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Jonathan Blanks

@blanksslate.bsky.social

D.C.-based criminal justice writer and socio-political critic who spends a lot of time at the library. Hoosier by birth and college education. Some would call me a libertarian. I would not. https://theblanksslate.substack.com/ Signal: @jpblanks.36

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Julian Sanchez@normative.bsky.social · 2w ago

This feels grimly accurate. I think for most people, engagement with the party feels like getting on Temu’s mailing list: Just a neverending stream of spam asking for cash and no other meaningful call to be part of anything that might generate any sense of identity or community.

Feild@feild.work · 2w ago

There's nothing to "join" in the Democratic Party. It's a brand with products I spend my vote on once a year at the democracy store. Most people's experience of it is an endless stream of texts that read like scams, their reward for donating or signing a petition. No wonder DSA is growing

Zoomer Antimillenarian@surcomplicated.bsky.social · 3w ago

Oh fuck here we go. The escalation spiral begins. So fucking evil, so fucking dumb, and so fucking hard to avoid when three kleptokakistocratic criminal shithole regimes are involved.

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 3w ago

The US is adopting a strategy of attacking water storage and desalination plants designed to render the region uninhabitable. If continued, this strategy will make the Gulf littoral uninhabitable in the coming decades. Yet there is no discussion of these tactics and their repercussion in the US.

Jonathan Blanks@blanksslate.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This is an excellent distillation of the tension between an anti-populist commitment to the truth and the ugly reality of electoral politics. I'm not sure I fall where he does, but it is a spot-on analysis of the internal conflicts many of us feel.

Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅@cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

in my latest for @liberalcurrents.com i discuss the problems with chasing Glonzo for political gain: you either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain www.liberalcurrents.com/everything-i...

Liberal Currents@liberalcurrents.com · 2mo ago

"Post-Duda Poland has confronted a series of “institutional traps,” following a familiar pattern where illiberal movements design systems specifically to force successors into legitimacy crises, creating a situation in which every attempted repair can itself be portrayed as anti-democratic."

Learning from the international struggle

Over the last twenty years, illiberal forces have coordinated ideas, personnel, and finances across international borders. Liberals can learn from this.

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Dara Lind@daralind.bsky.social · 2mo ago

When I get cranky about not scaring people — even when things are objectively scary! — this is usually what I’m thinking about: the 2019 public-charge policy. NO ONE WAS ACTUALLY DENIED A GREEN CARD UNDER IT. ~40,000 people were scared out of applying at all. documentedny.com/2026/05/29/u...

The Throughline: Don’t Let Trump Spin Scare People Out Of Applying For Green Cards

Don't panic. This green card announcement, like other immigration changes under the Trump administration, merits more than a little circumspection.

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