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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 8h

"Americans have spent years internalizing a deeply unrealistic vision of their country’s urban places." www.liberalcurrents.com/all-in-our-h...

All In Our Heads: On Losing Our Democracy and Life Beyond Our Imaginations

Our language has to meet the moment, and we have to be relentless about dispelling the fiction MAGA is selling.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 7h

The Trump administration confirmed that the U.S. bailed out Argentina.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he had directly bought Argentine pesos in global currency markets in a bid to relieve pressure on the nation’s embattled President Javier Milei, a supporter of President Trump.

The U.S. just bailed out Argentina, Treasury Secretary confirms

The US Treasury has finalized a $20 billion financial rescue of Argentina, including a currency swap arrangement with the country's central bank.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 20h

Listening and learning

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 15h

First it was Candace Owens talking about a Charlie Kirk visitation. Now it's spreading...

Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · 16h

A tearful Kim Robinson reports that God showed her that Charlie Kirk was rewarded with a horse ranch in Heaven and she saw "Charlie riding on a horse, with Jesus."

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Jason Briggeman @jbriggeman.liberalcurrents.com · 10h

impeach Donald Trump

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 18h

Alan Elrod (autocorrects to Elrond) has quickly become one of my favorite voices on the current moment.

Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 21h

I wrote about how hard it is to do politics in reality right now, both because of the fictions beings imposed on us and because of the fictions we maintain in our own minds. Read at @liberalcurrents.com

www.liberalcurrents.com/all-in-our-h...

All In Our Heads: On Losing Our Democracy and Life Beyond Our Imaginations

Our language has to meet the moment, and we have to be relentless about dispelling the fiction MAGA is selling.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 10h

Donald Trump is not a king — and his administration is not above the law.

Today, the court confirmed what we all know: there is no credible evidence of a rebellion in the state of Illinois.

And no place for the National Guard in the streets of American cities like Chicago.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10h

This is the genius of the Portland protests - they make the claims of lawlessness look not just wrong, but comical

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 13h

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 10h

wow, it's this kind of iconoclastic, out of the box thinking that really stands out

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 11h

New: Bari Weiss booked Hillary Clinton, Mike Pompeo, and Antony Blinken for a roundtable on Gaza, her first major move at CBS.

Notably on a CBS call today in which the panel was floated, one producer also repeatedly emphasized the need to hear from Palestinians in Gaza (Weiss did not respond).

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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 10h

I actually realized that it wasn’t the best fit (literally) because it’s more tall than it is wide but decided I liked Goya too much to reverse course

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Larry Ferlazzo @larryferlazzo.bsky.social · 15h

Oklahoma’s Republican governor criticizes guard deployment. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Gov. Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma, a Republican and the chairman of the National Governors Association, on Thursday criticized the deployment of Texas National Guard troops to Illinois as a violation of his beliefs in federalism and “states’ rights.”

His comments, in an interview with The New York Times, marked the first time a Republican governor has questioned the interstate deployment of National Guard troops over a governor’s objections. Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois and other Democratic elected officials have been strongly critical of the move and have implored Republican governors to join the opposition.

Mr. Stitt on Thursday said, “We believe in the federalist system — that’s states’ rights,” adding, “Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 15h

Today @aselrod.bsky.social’s piece seems to have drawn CPUSA reply guy (these are all from the same person)

Liberalism is not the solution to the capital-thus-power accumulation problem caused by liberalism, which is getting worse at a faster pace since the fall of the Soviet Union. I think it is time to stop capital accumulation and overcome capitalism.

FYI: CPUSA is growing rapidly.

Don’t trust this think tank.

Liberalism is not the solution to the capital-thus-power accumulation problem caused by liberalism, which is getting worse at a faster pace since the 90’s. I think it is time to stop capital accumulation and overcome capitalism.

FYI: CPUSA is growing rapidly.

This is a question for those organising workers as the comrades in CPUSA. They are the ones who know the situation best. Ask them!

IMHO, workers know their work force is worth less than their work. They know they won’t be rich by working. We just have to help them notice who makes it be like this.

Here is a link. They publish their positions on most issues. You can ask questions and you can join the party here.
cpusa.org

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 17h

check out @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com's excellent essay here: www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...

Democrats Must Embrace War Mindset

We have exited a long period of peace and entered into a struggle not unlike war, in which all the old certainties have gone malleable and the future of the republic is at stake.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 17h

fresh @leftanchor.bsky.social episode, we've got @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social on to discuss Ezra Klein, Charlie Kirk, and @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com's essay on war mindset: www.leftanchor.com/e/better-tha...

Better Than Ezra - 368 | Left Anchor

Now that the dust has started to settled around the whole Charlie Kirk thing, we've brought on Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, assistant professor of philosophy at Georgetown, to discuss his Boston Review piece ab...

www.leftanchor.com

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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 16h

That’s fair but right now they’re being besieged

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 18h

Good formulation from @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com on MAGA treating politics as war and Ds fundamentally not adapting. As I suggest in the piece/thread below JB Pritzker is operating from a similar reading of Miller and that's why he's breaking through.
www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 21h

I wrote about how hard it is to do politics in reality right now, both because of the fictions beings imposed on us and because of the fictions we maintain in our own minds. Read at @liberalcurrents.com

www.liberalcurrents.com/all-in-our-h...

All In Our Heads: On Losing Our Democracy and Life Beyond Our Imaginations

Our language has to meet the moment, and we have to be relentless about dispelling the fiction MAGA is selling.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 21h

The scientific community needs a war mindset too open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

Deafening Quiet from the Scientific Establishment

Leaders are underestimating the risks of not fighting back

open.substack.com

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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 22h

Read @aselrod.bsky.social today on how there’s no amount of real crime fighting that will win a political battle over fake crime

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 23h

“There is no degree of acquiescence to Trumpism that will satisfy this administration or MAGA at large. All there is is a choice between offering a faint echo of the false reality they’re selling and creating dissonance by speaking the reality of the situation to the public.”

All In Our Heads: On Losing Our Democracy and Life Beyond Our Imaginations

Our language has to meet the moment, and we have to be relentless about dispelling the fiction MAGA is selling.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 1d

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 1d

incredibly, bleakly funny that trump is going after christopher wray, who spent his entire tenure at the fbi with his head down desperately trying to avoid trump's attention and did nothing to protect the bureau from trump's attacks www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Other prosecutors are investigating former CIA director John Brennan, another prominent Trump critic, and former FBI director Christopher Wray, who was originally appointed by Trump but enraged conservatives who came to believe he had wielded the bureau’s powers against them. Former officials have received subpoenas in recent days in the Wray inquiry, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Jeffries: "Mike Johnson and this group continue to cover up for the pedophiles. That's crazy."

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote legal editorials for the Post for a hot minute many years ago, and I was constantly anxious about making sure I got the details right. This editorial is just humiliating for everyone involved

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d

I spent more than a decade at The Post. It was good to me and I was proud to work there. I’ve largely refrained from being critical since I left. But this framing of the special counsel probe is embarrassing and flatly wrong. Stunning, but not. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Jack Smith’s lawfare and James Comey’s arraignment on pathetically weak charges

Good people will be deterred from public service if they see a meaningful risk of winding up in jail afterward.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 1d

i do not think this administration appreciates that they're doing all the hard work necessary to make it possible for the bottom to fall out on them (and all of us). its like drifting on the edge of the cliff, sure it might work, but you can't predict when or if the cliff will give way

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 1d

kinda wild how we're leaping straight to late Ceausescu

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 1d

kinda wild how we're leaping straight to late Ceausescu

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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