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The problem with the Supreme Court supermajority is not just one of ideology or politics, but of epistemology. The world as they understand it bears little resemblance to reality www.liberalcurrents.com/the-supreme-...
The Supreme Court Lives in Fox News' America
A Court that does not share a common factual world with the people it governs is untethered from democratic reality.
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February 9, 2026 at 4:01 PM
The problem with the Supreme Court supermajority is not just one of ideology or politics, but of epistemology. The world as they understand it bears little resemblance to reality www.liberalcurrents.com/the-supreme-...
The problem with the Supreme Court supermajority is not just one of ideology or politics, but of epistemology. The world as they understand it bears little resemblance to reality www.liberalcurrents.com/the-supreme-...
The Supreme Court Lives in Fox News' America
A Court that does not share a common factual world with the people it governs is untethered from democratic reality.
www.liberalcurrents.com
February 9, 2026 at 4:01 PM
The problem with the Supreme Court supermajority is not just one of ideology or politics, but of epistemology. The world as they understand it bears little resemblance to reality www.liberalcurrents.com/the-supreme-...
“The danger is not confined to any one doctrine or term. It lies in the normalization of a judiciary that no longer sees, hears, or understands the country as it actually exists—and therefore cannot meaningfully claim to judge it” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-supreme-...
The Supreme Court Lives in Fox News' America
A Court that does not share a common factual world with the people it governs is untethered from democratic reality.
www.liberalcurrents.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:27 PM
“The danger is not confined to any one doctrine or term. It lies in the normalization of a judiciary that no longer sees, hears, or understands the country as it actually exists—and therefore cannot meaningfully claim to judge it” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-supreme-...
"What most distinguishes the present Supreme Court is not merely its conservatism, or even its willingness to roll back settled rights. It is the degree to which the conservative majority appears severed from shared facts altogether. This is not accidental." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-supreme-...
The Supreme Court Lives in Fox News' America
A Court that does not share a common factual world with the people it governs is untethered from democratic reality.
www.liberalcurrents.com
February 9, 2026 at 12:50 PM
"What most distinguishes the present Supreme Court is not merely its conservatism, or even its willingness to roll back settled rights. It is the degree to which the conservative majority appears severed from shared facts altogether. This is not accidental." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-supreme-...
“Fox constructs a version of reality in which none of the most damning facts exist, leaving its audience unable to evaluate power as it is actually exercised. This epistemic divide now plainly extends to the Supreme Court.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-supreme-...
The Supreme Court Lives in Fox News' America
A Court that does not share a common factual world with the people it governs is untethered from democratic reality.
www.liberalcurrents.com
February 9, 2026 at 11:06 AM
“Fox constructs a version of reality in which none of the most damning facts exist, leaving its audience unable to evaluate power as it is actually exercised. This epistemic divide now plainly extends to the Supreme Court.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-supreme-...
The changes of our times go beyond Trump or Brexit or any particular figure or national event. Nor is ours a time of reduced support for liberalism. Instead, writes @polphilpod.bsky.social, the center-right worldwide is collapsing into fascism, while liberals consolidate the opposing political bloc.
Liberalism Did Not Fail, Conservatism Did
We are moving from an ideologically multipolar world, to a bipolar one.
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February 8, 2026 at 9:46 PM
The changes of our times go beyond Trump or Brexit or any particular figure or national event. Nor is ours a time of reduced support for liberalism. Instead, writes @polphilpod.bsky.social, the center-right worldwide is collapsing into fascism, while liberals consolidate the opposing political bloc.
"As a general rule, whenever Bronze Age Mindset drops a name or an event without much context, you’ll make a good guess if you say that it’s Nazi or white supremacist." www.liberalcurrents.com/reviewer-jud...
Reviewer Judge Words in Book: Bronze Age Mindset, Reviewed
We can be more and better than conquerors and thieves.
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February 8, 2026 at 8:37 PM
"As a general rule, whenever Bronze Age Mindset drops a name or an event without much context, you’ll make a good guess if you say that it’s Nazi or white supremacist." www.liberalcurrents.com/reviewer-jud...
“When our country grew tired of the broken people it called heroes, they went to Alex Pretti at the VA. He found them on their worst day and asked them, “are you okay?”” www.liberalcurrents.com/he-served-th...
He Served Those Who Served: Portrait of a Man Named Pretti
It’s better to not know heroes exist than to find out they did only after they’re gone.
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February 8, 2026 at 5:40 PM
“When our country grew tired of the broken people it called heroes, they went to Alex Pretti at the VA. He found them on their worst day and asked them, “are you okay?”” www.liberalcurrents.com/he-served-th...
Our theory of victory is emphatically NOT one involving “a tent big enough for bigots but too small for critical race theorists,” to quote @victorerikray.bsky.social www.liberalcurrents.com/a-tent-big-e...
A Tent Big Enough for Bigots but Too Small for Critical Race Theory
Like so many of critical race theory's detractors, Matthew Yglesias fails to engage with the actual scholarship.
