Dennis Lytton
@dennislytton.bsky.social
Los Angeles is home. Pro democracy reform (proportional representation and reforming the executive), thus anti Trump.
All things pax train 🚆 ops & safety. Cali native 🎿 🏄♂️, Georgetown, and UCLA, Chess♟️player, Episcopalian
All things pax train 🚆 ops & safety. Cali native 🎿 🏄♂️, Georgetown, and UCLA, Chess♟️player, Episcopalian
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The American Presidency Can Never Be Trusted Again
It’s time for multiparty democracy and a limited executive.
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America & the world can never trust the US Presidency & our calcified, two-party Congress again.
In @liberalcurrents.com, I argue we need to reform the executive (limit it), make the legislature supreme, & institute multiparty proportional representation.
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-american...
In @liberalcurrents.com, I argue we need to reform the executive (limit it), make the legislature supreme, & institute multiparty proportional representation.
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-american...
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I lost my job, my kids have measles, and I was just detained by ICE for 10 days despite being a citizen carrying Real ID. But at least I know the Oberlin Student Senate won’t be doing land acknowledgements any more.
November 12, 2025 at 3:04 AM
I lost my job, my kids have measles, and I was just detained by ICE for 10 days despite being a citizen carrying Real ID. But at least I know the Oberlin Student Senate won’t be doing land acknowledgements any more.
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My discussion with David Pozen about his elucidating essay, with Jedediah Britton-Purdy, entitled: "What Are We Living Through? Three competing narratives of the second Trump administration." www.execfunctions.org/p/what-are-w...
What Are We Living Through?
Three ways to understand the Trump administration
www.execfunctions.org
November 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
My discussion with David Pozen about his elucidating essay, with Jedediah Britton-Purdy, entitled: "What Are We Living Through? Three competing narratives of the second Trump administration." www.execfunctions.org/p/what-are-w...
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"The fact that the American slave population kept growing even after repeated efforts to slow the spread, degradation, and lethality of the institution was a sign to all Americans of good conscience that a new constitutional approach was needed to address the scourge of slavery."
The American Conscience
Charles Sumner’s fight for equality.
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:30 PM
"The fact that the American slave population kept growing even after repeated efforts to slow the spread, degradation, and lethality of the institution was a sign to all Americans of good conscience that a new constitutional approach was needed to address the scourge of slavery."
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It's important to keep using very simple, plain language, so that everyone realizes the level of absolute authoritarian & anti-democratic nonsense that we put up with every day in our broken political system. This stuff doesn't happen in any other actual rich democracy that we view as a peer.
Remarkable that she lost over 10% of the term she was elected to serve for no legitimate reason. Absolutely should not be able to happen.
November 11, 2025 at 9:10 PM
It's important to keep using very simple, plain language, so that everyone realizes the level of absolute authoritarian & anti-democratic nonsense that we put up with every day in our broken political system. This stuff doesn't happen in any other actual rich democracy that we view as a peer.
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At least Dems got a ceremonial vote on the ACA subsidies in the senate so Susan Collins can vote against her party on that knowing it won’t pass but she’ll be able to run on another vote that allows her to pretend to be a moderate. The deal is an in-kind contribution to Collins.
November 11, 2025 at 1:52 AM
At least Dems got a ceremonial vote on the ACA subsidies in the senate so Susan Collins can vote against her party on that knowing it won’t pass but she’ll be able to run on another vote that allows her to pretend to be a moderate. The deal is an in-kind contribution to Collins.
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Half the Answer #48: Trent and Caitlin speak with Professor John Pfaff, author of "Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration—and How to Achieve Real Reform." They talk about prisons, militarized police, and ICE in today's political climate. www.liberalcurrents.com/half-the-ans...
Half the Answer #48: Prison Reform, Mass Incarceration, and the History of ICE
Trent and Caitlin speak with Professor John Pfaff, author of "Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration—and How to Achieve Real Reform." They talk about prisons, militarized police, and ICE in ...
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Half the Answer #48: Trent and Caitlin speak with Professor John Pfaff, author of "Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration—and How to Achieve Real Reform." They talk about prisons, militarized police, and ICE in today's political climate. www.liberalcurrents.com/half-the-ans...
This 👇🏽. Be bold.
81 years ago, FDR proposed a second Bill of Rights to guarantee every American the right to employment, healthcare, education, housing, and a living income. His words are as relevant now as they were then. Watch.
November 12, 2025 at 3:33 AM
This 👇🏽. Be bold.
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81 years ago, FDR proposed a second Bill of Rights to guarantee every American the right to employment, healthcare, education, housing, and a living income. His words are as relevant now as they were then. Watch.
November 12, 2025 at 2:31 AM
81 years ago, FDR proposed a second Bill of Rights to guarantee every American the right to employment, healthcare, education, housing, and a living income. His words are as relevant now as they were then. Watch.
I'm serious - the incomplete task of of Reconstruction laid the ground for insurgent racism and authoritarianism to rise again, despite the 20th century victories in Civil Rights.
We should not let a chance at radical democracy and equality pass when we get it again.
We should not let a chance at radical democracy and equality pass when we get it again.
November 12, 2025 at 3:31 AM
I'm serious - the incomplete task of of Reconstruction laid the ground for insurgent racism and authoritarianism to rise again, despite the 20th century victories in Civil Rights.
We should not let a chance at radical democracy and equality pass when we get it again.
We should not let a chance at radical democracy and equality pass when we get it again.
