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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Unpopular dude, unpopular party
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Few Voters Say Trump’s Second Term Has Made the Country Better, Poll Finds
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January 22, 2026 at 12:19 PM
Unpopular dude, unpopular party
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Anyway this is also silly because abolish ICE is only going to be more and more popular as this shit goes on. The messaging literally doesn't matter at all if there's chaos in the streets. If I were an incumbent politician my biggest worry would be being left behind
January 22, 2026 at 6:29 AM
Anyway this is also silly because abolish ICE is only going to be more and more popular as this shit goes on. The messaging literally doesn't matter at all if there's chaos in the streets. If I were an incumbent politician my biggest worry would be being left behind
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Nasra Ahmed, a 23-year-old US citizen, was arrested and detained by ICE. She was held for TWO DAYS.
ICE agents handcuffed her, called her a racial slur, and she was knocked to the ground so hard she got a concussion.
This cannot continue happening. ICE needs to leave.
ICE agents handcuffed her, called her a racial slur, and she was knocked to the ground so hard she got a concussion.
This cannot continue happening. ICE needs to leave.
January 22, 2026 at 1:42 AM
Nasra Ahmed, a 23-year-old US citizen, was arrested and detained by ICE. She was held for TWO DAYS.
ICE agents handcuffed her, called her a racial slur, and she was knocked to the ground so hard she got a concussion.
This cannot continue happening. ICE needs to leave.
ICE agents handcuffed her, called her a racial slur, and she was knocked to the ground so hard she got a concussion.
This cannot continue happening. ICE needs to leave.
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"However, several sex workers testified against the bill, saying they believe it would not help them and would cause harm." www.king5.com/article/news...
Lawmakers push to toughen sex trafficking laws in Washington before World Cup
Washington lawmakers are pushing to toughen sex trafficking laws before the World Cup in June.
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January 22, 2026 at 2:27 AM
"However, several sex workers testified against the bill, saying they believe it would not help them and would cause harm." www.king5.com/article/news...
If this were happening in another country, we would call it what it is: ethnic cleansing.
DHS is crudely referring to its newest crackdown in Maine as “Operation Catch of the Day,” preparing to hunt and catch immigrants like lobsters.
Maine’s two biggest cities, Portland and Lewiston, have large Somali populations, and were already on edge. trib.al/OzwC1S7
Maine’s two biggest cities, Portland and Lewiston, have large Somali populations, and were already on edge. trib.al/OzwC1S7
January 22, 2026 at 2:27 AM
If this were happening in another country, we would call it what it is: ethnic cleansing.
May they never piss in peace until they rest in piss.
Border Patrol agents are very sad that everyone in Minnesota hates them.
“At each gas station where the agents stopped to use the restroom, groups of agitators appeared, yelled at them, stalked them, and even tried to prevent law enforcement vehicles from leaving…”
“At each gas station where the agents stopped to use the restroom, groups of agitators appeared, yelled at them, stalked them, and even tried to prevent law enforcement vehicles from leaving…”
January 22, 2026 at 2:12 AM
May they never piss in peace until they rest in piss.
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What did he think "MASS DEPORTATION NOW" meant.
It was always going to be this bad. If not, it wouldn't be a mass deportation effort.
It was always going to be this bad. If not, it wouldn't be a mass deportation effort.
DIMON: “.. I don’t like what I’m seeing, five grown men beating up a little old lady. So I think we should calm down a little bit on the internal anger about immigration.”
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January 22, 2026 at 1:47 AM
What did he think "MASS DEPORTATION NOW" meant.
It was always going to be this bad. If not, it wouldn't be a mass deportation effort.
It was always going to be this bad. If not, it wouldn't be a mass deportation effort.
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are they not monsters?
January 22, 2026 at 12:08 AM
are they not monsters?
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& Schumer and Jeffries would be doing a major service, not only to the Dem party, but the country, if they tear up think tank memos they’re passing around written by jittery Dem strategists “if we say abolish ice, they’ll think we’re soft on immigration!”
@ddayen.bsky.social has good reporting
& Schumer and Jeffries would be doing a major service, not only to the Dem party, but the country, if they tear up think tank memos they’re passing around written by jittery Dem strategists “if we say abolish ice, they’ll think we’re soft on immigration!”
@ddayen.bsky.social has good reporting
January 22, 2026 at 1:41 AM
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& Schumer and Jeffries would be doing a major service, not only to the Dem party, but the country, if they tear up think tank memos they’re passing around written by jittery Dem strategists “if we say abolish ice, they’ll think we’re soft on immigration!”
