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lukewsavage.bsky.social @lukewsavage.bsky.social · 14h

Kamala Harris's Campaign Memoir is a Tour-de-Force of Democratic Delusion www.lukewsavage.com/p/kamala-har...

Kamala Harris's Campaign Memoir is a Tour-de-Force of Democratic Delusion

This past week I’ve been taking in Kamala Harris’s campaign memoir through various reviews.

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lukewsavage.bsky.social @lukewsavage.bsky.social · 1d

Really important piece thewalrus.ca/a-veteran-re...

Forged KGB Documents Used to Smear Journalist in Parliament | The Walrus

Ex-MP Chris Alexander accused David Pugliese of being a Russian spy. Forensic experts now say the evidence was fabricated

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lukewsavage.bsky.social @lukewsavage.bsky.social · 2d

Never done podcasting like this before, but turns out it rocks. Special thanks to @caradrianh.bsky.social, my new favourite interviewer and to everyone who came out. Our convo will be up soon here. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/i...

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Press Forward (Canada) @pressforwardcanada.bsky.social · 7d

The Future of Independent Media Summit kicks off THIS FRIDAY with a live taping of @ricochetmedia.bsky.social's podcast, In Bed with the Elephant, hosted by @caradrianh.bsky.social

featuring

✨special guest @lukewsavage.bsky.social!✨

Tickets here: www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-future...

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lukewsavage.bsky.social @lukewsavage.bsky.social · 7d

If you happen to be in Ottawa this Friday, I'll be doing a live show with Adrian Harewood — host of the excellent In Bed with the Elephant podcast to launch this year's Future of Independent Media Summit. Hope to see you there! www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-future...

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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 7d

"Since the Trump era began, there has been a glaring contradiction at the heart of the rhetoric deployed against him by mainstream Democrats," writes @lukewsavage.bsky.social.

Trumpism, or so we have relentlessly been told by the likes of Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, and Kamala Harris, is something uniquely sinister and authoritarian: a dictatorship-in-waiting against which every democrat and patriotic American must unite to oppose. At the same time, the institutional norms and traditional etiquette of American politics — bipartisanship, elite brokerage, legislative compromise, and so on — are to be upheld no matter the situation. The result, as I argued in a 2020 essay for The Atlantic, has been a perpetually limp and feckless kind of opposition in which the very people casting Trump as an existential threat to democracy do not behave like they actually believe it.

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lukewsavage.bsky.social @lukewsavage.bsky.social · 7d

In a long line of politically inept and morally compromised leaders, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries are losers without peer www.lukewsavage.com/p/if-this-is...

If this is opposition, what would surrender look like?

In a long line of inept, morally-compromised Democratic leaders, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries are peerless

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Phil Free @philfree.bsky.social · 7d

“… Abundance is a middlebrow airport book that’s been elevated more because it’s ideas are useful to the corporatist side of an intra-liberal factional fight than because they are intellectually rich or analytically sound.”

- @lukewsavage.bsky.social
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The Abundance faction doesn't understand Chinese economic development

On a recent episode of the Bad Faith podcast, Briahna Gray hosted a particularly good discussion of Abundance, the new book by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson I wrote about at length back in March.

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lukewsavage.bsky.social @lukewsavage.bsky.social · 9d

Is Donald Trump a communist? With a little help from Gavin Newsom and Kamala Harris, I explore a very important question: www.lukewsavage.com/p/is-donald-...

Is Donald Trump a Communist?

On the absurdities of liberal horseshoe theory

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Broadbent Institute @broadbent.bsky.social · 15d

"The guiding ideal of Ed Broadbent’s public life was that liberal rights like freedom of speech and freedom of expression are necessary but insufficient guarantors of democratic equality," – @lukewsavage.bsky.social

Ed Broadbent on free speech: broadbentinstitute.ca/research/democratic-free-speech/

Black-and-white photo of Ed Broadbent speaking into a cluster of microphones held by reporters. Below, a purple banner reads: “March 21, 2025. Ed Broadbent, Luke Savage. A Radically Democratic Free Speech.” Buttons at the bottom say “Ed Broadbent Digital Archive” and “Research & Publications.”

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lukewsavage.bsky.social @lukewsavage.bsky.social · 14d

Inspired by Cass Sunstein's recent musings on Star Wars and Henry Kissinger: a piece on his unbelievably flimsy case for liberalism.

www.lukewsavage.com/p/in-defence...

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lukewsavage.bsky.social @lukewsavage.bsky.social · 15d

Elite liberals are determined to learn absolutely nothing
www.lukewsavage.com/p/perhaps-de...

