NY-10's next member of Congress on the @liberalcurrents.com podcast Out of the Jaws??? 👀👀👀 youtu.be/S_nVcXXhYDM

Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will (with Brad Lander)

YouTube video by Liberal Currents

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Not a big fan of the "sick, elderly and/or disabled people don't count" discourse that appears to follow public health disasters these days.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2d ago

Breaking News: Two deaths in Michigan have been linked to cyclospora. Both people who had the parasite also had underlying health issues.

There are 7 PR people for every journalist in the US. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

The people have spoken. And they have said: you send too many emails. You can now subscribe to a weekly roundup instead of getting each thing as it comes out (or you can turbolib it up and do both so you make sure you didn't miss anything, plus get a few extra non-LC links at the end)

Liberal Currents@liberalcurrents.com · 3d ago

The weekly roundup of what we’ve done at Liberal Currents includes an important look at the internal displacement of transgender people in the United States seeking security from oppression. www.liberalcurrents.com/headwaters-j...

An interesting pair of videos from Matt Bruenig on LLMs and data analysis www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQog...

Quickly Disproving the Wall Street Journal With My AI Microdata System

YouTube video by Matt Bruenig

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If y'all are paying any attention to NYC politics and haven't subscribed to @hellgatenyc.com yet, check out their latest sale! -just a fan hellgatenyc.com/hell-gates-9...

Hell Gate's 99-Cent T-Shirt Sale!

Subscribe to snag the summer's hottest tee.

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fun fact: you can just buy a BlueSky membership card. it’s kinda big though @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com

Huh, I didn't know FIFA knew about vector autoregression...

Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · 2w ago

What's great about VAR is that it makes the matchday experience worse while we still have clear and obvious errors.

matt yglesias told us not to believe him on this nearly two decades ago. we should just take him at his word archive.thinkprogress.org/the-pundits-...

🚨 FULL SWEEP IN CUMBERLAND 🚨 Team Troy just won every delegate in Maine's largest county!

After today, it’s now basically guaranteed that @troyjackson207.bsky.social will be the Democratic nominee for Senate this November. After getting fewer first choice votes than Nirav Shah and victor Hannah Pingree in the gubernatorial primary, Jackson has swept. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

ME SEN Delegate Meeting Results (Nicholas Anastácio/National Journal's Hotline)

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Encyclopedia Brown stories are like BUGS MEANY: I didn't do it and if you say that I did I will literally murder you EB, smirking: Ah but in your explanation, you said you saw it by looking from the west, which would have been impossible BUGS:

Per tracking from the @nationaljournal.com, looks like Troy Jackson is out to an overwhelming early lead in the Maine county meetings docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

ME SEN Delegate Meeting Results (Nicholas Anastácio/National Journal's Hotline)

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It’s an internal poll but Data for Progress — which has consistently been one of the most accurate pollsters for Democratic primaries — has El-Sayed up 54-41% on Stevens

ICYMI on the situation that led to this

Who Monitors the UAW’s Federal Monitor?

Shawn Fain’s reform administration in the United Auto Workers now finds itself locked in conflict with a federal anti-corruption monitor that Fain says is overstepping his bounds — including in opposi...

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Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 3w ago

FLAG: The Trump Justice Department has launched an investigation into United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain.

The last time they reformed Social Security, they knew that the baby boomers existed. They knew that fertility rates were dropping. What they did not know is that income inequality would explode. Listen to @socio-steve.bsky.social explaining the details to @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com today.

Is The Lock Box Empty? (Neon Liberalism #82, with Stephen Nuñez)

The American government is an insurance company with an army—so how do our insurance company's finances look? Samantha and guest Stephen Nuñez, Director of Stratification Economics at the Roosevelt In...

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People have always been poasting

Is this how Ro Khanna officially announced he is going to be running for president?? www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/u...

This does not strike me as an action likely to reverse the loss of support among Democrats for Israel www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/li...

Ro Khanna detained by Israeli settlers during occupied West Bank visit

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Graham Platner officially withdraws from Maine Senate race www.ms.now/news/graham-...

Graham Platner officially withdraws from Maine Senate race

Maine’s Secretary of State office said it received Graham Platner’s formal withdrawal, in the wake of the sexual assault allegations that surfaced earlier this week.

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“Turn now, to the temperance revolution. In it, we shall find a stronger bondage broken; a viler slavery, manumitted; a greater tyrant deposed [than the American Revolution]. In it, more of want supplied, more disease healed, more sorrow assuaged.” www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...

Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 4w ago

Drinking is not a mitigating factor but it is one whose contribution is hard to ignore

A doodle I stumbled across amidst William Mahone’s correspondence in the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library collection at Duke University.

Wow. The Reconstruction Papers even looks good in its candids. You may wish to bring a copy into your own home. The best time to order is now!: www.liberalcurrents.com/the-reconstr...

rimidar@rimidar.au · 4w ago

Physical print of @liberalcurrents.com arrived just in time for the weekend 🫡

A scoop from this story: Eric Swalwell's drinking was such a problem that the House Intelligence Committee instructed staff accompanying him on foreign trips to monitor his drinking. You know, for national security reasons... www.thebulwark.com/p/drinking-c...

The Drinking Culture on Capitol Hill is Worse Than You Might Think

There are whisper networks among female staffers about which bars to be careful in—and which booze-drenched lawmakers to avoid.

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I mean, this isn't really true, his weakest numbers were with the "working class" because education polarization dominates all American politics now, and Platner's coalition of voters looked virtually identical to any other Democrat in Maine's, except for being a little bit smaller.

Dag.@3fecta.bsky.social · 4w ago

That Platner's weakest numbers were with the "working class" shows how cooked the brains are there. Everyday blue collar workers saw this child of privilege with a nazi tattoo, sexual abuse and told pollsters this doesn't meet our values, while Twitter users screamed how he was a hero to them.

“In a must-win state for Democrats eager to flip the Senate, the decision of the Maine Democratic Party, which must pick a candidate by July 27, could not carry higher stakes.” www.liberalcurrents.com/three-potent...

Three Potential Replacements for Graham Platner

Following allegations of rape from a former partner, an accusation that itself follows a sequence of major scandals that threatened to doom Graham Platner’s campaign, the veteran announced the end of ...

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He says in the video that he plans to file the paperwork to withdraw.

Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 4w ago

*Suspending campaign operations is not the same as withdrawing from the race, which is required by Monday under Maine law for the party to name a replacement.

They say an author is "pregnant" with a book. As a new mum, I can confirm the analogy doesn't stop there: books have a postpartum period too — copy-edits, page proofs, sleep deprivation and all. Anti-fascist Economics has reached the final pass at @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social! Out in October!

Hm. I wish there was another populist Sanders-endorsed Democrat interested in running for statewide office in Maine... 👀 www.mainepublic.org/politics/202...

“Let us be maladjusted. As maladjusted as the prophet Amos, who in the midst of the injustices of his day could cry out in words that echo across the centuries, ‘let justice run down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.’ Maladjusted as Abraham Lincoln, ... youtu.be/Oo2sjpxadJE

The American Dream - July 4, 1965

YouTube video by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. - Topic

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