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libertiesjournal.com/online-artic... "like Mann, we will have to screw ourselves to the conviction that a revival of democracy is still possible, that it must be possible."

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I've been learning from @jesspish.bsky.social's work for years. If you're not following her, please consider doing so.

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Things I have been saying...Biden even set the stage to reopen Gitmo. I explain more here. libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...

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We cannot have antifascist politics without abolition. I hope Democrats can learn this. libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...

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The Democrats' obsession with "civility" comes from this same carceral mentality and obsession with maintaining appearances. libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...

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Money and violence are two vectors of power in Trumpworld, where Musk has money, MAGA's power is violence and the credible threat of violence. And with Trump in office, well ... libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...

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"It was, in fact, the Democratic party who gave millions of dollars to law enforcement without ever passing comprehensive police reform. And it was the Democratic candidate for president who ran as a police-defender against, in her words, a “felon.”"

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I wrote about something I’ve been thinking about for a while…

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"Liberals have been slow to condemn the fascistic way that this administration uses law enforcement because the Democrats have a similar relationship to the police."

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"-it was Joe Biden who not only ramped up contracts for private prisons but also prepared a plan to reopen Guantanamo in order to jail immigrants from Haiti. It was, in fact, the Democratic party who gave millions of dollars to law enforcement without ever passing comprehensive police reform."

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Democrats Built Trump's Army @jesspish.bsky.social libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...

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was looking forward to reading @robrubsam.bsky.social on Nickel Boys, and to say he didn't disappoint is an understatement libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...

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Abonnez-vous. Enfin de la culture avec un grand "c" libertiesjournal.com/articles/a-f...

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Wrote a couple thousand words for @readliberties.bsky.social on Nickel Boys, racecraft, and existence as recognition as exchange: libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...

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I wrote about Spotify, meme politics, and the slop world of America's favorite anti-semite for @readliberties.bsky.social libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...

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This is a good article on the way the internet has shaped our view of violence among other things. Trigger warnings for basically everything. libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...

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And when you’re done reading those, Elon Musk and Russell Vought, read this piece I published in Liberties explaining what the administrative state is and why you’re fools to hack away at it indiscriminately. libertiesjournal.com/articles/a-p...

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Went on the @readliberties.bsky.social podcast to talk about Red Rooms with @celestemarcus.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

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"I first read about the Pelicot case the morning after my last day in appellate court this spring, just shy of eight years after I’d pressed charges." libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...

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Democracy Dies In The Techno-Dump libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...

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I very much enjoyed this piece on the great late 19th/early 20th century Jewish existentialist Lev Shestov, who deserves to be more widely known, and the tensions between claiming a "Russian Jewish" or "Ukrainian Jewish" identity today. libertiesjournal.com/articles/wit...

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some of you will love this Robert Alter on the poetry of Job as much as I, especially you, @jordandavis.bsky.social. libertiesjournal.com/articles/the...

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Pure pleasure to read, in the newest issue of Liberties, Robert Alter expatiating on the language and technique of the Book of Job, whose unknown author "is the greatest of all biblical poets" libertiesjournal.com/articles/the...

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Must supporters of the humanities hope for an incomplete secularization? libertiesjournal.com/articles/the...

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"Dawn of the Diddy"--my latest for Liberties. libertiesjournal.com/articles/daw...

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"In the intercepted letter, Strauss had...defended his own groveling to the Nazi regime, claiming he was doing it “for good purposes and to prevent greater disasters!”" Kind of rhetoric expect to hear after Monday. Hey, here come the Vichy Independents. libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...

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The machines won. We live in their world. libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...

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. oh my goodness @arashtehran.bsky.social -- my friend sent me this fantastic article. So well done, devastating. libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...

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a checklist to determine whether a democratic society should empower any specific technology. ... whether the technology in questions “restores reciprocity,” “favours people over machines,” and whether its benefits redound to the common good libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...

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A wonderful personal and historical analysis essay by Maurice Isserman of the tribulations of being a practicing leftist in the US and the devolution of DSA: libertiesjournal.com/articles/ega...

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Blood Stains for @readliberties.bsky.social libertiesjournal.com/articles/blo...

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Worth a read. 👇

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“There’s nothing artificial about our intelligence.” Great tagline.

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“According to this corrupt logic, victory validates all…And Stephens has replaced the admirable commitment to democratic principles which animated his forsworn opposition to Trump for a debased consumerism according to which ‘The customer is always right.’” libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...

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An excellent piece, and a much-needed critique of—ok, an attack on— our seemingly “universal, bipartisan devotion to a shared, relatively new, and unnamed ideology: Blue-Collar Populism.” libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...

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This is a great essay. It explains why I sometimes feel under siege. libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...

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Absolutely essential corrective to current impulses, even if also some crucial insights to acknowledge in elite critique. We cannot lose the cultural value of truth and knowledge: libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...

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Re-upping this essay because it is just so good. libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...

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In post-truth, post-rational discourse, proof of claims is no longer a requisite for cushy gigs at legacy outfits. America is one giant bar at last call. Every drunk gets to bloviate according to his whims and prejudices.

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libertiesjournal.com/online-artic... Yep apparently principles are a transitory thing

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