Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
@sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com
associate editor at liberal currents. neonliberal. she/her.
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In my opinion these people are the real heroes of the resistance to ICE. There’s no credit, no one can talk about their work (because they directly contact vulnerable families). It’s expensive and dreary and neverending. ICE follows them around. But they refuse to abandon their neighbors
This is what one afternoon drop looks like for one (1) Minneapolis mutual aid distributor (read: random mom who wants to help families at her kids’ schools)
February 4, 2026 at 5:26 PM
In my opinion these people are the real heroes of the resistance to ICE. There’s no credit, no one can talk about their work (because they directly contact vulnerable families). It’s expensive and dreary and neverending. ICE follows them around. But they refuse to abandon their neighbors
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“If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Pursued by federal agents, suburban ICE observers remain resolved
After a frightening pursuit by federal agents, suburban ICE observers say fear hasn’t stopped them from protecting their communities.
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February 4, 2026 at 3:45 PM
“If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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Consider Target - they thought they were making a good business decision by axing all the Pride merch, getting rid of all the "woke" signifiers. But it turns out the market actually really likes that stuff and gets mad when you make a big deal of tossing it.
February 4, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Consider Target - they thought they were making a good business decision by axing all the Pride merch, getting rid of all the "woke" signifiers. But it turns out the market actually really likes that stuff and gets mad when you make a big deal of tossing it.
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People keep saying Bezos wrecked the Post on purpose but he could have just done that if he wanted to, no need to drag it out for years. I think he and his fellow traveler billionaires have thoroughly cooked their worldview and honestly believe there is a vast, silent, ignored right wing audience
February 4, 2026 at 4:30 PM
People keep saying Bezos wrecked the Post on purpose but he could have just done that if he wanted to, no need to drag it out for years. I think he and his fellow traveler billionaires have thoroughly cooked their worldview and honestly believe there is a vast, silent, ignored right wing audience
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But whoever we get MUST tap into that rage and hatred before it turns into exhaustion and channel it into a reconstructive project or this only ends the bad way.
February 4, 2026 at 3:29 PM
But whoever we get MUST tap into that rage and hatred before it turns into exhaustion and channel it into a reconstructive project or this only ends the bad way.
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MacKenzie Scott should publicly offer to buy Washington Post
February 4, 2026 at 3:24 PM
MacKenzie Scott should publicly offer to buy Washington Post
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Ya that's a good strategy bsky.app/profile/lxtr...
How about "Do good things and then cut really slick tiktok/reels/yt short videos bragging about them"
February 4, 2026 at 4:49 AM
Ya that's a good strategy bsky.app/profile/lxtr...
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There is no return to normalcy, but the beginning of a generational project to rebuild the United States into something else and ideally better.
In any other version of this, the detention centers become death camps and we find out just how hot the American Years of Lead will be.
In any other version of this, the detention centers become death camps and we find out just how hot the American Years of Lead will be.
February 4, 2026 at 3:26 PM
There is no return to normalcy, but the beginning of a generational project to rebuild the United States into something else and ideally better.
In any other version of this, the detention centers become death camps and we find out just how hot the American Years of Lead will be.
In any other version of this, the detention centers become death camps and we find out just how hot the American Years of Lead will be.
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For all the “drawdown” talk ICE continues to be all over Minneapolis. Feels endless
February 4, 2026 at 3:24 PM
For all the “drawdown” talk ICE continues to be all over Minneapolis. Feels endless
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So don't buy a gun. You're not going to out-shoot BORTAC. You're not going to out-opsec the FBI. You're not facing a civilian paramilitary that operates at arm's length from the government. Armed insurgency is not a winning strategy for us.
Resistance is.
Elections are the people, speaking.
Resistance is.
Elections are the people, speaking.
the bolsheviks have remained a touchstone for a hundred years, because they were leftists, and they won.
how did they achieve this?
www.liberalcurrents.com/from-powerle...
how did they achieve this?
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 4, 2026 at 3:01 AM
So don't buy a gun. You're not going to out-shoot BORTAC. You're not going to out-opsec the FBI. You're not facing a civilian paramilitary that operates at arm's length from the government. Armed insurgency is not a winning strategy for us.
Resistance is.
Elections are the people, speaking.
Resistance is.
Elections are the people, speaking.
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The Religious Right was worried about the gays meanwhile their leaders are pedophile rapists and their representatives having drug fueled orgies.
February 4, 2026 at 2:21 AM
The Religious Right was worried about the gays meanwhile their leaders are pedophile rapists and their representatives having drug fueled orgies.
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This is unreal. An AUSA talking like that in open court is about as close as you can come to a total breakdown. Never heard of anything like it.
February 3, 2026 at 8:46 PM
This is unreal. An AUSA talking like that in open court is about as close as you can come to a total breakdown. Never heard of anything like it.
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The scariest part of last year was the bit between the death of Charlie Kirk on 9/11's Eve and the October shutdown. That three week period in September was one of the scariest times in my life.
February 4, 2026 at 1:52 AM
The scariest part of last year was the bit between the death of Charlie Kirk on 9/11's Eve and the October shutdown. That three week period in September was one of the scariest times in my life.
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“Ordinary, salt of the earth people would never tolerate a sexual abuser in their midst. Now time to take a big sip of coffee and respond to this group text with my old fraternity brothers.”
February 4, 2026 at 1:53 AM
“Ordinary, salt of the earth people would never tolerate a sexual abuser in their midst. Now time to take a big sip of coffee and respond to this group text with my old fraternity brothers.”
