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Janet Bufton 🍁🌻

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Canadian mum, 3D liberal in Babylon Writing collected at janetbufton.ca diversity dynamism democracy Detroit Lions Elbows up.

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Janet Bufton 🍁🌻 @janetbufton.ca · Jan 8

I've been working on a market liberal case for democracy. That case now spans four pieces, all of which are linked in my latest blog post.

ft most prominently Don Lavoie, Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social, Benjamin Constant, Adam Smith, and James Buchanan...

Democracy for liberal people

Market liberals need liberal democracy

www.janetbufton.ca

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Janet Bufton 🍁🌻 @janetbufton.ca · 26m

Also, Furby? Again??

Janet Bufton 🍁🌻 @janetbufton.ca · 27m

Thing 2 (3yo) is curled up in bed sleeping very sweetly next to a Furby lent to us by the neighbour kid and I am sure this is going to end badly but the expression of betrayal when I tried to remove the Furby was too much for me to bear.

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Jacob Grier @jacobgrier.bsky.social · 3h

After everything, it will be weirdly right if an IRL frog meme becomes one of the symbols that takes down American fascism.

Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 6h

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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Janet Bufton 🍁🌻 @janetbufton.ca · 8h

Hey Canadasky: Write your MP and tell them that birthright citizenship is worth defending. You cannot take for granted that the pundit class is with you on this.

The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 14h

The Conservatives are right: Canada should end birthright citizenship

We don’t have to follow Donald Trump in this effort – we can just follow the likes of Britain and France

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 13h

Machado is a good choice. She'll be controversial because she's in the fight, not above it. That makes this prize continuous with the 2021-3 streak of honoring opposition figures and dissidents rather than do-gooder organizations or already-powerful officials.

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 2d

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Janet Bufton 🍁🌻 @janetbufton.ca · 23h

The "libertarian moment" was about defining libertarianism so broadly that someone out there thought that "libertarian theocracy" was a perfectly fine way to combine words.

(Also, follow @sonsofpatriarchy.bsky.social if you want to understand Christian nationalism in the United States.)

Sons of Patriarchy @sonsofpatriarchy.bsky.social · 1d

This interview between Ross Douthat and Doug Wilson for @nytimes.com Opinion is the best we have EVER read/listened to.

Doug was outmatched intellectually, culturally, and politically.

We would LOVE to get in contact with Ross and discuss his conversation with Doug.

Opinion | He Believes America Should Be a Theocracy. He Says His Influence Is Growing.

www.nytimes.com

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Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 1d

Perhaps the most definitive refutation of Bari Weiss' longrunning projection of herself and The FP as post-partisan, not-on-your-side truthtellers is CBS's acquisition of The FP and installation of Weiss as EIC *precisely* at a time when Paramount was desperately seeking to curry favor with Trump.

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Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 1d

Doing politics the right way is when the far-right regime in power memorializes a fallen influencer by terrorizing an academic that the influencer's McCarthyist organization once baselessly singled out for abuse.

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Janet Bufton 🍁🌻 @janetbufton.ca · 1d

Mean Girls waiting in a car with Adam Smith for you to hop in and try to figure out how rich or poor people were over long stretches into the past by using grain prices while workers earned near subsistence wages.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 2d

I know it’s easy to get inured to this stuff but imagine a podcast ep where @mikeduncan.bsky.social is telling you about this happening in some other country at the same time that a crisis in parliament has shut down the national budget.

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 3d

Presidents have federalized a state's own Guard to use over its objection, most famously desegregation. And sometimes regular military has been used. But taking one state's soldiers and putting them in another state? This is a completely unprecedented breakdown of what the Union fundamentally is.

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Sons of Patriarchy @sonsofpatriarchy.bsky.social · 2d

Please, for the love of God and all things holy, if you are a reporter and you're looking at Christian Nationalism, Pete Hegseth, and/or Doug Wilson, START HERE.

We have spent THOUSANDS of hours researching this movement, please use our research and reach out to us BEFORE publishing.

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Janet Bufton 🍁🌻 @janetbufton.ca · 2d

womp womp

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Institute for Humane Studies @theihs.org · 2d

A free society depends on honest memory. We can face Churchill’s flaws without giving up his fight against tyranny.

Read the latest from Michael Tolhurst, managing director of academic relations at IHS, in @liberalcurrents.com. ⬇️

www.liberalcurrents.com/a-popular-fr...

A Popular Front of Memory

As the right begins to revise their view of Hitler, we must revive the example Churchill set in that era.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Janet Bufton 🍁🌻 @janetbufton.ca · 2d

Sometimes I think about how I'm the one who was too much of a squish for some libertarians.

Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 2d

"We took the freedom of speech away."

Take a bow, MAGA libertarians.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 2d

"We took the freedom of speech away."

Take a bow, MAGA libertarians.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

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Janet Bufton 🍁🌻 @janetbufton.ca · 2d

The Supreme Court is nice. The library is nice and I think anyone can still go, but they'll be confused if you want to go and you're not a lawyer or law student. (I wanted to read microfilms looking into rhetoric in the rulings.)

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Shannon Proudfoot @sproudfoot.bsky.social · 2d

Oh this will be good.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4d

i had no idea this is how canada's supreme court dresses

Nine members of the Canadian Supreme Court sitting for a photo. They are dressed in red robes trimmed in white.

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Chad Van Schoelandt @chadvanschoelandt.bsky.social · 2d

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 3d

Never never never give up

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Janet Bufton 🍁🌻 @janetbufton.ca · 3d

I cannot wait until I don't have to see Curtis Yarvin anymore.

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Janet Bufton 🍁🌻 @janetbufton.ca · 3d

I wanted to make a sarcastic joke about Weiss and Soave not being able to tell the difference between someone concerned about Palestinians and antisemitic nuts going on about space lasers but it's too potentially true to be funny.

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Jason Kuznicki @jkuznicki.bsky.social · 3d

There's a Portland boomer antifascist ukulele band and I AM HERE FOR IT

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 3d

Shoutout to the Boomers, really showing everybody else up in 2025

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Janet Bufton 🍁🌻 @janetbufton.ca · 3d

between Coleman Hughes and Dave Smith

Oh ok

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Janet Bufton 🍁🌻 @janetbufton.ca · 3d

I am sympathetic to not wanting to vex Trump into eliminating visa-free travel for Canadians or something, but the idea that a new Trump deal will be in any way better than the existing Trump deal seems so naive.

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Jonathan Blanks @blanksslate.bsky.social · 3d

A German academic recounted this after the war, recorded in Milton Meyer’s “They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45”

If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately come after the first and smallest, thousands—yes, millions—would have been sufficiently shocked if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in ’43 had come immediately after the “German firm” stickers on the windows of the non-Jewish shops in ’33. But of course, this isn’t the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C, and so on to Step D. And one day, too late, your principles—if you were ever sensible of them—all rush in upon you. The burden of self-deception has grown too heavy, and some minor incident—in my case, my little boy, hardly more than a baby, saying “Jew swine!”—collapses as it all at once, and you see that everything, everything has changed, and changed completely under your nose.

The world you live in, your nation, your people, is not the world you were born in at all. The forms are all there: all untouched, all reassuring: the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now, you live in a world of hate and fear. And the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves. When everyone is transformed, no one is transformed. Now you live in a system that rules without responsibility even to God. The system itself could not have intended this in the beginning, but in order to sustain itself, it was compelled to go all the way.

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