Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
@sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com
associate editor at liberal currents. neonliberal. she/her.
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the actual 'fix' for this for rich countries, at least for the foreseeable future, is immigration.
January 13, 2026 at 9:36 PM
the actual 'fix' for this for rich countries, at least for the foreseeable future, is immigration.
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Read for an account of how dramatic and scary ICE in a small city has been—tear gas in a school, rammed cars left in the street, a kid dumped bloody in a parking lot.
Read it also for hope. People organize, they stand up and resist. They deserve to know they don't stand alone.
Read it also for hope. People organize, they stand up and resist. They deserve to know they don't stand alone.
So, How’s the Occupation Going for You?
What’s it like to live in America with a domestic military occupation? Minnesota has the answer.
www.liberalcurrents.com
January 14, 2026 at 11:58 AM
Read for an account of how dramatic and scary ICE in a small city has been—tear gas in a school, rammed cars left in the street, a kid dumped bloody in a parking lot.
Read it also for hope. People organize, they stand up and resist. They deserve to know they don't stand alone.
Read it also for hope. People organize, they stand up and resist. They deserve to know they don't stand alone.
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“All of these actions represent our new normal in response to the cosplaying Proud Boy thugs with military weapons and total impunity who are going neighborhood to neighborhood, store to store, school to school, door to door, to assault and kidnap our neighbors.”
So, How’s the Occupation Going for You?
What’s it like to live in America with a domestic military occupation? Minnesota has the answer.
www.liberalcurrents.com
January 14, 2026 at 11:06 AM
“All of these actions represent our new normal in response to the cosplaying Proud Boy thugs with military weapons and total impunity who are going neighborhood to neighborhood, store to store, school to school, door to door, to assault and kidnap our neighbors.”
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I have young kids like this author in Minneapolis—I'm so gutted reading this
But despite being occupied by a massive force of DHS paramilitaries, civil society is alive and meeting the threat. We will owe our freedom to the people of MSP, thank you!
@taylorcarik.bsky.social @liberalcurrents.com
But despite being occupied by a massive force of DHS paramilitaries, civil society is alive and meeting the threat. We will owe our freedom to the people of MSP, thank you!
@taylorcarik.bsky.social @liberalcurrents.com
So, How’s the Occupation Going for You?
What’s it like to live in America with a domestic military occupation? Minnesota has the answer.
www.liberalcurrents.com
January 14, 2026 at 9:01 AM
I have young kids like this author in Minneapolis—I'm so gutted reading this
But despite being occupied by a massive force of DHS paramilitaries, civil society is alive and meeting the threat. We will owe our freedom to the people of MSP, thank you!
@taylorcarik.bsky.social @liberalcurrents.com
But despite being occupied by a massive force of DHS paramilitaries, civil society is alive and meeting the threat. We will owe our freedom to the people of MSP, thank you!
@taylorcarik.bsky.social @liberalcurrents.com
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over the course of 1871, congress held seven months of hearings on ku klux klan and other white vigilante violence in the south, they took detailed testimony from hundreds of black men and women attesting to klan terror. (1/?)
January 14, 2026 at 2:06 AM
over the course of 1871, congress held seven months of hearings on ku klux klan and other white vigilante violence in the south, they took detailed testimony from hundreds of black men and women attesting to klan terror. (1/?)
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we should want to make it undeniable that there is no choice but to end ICE, prosecute its officers for lawbreaking, and fundamentally rethink immigration enforcement.
January 14, 2026 at 2:09 AM
we should want to make it undeniable that there is no choice but to end ICE, prosecute its officers for lawbreaking, and fundamentally rethink immigration enforcement.
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I argued that communities targeted by ICE should be granted citizenship immediately. This is both a matter of justice and an imperative if we're going to crush fascism.
Fascism thrives where there are groups that lack full rights. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/for-immigr...
Fascism thrives where there are groups that lack full rights. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/for-immigr...
For Immigrants, Citizenship Now
Abolishing ICE isn’t enough.
www.everythingishorrible.net
January 13, 2026 at 3:17 PM
I argued that communities targeted by ICE should be granted citizenship immediately. This is both a matter of justice and an imperative if we're going to crush fascism.
Fascism thrives where there are groups that lack full rights. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/for-immigr...
Fascism thrives where there are groups that lack full rights. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/for-immigr...
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Sen. Kevin Cramer: "Maybe the point should be if you're the attorney for Jay Powell and you want to avoid an indictment, how about you go to Jeanine Pirro and say, 'I'll make a deal. I'll step down today if you drop the investigation today.' To me, that would be a win win for everybody."
January 13, 2026 at 9:21 PM
Sen. Kevin Cramer: "Maybe the point should be if you're the attorney for Jay Powell and you want to avoid an indictment, how about you go to Jeanine Pirro and say, 'I'll make a deal. I'll step down today if you drop the investigation today.' To me, that would be a win win for everybody."
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We do not have kings or dictators in America. These monuments belong to the people.
Our bill would prevent Trump, or any other president, from using our public monuments to glorify & worship themselves.
Our bill would prevent Trump, or any other president, from using our public monuments to glorify & worship themselves.
President Trump is rapidly moving this country toward authoritarianism.
Part of that is creating the myth of the “Great Leader” by naming public buildings after himself—something dictators have done.
Today I introduced a bill with @vanhollen.senate.gov & @alsobrooks.senate.gov to stop it.
Part of that is creating the myth of the “Great Leader” by naming public buildings after himself—something dictators have done.
Today I introduced a bill with @vanhollen.senate.gov & @alsobrooks.senate.gov to stop it.
