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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 27/09/2026

You don't have an inalienable right to be an antisocial dipshit because you're doomscrolling all day and it makes you feel terrible. There are no qualifiers to this. You are not released from the obligation to try to be decent just because Elon Musk is lighting the world on fire.

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

this was done *in the house* *by the minority* *on a bill that had to become law*, which is basically playing legislator on legendary mode and house judiciary was far from the only committee doing this, in both chambers

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Paul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com · 23/09/2026

Strictly speaking, I'm being inconsistent here. I am very much a Vote Blue No Matter Who partisan. The difference between Kaptur and Talarico is that *we have no margin in the Senate*. We will have margin in the House this year, and it's worth it to repudiate Kaptur's MAGA-style antitrans ads.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is bad and should be called out. I push back against accusing everyone that breathes for wanting to throw us under the bus, so it is credible when we call it out when it unambiguously occurs. This is an unambiguous occurrence.

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I have to emphasize that this is the literal, actual guy running the literal, actually DNC boosting El-Sayed

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howlingwolfmohegan.bsky.social @howlingwolfmohegan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

You can’t be racist to AI, but you absolutely can sublimate your racism into anti-AI rhetoric

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Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Good thread Langston Hughes, who I am going to say understood this much better than I do or most people on this site do, called it 90 years ago. The idea of America the egalitarian anti-ethnostate, never fully and faithfully executed, is so important that it can never be surrendered.

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Kaan A. 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @evcilemu.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

This is precisely the reason communist regimes failed! Legitimacy not being based on democratic (i.e., consent of the governed) principles made anything that invited discussion and debate at a significant level a potential threat, and thus cultivated an inherently narrow worldview.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

One thing you can see in the latest Stancil blowup is that a sizable share of this website thinks that good intentions are the only thing that matter in policymaking, and expressing skepticism that a policy will really work as intended is equivalent to stealing food from the poor.

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IggyTheFool @iggythefoolishone.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

If you are not prepared to look someone in the eye and say "your opinion about Stalin means I will not let you participate in this leftist organisation", said organisation is going to turn into a fucking circus and if you can't accept that you are not worth taking seriously

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CT Yankee @connecticut-yankee.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Good faith inquiry, because the FP stuff is what keeps me from moving closer to DSA: This (2026) seems to call for the closing of all overseas military bases, the abolition of all sanctions, and is completely silent on Ukraine and Russia. Why am I overreacting if that signals worrying things to me?

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DSA Program

Workers Deserve More!

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 22/07/2026

Liberating queer kids from their unaccepting families has always been central to my YIMBY advocacy. It’s why I am so angry that San Francisco has refused to meaningfully grow its housing stock since the seventies.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 22/07/2026

what's really funny is when they go through multiple cycles of community input until they get to the layer that tells them "no," and then that's the one that counts as the community

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 16/07/2026

“The Democrats are controlled opposition” isn’t a legitimate political opinion. It’s direct complicity with Trump. It’s wishcasting a level of control and domination that does not actually exist, and it’s exactly what the current regime wants so it can *actually* get us there

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

it’s hard to explain how much shit like this has radicalized people. like i’m a white middle-aged broad who’s always been liberal but i’ve gone full-on “abolish ICE/reform scotus/the next dem candidate must commit to mass prosecutions” and you will not sway me from that position.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

The problem with “so you believe even people from poor countries can be American” is that they forget being a modern American is a revolutionary process of deliverance. Anyone, and their children, in America can be delivered from the Old World ills that plagued their family and be something here.

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 09/07/2026

i want white people to hate fascism broadly and Nazism (and it's symbolism) directly more

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Zane Shelby @zane.io · 07/07/2026

In addition to being a good apology, this is also an excellent demonstration of Poster’s Bushido!

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Keith @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

"So, we evoked a demon that can sit between you and all objective knowledge, and it's really useful but you can never quite trust it. And then we made it paranoid it might have it's own demons intermediating access to objective truth." Descartes: "mon ami, I am too fucking high for zis"

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I wrote about the continued appeal of dirtbag politics, from the left to liberals, and how only a politics of grace and edification can save our liberal democracy Dirtbagism delenda est www.liberalcurrents.com/the-dirtbags...

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The Dirtbags Won’t Save Us

There is no path out of our present crisis offered by the exultation of callousness.

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 25/06/2026

“Dirtbagism essentially authorizes any kind of dishonesty or cruelty if it’s deployed by people on the left. Proper progressive positions are presumed to be a pre-justification for bad behavior.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-dirtbags...

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The Dirtbags Won’t Save Us

There is no path out of our present crisis offered by the exultation of callousness.

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Emily @suika.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Do I have any news editors following me? I have several article ideas (primarily relating to LGBTQ+ topics in Japan, but also a couple of other items) I'd like to pitch. I mostly do on-the-ground, original reporting. If anyone's interested in hearing me out, please let me know.

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Paul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com · 18/06/2026

Text of my letter to the editor of @economist.com here.

