Source: exile in happy valley
by Nicky Reid

“The problem on the mainstream left today is almost identical to the problem on the right. They are both run by old white cis het men for old white cis het men. The only difference is that the right admits it while the left just uses minorities like human shields while they kill Muslims with drones and organize the global bourgeoisie beneath decaying relics of progressive internationalism like the EU and the UN. Well, no more. No more Weimar allies buttering us up with petty privileges while the Nazis gather their guns. We need our own goddamn guns, our own clinics, our own schools, our own parties and organizations run from the bottom up by our own people.” (12/21/25)

https://exileinhappyvalley.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-mainstream-left-will-never.html

Source: Reason
by Fiona Harrigan

“People like [Alejandro] Flores-Muñoz — and other immigrants, legally present or not — are an important entrepreneurial force in the United States. They start businesses at a higher rate than native-born Americans, creating jobs and enriching communities in the process. Now they’re getting swept up in Trump’s mass deportation efforts. As entrepreneurial immigrants are detained and deported, it won’t just be newcomers and their families who suffer. The American workers, customers, and communities they support will suffer too.” (for publication 01/26)

https://reason.com/2025/12/21/trump-is-deporting-entrepreneurs/

Source: Wired
by Makena Kelly

“From Zohran Mamdani’s campaign to the US government’s Halo memes, fandom has become the defining language of US politics.” (12/22/25)

https://archive.is/VALUR

Source: The UnPopulist
by Jonathan Rauch

“Discontents with liberal modernity are perennial and a spiritual awakening won’t cure them.” (12/21/25)

https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/lets-not-grant-the-postliberal-critique

Source: In These Times
by Alberto Toscano

“On the night Zohran Mamdani won New York City’s mayoral election, he delivered a rousing victory speech that made explicit the connection between his economic agenda and the national fight against authoritarianism. Calling out President Donald Trump, Mamdani declared, ‘If there is any way to terrify a despot, it is by dismantling the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power.’ Several weeks later — after that despot had threatened to besiege New York City with immigration raids and strip its federal funding, should Mamdani win—the mayor-elect stood beside Trump during a surreal White House press briefing. When a reporter pressed Mamdani on whether he still considered the president a fascist, the jovial, clearly charmed Trump interjected, ​’You can just say yes. … It’s easier than explaining it’. The response was disarmingly nonchalant, coming from the head of an administration that has gone to great lengths to crush opposition to fascism elsewhere.” (12/22/25)

https://inthesetimes.com/article/antifa-everywhere-war-on-terror-cve-material-support-laws-hlf5-terrorism