January 14, 2026 at 1:13 AM
We do not have kings or dictators in America. These monuments belong to the people.
Our bill would prevent Trump, or any other president, from using our public monuments to glorify & worship themselves.
Our bill would prevent Trump, or any other president, from using our public monuments to glorify & worship themselves.
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I mean most elites are collaborators and/or capitulators but regular libs are the literal actual frontlines of anti-fascism. Like idk Renee Good’s politics but odds are you’d call her a lib on Bluesky and she literally was just martyred for the anti-fascist cause. Literally that’s what happened.
January 14, 2026 at 12:16 AM
I mean most elites are collaborators and/or capitulators but regular libs are the literal actual frontlines of anti-fascism. Like idk Renee Good’s politics but odds are you’d call her a lib on Bluesky and she literally was just martyred for the anti-fascist cause. Literally that’s what happened.
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This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan.
A citizen.
Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold.
"We're from the United States bro!' he screamed.
Agents took and sold his phone
And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.
A citizen.
Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold.
"We're from the United States bro!' he screamed.
Agents took and sold his phone
And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.
January 13, 2026 at 10:20 PM
This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan.
A citizen.
Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold.
"We're from the United States bro!' he screamed.
Agents took and sold his phone
And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.
A citizen.
Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold.
"We're from the United States bro!' he screamed.
Agents took and sold his phone
And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.
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"we're publishing a hit piece on someone murdered by the government for her speech"
The woman killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis last week served on the board of her son’s school, which linked to documents encouraging parents to monitor ICE and directing them to training. https://cnn.it/49yoNEa
January 14, 2026 at 12:55 AM
"we're publishing a hit piece on someone murdered by the government for her speech"
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Yes, immigration agents not only took Arnoldo's phone, the 10th grader had to use Find My Phone to locate it — in a vending machine for used electronics, close to an ICE detention center.
Read the full story here:
www.propublica.org/article/vide...
Read the full story here:
www.propublica.org/article/vide...
January 14, 2026 at 12:47 AM
Yes, immigration agents not only took Arnoldo's phone, the 10th grader had to use Find My Phone to locate it — in a vending machine for used electronics, close to an ICE detention center.
Read the full story here:
www.propublica.org/article/vide...
Read the full story here:
www.propublica.org/article/vide...
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Under Trump's watch, a DHS agent shot a protestor in the face with a non-lethal round at close range, fractured his skull, and then dragged him around as he choked and bled. He is now permanently blind in his left eye.
Anti-ICE protester blinded by federal agent during demonstration in Santa Ana, family says
A young protester narrowly avoided being killed but was left permanently blind after a Department of Homeland Security agent fired a nonlethal round at close range during a Santa Ana protest last week...
www.latimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Under Trump's watch, a DHS agent shot a protestor in the face with a non-lethal round at close range, fractured his skull, and then dragged him around as he choked and bled. He is now permanently blind in his left eye.
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"Treating ‘maleness’ and ‘male advantage’ as a discrete and innate trait possessed by cis men and trans women is far from accurate." (from March 2025) www.liberalcurrents.com/do-trans-wom...
Do Trans Women Belong In Sports?
The question of trans women in sports has little to do with the cultural practice of sport itself. Rather, it’s merely a convenient way of normalizing transphobia.
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January 14, 2026 at 12:58 AM
"Treating ‘maleness’ and ‘male advantage’ as a discrete and innate trait possessed by cis men and trans women is far from accurate." (from March 2025) www.liberalcurrents.com/do-trans-wom...
without context
I've determined, through study of certain fetish material that I came across incidentally, that no external modifications would be necessary
January 14, 2026 at 12:52 AM
without context
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well that ties in to another point: the pro-natalist case for measles
January 14, 2026 at 12:37 AM
well that ties in to another point: the pro-natalist case for measles
feel like chimichurri has got to go on the list of "essential sauces to whip up in an emergency"
January 14, 2026 at 12:13 AM
feel like chimichurri has got to go on the list of "essential sauces to whip up in an emergency"
as a graduate student: i know more about whiskey and its effects on the human body than tony dokoupil will ever forget
Update — Here is what the new apparent CBS News segment "Whiskey Fridays with Tony Dokoupil" may look like:
January 14, 2026 at 12:11 AM
as a graduate student: i know more about whiskey and its effects on the human body than tony dokoupil will ever forget
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Van Hollen: We are here to say not one more dime for Donald Trump's ICE operations
January 13, 2026 at 10:52 PM
Van Hollen: We are here to say not one more dime for Donald Trump's ICE operations
when is the point where these reporters start going "bitch what" to this decrepit traitor
DOKOUPIL: When I travel the country, they tell me they don't feel it because grocery prices are up--
TRUMP: They're going to now. I've only been here for 11 months. I inherited a mess. If she got in, you wouldn't have this job right now.
TRUMP: They're going to now. I've only been here for 11 months. I inherited a mess. If she got in, you wouldn't have this job right now.
January 14, 2026 at 12:09 AM
when is the point where these reporters start going "bitch what" to this decrepit traitor
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Murphy: The United States Congress should not fund a Department of Homeland Security that is not obeying the laws of the United States of America
January 13, 2026 at 10:38 PM
Murphy: The United States Congress should not fund a Department of Homeland Security that is not obeying the laws of the United States of America
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“New documents shed light on 1st infantry divisions ties to landing efforts on Omaha beach”
January 14, 2026 at 12:06 AM
“New documents shed light on 1st infantry divisions ties to landing efforts on Omaha beach”