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Seth Morgan @sethmorgan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I write for a great little arts & culture Substack called The Enthusiast. It's been around for 2 years now! So we put together a little best-of list---including an essay I wrote about Wendell Berry---check it out! (no paywall): theenthusiast2024.substack.com/p/captains-c...

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Captain's Choice: Enthusiast Articles

In honor of our second anniversary

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Seth Morgan @sethmorgan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The @liberalcurrents.com online community is genuinely great. The Discord is worth it for the book recommendations alone. And the Reconstruction Papers are just about the best thing I read about policy this year.

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Seth Morgan @sethmorgan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

No paywall: I wrote last summer about Wendell Berry and my complicated feelings about his vision of rural America. Farewell Wendell! I've wrestled with his ideas for most of my adult life and kind of can't imagine my choices without him. theenthusiast2024.substack.com/p/try-saying...

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Try Saying "Earth"

Sic transit Wendell Berry

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Seth Morgan @sethmorgan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Wendell Berry had a profound influence on my life. I took a somewhat wry look back at the ways his books influenced my life in this essay from last year: theenthusiast2024.substack.com/p/goddamn-yo...

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Try Saying "Earth"

Masala greeted me by pissing into his own mouth

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Seth Morgan @sethmorgan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The @nytimes.com reports over $1 Billion in dark money donations this cycle. This is why we need to pass I-194 in Montana! My take in @liberalcurrents.com here: www.liberalcurrents.com/the-corporat...

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The Corporate Power Reset

Legislation in Hawaii and Montana shows how pro-democracy advocates can fight back against Citizens United.

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Seth Morgan @sethmorgan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Farewell, Dolly! Wildflowers is my (current) favorite Dolly Parton song. Speaks to my fairly nomadic life: open.spotify.com/track/27876b...

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Wildflowers - 2015 Remaster

Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris · Trio (2016 Remaster) · Song · 1987

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Seth Morgan @sethmorgan.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Thanks to my childrens' completionist journey through every episode of @wildkratts.com I learned the Kratt brothers worked with @nature.org to establish a wildlife refuge (excuse me, "creaturefuge") for grizzly bears in Montana! Love a feel-good conservation story. creaturehero.org

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Kratt Brothers Creature Hero Society

Welcome to the Kratt Brothers Creature Hero Foundation, where our focus is to work together to protect wildlife habitat where our fellow creatures can thrive.

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Seth Morgan @sethmorgan.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

One of my favorite Melville lines:

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Seth Morgan @sethmorgan.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I really, really like the Bruce Springsteen song "Rosalita." So I wrote about it. And the potent stew of desire, ambition, and vulnerability that is early Bruce: theenthusiast2024.substack.com/p/rosalita?r...

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Rosalita

"the ultimate shoot-your-shot, put-yourself-out-there anthem."

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Seth Morgan @sethmorgan.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I recorded a video about my @liberalcurrents.com article on The Corporate Power Reset --- the legal theory attempting to get around Citizen's United using corporate law: youtube.com/shorts/CGG1_...

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We Can Make Corporate Spending On Elections ILLEGAL

YouTube video by Liberal Currents

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Seth Morgan @sethmorgan.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Great interview by @nharnie.bsky.social with Jeff Mangan of @transpelectinit.bsky.social about The Montana Plan to fight back against Citizen's United and get corporate money out of politics. Love hearing Jeff's passion for Montana's corruption-fighting history! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

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Arnie Arnesen Attitude August 5 2026

Podcast Episode · Attitude with Arnie Arnesen · August 5 · 59m

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Seth Morgan @sethmorgan.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Terrific conversation with @interfluidity.com here about the desirability of unbalanced trade and Waldman’s foreign payouts tax proposal. One of the most succinct and holistic summaries of our economic situation I’ve ever heard at minute 49.

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The Nature Conservancy @nature.org · 30/07/2026

Behind every liter of water returned to Cape Town's reservoirs is years of hands-on restoration work across the region. Take a behind-the-scenes look at efforts to innovate and test new approaches to increase the impact of the Greater Cape Town Water Fund: nature.ly/4x3noQa

A misty landscape with mountains in the background and a foreground dominated by white wildflowers. Tall, thin plants rise among the flowers, and the scene is enveloped in a soft, blue haze. The image is credited to Roshni Lodhia.

An individual wearing protective gear and a yellow helmet is carrying a bundle of brush in a mountainous, rocky landscape. Others are visible in the background, also wearing similar gear. The sky is clear and the terrain consists of rugged rocks and sparse vegetation.

