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This is an excerpt from a David Foster Wallace novel, you can’t convince me otherwise.

We did a mid-year candidate swap a couple years ago, so I see no reason why we should break tradition by not having Kamala Harris replace Platner.

The Reconstruction Papers is our answer to the necessities of the moment. The PDF is now free to the public. Read it now: www.liberalcurrents.com/content/file...

All I’m saying is that Shawinigan Handshake would be an amazing band name. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawini...

I’m sorry, I can’t suspend my disbelief enough to think that Trump is actually Taravingian.

Somehow, David Cameron returned.

Little Caesars, the Omelas of pizza chains.

NEW! Today we @immcouncil.org released our new framework for a credible and humane interior immigration enforcement system. What does that look like? It starts with four basic principles: - Compliance - Safety - Proportionality - Accountability

Labour will say “your strategy of implementing proportional representation and putting forth a sensible left-wing agenda pales in comparison to my strategy of winning over Reform voters” and then not win over any Reform voters.

I’m working on it, OK? It takes longer to save up for leasing one than I expected, and I’m not so sure about my DIY skills.

I would love to watch a Lebowski / Tremors / Dune crossover about a washed up hippie who takes too may hallucinogens and starts thinking they’re Paul Atreides at the same time that their small desert town runs into graboids.

How Iran gums up the strait:

Kind of a shame that they missed the chance to call him Aayatollah Khamenei.

I have spent the past several months studying the cutting-edge research on modern democracies that have defeated authoritarian leaders. I've learned that the conventional wisdom on the topic is wrong — in ways that have clear implications for the US going forward THREAD www.vox.com/politics/479...

This reminds me of my favorite fact about Sherman: marching bands were determined to relentlessly troll him by playing “Marching Through Georgia” whenever he was present. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marchin...

The background to Jeb Bush’s “please clap” comment in 2016 was actually way more depressing in retrospect — he was saying he wasn’t going to be a divisive jerk and his audience of Republican voters just sat there stone-faced. bsky.app/profile/dept...

Incredible things are happening on r/litrpg. www.reddit.com/r/litrpg/com...

I'm seeking to connect with writers in or near Springfield, Ohio. Please feel free to email me at adam @ liberalcurrents dot com, or connect with me on signal

@jonrauch.bsky.social I'm glad to see you finally acknowledging it, but I'm surprised that you're not really grappling with why you were personally so late to recognizing it or dismissive of people who got there earlier. Seems like an opportunity for reflection or like some mea culpas might be due.

another day volunteering for the greenland invasion. everyone keeps asking if they can fuck the penguin. buddy, they wont even let me fuck it

All I’m saying is that there’s no evidence that Ted Cruz doesn’t munch on Texas’s power lines shortly before migrating south to warmer climates to spawn.

Really sketchy and misleading fundraising email from the @roycoopernc.bsky.social campaign — they edited the sender’s name to make it look like I’d already talked to them even though it was the first email from them.

it's Khmer Last Christmas season

alt history where the louisiana territory stays culturally french but has a revolution to become independent; spain keeps the western US but mexico still has a revolutionary war; and Greater Mexico is the dominant superpower in north america

“I think the subnivean domain will define the 21st century.”

If you want to support a media outlet that’s not completely spineless, consider donating to the Liberal Currents fundraiser today: gofund.me/0f0dd35fe

There is a reason that consolidating control over the media system is one of the very first things that authoritarians do, every single time. And Trump has sought to do exactly that. We need to build and maintain a strong opposition press with a big reach: www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...

Their heads were buried in the sand.

Ruin a science fiction story by replacing a character: Foundation, but instead of Hari Seldon it’s Nicholas Nassim Taleb.

i made a model to assign scores for how robustly US politicians oppose fascism & graded 13 leading dems criteria & method QTed, individual results in 🧵 below:

If you’re going to say that, the least you can do is be logically consistent and oppose nominating him on the grounds that you might accidentally make Kavanaugh’s evil doppelgänger a Supreme Court justice.

Imma be real with you guys the "TESCREAL" stuff is basically the libleft version of rightist paranoia over "Cultural Marxism", where you just smash together a half-dozen things that annoy you and go "these things are all connected and being pushed by a nefarious secret cabal of my political enemies"

Happy Gathering All The Generals And Admirals In A Single Location Day to all those who celebrate!

(someone who has heard today that today is the start of the apocalypse, didn’t pay attention to the details, and is frantically trying to check whether it’s started yet): “Status” “Skills” “Stats” “Inventory” “System information” “Log out”

“Curtis Yarvin and I discuss how creating hereditary duchies in California, New York, and Vermont will secure our nation’s ideological diversity.”

Who decided to call it the Moreau envelope instead of The Envelope of Dr. Moreau? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moreau_...

Department of War, but the wars are: War on Drugs War on Terror War on Woke

It's fitting that "kitchen table issues" is a reference to sitting down at your kitchen table to pay your snail-mail bills and balance your checkbook on physical paper, something which has been obsolete for decades.

(For those keeping track at home, Mark Cuban's post below is dramatic foreshadowing for Trump arresting him on a pretext sometime within the next year.)