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Ryan Abrams

@ryanabrams.bsky.social
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Actual Philly Guy now, following a lifetime of preparation. Lawyer, but not that kind of lawyer. Go Birds. Fight fascism.

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Paul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com · 06/10/2026
I am being canceled from the Liberal Currents Discord for my ignorance here. Listening, learning.
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Ryan Abrams @ryanabrams.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Darius Cooper is no Na Brown (laudatory)
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Ryan Abrams @ryanabrams.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Feels like the good old days (I want to crawl in a hole and hibernate).
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Ryan Abrams @ryanabrams.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
That forced injury benching of Hurts brought to you by FanDuel™
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 27/09/2026
"'Network' was in search of what came after television. And it caught on to the idea that telecommunication could bring the Colosseum to your living room with ever-escalating horrors to deaden one’s delighted senses." www.liberalcurrents.com/network-at-5...
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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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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 27/09/2026
Enough with the skywalkers already. Do the Thrawn ascendancy trilogy you cowards
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Sara Gibbs is Scary Enough Already @sararoseg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
He imposed Shania Law
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Roz @rozmilner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Over at @aquariumdrunkard.com i went long on Paul Simon’s album Graceland, its influences (and influence!) but also how it didn’t reflect the popular music among black South Africans at the time aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/09/24/t...
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Those Were the Days of Miracle and Wonder :: Paul Simon’s Graceland at 40 - Aquarium Drunkard
Paul Simon’s 1986 album Graceland exists in this weird state, an album that eternally evokes 1986, but always sounds so different from other albums of its era. It’s an collection that’s self absorbed,...
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Camerado @dogsinautumn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Agree 100%, the Big Pivot is already underway. We’re gonna see a spontaneous reorganization of the hive mind toward feigned ignorance. Faith & family. Values voter conservatism is gonna wash over us like a tide. And that’s better. Also deeply insulting & we have no obligation to let them have it
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026
i am genuinely bewildered by people who say that the rise of white nationalism in the republican party is a response to the "woke left." like, did the woke left cause pat buchanan's 1992 presidential campaign? is the woke left why steve king had a long career in congress?
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Texas Republican Party is made up of authoritarians, racists, misogynists, perverts, and criminals. It’s powered by right-wing Christians, MAHA influencers, and fascist-curious tech bros. If you want to see what the GOP after Trump looks like, it’s Texas. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-future-o...
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The Future of the Republican Party After Trump Is in Texas
The white male supremacists of the Texas GOP embody what the national party has become.
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
the best thing about being in my 40s by far has been the freedom to refer to anonymous guys in their late teens/early 20s as “kid” like Han Solo calls Luke in Star Wars. been waiting my whole life for this. worth every second. indescribable feeling of power.
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treb @treblaw.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
make this a poster
Reacher holding a propane tank and grabbing onto the undercarriage of an elevator as he goes for a ride a few floors up to ambush bad folks
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 15/09/2026
Genuinely an insane paragraph from Sam Alito. “Voter fraud is real and scary and we have to stop it, so the fact that implementing Trump’s mail ballot rule will disenfranchise millions is legally irrelevant.” Brain melted. A right-wing podcaster in a robe. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
___, (slip op., at 9) (internal quotation marks omitted).
As for the equities, the Government has a strong interest
in enforcing the rule, and implementing it will also “en-
hance the visibility of Federal Ballot Mail” in order to better
detect election fraud. 91 Fed. Reg. 54972. On the other side
of the balance, the plaintiff States invoke the practical ef-
fects of implementing the rule close to the midterm elec-
tions. I take that problem very seriously, but it is not
enough to convince me to deny the application.
First, as the District Court acknowledged, the States dis-
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Ryan Abrams @ryanabrams.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
@treblaw.bsky.social
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Paul Ford @ftrain.com · 12/09/2026
You know the Milgram experiment where people hit a button and heard people screaming in the other room but they kept doing it because they felt they had to? That’s actually how posting works on here.
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Ryan Abrams @ryanabrams.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Trump is an aesthetic imperialist. He just thinks maps would look nicer if every land mass was combined into one nation.
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
there's a weird whiplash effect in that, since 2000, the private lives of americans simultaneously improved while the country's institutions and civic life more or less continuously degenerated
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
National Jewish Survey, Sep 1, 2026 Generic congressional ballot: 67% D, 26% R Approvals JD Vance: -68 MAGA: -59 Donald Trump: -53 ICE: -50 Benjamin Netanyahu: -40 Marco Rubio: -33 "Israeli policy in Gaza": -30 Barack Obama +32 jewishvoters.org/wp-content/u...
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The Onion @theonion.com · 09/09/2026
“I remember googling the word ‘stupid’ for the first time, reading the definition, and thinking, ‘Holy shit—this is me,’ ” — Derrick Henard
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Everything Finally Clicks For Man After Getting Diagnosed As Stupid
CARY, NC—Describing the experience as “a revelation,” 38-year-old Derrick Henard told reporters Wednesday that everything had finally clicked for him after he was given a diagnosis of stupid. “I remem...
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 07/09/2026
“There’s libbing out of all kinds here. Moderates who’ve been at it for forty years and progressives who’ve been pushing party boundaries for ten. There are tables hawking campaign merch, staffers who look like they didn’t sleep last night, and consultants who definitely haven’t slept in a week.”
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Meet the Democrats
The party is not an abstract cabal powered by fever dreams, but a living, breathing coalition held together by a ceaseless grind and people with the will to face it.
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 31/08/2026
"Building power is unglamorous. It is bylaws and board meetings and grant applications and strategic plans and staff retreats. It is building the infrastructure that ensures upper-middle class liberals send money to you as opposed to a doomed Senate campaign with a cool ad in a R+20 district."
