El Çid
@trentrichardnelson.bsky.social
Writer, editor, historian, commentator, philosopher, podcaster and poet; I like soccer & literature too....AV Editor & Contributing Editor for @LiberalCurrents.com & contributing writer all over.
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El Çid
@trentrichardnelson.bsky.social
· Jun 22
“…Therefore we need not expect to have better states until we have better men; till then all changes will leave every essential thing un-changed.”
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This is sickeningly disgusting. The old media is dying while the new works its way into greater life. Subscribe and donate to publications doing the necessary work right now instead of running interference for fascists and dipshits. First off, @liberalcurrents.com, which is currently fundraising.
November 28, 2025 at 7:17 PM
This is sickeningly disgusting. The old media is dying while the new works its way into greater life. Subscribe and donate to publications doing the necessary work right now instead of running interference for fascists and dipshits. First off, @liberalcurrents.com, which is currently fundraising.
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www.thehandbasket.co is another that is absolutely worth supporting as the work @marisakabas.bsky.social and her contributors do is crucial now more than ever. Hard to go wrong supporting LC and The Handbasket together; news AND analysis without the capital interests interfering.
The Handbasket
100% independent journalism by Marisa Kabas
www.thehandbasket.co
November 28, 2025 at 7:20 PM
www.thehandbasket.co is another that is absolutely worth supporting as the work @marisakabas.bsky.social and her contributors do is crucial now more than ever. Hard to go wrong supporting LC and The Handbasket together; news AND analysis without the capital interests interfering.
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@theunpopulist.net is another. These folks are doing brilliant work too & from across the liberal spectrum as well. This is a moment where there should be less competition between publications doing positive work, and more mutual aid and coordination. To make the world we want, we must live it.
The UnPopulist | Shikha Dalmia | Substack
Defending liberal democracy against authoritarianism in the U.S. and around the world. Click to read The UnPopulist, by Shikha Dalmia, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
www.theunpopulist.net
November 28, 2025 at 7:24 PM
@theunpopulist.net is another. These folks are doing brilliant work too & from across the liberal spectrum as well. This is a moment where there should be less competition between publications doing positive work, and more mutual aid and coordination. To make the world we want, we must live it.
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@theonion.com can’t be left out either. One of the few publications that has *consistently* called out bad or hypocritical behaviour wherever they find it. As they look to surpass WaPo’s subscription numbers this year, let’s help them. Let’s make the world a more coherent and well educated place.
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November 28, 2025 at 7:28 PM
@theonion.com can’t be left out either. One of the few publications that has *consistently* called out bad or hypocritical behaviour wherever they find it. As they look to surpass WaPo’s subscription numbers this year, let’s help them. Let’s make the world a more coherent and well educated place.
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@thebulwark.com is another. Fighting fascism is no easy task, and we must do it together, even as they seek to crush our coordination and mutual affection. Love always can overcome hate, but only if the love is focused properly; steam without an infrastructure to coordinate it simply evaporates.
The Bulwark | Substack
The Bulwark is home to Sarah Longwell, Tim Miller, Bill Kristol, JVL, Sam Stein, and more. We are the largest pro-democracy bundle on Substack for news and analysis on politics and culture—supported b...
www.thebulwark.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:30 PM
@thebulwark.com is another. Fighting fascism is no easy task, and we must do it together, even as they seek to crush our coordination and mutual affection. Love always can overcome hate, but only if the love is focused properly; steam without an infrastructure to coordinate it simply evaporates.
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Pete Hegseth, brimming with contempt for the Geneva and Hague Conventions, which were, of course, largely written by the United States. He's both a buffoon and a man with serious criminal instincts.
Hegseth included the below in a chapter titled “The Laws of War, For Winners”
It’s almost as if there were signs!
It’s almost as if there were signs!
November 29, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Pete Hegseth, brimming with contempt for the Geneva and Hague Conventions, which were, of course, largely written by the United States. He's both a buffoon and a man with serious criminal instincts.
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“…Therefore we need not expect to have better states until we have better men; till then all changes will leave every essential thing un-changed.”
June 22, 2025 at 1:48 AM
“…Therefore we need not expect to have better states until we have better men; till then all changes will leave every essential thing un-changed.”
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Why is the Atlantic promoting this unhinged eugenicist with a professional photo shoot holding a rosary 👇?
Since 2017, @liberalcurrents.com has run hundreds of articles & authors who are fighting with their heads and hearts for a liberal world. Support them!
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Since 2017, @liberalcurrents.com has run hundreds of articles & authors who are fighting with their heads and hearts for a liberal world. Support them!
www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
November 28, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Why is the Atlantic promoting this unhinged eugenicist with a professional photo shoot holding a rosary 👇?
