Dennis Lytton
@dennislytton.bsky.social
Contributor at @LiberalCurrents.com
Liberal and in the fight
All things pax train 🚆 ops & safety. Cali native 🎿 🏄♂️, Georgetown, and UCLA, Chess♟️player, Episcopalian
Liberal and in the fight
All things pax train 🚆 ops & safety. Cali native 🎿 🏄♂️, Georgetown, and UCLA, Chess♟️player, Episcopalian
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"Our mission—to reform our democracy so that it is better than the one Trump took from us, and so that it works with justice and fairness for all of us—has never been clearer." www.instagram.com/liberalcurre...
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In 2025 things bent but we held
Their open embrace of fascism and Nazism now binds us to the old revolutionary character of liberalism. From the picket lines to battlefields that your parents and grandparents sacrificed on.
We can't go back to the old republic . . . let's make a path forward.
Their open embrace of fascism and Nazism now binds us to the old revolutionary character of liberalism. From the picket lines to battlefields that your parents and grandparents sacrificed on.
We can't go back to the old republic . . . let's make a path forward.
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Reading @ariberman.bsky.social's Give Us the Ballot, I was struck by how much Voting Rights Act jurisprudence boiled down to the Court trying to force single-seat districts to behave like proportional representation. Just do PR already! www.liberalcurrents.com/the-american...
The American Presidency Can Never Be Trusted Again
It’s time for multiparty democracy and a limited executive.
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Reading @ariberman.bsky.social's Give Us the Ballot, I was struck by how much Voting Rights Act jurisprudence boiled down to the Court trying to force single-seat districts to behave like proportional representation. Just do PR already! www.liberalcurrents.com/the-american...
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Jeffries should hire a crew to go there and take it down. He has just as much right to change the name as the Board (Trump) does.
Rep. Jeffries signaled it is illegal for Trump to rename the Kennedy Center without “legislative action.”
“The Kennedy Center Board has no authority to actually rename the Kennedy Center in the absence of legislative action."
Read more:
https://go.govbrief.today/kennedy-center-trump-signage
“The Kennedy Center Board has no authority to actually rename the Kennedy Center in the absence of legislative action."
Read more:
https://go.govbrief.today/kennedy-center-trump-signage
December 21, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Jeffries should hire a crew to go there and take it down. He has just as much right to change the name as the Board (Trump) does.
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Given the collapse in ticket sales and abysmal programming the Trumpified version has so far elicited, it seems like there's less of a need to call it anything
DC residents have been refusing to call that airport anything but National for almost thirty years, we certainly can refuse to call that arts center anything but the Kennedy Center for three
December 21, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Given the collapse in ticket sales and abysmal programming the Trumpified version has so far elicited, it seems like there's less of a need to call it anything
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Rick Steves is a mensch, no question, and I get the feels from acts of generosity and compassion like this. But it would be better to live under a government that provides bare subsistence to those in need. Until then, I'm grateful for the Rick Steves of the world.
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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December 21, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Rick Steves is a mensch, no question, and I get the feels from acts of generosity and compassion like this. But it would be better to live under a government that provides bare subsistence to those in need. Until then, I'm grateful for the Rick Steves of the world.
The trial and grand juries — institutions of medieval England meant to deal with tyranny then — are working for us now
How it started vs. How it’s going NOW 👀
LA tow truck driver who towed ICE’s car found NOT GUILTY 🦸🏽♂️
LA tow truck driver who towed ICE’s car found NOT GUILTY 🦸🏽♂️
December 21, 2025 at 5:13 AM
The trial and grand juries — institutions of medieval England meant to deal with tyranny then — are working for us now
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i really think there is legit political space for running on "we are going to dismantle ICE"
How it started vs. How it’s going NOW 👀
LA tow truck driver who towed ICE’s car found NOT GUILTY 🦸🏽♂️
LA tow truck driver who towed ICE’s car found NOT GUILTY 🦸🏽♂️
December 21, 2025 at 12:41 AM
i really think there is legit political space for running on "we are going to dismantle ICE"
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Flagrant violations of international law aside, what a hilarious admission of weakness from a senator who oversees a bloated military better funded than the next three superpowers combined.
December 20, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Flagrant violations of international law aside, what a hilarious admission of weakness from a senator who oversees a bloated military better funded than the next three superpowers combined.
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"They were best friends," David Frum says of Trump and Epstein. "The only photos you ever see of Donald Trump where he is authentically smiling in the presence of another human being, is with Jeffrey Epstein."
December 20, 2025 at 6:00 AM
"They were best friends," David Frum says of Trump and Epstein. "The only photos you ever see of Donald Trump where he is authentically smiling in the presence of another human being, is with Jeffrey Epstein."
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*deep breath*
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Gift link, so you can enjoy all the delicious schadenfreude: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...
*deep breath*
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Gift link, so you can enjoy all the delicious schadenfreude: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...
Elise Stefanik Drops Out of N.Y. Governor’s Race and Will Leave Congress
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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*deep breath*
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Gift link, so you can enjoy all the delicious schadenfreude: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...
*deep breath*
HAHHAHHAHAHHHAHAH
Gift link, so you can enjoy all the delicious schadenfreude: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...
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I’ll add: UFC is sanctioned barbarism, and it might not have succeeded the way it did without Donald Trump www.thetimes.com/world/us-wor...
Donald Trump saved UFC — now it could get him elected
Trump’s friendship with Dana White, whose mixed martial arts company he bailed out 20 years ago, gives him access to a huge pool of the voters he most wants to target
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July 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I’ll add: UFC is sanctioned barbarism, and it might not have succeeded the way it did without Donald Trump www.thetimes.com/world/us-wor...
