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El Çid @trentrichardnelson.bsky.social · 6h

Well deserved to be sure.

Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 1d

You may have noticed I’ve been writing every week at @liberalcurrents.com lately. Well, @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com and I can make it official: it’s a weekly column.

You can catch me there every Thursday (unless someone thinks we should change the day)

www.liberalcurrents.com/author/alan/

Alan Elrod - Liberal Currents

Alan Elrod is the president & CEO of the Pulaski Institution, an Arkansas-based think tank. He is also a columnist and Contributing Editor at Liberal Currents and an adjunct instructor at Arkansas St...

www.liberalcurrents.com

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El Çid @trentrichardnelson.bsky.social · 6h

Happy Saturday to all who celebrate

Buddy Guy in 1969 with Jack Bruce and Buddy Miles

YouTube video by mercydee

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Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social · 7h

The RU defense industry is implementing long term efforts to increase T-90 tank production and recreate RU’s pre-war tank reserves, indicating that RU intends to present a long term military threat to NATO. (1/5)

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, October 11, 2025: isw.pub/UkrWar101125

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Clay Jackson @clayjak.substack.com · 7h

that lawyer was me.

open.substack.com/pub/radleyba...

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Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 7h

The stupidest fucking people are running the country. They're cruel and heartless, but they're also just really stupid.

Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 8h

The Trump administration on Saturday scrambled to rescind layoffs of hundreds of CDC scientists who were mistakenly fired on Friday night in what appeared to be a substantial procedural lapse.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 11h

On other days, Illinois state police separated the handful of pro ICE protesters that have showed up to Broadview. Not tonight.

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 16h

Half the Answer #40: Caitlin and Trent are joined by Layla al-Sheikh to discuss that Israel deal and the history of past proposals and solutions. www.liberalcurrents.com/half-the-ans...

Half the Answer #40: Palestine in Context: The New Israel-Palestine Deal

Trent and Caitlin are joined by Layla al-Sheikh to discuss that Israel deal and the history of past proposals and solutions. Half the Answer can be heard on Spotify, on Apple, on YouTube, on Amazon, ...

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 17h

Neon Liberalism #47: If you remember anything from high school civics, it's the phrases "separation of powers" and "checks and balances." That separation and those checks are under the greatest attack we've seen in our lifetimes. But why does that matter? How does it affect the character of society?

Neon Liberalism #47: Liberalism 101: Liberalism and Limited Government

If you remember anything from high school civics, it's the phrases "separation of powers" and "checks and balances." That separation and those checks are under the greatest attack we've seen in our li...

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 18h

"Mass Shootings, MedBeds, Media Mistakes and Misconceptions": @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social and @trentrichardnelson.bsky.social with @jsweetli.bsky.social, on our Half the Answer podcast www.liberalcurrents.com/half-the-ans...

Half the Answer #38: Mass Shootings, MedBeds, Media Mistakes and Misconceptions

Trent and Caitlin talk with journalist Jacqueline Sweet about how violence is framed in media as political, the rush to score points for one side or the other, inconsistent standards for free speech a...

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 1d

"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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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17h

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

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The Steady State @steadystatevets.bsky.social · 16h

"As millions prepare for the No Kings protest in Washington, GOP leaders escalate rhetoric while national security experts defend the right to peaceful dissent."

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Republican Leaders Clash With Protesters Ahead Of No Kings Rally

On October 18, 2025, millions of Americans are expected to take to the streets in cities across the nation, participating in what organizers describe as the largest…

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 16h

Portland amphibians stand united against ICE

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 1d

That sound you hear is plaintiff lawyers popping champagne corks and DOJ lawyers groaning.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized?

TRUMP: It'll be a lot. And it'll be Democrat-oriented.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2d

Tonight’s no-media-admitted execution in Indiana was the 35th execution in America this year.

It has been since 2014 that so many executions were carried out in one year — and that was the total for the year.

Indiana Capital Chronicle @indianacapitalchronicle.com · 2d

Indiana executes Roy Lee Ward for 2001 murder of teenager

indianacapitalchronicle.com/2025/10/10/i...

Indiana executes Roy Lee Ward for 2001 murder of teenager Stacy Payne • Indiana Capital Chronicle

Death row inmate Roy Lee Ward was executed by lethal injection early Friday morning at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City.

indianacapitalchronicle.com

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

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Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 1d

BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, DUCKWORTH were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE Facility in Illinois, unable to conduct constitutional role of oversight.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1d

Remember that there are righteous people among us, always.

Left: Netherlands, 1942

Right: Illinois, 2025

One day in the summer of 1942, after the onset of the deportations of the Jews from Holland to “the East”, a student, who was a courier for the ASG student underground group in Amsterdam, approached the de Vries family, asking them to hide a Jewish child. The de Vrieses, who had two children of their own, decided to accept the offer despite the risk that was involved in hiding Jews, and soon four year-old Louise Pinto was brought to their home.

Amid the smoke bombs and screams that ricocheted throughout a South Shore building last month during a massive military-style immigration raid, one man heard a knock on his door.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.

“I wasn’t planning on letting her stay, but I didn’t know what the hell was going on,” the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.

“I didn’t want them to take her,” said the man, who didn’t want to be named because he fears he’ll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.

“I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her, ‘Just stay there. Don’t open, don’t, shh, just stay quiet,’” he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 2d

Really enjoyed talking with @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social & @trentrichardnelson.bsky.social about antifa & the history of the antifa bogeyman.

Think it’s a good listen after that batshit White House presser abt antifa yesterday www.liberalcurrents.com/half-the-ans...

Half the Answer #39: What Is Antifa, and How Do You Catch a Fascist?

Christopher Mathias, author of "To Catch a Fascist," speaks to Caitlin and Trent about the events of 2020, clashes between violent fascist clubs and "community defense" groups. They discuss misconcept...

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 4d

Solidarity with @mark-bray.bsky.social, a fantastic, thoughtful, and generous scholar whose work about antifa is so important in this moment.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations

Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

www.theguardian.com

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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 2d

loved talking with @letsgomathias.bsky.social about fascists and reheated antifa nachos

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El Çid @trentrichardnelson.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely mindless drivel

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

RFK JR: There are many other confirmations -- there are two studies that show children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism. It’s highly likely because they are given Tylenol

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 2d

Half the Answer #39: Christopher Mathias, author of "To Catch a Fascist," speaks to Caitlin and Trent. They discuss misconceptions about what "antifa" is and what kinds of activities they are engaged in, and the Trump administration's demonization of community defenders and antifascists in 2025.

Half the Answer #39: What Is Antifa, and How Do You Catch a Fascist?

Christopher Mathias, author of "To Catch a Fascist," speaks to Caitlin and Trent about the events of 2020, clashes between violent fascist clubs and "community defense" groups. They discuss misconcept...

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 2d

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

www.liberalcurrents.com/all-in-our-h...

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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El Çid @trentrichardnelson.bsky.social · 2d

The discussion @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social and I had with @jacobtlevy.bsky.social via @liberalcurrents.com was so marvelous and informative; @cato.org agrees as much.

The health of American Democracy was the prime focus, but we got all over - including Trump, authoritarianism, ice cream, and more!

Jacob T. Levy discusses the health of American democracy on the Liberal Currents’ Half the Answer podcast

September 5, 2025

www.cato.org

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