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Latest article for @liberalcurrents.com
is a review of @ztameez.bsky.social’s Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation (Holt, 2025), with some references to Sean M. Kelley’s American Slavers (Yale, 2024). www.liberalcurrents.com/the-american...
is a review of @ztameez.bsky.social’s Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation (Holt, 2025), with some references to Sean M. Kelley’s American Slavers (Yale, 2024). www.liberalcurrents.com/the-american...
The American Conscience
Charles Sumner’s fight for equality.
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Latest article for @liberalcurrents.com
is a review of @ztameez.bsky.social’s Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation (Holt, 2025), with some references to Sean M. Kelley’s American Slavers (Yale, 2024). www.liberalcurrents.com/the-american...
is a review of @ztameez.bsky.social’s Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation (Holt, 2025), with some references to Sean M. Kelley’s American Slavers (Yale, 2024). www.liberalcurrents.com/the-american...
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They have no healthcare plan. They only have a plan to take away what exists.
November 12, 2025 at 2:05 AM
They have no healthcare plan. They only have a plan to take away what exists.
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John Fetterman’s cognitive decline raises new questions about Joe Biden’s age.
November 12, 2025 at 2:11 AM
John Fetterman’s cognitive decline raises new questions about Joe Biden’s age.
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people bitch about woke media but if TOS was on today they would go to a thinly-veiled MAGA planet where the locals worshipped guns and then kirk would hit the orange dictator with a two-fisted karate chop before giving a lecture about how science is real and violence is bad
November 11, 2025 at 11:46 PM
people bitch about woke media but if TOS was on today they would go to a thinly-veiled MAGA planet where the locals worshipped guns and then kirk would hit the orange dictator with a two-fisted karate chop before giving a lecture about how science is real and violence is bad
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They’ve laid off so many people that the government is now getting its economic data from DoorDash.
November 12, 2025 at 1:09 AM
They’ve laid off so many people that the government is now getting its economic data from DoorDash.
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I guess on veteran’s day I’ll say that my great grandfather was shot down and killed during WWII fighting fascism. They never found his body. My grandmother was 10 and shattered and it led to generational trauma.
Anyone embracing fascism in this country needs to fix their hearts or die.
Anyone embracing fascism in this country needs to fix their hearts or die.
November 12, 2025 at 12:33 AM
I guess on veteran’s day I’ll say that my great grandfather was shot down and killed during WWII fighting fascism. They never found his body. My grandmother was 10 and shattered and it led to generational trauma.
Anyone embracing fascism in this country needs to fix their hearts or die.
Anyone embracing fascism in this country needs to fix their hearts or die.
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The first and last lines of Joni Ernst’s legacy as a human on earth will be that she was instrumental in the confirmation of the Sec of Defense most hostile to women serving in military, and she knew that when she voted for him.
November 12, 2025 at 12:55 AM
The first and last lines of Joni Ernst’s legacy as a human on earth will be that she was instrumental in the confirmation of the Sec of Defense most hostile to women serving in military, and she knew that when she voted for him.
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"It's time to turn the tables, stop weakly defending the whole idea of public health, and instead turn it into a rallying point for those resisting this administration." www.liberalcurrents.com/propaganda-r...
Propaganda, Rather than Pandemic Policies, Caused the War on Public Health
The backlash narrative ignores basic facts of the case.
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November 11, 2025 at 7:14 PM
"It's time to turn the tables, stop weakly defending the whole idea of public health, and instead turn it into a rallying point for those resisting this administration." www.liberalcurrents.com/propaganda-r...
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“What is new is the confluence of three trends:
The sheer scale of wealth for the richest.
The untethering of compensation from performance.
The amount of harm these figures are willing to inflict on society.
All three are rising to a dangerously high tide.
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
The sheer scale of wealth for the richest.
The untethering of compensation from performance.
The amount of harm these figures are willing to inflict on society.
All three are rising to a dangerously high tide.
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
Welcome to Tesla Capitalism
Or: JVL explains why Americans are toying with socialism.
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:02 PM
“What is new is the confluence of three trends:
The sheer scale of wealth for the richest.
The untethering of compensation from performance.
The amount of harm these figures are willing to inflict on society.
All three are rising to a dangerously high tide.
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
The sheer scale of wealth for the richest.
The untethering of compensation from performance.
The amount of harm these figures are willing to inflict on society.
All three are rising to a dangerously high tide.
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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We are headed toward martial law and the end of our democracy and I will never forgive the people in power who every step of the way told us it was all just fine and everything would work out swell as long as we kept pretending that nothing we have actually seen with our own two eyes was happening
November 10, 2025 at 9:25 PM
We are headed toward martial law and the end of our democracy and I will never forgive the people in power who every step of the way told us it was all just fine and everything would work out swell as long as we kept pretending that nothing we have actually seen with our own two eyes was happening
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made a video on the filibuster — its history and why it's bad — for my youtube channel. check it out!
What's the deal with the filibuster?
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:21 PM
made a video on the filibuster — its history and why it's bad — for my youtube channel. check it out!
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November 11, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM
instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."
So many who are in wheelchairs from age and service to their county. Thank you.
Trump doesn't like that.
Trump doesn't like that.
Ahead of Veterans Day, I was honored to welcome a flight of veterans and their families as they arrived in DC.
November 11, 2025 at 5:46 PM
So many who are in wheelchairs from age and service to their county. Thank you.
Trump doesn't like that.
Trump doesn't like that.
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White House officials say the boss is really stupid and you have to watch what you say to him
November 11, 2025 at 1:46 PM
White House officials say the boss is really stupid and you have to watch what you say to him