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“What seems like an intellectual exercise to a judge or law professor will ultimately mean that ‘somebody loses his freedom, his property, his children, even his life.’ We should not forget this, nor treat such things as purely intellectual exercises.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-totalita...

submitted 22 hours ago • 2 comments

one reason i wrote this essay was to counter this idea that there is a “sensible center.” i think the compromise position between the far right and the trans activists is not sensible, reasonable or ethical. “moderating” is an excuse, and a fallacious one www.liberalcurrents.com/showing-thei...

submitted 9 hours ago • 2 comments

This is excellent

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

In the end wasn't DOGE just the friends we made along the way

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

As I’ve said before, in order to build a mass deportation operation to root out 4% of the population you must first build a police state.

submitted 21 hours ago • 4 comments

This is interesting and is applicable in areas other than immigration. I think it hits virtually any area of social change, at least to an extent.

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

No it didn't. Just saying it doesn't make it true, and your general remarks strongly disincline me from believing you are in fact "all for trans rights"

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

courts to the US economy

submitted 14 hours ago • 8 comments

Will write something on this eventually but it's amazing to me how socially valuable good reporting is even though most audiences are completely uninterested in it Some stories do move mass opinion. But mostly reporting matters because one half of an adversarial system takes up the evidence

submitted 14 hours ago • 2 comments

DC Circuit steps in - kinda surprised that they overruled a summary judgement like this tbh! APPEALS COURT TEMPORARILY HALTS RULING AGAINST TRUMP TARIFFS FEDERAL CIRCUIT COURT SAYS IT NEEDS TIME TO CONSIDER FILINGS

submitted 14 hours ago • 9 comments

www.liberalcurrents.com/abandoning-t...

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

Fed Chair Powell met with Trump today. Official Fed statement: www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/p...

submitted 17 hours ago • 34 comments

The HHS is now telling medical centers to adhere to their latest sham report on transgender healthcare which literally says is not a treatment guideline. They’re sending this letter to hospitals in blue states and threatening them unless they stop trans care. amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/05/...

submitted 16 hours ago • 32 comments

As a Diaspora Jew, I would like to wish a very Fuck You to the Jerusalem post, the Israeli right, and Christian Zionists.

submitted 15 hours ago • 3 comments

If I had my way, we'd have open borders. And if I had my way, we'd have no restrictions on building housing save for building codes. In both cases, the near-universal status quo globally is very restrictive, especially in rich countries. Here I articulate why I think both are connected.

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

Heard this happened yesterday as well. It's completely unacceptable. By law, the courts are open to the public and the media.

submitted 18 hours ago • 56 comments

NEW: Judge extends block on Trump bid to boot out Harvard's foreign students. This after DHS basically issued Harvard a 30-day reprieve, while not conceding Noem erred by "immediately" revoking school's status last week. w/@kellygarrity3 @biancaquilan www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

submitted 16 hours ago • 7 comments

They're 100% "going there", probably within the year

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

Once again, it's not "doxxing" to report the name of a government employee.

submitted 18 hours ago • 399 comments

If you were wondering how DOJ civil rights investigations get started these days: www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

submitted 18 hours ago • 156 comments

"Trump’s intense focus on deporting immigrants has meant that American citizens are increasingly detained or questioned at the border. American citizens are being intimidated by unidentified federal agents knocking on their doors." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-totalita...

submitted 16 hours ago • 4 comments

Four years ago I read Chandran Kukathas' argument that immigration control ultimately relies on the surveillance and coercion of citizens. Soon after I read Joseph Heath's very minimal argument that in principle there ought to be a ceiling on immigration. I wanted to put the two in conversation

submitted 21 hours ago • 7 comments

ABOLISH ICEEEE

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"Unable to control their hypersensitivity, these fragile white folks respond to discomfiting knowledge with an ignorant and incoherent rage, lashing out in the hopes that bluster and aggression will be mistaken for the strength they lack." www.liberalcurrents.com/white-fragil...

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

Gallego is a moral coward and I’d tell him this to his face

submitted 17 hours ago • 20 comments

In addition to this being appalling from Sen. Gallego, the fact that the senior editor at The Dispatch frames it as coming from a "rising star" Dem and in opposition to "progressives" — as opposed to in opposition to virtually every elected Dem except Suozzi, Moulton, and Newsom — is trash.

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"Immigration laws are restrictions on what citizens are allowed to do." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-totalita...

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

A tripartisan verdict

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This sociopath destroyed countless lives and made life worse for millions of Americans, sneering at them as he indulged his narcissistic impulsivity. But now he has feelings. What are they and will he feel better soon? We asked in a six-part series. Today in the New York Times

submitted 18 hours ago • 101 comments

Tired: housing theory of everything Wired: anti-immigration politics theory of everything www.liberalcurrents.com/the-totalita...

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

Immigration control and the logic of the totalitarian state. "As Kukathas makes clear, a large and at best modestly accountable enforcement apparatus engaged in the surveillance, regulation, and intimidation of citizens is a logical necessity for immigration enforcement per se. It is the price.”

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

Whitmer: President Trump is going to save Michigan’s economy by destroying global trade and returning what was taken by foreigners, especially those conniving Asians and dark-skinned third worlders. Trump: I am proud to announce I’ve pardoned the Whitmer Kidnappers from The Plot to Kidnap Whitmer.

submitted 19 hours ago • 3 comments