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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 14h

"Education Wars": @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social and @trentrichardnelson.bsky.social with @jenniferberkshire.bsky.social and @jackschneider.bsky.social, on our Half the Answer podcast www.liberalcurrents.com/half-the-ans...

Half the Answer #37: Education Wars

Trent and Caitlin speak with Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider about their recent book The Education Wars: A Citizen’s Guide and Defense Manual. They discuss the faulty beliefs and logics that lea...

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deedeel.bsky.social @deedeel.bsky.social · 1d

THIS comment - reminded me of the following lengthy discussion on the point in @liberalcurrents.com Pod: Neon Liberalism .

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 1d

This thread highlights a point I have been making for many years: the logic of authoritarianism and the logic of domestic abuse are exactly the same. It is only a difference of scale.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

Y'all who keep lecturing protesters to "not give them an excuse" need to pause for a minute. Imagine yourself telling a DV victim, "Be sure not to mouth off or make any mistakes so he won't hit you. Don't give him an excuse! It's what he wants!" That's what you fools sound like.

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 1d

Half the Answer #38: Caitlin and Trent 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 freedom of the press, and the scammy nature of our president and his public statements.

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

"'We’re training warriors, not defenders,' Hegseth said. And he was eager to dispense with the idea that those warriors should fight with anything like restraint or rules. Those are for sissies, sissies like the women and LGBTQ+ soldiers Hegseth wants out of the uniform."

War Fighters and the Enemy Within: Trump, Hegseth, and the Assault on the American People

Trump and Hegseth are cultivating a military that sees liberals and minorities as enemies to be fought and is willing to follow orders to do so.

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 1d

"One wonders how the rightwing defenders of religious liberty feel when federal agents show up at their church. Or how they feel about having their homes invaded, or their neighbors kidnapped off the street."

The Totalitarian Logic of Immigration Controls

Reading Chandran Kukathas' "Immigration and Freedom" during the second Trump administration.

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 2d

"At the time nobody thinks that toleration is a good thing. Toleration is an expression of weakness. It's unfortunate."

No one wanted religious toleration, but once they were forced to have it they learned to value it. Samantha and Lucian Staiano-Daniels, author of "The War People," discuss the connection between libe...

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 2d

"MAGA has declared their intention to use a muscular assertion of presidential power to relitigate the fundamental principles of the republic, from the nature of checks and balances to the fundamental questions of citizenship, and to do so in the public and cultural arena."

Democrats Must Embrace War Mindset

We have exited a long period of peace and entered into a struggle not unlike war, in which all the old certainties have gone malleable and the future of the republic is at stake.

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 2d

"On the list of individuals who ought to be sent to the Hague when Trump is out of power, Miller may be at the top, above even Trump himself." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-oppositi...

The Opposition Report #6

Charlie Kirk, the shutdown, mass deportation and militarization, and more.

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 2d

"Churchill rallied a broad front against fascism. He set the table for the postwar liberal settlement. He even, in the fight against fascism, made choices that would doom the future viability of his beloved British Empire." www.liberalcurrents.com/a-popular-fr...

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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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 3d

Neon Liberalism #46: Samantha and Lucian Staiano-Daniels, author of "The War People," discuss the connection between liberalism and toleration and the dark history of religious civil war. www.liberalcurrents.com/neon-liberal...

Neon Liberalism #46: Liberalism 101: Liberalism and Toleration

Samantha and Lucian Staiano-Daniels, author of "The War People," discuss the connection between liberalism and toleration and the dark history of religious civil war. How did the European Wars of Reli...

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 5d

this piece has been in the works a while but honestly i could not have asked for a better foil than ezra klein's interview with ta-nehisi coates. klein longs for peacetime--but you don't get to decide when you're in a fight.

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Democrats Must Embrace War Mindset

We have exited a long period of peace and entered into a struggle not unlike war, in which all the old certainties have gone malleable and the future of the republic is at stake.

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 5d

“Dooming is itself a liberation from the burden of choice. If everything is ruined forever, if your allies have already forsaken you, if the battle is already lost, you aren't responsible for your choices. They can't affect the outcome. You're free.” www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...

Democrats Must Embrace War Mindset

We have exited a long period of peace and entered into a struggle not unlike war, in which all the old certainties have gone malleable and the future of the republic is at stake.

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 5d

“Peacetime breeds rule-followers. In war the rules go out the window. The old certainties become terrifyingly malleable. You are assailed on all sides by phantasms: and it takes a particular kind of moral courage to see your way through” www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...

Democrats Must Embrace War Mindset

We have exited a long period of peace and entered into a struggle not unlike war, in which all the old certainties have gone malleable and the future of the republic is at stake.

