 (pp. 162–168) from The Reconstruction Papers.
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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
And the assault on federal research grants and contracts/contractors) came just as the contracts/contractors starting taking racial and gender equality seriously both in research and in hiring and organizational culture.
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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *inclusion*, it would be all over the Times, Telegraph, Mail etc. This last weekend, attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *exclusion*. Crickets.
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June White 🫀 @cuntmoney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Conservative values have always been a ruse for financial and social control, and now that the mask has come off, I don't know that it can be put back on again.
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Like Bill Kristol and Jennifer Rubin are the main ones who have fully grappled with what their previous alignment wrought and when they looked it straight in the face they arrived at “we must tear down everything I spent up until this point working for.”
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's exactly the same kind of defensive cognitive degeneration the planter class did
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/09/2026
NEW: Food banks across America are being overwhelmed by surging demand. Scott MacFarlane went inside to see the crisis firsthand. Here’s what he found:
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“They don’t understand the scale of the hunger!”- An unfolding crisis at the nation’s food banks
Weeks before the midterm elections, the cost crisis is hammering food pantries in red and blue states
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-g...
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We Need to Get Off the Defensive About Immigration
Free movement is a fantastic thing, and we should say it.
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open borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i can't believe we are in the big old 2026 and still doing this "DOING IT THE RIGHT WAY" shit. i cannot believe people are this blinkered about the shit that got us here. I mean, I *can* but it's still jaw-dropping people, most of the shit the deportation regime is doing IS LEGAL
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open borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
wow i missed this wtf. yeah look at my immigration advocates dawg indeed. imagine in 2026 STILL buying into the "legal vs illegal" distinction, let alone thinking there should be an illegal class of migrant at all.
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open borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Waiting for how the anti-social dipshittery has made the world a better place, ended capitalism, saved democracy, did literally anything but expose you as the kind of person who is a demographic line away from being a fascist Yes I said what I motherfucking said.
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Dancing Skeleton
ALT: Dancing Skeleton
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Geraldine Mongold @gamongold.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is 100% why companies disallow remote working - the bosses have always gotten their side pieces from the company payroll.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 27/09/2026
in conclusion: it's not the phones. it's the institutions.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 26/09/2026
if you want to fix injustices then you actually need to stare them in the fucking face, and that means all too often staring REAL MATERIAL IMPACTS AND DIFFERENCES in the face instead of sticking your head in the sand and pretending everything's therefore fine
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 26/09/2026
"This is not a time for forgiveness, for looking solely towards the future. That path was tried before, by the Obama and Biden administrations, and following it has contributed to the present environment of lawless government and populist discontent." www.liberalcurrents.com/on-the-pract...
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On the Practical Case for a Book of Grudges
If we're going to set this right, a comprehensive list is needed.
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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 24/09/2026
a lot of AI pushback would disappear fast if product managers stopped completely disrespecting user agency
Got it, thanks for clarifying! You are dealing with YouTube’s auto-playlist generation, where clicking a single song or album forces it into a "Mix" playlist layout with a custom queue. Unfortunately, YouTube intentionally designed this feature so that if Autoplay is active when you click a music-related video, it automatically forces the video into a Mix panel.
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Chop Blockington @chopblockington.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Once you hear it, you can’t unhear how many pre-2010ish pop songs there are about how she was only sixteen.
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open borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The past is a shithole country is a phrase that should he burned into the psyche of everyone left of a typical Roman despot but alas
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open borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Gonna have to respectfully disagree. Fundamentally, building up infrastructure and implementation is also a political process, and framing everything through the lens of multi decade timelines is with the assumption that a new political order leaves the old socipolitical bottlenecks in place.
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Cloud's Strife @jmgreene28.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
*precisely* why good organizing is built on a foundation of good volunteer on-boarding, training and development.
