Paul Crider
@paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com
Liberal in the Smith-Douglass-Mill-Anderson vein. Writer and editor for Liberal Currents. https://bsky.app/profile/liberalcurrents.com
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Inheritance of Equals: A Case for Liberal Socialism
Things literally cannot go on as they have before the present democratic crisis—things have been broken and will have to be put back together somehow. Ideas that were unthinkable even a decade ago may...
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There is no better time than now—with fascists at the gates across the world and wreaking carnage in the halls of American power—for a liberal-socialist alliance. And a big part of that is bringing liberal socialism into consciousness.
Been thinking about this essay for a while ...🧵
Been thinking about this essay for a while ...🧵
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"Today, I wanna talk about how a society comes to concentration camps, the process that we're already deep into, why the ways we're talking about events in the US may be unhelpful, and how we can undo all this."
January 22, 2026 at 6:33 PM
"Today, I wanna talk about how a society comes to concentration camps, the process that we're already deep into, why the ways we're talking about events in the US may be unhelpful, and how we can undo all this."
Innovative deployment of the "Did it work for them" meme!
January 23, 2026 at 3:31 AM
Innovative deployment of the "Did it work for them" meme!
Exorcising demons.
Full story: religionnews.com/2026/01/22/h...
Hundreds of clergy descend on Minneapolis and go on lookout for ICE
MINNEAPOLIS (RNS) — The faith leaders, who hail from across the country and represent a range of religious traditions, deployed to neighborhoods with significant immigrant populations, where DHS agent...
religionnews.com
January 23, 2026 at 3:19 AM
Exorcising demons.
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sci-fi ass fit (laudatory)
does anyone know where i can get the jacket?
does anyone know where i can get the jacket?
January 23, 2026 at 3:10 AM
sci-fi ass fit (laudatory)
does anyone know where i can get the jacket?
does anyone know where i can get the jacket?
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i designed this sign yesterday and i normally don’t like…claim my work, but i just want to talk about the power of a good podium sign.
put your message there! it ends up in every photo! have it mounted on foam so it stays straight for photos!
put your message there! it ends up in every photo! have it mounted on foam so it stays straight for photos!
January 23, 2026 at 1:07 AM
i designed this sign yesterday and i normally don’t like…claim my work, but i just want to talk about the power of a good podium sign.
put your message there! it ends up in every photo! have it mounted on foam so it stays straight for photos!
put your message there! it ends up in every photo! have it mounted on foam so it stays straight for photos!
Reslly worth comparing Carney's speech with ... whatever this is.
Trump: “Dear Prime Minister Carney:
Please let this Letter serve to represent that the Board of Peace is withdrawing its invitation to you regarding Canada’s joining, what will be, the most prestigious Board of Leaders ever assembled, at any time.
Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
Please let this Letter serve to represent that the Board of Peace is withdrawing its invitation to you regarding Canada’s joining, what will be, the most prestigious Board of Leaders ever assembled, at any time.
Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
January 23, 2026 at 2:50 AM
Reslly worth comparing Carney's speech with ... whatever this is.
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Early press accounts, presumably informed by DHS, claimed that the teenage girl in the first photo and another teen passenger were arrested after "colliding" with a vehicle driven by federal immigration officials.
The second photo depicts the "collision."
(Both photos via Getty Images)
The second photo depicts the "collision."
(Both photos via Getty Images)
January 22, 2026 at 10:55 PM
Early press accounts, presumably informed by DHS, claimed that the teenage girl in the first photo and another teen passenger were arrested after "colliding" with a vehicle driven by federal immigration officials.
The second photo depicts the "collision."
(Both photos via Getty Images)
The second photo depicts the "collision."
(Both photos via Getty Images)
I really need to get my liberal manifesto ready!
The thing is, most books purporting to be about liberalism are bad! I'll try to give a few accessible titles for the interested reader. 🧵
The first is How to Be a Liberal, by @iandunt.bsky.social.
The thing is, most books purporting to be about liberalism are bad! I'll try to give a few accessible titles for the interested reader. 🧵
The first is How to Be a Liberal, by @iandunt.bsky.social.
I also feel like we need a 2026 "liberal Bible" so to speak. A book to remind us of the successes and traditions of liberalism compiled into one source. I'm reading many different books that all touch on liberalism/elaborate some political analysis, but I want something that summarizes it centrally
January 22, 2026 at 11:25 PM
I really need to get my liberal manifesto ready!
The thing is, most books purporting to be about liberalism are bad! I'll try to give a few accessible titles for the interested reader. 🧵
The first is How to Be a Liberal, by @iandunt.bsky.social.
The thing is, most books purporting to be about liberalism are bad! I'll try to give a few accessible titles for the interested reader. 🧵
The first is How to Be a Liberal, by @iandunt.bsky.social.
The things I would find patriotic Americans not guilty of right now ... Just sayin'.
#BREAKING: Federal jury finds Chicago man NOT GUILTY of offering $10K for the murder of U.S. Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino.