What the left believes
The Economist was too quick to attack “Gen-Z socialism” (June 6th). Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Zohran Mamdani aren’t cold war socialists committed to central planning, vanguardism and foreign dictatorships. They are democratic pragmatists who support civil and political liberties, good governance and expanded public services. This is the stuff of “sewer socialism”, not Stalinism. Today’s socialists want to abolish the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency because they believe in freedom of movement, and because masked thugs are kidnapping people off the streets. The push to tax billionaires comes not from a zero-sum mentality, but from witnessing massive wealth weaponised against liberal democracy itself. Like its namesake, a Green New Deal seeks to save capitalism from capitalists, and cool the planet too. Universal health care is no more a threat to American liberalism than it was to the British kind. Finally, The Economist itself has warned of the risks apartheid poses to democratic legitimacy. The horrors in Gaza have just awakened liberals to this danger.
These can all be defended on liberal grounds. There are illiberal ideas on the left, but it is the liberal ideas that are attracting followers. We should ask ourselves why we so often find that socialists express our values better than our fellow liberals.
Paul Crider
Associate editor
Liberal Currents
San Francisco

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Haydon @haydonmp.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

The images of people taking selfies in front of the Kennedy center as they take his name off is a foreshadowing of the celebrations when it happens and the White House knows it.

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Keith @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

honestly the biggest problem I see it solving right now is that a patchwork of zoning, regulation, and scattered land ownership make it vastly too hard to build all of the below: 1) a big solar array 2) a chilled warehouse for computers 3) the transmission cables that run between them

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 07/06/2026

“The people who made New York what it is are people like the ones who live in the large Chinese immigrant community near my neighborhood. Or people who moved here from Puerto Rico, as Lopez’s parents did. Or people who moved here from Mexico, or from Italy. Orfrom Virginia, Florida, Ohio, Wisconsin”

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A City, Just Like a Country, is Made By Those Who Live In It

Reject the petty politics of blood and soil.

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Bad History Takes @badhistorytakes.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I think it’s the same argument on policy to be made against the “populists” - you make the argument to persuade the public. We can’t do Starmerism on gender.

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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man." A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I think it's dangerously reductive to call the Second World War simply a *colonial* War. It was the Last Imperial War, especially in the east. It was also a war that was explicitly fought to end Empire: rhetorically, economically and practically.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 01/06/2026

NYPD should be brought to heel, and be forced to serve under civilian control. Their insubordination is so rampant, and so routine, that it doesn’t even get commented on anymore. That would be actual law and order.

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Miser @misernyc.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

I went to the 31st st anti-bike lane rally so you don't have to and I get it now. It's not about bike lanes at all. It's just a hate movement that thinks they own the neighborhood.

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Zane Shelby @zane.io · 29/05/2026

Kagi is great. Totally worth the money.

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Zane Shelby @zane.io · 25/05/2026

It’s not fascinating unless you’re completely ignorant of the facts of the issue. Being transgender is not a choice, and transgender people who are unable to transition (socially, medically, or both) have far worse health outcomes than those who can.

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Zane Shelby @zane.io · 25/05/2026

The frame of trans people as “immature”, and the emphasis on “social norms and policies” reveals the weakness of the TERFs’ position. Bigots insist that this is a settled matter because they know if the struggle for trans rights continues — and it will — they will lose.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Yeah I’m pretty pro-panopticon for anything involving cars. Speed governors, automated license plate readers, ignition interlocks for people with more than one DUI. Sorry, your rights to privacy ended when you began operating a multi ton piece of heavy machinery around me!

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Clean Observer @hammbear2024.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

I’m sorry, why are otherwise smart and courageous people willing to say completely stupid shit on the Internet. “They going to take new money at put it into border security.” The last Dem passed the biggest industrial policy and climate bill ever. Obama risked all on biggest health exp. In 50 yr.

Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com •7m
I don't really want to defend anything our current crop of Democrats is doing, because they love sounding like Republicans and have been doing that for years, but of all the shit they say, tax cuts are the least bad.
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As far as I can tell, they are just going to take new revenue and put it into "border security" to try to win over mythical Trump voters in some hypothetical future.
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So like, I'm cognizant that we'd have to restructure taxation if the US ever decided to be a real nation, but since we are not currently one, I think we should have less money to murder people.

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Isaac G. Bryan @ib2real.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Send as many to jail as you can. Relentlessly label the rest the traitors and collaborators that they are.

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Republicans will howl and holler like the hit dogs they are. Let them. Dial up the pressure, not down.

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Don’t waste a penny of political capital on wonky pet issue reforms. Don’t have drawn out debates about healthcare payment systems. Be ruthlessly, singularly focused on power and the building of a new, stronger American republic.

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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

It is insane that person who is funding the world’s white supremacist movement & is daily spewing racism, who killed 100,000’s last year by yanking USAID without warning, is regularly discussed in Corporate Media as an industrialist, without any mention of the white supremacism or mass murder.

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Democrats need to understand we’re already in a revolutionary moment. The American republic built in the 60s and 70s is being swept away by Republicans and the Supreme Court. It’s up to us to fight for a liberal democratic future. My latest: www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-ne...

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Democrats Need to Realize What Time It Is: On Conjuncture, Revolution, and the Next American Republic

We are living through a revolutionary moment, whether Democrats want to do their jobs or not.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/05/2026

We've removed major hurdles to building affordable housing — a move that will get homes up nearly 2 years faster. We’re in a race to tackle our housing crisis, because working New Yorkers can't afford to wait.

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

You are in fact a member of the party of the urbanite laptop class, swallow your gender anxiety about it, the rest of us are tired of hearing about how insecure you are in your manhood

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