Dennis Lytton
@dennislytton.bsky.social
Contributor at @LiberalCurrents.com
Liberal and in the fight
All things pax train 🚆 ops & safety. Cali native 🎿 🏄♂️, Georgetown, and UCLA, Chess♟️player, Episcopalian
Liberal and in the fight
All things pax train 🚆 ops & safety. Cali native 🎿 🏄♂️, Georgetown, and UCLA, Chess♟️player, Episcopalian
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"Our mission—to reform our democracy so that it is better than the one Trump took from us, and so that it works with justice and fairness for all of us—has never been clearer." www.instagram.com/liberalcurre...
Liberal Currents on Instagram: "Liberal Currents contributor Dennis Lytton looks back upon the trials, tribulations, and battlegrounds of 2025 while looking forward to 2026 and beyond as well.
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In 2025 things bent but we held
Their open embrace of fascism and Nazism now binds us to the old revolutionary character of liberalism. From the picket lines to battlefields that your parents and grandparents sacrificed on.
We can't go back to the old republic . . . let's make a path forward.
Their open embrace of fascism and Nazism now binds us to the old revolutionary character of liberalism. From the picket lines to battlefields that your parents and grandparents sacrificed on.
We can't go back to the old republic . . . let's make a path forward.
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"They were best friends," David Frum says of Trump and Epstein. "The only photos you ever see of Donald Trump where he is authentically smiling in the presence of another human being, is with Jeffrey Epstein."
December 20, 2025 at 6:00 AM
"They were best friends," David Frum says of Trump and Epstein. "The only photos you ever see of Donald Trump where he is authentically smiling in the presence of another human being, is with Jeffrey Epstein."
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*deep breath*
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Gift link, so you can enjoy all the delicious schadenfreude: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...
*deep breath*
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Gift link, so you can enjoy all the delicious schadenfreude: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...
Elise Stefanik Drops Out of N.Y. Governor’s Race and Will Leave Congress
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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*deep breath*
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Gift link, so you can enjoy all the delicious schadenfreude: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...
*deep breath*
HAHHAHHAHAHHHAHAH
Gift link, so you can enjoy all the delicious schadenfreude: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...
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I’ll add: UFC is sanctioned barbarism, and it might not have succeeded the way it did without Donald Trump www.thetimes.com/world/us-wor...
Donald Trump saved UFC — now it could get him elected
Trump’s friendship with Dana White, whose mixed martial arts company he bailed out 20 years ago, gives him access to a huge pool of the voters he most wants to target
www.thetimes.com
July 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I’ll add: UFC is sanctioned barbarism, and it might not have succeeded the way it did without Donald Trump www.thetimes.com/world/us-wor...
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This kind of hyper-masculine, sexualized violence is a common feature of modern far-right politics. I wrote about it earlier this year for @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/guys-win-and...
www.liberalcurrents.com/guys-win-and...
www.liberalcurrents.com
July 5, 2025 at 9:14 AM
This kind of hyper-masculine, sexualized violence is a common feature of modern far-right politics. I wrote about it earlier this year for @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/guys-win-and...
www.liberalcurrents.com/guys-win-and...
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People are making this about trashiness, but it’s really about violence.
A UFC fight at the White House to mark our 250th would tidily symbolize the passing of the republic to a brutish state, a bloodthirsty society headed by a fascist movement.
A UFC fight at the White House to mark our 250th would tidily symbolize the passing of the republic to a brutish state, a bloodthirsty society headed by a fascist movement.
July 5, 2025 at 8:43 AM
People are making this about trashiness, but it’s really about violence.
A UFC fight at the White House to mark our 250th would tidily symbolize the passing of the republic to a brutish state, a bloodthirsty society headed by a fascist movement.
A UFC fight at the White House to mark our 250th would tidily symbolize the passing of the republic to a brutish state, a bloodthirsty society headed by a fascist movement.
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rfk will not rest until your kid is dead wapo.st/4s2l2zn
U.S. plans to stop recommending most childhood vaccines, defer to doctors
The plan, which is not finalized, suggests children get fewer shots and shifts to a model telling parents to consult doctors to make their own vaccine choices.