The trial of Juan Espinoza Martinez was the first to result from “Operation Midway Blitz”: chicago.suntimes.com/live/closing...
The trial of Juan Espinoza Martinez was the first to result from “Operation Midway Blitz”: chicago.suntimes.com/live/closing...
January 22, 2026 at 10:42 PM
The things I would find patriotic Americans not guilty of right now ... Just sayin'.
My favorite thing about Die Linke is that they're pretty unabashedly open borders.
German politics knowers: did the uber-sketchy russophiles leave the party along with BSW, or is that wishful thinking?
German politics knowers: did the uber-sketchy russophiles leave the party along with BSW, or is that wishful thinking?
January 22, 2026 at 10:15 PM
My favorite thing about Die Linke is that they're pretty unabashedly open borders.
German politics knowers: did the uber-sketchy russophiles leave the party along with BSW, or is that wishful thinking?
German politics knowers: did the uber-sketchy russophiles leave the party along with BSW, or is that wishful thinking?
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The grimness of US history should encourage us. Yes, people used to send lynching postcards. And other people saw that, worked towards building a more just society anyway, and succeeded beyond anyone's wildest imagination. There's more work to be done. What's our excuse for choosing despair instead?
I understand and appreciate the fact that for some it is genuinely uncomfortable and distracting to think about how grim US history is. yes, that is strategically relevant, and no, I wouldn't put "did you know people used to send lynching photos to each other as postcards?" on a recruitment flyer
January 22, 2026 at 7:18 PM
The grimness of US history should encourage us. Yes, people used to send lynching postcards. And other people saw that, worked towards building a more just society anyway, and succeeded beyond anyone's wildest imagination. There's more work to be done. What's our excuse for choosing despair instead?
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This is an important insight. Miller, Vance, and co see immigrants as the enemy, as the other. But they also see anyone siding with immigrants, citizen or not, as the enemy, too. And they want to make sure people see that aligning with immigrants makes you vulnerable to state violence.
The deeper issue is Miller and maybe Vance want people who are eager to show solidarity with immigrants to fear state violence.
They want us to fear Trump is capable of the worst.
I try to develop a theory of the moment here. 5/5
(h/t @radleybalko.bsky.social)
newrepublic.com/article/2055...
They want us to fear Trump is capable of the worst.
I try to develop a theory of the moment here. 5/5
(h/t @radleybalko.bsky.social)
newrepublic.com/article/2055...
January 22, 2026 at 7:47 PM
This is an important insight. Miller, Vance, and co see immigrants as the enemy, as the other. But they also see anyone siding with immigrants, citizen or not, as the enemy, too. And they want to make sure people see that aligning with immigrants makes you vulnerable to state violence.
As a Yankee I'm probably out of place to say this, but I would like to see the Green Party supplant Labour in the UK. And yes I think this should also involve some kind of Lib-Green union, because there are good folks among the LibDems.
Help us make hope normal again.
Join the Green Party now.
Join the Green Party now.
January 22, 2026 at 8:04 PM
As a Yankee I'm probably out of place to say this, but I would like to see the Green Party supplant Labour in the UK. And yes I think this should also involve some kind of Lib-Green union, because there are good folks among the LibDems.
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Class break. Mom reminded me our family's enslaver's descendant found our elders (my great-grandmother's people) as a young man decades ago because *he went looking for them.*
How many people think that way? "Let me go find those my family harmed and find out what I can do."
It's all about repair.
How many people think that way? "Let me go find those my family harmed and find out what I can do."
It's all about repair.
January 22, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Class break. Mom reminded me our family's enslaver's descendant found our elders (my great-grandmother's people) as a young man decades ago because *he went looking for them.*
How many people think that way? "Let me go find those my family harmed and find out what I can do."
It's all about repair.
How many people think that way? "Let me go find those my family harmed and find out what I can do."
It's all about repair.
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They drove the economy into a literal giant iceberg, I cannot
Vance on the economy:
"You don't turn the Titanic around overnight"
"You don't turn the Titanic around overnight"
January 22, 2026 at 7:09 PM
They drove the economy into a literal giant iceberg, I cannot
Call me old-fashioned. Remember when "Sex work is work" was a slogan with some currency? Retvrn.
Woman feels she has to apologize for being seen at a sporting event because of her (former) career.
By the mid-2010s I thought we'd reached a point where porn actors were seen as something like other celebrities, and sex workers were treated something close to everyday folks.
wtf happened?
By the mid-2010s I thought we'd reached a point where porn actors were seen as something like other celebrities, and sex workers were treated something close to everyday folks.
wtf happened?
the idea of a woman having to apologize for being seen in public because of her sexual history would have been unthinkable ten years ago. we've reverted SO MUCH on gender/feminism and Gen Z women have no idea what they're missing out on
January 22, 2026 at 7:09 PM
Call me old-fashioned. Remember when "Sex work is work" was a slogan with some currency? Retvrn.
Woman feels she has to apologize for being seen at a sporting event because of her (former) career.
By the mid-2010s I thought we'd reached a point where porn actors were seen as something like other celebrities, and sex workers were treated something close to everyday folks.
wtf happened?