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February 8, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Our theory of victory is emphatically NOT one involving “a tent big enough for bigots but too small for critical race theorists,” to quote @victorerikray.bsky.social www.liberalcurrents.com/a-tent-big-e...
For the Sunday morning crowd 👇 🧵
This week in Liberal Currents:
We began with the tenth issue of The Opposition Report and the second written by @chancephillips.bsky.social. An excellent overview of January's events, available to our paid subscribers www.liberalcurrents.com/the-oppositi...
We began with the tenth issue of The Opposition Report and the second written by @chancephillips.bsky.social. An excellent overview of January's events, available to our paid subscribers www.liberalcurrents.com/the-oppositi...
The Opposition Report #10
The occupation of Minneapolis, imperialism, MAHA, and more.
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February 8, 2026 at 1:16 PM
For the Sunday morning crowd 👇 🧵
This week in Liberal Currents:
We began with the tenth issue of The Opposition Report and the second written by @chancephillips.bsky.social. An excellent overview of January's events, available to our paid subscribers www.liberalcurrents.com/the-oppositi...
We began with the tenth issue of The Opposition Report and the second written by @chancephillips.bsky.social. An excellent overview of January's events, available to our paid subscribers www.liberalcurrents.com/the-oppositi...
The Opposition Report #10
The occupation of Minneapolis, imperialism, MAHA, and more.
www.liberalcurrents.com
February 7, 2026 at 7:12 PM
This week in Liberal Currents:
We began with the tenth issue of The Opposition Report and the second written by @chancephillips.bsky.social. An excellent overview of January's events, available to our paid subscribers www.liberalcurrents.com/the-oppositi...
We began with the tenth issue of The Opposition Report and the second written by @chancephillips.bsky.social. An excellent overview of January's events, available to our paid subscribers www.liberalcurrents.com/the-oppositi...
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Free speech ain’t bean bag, in short. Every step of the way, and even after the ratification of the First Amendment, we’ve had to be confrontational in its preservation. A quiet, collegial speech alone cannot preserve itself.
Speech That Plays It Safe Does Not Remain Free for Long
Fierce disputation and colorful variety are often a sign of a society in good health, not terminal decline.
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February 7, 2026 at 3:31 PM
Free speech ain’t bean bag, in short. Every step of the way, and even after the ratification of the First Amendment, we’ve had to be confrontational in its preservation. A quiet, collegial speech alone cannot preserve itself.
“There is nothing about this view of free speech that suggests that a quiet and passive discussion of ideas in the safety of one’s home or on the quiet sidelines of society is the ideal mode of expression in a democratic society.”
Speech That Plays It Safe Does Not Remain Free for Long
Fierce disputation and colorful variety are often a sign of a society in good health, not terminal decline.
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February 7, 2026 at 3:27 PM
“There is nothing about this view of free speech that suggests that a quiet and passive discussion of ideas in the safety of one’s home or on the quiet sidelines of society is the ideal mode of expression in a democratic society.”
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If you don't already support @liberalcurrents.com with your attention and, if possible, with your $, I'd invite you to join me in doing so. Our media landscape is a howling wilderness with very few big outlets that understand the stakes and make them clear to their audience. Liberal Currents does.
February 7, 2026 at 2:52 PM
If you don't already support @liberalcurrents.com with your attention and, if possible, with your $, I'd invite you to join me in doing so. Our media landscape is a howling wilderness with very few big outlets that understand the stakes and make them clear to their audience. Liberal Currents does.
“Fierce disputation and colorful variety are often a sign of good health, not terminal decline. It is rather the silence of public censorship and the monotone dullness of an artificial homogenization that announces the death throes of the body politic.”
Speech That Plays It Safe Does Not Remain Free for Long
Fierce disputation and colorful variety are often a sign of a society in good health, not terminal decline.
www.liberalcurrents.com
February 7, 2026 at 11:00 AM
“Fierce disputation and colorful variety are often a sign of good health, not terminal decline. It is rather the silence of public censorship and the monotone dullness of an artificial homogenization that announces the death throes of the body politic.”
"In order to try to make sure that Haiti failed as a country, people criticized him as a person." www.liberalcurrents.com/desallines-a...
Dessalines: A Maligned Hero Gets His Due
Dessalines was a man of action more than ideas, but his actions helped bring revolutionary ideas into existence, along with a wide range of revolutionary thought around the world, inspired by Haiti’s ...
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February 7, 2026 at 1:45 AM
"In order to try to make sure that Haiti failed as a country, people criticized him as a person." www.liberalcurrents.com/desallines-a...
"Today’s fight over disparate impact reveals how far today’s Republican party—and cheerleaders like the Washington Post Editorial Board—have strayed from the civil rights consensus that characterized much of the past half century." www.liberalcurrents.com/promoting-a-...
Promoting a New Segregation
The Trump administration wants to make anti-Black racism great again.