Since 2017, @liberalcurrents.com has run hundreds of articles & authors who are fighting with their heads and hearts for a liberal world. Support them!
www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
Since 2017, @liberalcurrents.com has run hundreds of articles & authors who are fighting with their heads and hearts for a liberal world. Support them!
www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
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Liberal Currents will never hand it to a man likely to kill untold number of children with his anti-vaccine anti-science crank activism from HHS. We will never throw trans people under the bus to score political points. Help elevate our voice to compete with The Atlantic’s gofund.me/bc470b67b
November 28, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Liberal Currents will never hand it to a man likely to kill untold number of children with his anti-vaccine anti-science crank activism from HHS. We will never throw trans people under the bus to score political points. Help elevate our voice to compete with The Atlantic’s gofund.me/bc470b67b
This is sickeningly disgusting. The old media is dying while the new works its way into greater life. Subscribe and donate to publications doing the necessary work right now instead of running interference for fascists and dipshits. First off, @liberalcurrents.com, which is currently fundraising.
November 28, 2025 at 7:17 PM
This is sickeningly disgusting. The old media is dying while the new works its way into greater life. Subscribe and donate to publications doing the necessary work right now instead of running interference for fascists and dipshits. First off, @liberalcurrents.com, which is currently fundraising.
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mainstream media remains incredibly averse to saying trump is lying *even when he keeps telling the same lies and being corrected over and over.*
it's pretty obvious that trump refuses to take on info if he doesn't like it. you are allowed to call that lying! even if he's lying to himself also!
it's pretty obvious that trump refuses to take on info if he doesn't like it. you are allowed to call that lying! even if he's lying to himself also!
the fact that dealing with rampant lying and its much worse downstream consequences involves cultivating values rather than just imposing formal frameworks or rules (legal or otherwise) is a tough pill to swallow for some. but it is indeed medicine
Pointing out that something is incorrect definitely isn't sufficient - the *culture* of "it is bad to make incorrect statements, good to promptly and clearly retract and apologize for them, and disqualifying to keep making them deliberately" is the framework needed for fact-checking to plug into.
November 28, 2025 at 6:27 PM
mainstream media remains incredibly averse to saying trump is lying *even when he keeps telling the same lies and being corrected over and over.*
it's pretty obvious that trump refuses to take on info if he doesn't like it. you are allowed to call that lying! even if he's lying to himself also!
it's pretty obvious that trump refuses to take on info if he doesn't like it. you are allowed to call that lying! even if he's lying to himself also!
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Also recognize that this unambiguous use of the military to commit murder of helpless noncombatants as they fought for life is a direct reflection of the virulent white supremacy that has seized our government, where every Latino man is a gangbanger in a de facto state of war against White America
November 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Also recognize that this unambiguous use of the military to commit murder of helpless noncombatants as they fought for life is a direct reflection of the virulent white supremacy that has seized our government, where every Latino man is a gangbanger in a de facto state of war against White America
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Reading The UnPopulist is free, but maintaining it isn't. Help us out if you can.
Reading The UnPopulist is free, but maintaining it isn't. Help us out if you can.
Today is a day where lots of people do lots of shopping. We're not really selling anything, BUT ... if you want to support a publication committed to calling out new and emerging forms of authoritarianism, and charting out a liberalism that can meet this moment, consider becoming a paid subscriber.
Subscribe to The UnPopulist
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November 28, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Reading The UnPopulist is free, but maintaining it isn't. Help us out if you can.
Reading The UnPopulist is free, but maintaining it isn't. Help us out if you can.
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Also, consider supporting our friends at @liberalcurrents.com. They're doing great work and could also use your support. Independent media that fearlessly opposes authoritarianism and illiberalism isn't magically self-sustaining. It needs people who care about the mission to support it.
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
www.gofundme.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Also, consider supporting our friends at @liberalcurrents.com. They're doing great work and could also use your support. Independent media that fearlessly opposes authoritarianism and illiberalism isn't magically self-sustaining. It needs people who care about the mission to support it.
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We need a lot of help to build a platform large enough that strong liberal voices will no longer be ignored.
Can you find a way this weekend to share our fundraiser with someone who might be open to supporting it? www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
Can you find a way this weekend to share our fundraiser with someone who might be open to supporting it? 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
www.gofundme.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:56 PM
We need a lot of help to build a platform large enough that strong liberal voices will no longer be ignored.
Can you find a way this weekend to share our fundraiser with someone who might be open to supporting it? www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
Can you find a way this weekend to share our fundraiser with someone who might be open to supporting it? www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
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Our editor-in-chief Adam Gurri went on Toby Buckle's @polphilpod.bsky.social show today, and their back-and-forth about the current situation in media and politics is stellar. You aren't getting stuff this good on cable news, folks. www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/media
Building Opposition Media with Adam Gurri
How the centrist media has enabled fascism & what must be done differntly.
www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Our editor-in-chief Adam Gurri went on Toby Buckle's @polphilpod.bsky.social show today, and their back-and-forth about the current situation in media and politics is stellar. You aren't getting stuff this good on cable news, folks. www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/media
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you should support liberal currents!
November 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
you should support liberal currents!
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"National Delirium: NatSec in Post-9/11 America, from Dubya to Donny": @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social and @trentrichardnelson.bsky.social with @attackerman.bsky.social, on our Half the Answer podcast www.liberalcurrents.com/half-the-ans...
