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Catch up with the first three episodes of @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com's new "Liberalism 101" podcast series: www.liberalcurrents.com/neonliberali...
Neon Liberalism #47: Liberalism 101: Liberalism and Limited Government If you remember anything from high school civics, it's the phrases "separation of powers" and "checks and balances." That separation and those checks are under the greatest attack we've seen in our lifetimes. But why does that matter? How does it affect By Samantha Hancox-Li, Robert Black 11 Oct 2025 Neon Liberalism #46: Liberalism 101: Liberalism and Toleration Samantha and Lucian Staiano-Daniels, author of "The War People," discuss the connection between liberalism and toleration and the dark history of religious civil war. How did the European Wars of Religion give birth to our concept of toleration? And is this history enough reason today to embrace toleration? By Samantha Hancox-Li, Lucian Staiano-Daniels 05 Oct 2025 Neon Liberalism #45: Liberalism 101: Liberalism and Prosperity Samantha and fellow Liberal Currents editor Jason Briggeman discuss the economics of liberal democracy, starting from the basic question "why are all the rich countries liberal democracies?" Did liberal democracy cause the Industrial Revolution? What is the role of imperialism in the modern economy? And perhaps most importantly: By Samantha Hancox-Li, Jason Briggeman 27 Sep 2025
October 15, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Thank you, Blueskyists. 🫡 liberalcurrents.com #LC30k
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It's going to happen soon.
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August 31, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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[taps Substack Notes] is this thing on
Liberal Currents 6m We heard that some of your are interested in libbing out
August 20, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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August 1, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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June 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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"Wait, it's all Ohio?" meme: "Wait, it's all cuck?"
June 12, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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"Trumpist foreign policy is born out of a failure to understand the current global system. It desires to defend and expand American interests without having to pay attention to the meaningless liberal, feminine niceties of modern diplomacy." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-most-chi...
Post on Threads by Fox News: "'The president, frankly, is a lover of peace. This is a person that wants to stop wars and prevent wars and end wars.' —Marco Rubio, United States Secretary of State"
May 16, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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"He has called for the annexation and ethnic cleansing of Gaza, the seizure of Greenland, and re-claiming sovereignty over the Panama Canal zone. He demands the mineral wealth of Ukraine. He’s threatened to invade Canada." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-most-chi...
Post on Threads by Fox News: "Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks to Sean Hannity in an exclusive interview, explaining how President Trump wants to end wars and achieve peace throughout the world."
May 16, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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An excerpt, “we simply cannot go back. Nor should we want to.” www.liberalcurrents.com/why-we-need-...
The Big Three era was an anomaly in media history, a small window of time in which a handful of broadcasters held concentrated national audiences to themselves. Technologically, we simply cannot go back. Nor should we want to. Beyond those defects described above, there is something innately illiberal in the longing for the simplicity of the Big Three era. The very things that people miss about it—the potential for very broadly shared experiences produced by an extreme narrowness of options, providing a sense of thicker communal participation—are precisely what the communitarians and reactionaries wax poetic about when discussing their imagined pre-modern community, their gemeinschaft. So many words written and tears shed on behalf of the lost pre-modern way of life, so thicker with meaning, so purposeful compared to the hollow freedom of modern society (gesselschaft). If only we could go back, or if only we could approximate it. In the gemeinschaft, knowledge, morality, and purpose were all unified, they constituted the group. So too for the lost world of the Big Three, and of 20th century mass broadcasting around the world. Emerging out of the relatively more complex system of loosely connected but highly local and decentralized print media, it produced a far simpler, more united whole, resting on a scarcity of options and on the scarcity of time itself, the few slots into which to put what few programs were produced, and especially that coveted prime time slot. The moment that more choices were offered, the whole thing fell apart. The second we were able to, we left our simple pre-modern rural community and moved to the city, where scarcity of options is very much not the problem.
May 8, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Not sure about this answer, feels like Google AI is just libbing the currents
AI Overview The phrase "libbing the currents" is a bit of a playful take on the idea of "ad-libbing" or improvising. It suggests a creative and spontaneous approach, like a musical performance or a spoken word piece, where the ideas are being developed on the fly without a strict plan. The "currents" could be seen as the flow of ideas or the direction the improvisation takes.
April 18, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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April 13, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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“To state the obvious, granting clemency to cop-beating seditionists is incompatible with conservative claims to “back the blue.” It turns out that some conditions apply.” www.liberalcurrents.com/portland-is-...
As noted this week by the Wall Street Journal editorial board—hardly a bastion of anti-Trumpism—federal prosecutors were often lenient toward Capitol protesters, deciding not to prosecute hundreds of non-violent cases and ending many others with sentences short of imprisonment. Sampling just a few of the criminals who were imprisoned, the Journal highlights Trump supporters who deployed “an ‘electroshock weapon’ against a policeman,” “sprayed streams of Wasp and Hornet Killer spray at multiple police officers on four distinct occasions,” “punched two police officers in the head,” “hit a cop while wearing ‘reinforced brass knuckle gloves,’” and “brought a hockey stick with a TRUMP 2020 flag attached, which he swung ‘over his head and downward at police officers as if he were chopping wood.’” All were set free on Trump’s very first day back in office.
January 30, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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You know, we hit 6K followers only thirty-three hours ago
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December 10, 2024 at 10:30 PM
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One thousand followers to three thousand followers in seven weeks. It's great to have you all here.
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November 12, 2024 at 3:58 PM
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From the editors of Liberal Currents October 13, 2023 To be a liberal is to be for the party of humanity: For human rights and human dignity for all persons regardless of nation, color, or creed. Last Saturday, Hamas perpetrated a horrific attack on civilians, in violation of these universal rights. Hamas should immediately free its hostages without condition. The state of Israel has responded in horrifying fashion, indiscriminately attacking civilians. Any just path forward will begin from respect for the human dignity of all. Right now, this requires Israel to cease its indiscriminate attacks, end its inhumane blockade, and honor the laws of war.
October 13, 2023 at 4:23 PM
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A political philosophy for grownups.
A skeet from Liberal Currents that reads "Fess up that liberalism in the real world is an ethically thick and demanding way of life" and an accompanying link that amusingly has been tagged by Bluesky as "Adult Content."
August 8, 2023 at 5:03 PM
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Should we try this setting
Bluesky debug panel with "Shitskeeting mode" option
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