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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 · 2h
But god forbid we suggest open immigration because it would Alienate The Swing Voters
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Vikram Bath @vikrambath.bsky.social · 6h
They do not want legal immigration. They brag about revoking legal visas and denying legal naturalizations. They want negative net migration, and they are succeeding at it
DHS: Net negative migration for the first time in
HALF a CENTURY.
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Americans are amassing victories NEVER seen before thanks to President Trump.
We will continue to grow our efforts to fulfill the mandate given to this administration.
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open borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social · 2h
Just the building/construction ones Service worker unions aren't
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open borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social · 17h
I think the dark patterns involved in the attention economy are at least an order of magnitude more harmful than anything AI has done to date and unless you buy into xrisk or at least mass unemployment I see no prospect of the gap closing
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open borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social · 17h
The thing is that catering to these people's prejudices and vibes has caused profound sociopolitical degradation and the time has come to tell them to get fucked and despite me being a meat eater, if giving up meat is what it takes to impose virtue on these people them its a good trade
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open borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social · 17h
they're objectively right and maybe society should start listening more to Annoying But Objectively Right people
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open borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social · 22h
its more that "dammatio memoriae" is table stakes and not doing it because of the Swing Voters is unacceptable
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 23h
you asked for ten thousand. i give you one.
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open borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
small quibble, underpolicing actually used to be a problem for Black communities, Black leaders actually *wanted* some kind of Crime Bill but not the one we got.
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 03/10/2026
"The good news? Power, strategy, and organizing capability can be used for good as much as it can be used for evil. The task is, as it has always been, is to build power to build a better world." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-world-th...
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The World That Woke 2.0 Seeks to Build
We can learn from the Civil Rights Movement, but we can also learn from its opposition.
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open borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The idea is that if they can be proven useless then they'll go away eventually
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 29/09/2026
‘“Hard borders” are a creation of the modern age. Until the late 19th century, borders almost everywhere were more or less open, often fuzzy or undecided.’ Ferdinand Mount on immigration and emigration in the English imagination. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Ferdinand Mount · Modest and Misunderstood: Wretched Strangers
In the great immigration panics of today, sympathy is focused on the home team. We are the ones who are being hurt. It...
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open borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"alienating swing voters" is collaborator talk to me at this point
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Bugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
what did he think conservatism is dipshit man
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open borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Most blue states have explicit sanctuary/non-cooperation with immigration authorities policies, and it was assumed even into the Civil War that full national abolition wouldn't happen.
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open borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
they hate you!! they want to kill or expel their disfavored outgroups!!! it's not rational!!!! it can't be negotiated with!!! *stop trying to negotiate with them*.
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open borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
as in so many things, the Reasonable Concerns about liberty just reduce down to rank bigotry in the end
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Jason Kuznicki @jkuznicki.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Thinking about my father here. Yes I know how awful this is, but he used to say that people from India were his “favorite minority.” A dig at basically everyone else—including me. As I’ve said many times, low-trust coalitions are unstable. They’re not how you get a high-trust society.
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Editor's Notes: "The Indian Question" Shows That No One Is Safe From White Nationalism
That is the entire point.
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending
a graph of roadway and mass transit lights
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 03/10/2026
some remarks on 'respectable conservative' chris rufo's "the indian question." from our perspective it's bizarre, it's insane. but that's the point. they want to prove that no one is ever really safe.
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Editor's Notes: "The Indian Question" Shows That No One Is Safe From White Nationalism
That is the entire point.
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open borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We've been specifically doing more and more immigration restrictionism for 40 years and the only way to make it even somewhat effective is fascism
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ACAB Rave @screw-reality.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
trying to appeal to conservatives on immigration will never work for Dems because Republicans will always accuse them of wanting open borders. so you might as well do the moral thing and oppose ethnic cleansing instead of pretending you can do it nicely (or worse, "more effectively")
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open borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Most Americans do not support abolition. They will never be convinced to support abolition. You cannot win this fight - you in 1850 probably
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open borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Damn I hope we could get socialism and open borders via voting Dem
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maria_from_ga @mariafromga.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Free trade and open borders is the progressive anti-populist position
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open borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I didn't all but call for open borders, I call for open borders 🥰 And while the economic benefits are great, my argument is the border is inherently fascist, and we've been appeasing the white nationalist Border Power for 40 years and only got more white nationalism
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Steven Toth @toths.info · 02/10/2026
The correct response is to promote open borders, now. These people will find a way to justify deportation of any group if they don't like them. Open the borders.