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December 20, 2025 at 12:25 AM
rfk will not rest until your kid is dead wapo.st/4s2l2zn
Please quit early to further send Mike Johnson's shambolic majority into further turmoil
Just about everyone who hitches themselves to this sociopath comes to regret it.
"Allies privately acknowledged that years of intraparty fighting and a series of embarrassing disappointments at the hands of Mr. Trump had taken a toll."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...
"Allies privately acknowledged that years of intraparty fighting and a series of embarrassing disappointments at the hands of Mr. Trump had taken a toll."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...
Elise Stefanik Drops Out of N.Y. Governor’s Race and Will Leave Congress
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Please quit early to further send Mike Johnson's shambolic majority into further turmoil
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Just about everyone who hitches themselves to this sociopath comes to regret it.
"Allies privately acknowledged that years of intraparty fighting and a series of embarrassing disappointments at the hands of Mr. Trump had taken a toll."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...
"Allies privately acknowledged that years of intraparty fighting and a series of embarrassing disappointments at the hands of Mr. Trump had taken a toll."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...
Elise Stefanik Drops Out of N.Y. Governor’s Race and Will Leave Congress
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Just about everyone who hitches themselves to this sociopath comes to regret it.
"Allies privately acknowledged that years of intraparty fighting and a series of embarrassing disappointments at the hands of Mr. Trump had taken a toll."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...
"Allies privately acknowledged that years of intraparty fighting and a series of embarrassing disappointments at the hands of Mr. Trump had taken a toll."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...
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www.liberalcurrents.com/the-american...
The corollary to the old maxim—If it’s broken, you have to fix it.
The corollary to the old maxim—If it’s broken, you have to fix it.
The American Presidency Can Never Be Trusted Again
It’s time for multiparty democracy and a limited executive.
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 13, 2025 at 1:06 PM
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-american...
The corollary to the old maxim—If it’s broken, you have to fix it.
The corollary to the old maxim—If it’s broken, you have to fix it.
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Singing @dennislytton.bsky.social’s song here www.liberalcurrents.com/the-american...
The American Presidency Can Never Be Trusted Again
It’s time for multiparty democracy and a limited executive.
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Singing @dennislytton.bsky.social’s song here www.liberalcurrents.com/the-american...
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Nobody works this hard for this long to cover up something this bad unless they are guilty.
December 20, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Nobody works this hard for this long to cover up something this bad unless they are guilty.
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the main reward you are likely to get for total loyalty to trump is the destruction of your career and your reputation www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...
Elise Stefanik Drops Out of N.Y. Governor’s Race and Will Leave Congress
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 9:19 PM
the main reward you are likely to get for total loyalty to trump is the destruction of your career and your reputation www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...
So many have sold their souls for MAGA. They will all end up like Stefanik or worse. All of them.
Here we go. Elise Stefanik changed everything she was, everything she believed in, for power. And in the end, Trump endorsed another dude and Elise is out.
Shameful
Shameful
December 20, 2025 at 12:51 AM
So many have sold their souls for MAGA. They will all end up like Stefanik or worse. All of them.
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Well she surrendered all her dignity and integrity and got nothing
A lesson that MAGA courtiers never seem to learn
A lesson that MAGA courtiers never seem to learn
Here we go. Elise Stefanik changed everything she was, everything she believed in, for power. And in the end, Trump endorsed another dude and Elise is out.
Shameful
Shameful
December 19, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Well she surrendered all her dignity and integrity and got nothing
A lesson that MAGA courtiers never seem to learn
A lesson that MAGA courtiers never seem to learn
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December 19, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Welcome to The Donald Trump and The John F Kennedy Center
December 19, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Welcome to The Donald Trump and The John F Kennedy Center
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Once again, government jobs are real jobs & you can't treat 16% of the workforce as a cancer on society & expect to not drive the economy into a ditch.
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Trump: "The only reason our unemployment tucked up and went up to 4.5 percent [it's actually 4.6 percent] is because we are reducing the government workforce by numbers that have never been seen before."
December 19, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Once again, government jobs are real jobs & you can't treat 16% of the workforce as a cancer on society & expect to not drive the economy into a ditch.
