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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li

@sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com
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executive editor at liberal currents. neonliberal. she/her.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 9h
unsurprisingly the "truth" one discovers from this Sigma Male Mindset is that of the opium-addicted aristocrat degenerate: * I should be allowed to rape my servants * Human life has a naturally enforced hierarchy * The people cannot decide their fate * I shouldn't be bound by even capitalism ..
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 7h
This is the animating principle of my YIMBYism.
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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 12h
A good fresh Star Trek take on those fake isekai title jokes
A tumblr screenshot showing a post and two reblog responses, reading:
1. "star trek would be the ideal fictional universe to get trapped in because you'd explain your situation and they'd be like yeah makes sense. no further questions. fortunately we can use the mysterious warp signature emitting from this system's icy moon to counterface with the solar radiation and slingshot you back home"
2. "I'm from a universe where your world is all a work of fiction." Benjamin Sisko, nodding. "That happened to me once."
3. "I Got Isekaid Into The Star Trek Universe And They Quickly Understood What Was Happening"
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 7h
reactionary centrists will be telling libs to calm down already while the actual reactionaries are going to be calling for The Purge
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 7h
i do think that texas is central to the contemporary conservative imaginary, and when they lose it this fall it is causing to lead to some truly demented reactions from the reactionverse
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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 8h
Great follow up to @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com’s essay last week www.liberalcurrents.com/the-return-o...
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The Return of the Cutting-Off Way
Structural changes are driving us towards a more chaotic world, defined by "neither peace nor war, but conflict."
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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 10h
I'm not sure if she's aware of it but this 2022 @rebeccajtiffany.bsky.social tweet is basically an article of faith at @liberalcurrents.com ( @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com quoted it in www.liberalcurrents.com/feminism-wit... and I've referenced it countless times ever since)
My YIMBY take: Every trans 18 year old who is stuck living w unsupportive family should be able to afford an apartment in a vibrant urban space w transit on a min wage job. (+raise the min wage). Build so much housing that that is the norm. Same for others stuck in bad situations
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 12h
what i was trying inaptly to say is that this is a grostdeutschland but it isn't hitler's specific grosdeutschland
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
related to another bizarre feature of political discussion in the US: that it's supposed to mark you as reasonable/bipartisan/fair or whatever that you take these discourses on their own terms. as opposed to marking you as (at best!) a mark
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 13h
headasplode!
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 13h
you get that in the non-aligned focus tree right
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 13h
what makes it alt-history is that he's included parts of switzerland in his grosdeutchland this time around
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 13h
feel a small bit of dementation that an actual german politician is now posting hoi4 alt-history content
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The Meme Politics of "Hearts of Iron"
YouTube video by Liberal Currents
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 13h
let me guess: the aids healthcare foundation?
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 13h
Of note, one of this year's ballot measures is purportedly to fund necessary medical research, but a close examination reveals that it's basically a $4 billion taxpayer payout to a single sketchy nonprofit. That's why it's important to read the fine print.
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 13h
Every single one of these stories is like this and it pisses me off to no end
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 16h
"There is no way to be “one of the good ones.” There is no way to come to America “the right way” that will satisfy these gutter racists."
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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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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 04/10/2026
Neon Liberalism #93: Samantha Hancox-Li talks with Mike Sacks of Court Accountability about the state of the American Constitution, the role of John Roberts and the Supreme Court in putting a pleasant mask on MAGA, and how we need to think about court reform in the future.
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Don't Let John Roberts Fool You (Neon Liberalism #93, with Mike Sacks)
How we need to think about court reform in the future.
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TheDemCon @thedemcon.bsky.social · 18h
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
And I hope it's clear, none of this is to denigrate or put down unions, there is no liberation without a robust and powerful labor movement. I just think folks forget that all political movements-- even and especially very powerful and successful movements-- institutionalize.
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The Guy, Jr getting lazy and less militant than dad though, I've seen a lot. And I'm being intentional about the gender stuff because it's a dynamic I've seen most often in dude dynasty unions
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kupperware.bsky.social @kupperware.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“High trust society is when I get nervous around black people“ gets so much flack for being morally repugnant that it’s easy to forget how fucking stupid it is.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 03/10/2026
okay girl but. they are so derpy. SO. DERPY.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 03/10/2026
i still have not heard an adequate explanation of why the medievals were so fucking bad at drawing cats
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Part of the problem is that helping us heal would mean removing those men from their hunting grounds, so we could return to the communities and professions they drove many of us out of. But that's a lot of work and fuss. "Rehabilitation" lets people feel good about maintaining the status quo
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/10/2026
this for RFK Jr. is mission accomplished
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 03/10/2026
"police unions exist to advocate for the interests of their members"
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 03/10/2026
i once saw [eminent labor historian] say "look you idiots, labor unions exist to advocate for their own members." but like. if that's true. do you actually think the implication is *good* for solidarity?