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open borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
wanna know a secret? Trump *is* running America like a businessman.
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open borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
white collar job losses hit women hard, but Trump's tariffs and cuts to renewable buildout tanked logistics, manufacturing and construction (data centers aren't picking up the slack) so the only thing growing are meds and eds which are disproportionately women
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 02/10/2026
“Too many of us—from college-aged sports betting addicts to journalists and political operatives to our richest and most powerful businessmen and politicians—have been deranged by these habits and enslaved to the distortive effects of trying to get our next hit.”
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Portraits of an American Dopamine Eater
Our attention economy incentivizes the profane degradations of fame-seeking and celebrity culture.
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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Judith Butler Apology Form
Date:
Reason for behavior:
( ) The media convinced me that feminism was solved in the 1980s
( ) I miss not thinking about gender
( ) I was jealous of their nonbinary swag
( ) I never actually read their work
( ) I didn't realize how much of society is built on gender
( ) Mercury was in retrograde
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( ) I will hereby respect Judith Butler and I will NOT talk down on the best feminist thinker of our lifetimes
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Common Wealth Canada @commonwealthcanada.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
No amount of new homes will solve the financialization of housing. We should build way more supply, but it won't be nearly enough to overcome unlimited credit bidding up land values. Land value tax tackles financialization at its core.
CCPA article headline claiming housing crisis isn’t caused by supply shortage but by financialization driving costs higher.
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open borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Except they didn't abstain, because abstention was very low in 2024
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open borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is yet another failure of letting the polls determine your principles.
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open borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We should hold liberalism to its own stated commitments!
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open borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My view is that it would have made the genocide considerably more expensive, but that doesn't equate to ending it. But from a normative point of view, ending the alliance should have been on the table starting in early 2024, politics be damned.
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open borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
which is funny because the policy he actually undertook was impeachment worthy, which was to violate multiple US laws to continue funneling arms to a polity his own State Department concluded was committing war crimes, and then engaging in obstruction of justice on top of it
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open borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
That would be an improvement over today, but I also disagree with the entire premise of "illegal/not illegal" - we should literally just let people in.
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open borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
this is also why it does NOT work to concede Republican framings, ever - it's validating the info environment!
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فدائيي وليم @fedayeenwilliam.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Spanish-language short-form video ecosystem (and latam twitter) is something you have to see to believe if you only speak English; it‘s absolutely swamped with evangelical and MAGA propaganda
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open borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
also wrt wfh/hybrid, the issue is that a lot of people don't have hobbies or interests that draw them out of the house so they need work to do it for them, and while Online is great for developing hobbies, it's the path of least resistance to hooking up to the Gamified Dopamine machine
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open borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
i actually think a lot of the issues with Online are issues with the way social interaction has been gamified specifically, like, people are interacting in ways optimizing for Likes and Reshares not to connect with people and while obviously pre-SM culture wasn't perfect, gamification makes it worse
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open borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The way we think about the world, and our relationship to work, and how we decide who deserves resources is slowly, but surely changing, and we must fight to turn this change in mindset into durable change in institutions.
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open borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
its all vibes and bullshit, none of these people are making Rational Economic Calculations, they're just douchebags. I'd bet money that a good chunk of the trans women they fired were top performers, or at worst solid performers with accommodations, doesn't matter because Vibe Shift baby
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open borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
i feel a lot of this but I also know people who are way better than me at tech not get hired; the same people that said "we need AI for Cost Savings" took out new expensive office leases and forced everyone back onsite, they did mass layoffs and blamed "overhiring" when they had record profits
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open borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Working less to get more is actually good, but who actually gets more? That is fundamentally a political question. The answer can't be "well, maybe in 50 years there will be better jobs" trickle-down bullshit because I will likely be dead in 50 years.
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open borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
for this and a number of reasons, i think the only workable "pro-AI" or even "not-anti-ai" stance is within an anti-capitalist framework, because technology, how its used, how it's developed, and how its deployed, is downstream of political economy, and the political economy *fucking sucks*
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open borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
most online leftists have not read a word of the actual canon
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open borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Doesn't estrogen reduce BMR though? I eat less than I did on T but haven't lost much
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