Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
@sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com
associate editor at liberal currents. neonliberal. she/her.
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I’m starting to think spending twenty hours a day getting egged on by other hyper politically engaged mentally ill people isn’t good for any of us.
February 3, 2026 at 3:23 AM
I’m starting to think spending twenty hours a day getting egged on by other hyper politically engaged mentally ill people isn’t good for any of us.
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one of the things i try to get at in this piece is how many people have imbibed a totally false history of how the russian revolution happened. the bolsheviks tried armed insurrection and got *crushed.* they succeeded when they worked by other means!
www.liberalcurrents.com/from-powerle...
www.liberalcurrents.com/from-powerle...
February 2, 2026 at 2:02 PM
one of the things i try to get at in this piece is how many people have imbibed a totally false history of how the russian revolution happened. the bolsheviks tried armed insurrection and got *crushed.* they succeeded when they worked by other means!
www.liberalcurrents.com/from-powerle...
www.liberalcurrents.com/from-powerle...
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Last week was on a call with some childhood friends who were despairing about how we would get out of this. Just shared with them this excellent piece from @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com in @liberalcurrents.com that goes down the road we discussed. There is hope, and we have a direction.
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.
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February 2, 2026 at 11:40 PM
Last week was on a call with some childhood friends who were despairing about how we would get out of this. Just shared with them this excellent piece from @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com in @liberalcurrents.com that goes down the road we discussed. There is hope, and we have a direction.
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February 2, 2026 at 10:55 PM
Join us May 8 and 9 for a weekend about liberalism, ethics, religion, and the good.
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This tweet undersells the article. This is a prescription of what needs to be done in the next dem administration and each ensuing section will have you yelling Hell Yeah louder than the one before.
the thing is, i think pete is fundamentally right: after the chaos of trump II, there will be an opportunity to rebuild things which have been broken for a long time. but doing that *well* will require a deeper analysis of what's gone wrong in our country.
www.liberalcurrents.com/reforging-am...
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Reforging America
A new order for America must involve a comprehensive reconstruction of our political, economic, and civic infrastructure.
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February 2, 2026 at 11:02 PM
This tweet undersells the article. This is a prescription of what needs to be done in the next dem administration and each ensuing section will have you yelling Hell Yeah louder than the one before.
[looks around] you know? tonight? words to live by
February 2, 2026 at 11:04 PM
[looks around] you know? tonight? words to live by
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*raises hand timidly* Um...hi. I'm Puerto Rican, and I care? So do my Puerto Rican parents and sister? It's trivially easy to dismiss that sort of thing when "being American" isn't something they're trying to take away from you, with profound consequences.
And, we do *want* our citizenship.
And, we do *want* our citizenship.
February 2, 2026 at 10:55 PM
*raises hand timidly* Um...hi. I'm Puerto Rican, and I care? So do my Puerto Rican parents and sister? It's trivially easy to dismiss that sort of thing when "being American" isn't something they're trying to take away from you, with profound consequences.
And, we do *want* our citizenship.
And, we do *want* our citizenship.
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Beyond being bad for affordability, I think discretionary approvals process are socially/morally destructive for this reason—they turn seemingly normal, well-adjusted people into monsters.
February 2, 2026 at 10:46 PM
Beyond being bad for affordability, I think discretionary approvals process are socially/morally destructive for this reason—they turn seemingly normal, well-adjusted people into monsters.
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free_speech "tactics and strategy and objectives are different things"
‘Isn’t it interesting how protestors are always vindicated 20 years later?’ was such irritating smug midwit shit. Protestors are wrong all the fucking time.
this was also when people were doing 'students are always on the right side politically throughout the whole of history' a lot.
February 2, 2026 at 10:08 PM
free_speech "tactics and strategy and objectives are different things"
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Hey. You should read Samantha's excellent essay. And if you like it, you should consider signing up to get more @liberalcurrents.com essays like it in your inbox.
February 2, 2026 at 9:43 PM
Hey. You should read Samantha's excellent essay. And if you like it, you should consider signing up to get more @liberalcurrents.com essays like it in your inbox.