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This indifference or enthusiasm for sexual violence is a cultural pathology born of misogyny, not a peculiar or unique degeneracy of the rich. You know people who have responded to rape like that.
February 4, 2026 at 1:52 AM
This indifference or enthusiasm for sexual violence is a cultural pathology born of misogyny, not a peculiar or unique degeneracy of the rich. You know people who have responded to rape like that.
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I understand the reasons why it’s more jarring and consequential to see it happen among billionaires, but the kind of shrugging disinterest or impishly approving encouragement of sexual abuse among Epstein’s circle is the same dynamic that happens in less powerful milieus.
February 4, 2026 at 1:52 AM
I understand the reasons why it’s more jarring and consequential to see it happen among billionaires, but the kind of shrugging disinterest or impishly approving encouragement of sexual abuse among Epstein’s circle is the same dynamic that happens in less powerful milieus.
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Kidding, sort of, but this is the actual strategic problem imo with a lot of property destruction tactics, at least in the US.
Totally apart from the issue of local community response (people usually find it alienating) the tactic becomes the conversation instead of the issue you're protesting.
Totally apart from the issue of local community response (people usually find it alienating) the tactic becomes the conversation instead of the issue you're protesting.
February 4, 2026 at 1:50 AM
Kidding, sort of, but this is the actual strategic problem imo with a lot of property destruction tactics, at least in the US.
Totally apart from the issue of local community response (people usually find it alienating) the tactic becomes the conversation instead of the issue you're protesting.
Totally apart from the issue of local community response (people usually find it alienating) the tactic becomes the conversation instead of the issue you're protesting.
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Increasingly polarized into opposing dumpster fire tactics not even on principle as because I never want to see a dumpster fire tactical debate post again ever for the rest of my life.
February 4, 2026 at 1:47 AM
Increasingly polarized into opposing dumpster fire tactics not even on principle as because I never want to see a dumpster fire tactical debate post again ever for the rest of my life.
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Unhelpful distortion and binary thinking. That book says no such thing. It’s more like, nonviolence was the public strategy that won the moral and legal war, armed self-defense was the private reality that kept the organizers alive long enough to win it.
Oh and lastly everything libs are taught in school about how the civil rights movement is basically wrong www.amazon.com/This-Nonviol...
This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible
This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible [Cobb Jr., Charles E.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible
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February 3, 2026 at 11:51 PM
Unhelpful distortion and binary thinking. That book says no such thing. It’s more like, nonviolence was the public strategy that won the moral and legal war, armed self-defense was the private reality that kept the organizers alive long enough to win it.
okay heads up: if you say "tescreal" unironically i'm just going to consider everything else you say to be unimportant
February 4, 2026 at 1:36 AM
okay heads up: if you say "tescreal" unironically i'm just going to consider everything else you say to be unimportant
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I have confirmed the gist of this report out of federal court in Minnesota today from a source familiar.
If you have more information about the District of Minnesota—either the court or the U.S. Attorney's Office—and how they are handling all of this, please reach out. I am at crg.32 on Signal.
If you have more information about the District of Minnesota—either the court or the U.S. Attorney's Office—and how they are handling all of this, please reach out. I am at crg.32 on Signal.
February 3, 2026 at 9:38 PM
I have confirmed the gist of this report out of federal court in Minnesota today from a source familiar.
If you have more information about the District of Minnesota—either the court or the U.S. Attorney's Office—and how they are handling all of this, please reach out. I am at crg.32 on Signal.
If you have more information about the District of Minnesota—either the court or the U.S. Attorney's Office—and how they are handling all of this, please reach out. I am at crg.32 on Signal.
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Remember the incident where DHS claimed officers shot a guy because he attacked them with a snow shovel?
Yeah. It didn't happen. They shot him through the door of his own home. And then arrested him. And then lied about it. Again.
And they almost shot some kids in the process.
Yeah. It didn't happen. They shot him through the door of his own home. And then arrested him. And then lied about it. Again.
And they almost shot some kids in the process.
They just blindly shot through the fucking door.
"Additional photographs show damage consistent with a bullet fragment lodged in a bedroom wall down the hallway — suggesting it traveled between a mattress and a portable crib in a room where several small children sleep."
"Additional photographs show damage consistent with a bullet fragment lodged in a bedroom wall down the hallway — suggesting it traveled between a mattress and a portable crib in a room where several small children sleep."
"Photographic evidence from the shooting scene of a Venezuelan man by federal agents last month in Minneapolis supports the account of witnesses there – and appears to undercut the narrative provided by federal officials." www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
February 3, 2026 at 11:33 PM
Remember the incident where DHS claimed officers shot a guy because he attacked them with a snow shovel?
Yeah. It didn't happen. They shot him through the door of his own home. And then arrested him. And then lied about it. Again.
And they almost shot some kids in the process.
Yeah. It didn't happen. They shot him through the door of his own home. And then arrested him. And then lied about it. Again.
And they almost shot some kids in the process.
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it is really easy as Americans in 2026 to think that our current crop of organizers and activists are uniquely annoying, intractable, and brain-poisoned: they’re really not.
February 4, 2026 at 1:30 AM
it is really easy as Americans in 2026 to think that our current crop of organizers and activists are uniquely annoying, intractable, and brain-poisoned: they’re really not.
yeah telos is bad. telos is always bad. sorry virtue ethicists but also not sorry
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February 4, 2026 at 1:29 AM
yeah telos is bad. telos is always bad. sorry virtue ethicists but also not sorry
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