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Hyde T. Voltyge @hydevoltyge.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Flanagan, AES, Jackson, Stratton, and then Nixon if she can win have been very vocal allies! Markey made it through too of course, directly crushing the transphobe Moulton. With even Kaine and Spanberger defending trans kids in Virginia, I think Labour should be averted, just need to cut the rot out
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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Reading this and getting struck by how much current AI Safety/alignment stuff is built on fixation on technical problems at the expense of meaningfully grappling with social alignment (politics)
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Sara Straw @oneoneder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Jokes on the right-wingers, Adam Smith is one of our guys
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Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Transphobes have been very open about the fact that they view sports as a wedge issue; if they can get people to agree that trans women aren't *really* women in the context of sports, it's much easier for them to extend that to toilets and other public services.
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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 24/09/2026
Scumbags who appeal to "the principles of Adam Smith" to contradict Smith's actual analysis are the perfect twins of the scumbags who appeal to a nebulous "Marxism" to contradict Marx's actual analysis. Karl Marx is Adam Smith's intellectual heir and everyone on all sides has to suck that up.
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open borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
also, to present a more person- the kind of shit described in That Article has materially and provably damaged the life of one of my friends, who is still recovering from it today, and the person who did it is still a Prominent Community Member because that's how this shit works i guess
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open borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
the fundamental problem with "Woke 1.0 was crazy" as a talking point is that it was true of maybe 5-10% of it at most, and even then the vast majority of it was "overzealousness" as well as the effects of ongoing trauma
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 23/09/2026
they were wishcasting. they thought "well, it's not exactly great that Trump won, but at least he is going to take the wokes down a peg or three. we are frankly eager for him to curb stomp MeToo, BLM, Gaza protestors, every union organizer, etc"
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open borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
among other things, a central organizing principle of Woke 2.0 will be "structures matter, but so do boundaries"
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
centrist's sell this as an easy win—get a lot more votes with small concessions, rhetorical moderation, maybe a shift on women's sports my argument is you'll keep making concessions, until you end up in a very ugly place, & never see that political pay off newrepublic.com/article/2155...
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Centrists Won’t Tell You Where “Moderating” on Trans Rights Ends Up
The recent example of the U.K. Labour Party shows that “compromising” rarely stops at some acceptable midpoint.
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
the uk has shown were backing off trans rights takes you & it's horrific my latest for new republic newrepublic.com/article/2155...
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Centrists Won’t Tell You Where “Moderating” on Trans Rights Ends Up
The recent example of the U.K. Labour Party shows that “compromising” rarely stops at some acceptable midpoint.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 23/09/2026
the authoritarian internationale is real and can hurt you
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Glonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹 @snarkranger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Ah yes, the subversive and radical idea that no person living in the wealthiest nation on Earth should be hungry, jobless, homeless, or uneducated.
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mallow @bajablastenjoyer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
i know the pundit class will never let the 2024 they/them thing rest, but it'd be nice if the amount of literal one-issue campaigns about us losing horribly would shift the overton window back
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I am fairly certain that there is a sea change within the Democratic Party where people with influence recognize what the GOP has become and are willing to use the power of the state against it. If I didn't, I would be in the process of leaving the country and if you're not, you believe that too.
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☀️ @stel.energy · 21/09/2026
i need all of us everywhere to understand the power we have to materialize social infrastructure and i am watching that realization spread and its so good . it doesnt have to be baseball it can be anything
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april, the fool(s) @manedwolfgirllegs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Is there anyone in WA, or the general PNW area looking for roommates? I'm a disabled, homeless trans woman, and I was only now just told that I have to leave the place I'm currently staying at as soon as I can, so I need to find a new place to stay ASAP.
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open borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
please, PLEASE PLEASE write this article also score one for "Taiwan is the more socialist China"
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open borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
medically necessary procedures being framed as bad didn't work to make abortion more popular and it won't work to defend trans rights. stop framing your political messaging around what evangelicals find icky, because what they find icky is women and trans people having bodily autonomy at all.
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Curious Witness @curiouswitness.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Saying you can't criticize Talarico for his statements on trans policies concedes a dead-wrong point to anti-electoral leftists: that voting is the only meaningful way to engage with a political candidate. You can absolutely vote for someone you vehemently disagree with on a bunch of issues and you
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