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“This inversion totally distorts King’s argument, transforming an anti-racist critique into a justification for dismantling racial equity efforts.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-governme...

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Elon Musk bragged about working the weekend, so Liberal Currents started doing weekend articles that are all criticisms of Elon Musk

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As some of the gains brought about by the Civil Rights Movement are now threatened by racists in the White House, what can we learn from the tactics and, more importantly, the strategy pursued by the movement's leaders and activists? www.liberalcurrents.com/neonliberali...

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"What happened to lead so many claiming the label ‘conservative’ to support driving from office genuine conservatives who opposed the insurrection such as Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger?" www.liberalcurrents.com/the-suicide-...

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"Money can't change everything. Rearranging aggregate demand will never relocate America. But it really could make many of us throw away a lot of our time on Earth." www.liberalcurrents.com/what-do-you-...

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"He wants above all for humanity to terraform Mars, a profoundly distant goal toward which anyone's resources could be redirected... Unless you're a very experienced rocket scientist actively at work, the little twerp actually is after your Social Security." www.liberalcurrents.com/what-do-you-...

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“Money is power. Other things are power too, but the power in other things doesn't eradicate the power in money.” www.liberalcurrents.com/what-do-you-...

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"Trumpism’s roots are in Pat Buchanan, Ann Coulter, and Newt Gingrich, three of the most destructive people for our country in our lifetimes." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-suicide-...

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“Evangelical support for Donald Trump stands in direct continuity with the Christianity of enslavers, of global racial empire, and the Old South.” www.liberalcurrents.com/trump-the-re...

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“There is another story to be told beside this one. One of the abolitionists who opposed slavery because of their Christianity. Of the Christians born into slavery in the Old South.” www.liberalcurrents.com/trump-the-re...

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“We see it in the vengeful nature of Trumpism, the fantasies of executing opponents, of the violent purification of a land returned to its rightful owners.” www.liberalcurrents.com/trump-the-re...

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“While the Southern strategy was certainly racist, it was also deeply gendered, and deeply religious.” www.liberalcurrents.com/trump-the-re...

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"The core of Trump's electoral coalition—not every voter, but the largest pillar of it—are white, conservative Christians. Their beliefs are clearly within an American Christian tradition." www.liberalcurrents.com/trump-the-re...

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"Material interests are ephemeral, right? Thirty years ago, no one would have thought of Taiwan's microchips as a central strategic resource. And thirty years from now, who knows what the central strategic resource is going to be?" www.liberalcurrents.com/neonliberali...

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"Every one of Kirk’s principles have been abandoned by people calling themselves conservatives. American conservatism is largely an intellectual corpse." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-suicide-...

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If you take one thing from this podcast, let it be this: Elbridge Colby, nominated as Defense Undersecretary for Policy, thinks we should bomb TSMC if it appears China may annex Taiwan. He wants to go scorched earth on our own allies. He's not a serious thinker

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"The Comptroller has threatened to 'convene a meeting of the Inability Committee,' another body that holds the power to remove him. Call your city council member to demand their support for this course of action." www.liberalcurrents.com/eric-adams-m...

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Taiwan is a free country, a powerhouse in technology, and it has about one-twentieth the population of Europe less Russia. Liberal Currents contributing editor Matthew Downhour joins Samantha and Jason to talk about Taiwan's history and importance. www.liberalcurrents.com/neonliberali...

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"There are many ways that Adams might leave office, and we should pursue all of them until one of them sticks." www.liberalcurrents.com/eric-adams-m...

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JD Vance talks about the U.S. possibly disengaging with Europe, but is such disengagement necessary for, and does it really herald, increased engagement with Asia, and particularly with China and Taiwan? www.liberalcurrents.com/neonliberali...

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"As conservatism left the core principles of the American Revolution behind, I started calling myself a liberal." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-suicide-...

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“What on earth could Democrats have done that was so bad as to make these truly important issues of national security and preserving the constitution worth ignoring?” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-suicide-...

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I want to go into a little more detail on something I said in my recent article (www.liberalcurrents.com/is-it-a-coup/): "I think that at least Musk thinks that computer infrastructure is the new use of force, and what he’s doing in the code will put him in charge." 1/

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"As with Jim Crow, there had been numerous attempts to resist or evict the British through violence; as with Jim Crow, these had failed." www.liberalcurrents.com/how-to-win-a...

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"Since September, we New Yorkers have been waiting for this to play out, hoping for a resignation or removal. Instead, we have been left to endure for now and do the job ourselves at the ballot box later this year." www.liberalcurrents.com/eric-adams-m...