Half the Answer #51: National Delirium: NatSec in Post-9/11 America, from Dubya to Donny
Trent and Caitlin speak with journalist Spencer Ackerman about the CIA, DHS, and other parts of the US government ostensibly protecting us from terrorism. How have they achieved this level of impunity...
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:01 AM
"National Delirium: NatSec in Post-9/11 America, from Dubya to Donny": @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social and @trentrichardnelson.bsky.social with @attackerman.bsky.social, on our Half the Answer podcast www.liberalcurrents.com/half-the-ans...
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If in your downtime over the next few days you find yourself pondering whether the narrative matters, we have a podcast episode for that. www.liberalcurrents.com/neon-liberal...
Neon Liberalism #25: Does the Narrative Matter?
Join Samantha and guest Will Stancil as they talk the vexed question of whether politics is driven by merely material conditions, ask why tyrants are obsessed with their own popularity, and assess why...
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:05 AM
If in your downtime over the next few days you find yourself pondering whether the narrative matters, we have a podcast episode for that. www.liberalcurrents.com/neon-liberal...
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Just in time for Black Friday. 😉
Excellent question and it so happens that back in August our editors picked five books each to make a reading list: www.liberalcurrents.com/the-liberal-...
Now, at the time, we did that as a post for patrons only.
But you know what, let's make it public today. 🍾
Now, at the time, we did that as a post for patrons only.
But you know what, let's make it public today. 🍾
November 28, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Just in time for Black Friday. 😉
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today instead of buying barely discounted crap, get a paid subscription to an independent media outlet! a little $ goes a long way towards supporting a free press. 🗞️
drop links to your own or your faves in the replies so ppl can easily sign up (bonus if you add a couple words about why it’s good!):
drop links to your own or your faves in the replies so ppl can easily sign up (bonus if you add a couple words about why it’s good!):
November 28, 2025 at 4:36 PM
today instead of buying barely discounted crap, get a paid subscription to an independent media outlet! a little $ goes a long way towards supporting a free press. 🗞️
drop links to your own or your faves in the replies so ppl can easily sign up (bonus if you add a couple words about why it’s good!):
drop links to your own or your faves in the replies so ppl can easily sign up (bonus if you add a couple words about why it’s good!):
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Somehow I didn’t mention vouchers in this convo, which is also a really big deal!
"Leaving Children Behind: Education Policy from Bush to Trump": @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social and @trentrichardnelson.bsky.social with @derekgottliebphd.com, on our Half the Answer podcast www.liberalcurrents.com/half-the-ans...
Half the Answer #50: Leaving Children Behind: Education Policy from Bush to Trump
Caitlin and Trent speak with educational policy researcher Derek Gottlieb about what it's like to research education in a country whose administration thinks public education shouldn't really even be ...
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Somehow I didn’t mention vouchers in this convo, which is also a really big deal!
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"Leaving Children Behind: Education Policy from Bush to Trump": @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social and @trentrichardnelson.bsky.social with @derekgottliebphd.com, on our Half the Answer podcast www.liberalcurrents.com/half-the-ans...
Half the Answer #50: Leaving Children Behind: Education Policy from Bush to Trump
Caitlin and Trent speak with educational policy researcher Derek Gottlieb about what it's like to research education in a country whose administration thinks public education shouldn't really even be ...
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:51 PM
"Leaving Children Behind: Education Policy from Bush to Trump": @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social and @trentrichardnelson.bsky.social with @derekgottliebphd.com, on our Half the Answer podcast www.liberalcurrents.com/half-the-ans...
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Hi everybody,
It's Black Friday, a big day for us at The Onion, since we rely almost entirely on your memberships.
Our goal for 2026? More print subscribers than the Washington Post.
This is, somehow, feasible.
So sign up! A year of print is $75 for the year today. Help us do a very funny thing.
It's Black Friday, a big day for us at The Onion, since we rely almost entirely on your memberships.
Our goal for 2026? More print subscribers than the Washington Post.
This is, somehow, feasible.
So sign up! A year of print is $75 for the year today. Help us do a very funny thing.
Join The Onion
Don’t just read the news. Feel it. Be among the first to feel the news.
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November 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Hi everybody,
It's Black Friday, a big day for us at The Onion, since we rely almost entirely on your memberships.
Our goal for 2026? More print subscribers than the Washington Post.
This is, somehow, feasible.
So sign up! A year of print is $75 for the year today. Help us do a very funny thing.
It's Black Friday, a big day for us at The Onion, since we rely almost entirely on your memberships.
Our goal for 2026? More print subscribers than the Washington Post.
This is, somehow, feasible.
So sign up! A year of print is $75 for the year today. Help us do a very funny thing.
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Since the election of Trump in 2024, the influence of Liberal Currents has surged. Traffic to LiberalCurrents.com has grown by 600 percent. Social media follows have gone from four thousand to over thirty thousand.
Now let's build something that can't be ignored: www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
Now let's build something that can't be ignored: www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
November 28, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Since the election of Trump in 2024, the influence of Liberal Currents has surged. Traffic to LiberalCurrents.com has grown by 600 percent. Social media follows have gone from four thousand to over thirty thousand.
Now let's build something that can't be ignored: www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
Now let's build something that can't be ignored: www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...