Dennis Lytton
@dennislytton.bsky.social
Contributor at @LiberalCurrents.com https://www.liberalcurrents.com/author/dennis/ Liberal and in the fight Also: all things pax train 🚆 ops & safety. Cali native 🎿 🏄♂️, Georgetown, and UCLA, Chess♟️player, Episcopalian
We need to liberate constitutional democracy from the flesh-eating blob of the imperial presidency, post-haste. Make Congress the first branch again.
Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 4mo agoLiberating America from the Constitution www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will (with Brad Lander)
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Maine please prove to me that you done with this shit in Nov
Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18h agoThe same old Susan Collins charade. As soon as a controversial nominee or a bill has enough votes to pass, she announces she will vote no when it doesn’t matter. She never casts a deciding vote against Trump. Now she will claim this shows how she is so “independent.”
Another moment in this interview: Lander says it's important to him to be a Jewish voice speaking up for the basic human rights of Palestinians www.liberalcurrents.com/mr-rogers-wi...
Mr. Rogers With a Steel Spine (Out of the Jaws #8, with Brad Lander)
Being a better neighbor can lay the foundations for resisting authoritarianism.
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The Founding Fathers could have never imagined such spineless dipshits All their classical learnings regarding the last years of the Roman Republic would seem so relevant to them
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayCornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"
I think the President's residence and West Wing should be moved to the Blair House complex. It actually has more floor space than the White House. Turn the White House into a museum, like the Palace at Versailles. This country needs a small r republican cleanse after this.
Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21h agoAnother disaster from our incompetent Builder-in-Chief.
maga will accept as leaders rapists, pedophiles, white supremasicsts, wife beaters, con artists, conspiracy theorists, absolute morons, paid foreign agents, & people who are *all* of those things but you can't be even slightly pro-immigration, that's the line newrepublic.com/article/2138...
MAGA Erupts at Trump DHS Chief—and Accidentally Exposes Big MAGA Scam
Markwayne Mullin just said the unsayable: that immigration can sometimes help the economy and the country. Now MAGA wants his head.
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👇🧵🇩🇪 Parallels here to the failure of years of What Democrats Must Do advice from Ezra Douthglesias & others in 🇺🇸 & similar debates/results in other countries about how to win back far right voters.
Ned Richardson-Little@historyned.bsky.social · yesterdayThe past few years have been an explicit test of two theories of how to win back AfD voters: first, the CDU just needed to pivot to the hard right under Merz and second that the Linke as a party was too woke and needed to turn to workerist anti-migrant nationalism via BSW. Both failed.
He is completely delusional and he's surrounded by ideologues, grifters, and enablers
Don't miss this vile story: MAGA is raging at DHS chief Markwayne Mullin for admitting migrant farmworkers can beneft our economy. This means his devotion to ethnic cleansing is in doubt. He must be excommunicated! I wrote about the collapse of MAGA mythology here: newrepublic.com/article/2138...
“Their vision includes a large role for markets but by and large not for capitalists, remains committed to retaining and even expanding political liberalism, and acknowledges that even major social reforms are not a panacea for all problems.” www.liberalcurrents.com/democratic-s...
Democratic Socialism Gets Serious
"The Blueprint" demonstrates how the new generation of democratic socialists are providing real, practical proposals for economic transformation.
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The most corrupt administration is also the most cartoonishly corrupt.
Will Sommer@willsommer.bsky.social · 2d agoTransportation secretary Sean Duffy benefited from millions in corporate donations to make a show about road trips. But two months after Duffy said the show would premiere, it doesn't appear to exist at all. My latest False Flag @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/what-the-h...
"Presidents come and go. The Constitution is enduring, amended only through supermajorities in both Houses of Congress and state legislatures. Or by radical ideologues in robes."
A Blistering Critique of the Roberts Court, From Hawaii’s Supreme Court
In an extraordinary opinion, the state justices accuse the SCOTUS majority of undermining democracy.
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I have a feeling that abolition of the presidency will soon have a Palestine/Israel dynamic within politics, where the political establishment lags behind the base on a position that was once unthinkable.
Isaac Dovere@isaacdovere.bsky.social · 2d agoNEW from me: What happened as the Democratic Socialists of America spent a rainy weekend in Chicago preparing their next steps for taking over the Democratic Party, taking down capitalism and longterm moves like abolishing the presidency: www.cnn.com/2026/08/03/p...
