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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
@sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com
associate editor at liberal currents. neonliberal. she/her.
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the end result of knowing basic things about urban planning is reacting to every news story by just constantly wanting to grab people by the collar while shaking them and shouting "do you have any idea how many Americans die in car crashes every year???"
February 6, 2026 at 5:34 PM
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the fact that early-stage automated vehicles that still occasionally require remote operation assistance are like several orders of magnitude safer than the average American driver should be the real wakeup call here, not the idea that these vehicles still sometimes need remote operation assistance
February 6, 2026 at 5:34 PM
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We're seeing a lot of divergence in the Twin Cities RR networks. The best ones have stayed relatively open, allow press on the line, and are not screening heavily, and are extremely active as a result. Others have locked down tightly and have shrunk enough to be considerably less effective.
February 6, 2026 at 7:03 PM
today's woke 2 take is that it is not enough to praise woke 1. it is not enough to criticize woke 1. woke 1 was a movement that changed the culture in profound ways. what is necessary is to understand both why woke 1 was so successful and why it ran out of steam
February 6, 2026 at 7:01 PM
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my 2028 primary take here is that if AOC makes a serious run it's hers to lose because I think she will be able to most credibly channel the rage of the primary voters
You know a politician is thinking about running for president when they start making moves on foreign policy: AOC will be headed to the Munich Security Conference and will speak in Berlin with a member of Germany's Social Democratic Party.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Steps Onto a Wider Stage
www.nytimes.com
February 6, 2026 at 6:18 PM
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The fights over social norms in the 2010s took on the pretense of being about procedure—“cancellation!” “due process!” “woke mobs!”—because the people who opposed Me Too and BLM didn’t want to avow their support of the underlying conduct. That was always a pretext, and now they’ve dropped it.
February 6, 2026 at 5:12 PM
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I really love this piece, as I firmly believe in the power of the arts to speak truth to power. The ruling class demand that artists now "shut up and sing" for them is revealing -- we are their servants, nothing more or less.
“You can sense, particularly from characters like Knowles, a cloying desperation to be seen as important, shiny media figures in their own right. They want the glow of stardom, and they hate the people who have it.” www.liberalcurrents.com/none-more-wo...
None More Wonderful Than Man: Art, Artists, and MAGA’s Hollow View of Humanity
MAGA sees art as nothing more than a tool of self-aggrandizement, and artists as less than human.
www.liberalcurrents.com
February 5, 2026 at 2:26 PM
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yeah, it's like *we* say go ahead and do whatever you want between consenting adults (within reason), while *they* insist that everyone should be forced into permanent hetero marriages while getting coked out of the skulls and fucking someone else's wife bsky.app/profile/cmer...
Hmmm I feel there's a value statement behind this, and maybe both are ok except for the pedo stuff, which indeed is pervasive on the Right, and the hypocrisy of it all?
February 6, 2026 at 3:42 PM
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odd feature of our time in how many liberals and progressive are bog standard monogamous family types--Serwer, Bouie, Hayes, AOC, etc--and how many Traditional Family Values conservatives are fuckin drugged up perverts
February 6, 2026 at 3:32 PM
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I feel like a lot of folks sharing this article didn't read it. People are acting like the cars are being remote driven & this has been hidden when the article makes clear it's the opposite.
It Turns Out Waymos Are Being Controlled by Workers in the Philippines
During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.
futurism.com
February 6, 2026 at 5:04 PM
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I got to interview IL Congresswoman Delia Ramirez about her proposals to dismantle DHS, abolish ICE, and redirect ICE funding to housing and healthcare for the communities it targeted. www.publicnotice.co/p/delia-rami...
Why Delia Ramirez thinks DHS needs to be dismantled
"Why would we ever want to give them more money to keep doing what they’re doing?"
www.publicnotice.co
February 6, 2026 at 4:57 PM
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The myth that the Bolsheviks seized power through violent insurrection colors the imagination of too many on the left today. As @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com argues, the history is quite the opposite.

To win, we need the power of the state, and violent insurrection is not the path to obtain it.
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 6, 2026 at 4:21 PM
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Substituting an imaginary, fake Trump into the story because writing about the real Trump and his actual actions would be very bad for Trump and not help him:
Have no fear, New York Times is ON IT.
February 6, 2026 at 1:46 PM
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its WaStancil, the Wario to Will’s Mario
Was this very mid-2000s emo person press-ganged into ICE servitude?
February 6, 2026 at 4:46 AM
[claremont voice] ordered liberty means it's illegal to be gay
February 6, 2026 at 4:30 AM
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zack snyder is basically like if christopher nolan was a juggalo
February 6, 2026 at 1:47 AM
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The fact that a Republican senator from Alabama of all places is trying to seed stories about how she’s secretly actually very concerned with how things are going is an indicator of how freaked out the smart cynics in the GOP caucus are regarding the anti-MAGA backlash
February 6, 2026 at 3:39 AM
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Hey @icegov.bsky.social I confess. Here is a list of my activities, which I believe you have deemed criminal and even terroristic. I can only assume those claims are real and not an attempt to intimidate lawful observers out of lawful activities, in which case you should arrest me and charge me.
February 6, 2026 at 3:38 AM
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Go for it!

Here’s what I’m doing:
-looking for federal agents
-following them on public roads
-blowing a whistle to alert people they’re there
-checking their cars against a known list of plates
-filming them
-sharing this info with neighbors

Arrest me and let’s find out if it’s illegal!
They are totally going to try and arrest @whstancil.bsky.social at some point
They text each other and have spreadsheets. scary
February 6, 2026 at 3:36 AM
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If he can only be happy in a relationship where you are in some way dependent or "inferior," he does not respect you.
February 6, 2026 at 3:32 AM
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If I had to give one piece of relationship advice to young women who are attracted to men, it would be to only date men you think would be fine with you making more. Nothing wrong with him making more or even you being a stay at home mom. But if he'd be triggered by you making more, he's a loser.
I don't know how many girls got psyoped into thinking being strong and independent was loser shit and the tradwife life was all fun and games, but any number above zero is too many.
February 6, 2026 at 3:31 AM
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you: oh hey the polls are back early what do they say

me: woke's back

you: what?

me: *loading a sten gun and getting in a sherman tank with a pride flag on the side* woke's back
Anti-woke messaging is a net negative among Democrats
February 5, 2026 at 11:42 PM
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Most of all this shows he was a dipshit like a huge portion of rich guys who hang out with FSB econ thought leader types whose job is mostly to get rich people prostitutes.

dossier.center/jeffreyepste...
Jeffrey Epstein’s Russian Connection:
Billionaire's ties with FSB Academy graduate revealed
dossier.center
February 5, 2026 at 11:49 PM
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The real issue here is that people credulously believed that populism was leftism.

That's what this comes down to. A willingness to believe populist rhetoric over the actual evidence of a candidate's words and actions.

Some folks got fleeced, and, years later, refused to admit it.
February 5, 2026 at 11:42 PM