Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li

“Memphis remains policed by a joint task force of ATF, FBI, and DHS agents, sent by President Trump in September of 2026, aided by a deployment of Tennessee state patrol and a sizable contingent of Tennessee national guard members sent by Republican Governor Bill Lee.”

I get they're inextricably intertwined but I kind of feel like leaning so much into how he was the longtime best buddy of the world's most notorious sex criminal has given it something of the feel of a political gotcha rather than the important part, which is that the president raped people.

I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

“Pearson is uniting outrage over the treatment of Memphis with frustration over affordability and opposition to data centers.” www.liberalcurrents.com/better-win-a...

“If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.” Justice Brett Kavanaugh www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

"The key problem with run-offs (as opposed to instant runoffs, which Americans call 'ranked choice voting') is that the second round usually has lower turnout than the first. … Brazil is different here again, however. They have mandatory voting." www.liberalcurrents.com/editors-note...

Damn, who could have seen this one coming?

"They made me build a freaking bridge for approval" - Apartment developer in Davis California

I don't know how you can look at the history of the 20th century and have the takeaway "politics is exclusively provincial, these things never cross international borders" unless you have brain damage

A thing I'm thinking about a lot, lately, is how very old and how very deep these Old Ways (derogatory) are How shallow the (genuinely miraculous!) effort to change them through law and moral principle has managed to reach

I had a private conversation with another rapid responder in late January where we both confessed to having been listening to Battle Hymn of the Republic late at night a bunch

>we have a radical new system to replace capitalism >is it a new system or is it feudalism? >it’s a good system sir *looks inside* >it’s feudalism

Boston’s chief planner is a true believer in the San Francisco model, in which you make it impossible to profitably build apartments by-right so developers are forced into a politicized discretionary negotiation with the city, which relaxes the rules in exchange for below-market units.

"No one can know how that or the midterms will go, but there is reason to hope. And if they do go well, it will have been a very bad week or so for global fascism." www.liberalcurrents.com/editors-note...

yeah again part of my frustration with yglesias' comment is that, having read somewhat history now, it is impossible to escape the transnational dimensions of politics and political change. it's just a constant across history. telling people not to care is just denialism!

National borders have *never* been containers for politics and political processes. I don't have time to write a full thread, so here are some resources.

I used the term "pretextual planning" with a partner a week ago and I saw their eyes light up the way they do when you find a word you've been looking for all your life. lewis.ucla.edu/research/mot...

I do think when historians look back the period the exact moment where it flipped and started going the other way won’t be anything any politician did but my Minneapolis neighbors weathering the worst of the regime in the streets, rallying together, fighting back, and winning

Pessoas que acreditam que suas escolhas não importam escolhem mal.

One of my crank theories is that the insanely deep liquidity in the private markets is one of the reasons that governance standards has slipped so much in public markets.

sometimes i miss the secondhand paint fumes on the other site

"We need to be able to paint a picture…to say what these abstractions mean for the people who live where the factory opens, what it means to the local kids when a library opens up where there wasn’t one before." www.liberalcurrents.com/liberalism-i...

Dang, I thought for a second we’d reached Bill Kristol writing for Liberal Currents territory, crossing the Kristol rubicon, just reposting though for now…

There's always a large dose of fire involved with @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com does philosophy. The audio for this essay will also be released to the public on Wednesday www.liberalcurrents.com/remember-who...

We have offered many philosophical formulations of liberalism, from @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com's Principles of Liberalism essay in 2017 to @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com's essay in The Reconstruction Papers. Today @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com looks instead at ordinary life under liberalism.

"People who believe their choices don't matter choose poorly." Indeed.

in which two nerds who each have more than a thousand hours in hearts of iron iv bitch about hearts of iron iv. but also it's important to understand why we are all still talking about world war two, and also how so much media essentially imagines "what if the fascist worldview was correct"

on the internet people will call almost anything liberalism. war with iraq, death by firing squad, npic infighting, everything. so a few weeks ago at liberal currents, we put out a challenge to all the editors: what is liberalism, actually? today we get our first essay, from lc founder adam gurri:

"Given our name and our mission statement, we often face the question 'what is liberalism?'" www.liberalcurrents.com/liberalism-i...

“What I will offer you instead is something simpler, and perhaps harder: a vision of life under liberalism, as distinct from the political project.” www.liberalcurrents.com/liberalism-i...