Perhaps Democracy Needs Stronger Guardrails Than Corporate Self-Interest

Perhaps it was always inevitable that one of the biggest political flashpoints of the Trump era would involve late night entertainment.

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lukewsavage.bsky.social @lukewsavage.bsky.social · 14d

Inspired by Cass Sunstein's recent musings on Star Wars and Henry Kissinger: a piece on his unbelievably flimsy case for liberalism.

www.lukewsavage.com/p/in-defence...

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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 15d

"...the whole episode merely underscores how tenuous even the most basic democratic values really are when the ultimate determinant — in either direction — amounts to the self-interest of private corporations."

lukewsavage.bsky.social @lukewsavage.bsky.social · 15d

Elite liberals are determined to learn absolutely nothing
www.lukewsavage.com/p/perhaps-de...

Perhaps Democracy Needs Stronger Guardrails Than Corporate Self-Interest

Perhaps it was always inevitable that one of the biggest political flashpoints of the Trump era would involve late night entertainment.

www.lukewsavage.com

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lukewsavage.bsky.social @lukewsavage.bsky.social · 15d

Elite liberals are determined to learn absolutely nothing
www.lukewsavage.com/p/perhaps-de...

Perhaps Democracy Needs Stronger Guardrails Than Corporate Self-Interest

Perhaps it was always inevitable that one of the biggest political flashpoints of the Trump era would involve late night entertainment.

www.lukewsavage.com

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Harbinger Media Network @harbingermedia.bsky.social · 16d

On a new episode of 🍎THE ORCHARDCAST🍎
@readtheorchard.org chard.org sits down with @lukewsavage.bsky.social to discuss Canada's prime minister in theory and practice in a conversation exploring The Carney Doctrine.

www.readtheorchard.org/p/the-carney... 🔶

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Phil Free @philfree.bsky.social · 22d

“This is why liberalism is the perfect ideology for capitalism. It demolishes those taboos that restrain expansion. Even the finest talk about internationalism opens markets for the powerful.”

Technology & Empire - @lukewsavage.bsky.social
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Technology and Empire

On the conservative intellectual who improbably became an inspiration to Canada's left

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lukewsavage.bsky.social @lukewsavage.bsky.social · 27d

A new documentary about Leni Riefenstahl brings new archival evidence to bear against her longstanding denials of closeness to the Nazi regime. www.lukewsavage.com/p/fascinatin...

Fascinating Fascism

On the artistic and moral cowardice of Leni Riefenstahl

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lukewsavage.bsky.social @lukewsavage.bsky.social · Sep 9

For sure, let's do it

lukewsavage.bsky.social @lukewsavage.bsky.social · Sep 8

This was so much fun

Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · Sep 8

Out now: A long hard look at Matt Yglesias, — the influential, centrist pundit with a habit of getting things wrong — and the state of liberal punditry, overall. We’re joined by @lukewsavage.bsky.social.

Listen here, or on any of the podcast apps

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034: The Man Who's Constantly Wrong feat. Luke Savage | Posting Through It

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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · Sep 5

"In the 21st century, centrist politics has supplied us with a never-ending stream of sentient press releases who are congenitally incapable of conveying even the slightest trace of authenticity or humanity. Sir Keir, somehow, leaves every one of them in the dust."

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lukewsavage.bsky.social @lukewsavage.bsky.social · Sep 5

In their fruitless quest to outflank the far-right, elite liberals on both sides of the Atlantic are increasingly indistinguishable from the very thing they claim to be a bulwark against

www.lukewsavage.com/p/the-age-of...

The age of post-liberalism is finally here

In their fruitless quest to outflank the far-right, elite liberals on both sides of the Atlantic are increasingly indistinguishable from the very thing they claim to be a bulwark against

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lukewsavage.bsky.social @lukewsavage.bsky.social · Sep 5

Jared, where did you get this picture of me from

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · Sep 5

Episode art for next week's podcast featuring @lukewsavage.bsky.social

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lukewsavage.bsky.social @lukewsavage.bsky.social · Sep 5

In their fruitless quest to outflank the far-right, elite liberals on both sides of the Atlantic are increasingly indistinguishable from the very thing they claim to be a bulwark against

www.lukewsavage.com/p/the-age-of...

The age of post-liberalism is finally here

In their fruitless quest to outflank the far-right, elite liberals on both sides of the Atlantic are increasingly indistinguishable from the very thing they claim to be a bulwark against

www.lukewsavage.com

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · Sep 1

Every PressProgress article carries this union bug because our newsroom is 100% unionized with secure, good-paying, full-time journalism jobs

You can be a union job creator too by becoming a PressProgress member and supporting unionized journalism jobs:

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PressProgress union bug

"PressProgress journalists are proudly unionized with UFCW Canada Local 1006-A"

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