If you are in the UK, the Trans+ Solidarity Alliance is a resource for finding actions you can take. www.transsolidarityalliance.com/post/ehrc-s-...

Joint Statement: EHRC’s Code of Practice comes into effect.

Today marks a massive step backwards. We now have Government-sanctioned guidance that places us totally out of step with how liberal democracies across the world approach upholding the equality and hu...

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Today the UK is putting into practice aggressive restrictions on trans people using toilets and changing rooms. This follows a complex legal/political mess over two years. The UK was among the best countries in Europe on LGBTQ rights; now it's among the worst. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-end-of-t...

Today the UK is putting into practice aggressive restrictions on trans people using toilets and changing rooms. This follows a complex legal/political mess over two years. The UK was among the best countries in Europe on LGBTQ rights; now it's among the worst. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-end-of-t...

The End of Trans Rights in the UK Is the Start of Democratic Collapse

It's never just one minority.

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"The anger that followed the most recent election centered around the claim that some Latino voters simply malfunctioned—they did not vote as people with their particular standpoint in life are supposed to vote." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-master-k...

The Master Key of Modern Politics?

Ibram X. Kendi's new book "Chain of Ideas" promises an alluringly straightforward model of modern politics.

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I am once again asking you to like and subscribe, especially if you enjoy watching this interview as much as I enjoyed doing it

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“‘When historians consider the broad sweep of the American past,’’ writes political historian Timothy Shenk, ‘‘they often reach for a single overarching story to hold the narrative together’” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-master-k...

The Master Key of Modern Politics?

Ibram X. Kendi's new book "Chain of Ideas" promises an alluringly straightforward model of modern politics.

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“Kendi notes that humanity seems to be entrapped by these racist ideas. They are recycled with great effect to confine us to a very narrow vision of what a truly humane society could be like.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-master-k...

The Master Key of Modern Politics?

Ibram X. Kendi's new book "Chain of Ideas" promises an alluringly straightforward model of modern politics.

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Always feel a bit lame asking this but if you like this video and subscribe to our channel from it specifically you will actually materially help us out, so anyone willing to take a couple of minutes to do so I greatly appreciate youtu.be/S_nVcXXhYDM?...

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

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A reminder why primarying incumbent Dems is worthwhile.

Liberal Currents@liberalcurrents.com · 22h 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...

One thing that surprised me is that @bradlander.bsky.social brought up proportional representation without any prompting from me. I take that as a very good sign of where things stand on that.

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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...

"One of the most laudatory things about 'The Blueprint' is how thoroughly and seriously it responds to objections—and not just any objections, but those offered by the best critics of socialism ranging from Ludwig von Mises to F. A. Hayek to Robert Nozick." 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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"We have to say to folks, 'Here's where your money's being stolen, here's who's doing it, here's who's suffering from violations of the rule of law.' Show real people who are being harmed. Things that make Americans mad." Yes. Elevate the victims. #ElevateTheVictims

Liberal Currents@liberalcurrents.com · 22h 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...

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...

Mr. Rogers With a Steel Spine (Out of the Jaws #8, with Brad Lander)

Today on a special episode of Out of the Jaws, Adam speaks with Brad Lander, candidate for the 10th congressional district in New York, former New York City Comptroller, city council member, and gener...

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Today @bradlander.bsky.social joins @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com to talk about organizing, what the next Congress can do to claw back what this one has taken away, court reform, the post-Trump future, and more www.liberalcurrents.com/mr-rogers-wi...

Mr. Rogers With a Steel Spine (Out of the Jaws #8, with Brad Lander)

Today on a special episode of Out of the Jaws, Adam speaks with Brad Lander, candidate for the 10th congressional district in New York, former New York City Comptroller, city council member, and gener...

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"The sabotage of government functions is itself a reward for antiliberals, but also a weaker IRS fosters easier tax evasion and financial fraud for their rich and powerful friends." www.liberalcurrents.com/actually-col...

Actually Collect Taxes

A gameplan for turning an overlooked federal agency into a flagship of liberal governance.

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"Critics tend to think that socialism can only ever mean one thing—a command economy with an authoritarian state—while granting that liberalism and capitalism can assume many diverse forms… For critics and even some extremely online tankies, socialism only ever was and will be the Soviet Union."

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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My long review of "The Blueprint: How Socialism Can Work in the Real World" for @liberalcurrents.com. Title is pretty self-explanatory 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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"Marx once famously quipped that he wasn’t in the business of writing recipe books for the cookshops of the future. … Beggs, Burgis and Sunkara feel it’s the responsibility of democratic socialists to explain what their new society will look like and how it will be an improvement on the status quo."

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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"Much as the First World War created the legal authorities used for the Palmer raids, through the PATRIOT Act and other legislation, the post-9/11 national security apparatus provided the investigative powers needed to treat a domestic political movement as a threat."

The Third Red Scare

“Antifa” serves much the same function today that “Bolshevik” did a century ago.

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“From John Stuart Mill in the 19th century onwards to contemporary calls for Medicare for all, there is a longstanding strand of liberal thought that recommends the state provide generous benefits to citizens. The Blueprint seems to lean into that connection” 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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There's also an excellent @liberalcurrents.com column on the totalitarian nature of migration control. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-totalita...

The Totalitarian Logic of Immigration Controls

Reading Chandran Kukathas' "Immigration and Freedom" during the second Trump administration.

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“Democratic firms would give workers far more of a say in how the workplace is run. Management and administrative structures would be chosen directly by employees through democratic processes, making both responsive to workers’ interests.” 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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“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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You can now subscribe to Headwaters, a summary of our week. You’ll get a roundup of everything we published, from articles and essays, to podcast episodes and editor’s notes, as well as a spotlight on some of the videos we put out and a handful of links from other publications.

Announcing Liberal Currents Live and Headwaters

A weekly video livestream and a weekly email roundup of what we've done.

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"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...

Print copies of The Reconstruction Papers go out in weekly batches. I'm sending out the next batch tomorrow so be sure to get your order in if you want yours in the next few days! www.liberalcurrents.com/the-reconstr...

The Reconstruction Papers

The Reconstruction Papers is ready to order in the US. Global readers can order a print-on-demand version. US Readers Order Here For nearly a century, the conservative movement's white w...

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"The first Red Scare effectively ended in 1920 after Palmer’s warnings of revolutionary violence on May Day never materialized. Federal judges released many of the activists swept up in the raids, and Palmer’s credibility evaporated." 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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"When white people began to migrate West there were all these kind of unemployed military guys running around. They're like, 'We have nothing to do. I know! We'll become like sheriffs and marshals.' And so they saw their job as…they would call it pacifying the West. It's really like a colonial job."

Sovereign Citizens with Badges? (Neon Liberalism #84, with Jessica Pishko)

So-called "constitutional sheriffs" are spreading across the country.

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"In Haiti, for example, the collapse of the state has created...I wouldn't say complete chaos, but certainly enough disturbance that it is increasingly becoming difficult for ordinary citizens to plan rationally and also to pursue commerce." youtu.be/VvWL67yhVOE?...

“The Rise and Fall of Rational Control” and “Violent Saviors”: An Appraisal

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"National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 identified anti-American, anti-capitalist, anti-Christian, racial, and gender-based extremism as common motivations for 'anti-fascist terrorism.' Like the Immigration Act of 1918 before it, NSPM-7 vastly broadened the grounds for suspicion of disloyalty."

The Third Red Scare

“Antifa” serves much the same function today that “Bolshevik” did a century ago.

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