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“Puberty in particular is a time when endogenous hormones will create marked and in many ways irreversible changes in your body. To know that your body is being warped, day by day, by these chemicals—to know that you are becoming, day by day, less yourself—is a horrific experience.”

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“There is another story, one where the Manchester Liberals—liberal radicals—formed the core of an international left-wing movement driven by concern for the hungry, the vulnerable, and the powerless, and by resentment against the unearned rents and privileges of the rich and powerful.”

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“We have no Supreme Court. We have six Republicans in black robes, a second legislature with pretensions to grandeur, legislating from the bench without even doing us the courtesy of honesty in their malfeasance.” www.liberalcurrents.com/we-have-no-s...

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“In the current system the parties at the Court can never talk honestly or directly about the principles at stake. No good faith discussion is possible under the current regime of relentless and partisan dishonesty.” www.liberalcurrents.com/we-have-no-s...

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“The UET became particularly attractive as a legal argument to rein in the sprawling civil rights bureaucracy created by the Great Society.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-unitary-...

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Two new podcasts—NEW PODS—today. Head to the homepage or sign up for the free emails that link you when this happens: www.liberalcurrents.com#/portal/signup

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Half the Answer #18: Trent and Caitlin talk to Clay Jackson, a former litigator and current licensed attorney in Texas, about the death penalty in the US. They discuss its history, assess justifications of its practice, and highlight stories of some Texas men who are wrongfully convicted.

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Neon Liberalism #31: The reactionary right is in ascendance in the Trump administration. It's easy to dismiss them as a cabal of incoherent fools scrambling for Trump's ear—but there is a deeper philosophy animating their political project. Samantha is joined by political theorist Matt McManus.

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“The ideas underpinning the UET—the power to fire bureaucrats who disagreed with the president’s policy agenda—provided a persuasive constitutional argument to utilize in bending the civil rights bureaucracy to Reagan’s will.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-unitary-...

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"Even when a term has been captured, this doesn’t need to be the end of the story. Instead, we can take a page from strategies of appropriation and collective creativity that marginalized groups have long engaged in." www.liberalcurrents.com/when-words-a...

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“When DOGE frames grant cuts and the firing of people perceived to be hired for DEI considerations, as promoting “merit,” this has immediate costs.“ www.liberalcurrents.com/when-words-a...

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genuinely think this is one of the more important conversations i had on neonliberalism. something has genuinely gone wrong in the world trade system, and it does need fixing--contra what the standard defenders of the neoliberal order will tell you. great talk with @interfluidity.com here:

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“These days, however, merit is repeatedly contrasted with DEI, which at one point stood for diversity, equity, and inclusion but is increasingly a rightwing bogey. This sets up the fallacious inference that anyone other than white men don’t really deserve their jobs.”

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“The Court has aggrandized its own power as well as that of the president. And the end result is that it is Article II, rather than the Bill of Rights, that has become a suicide pact.” www.liberalcurrents.com/article-ii-a...

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"Rome’s empire would not collapse until the 5th century A.D., but the death of the republic was much nearer than Scipio Aemilianus might have thought." www.liberalcurrents.com/inherent-vic...

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“The specific rights that are named as too dangerous differ slightly, but the ones most commonly named just so happen to be the rights most viciously attacked by the extreme right. They are women’s sports, transgender children, and medical transition for prisoners.”

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“Rogers thinks we should “consider same-sex marriage no more than a tactical truce” which has “already borne unforeseen costs.” Despite the aforementioned polls, Rogers still insists there is an ”intensely felt need and desire to return to the traditional” on these matters.”

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“Every day, this administration is doing massive damage to the sources of American power and sawing an ever-larger gash into the American-led system of alliances and trade that has given us the most peaceful and prosperous period in human history.” www.liberalcurrents.com/how-to-preve...

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"Trump’s imperialism is staggering in its clumsiness." (from May) www.liberalcurrents.com/the-most-chi...

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"There is synergy here if we are brave enough to see it, not an 'everything bagel,' but a centripetal solidarity against a ruling class clutching their ill-gotten rents and hoarding power." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-centripe...

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"All of this radical energy might have overshadowed Roosevelt and left him vulnerable to a challenge on the left. Instead, he co-opted and folded those forces into his political program." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-history-...

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"The preponderance of evidence suggests that kids are not being given puberty blockers too often, too early, or too easily." www.liberalcurrents.com/showing-thei...

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"Congress shrugged off more and more of its responsibilities, delegating the burden of making hard choices to presidential discretion. This worked for a while... and now a lawless president is grasping at every lever of power in a search for absolute personal control."

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"Jennings describes the return of Donald Trump to the White House as 'a revolution of common sense.' It’s a ludicrous description of the Trumpian project of revanchism, grievance, and paranoia." www.liberalcurrents.com/scott-jennin...