The biggest and most fundamental MAGA lie of all is the idea that immigrants are to blame for the social crisis afflicting young MAGA men.
Alan Elrod@aselrod.bsky.social · 2d ago“What’s actually threatening to the MAGA project, then, is the underlying idea that Mullin endorsed: that immigration can be made to function in the national interest” @gregsargent.bsky.social is spot on. For MAGA, immigration is the ur-crisis of America. It’s *always against* the nat’l interest
We disgrace ourselves as a nation each and every day Donald Trump remains in office. The drafters of the United States Constitution provided a remedy for a criminally insane president like the one we have—impeachment and removal ...
@dennislytton.bsky.social is very much on that beat www.liberalcurrents.com/the-american... Though I gotta say I met a VERY interesting political theorist when I was recently in DC who has me rethinking some things politicalscience.yale.edu/people/victo...
The American Presidency Can Never Be Trusted Again
It’s time for multiparty democracy and a limited executive.
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www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/abolish-ice
Abolishing ICE isn't enough. They must be held accountable.
What comes after the murder in Minneapolis.
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Minnesota Reformer@minnesotareformer.com · 2d agoOn Jan. 11, Gregory Bovino watched as his Border Patrol agents dragged a man out of his car at a St. Paul Speedway, knelt on his back until he lost consciousness, and dragged his limp body into the back of a van. The man's name is Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano and this is his story.
Good @gelliottmorris.com piece showing Trump's deportations are unpopular in *all* the swing states. Key point: Republicans know Trump is deeply vulnerable on the issue, even if pundits refuse to see it. He discusses my piece on Susan Collins/Dems at length: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/even-repub...
Even Republicans in Congress can see how unpopular Trump's immigration agenda is
Trump's deportation agenda is underwater in every swing state. Plus, Sabato moves 13 House ratings toward Democrats. Your weekly political data roundup for August 2, 2026.
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He really is treated like a Make-a-Wish kid every day for 80 years.
Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d agoTrump allegedly just won his 43rd Club Championship today at one of his courses.
“The moment in which we find ourselves is not without precedent. For nearly 150 years, antipathy—if not outright hostility—toward grassroots activism that takes aim at the status quo has been the norm.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-third-re...
The Third Red Scare
“Antifa” serves much the same function today that “Bolshevik” did a century ago.
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Is this an “Iran is begging for a deal” day, or an “I’m going to bomb them at levels not seen since WWII” day? Sometimes it can be hard to keep up.
The only other time a second-term president had approval ratings this low at this point in the cycle, he resigned a week later.
Dana Bash showed in this interview exactly how to handle a gaslighting sociopath. This is precisely how journalists should deal with all of them, including Trump.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d agoRFK Jr yelling at Dana Bash sounds like a rabid dog barking
It ain't great that the AfD is at 28%, for example, but that's a hell of a lot better than the far right party capturing the entire legislative, executive, and judicial branches.
Darin Self@darinself.com · 4d agoYeah, the FPTP system allowed a far right party to win a total majority here. They've never won a majority in a PR system
Police can definitely stalk their ex, but not solve crimes. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
How rogue officers turned a nationwide camera network into a tool for stalking
Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems.
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Stephen Miller must really believe this is all fake. He grew up privileged in Santa Monica, California and him and his father hated minorities. So surely, in his thinking, poor whites must hate them even more.
Luca Migo@victinibcn.bsky.social · 3d agoAnti-ICE advocates rallied outside the DHS office near Cincinnati after Haitians losing TPS were summoned for mandatory check-ins. Protesters report officials are fitting people with ankle monitors and issuing new court dates. Community members stand united against these aggressive tactics!
The Secretary of Health and Human Services is pathologically lying, gaslighting psychopath.
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d agoRFK: "You are saying nonsense." Bash: "I am not saying nonsense, excuse me?…This is not productive. " RFK: "You're talking nonsense…You were scaring people." Bash: "Why are you saying that?" RFK: "Because that was the job of CNN." Bash: "Okay, stop."
Once you're kicking out the Germans and Irish, the old stock WASP "heritage American" population is... what, 10%? If that, after it's all been so thoroughly blended into generic American white.
Nied@nied.bsky.social · 4d agoThat's right!
