One day closer to everyone always having been against this

I like how when we say someone 'posted on X' it sounds like we're saying they use drugs

Alan Elrod@aselrod.bsky.social · last yr.

How Elon Musk sees himself vs. how we see Elon

'native New Yorker' discourse takes another L en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_La...

Liberal Currents@liberalcurrents.com · 24h ago

Out of the Jaws #8: Brad Lander tells us who should be prosecuted after Trump's term ends. And also how it's important to be a better neighbor. www.liberalcurrents.com/mr-rogers-wi...

Taco Bell is there for the taking in the national divorce

Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · yesterday

I would like to propose the Taco Bell Principle When a person/institution Did A Problem, & IMMEDIATELY fesses up & takes proactive steps to solve it That's exactly what we want them to do? So how bout we let them live ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

curtains for Zoosha

Lex Roman@lexroman.com · yesterday

Airtable was just acquired by Bending Spoons. Goodbye to Airtable. If your business runs on Airtable or worse, if your business IS Airtable, you need to make an exit plan. I wrote about what this means for small business owners. www.revenuerulebreaker.com/airtable-was...

Republicans are no longer asking you to buy American

Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈@josephpolitano.bsky.social · yesterday

DSA-aligned Democrats are now the most pro-free-trade voting bloc in the United States, in an incredible turn of events www.theargumentmag.com/p/who-suppor...

Somewhat lost in the controversy about Brandon Herrera is that he would be the youngest person ever elected to Congress. The first 14-year-old boy to hold that office

Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · 2d ago

It was this one, and, yes, I do believe that was an All In first.

Our current understanding and attempts to describe 'the beginning of the universe,' especially stated this briefly and baldly, are so profoundly weird that trying to contemplate them is super unsettling to me, almost unbearable somehow

"The patriarchy's anxious, sweaty need to control and ascertain gender has been on display, as trans people have been rhetorically spun from a tiny and relatively powerless minority into the ogres threatening to devour the nation’s children." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-reconstr...

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...

www.liberalcurrents.com/a-rich-kid-t...

A Rich Kid Taking It All the Way

Trump and his hangers-on create anew the organization of social affairs they've known since youth.

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Democracy Dies in Dorkness@lizamazel.bsky.social · 3d ago

“He would get in trouble and just—nothing ever seemed to happen..." “Because he is Max Miller,” said another classmate. “He gets out of stuff" “He’s rich, he’s well-connected, his family is well-connected. It’s not surprising to me that he doesn’t pay consequences for the things he does."

Leeroy Jenkins?

Black Francis is very underappreciated.

lil miss big boy@lighter.bsky.social · 5d ago

Post your hottest music take. Mine is New Order is better than Joy Division.

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Poll Tracker 📊@polltracker.bsky.social · 6d ago

Texas Senate Race (Fox News): Talarico (D) 51% Paxton (R) 48% July 23-27, 2026 www.foxnews.com/official-polls

"Few of us draw much meaning out of large numbers. … If we can improve our facility with large numbers, we can be more confident and thus effective in speaking about the worthiness of public investments." www.liberalcurrents.com/how-to-divid...

How to Divide Large Numbers in Your Head

We need to get our minds around our millions, billions, and trillions.

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Ciaran@ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social · last wk.

It seems very very bad that as an aging society the entire political and media landscape has decided that across all areas of policy: large number = fraud

It so happens that Neon Liberalism #1 was @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com and I dissecting and rejecting several popular theories of why Kamala Harris lost the 2024 U.S. Presidential election: www.liberalcurrents.com/neon-liberal...

Matt@matttalkstoomuch.bsky.social · 6d ago

I desperately need someone to the write a “Clinton/Harris did not lose because they are women” article. Maybe @liberalcurrents.com already has. I’m dying with these democrats scared to run a woman.

Only a mastermind like Tony Fauci could pull this off

Mike Rothschild@rothschildmd.bsky.social · 6d ago

The overwhelming right wing sentiment is that COVID was an engineered bioweapon that was also harmless. Trump overreacted to it by shutting down the country, then engineered a drive to create a vaccine that was the real bioweapon that killed millions, and it's Joe Biden's fault.

Dang, @pkrugman.bsky.social dropping absolute truth bombs this morning. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/reality-is...

Sweeping government measures to control and combat the covid virus were genuinely justified, which is why antigovernment people are spending the rest of their days trying to find some way, any way, to make that not be true.

John Timmer@jtimmer.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Key theme here: everybody is still angry about the pandemic control measures.

Recording Academy: How about we'll create a very special "best Asian pop music performance" award so that we can deign to name you as lesser Grammy(tm) winners? BTS: Nah, actually "we hope our music can be heard and loved for what it is, rather than being divided by region or language."

K-pop powerhouse BTS say they will not submit music for 2027 Grammys

K-pop powerhouse BTS say they will not submit their music for consideration at the forthcoming Grammys.

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I continue to believe that "centibillionaire" sounds like someone who has a fraction of a billion dollars, and recommend instead the more menacing, if temporarily unfamiliar, "hectobillionaire."

Quinn Slobodian@quinnslobodian.com · last wk.

For clarity in journalism, the go-to identifier should be "Elon Musk, centibillionaire tech CEO and leading far right agitator."

Jesse Watters as an avatar of manliness, with any level of maturity whatsoever, has always been the funniest thing to me, so I enjoyed this bit

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · last wk.

Manosphere grifters have figured out that some men are easily manipulated by making them feel insecure about their masculinity. The GOP has turned this sales pitch into both an ideology and a campaign strategy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Today is an excellent day to subscribe to Liberal Currents, instead: www.liberalcurrents.com/support-us/

New York Times Opinion@nytopinion.nytimes.com · last wk.

“I know for sure that what Mamdani is doing is just minting voters for Netanyahu among Israelis who think Bibi is their only protector, his hard-line stance their only salvation,” our columnist Thomas Friedman writes.

Exactly. The thing about Yglesias's post is that it’s just factually wrong. So factually wrong. Entirely backwards.

Katelyn Burns@katelynburns.com · last wk.

there is actually not that much money in progessive political media. it's much more lucrative to be a centrist sell out or a vapid, no-brain right winger these days.

[guy who reportedly makes seven figures arguing for centrist positions]:

My sense from the last decade or so in #ATX, which I will not at this time check via research, is that each year we have had at least two weeks of this. The question has been whether we get more than two. One year it was eight.

Using a helicopter in NYC for anything other than life-threatening emergencies should be illegal, and Amtrak’s only offering between NYC and Philly should be a 47-minute trip running at 10-minute headways, as laid out by @alonlevy.bsky.social nec.transitcosts.com/scheduling

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · last wk.

so much for billionaires fleeing because of zohran

It's late July, which means … it's the Brasileirão or nothing basically