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this is good. I’d add that I think masking has an internal psychological element too, it’s part of how the ICE chuds psych themselves up to do crimes
February 2, 2026 at 8:46 PM
this is good. I’d add that I think masking has an internal psychological element too, it’s part of how the ICE chuds psych themselves up to do crimes
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Reading "Lenin was a poaster" was like driving at highway speeds and then suddenly shifting into second gear
February 2, 2026 at 1:42 PM
Reading "Lenin was a poaster" was like driving at highway speeds and then suddenly shifting into second gear
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If you were designing an op to discredit protest you could not do better than this
February 2, 2026 at 7:37 PM
If you were designing an op to discredit protest you could not do better than this
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“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
“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.”
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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
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
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Yeah no. Don’t set random fires in my neighborhood. People live here actually
The general etiquette is diversity of tactics; that if you’re not into setting fires, you stand back and don’t set fires; other people might and you don’t film them, because your film could be subpoenaed as evidence.
February 2, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Yeah no. Don’t set random fires in my neighborhood. People live here actually
"let me make my reading comprehension issues your problem"
many such cases
many such cases
February 2, 2026 at 6:32 PM
"let me make my reading comprehension issues your problem"
many such cases
many such cases
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there is no point in *arguing for* violence over nonviolence. your job is to lose that argument.
February 2, 2026 at 5:18 PM
there is no point in *arguing for* violence over nonviolence. your job is to lose that argument.
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Right, even accepting the need for a deniable violent wing, if you’ve staked out your position as the violent, deniable wing of the movement, you need to accept being denied by the nonviolent mainstream wing.
February 2, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Right, even accepting the need for a deniable violent wing, if you’ve staked out your position as the violent, deniable wing of the movement, you need to accept being denied by the nonviolent mainstream wing.
really cannot emphasize enough how devoid of content andrews' thinking is
www.theunpopulist.net/p/no-sweethe...
www.theunpopulist.net/p/no-sweethe...
February 2, 2026 at 6:19 PM
really cannot emphasize enough how devoid of content andrews' thinking is
www.theunpopulist.net/p/no-sweethe...
www.theunpopulist.net/p/no-sweethe...
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We only want the good immigrants who study hard and don't commit crimes, unless they try to take little Brayleigh's (28 ACT, 1350 SAT) God-given slot at an Ivy away by being smarter, in which case Korematsu didn't go far enough
February 2, 2026 at 5:14 PM
We only want the good immigrants who study hard and don't commit crimes, unless they try to take little Brayleigh's (28 ACT, 1350 SAT) God-given slot at an Ivy away by being smarter, in which case Korematsu didn't go far enough
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"white flight is justified because the perfidious oriental is just built better" apply the same logic to the great feminization. andrews is just a right wing valerie solanas
We only want the good immigrants who study hard and don't commit crimes, unless they try to take little Brayleigh's (28 ACT, 1350 SAT) God-given slot at an Ivy away by being smarter, in which case Korematsu didn't go far enough
February 2, 2026 at 5:43 PM
"white flight is justified because the perfidious oriental is just built better" apply the same logic to the great feminization. andrews is just a right wing valerie solanas
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"We must ready ourselves for more extreme measures. They may attempt to physically block us from voting. We will stop them. In extremis they may try to destroy ballots. We must be ready, with citizens actively following federal agents and monitoring election facilities.”
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 5:30 PM
"We must ready ourselves for more extreme measures. They may attempt to physically block us from voting. We will stop them. In extremis they may try to destroy ballots. We must be ready, with citizens actively following federal agents and monitoring election facilities.”
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"it matters a lot who takes power and what they plan to do with it"
right - critics evaluate 'reconstruction' as election messaging, rather than the *strategic goal*
www.liberalcurrents.com/from-powerle...
right - critics evaluate 'reconstruction' as election messaging, rather than the *strategic goal*
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 2, 2026 at 5:08 PM
"it matters a lot who takes power and what they plan to do with it"
right - critics evaluate 'reconstruction' as election messaging, rather than the *strategic goal*
www.liberalcurrents.com/from-powerle...
right - critics evaluate 'reconstruction' as election messaging, rather than the *strategic goal*
www.liberalcurrents.com/from-powerle...