Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
@sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com
associate editor at liberal currents. neonliberal. she/her.
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They've also done studies where people have their emotions turned off and just operate on pure logic, and they can't make decisions to save their lives. We're creatures of both rationality and passion, all in a weird ass mess, and we got to stop putting gender all over it
regardless. the idea that rationality is male and feelings are female is... bullshit. for most of human history, *nobody* was out there doing objective science and impersonal law--nobody embracing free speech, free enquiry, free markets--but rather their opposites
December 23, 2025 at 12:31 PM
They've also done studies where people have their emotions turned off and just operate on pure logic, and they can't make decisions to save their lives. We're creatures of both rationality and passion, all in a weird ass mess, and we got to stop putting gender all over it
another banger from @jkuznicki.bsky.social about an unfortunately influential book
www.liberalcurrents.com/reviewer-jud...
www.liberalcurrents.com/reviewer-jud...
Reviewer Judge Words In Book: Bronze Age Mindset, reviewed
We can be more and better than conquerors and thieves.
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 23, 2025 at 12:24 PM
another banger from @jkuznicki.bsky.social about an unfortunately influential book
www.liberalcurrents.com/reviewer-jud...
www.liberalcurrents.com/reviewer-jud...
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“Homer didn’t want the future to look like Achilles and Agamemnon fighting over slave girls forever. He wanted it to look like Odysseus being tied to the mast, returning to Penelope, and managing his household in peace and fatherly cleverness. The Bronze Age was for boys—that’s Homer’s moral.”
“People say is racist book. Not wrong. They say is fascist book. Not wrong also.
They’ll say that the book is illiterate, but that’s where they’ll stumble. It’s not illiterate. It’s anti-literate.” www.liberalcurrents.com/reviewer-jud...
They’ll say that the book is illiterate, but that’s where they’ll stumble. It’s not illiterate. It’s anti-literate.” www.liberalcurrents.com/reviewer-jud...
Reviewer Judge Words In Book: Bronze Age Mindset, reviewed
We can be more and better than conquerors and thieves.
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 23, 2025 at 11:12 AM
“Homer didn’t want the future to look like Achilles and Agamemnon fighting over slave girls forever. He wanted it to look like Odysseus being tied to the mast, returning to Penelope, and managing his household in peace and fatherly cleverness. The Bronze Age was for boys—that’s Homer’s moral.”
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This is a fantastic review of an unfortunately significant piece of garbage.
“People say is racist book. Not wrong. They say is fascist book. Not wrong also.
They’ll say that the book is illiterate, but that’s where they’ll stumble. It’s not illiterate. It’s anti-literate.” www.liberalcurrents.com/reviewer-jud...
They’ll say that the book is illiterate, but that’s where they’ll stumble. It’s not illiterate. It’s anti-literate.” www.liberalcurrents.com/reviewer-jud...
Reviewer Judge Words In Book: Bronze Age Mindset, reviewed
We can be more and better than conquerors and thieves.
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 23, 2025 at 11:19 AM
This is a fantastic review of an unfortunately significant piece of garbage.
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The only thing you need to read on BAP, from @jkuznicki.bsky.social
“People say is racist book. Not wrong. They say is fascist book. Not wrong also.
They’ll say that the book is illiterate, but that’s where they’ll stumble. It’s not illiterate. It’s anti-literate.” www.liberalcurrents.com/reviewer-jud...
They’ll say that the book is illiterate, but that’s where they’ll stumble. It’s not illiterate. It’s anti-literate.” www.liberalcurrents.com/reviewer-jud...
Reviewer Judge Words In Book: Bronze Age Mindset, reviewed
We can be more and better than conquerors and thieves.
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 23, 2025 at 11:08 AM
The only thing you need to read on BAP, from @jkuznicki.bsky.social
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“People say is racist book. Not wrong. They say is fascist book. Not wrong also.
They’ll say that the book is illiterate, but that’s where they’ll stumble. It’s not illiterate. It’s anti-literate.” www.liberalcurrents.com/reviewer-jud...
They’ll say that the book is illiterate, but that’s where they’ll stumble. It’s not illiterate. It’s anti-literate.” www.liberalcurrents.com/reviewer-jud...
Reviewer Judge Words In Book: Bronze Age Mindset, reviewed
We can be more and better than conquerors and thieves.
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 23, 2025 at 11:05 AM
“People say is racist book. Not wrong. They say is fascist book. Not wrong also.
They’ll say that the book is illiterate, but that’s where they’ll stumble. It’s not illiterate. It’s anti-literate.” www.liberalcurrents.com/reviewer-jud...
They’ll say that the book is illiterate, but that’s where they’ll stumble. It’s not illiterate. It’s anti-literate.” www.liberalcurrents.com/reviewer-jud...
