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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
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nathanpgoodman.bsky.social
How can ordinary people come together to protect immigrants from unjust deportation?

Throughout the 1980s & early 90s, the Sanctuary Movement illustrated one way to do this.

In a newly published paper, Karla Segovia, Molly Rovinski & I analyze this movement. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Collective action in the sanctuary movement: polycentric protection of central American asylum seekers - Constitutional Political Economy
In the 1980s and early 1990s, civil wars contributed to significant waves of migration from Central American countries such as El Salvador and Guatemala. The United States federal government, specific...
link.springer.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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I gave to bump them over $10K. If you're reading this now, you have a chance to have your gift matched and bump them over $100K.

Liberal Currents is essential if you want to revive your own liberalism into a vibrant, living set of beliefs and positive vision for the world.
adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 6h
HUGE rally here folks, let's make it to $70k tonight, where we'll hit a matching threshold that nets us another $35k on top of that! gofund.me/525131968
November 26, 2025 at 2:32 AM
janetbufton.ca
Disagree but I see how he's in a tight spot.
Carney says he made a mistake by dismissing Trump questions with 'who cares?' | CBC News
Prime Minister Mark Carney said Tuesday he should not have been dismissive of reporters' questions about speaking to U.S. President Donald Trump, conceding he used "a poor choice of words."
www.cbc.ca
November 26, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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justinling.ca
Steve Witkoff is such a Russian patsy. Just absolutely embarrassing.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Steve Witkoff: I would make the call and just reiterate that you congratulate the president on this achievement, that you supported it, you supported it, that you respect that he is a man of peace and you’re just, you’re really glad to have seen it happen. So I would say that. I think from that it’s going to be a really good call. Because — let me tell you what I told the President. I told the president that you - that the Russian Federation has always wanted a peace deal. That’s my belief. I told the president I believe that. And I believe the question is — the issue is is that we have two nations that are having a hard time coming to a compromise and when we do, we’re going to have a peace deal. I’m even thinking that maybe we set out like a 20-point peace proposal, just like we did in Gaza. We put a 20-point Trump plan together that was 20 points for peace and I’m thinking maybe we do the same thing with you. My point is this... Yuri Ushakov: Ok, ok my friend. I think that very point our leaders could discuss. Hey Steve, I agree with you that he will congratulate, he will say that Mr. Trump is a real peace man and so and so. That he will say. SW: But here’s what I think would be amazing. SW: Yeah because listen to what I’m saying. I just want you to say, maybe just to say this to President Putin, because you know I have the deepest respect for President Putin. YU: Yes, Yes. SW: Maybe he says to President Trump: you know, Steve and Yuri discussed a very similar 20-point plan to peace and that could be something that we think might move the needle a little bit, we’re open to those sorts of things — to explore what it’s going to take to get a peace deal done. Now, me to you, I know what it’s going to take to get a peace deal done: Donetsk and maybe a land swap somewhere. But I’m saying instead of talking like that, let’s talk more hopefully because I think we’re going to get to a deal here. And I think Yuri, the president will give me a lot of space and discretion to get to the deal. YU: I see...
November 25, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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aaronwherry.bsky.social
Incredible stuff.

ottawacitizen.com/news/new-sch...
New school-zone signs too large for Ottawa street poles, councillor says
The city's timeline to install the new school-zone signs is unclear, as Tim Tierney says they are too large to fit on the city's poles.
ottawacitizen.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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justinling.ca
i see that Big Paper Towel has gotten to the Washington Post.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlXc...
November 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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justinling.ca
Wherein I do a bit of Kremlinology around the White House's chaotic Ukraine peace negotiations. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Justin Ling: American leadership looks chaotic. The truth may be more sinister
A recent flip-flop on Ukraine may be less a sign of disorganization than infighting.
www.thestar.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com
This is what I’m excited to announce. We’re at $38,000 now. Until we hit $70,000 a generous donor has pledged to match every dollar. This will be a HUGE leap towards our goal. Please help us reach it! gofund.me/638697766
liberalcurrents.com Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 20h
Yesterday we raised over $35,000. Today, we are excited to announce a donor who has generously offered to match the second $35,000. If you help us reach $35,000 today he will match you dollar for dollar. Please help us get there! gofund.me/638697766
The Liberal Currents Startup Fund
November 25, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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jacobgrier.bsky.social
If you're looking to support independent media that's actually meeting the moment in American politics, you'd be hard-pressed to do better than Liberal Currents.
November 24, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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liberalcurrents.com
To fight fascism we need opposition media with a backbone. 𝘓𝘪𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 is that. Help us grow our voice. www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
Donate to The Liberal Currents Startup Fund, organized by Adam Gurri
To fight fascism we need opposition media with a backbone. Liberal Currents is that. Help… Adam Gurri needs your support for The Liberal Currents Startup Fund
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November 24, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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davidbunce.bsky.social
Today is Holodomor remembrance day, one of the worst human rights atrocities of the 20th century.

