Dennis Lytton
@dennislytton.bsky.social
Los Angeles is home. Pro democracy reform (proportional representation & reigning in imperial POTUS), unabashedly liberal and in the fight. Anti Trump.
All things pax train 🚆 ops & safety. Cali native 🎿 🏄♂️, Georgetown, and UCLA, Chess♟️player, Episcopalian
All things pax train 🚆 ops & safety. Cali native 🎿 🏄♂️, Georgetown, and UCLA, Chess♟️player, Episcopalian
That dude is cool, his Google Scholar dump is eyewatering:
December 5, 2025 at 8:45 PM
That dude is cool, his Google Scholar dump is eyewatering:
John Brown was executed this day 166 years ago
He was executed for trying to end slavery the only way it was ever going to end, by war
You can take some satisfaction in knowing that Lost Causers, Neo-confederates, and fascists hate him. Basically the Trump administration.
He was executed for trying to end slavery the only way it was ever going to end, by war
You can take some satisfaction in knowing that Lost Causers, Neo-confederates, and fascists hate him. Basically the Trump administration.
December 2, 2025 at 11:49 PM
John Brown was executed this day 166 years ago
He was executed for trying to end slavery the only way it was ever going to end, by war
You can take some satisfaction in knowing that Lost Causers, Neo-confederates, and fascists hate him. Basically the Trump administration.
He was executed for trying to end slavery the only way it was ever going to end, by war
You can take some satisfaction in knowing that Lost Causers, Neo-confederates, and fascists hate him. Basically the Trump administration.
There are plenty of war crimes now for the Zootopia cops to prosecute in this animated documentary about 2025
November 29, 2025 at 7:39 PM
There are plenty of war crimes now for the Zootopia cops to prosecute in this animated documentary about 2025
Remigration means ethnic cleansing and genocide.
It is gutter racism and evokes the darkest fascist and Nazi hellscapes of the 20th century.
We smashed it on the battlefields of Europe and Asia 80 years ago and marching over the Edmund Pettus Bridge 60 years ago.
We'll smash it again.
It is gutter racism and evokes the darkest fascist and Nazi hellscapes of the 20th century.
We smashed it on the battlefields of Europe and Asia 80 years ago and marching over the Edmund Pettus Bridge 60 years ago.
We'll smash it again.
November 29, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Remigration means ethnic cleansing and genocide.
It is gutter racism and evokes the darkest fascist and Nazi hellscapes of the 20th century.
We smashed it on the battlefields of Europe and Asia 80 years ago and marching over the Edmund Pettus Bridge 60 years ago.
We'll smash it again.
It is gutter racism and evokes the darkest fascist and Nazi hellscapes of the 20th century.
We smashed it on the battlefields of Europe and Asia 80 years ago and marching over the Edmund Pettus Bridge 60 years ago.
We'll smash it again.
I think a loss of TN-7 next week could be as earthshattering as the elections a few weeks ago.
You then have some House of Cards scenarios that would end GOP control. Wildcard: Motion to Vacate the chair requires 8 GOP'ers to sign-on, not just one person under prior rules packages.
You then have some House of Cards scenarios that would end GOP control. Wildcard: Motion to Vacate the chair requires 8 GOP'ers to sign-on, not just one person under prior rules packages.
November 24, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I think a loss of TN-7 next week could be as earthshattering as the elections a few weeks ago.
You then have some House of Cards scenarios that would end GOP control. Wildcard: Motion to Vacate the chair requires 8 GOP'ers to sign-on, not just one person under prior rules packages.
You then have some House of Cards scenarios that would end GOP control. Wildcard: Motion to Vacate the chair requires 8 GOP'ers to sign-on, not just one person under prior rules packages.
I think a loss of TN-7 next week could be as earthshattering as the elections a few weeks ago.
You then have some House of Cards scenarios that would end GOP control. Wildcard: Motion to Vacate the chair requires 8 GOP'ers to sign-on, not just one person under prior rules packages.
You then have some House of Cards scenarios that would end GOP control. Wildcard: Motion to Vacate the chair requires 8 GOP'ers to sign-on, not just one person under prior rules packages.
November 24, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I think a loss of TN-7 next week could be as earthshattering as the elections a few weeks ago.