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 03/10/2026
It’s gonna be so cool when they demand that the next Democratic trifecta ban driverless trucking.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
what the fuck is wrong with the teamsters man Roger Marshall is a ghoul who sued his own patients and threw them in prison!
Kansas Teamsters Back Pro-Labor Candidate for U.S. Senate
Press Contact: Kara Deniz Phone: (202) 497-6610 (Topeka, Kan.) - Today, Teamsters Local 696 endorsed Senator Roger Marshall (R-KS) for re-election to the U.S. Senate.
"Sen. Marshall has proven time and time again that he is a friend of labor," said Teamsters General President Sean M.
O'Brien. "As a member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, Sen. Marshall has been eager to partner with us on legislation that protects workers, even when it requires breaking rank with his own party. We look forward to continuing to work together with Sen. Marshall to fight for the rights of hardworking Americans."
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 03/10/2026
"what if instead of drowning each other in horrible personalist networks, discriminating on the basis of arbitrary features like race and sex, we instead treated each other like honorable and important ends in ourselves"
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 03/10/2026
see this is the thing about "high trust," it's this attempt to find a way of speaking "nonpartisanly" about the actual magic beast of modernity, "free and equal citizens"
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 03/10/2026
you asked for ten thousand. i give you one.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“Originalism is an incoherent doctrine. It allows you to prove anything. Thus what it amounts to is a ritual invocation of the Founders, gesturing at this or that piece of text, before delivering whatever conclusion was approved on Fox News the night before.” www.liberalcurrents.com/we-have-no-s...
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We Have No Supreme Court
The philosophical incoherence of originalism prevents the Court from performing its core functions as a supreme court.
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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 03/10/2026
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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 03/10/2026
last two being from the editors ourselves, @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com's The Mass Party of the Future www.liberalcurrents.com/the-mass-par... And my The Audience Gets a Vote www.liberalcurrents.com/the-audience...
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The Mass Party of the Future
Liberalism's problem isn't structural. Liberalism's problem is that we got out-hustled.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This week on the blog! more Hearts of Iron IV. Having discussed the game's military simulation in previous weeks, this week we look at how HoI4 understands politics and...it's rough - design streamlining leads to an incomplete and authoritarian political model. acoup.blog/2026/10/02/t...
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Teaching Paradox: Hearts of Iron IV, Part IIIa: Focusing on Politics
This is the first half of the third part (I, II) of our long-delayed series looking at Hearts of Iron IV, Paradox Interactive’s World War II grand strategy game, easily one of the most popula…
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[adult content]
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Waschesalon Grammy Campaign Manager @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A24 accidentally and unwillingly becoming one of the biggest entertainment conglomerates in America by being the only people who are aware that highbrow liberals spend more money than anyone else
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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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Jeff (Liberal Party - NJ) @yournjenthusiast.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I don’t care about the tariffs, I don’t give a fuck about the “strain on American families” I care that the policy of the Administration is to basically invade and chop up our neighbor for no good reason. That should take precedence over any economic issues
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Samantha Hancox-Li: "For Christopher Rufo, integration of nonwhite immigrants isn’t the desired outcome at all. Successful integration is a problem. So while he dresses up his objections in the language of “cultural cohesion” and “high trust” societies, those are protective camouflage…”
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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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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“For Rufo integration of nonwhite immigrants isn’t the desired outcome at all. Successful integration is a problem. So while he dresses up his objections in the language of “cultural cohesion” and “high trust” societies, those are protective camouflage…” www.liberalcurrents.com/editors-note...
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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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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This line by @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com might be the best short description of "originalism" I've read yet.
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Lucy @leftliblucy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
>discover new high-trust society advocacy group >ask if they're cosmopolitan or ethnostatist >they don't understand >explain what is cosmopolitan and what is ethnostatist >they laugh and s- oh never mind they just yelled 15 racial slurs >ethnostatist, then
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"surely this will improve trust"
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