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here's a hot for Bluesky take: a lot of tech-criticism is so bad and focused on a kind of stupid imagined STEM-humanities culture war that some companies have been able to build whole brands around being "evil tech bros 😈" making supervillain promises despite their shit being vaporware
December 23, 2025 at 8:17 AM
here's a hot for Bluesky take: a lot of tech-criticism is so bad and focused on a kind of stupid imagined STEM-humanities culture war that some companies have been able to build whole brands around being "evil tech bros 😈" making supervillain promises despite their shit being vaporware
it's easy to dunk on conservatives like helen andrews for being morons. in this piece i wanted to go a bit deeper. the great feminization is happening and it is world-historically weird. why is that?
www.theunpopulist.net/p/no-sweethe...
www.theunpopulist.net/p/no-sweethe...
No Sweetheart, Favoritism Isn't Driving ‘The Great Feminization’, Modernity Is
And it’s a good thing for women and the world, contrary to claims of the neo-right’s new darling
www.theunpopulist.net
December 23, 2025 at 12:21 PM
it's easy to dunk on conservatives like helen andrews for being morons. in this piece i wanted to go a bit deeper. the great feminization is happening and it is world-historically weird. why is that?
www.theunpopulist.net/p/no-sweethe...
www.theunpopulist.net/p/no-sweethe...
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oh snap, @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com also just wrote a 'great feminisation' article @theunpopulist.net
i particularly liked this point
www.theunpopulist.net/p/no-sweethe...
i particularly liked this point
www.theunpopulist.net/p/no-sweethe...
December 23, 2025 at 10:53 AM
oh snap, @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com also just wrote a 'great feminisation' article @theunpopulist.net
i particularly liked this point
www.theunpopulist.net/p/no-sweethe...
i particularly liked this point
www.theunpopulist.net/p/no-sweethe...
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The comments on this video on TikTok are so interesting to me because it is a lot of people saying that we can’t do this because what if Republicans try it to or what if Republicans reverse it. “We have to change the court the traditional way.”
did a video a few days ago making the case for supreme court expansion www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjB_...
Why Democrats need to expand the Supreme Court
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
www.youtube.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:51 AM
The comments on this video on TikTok are so interesting to me because it is a lot of people saying that we can’t do this because what if Republicans try it to or what if Republicans reverse it. “We have to change the court the traditional way.”
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i feel like this from roosevelt's 1942 state of the union address still works as a mantra today for our fight
December 23, 2025 at 3:48 AM
i feel like this from roosevelt's 1942 state of the union address still works as a mantra today for our fight
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This, by @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com, is so good.
No Sweetheart, Favoritism Isn't Driving ‘The Great Feminization’, Modernity Is
And it’s a good thing for women and the world, contrary to claims of the neo-right’s new darling
open.substack.com
December 23, 2025 at 3:11 AM
This, by @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com, is so good.
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>THE CONSTITUTION IS NOT A PARCHMENT GUARANTEE_
December 23, 2025 at 3:05 AM
>THE CONSTITUTION IS NOT A PARCHMENT GUARANTEE_
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For all of Hitler's contempt for intellectuals, educated middle-class Germans loved him. Science academia was pro-Nazi (English speakers are only exposed to the Jewish emigrants) and humanities academia was as well (e.g. Heidegger). People should not be retrojecting modern edpol to the 1930s.
Ernst Röhm, Heinrich Himmler, and Josef Goebbels were all Gymnasium graduates who spoke Latin and Greek. Goebbels had a PhD in literature and wrote novels. Many extremely popular modern novelists are also massive nazis, including one who titled one of his books "my struggle".
I am beginning to develop a suspicion of national decline based in elevating STEM nerds to dangerously high social positions, because their tendency to believe that "anything that cannot be properly measured should not be argued for" is being more revealed by the day as an inherently reactionary one
December 23, 2025 at 2:50 AM
For all of Hitler's contempt for intellectuals, educated middle-class Germans loved him. Science academia was pro-Nazi (English speakers are only exposed to the Jewish emigrants) and humanities academia was as well (e.g. Heidegger). People should not be retrojecting modern edpol to the 1930s.
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If there's a single comparable scenario in American history, it's Herbert Hoover
December 23, 2025 at 2:31 AM
If there's a single comparable scenario in American history, it's Herbert Hoover
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these are the kind of numbers that, *at the end of a president's term*, herald a total wipeout for his party in the next election.
we are in december of year one.
we are in december of year one.