You then have some House of Cards scenarios that would end GOP control. Wildcard: Motion to Vacate the chair requires 8 GOP'ers to sign-on, not just one person under prior rules packages.
You then have some House of Cards scenarios that would end GOP control. Wildcard: Motion to Vacate the chair requires 8 GOP'ers to sign-on, not just one person under prior rules packages.
If Dems won by plus +14 they would get a significant seat bonus, over their proportional share, due the math of FPTP. It would wash out any Gerrymandering effect.
I'm certainly inclined to believe +14 is quite an outlier for now . . .
I'm certainly inclined to believe +14 is quite an outlier for now . . .
November 20, 2025 at 4:40 AM
If Dems won by plus +14 they would get a significant seat bonus, over their proportional share, due the math of FPTP. It would wash out any Gerrymandering effect.
I'm certainly inclined to believe +14 is quite an outlier for now . . .
I'm certainly inclined to believe +14 is quite an outlier for now . . .
Lolz no, remember who you are liberals:
November 18, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Lolz no, remember who you are liberals:
Maga #metoo news cycle today is "yes, I'm a pedophile"
I give you Pedocon Theory, ripped from the headlines by @liberalcurrents.com @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-t...
I give you Pedocon Theory, ripped from the headlines by @liberalcurrents.com @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-t...
November 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Maga #metoo news cycle today is "yes, I'm a pedophile"
I give you Pedocon Theory, ripped from the headlines by @liberalcurrents.com @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-t...
I give you Pedocon Theory, ripped from the headlines by @liberalcurrents.com @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-t...
The Speaker Carl Albert.
Different map then.
Different map then.
November 14, 2025 at 10:17 PM
The Speaker Carl Albert.
Different map then.
Different map then.
The math nature of single-member districts is that, once one party starts starts to break into +5 to +10 across all races, the seat bonus (over the parties' proportional share) becomes huge.
Take the 1976 House election, the last time any party got 2/3rds of the seats.
Take the 1976 House election, the last time any party got 2/3rds of the seats.
November 14, 2025 at 9:06 PM
The math nature of single-member districts is that, once one party starts starts to break into +5 to +10 across all races, the seat bonus (over the parties' proportional share) becomes huge.
Take the 1976 House election, the last time any party got 2/3rds of the seats.
Take the 1976 House election, the last time any party got 2/3rds of the seats.
The math nature of single-member districts is that, once one party starts starts to break into +5 to +10 across all races, the seat bonus (over the parties' proportional share) becomes huge.
Take the 1976 House election, the last time any party got 2/3rds of the seats.
Take the 1976 House election, the last time any party got 2/3rds of the seats.
November 14, 2025 at 9:05 PM
The math nature of single-member districts is that, once one party starts starts to break into +5 to +10 across all races, the seat bonus (over the parties' proportional share) becomes huge.
Take the 1976 House election, the last time any party got 2/3rds of the seats.
Take the 1976 House election, the last time any party got 2/3rds of the seats.
FDR's Four Freedoms (domestic policy) and his 2nd Bill of Rights should be full blown implemented and parties should actually run on this. Most everything social and civil rights in 85 years has a through line to those expressions.
November 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
FDR's Four Freedoms (domestic policy) and his 2nd Bill of Rights should be full blown implemented and parties should actually run on this. Most everything social and civil rights in 85 years has a through line to those expressions.
I see your Declaration 📜 of Independence bet and I raise you FDR's Four Freedoms (domestic policy) and his 2nd Bill of Rights. Most everything social and civil rights in 85 years has a through line to those expressions.
November 14, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I see your Declaration 📜 of Independence bet and I raise you FDR's Four Freedoms (domestic policy) and his 2nd Bill of Rights. Most everything social and civil rights in 85 years has a through line to those expressions.
The math nature of single-member districts is that, once one party starts starts to break into +5 to +10 across all races, the seat bonus (over the parties' proportional share) becomes huge.
Take the 1976 House election, the last time any party got 2/3rds of the seats.
Take the 1976 House election, the last time any party got 2/3rds of the seats.
November 14, 2025 at 4:13 AM
The math nature of single-member districts is that, once one party starts starts to break into +5 to +10 across all races, the seat bonus (over the parties' proportional share) becomes huge.
