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After Alex Pretti’s Murder, it’s Clear That MAGA Media Views White Liberals as Race Traitors MAGA is committed to the belief that the people ICE is pursuing are inherently bad and that therefore opposing ICE is standing with criminals and rapists against the American people.

Nick Fuentes called Alex Pretti a “race traitor” for opposing ICE.

I argue that sentiment is actually widespread on the MAGA right.

My latest for @liberalcurrents.com

www.liberalcurrents.com/after-alex-p...

In this vein, my column bsky.app/profile/asel...

"At home, U.S. political commentators continue to obsess over hypothetical Republican “red lines” and Trump’s flagging poll numbers. This is a Manhattan Project of hopium enrichment that fundamentally misunderstands the fight we are now in."

There is no avoiding the fight.

“At home, U.S. political commentators continue to obsess over hypothetical Republican “red lines” and Trump’s flagging poll numbers. This is a Manhattan Project of hopium enrichment that fundamentally misunderstands the fight we are now in.”

Alan dropping bars today.

A great framework to have going forward. It's not about going back to pre-2016 America because not only is that world dead and buried, but it also produced the conditions that GAVE us Trump to begin with. We must begin anew, both domestically and abroad and that is scary but hopeful all at once.

"It’s clear that none of these [Republicans] imagine anything like a post-Trump politics, even if the man himself should exit the stage. Trump could well die in the Oval Office, but he’s never really leaving."

Yup. The old Normal is gone, the new and updated Bad Old Days are here to stay.

Great piece that really reaches at the dark spot I think we are in this current moment. It’s gonna be long road to get where we need to go beyond just “vote the bastards out” there is a serious rot taken place constitutionally/electorally and we need to take it seriously.

Read my latest! Sorry in advance, but it is not, in fact, adult content.

Or maybe the death of the world as we know it counts idk

“At home, U.S. political commentators continue to obsess over hypothetical Republican ‘red lines’ and Trump’s flagging poll numbers. This is a Manhattan Project of hopium enrichment that fundamentally misunderstands the fight we are now in.”

This article is deeply accurate 🔥

Must read:

“This is a Manhattan Project of hopium enrichment that fundamentally misunderstands the fight we are now in. “

Thing of it is: belief that we can return to *any* pre-<thing> world is a poison that rots us all. We've only got moving forward, folks.

After Trump, the Flood On the ending of things and the need for post-diluvian politics.

There is no pre-Trump world to which we can return. That has all been washed away.

And there is no near future that is not defined by him and the cataclysm of his rule.

My latest for @liberalcurrents.com

www.liberalcurrents.com/after-trump-...

You can find the article in question, "After Trump, the Flood," at the top of our homepage: www.liberalcurrents.com

Detail of "Die Sintflut," by Hans Baldung.

Please check out our Adult Content today. Here is a tantalizing portion of the article cover image that Bluesky won't let you see in your feed:

Detail from "Die Sintflut," by Hans Baldung.

"Americans must accommodate themselves to what could well be decades where we are viewed by the free nations of the world as, at best, a reckless and unreliable partner and, at worst, a kind of global villain." www.liberalcurrents.com/after-trump-...

Merry Christmas, I Don’t Want To Fight: Trump’s White House UFC Event and The Politics of Violence Trump is seeking to elevate America’s most violent professional sport to an emblem of national identity.

Trump’s White House UFC fight is an elevation of brutality.

Fascism has appeal because its energies exist within all of us. We all have the capacity for hate and violence. What makes liberal democracy unique is how it asks us to transcend our basest selves.

www.liberalcurrents.com/merry-christ...

The Barely Legal Type: Purity Culture, Rape Culture, and America’s Lose-Lose Proposition for Girls The very parts of American culture that claim to promote teen abstinence and sexual purity operate on a parallel logic to the rape culture that enables the darkest misogynistic violence against women.

Megyn Kelly claimed Epstein was into “the barely legal type,” referring to 15 year-olds.

So I wrote about how her comments highlight the ways both purity culture and rape culture sexualize young girls and make male desire their responsibility.

www.liberalcurrents.com/the-barely-l...

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Censoring Kimmel, which happened after I filed this essay, and censoring the past are of a kind with each other.

Trump and MAGA clearly want to stifle any voice, any narrative that isn’t theirs.

MAGA Is Revising the Past to Create the Future They Want They are aiming to build the future they want by rewriting history.

The Trump administration’s decision to remove depictions of slavery from National Historic Parks isn’t just about revising history. It’s about reshaping America.

Read my latest at @liberalcurrents.com

www.liberalcurrents.com/maga-is-revi...

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Hello, I am furious

www.liberalcurrents.com/let-it-burn-...

In my head @stephenking.bsky.social, Emmanuel Macron, and Angela Saini were all separate dinner companions. But tbh all together would also be great

My very first feature. Absolutely stoked to have it be in the @arktimes.bsky.social

Kristi Noem Made A Lynching Postcard The American tradition of celebrating racial terror.

I wrote about the Kristi Noem’s El Salvador prison video and its relationship to the horrific practice of lynching postcards. Read at @liberalcurrents.com

www.liberalcurrents.com/kristi-noem-...

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