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"We need to get Trump’s agent out of the mayor’s office by any means necessary." www.liberalcurrents.com/eric-adams-m...

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"You can't just look at a database and say, 'oh, that must be fraud.' It's not that simple." www.liberalcurrents.com/neonliberali...

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"They do not have the legal authority to do any of these things, and in many cases not even the security clearance to look at the things they are shutting down." www.liberalcurrents.com/is-it-a-coup/

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"Black troops during the war continued to face entrenched and vicious prejudice, as do Black people today. But military service during the Civil War played an important role in solidifying Northern support for emancipation and for citizenship." www.liberalcurrents.com/representati...

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"When a president starts ignoring the laws passed by his legislature, democracy itself is very much at risk. When he starts making budgeting and spending decisions in defiance of that legislature, democracy is actively threatened." www.liberalcurrents.com/trump-and-mu...

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"All too much of the crisis comes back to social media and, particularly, who owns it. Any strategy from here on out must be clear-eyed about this." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-new-stat...

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"Their coalitions have the least to lose from war, and swearing off free trade makes seizing resources through force seem more attractive. This unfortunately means that the incoming "America First" coalition is likely to put the United States in greater, not less, risk of conflict. "

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"Musk more than perhaps anyone now alive has benefitted from the mythology of the entrepreneur, the Randian myth of the one man who keeps society innovative and dynamic through his individual brilliance and gumption." www.liberalcurrents.com/elon-musk-is...

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"People were not simply indulging a fantasy, but fully inhabiting their online or virtual presence. Whether in a single-player game or a massively online extravaganza, we didn’t just play our avatars, we were our avatars." www.liberalcurrents.com/meta-mirror-...

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i keep coming back to this point @maiamindel.bsky.social made: good industrial policy isn't so much about this or that policy, but the overall competence of the government trump simultaneously wants to reindustrialize america and maintain a strong dollar :| www.liberalcurrents.com/neonliberali...

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"The right has turned against key institutions it used to celebrate and defend: law enforcement, the military, and the intelligence services. These are now all denounced on the right as corrupt instruments of the 'deep state.'" www.liberalcurrents.com/once-and-fut...

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"Tariffs keep on showing up in the chaos. They are Trump's go-to threat against foreign nations." www.liberalcurrents.com/neonliberali...

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"Education plays a key role for Mill. That is where moral autonomy can be fostered, where an ethos of public-spiritedness can be taught." www.liberalcurrents.com/big-structur...

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"There are very good reasons that the federal faucet has always been controlled by apolitical bureaucrats." www.liberalcurrents.com/personal-dis...

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"The de facto power of the Musk network stands to grow enormously if they successfully consolidate their control over federal systems and information channels." www.liberalcurrents.com/elon-musk-is...

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"It is rather odd that the crowd at Bari Weiss’s Free Press (@thefp.com) seems rather muted on what is now unfolding." www.liberalcurrents.com/brains-poiso...

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"It would be foolish to deny the misgovernance that has plagued Portland and other major cities in blue states, most egregiously in the failure to build more housing." www.liberalcurrents.com/portland-is-...

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"Those of us willing to take this [adversarial] stance must grow larger, much larger, seizing the market opportunity abandoned by the now-timid larger institutions of media." www.liberalcurrents.com/we-must-defe...

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"Our ambition must be to continuously widen our circle of moral concern to all those whom it is actually due and not limit it due to arbitrary and contingent circumstances." www.liberalcurrents.com/roger-scruto...

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"Lines on maps, or historic birthrights, rarely matched up to the language or culture of the people actually living there, and the result was endless and endemic violence, as statesmen redrew the map in blood." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-banality...

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"Whatever fantasies one may entertain of using Musk and Zuckerberg’s platforms against them should be abandoned. It is very likely that on a scale never before seen, opposition will be stymied, downranked, and silenced on their platforms." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-new-stat...

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one of the reasons i wrote this piece is to get away from the gauzy mythology of the civil rights movement "spontaneous mass resistance" "rosa parks was just tired". no. the movement remains a masterclass in the tactics--and the strategy--of resistance.

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“Did it end racism in America? No. But it did end Jim Crow.” www.liberalcurrents.com/how-to-win-a...

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“We live in an era where the tactical aspects of resistance are studied intensively, even as they become increasingly disconnected from effective strategy.” www.liberalcurrents.com/how-to-win-a...

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