@ddayen.bsky.social has good reporting
& Schumer and Jeffries would be doing a major service, not only to the Dem party, but the country, if they tear up think tank memos they’re passing around written by jittery Dem strategists “if we say abolish ice, they’ll think we’re soft on immigration!”
@ddayen.bsky.social has good reporting
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New Strength In Numbers/ @verasight.io poll out this morning (conducted Jan 14–20). Democrats start 2026 with their biggest lead yet on the House generic ballot yet — D 51 / R 43 (D+8) among registered voters. Trump losing ground on immigration and deportations www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-t...
New poll: Trump loses ground on immigration; Dems lead 2026 House vote by 8 points
The new Strength In Numbers/Verasight poll finds Democrats start 2026 with their biggest lead yet on the 2026 House vote, while Trump approval sinks on immigration, deportations, and public safety
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January 21, 2026 at 2:45 PM
New Strength In Numbers/ @verasight.io poll out this morning (conducted Jan 14–20). Democrats start 2026 with their biggest lead yet on the House generic ballot yet — D 51 / R 43 (D+8) among registered voters. Trump losing ground on immigration and deportations www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-t...
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Abolish ICE.
January 22, 2026 at 12:59 AM
Abolish ICE.
I take the point here, and I don't begrudge purple district Dems from using this talking point, but there is a danger in divorcing ICE from immigration. There is a *reason* that Trump's lawless secret police was born out of immigration enforcement.
I would argue that the case for dismantling ICE has, at this point, virtually nothing to do with larger questions of immigration enforcement and reform, it's just clearly incompatible with a free and democratic society to maintain a secret police force with sweeping and arbitrary authority.
Senator Gallego weighs in as well. Note that at the start of 2025 he was considered a *moderate* on immigration and co-sponsored the Laken Riley Act. Him and many other Dems have been increasingly horrified at what ICE is doing and shifted away from a "more enforcement" focus.
January 22, 2026 at 12:53 AM
I take the point here, and I don't begrudge purple district Dems from using this talking point, but there is a danger in divorcing ICE from immigration. There is a *reason* that Trump's lawless secret police was born out of immigration enforcement.
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state-sponsored child trafficking
This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.
January 21, 2026 at 11:25 PM
state-sponsored child trafficking
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i'm putting the "pissed" into "episteme"
January 21, 2026 at 11:25 PM
i'm putting the "pissed" into "episteme"
Does anyone know of an official list of organizations that advocate abolishing ICE?
January 21, 2026 at 11:15 PM
Does anyone know of an official list of organizations that advocate abolishing ICE?
This is torture.
We tortured people in the "War on Terror" and it was indefensible and brought us shame. Yet at least ostensibly it was for information.
This is cruelty for the sake of cruelty. Pure evil.
We tortured people in the "War on Terror" and it was indefensible and brought us shame. Yet at least ostensibly it was for information.
This is cruelty for the sake of cruelty. Pure evil.
An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune
January 21, 2026 at 11:13 PM
This is torture.
We tortured people in the "War on Terror" and it was indefensible and brought us shame. Yet at least ostensibly it was for information.
This is cruelty for the sake of cruelty. Pure evil.
We tortured people in the "War on Terror" and it was indefensible and brought us shame. Yet at least ostensibly it was for information.
This is cruelty for the sake of cruelty. Pure evil.
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Many people said you needed to act immediately in 2021 before Democratic inertia and Republican cultism whipped into full force. Instead Garland delayed and dawdled, seemingly with no intent at all of securing a real indictment, before washing his hands of the matter handing it to a real prosecutor
We did actually indict him though. That is a thing that happened. Twice.
Genuinely shocking to me that this same crew of people have spent a decade trying to convince us that Dems are relentlessly fighting Trump and in fact couldn’t have fought harder, somehow including a period where Dems had total control of the government and their AG wouldn’t even prosecute him
January 21, 2026 at 10:57 PM
Many people said you needed to act immediately in 2021 before Democratic inertia and Republican cultism whipped into full force. Instead Garland delayed and dawdled, seemingly with no intent at all of securing a real indictment, before washing his hands of the matter handing it to a real prosecutor
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when this is all over Stancil and the Minnesota activists will be able to make a hell of a documentary with footage like this
let's make sure it's a triumphant one, and back our heroes in the streets. Thanks for all you're doing, Will, and pass that on to your comrades
let's make sure it's a triumphant one, and back our heroes in the streets. Thanks for all you're doing, Will, and pass that on to your comrades
look what they’re doing to my city. apologies for the camerawork
January 21, 2026 at 10:58 PM
when this is all over Stancil and the Minnesota activists will be able to make a hell of a documentary with footage like this
let's make sure it's a triumphant one, and back our heroes in the streets. Thanks for all you're doing, Will, and pass that on to your comrades
let's make sure it's a triumphant one, and back our heroes in the streets. Thanks for all you're doing, Will, and pass that on to your comrades
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SHGAPE is proud to announce the winner of the Presidents' Book Prize. Please join us in celebrating
Dr. Manisha Sinha and her amazing book, The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860–1920. Pick up a copy of her book!