By the mid-2010s I thought we'd reached a point where porn actors were seen as something like other celebrities, and sex workers were treated something close to everyday folks.
wtf happened?
the idea of a woman having to apologize for being seen in public because of her sexual history would have been unthinkable ten years ago. we've reverted SO MUCH on gender/feminism and Gen Z women have no idea what they're missing out on
This country hates women so much.
ca.news.yahoo.com/ex-porn-star...
ca.news.yahoo.com/ex-porn-star...
January 22, 2026 at 7:03 PM
Woman feels she has to apologize for being seen at a sporting event because of her (former) career.
By the mid-2010s I thought we'd reached a point where porn actors were seen as something like other celebrities, and sex workers were treated something close to everyday folks.
wtf happened?
By the mid-2010s I thought we'd reached a point where porn actors were seen as something like other celebrities, and sex workers were treated something close to everyday folks.
wtf happened?
We must abolish ICE, end qualified immunity for ICE agents, immediately halt funding & dismantle the systems of cruelty and oppression that have gotten us to this point.
January 22, 2026 at 6:43 PM
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Deporting children with cancer.
Using a 5-year-old as bait.
Shooting moms.
ICE is beyond reform. And today the House is voting to bankroll more terror. Hell no.
Using a 5-year-old as bait.
Shooting moms.
ICE is beyond reform. And today the House is voting to bankroll more terror. Hell no.
January 22, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Deporting children with cancer.
Using a 5-year-old as bait.
Shooting moms.
ICE is beyond reform. And today the House is voting to bankroll more terror. Hell no.
Using a 5-year-old as bait.
Shooting moms.
ICE is beyond reform. And today the House is voting to bankroll more terror. Hell no.
There is no excuse for Democratic lawmakers not to get on board #AbolishICE. @liccardo.house.gov @schiff.senate.gov @padilla.senate.gov
January 22, 2026 at 6:05 PM
There is no excuse for Democratic lawmakers not to get on board #AbolishICE. @liccardo.house.gov @schiff.senate.gov @padilla.senate.gov
This. When folks from all walks of life are bravely resisting oppression, they are *living* the aspirational vision of America. Honor that. This isn't inconsistent with recognizing America's deeply rooted history of violence. Many on the front lines are chewing this gum and walking at the same time!
my Blackest opinion is that the presumption of conflict between "America has a long and deeply rooted history of violence" and "we can and should fight against today's version of that, as did those who came before us" is less a philosophical debate about how to treat the past and more a skill issue
January 22, 2026 at 5:56 PM
This. When folks from all walks of life are bravely resisting oppression, they are *living* the aspirational vision of America. Honor that. This isn't inconsistent with recognizing America's deeply rooted history of violence. Many on the front lines are chewing this gum and walking at the same time!
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Respectfully, I am going to whisper to some of our white comrades a truth that should be more widely known: You definitely have some ancestors to be proud of, ancestors who refused white supremacy, and poured out their lives in many of these struggles over time.
Time to claim your true history.
Time to claim your true history.
January 17, 2026 at 7:29 PM
Respectfully, I am going to whisper to some of our white comrades a truth that should be more widely known: You definitely have some ancestors to be proud of, ancestors who refused white supremacy, and poured out their lives in many of these struggles over time.
Time to claim your true history.
Time to claim your true history.
If you want something to ward off doomerism, look to Minnesota. Americans are capable of standing up to oppression. Organization, community care, and a stiff upper lip.
Also I'm reminded I need to sign up for rapid response training.
Also I'm reminded I need to sign up for rapid response training.
I know people keep saying this but it’s hard to communicate the depth of active resistance here. Like, I’m on random cafes and people are checking in for observation shifts. Signs everywhere. Folks in visibility vests on the corners. It’s wild. Absolutely wild.
January 22, 2026 at 5:19 PM
If you want something to ward off doomerism, look to Minnesota. Americans are capable of standing up to oppression. Organization, community care, and a stiff upper lip.
Also I'm reminded I need to sign up for rapid response training.
Also I'm reminded I need to sign up for rapid response training.
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We set out to determine how many images of women and girls Grok created during its nudifying spree. What we found was “industrial-scale abuse,” experts said. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/t...
Musk’s Chatbot Flooded X With Millions of Sexualized Images in Days, New Estimates Show
www.nytimes.com
January 22, 2026 at 2:56 PM
We set out to determine how many images of women and girls Grok created during its nudifying spree. What we found was “industrial-scale abuse,” experts said. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/t...
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Wise words from WEB DuBois to gird us today: "It would be shame and cowardice to surrender this glorious land and its opportunities for civilization and humanity to the thugs and lynchers, the mobs and profiteers, the monopolists & gamblers who today choke its soul and steal its resources."
January 22, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Wise words from WEB DuBois to gird us today: "It would be shame and cowardice to surrender this glorious land and its opportunities for civilization and humanity to the thugs and lynchers, the mobs and profiteers, the monopolists & gamblers who today choke its soul and steal its resources."