A person stands on a rocky hillside overlooking a vast landscape with a calm lake and distant mountains under a clear, expansive sky. The horizon features a gentle gradient from pink to blue as the sun sets or rises.

A cluster of pink and white wildflowers with spiky petals grow amidst rocky terrain.

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Seth Morgan @sethmorgan.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I wrote about The Corporate Power Reset aka The Montana Plan—a surprising legal theory that could end dark money and corporate election spending—for Liberal Currents. @thmoore.bsky.social championed this idea at The Center for American Progress. I hope I got the intellectual history right!

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Seth Morgan @sethmorgan.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Heck, misnumbered my thread. Where is the phantom 7th post? I’m sure that one would have gone viral…

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Seth Morgan @sethmorgan.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I’m grateful to Liberal Currents for publishing my article about a legal theory being tried in Hawaii & Montana which would ban corporate election spending in spite of the Citizens United ruling. How would that work? A 🧵 1/

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Tony Almquist @tony-almquist.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

by @sethmorgan.bsky.social 1/3 "when Hawaii’s State Senate Bill 2471 goes into effect in 2027, it will be illegal for corporations to spend money to influence elections in Hawaii. This will be the first test of a legal strategy focused on state corporate charters and the powers they grant..

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The Corporate Power Reset

Legislation in Hawaii and Montana shows how pro-democracy advocates can fight back against Citizens United.

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The Nature Conservancy Science @science.nature.org · 29/07/2026

Hi everyone! I’m Dr. Joe Pollock, Senior Reef Strategy Lead with TNC, taking over the TNC Science Bluesky account from Palmyra Atoll. Over the next few posts, I’ll share what we’re learning about coral reef resilience and how these reefs offer hope and lessons for reefs worldwide 🪸🌊

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 29/07/2026

“when Hawaii’s State Senate Bill 2471 goes into effect in 2027, it will be illegal for corporations to spend money to influence elections in Hawaii.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-corporat...

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The Corporate Power Reset

Legislation in Hawaii and Montana shows how pro-democracy advocates can fight back against Citizens United.

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Seth Morgan @sethmorgan.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I have a piece out now in @liberalcurrents.com on a new law in Hawaii and a ballot initiative in Montana which could make corporate election spending illegal (despite Citizens United!). Check it out here: www.liberalcurrents.com/the-corporat...

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The Corporate Power Reset

Legislation in Hawaii and Montana shows how pro-democracy advocates can fight back against Citizens United.

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Iykyk @lipstickscribbles.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Having taken a few days to read the piece, on the surface I like the nuts/bolts of the proposal (am quite active in ex/im so didn't need the first sections framing the issue, but appreciate most will). However, I caution that many parties of variant scale are involved that must be teased out. 🧵

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Seth Morgan @sethmorgan.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The fun thing about Emily Wilson’s Odyssey review is she is low-key an early Nolan head. She likes Following! What a weird, unsettling, underrated movie.

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Seth Morgan @sethmorgan.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Joe is a fantastic scientist and a great communicator. This should be cool 👇

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Seth Morgan @sethmorgan.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

True. I’m still mad about the portrayal of crop disease at the start of Interstellar 😂

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Seth Morgan @sethmorgan.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I haven’t been able to stop thinking about Steve Randy Waldman’s foreign payouts tax aka “free but balanced trade” since I read it. One potential warning sign in the piece though… 1/n

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Seth Morgan @sethmorgan.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

My new favorite genre of good news is “indigenous people building affordable housing.” Warms my YIMBY heart.

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The Nature Conservancy @nature.org · 22/07/2026

America's public lands have a secret ally: the Land and Water Conservation Fund. Many people have never heard of LWCF, but it helps protect parks, trails, forests and historic sites nationwide. Tell Congress to defend this critical program: nature.ly/4vrG2zX

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 08/07/2026

For decades, coastal mangrove forests have been decimated by development. But just this past week, forty years of satellite data confirmed something remarkable... Read more in this week's edition of Talking Climate.

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Mangrove forests are proof that protecting nature works | Talking Climate with Katharine Hayhoe

Mangroves recover, the cost of biodiversity loss, and a new way to visualize heat For decades, the world’s coastal mangrove forests were dis

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Seth Morgan @sethmorgan.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Gonna have to call in the Wu Tang Clan for an exorcism if we want USMNT to ever win a game again.

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Seth Morgan @sethmorgan.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Good to know Walt’s having a hard time winding down after the England-Mexico game too.