Take the 1976 House election, the last time any party got 2/3rds of the seats.
Take the 1976 House election, the last time any party got 2/3rds of the seats.
Four Freedoms (1941) actually had a hell of a domestic program, as did his 2nd Bill of Rights (1944)
Vought, Cato, Heritage, et al. hate all of this with every fiber of their being. So much of the last 90 years has been trying to get this and preserve it.
Vought, Cato, Heritage, et al. hate all of this with every fiber of their being. So much of the last 90 years has been trying to get this and preserve it.
November 13, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Four Freedoms (1941) actually had a hell of a domestic program, as did his 2nd Bill of Rights (1944)
Vought, Cato, Heritage, et al. hate all of this with every fiber of their being. So much of the last 90 years has been trying to get this and preserve it.
Vought, Cato, Heritage, et al. hate all of this with every fiber of their being. So much of the last 90 years has been trying to get this and preserve it.
In Hollywood and West Hollywood it was a flag waving party that day 11-7-2021
November 13, 2025 at 5:07 PM
In Hollywood and West Hollywood it was a flag waving party that day 11-7-2021
Oh I think we are somewhere between the Gracchi Brothers and Augustus in this timeline
from my recent @liberalcurrents.com piece:
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-american...
from my recent @liberalcurrents.com piece:
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-american...
November 13, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Oh I think we are somewhere between the Gracchi Brothers and Augustus in this timeline
from my recent @liberalcurrents.com piece:
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-american...
from my recent @liberalcurrents.com piece:
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-american...
My Basic Bitch Liberalism essentials from FDR are the domestic parts of the Four Freedoms Speech (1941) followed by his 2nd Bill of Rights (1944)
Vought, Cato, Heritage, et al. hate all of this with every fiber of their being. So much of the last 90 years has been trying to get this and preserve it
Vought, Cato, Heritage, et al. hate all of this with every fiber of their being. So much of the last 90 years has been trying to get this and preserve it
November 12, 2025 at 11:24 PM
My Basic Bitch Liberalism essentials from FDR are the domestic parts of the Four Freedoms Speech (1941) followed by his 2nd Bill of Rights (1944)
Vought, Cato, Heritage, et al. hate all of this with every fiber of their being. So much of the last 90 years has been trying to get this and preserve it
Vought, Cato, Heritage, et al. hate all of this with every fiber of their being. So much of the last 90 years has been trying to get this and preserve it
As @jamellebouie.net points out, we cannot go back to '09 or '93 or pick another year & "retreat to normalcy". We need large policy *and* constitutional reforms to renew the republic.
This is what I called for in my recent piece in @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-american...
This is what I called for in my recent piece in @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-american...
November 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
As @jamellebouie.net points out, we cannot go back to '09 or '93 or pick another year & "retreat to normalcy". We need large policy *and* constitutional reforms to renew the republic.
This is what I called for in my recent piece in @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-american...
This is what I called for in my recent piece in @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-american...
I'm serious - the incomplete task of of Reconstruction laid the ground for insurgent racism and authoritarianism to rise again, despite the 20th century victories in Civil Rights.
We should not let a chance at radical democracy and equality pass when we get it again.
We should not let a chance at radical democracy and equality pass when we get it again.
November 12, 2025 at 3:31 AM
I'm serious - the incomplete task of of Reconstruction laid the ground for insurgent racism and authoritarianism to rise again, despite the 20th century victories in Civil Rights.
We should not let a chance at radical democracy and equality pass when we get it again.
We should not let a chance at radical democracy and equality pass when we get it again.
Thank you 🙏 for sharing. God bless the men and women of the greatest generation. Saved the world from fascism. Sadly we are doing that here at home now.
(1946, Truman meeting disabled veterans).
(1946, Truman meeting disabled veterans).
November 12, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Thank you 🙏 for sharing. God bless the men and women of the greatest generation. Saved the world from fascism. Sadly we are doing that here at home now.
(1946, Truman meeting disabled veterans).
(1946, Truman meeting disabled veterans).
President Truman welcomes injured World War II veterans at White House garden party, 1946: #WHHA
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November 11, 2025 at 5:46 PM
President Truman welcomes injured World War II veterans at White House garden party, 1946: #WHHA
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