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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 7h

The shameless GOP lying about the No Kings gatherings scheduled for next Saturday reveals how deeply hostile much of the Republican Party is to “the right of the people peaceably to assemble.” I look forward to our local No Kings event, and urge my fellow Americans to attend in their communities.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 11m

if you win one fight but hurt yourself so bad the next predator or competitor to come along can roll you, you're in a Bad Situation. this applies to the individual as much as it applies to the society!

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 11m

azar gat talks a bit about this in WAR IN HUMAN CIVILIZATION, and it's made very clear in THE CUTTING-OFF WAY, but "force protection" is actually a key design goal of all premodern violence.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 14m

feminism is transhumanism is modernity, you might even say

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 14h

"Denmark collects 43 percent of its GDP in taxes per year. The United States collects a scant 25 percent. Making up the difference would require broad-based tax increases amounting to $5 trillion per year." www.liberalcurrents.com/billionaires...

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 12h

not only that, but when Dems do get organized and pay creators who are pushing aligned content, all of a sudden it becomes an attack line against them. meanwhile Russia literally pays conservative commentators and they are cool with it

Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 17h

Charlie Kirk was a terrible person, but his prowess at organizing was astonishing.

Democrats, progressive and moderate, are using tactics from the 1970s.

Republicans spend hundreds of millions on networking, jobs, and outreach every year. Democrats waste their money on obsolete stuff.

flux.community @flux.community · 17h

Charlie Kirk was a religious extremist and an advocate for mass censorship of academics he hated.

But as a political organizer and creator of opportunities for his comrades, there's much that can be learned from what he did. @matthewboedy.bsky.social discusses on the latest Theory of Change

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 14h

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 12h

gonna keep reposting this until i don't have to

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 13h

just some stuff that's been on my mind lately--given how central the imagined human past is to so many political projects today, from "bronze age mindset" to "primitive communism" fantasies

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 13h

leaving a great deal of room to project our modern assumptions back into that history--for instance, in the assumption that early humans mostly fought by punching each other in the head

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Protective buttressing of the hominin face

When humans fight hand-to-hand the face is usually the primary target and the bones that suffer the highest rates of fracture are the parts of the skull that exhibit the greatest increase in robustic...

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 13h

we say "a picture is worth a thousand words," but in actual history it's fascinating how difficult it is to interpret a picture without accompanying words!

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 13h

is this a straight punch or a backhand

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is this a straight punch or a grapple

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 13h

is this an uppercut or a hammer blow

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 13h

this is *really* interesting, both if you're interested in violence--but also if you're interested in history. there's so much in here about how easy it is to think evidence Y so obviously means X that you never bother to analyze whether it actually does

Birb_at_Arms @birblib.bsky.social · 2d

Today in historical hot takes: a well-supported argument that the straight punch was invented in early-modern Venice and likely didn't exist before that. hemamisfits.com/2025/10/05/a...

A paucity of punches: why was punching so rare in pre-modern martial arts

by Maxime Chouinard To most people, punching seems like one of the most natural ways of fighting when unarmed. Most movies will show protagonists and villains alike dealing numerous punches, and kn…

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 20h

A billion dollars is the socio-political equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work as ruthlessly and diligently to prevent the acquisition of the former as we do the latter.

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 1d

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 15h

Like look. You can just watch it.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15h

CHICAGO — WGN News editor/producer Debbie Brockman grabbed by Trump’s ICE goons.. who then intentionally ram a bystander’s car as they peel away.

More: www.fox32chicago.com/news/wgn-new...

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olive consumer's ambulatory skeleton @machete.gay · 17h

As the shutdown extends, the rhetorical utility of a 94-style Contract With America becomes significantly greater.

Democrats need something material they can point to and say, "These are the perfectly reasonable points Republicans are refusing to do their jobs for."

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 17h

in this case it was 1/4 cup light and 3/4 tsp dark

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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 19h

MAJOR NEWS: @GavinNewsom signed SB 79, my bill allowing more housing near public transit — rail, subway, rapid bus.

It’s a huge step for housing in California. It’ll create more homes, strengthen our transit systems & reduce traffic & carbon emissions.

Thank you, Governor!

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 17h

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three cup chicken

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Paul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com · 18h

Indeed. Or as I said in my case for liberal socialism, billionaires are intrinsic threats to political order. We should regulate billionaire fortunes for the same reason we regulate weapons of mass destruction.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 18h

yeah the extent to which that action was planned and intentional is totally lost in the popular consciousness--unfortunately!

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Louis Römer @lromeranth.bsky.social · 1d

This from @aselrod.bsky.social resonates with the conversation that @sifill.bsky.social had with us at Vassar last week: "We have passed through the veil. Whatever becomes of American liberal democracy in the near or distant future, it will be a resurrection and not a continuation."

Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 1d

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

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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.

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