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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"megachurches are shen yun for white people" is an incredible and damning true statement
for all people make fun of falun gong, it's wild how much this is basically the same thing as shen yun
December 19, 2025 at 11:08 PM
"megachurches are shen yun for white people" is an incredible and damning true statement
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Operation Epstein Distraction.
December 20, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Operation Epstein Distraction.
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I was told by a friend who lived in China for several decades as a persecuted religious minority that with this @liberalcurrents article I committed ‘Chinese-visa’ suicide. In his case, he cannot return to China because he and his family are on a no-entry list for practicing their religion.
“Wang recalls the constant surveillance, forced relocations, and food shortages, all of which grew worse with every new discovery of a vaccine-resistant variant.” www.liberalcurrents.com/china-betwee...
China Between Ogre and Olympus
China may well become the singular Olympus that all mere mortals look up to, but so long as this Olympus is home to Ogres it will struggle to compel the allegiance of the wider world.
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:07 PM
I was told by a friend who lived in China for several decades as a persecuted religious minority that with this @liberalcurrents article I committed ‘Chinese-visa’ suicide. In his case, he cannot return to China because he and his family are on a no-entry list for practicing their religion.
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you see. this is what happens when esoteric theories developed in the hothouse of ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶a̶c̶a̶d̶e̶m̶y̶ right wing fever swamps meet the hard realities of actual governance
New: The Trump administration had a 4-part plan for the labor market in 2025. None of it worked.
The administration bet on government cuts, tariffs, deportations, and breadwinners to seal their working-class coalition. The economics didn't pay out.
newsletter.mikekonczal.com/p/a-year-in-...
The administration bet on government cuts, tariffs, deportations, and breadwinners to seal their working-class coalition. The economics didn't pay out.
newsletter.mikekonczal.com/p/a-year-in-...
A Year In, the MAGA Labor Market Story Has Fallen Apart
The administration bet on government cuts, tariffs, deportations, and a gendered theory of growth. The data say otherwise.
newsletter.mikekonczal.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:45 PM
you see. this is what happens when esoteric theories developed in the hothouse of ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶a̶c̶a̶d̶e̶m̶y̶ right wing fever swamps meet the hard realities of actual governance
The mandate that Dems get from a '26 & '28 election has to be aggressively spent on statutory reform to neuter the imperial presidency, hold Trump officials to account, make the House larger and multiparty via proportional representation, and shore up civil rights and the safety net. First 90 days.
Vought is one of the top three or four enemies of the Constitution & American democracy. His removal from power is one of the highest priorities for any project of checking the dictatorship's lawless wielding of the vast powers of the state
Russ Vought set out to ensure a second Trump term would not be hampered by checks and balances:
“I don’t want President Trump having to lose a moment of time having fights in the Oval Office about whether something is legal or doable or moral.”
(Published October w/ @newyorker.com)
“I don’t want President Trump having to lose a moment of time having fights in the Oval Office about whether something is legal or doable or moral.”
(Published October w/ @newyorker.com)
December 19, 2025 at 5:10 PM
The mandate that Dems get from a '26 & '28 election has to be aggressively spent on statutory reform to neuter the imperial presidency, hold Trump officials to account, make the House larger and multiparty via proportional representation, and shore up civil rights and the safety net. First 90 days.
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“So, yes, a real reckoning with Epstein would mean a real re-thinking of questions of gender, wealth, and power. So be it. Real reckonings are uncomfortable. That’s what it means to come to a reckoning.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/screw-it-l...
www.thebulwark.com/p/screw-it-l...
December 19, 2025 at 2:47 PM
“So, yes, a real reckoning with Epstein would mean a real re-thinking of questions of gender, wealth, and power. So be it. Real reckonings are uncomfortable. That’s what it means to come to a reckoning.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/screw-it-l...
www.thebulwark.com/p/screw-it-l...
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great video explainer on proportional representation
"every vote counts, every voice is heard, and every community matters"
Highly recommend.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN5V...
"every vote counts, every voice is heard, and every community matters"
Highly recommend.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN5V...
How Proportional Representation Could End Gerrymandering
YouTube video by Protect Democracy
www.youtube.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:43 PM
great video explainer on proportional representation
"every vote counts, every voice is heard, and every community matters"
Highly recommend.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN5V...
"every vote counts, every voice is heard, and every community matters"
Highly recommend.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN5V...