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This kind of hyper-masculine, sexualized violence is a common feature of modern far-right politics. I wrote about it earlier this year for @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/guys-win-and...
www.liberalcurrents.com/guys-win-and...
www.liberalcurrents.com
July 5, 2025 at 9:14 AM
This kind of hyper-masculine, sexualized violence is a common feature of modern far-right politics. I wrote about it earlier this year for @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/guys-win-and...
www.liberalcurrents.com/guys-win-and...
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People are making this about trashiness, but it’s really about violence.
A UFC fight at the White House to mark our 250th would tidily symbolize the passing of the republic to a brutish state, a bloodthirsty society headed by a fascist movement.
A UFC fight at the White House to mark our 250th would tidily symbolize the passing of the republic to a brutish state, a bloodthirsty society headed by a fascist movement.
July 5, 2025 at 8:43 AM
People are making this about trashiness, but it’s really about violence.
A UFC fight at the White House to mark our 250th would tidily symbolize the passing of the republic to a brutish state, a bloodthirsty society headed by a fascist movement.
A UFC fight at the White House to mark our 250th would tidily symbolize the passing of the republic to a brutish state, a bloodthirsty society headed by a fascist movement.
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rfk will not rest until your kid is dead wapo.st/4s2l2zn
U.S. plans to stop recommending most childhood vaccines, defer to doctors
The plan, which is not finalized, suggests children get fewer shots and shifts to a model telling parents to consult doctors to make their own vaccine choices.
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December 20, 2025 at 12:25 AM
rfk will not rest until your kid is dead wapo.st/4s2l2zn
Please quit early to further send Mike Johnson's shambolic majority into further turmoil
Just about everyone who hitches themselves to this sociopath comes to regret it.
"Allies privately acknowledged that years of intraparty fighting and a series of embarrassing disappointments at the hands of Mr. Trump had taken a toll."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...
"Allies privately acknowledged that years of intraparty fighting and a series of embarrassing disappointments at the hands of Mr. Trump had taken a toll."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...
Elise Stefanik Drops Out of N.Y. Governor’s Race and Will Leave Congress
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Please quit early to further send Mike Johnson's shambolic majority into further turmoil
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Just about everyone who hitches themselves to this sociopath comes to regret it.
"Allies privately acknowledged that years of intraparty fighting and a series of embarrassing disappointments at the hands of Mr. Trump had taken a toll."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...
"Allies privately acknowledged that years of intraparty fighting and a series of embarrassing disappointments at the hands of Mr. Trump had taken a toll."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...
Elise Stefanik Drops Out of N.Y. Governor’s Race and Will Leave Congress
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Just about everyone who hitches themselves to this sociopath comes to regret it.
"Allies privately acknowledged that years of intraparty fighting and a series of embarrassing disappointments at the hands of Mr. Trump had taken a toll."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...
"Allies privately acknowledged that years of intraparty fighting and a series of embarrassing disappointments at the hands of Mr. Trump had taken a toll."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...
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The corollary to the old maxim—If it’s broken, you have to fix it.
The corollary to the old maxim—If it’s broken, you have to fix it.
The American Presidency Can Never Be Trusted Again
It’s time for multiparty democracy and a limited executive.
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 13, 2025 at 1:06 PM
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-american...
The corollary to the old maxim—If it’s broken, you have to fix it.
The corollary to the old maxim—If it’s broken, you have to fix it.
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Singing @dennislytton.bsky.social’s song here www.liberalcurrents.com/the-american...
The American Presidency Can Never Be Trusted Again
It’s time for multiparty democracy and a limited executive.
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Singing @dennislytton.bsky.social’s song here www.liberalcurrents.com/the-american...
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Nobody works this hard for this long to cover up something this bad unless they are guilty.
December 20, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Nobody works this hard for this long to cover up something this bad unless they are guilty.
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the main reward you are likely to get for total loyalty to trump is the destruction of your career and your reputation www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...
Elise Stefanik Drops Out of N.Y. Governor’s Race and Will Leave Congress
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 9:19 PM
the main reward you are likely to get for total loyalty to trump is the destruction of your career and your reputation www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...
So many have sold their souls for MAGA. They will all end up like Stefanik or worse. All of them.
Here we go. Elise Stefanik changed everything she was, everything she believed in, for power. And in the end, Trump endorsed another dude and Elise is out.
Shameful
Shameful
December 20, 2025 at 12:51 AM
So many have sold their souls for MAGA. They will all end up like Stefanik or worse. All of them.
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Well she surrendered all her dignity and integrity and got nothing
A lesson that MAGA courtiers never seem to learn
A lesson that MAGA courtiers never seem to learn
Here we go. Elise Stefanik changed everything she was, everything she believed in, for power. And in the end, Trump endorsed another dude and Elise is out.
Shameful
Shameful
December 19, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Well she surrendered all her dignity and integrity and got nothing
A lesson that MAGA courtiers never seem to learn
A lesson that MAGA courtiers never seem to learn
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December 19, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Welcome to The Donald Trump and The John F Kennedy Center
December 19, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Welcome to The Donald Trump and The John F Kennedy Center
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Once again, government jobs are real jobs & you can't treat 16% of the workforce as a cancer on society & expect to not drive the economy into a ditch.
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Trump: "The only reason our unemployment tucked up and went up to 4.5 percent [it's actually 4.6 percent] is because we are reducing the government workforce by numbers that have never been seen before."
December 19, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Once again, government jobs are real jobs & you can't treat 16% of the workforce as a cancer on society & expect to not drive the economy into a ditch.
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