If you are wanting to know more, this episode of @originstorypodcast.bsky.social is excellent, featuring justifiable moral outrage from @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social
originstorypodcast.bsky.social Origin Story @originstorypodcast.bsky.social · 28d
🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 Welcome back to Origin Story: The Story of Socialism as we resume the story of Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin in part three @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social discuss Terror 👉 linktr.ee/originstoryp...

#originstory #lenin #trotsky #stalin
November 22, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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radleybalko.bsky.social
Just heard that after 27 years on Louisiana’s death row, Chris “Jimmie” Duncan is finally getting out. Not exactly sure when, but I’m told he’ll be home for Thanksgiving.

This is wonderful news.

Here’s my 2009 piece on the forensic fraud that got him convicted:
Forensics Fraud?
Experts say this video shows a doctor manufacturing evidence. So why is a man still on death row?
reason.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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immcouncil.org
The Trump administration has a new mass deportation playbook.

We’ve seen it in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Charlotte. And it’s coming to more cities.

@daralind.bsky.social explains 👇
November 21, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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anthonylfisher.bsky.social
DEI is banned but swastikas and nooses are back, baby
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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profterrig.bsky.social
Those of us who study this stuff have been saying it over and over…taking on the policies of the far right further enables them. I was in a discussion yesterday in Bristol and have to agree that Labor is opening the door for Farage.

on.ft.com/3K9Dipe Denmark is a flawed model for UK asylum policy
Denmark is a flawed model for UK asylum policy
Britain’s ‘pull’ factors may make hardline policies less of a deterrent
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November 19, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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jacobtlevy.bsky.social
This (unfortunately pricey) volume comes out in a few weeks and despite being years in the making is unexpectedly timely, since the crosscurrents, factions, and continuing rise of the postliberal right are very much part of each day's news.
November 18, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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jacobgrier.bsky.social
It's always a delight to write for @theunpopulist.net, which consistently publishes some of the smartest public intellectuals around, as well as articles by me like "Superman is cool" and "I dressed up in an inflatable dog costume."
November 16, 2025 at 9:11 PM
janetbufton.ca
Occasional reminder that you can bring an ostrich-fucker to a fight without forgiving or forgetting what they've done.

It's good if Hanania opposes Trump *and* you do not under any circumstances have to hand it to him.
November 16, 2025 at 10:45 PM
janetbufton.ca
Well into my eighth hour on this @viarailcanada.bsky.social train (which is outside Markham and not moving) from Ottawa to Toronto and wondering if we might be able to get regular-speed rail in this country.
November 16, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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justinling.ca
The terrorism continues. open.substack.com/pub/countero...
NEWSFLASH: Close misses in Kyiv last night
Russia launched a massive drone and missile attack, narrowly missing multiple Counteroffensive staff. 9/10 capital districts were on fire, with ~30 residential buildings hit directly or by shrapnel.
open.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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jbriggeman.liberalcurrents.com
Called it, 15 months ago, for @liberalcurrents.com, to which you should lend your support. www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm... www.liberalcurrents.com/mass-deporta...
NBC News EXCLUSIVE Immigration 'Mega detention centers': ICE considers buying large warehouses to hold immigrants The Trump administration is exploring a plan to buy warehouses designed for companies like Amazon, sources said, which would drastically increase the Trump administration’s capacity for detaining immigrants. ["Mass Deportation: If You Do It," Liberal Currents, July 30, 2024] Anyway, after you yank them away from their jobs, they won't be able to pay for anything they need and want, so you'll have to. But you won't want to pay very much, so you'll throw them into hot warehouses, or onto parking lots under some tents. And soon they'll be hungry. Tired. Dirty. Gross. Sick. Out of touch. Considering how much you were already being told to hate them, how Trump was already dehumanizing them while they were freely living their lives, how right will he seem after he's sealed them inside these godforsaken pens?
November 7, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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justinling.ca
I'm doing video content now, on Youtube! www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/introducin...
Introducing Soft Power
A show about how realpolitik shapes the world
www.bugeyedandshameless.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:59 PM
janetbufton.ca
It would be interesting to follow their evolution if TFP types could be expected to react to the fact that self-proclaimed socialists don't govern like Lenin, but these people are boring. At best.
anthonylfisher.bsky.social Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 20d
The Free Press' front page is four articles of MANDAMI PANIC, a Dick Cheney nostalgia essay, and one of the richest people in the world writing about why he gave $100 million to Bari Weiss' unaccredited anti-woke college.
November 6, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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jacobtlevy.bsky.social
Yeah. My policy views are well to the right (in some sense) of a lot of the self-described centrist Democrats, but on the "oppose fascism vs appease fascism" cleavage, I am not at all on their side.
polphilpod.bsky.social Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 20d
i call this view 'reactionary centrism' - the problem with it is that modern fascism *cannot* be appeased; they don't want a few compromises in women's sports, they want a total social transformation and the end of liberal democracy

you give them a bone, then another, then they want your arm
November 5, 2025 at 5:03 PM
janetbufton.ca
While I'm happy that Canada has not cratered on immigration in the same way the U.S. has, demolishing international student admissions hands two wins to the far right: concession that immigration is a problem and weakening higher education.

I hope I am just worrying too much about this.
November 5, 2025 at 2:50 PM