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Dr. Manisha Sinha and her amazing book, The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860–1920. Pick up a copy of her book!
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Presidents’ Book Prize - SHGAPE
Presidents’ Book Prize The Presidents’ Book Prize is awarded in even-numbered years for the best book treating any aspect of United States history in the period 1865-1920s. It must be the author’s sec...
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January 21, 2026 at 10:20 PM
SHGAPE is proud to announce the winner of the Presidents' Book Prize. Please join us in celebrating
Dr. Manisha Sinha and her amazing book, The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860–1920. Pick up a copy of her book!
www.shgape.org/prizes-award...
Dr. Manisha Sinha and her amazing book, The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860–1920. Pick up a copy of her book!
www.shgape.org/prizes-award...
Just gonna assume The Economist used Grok to denude Trump.
(This is not me making fun of the Economist. It's a good cover.)
(This is not me making fun of the Economist. It's a good cover.)
The Greenland crisis holds lessons for all countries. America’s friends need to prepare for a world in which they are alone and NATO is no more: econ.st/4pMUXSB
January 21, 2026 at 10:22 PM
Just gonna assume The Economist used Grok to denude Trump.
(This is not me making fun of the Economist. It's a good cover.)
(This is not me making fun of the Economist. It's a good cover.)
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I didn't know who @polphilpod.bsky.social was before this year, but he's rapidly become one of the few writers who consistently makes sense to me. Feels like stumbling on a oasis in the desert.
Anyway, I strongly endorse every word of this piece:
Anyway, I strongly endorse every word of this piece:
Liberalism Did Not Fail, Conservatism Did
We are moving from an ideologically multipolar world, to a bipolar one.
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January 21, 2026 at 8:06 PM
I didn't know who @polphilpod.bsky.social was before this year, but he's rapidly become one of the few writers who consistently makes sense to me. Feels like stumbling on a oasis in the desert.
Anyway, I strongly endorse every word of this piece:
Anyway, I strongly endorse every word of this piece:
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This is a phenomenal critical profile of the infinitely detestable Stephen Miller by @gregsargent.bsky.social in @theunpopulist.net
Stephen Miller’s Assault on America’s Immigrant Legacy: Part I
The man whose Russian Jewish ancestors fled persecution now oversees a sweeping deportation machine designed to terrorize immigrant families
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January 21, 2026 at 5:28 PM
This is a phenomenal critical profile of the infinitely detestable Stephen Miller by @gregsargent.bsky.social in @theunpopulist.net
I think this is right. But I'd stress that every delay is valuable. Time is ultimately running out for Trump, in many ways.
We'll see, but I don't think the apparent TACO on Greenland will last long. It's just another case of "last person he talked to," and that won't be the Europeans once he's back at the West Wing / Mar-a-Lago. For their own anti-NATO reasons, too many in the inner circle are determined to push this.
January 21, 2026 at 8:10 PM
I think this is right. But I'd stress that every delay is valuable. Time is ultimately running out for Trump, in many ways.
I'm just saying that there's a ready market for an animated musical film where Huntrix fights and slays an insurrectionist dictator, who of course turns out to be a demon lord with the power to magnify racism, misogyny, and other base urges, and who is impervious to shame. Instant blockbuster.
If recent trends in popular culture hold, we can expect the South Korean innovation of "putting your insane president in jail" to make its way to America in 3-5 years.
January 21, 2026 at 7:44 PM
I'm just saying that there's a ready market for an animated musical film where Huntrix fights and slays an insurrectionist dictator, who of course turns out to be a demon lord with the power to magnify racism, misogyny, and other base urges, and who is impervious to shame. Instant blockbuster.
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This should be something that even Republicans should be scared and, frankly, humiliated by.
This should be something that even Republicans should be scared and, frankly, humiliated by.
Even after Trump is gone, the world will remember that he threatened to forcibly seize the territory of a peaceful democratic ally, and our institutions failed to immediately remove him. That makes US dangerously unreliable, not just one senile gangster.
His not being impeached by the end of the business day as a result of this threat is as much a problem as the threat itself. It’s not just Trump that the world has to worry about, it’s a GOP that supports him and Democrats who suck their thumbs and refuse to even discuss pushing to remove him
January 21, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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This should be something that even Republicans should be scared and, frankly, humiliated by.
This should be something that even Republicans should be scared and, frankly, humiliated by.