Adam Gurri

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Read @ryangeddie.bsky.social's contribution to liberalism week, it's a banger

You can’t look at what’s happening in Memphis, the gerrymandering and the onerous use of federal and state forces, and not think of Callais. It’s a disaster for the South. And the people of Memphis know it. Look at these quotes. Think of Fred Dorse.

“Pearson is uniting outrage over the treatment of Memphis with frustration over affordability and opposition to data centers.” www.liberalcurrents.com/better-win-a...

Off the charts Trump family corruption. Kushner got Billions of foreign funds, while spearheading foreign policy. And the Hunter Biden hunters are silent. @MarshaBlackburn

"It is difficult to look at the gerrymandering of Tennessee's Ninth and not see the shape of 21st-century Jim Crow politics." www.liberalcurrents.com/better-win-a...

"The key problem with run-offs (as opposed to instant runoffs, which Americans call 'ranked choice voting') is that the second round usually has lower turnout than the first. … Brazil is different here again, however. They have mandatory voting." www.liberalcurrents.com/editors-note...

This is a great article by @polphilpod.bsky.social. I missed it when it came out (in January), but it remains incredibly relevant. www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-g...

"Life under liberalism is creativity. … It is the creativity of those engaging in 'experiments of living,' as J. S. Mill memorably put it—pioneering unconventional lifestyles today that might become entirely conventional later." www.liberalcurrents.com/liberalism-i...

"No one can know how that or the midterms will go, but there is reason to hope. And if they do go well, it will have been a very bad week or so for global fascism." www.liberalcurrents.com/editors-note...

Some lessons from Brazil and a look at a relatively hopeful week www.liberalcurrents.com/editors-note...

Taking a different angle on this: fascism is an international movement and liberalism should be too—and always has been!

We need to untwist the right's propaganda; here's a way. Food for thought. Liberalism Is for Ordinary People www.liberalcurrents.com/liberalism-i...

correct states further down the path of autocracy than us have had those autocracies overthrown by sufficiently large voting numbers recently we can do it here too

now THATS a bribe: "They discovered Kushner had a bank account in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in which he had received hundreds of millions of dollars." www.liberalcurrents.com/jared-kushne...

Elon Musk has spent more money on American elections in the last two years than George Soros has in his entire life.

The Ramaswamy ad has pushed the largest newspaper in Ohio, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, to reverse its position on endorsements. "A candidate who uses childhood sexual abuse as a weapon against the person who endured it has crossed a line that Ohioans should defend, whatever their party."

"We need to be able to paint a picture…to say what these abstractions mean for the people who live where the factory opens, what it means to the local kids when a library opens up where there wasn’t one before." www.liberalcurrents.com/liberalism-i...

Totally. That's a big unknown. There's some stuff on what happens if this comes to a government shutdown toward the end:

Love to see them already thinking along these lines, though I'm curious how this will play out against an administration that will walk right into a government shutdown before signing budget/appropriations bills it doesn't like

Today's short essay by @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com focuses on the diversity yet ordinariness of life under liberalism www.liberalcurrents.com/liberalism-i...

"People who believe their choices don't matter choose poorly." Indeed.

Thread! Lib out with us folks

i know politicians are terrified of public opinion on immigration, but given how badly the other side has failed, i really think if we had a bit of courage many people would hear us out www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-g...

in which two nerds who each have more than a thousand hours in hearts of iron iv bitch about hearts of iron iv. but also it's important to understand why we are all still talking about world war two, and also how so much media essentially imagines "what if the fascist worldview was correct"

on the internet people will call almost anything liberalism. war with iraq, death by firing squad, npic infighting, everything. so a few weeks ago at liberal currents, we put out a challenge to all the editors: what is liberalism, actually? today we get our first essay, from lc founder adam gurri:

www.liberalcurrents.com/editors-note...

This week we have different writers each day answering the question, “what is liberalism?”

This is also a huge black eye for Marco Rubio too, who has wanted to reshape Latin America into right-leaning governments

"Wait a minute, I hate fascists!"

"They're in a better place now. A world of magic, kind of medieval Europe-esque,"

bluesky and politics discourse in america generally lives in the eternal now. it is occasionally good to step outside of one's time and see the world in longer view: even this shall pass, though not without loss.

The weekly roundup of what we’ve done at Liberal Currents has strong criticism for antisemitism and some praise for anti-populism. www.liberalcurrents.com/weekly-round...

I personally found my way out of the overly reductive cognitive biases way of thinking and talking through Hans-George Gadamer, whose philosophy was fundamentally about how the way we orient ourselves to one another and meaningful works/texts determines whether we can truly understand or learn

This really struck me issendai.com/psychology/e...

Neon Liberalism #96: Bret Devereaux explains why we're all still obsessed with World War 2, why Hearts of Iron IV is a gateway to (mis)understanding the war, and most importantly: what fascism was and why it failed. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-lies-of-...

Trump says Alaska’s ballot is illegal because people don’t know what “incumbent” means

I think one of the best aspects of this story is just how *average* the cop is. This is pretty much what most cops are like. They believe they are doing a good job.

"The right must be understood, but never blamed. The left can be blamed, but need not be understood" www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...

To be able to really listen to one another and be open to the unexpected, even if it hurts, is as much a moral commitment as it is a matter of epistemology. You have to know that you don't know, you have to want to grow even if the uncertainty of how that will change you is terrifying.

These days I keep circling back to @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com's Reconstruction Papers essay which puts it quite succinctly www.liberalcurrents.com/remember-who...