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Liberal in the Smith-Douglass-Mill-Anderson vein. Writer and editor for Liberal Currents. https://bsky.app/profile/liberalcurrents.com

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Paul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com · Apr 21

There is no better time than now—with fascists at the gates across the world and wreaking carnage in the halls of American power—for a liberal-socialist alliance. And a big part of that is bringing liberal socialism into consciousness.

Been thinking about this essay for a while ...🧵

Inheritance of Equals: A Case for Liberal Socialism

Things literally cannot go on as they have before the present democratic crisis—things have been broken and will have to be put back together somehow. Ideas that were unthinkable even a decade ago may...

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Paul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com · 4h

The more parallel institutions we have in place, the easier it will be to adopt the new Reconstruction Constitution when the time comes.

Paul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com · 4h

Really interested in perspectives on this piece. The "soft secession" of withdrawing blue state financial support of the federal government and of red states (where and how possible) and building up alternative, parallel institutions makes a lot of sense to me.

It’s time for soft secession

How blue states can use their economic clout to stand up to Trump’s agenda—starting with California.

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Paul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com · 5h

Obligatory Liberal Currents Mentioned meme.

Ghibli meme with girl holding champagne and a glass. Background is filled with images loosely associated with Liberal Currents, like book covers of Rawls, Levy, and Rorty; and images of Mill, Mills, and Smith. Among other items.

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Paul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com · 5h

I started watching @michaelburns.bsky.social videos a few weeks ago. Great stuff!

But I only just learned yesterday by way of YouTube's ever-wise algorithm that there is a @liberalcurrents.com crossover by way of @mattpolprof.bsky.social!

What is The Far Right Canon? with Matt McManus

YouTube video by Side Burns

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 7h

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.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 9h

Listening and learning

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Paul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com · 8h

Thread with some Oregon racist history.

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 9h

Benny Johnson and Oregon MAGA activist (and convicted J6 felon) David Medina accompanied Kristi Noem during her visit to Portland. Here they are amplifying a local MAGA influencer with some, well, interesting ideas about race and religion.

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Huge shoutout to@basedinportland
She and her family drape themselves in American flags and walk the streets of Antifa-overrun Portland, showing fearless support for ICE agents. They spend countless hours outside the ICE facility, thanking the agents working tirelessly to Show more
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No one asked for mass Islamic migration.
Now we must fight legally before the fight requires a well regulated militia.
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American Pastor has traveled all over the Europe and has a warning, "The enemy of the world is Islam, 1000%"
"There are places in Texas, there are places in Dearborn, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota that are nearly fully Islamic. They are trying to institute all of their Sharia Show more

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Leonid Baezhnev @rev-avocado.bsky.social · 2d

We got too caught up in critiquing the failures and pointing out the wrinkles in liberal pluralism that we forgot to keep watering the plant we were pruning.

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Steve Kilbane @kilbswc.bsky.social · 15h

Strong alt text game here.

🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 21h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

Peggy Carter next to Steve Rogers in Captain America. I'll let you decide which is the founder and which is the girlfriend.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 18h

They are, and the consequences are extremely dire, but that pales in comparison to the much bigger problem: we don't have a legitimate president of the United States right now. What we are to make of his enablers and supporters who have thereby also delegitimized themselves is a secondary problem.

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Dan Miller @meelar.bsky.social · 15h

"The girlfriend of one of the founders of Antifa"

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Paul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com · 15h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

Paul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com · 15h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders if antifa"

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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 17h

habeas corpus is the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa

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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 22h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

An image of Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music, twirling on an alpine meadow in a long Austrian skirt, next to an image of Christopher Plummer as Georg Von Trapp in the same movie, tearing a Nazi flag in half.

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Paul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com · 15h

Ooh I love these.

David Ritchie @dritchie.bsky.social · 19h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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David Ritchie @dritchie.bsky.social · 19h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

Here's looking at Rick and Ilsa in Casablanca

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 21h

This is the lesson of 2025

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 22h

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

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Paul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com · 22h

Fuck him up, Durga. Slay, Goddess!

Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 22h

www.cnn.com/2025/10/08/i...

India has a festival where a Hindu goddess slays a demon. This year the demon is Trump | CNN

Sitting atop her lion, the Hindu goddess Durga wields a celestial weapon in each of her 10 hands. But her target isn’t the usual demon of deceit, Mahishasura.

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Paul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com · 22h

LOL

Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 23h

We are in the second week of the Republican shutdown.

Where are House Republicans? On vacation.

Went looking around the Capitol to see if any Republicans had the common sense to come back. Featuring @mcbride.house.gov.

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 22h

this is amazing

Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 23h

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Paul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com · 23h

With all due respect to the Strand! 💙

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Institute for Humane Studies @theihs.org · 1d

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. ⬇️

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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.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 1d

Dems can just clip the "we took the freedom of speech away" and make an ad

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

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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Paul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com · 1d

That's right. Powell's represent.

Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 1d

Literally the best bookstore in America is in Portland. Not that he reads books.

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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