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 6d

We've joined TikTok and posted our first video there: www.tiktok.com/@liberal.cur...

If you're not on TikTok, no worries—we're planning to post the same video on Instagram Reels about two weeks from now.

Liberal Currents's Creator Profile

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Jack Schneider @jackschneider.bsky.social · 6d

We had a great conversation on this podcast. If you haven’t been paying attention to the politics of education in the past few years, this should get you up to speed.
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 6d

Half the Answer #37: Trent and Caitlin speak with Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider about their recent book "The Education Wars: A Citizen’s Guide and Defense Manual." What rhetorical strategies have been employed to convince us to allow the public school system to be degraded and dismantled?

Half the Answer #37: Education Wars

Trent and Caitlin speak with Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider about their recent book The Education Wars: A Citizen’s Guide and Defense Manual. They discuss the faulty beliefs and logics that lea...

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 6d

Very good @aselrod.bsky.social piece. They are attempting to summon into existence the New MAGA Man, similar to the New Soviet Man and other totalitarian imaginings and creations:

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 6d

“What Trump, Hegseth, and MAGA are hoping to build is a military that instead reflects the violent, racist nationalism they espouse.” www.liberalcurrents.com/war-fighters...

War Fighters and the Enemy Within: Trump, Hegseth, and the Assault on The American People

Trump and Hegseth are cultivating a military that sees liberals and minorities as enemies to be fought and is willing to follow orders to do so.

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 6d

Half the Answer #37: Trent and Caitlin speak with Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider about their recent book "The Education Wars: A Citizen’s Guide and Defense Manual." What rhetorical strategies have been employed to convince us to allow the public school system to be degraded and dismantled?

Half the Answer #37: Education Wars

Trent and Caitlin speak with Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider about their recent book The Education Wars: A Citizen’s Guide and Defense Manual. They discuss the faulty beliefs and logics that lea...

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 6d

“This administration shares, with earlier iterations of fascist politics, an obsession with action, with the kinetic application of power.” www.liberalcurrents.com/war-fighters...

War Fighters and the Enemy Within: Trump, Hegseth, and the Assault on the American People

Trump and Hegseth are cultivating a military that sees liberals and minorities as enemies to be fought and is willing to follow orders to do so.

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 6d

“What Trump, Hegseth, and MAGA are hoping to build is a military that instead reflects the violent, racist nationalism they espouse.” www.liberalcurrents.com/war-fighters...

War Fighters and the Enemy Within: Trump, Hegseth, and the Assault on The American People

Trump and Hegseth are cultivating a military that sees liberals and minorities as enemies to be fought and is willing to follow orders to do so.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 7d

"Churchill provides center-right liberals with a usable role model who championed freedom, democratic governance, and rule of law over authoritarianism. And in an environment where the right is tempted by a darker vision, that model is important." www.liberalcurrents.com/a-popular-fr...

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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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 7d

Half the Answer #36: Trent and Caitlin talk with political science professor Matt McManus about far-right thinkers and their journey through the past two decades, with some nuggets of wisdom from Charlie Kirk's books dropped along the way. www.liberalcurrents.com/half-the-ans...

Half the Answer #36: Charlie Kirk and the Roots of the Far Right

Trent and Caitlin talk with political science professor Matt McManus about far-right thinkers and their journey through the past two decades. He regales the HTA audience with nuggets of wisdom from Ch...

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 7d

“As explicitly post-liberal thought gains ground in the intellectual circles on the right, we are also seeing a quiet attempt to recast the history of the Second World War.” www.liberalcurrents.com/a-popular-fr...

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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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 8d

"The one word that evoked Trump’s ire, and inspired the government crackdown, was noticeably absent from the coverage." www.liberalcurrents.com/hitlers-shad...

Hitler’s Shadow, Trump’s Shield

How calling Trump the “N-word” sparked the free speech RICO.

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 8d

"Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was even blunter: 'We’re going to go on offense. Not just on defense. Maximum lethality, not tepid legality. Violent effect, not politically correct.'" www.liberalcurrents.com/the-warmonge...

The Warmonger Rebrand

Rebranding the Department of Defense as the "Department of War" is one more proof of Trump II's bellicose intentions.

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 8d

"It appears Trump was entirely unaware that his national security team was using Signal to communicate...or he was lying to the press in an attempt to control the damage. Whatever the truth, Trump’s response is wholly inadequate in addressing the incompetence of his Cabinet." (from March)

Trump, Hegseth, and the Fallacies of the Unitary Executive

Accountability in theory, impunity and incompetence in practice.

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