Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
banner
sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com
Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
@sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com
associate editor at liberal currents. neonliberal. she/her.
Reposted by Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
I hadn’t known this. Two men who were accused of sexual abuse on the Shitty Media Men document that I created back in 2017 reached out to Michael Wolff for help as they looked to sue me, and Wolf forwarded their concerns to Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein offered to help. www.jmail.world/thread/EFTA0...
February 3, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Reposted by Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
@gelliottmorris.com continues to have been right about immigration as an electoral issue

www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...
February 3, 2026 at 5:59 PM
Reposted by Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
We have no idea where Yglesias got his numbers but they’re wrong. This debate has for so long been plagued by numbers basically pulled out of thin air

Right pic is from my and @adambonica.bsky.social’s response essay: www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...
February 3, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Reposted by Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
The fundamental thrust of totalitarianism is that the government dictates terms of how every aspect of every organization, as well as your own life, operates. The Soviet Union, the Nazis, the modern PRC, all have commissars in every org to ensure they follow the government political line.
Breaking news: The Pentagon issued a warning to Scouting America, formerly known as the Boy Scouts, saying the organization risks losing its long-standing partnership with the U.S. military unless it rapidly implements “core value reforms.”
Pentagon warns Scouts to restore ‘core values’ or lose military support
The relationship dates back decades, but Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has criticized the organization for allowing girls to join and changing its name from Boy Scouts.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 3, 2026 at 5:54 PM
Reposted by Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
the whole point of technology is to subvert "the natural order," because the natural order is disease and decay and suffering and famine
February 3, 2026 at 4:35 AM
Reposted by Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
This is all strongly reminiscent of YIMBY-versus-left-NIMBY politics in Sacramento, where a nontrivial part of the opposition to YIMBY bills is driven by the fact that they don't come from within The Family.
I guess the question we're all trying to answer here is whether organizing is supposed to be something you do to mobilize a bunch of people on behalf of a concrete goal or whether it's a sort of professional cartel for downwardly mobile PMC types.
February 3, 2026 at 5:09 PM
Reposted by Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
MAGA Adult Male assaults Texas High School students protesting ICE
February 3, 2026 at 12:31 PM
Reposted by Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
the promotion of this Nazi dumb-dumb as some sort of dissident intellectual by a swathe of centre to right figures in the last two years has been deeply fucking embarassing
I think Hanania must just be an idiot? The climax of American Beauty is Lester realizing how bad it would be to act out his fantasies about his daughter's best friend. The movie is not about how cool it is for dads to bag high school girls. Also Kevin Spacey is a personally notorious kid toucher
February 3, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Reposted by Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
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.
February 3, 2026 at 4:09 PM
i recently read @daphnelawless.com's (ominously prescient) 2016 essay "against conservative leftism," and this passage really hit me. lawless is clear about the dangers of wreckers and entryists and red-brownism... and yet

leftrenewal.org/articles-en/...
February 3, 2026 at 4:47 PM
spanish-ish lentils with sausage, roasted potatoes
February 3, 2026 at 4:39 PM
February 3, 2026 at 2:44 PM
Reposted by Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
ICE tear gassed a bunch of children on Saturday. This was a massive escalation of force. They were shooting tear gas at the back of the crowd, it took these unmasked people maybe 3-5 minutes in the cloud of tear gas to escape in without trampling. www.theverge.com/policy/87278...
ICE is afraid of children protesting
“Next time, I’ll be back with a gas mask.”
www.theverge.com
February 3, 2026 at 2:11 PM
wait. it's all status threat?
February 3, 2026 at 2:39 PM
anyways. some remarks on how i think about the (actual) strategy of resistance in our current era. do you want power? then think seriously about how you're going to get it.

www.liberalcurrents.com/from-powerle...
From Powerlessness to Power
We will not achieve any of our ultimate goals without exercising state power, and the most effective way to take state power is through nonviolent but confrontational resistance.
www.liberalcurrents.com
February 3, 2026 at 1:04 PM
the other side of talia's recent great essay on this dynamic in gender studies:

taliabhattwrites.substack.com/p/the-coloni...
February 3, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Reposted by Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
Factions everywhere, even when it's just a faction of one (it usually is more than that)
Going to quote my own argument here.

seeinfra.wordpress.com/2015/04/29/y...
February 3, 2026 at 12:56 PM
Reposted by Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
“Let us be clear: we want the power of the state. We wish to hold the criminals of the regime accountable. We wish to seize back the public funds looted by Trump and his cronies. We wish to undo the damage he has done to the government. More than any of that we wish to rebuild.”
From Powerlessness to Power
We will not achieve any of our ultimate goals without exercising state power, and the most effective way to take state power is through nonviolent but confrontational resistance.
www.liberalcurrents.com
February 2, 2026 at 11:04 AM
Reposted by Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
this particular line is maybe the best statement of purpose i have seen for those of us who want a more militant opposition to this administration
“Let us be clear: we want the power of the state. We wish to hold the criminals of the regime accountable. We wish to seize back the public funds looted by Trump and his cronies. We wish to undo the damage he has done to the government. More than any of that we wish to rebuild.”
From Powerlessness to Power
We will not achieve any of our ultimate goals without exercising state power, and the most effective way to take state power is through nonviolent but confrontational resistance.
www.liberalcurrents.com
February 2, 2026 at 12:34 PM
Reposted by Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
“Amar’s America is one utterly obsessed with decoding and depicting the founders, hailing their character and accomplishments and downplaying their faults.” www.liberalcurrents.com/who-owns-the...
Who Owns the Founding? Akhil Reed Amar’s "Born Equal: Remaking America's Constitution"
Amar's book is a useful history that nevertheless smooths over some of the real complexity of the eras it touches on.
www.liberalcurrents.com
February 3, 2026 at 11:04 AM
Reposted by Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
really glad that america voted for the epstein party to take control of congress, the white house, and the supreme court

www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-t...
January 30, 2026 at 7:05 PM
Reposted by Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
They're literally running out of lawyers in a state where the district judges are practically at war with the administration.
BREAKING: 8 more U.S. Attorneys in MN resign from Trump’s DOJ in protest as backlash grows.
This isn’t normal; isn’t routine reshuffling. It’s a rebellion.
Last month, 6 veteran prosecutors quit in protest. Normal staffing for the MN DOJ’s office is around 50 attorneys. They’re down to just 9.
February 3, 2026 at 5:16 AM
Reposted by Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
Why start in the colonial period? Because mechanisms of incentivizing certain migrant streams and disincentivizing others are pioneered in the colonial period, carried over & continued in the early republic. Some aspects of today's US immigration law like "public charge" is form the colonial era.
The Table of Contents is up for my book. For the nerds, the chapts are named for the central argument, not the time periods. The 1st is on the colonial period, 2nd Revo War era, 3rd is Founding, 4-6 on the 19th century. Pre-order here for a March 24 delivery: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
February 3, 2026 at 12:47 PM
i guess i would like to hear the theory on which setting fire to a random dumpster advances the cause of stopping ice
February 3, 2026 at 12:42 PM