![Gallup poll | 12/1-12/15
President Trump approval crosstabs (%)
🟥Overall (59/36 disapprove) [-23]
🟥Democratic (93/3 disapprove) [-90]
🟩Republican (89/8 approve) [+81]
🟥Independent (68/25 disapprove) [-43]
🟥18-34 (68/25 disapprove) [-43]
🟥35-54 (59/36 disapprove) [-23]
🟥55+ (53/43 disapprove) [-10]
🟥No college (55/37 disapprove) [-18]
🟥College graduate (59/37 disapprove) [-22]
🟥Male (53/42 disapprove) [-11]
🟥Female (64/30 disapprove) [-34]
🟥White (52/46 disapprove) [-6]
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December 23, 2025 at 2:26 AM
these are the kind of numbers that, *at the end of a president's term*, herald a total wipeout for his party in the next election.
we are in december of year one.
we are in december of year one.
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this is not a defense. "actually, it's a good technology, it just required the death of one third of all living germans to work out the bugs" is the type of thing an insane person says
December 23, 2025 at 1:46 AM
this is not a defense. "actually, it's a good technology, it just required the death of one third of all living germans to work out the bugs" is the type of thing an insane person says
yeah the cross-subsidy model of IZ turns out--as goddamn bertaud pointed out very clearly--to depend on market rents inflated by artificial scarcity
It's also *good* that market-rate rates are low enough that many people who could live in dedicated affordable housing are able to choose superior market-rate units instead. Kind of a YIMBY success story. But the marginal affordable housing tenant turned out to be subsidizing a lot!
December 23, 2025 at 1:43 AM
yeah the cross-subsidy model of IZ turns out--as goddamn bertaud pointed out very clearly--to depend on market rents inflated by artificial scarcity
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average New Yorker: Of course I miss Uncle Steve. But he loved this city. He wouldn't want us to give up who we are.
average Dirtviller: We need another 50 Army surplus armored Humvees for state DHS or the terrorists will win.
average Dirtviller: We need another 50 Army surplus armored Humvees for state DHS or the terrorists will win.
December 23, 2025 at 12:41 AM
average New Yorker: Of course I miss Uncle Steve. But he loved this city. He wouldn't want us to give up who we are.
average Dirtviller: We need another 50 Army surplus armored Humvees for state DHS or the terrorists will win.
average Dirtviller: We need another 50 Army surplus armored Humvees for state DHS or the terrorists will win.
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It is weird how 9/11 fucked up Dirtville, Alabama more than New York, which actually got attacked.
December 23, 2025 at 12:39 AM
It is weird how 9/11 fucked up Dirtville, Alabama more than New York, which actually got attacked.
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bari weiss saw this and decided that she had to hide it from the american public
Guards began beating him. Beat him until he bled. Knocked his face into the wall, broke all his teeth. No access to outdoors, no contact with relatives.
Now describing US knowledge of CECOT's torture practices, followed by footage of Trump praising those practices.
Now describing US knowledge of CECOT's torture practices, followed by footage of Trump praising those practices.
December 22, 2025 at 10:53 PM
bari weiss saw this and decided that she had to hide it from the american public
"The future Trump-class battleship – the USS Defiant – will be the largest, deadliest and most versatile and best-looking warship anywhere on the world’s oceans,”
losing my fucking mind
news.usni.org/2025/12/22/t...
losing my fucking mind
news.usni.org/2025/12/22/t...
Trump Battleship Will be Largest Surface Combatant Since WWII - USNI News
The centerpiece of the Trump administration’s revamp of the U.S. Navy is the largest surface combatant America will build since World War II. The U.S. Navy will buy two new “battleships” as part of th...
news.usni.org
December 23, 2025 at 1:16 AM
"The future Trump-class battleship – the USS Defiant – will be the largest, deadliest and most versatile and best-looking warship anywhere on the world’s oceans,”
losing my fucking mind
news.usni.org/2025/12/22/t...
losing my fucking mind
news.usni.org/2025/12/22/t...
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Also, European voters keep coming very close to electing “kill all the $slurs race war now” parties and so Americans pretending that that’s normal or that they are somehow Wise and not at all TurboReactionary is insane. The AFD is the 2nd largest party in the Bundestag!
as far as I can tell, the only piece of evidence that "Democrats would be center-right in Europe" is that Democrats mostly don't want to nationalize big chunks of the economy and there are some countries in Europe where major parties on the left still at least pretend to want it
December 22, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Also, European voters keep coming very close to electing “kill all the $slurs race war now” parties and so Americans pretending that that’s normal or that they are somehow Wise and not at all TurboReactionary is insane. The AFD is the 2nd largest party in the Bundestag!
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i’ll just say that this isn’t the behavior of people who think their allies are on the verge of establishing a thousand year reich, much less holding control of the national legislature next year
December 22, 2025 at 11:02 PM
i’ll just say that this isn’t the behavior of people who think their allies are on the verge of establishing a thousand year reich, much less holding control of the national legislature next year
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The 60 minutes segment Bari Weiss killed is here: www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
December 23, 2025 at 12:31 AM
The 60 minutes segment Bari Weiss killed is here: www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...