'Illiberal assumptions have led to illiberal policy choices, which have led to illiberal conclusions, over and over again. Our very perceptions, our self-identity as Americans, our mutual trust, are mired in a fog of confusion.' liberalcurrents.com/the-vicious-cy…

A little more on Tom Cotton's lust for violence against citizens he doesn't like, w/ link & shoutout to Alan Elrod's excellent piece in Liberal Currents: arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/…

'We cannot allow the casual discussion of violence and menace toward fellow citizens to be framed as reasonable or normal—and certainly not as virtuous. It’s essential that we call this worldview what it is: unreasonable, abnormal, and dangerous.'

Good unpacking of this lunacy

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I’m back at Liberal Currents, talking about Tom Cotton and the insanity of his call for people to assault protesters liberalcurrents.com/for-tom-cotton…

Hey aren’t you the guy who helped destroy your favored presidential candidate because you’re such an internet-poisoned groyper loser you edited Nazi memes into his campaign materials??? I may be a resist lib but I can win an election, let me show you how x.com/njhochman/stat…

You do have to love how Yang’s pinned tweet is “Be normal! Don’t be obsessed with strange ideas!”

And then you scroll down his feed and it’s 50 article-length tweets in 12 hours obsessing over trans people

The anti-trans obsessives are just beyond my comprehension. How do you become so fixated on something that affects you so little and not wonder if maybe there’s something broken deep within yourself

'Despite vicious Republican attacks on my community, queer rights are a fact of life, enshrined in law and popular opinion. Whatever the queer rights movement did, it worked. There are lessons to be learned.' liberalcurrents.com/how-movements-…

This is a huge and long overdue development. No longer can a federal judge use a not-guilty verdict to increase someone’s sentence – and yes it is despicable and utterly insane that it was ever allowed in the first place.

The only thing I think of, ever, when I see McKinsey getting involved in the public sector

News: The trump campaign is asking downballot Republican candidates for 5% of the proceeds for every fundraising appeal they send out that uses Trump’s name, image and likeness politico.com/news/2024/04/1…

Imagine your wife tweeting this lmao

I will give you one (1) guess who wrote this on January 8, 2021.

Wrote a little bit about the Jodi Dean thing.—
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US per capita CO2 emissions now at 1913 levels. In 1913 only 1% of Americans had indoor plumbing and electricity 😮

Pogroms in the West Bank continue with regulatory apnews.com/article/israel…

'If you want to win, you need to have a good inside strategy, and you need to develop it ahead of time... Functional inside strategies are grounded in reality. Non-functional ones are oriented around maintaining in-group cohesion.' liberalcurrents.com/how-movements-…