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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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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 30/08/2026
[Rose from Titanic lying down. Below, the same scene with comically crude, bulging eyes and thick red lips painted over her face.]
"I Want You To Paint Me Like One Of Your Warhammer Figures"
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Tim Goodacre - Writer @timgoodacre.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Courtesy of @evonomics.bsky.social's fb page 😂
Angry mother to child: "I don't care about the drugs or the alcohol. Just tell me who gave you these Ayn Rand books!"
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
Democrats need their own Rogan Josh, imagine a delicious aromatic curry dish that everyone associated with the Democratic Party. Voters probably couldn’t get enough.
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Ryan Abrams @ryanabrams.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Go Birds 🦅
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Ryan Abrams @ryanabrams.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Every so often, something gets published that expresses exactly what you’ve been thinking and feeling, at the exact moment you’re thinking and feeling it. Essential reading for today.
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Ryan Abrams @ryanabrams.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Lost Weekend is Phoebe Bridgers’ best album and will easily claim the top spot as the #1 album of the year on most year-end lists. The list of artists contributing to this record is long, yet it serves as a sonically and thematically cohesive statement on loss, grief and love. Staggering work.
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Mike in the Box @mike-in-the-box.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
By the way... Jon Ossoff has accepted zero money from AIPAC. AIPAC actually hates him, because he voted to block certain kinds of weapons sales to Israel. AIPAC has paid for attack ads against him.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
On the one hand, I shouldn't wish my country ill. On the other hand, Canada's grandfathers bled with my grandfathers fighting the Nazis. When we were attacked on 9/11, we asked Canada to send their sons and they bled with our troops in Afghanistan. To betray that bond - we'll deserve what we get.
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oh no @ili.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
en esta economía??????
nyt cooking melissa clark seis leches cake january 21, 2020
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
the big brave president ran away in a food cart; there was a huge marine with a square jaw and massive muscles there, hiding between the biscuits and the trail mix and he was weeping thank you sir, he said, thank you for saving this land
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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Avicii: Ohhhhh Sometimes I Get a Good Feeling Yeah BlueSky Reply Guy: Well, not all of us can have a good feeling under capitalism
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Ryan Abrams @ryanabrams.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
This cover absolutely rips youtu.be/M5XuzYvC_nk?...
youtu.be
Deep Sea Diver - Teardrop (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Deep Sea Diver
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
and GOD IS EMPTY JUST LIKE ME
democrat is socialist and socialist is communist
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Ryan Abrams @ryanabrams.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Soup Dragons’ Singer? (Plural possessive) Soup, Dragons Singer? (“to Dragon” is new slang verb?) Soup Dragons, Singer? (Track is about both the band and a singer, possibly the singer of the band “Soup Dragons?”)
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Ryan Abrams @ryanabrams.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I just decided that Joel Embiid is the IMAX 70mm format of the NBA: (a) truly great, (b) breaking down, (c) no replacement parts and (d) only shows on 25 screens a year.
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Jacob Grier @jacobgrier.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Just left a hipster coffeeshop. All the liberals were reading The Reconstruction Papers, whispering about how great it is to see @liberalcurrents.com in print.
A copy of the Reconstruction Papers on a table of a coffeeshop with a cup of coffee next to it
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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 22/07/2026
The two types of right wing media commentary are “go woke go broke” and corrupting our children Korra is corrupting our children Tomb Raider (2013) is go woke go broke Strange World is corrupting our children Nolan’s Odyssey, despite being a box office hit, is go woke go broke
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Ryan Abrams @ryanabrams.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I highly recommend taking a trip to Madeira if you’re into…this kind of thing.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
All the other senators of both parties knew he did this, saw it come out in the investigations, it hasn't been a secret. And none of them ever even suggested a sitting senator caught red-handed in an election fraud conspiracy merited looking into, much less what it should have gotten him: expulsion.
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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
There’s such a tendency for people to say “oh it’s always been that bad” to people who are vastly more informed and are saying things have changed. It’s like pointing to the smoldering ashes of a city and being informed that buildings have always caught fire
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I wrote about the sad Trump Country Fair thing and the very specific and hilariously shitty vision of America that it expresses. The war on metaphor continues apace. defector.com/dead-country...
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Dead Country Fair | Defector
Things come out of Donald Trump’s mouth, then just keep on coming out of it. If he says something once, he will say it again, primarily to reinforce how powerfully and unprecedentedly successful he wa...
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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it.
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 24/06/2026
"On June 14th, 2026, Donald Trump took the occasion of his birthday to turn the Lincoln Memorial into a catwalk for the fragile machismo of the American right. Immediately thereafter, he turned the mirror at Lincoln’s feet into a man-made swamp." www.liberalcurrents.com/let-us-refle...
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Let Us Reflect
Why Greenwatergate has stuck when so many other incidents have not.
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Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · 19/06/2026
Oh, look, the federal government is violating the Clean Water Act
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Mayor of Funkytown @quasarfunk.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
lol
I don’t have a lot of moments like this. I don’t remember someone in modern history who would go with you and do wonderful things, and then suddenly disappear and go against you. So now I am the bad guy? I supported you! I was the good guy! How did I become the bad guy, and the Ayatollah is the good guy?

This is why I was wondering whether you had ever observed Donald Trump.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Hell of a Freudian slip. I *assume* he was thinking of the Baader-Meinhof Gang, a far-left terrorist group. Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a legendary and rightly celebrated anti-Nazi theologian & dissident.
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