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Seth Morgan @sethmorgan.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Newly radicalized normies: end gerrymandering and expand the court! Liberal Currents: Yes! And: Strengthen the Inspector General Act and change the Amendment process and make DC into SEVEN states!

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Seth Morgan @sethmorgan.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I had a lovely time reading every Francis Spufford novel I could get my hands on (thanks Flathead co library!) then writing this essay about his Christian humanist moral vision: open.substack.com/pub/theenthu...

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See Your Agency: Francis Spufford and the Weight of History

Choices, or failures to choose

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 29/06/2026

in which we here at liberal currents and a wide variety of other scholars and thinkers did our best to imagine not just another iteration on slopulism or same old same old, but a genuine program of governance for rebuilding our fractured republic

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Seth Morgan @sethmorgan.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I‘ve loved digfing into these essays. Fascinating and provocative. Lots to debate and consider.

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 17/06/2026

The Reconstruction Papers provides an ambitious but achievable path forward beyond the Trump era, but also beyond the decades of institutional decay that preceded it. Help us spread the word by pre-ordering a print copy today buy.stripe.com/7sY28s9AJd79...

INTRODUCTION: BEYOND RESISTANCE, BEYOND REFORM
POLITICS
INSTITUTIONAL REFORM THAT CAN BE DONE WITH A SIMPLE MAJORITY IN CONGRESS
RECONSTRUCTING THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH
GUARDRAILS FOR DEMOCRACY
FIXING ARTICLE V
FIXING FEDERALISM
RECONSTRUCTING THE SENATE
ECONOMICS
THE LIBERAL ECONOMY
REBALANCING TRADE IN A FRAGMENTED INTERNATIONAL ORDER
SUSTAINABLE FISCAL POLICY FOR AMERICA
SEEING LIKE A GARDENER: A NEW FRAMEWORK FOR THE PUBLIC FUNDING OF SCIENCE
SOCIETY
IMAGINING LIFE AFTER PATRIARCHY
HOW TO NORMALIZE IMMIGRATION
FOUR PRINCIPLES FOR COMPREHENSIVE HIGHER EDUCATION REFORM
TO REBUILD DEMOCRACY IN THE HEARTS OF AMERICANS, WE NEED A NEW NATIONAL SERVICE INITIATIVE
HOUSING RESILIENCE AND FINANCIAL STABILITY FOR ALL
TOWARDS A THIRD RECONSTRUCTION
FOREIGN POLICY
IN SEARCH OF AN FDR CONSENSUS
REBUILDING INTERNATIONAL LAW
PRINCIPLES
REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE, LIBERAL
RECONSTRUCTION AND THE LIBERAL TRADITION
THE RETURN OF CONSTITUTIONAL POLITICS
Adam Gurri
Nicholas Grossman
Pat Sobkowski
Judith Starr
Robert Black
Adam Gurri
Kevin J. Elliott
Maia Mindel
Steve Randy Waldman
Ed Dolan
Aishwarya Khanduja & Stuart Buck
Jude Doyle
Anna Law
Brendan Cantwell
Alan Elrod
Moira Birss
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Megan Piontkowski Illustration @meganpiont.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I did not realize there was anything we could do! Call your senators to get them to protect our Haitian neighbors! I am calling and leaving messages tomorrow and then will call Monday.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 23/06/2026

Climate.us is officially live! After NOAA ended Climate.gov’s day-to-day operations in 2025, former team members built Climate.us to carry that work forward. Their explanations and graphics have always stood out to me as clear, accessible, and transparent. I’m really looking forward to this reboot.

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Climate.us Home

independent, nonprofit, and immune to politics

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Seth Morgan @sethmorgan.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

My theory: because Neal Stephenson put smartglasses in Seveneves. The whole tech industry seems dedicated to making dystopic versions of tech from Stephenson novels.

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Seth Morgan @sethmorgan.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

At the Reflecting Pool, and guys, this doesn’t look right.

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Seth Morgan @sethmorgan.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Call me when the Potomac turns to blood.

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Sheldrick Wildlife Trust @sheldricktrust.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Do elephants remember who was kind to them? Yes – and across decades. Our ex-orphans return to the stockades long after they've gone wild, recognise specific Keepers by name, and bring their wild-born calves home to introduce them. They even come back for help.

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Seth Morgan @sethmorgan.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Fascinating paper about unconscionable policy.

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Seth Morgan @sethmorgan.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

It was funny when Milli Vanilli was on this list. It is 1000% funnier now that they‘ve refused.

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Seth Morgan @sethmorgan.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

🫡 done and done. Might be a step 2 I’m missing though…

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