Watch EFI's Women's History Month playlist featuring Dr. Jayme Lemke!
In these videos, Dr. Lemke introduces viewers to three underappreciated liberal heroes:
Mary Wollstonecraft
Harriet Martineau
Elinor Ostrom
"Actually existing liberalism" hasn't been great to marginalized groups. How do we fix that, especially without an authoritarian vanguard party? That and more in our conversation with Nathan Goodman:
youtu.be/Tx8g5T3ps4U
"If your central commitment is the dispersal of power, then you must oppose its concentration wherever you find it. In the state, yes—but also in private monopoly... [and] in any institution that grows powerful enough to dictate terms to those who depend on it." - @mattzwolinski.bsky.social
“My vote doesn’t matter” is exactly what the vote suppressors want you to think. And any voter who stays home is helping to accomplish their mission.
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SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26
NO - 41%
YES - 38%
UNSURE - 21%
Kristi Noem being out as head of DHS is good news, even if her successor is the same. Disruptions and disarray need to happen again and again until MAGA’s anti-human agenda is non-actionable. You have the power to make your community a welcoming space for immigrants.
Who are the people? ALL the people.
A letter with the text “Call me a guaranteed income program, because I support you unconditionally.”
Which policy proposal would you write a valentine to? #UBI
Some people choose to eat their Kit Kat this way. Others don’t. Yet, the diversity of ways to eat a Kit Kat doesn’t hurt anyone and only makes everyone happier.
Maybe this can be applied to other things too.
We're thrilled to share another interview from the Liberal Emancipation series. This time, we chat with a contributor. Listen to Otto Lehto talk about his chapter here: youtu.be/dhc0mK9YETg
“The administration’s actions in Minnesota are a complete betrayal of America’s founding values. Occupation and violence against local communities by a distant centralized government led this country to declare its independence 250 years ago this July. Patriots like Renee Good and Alex Pretti will go down in the history books as our generation’s Crispus Attucks.”
The Equal Freedom Institute joins the Nation of Laws Coalition to condemn the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal agents. Read the full release here: lawdayofaction.org/ice-in-mn-st...
"Several Democratic-led states are pursuing laws trying to enable people to sue federal agents deployed to their communities for civil rights abuses." #ICE
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When the state asks the private sector to spy on you, who’s in charge of respecting your rights?
When gvts bully apps like Discord to adopt data collection to “save the children,” we pay the price. It lets them collect info they can’t collect themselves, but can ask a firm to hand over at any time.
Bad Bunny is Puerto Rican, making him an American by birth. There’s only one way you can be more American than that, and that’s being an American by choice. #SuperBowl #Immigration
LET KIDS PLAY SPORTS: Imagine a law meant to make you, and only you, suffer. This is the reality for young trans athletes. State legislatures have passed transgender athlete bans in states where there are fewer than ten young trans athletes without any scientific evidence that their inclusion is problematic.
There is no reason for trans athlete bans in schools. State legislatures cannot continue to punish a small number of kids to court favor with cable news hosts.
Figuring out who you are as a teenager is hard enough without government overreach.
And, in the interest of completeness: immigration "judges" are themselves just bureaucrats anyways
Okay, I'm now hearing reports of other locals being removed from Minnesota rapid response for interacting with press, as well as some "organizers" instituting onerous screening processes to join these networks.
It's time for local leaders to step in. These policies are incredibly counterproductive.
Let's abolish ICE. It isn't a radical idea. The organization is barely old enough to drink.
With that as the starting point, the interesting question for community leaders is what pro-immigrant border policy truly looks like. #ICE #AbolishICE
After the last few days it's safe to say that, while the Doomers' prognosis is unjustified and their prescription worthless, their diagnosis of the situation is increasingly persuasive
"What the world needs, I think, more than ever, is liberal emancipation, both as an overarching response to our challenging age and as redress for the misguided ideas... proposed as the chief means to deal with contemporary traumas."
Buy/access Liberal Emancipation: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
An image of the liberty bell with the text “On February 1, 1865, President Lincoln signed the Congressional resolution sending the Thirteenth Amendment to the states.”
Today marks the day President Lincoln signed the Thirteenth Amendment, sending it to the states for ratification. The Constitution doesn't require the President's signature for an amendment, but he decided to endorse it anyway. #BlackHistoryMonth
When neighbors solve problems together without waiting for a mandate, that's freedom. Real change starts from the bottom up, not the top down. What can you build today?
When the Founders declared independence, they affirmed the equal rights & dignity of all people, who were endowed with the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
No Founder conceived of a person's worth or rights as being contingent on where they were born.
Blood and soil rejected.
EFI: A conversation with Dr. Mikayla Novak, Editor of Liberal Emancipation
"The liberal agenda has historically been at the forefront of ideological doctrines unremittingly in pursuit of equal freedom for all people." - Dr. Mikayla Novak
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c8r...
What's the most interesting thing you learned from Dr. Novak?
Anonymous federal agents can't coexist with democracy. The foundation of our republic is at stake. #ICE