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February 6, 2026 at 11:32 PM
"Today’s fight over disparate impact reveals how far today’s Republican party—and cheerleaders like the Washington Post Editorial Board—have strayed from the civil rights consensus that characterized much of the past half century." www.liberalcurrents.com/promoting-a-...
"They were like, OK, so Donnie, we're going to let you fire basically anyone you want except the Fed. Don't mess with the Fed. And like a 5 year old child being told not to touch the stove, Trump was like, well, obviously I'm going to mess with the Fed." www.liberalcurrents.com/half-the-ans...
Half the Answer #63: SCOTUS, the Fourth Amendment, and the Resistance
Trent and Caitlin talk to Chris Geidner of Law Dork about the absolute deluge of legal news that seems to be crashing over us like a tsunami. What are the current assaults on our constitutional rights...
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February 6, 2026 at 10:43 PM
"They were like, OK, so Donnie, we're going to let you fire basically anyone you want except the Fed. Don't mess with the Fed. And like a 5 year old child being told not to touch the stove, Trump was like, well, obviously I'm going to mess with the Fed." www.liberalcurrents.com/half-the-ans...
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If you did not read Audrey Lee's dispatch from the Portland ICE facility protests yet, I highly recommend it www.liberalcurrents.com/what-its-rea...
February 6, 2026 at 8:50 PM
If you did not read Audrey Lee's dispatch from the Portland ICE facility protests yet, I highly recommend it www.liberalcurrents.com/what-its-rea...
"Elections are the people, speaking. Even if Trump decides he wishes to run for an unconstitutional third term—even if he attempts to rig the election—even if his cronies on the Supreme Court say this is all acceptable—elections have a power all their own in the American consciousness."
From Powerlessness to Power
We will not achieve any of our ultimate goals without exercising state power, and the most effective way to take state power is through nonviolent but confrontational resistance.
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February 6, 2026 at 8:33 PM
"Elections are the people, speaking. Even if Trump decides he wishes to run for an unconstitutional third term—even if he attempts to rig the election—even if his cronies on the Supreme Court say this is all acceptable—elections have a power all their own in the American consciousness."
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Michael Knowles and the other Daily Wire chuds play act at being celebrities because it’s the thing they actually crave
“You can sense, particularly from characters like Knowles, a cloying desperation to be seen as important, shiny media figures in their own right. They want the glow of stardom, and they hate the people who have it.” www.liberalcurrents.com/none-more-wo...
None More Wonderful Than Man: Art, Artists, and MAGA’s Hollow View of Humanity
MAGA sees art as nothing more than a tool of self-aggrandizement, and artists as less than human.
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February 6, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Michael Knowles and the other Daily Wire chuds play act at being celebrities because it’s the thing they actually crave
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It’s true! @liberalcurrents.com and @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social and I can attest to this!
February 6, 2026 at 6:12 PM
It’s true! @liberalcurrents.com and @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social and I can attest to this!
Bezos gutted the staff of the Washington Post within days of the theatrical premiere of his $75 million bribe to the Trump Family. Samuel Freedman argues that it's time to spin up a nonprofit news organization in DC on the model of the Baltimore Banner www.liberalcurrents.com/the-washingt...
The Washington Post and the Limits of Mourning
It is time to move from grief to revival.
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February 6, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Bezos gutted the staff of the Washington Post within days of the theatrical premiere of his $75 million bribe to the Trump Family. Samuel Freedman argues that it's time to spin up a nonprofit news organization in DC on the model of the Baltimore Banner www.liberalcurrents.com/the-washingt...
The myth that the Bolsheviks seized power through violent insurrection colors the imagination of too many on the left today. As @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com argues, the history is quite the opposite.
To win, we need the power of the state, and violent insurrection is not the path to obtain it.
To win, we need the power of the state, and violent insurrection is not the path to obtain it.
From Powerlessness to Power
We will not achieve any of our ultimate goals without exercising state power, and the most effective way to take state power is through nonviolent but confrontational resistance.
www.liberalcurrents.com
February 6, 2026 at 4:21 PM
The myth that the Bolsheviks seized power through violent insurrection colors the imagination of too many on the left today. As @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com argues, the history is quite the opposite.
To win, we need the power of the state, and violent insurrection is not the path to obtain it.
To win, we need the power of the state, and violent insurrection is not the path to obtain it.
"The interplay that Judaism establishes between grieving and reviving offers an urgent lesson for American journalism in the wake of the latest demolition of the Washington Post by Jeff Bezos and his masthead full of hit men." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-washingt...
The Washington Post and the Limits of Mourning
It is time to move from grief to revival.
www.liberalcurrents.com
February 6, 2026 at 4:03 PM
"The interplay that Judaism establishes between grieving and reviving offers an urgent lesson for American journalism in the wake of the latest demolition of the Washington Post by Jeff Bezos and his masthead full of hit men." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-washingt...