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"Mainline liberalism has been pushed out of the conversation, and we need to push our way back in." www.liberalcurrents.com/no-kings-sho...

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“Vaccine hesitancy is the highest it has been in generations. A nontrivial number of conservatives believe that the Democratic Party is tied to child trafficking. And in a year in which unemployment was low, pay was good, and savings were up, perception of the economy was abysmal.”

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"It remains a model of how moral clarity, critical insight, institutional creativity, and attentiveness to social science can come together in the service of freedom, compassion, and social progress." www.liberalcurrents.com/in-defense-o...

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"Reactionary centrists in the press have not learnt anything. Pressure will have to continue to be applied. Even in giving more coverage to authoritarian actions, they couldn’t help themselves in drawing false equivalences." www.liberalcurrents.com/no-kings-sho...

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"There is a group of people who consider themselves to be feminists, and who feel they have located the reason why this attack on reproductive rights has been successful: cultural acceptance of trans, nonbinary, agender, and gender-nonconforming identities." (from 2022)

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"A Nativist America is not an Abundant America and certainly not a prosperous one." www.liberalcurrents.com/is-abundance...

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"Unable to capture major cities like Zaporizhzhia or hold cities across the Dnipro like Kherson, Russia seems to be using the threat of escalation to demand the handover of territory they have been unable to capture by conventional military means." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-coming-n...

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"Philosophical conservatism is, in part, a defense of dispositional conservatism at a higher level—offering 'reasons' for why it's okay that the dispositional conservative doesn’t have or need reasons." www.liberalcurrents.com/selective-ac...

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"Radical feminism was in part a critique of the prevailing feminists of the day." www.liberalcurrents.com/neonliberali...

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"A decade into Trump’s capture of the Republican Party, Jennings is the premier crossover enabler." www.liberalcurrents.com/scott-jennin...

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"Many of these measures have been motivated by scientific misinformation propagated and funded by American right-wing think-tanks like Alliance Defending Freedom and the Heritage Foundation." (from January) www.liberalcurrents.com/misagainst-t...

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"We can safely take Mearsheimer as a prime example of realism in American international relations discourse today and see if the current Republican ticket lives up to it." (from March) www.liberalcurrents.com/the-current-...

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

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"Liberals prior to Trump became complacent. We somehow, preposterously, took the media ‘both sides’ shtick at its word. Yes, there were some false equivalences, but we’d always be guaranteed our spot. We weren’t." www.liberalcurrents.com/no-kings-sho...

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Important points here by @jamellebouie.net: "to harden the border and more tightly police immigration — to remove as many unauthorized people as possible — is to necessarily subject American citizens to the scrutiny and violence of the state." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/o...

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"Forcing trans people to wait until they are eighteen to begin medical transition functions to mark us out as different not just symbolically but physically. And of course these physical results are constantly used to justify precisely this treatment." (from 2024)

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"This and many other historically documented examples of executive branch officials playing fast-and-loose with the truth is why giving the benefit of the doubt to government officials and their declarations is a practice that needs to go the way of the dinosaurs."

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"People like the idea of being ‘tough on immigration’ in theory, but when you can confront them with the reality of what that entails, many quickly lose their stomach for it." www.liberalcurrents.com/no-kings-sho...

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“This is, of course, the kind of logic you see with Holocaust denial and other saying-it-but-not-quite-saying it rhetorical games.” www.liberalcurrents.com/why-we-need-...

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“There is no possibility of a positive-sum negotiation between two parties if the goal of one is the destruction of the other.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-illibera...

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“Jennings is a representation of our own malady, a projection of a country whose political culture is now ten years into the terminal illness of Trumpism. His segments play out like a reality show version of toxic, both sides infotainment.” www.liberalcurrents.com/scott-jennin...

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“It was darkly funny to me when I noticed Hegseth banned Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility: Why it’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, because the ban so neatly confirms DiAngelo’s straightforward thesis.” www.liberalcurrents.com/white-fragil...

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“We were explicit that we were a land of free and equal citizens... while remaining in many ways a de facto white man's republic. Now that contradiction has come to a head, most visibly at the border, and the border itself has spread into every corner of our country and swallowed our rule of law.”

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“Contra handwringing that democrats should stay away from immigration, the focus on the issue has led to a sharp drop in the public’s approval of Trump’s handling of it.” www.liberalcurrents.com/no-kings-sho...

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“The true battle being fought, in the US and elsewhere, is not left versus right but nihilism versus universalism. Trump and his ilk of populist nationalists do not believe in universal principles, the rule of law or human rights.” www.liberalcurrents.com/universalism...

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“Many of these actions are reminiscent of the ways Viktor Orban, Vladimir Putin, Reccep Tayip Erdogan, and myriad other aspiring tyrants consolidated their power.” www.liberalcurrents.com/how-to-preve...

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