why do people keep tagging me in this?
07.03.2026 11:38
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why do people keep tagging me in this?
Here’s the logic of how this happens www.liberalcurrents.com/the-totalita...
Here’s the story evanstonnow.com/skokie-woman...
It's the middle of the night in Chicago. Reporters and electeds are trying to figure out why a US citizen was detained by CBP, why her phone was inside an ICE detention center tonight, and where she is now.
Also unclear what happened to the other five people she was detained with at O'Hare airport.
How are the costs of the extensions? Are they keeping it well below US averages?
Sadly I think we’d have the shit sued out of us for that lol
a graph of seattle link light rail ridership, shown as a rolling 12M average
US transit data is out today, and Seattle's Link remains one of the fastest-growing rail systems in the nation, with ridership up 9% in the wake of the extension to Federal Way
Ridership should increase even further at the end of this month when the 1 & 2 lines are connected🧵
www.liberalcurrents.com/killing-for-...
SCOOP — Body camera footage obtained as a result of my lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan PD confirms DOGE and the Trump administration openly admitted they were entering private property when they raided the building on March 17, 2025. That didn't stop MPD from breaking down the doors.
My report:
The editors whenever Toby doubles his last previous word count max and yet gets lots of readers
People are eating up @polphilpod.bsky.social's 9,000 word essay today lmao www.liberalcurrents.com/it-wasnt-fas...
"Despite endless obfuscation, sanitizing, and sanewashing from the mainstream media, the debate on if we’re living though a resurgence of fascism is now over. And, honestly, it’s been over for some time. We are." www.liberalcurrents.com/it-wasnt-fas...
This has honestly been one of my favorite reads this week, and something I think a *lot* of ya'll could do with right now.
www.liberalcurrents.com/it-wasnt-fas...
"Socialists are assuming that because equality is a core concept of theirs, defending inequality (and hence capitalism) must be a central and defining commitment of their opponents. But it isn’t. Their competitor ideologies simply do not hold the same concerns, but in reverse."
At any right I think our positions are relatively clear to one another now and it’d probably take dueling essays to really dig into :) have a nice weekend
No one is denying that you need to create the social conditions to foster liberalism. But there’s nothing particularly illiberal about this—it’s just reality. One book in particular I like on this is Kukathas’ on Hayek; Hayeks’ social theory is quite aware of these things & immune to such critiques
So liberal theorists had a very fruitful debate with communitarians in the 80s and 90s and when you go through what comes out of that, I just don’t think points like this are a problem for liberalism. No one is denying that we are born into a society not if our choosing.
Why is their internal logic "not liberal." Says who?
I do not think that that makes Christian or Islamic values "thin"
Well that was when I thought we were talking about something different than what we were. I meant in terms of what kind of institutional scenario you end up with. There's certainly thicker liberal values. I also think you'll find that a theocratic culture also can use the rhetoric hypocritically.
That was as true then, and in the Civil War, as it is today
But there's always been a strong liberal voice in our culture since the start, fighting to persuade and instill those values. The idea that liberalism struggles more than some alternative to do so seems at odds with real world experience.
Ah I thought you meant something different. I don't see what reason we should have to believe that, given that e.g. the preamble to the Declaration is practically part of our national religion, and Americans inculcate liberal values in many many ways. Obviously it's not a guarantee.
"Conservatism is not merely dead, fascism has paraded the body around, peeled off its face, and is wearing it as a mask for its own amusement as it does a demented little dance." www.liberalcurrents.com/it-wasnt-fas...
Strong foundational assumption about "what it depends on" doing a lot of work here
Thank you! :D
This, again, is not about liberalism, which merely pushes us towards the only good choice of this trifecta. Preserving civil society, moral traditions, and healthy communities given the existence of large powerful states is not a unique challenge for liberalism, nor has liberalism been worse at it.
