Jason Briggeman

@jbriggeman.liberalcurrents.com

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Senior editor for Liberal Currents. Former (?) economist. Pacers fan. briggeman.org

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Richard Hanania: "The best time to be a great player is the fourth quarter, because that's when most games are decided."
The widening strikes now threaten civilians and infrastructure, including desalination plants for drinking water
Real Tina Peters 7h PREDICTION: President Trump Will Declare National Emergency on Election Security. Expose China and Ukraine Meddling, and Call for Return to Hand-Marked Paper Ballots
Jeremiah Johnson joins The Argument as a staff writer List-ID:<theargument.substack.com> …Liberalism and will continue to host the New Liberal Podcast. The Argument is a media company based in Washington, D.C., dedicated to redefining liberalism for the 21st century through rigorous, public debate. We cover the politics and economics of growth and abundance; technology and society; and gender and family. Contact: press@theargumentmag.com More to read from Jeremiah: Sometimes you have to hurt people Jeremiah Johnson · Jun 16
Tim Heidecker as Alex Jones
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XKCD comic: "I try not to make fun of people for admitting they don't know things. Because for each thing 'everyone knows' by the time they're adults, every day there are, on average, 10,000 people in the US hearing about it for the first time."
2027 NBA championship odds Team Champ Conference Division Oklahoma City Thunder +270 +150 -425 San Antonio Spurs +270 +165 -1200 New York Knicks +850 +320 +120 Boston Celtics 13-1 +425 +220 Philadelphia 76ers 20-1 +750 +450 Miami Heat 25-1 +900 Even Minnesota Timberwolves 25-1 12-1 +750 Detroit Pistons 25-1 +850 +105 Denver Nuggets 25-1 13-1 +800 Toronto Raptors 25-1 +900 +550 Cleveland Cavaliers 30-1 +950 +150 Golden State Warriors 30-1 18-1 +200 Los Angeles Lakers 35-1 20-1 Even Indiana Pacers 40-1 16-1 +400
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Oklahoma City Thunder Above the tax: $31.5 million Above the first apron: $24.5 million Above the second apron: $11.5 million The Thunder's payroll is set to become unprecedented. The former champions are not only projected to be a second-apron team, thanks largely in part to the rookie max extensions of Jalen Williams and Chet Holmgren, but are likely to face a luxury tax payment of more than $100 million.
Jeb Bush mushroom cloud meme: You only had to call it the Coffee Break
Your Results 75% Woke 25% Chud 45% Techbro 55% Neo-Luddite 61% Hopepilled 39% Doomer 81% Davos 19% Dubai Your closest match: Zohran Mamdani
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Andretti Global’s Will Power finished third after a late clash with Graham Rahal, who spun across the front of Power’s No. 26 Honda and crashed at Turn 12. The incident left Rahal fuming
I bring a sort of "melancholic, analytical" Vibe to the group blog that the other editors don't really like
Reggie Miller vs. the New York Knicks
Ours is a glorious land; and from across the Atlantic we welcome those who are stricken by the storms of despotism. Yet the damning facts remain, there is not a rood of earth under the stars and the eagle of your flag, where a man of my complexion can stand free. There is no mountain so high, no plain so extensive, no spot so sacred, that it can secure to me the right of liberty. Wherever waves the star-spangled banner there the bondman may be arrested and hurried back to the jaws of Slavery. This is your "land of the free," your "home of the brave." From Lexington, from Ticonderoga, from Bunker Hill, where rises that grand shaft with its capstone in the clouds, asks, in the name of the first blood that spurted in behalf of freedom, to protect the slave from the infernal clutches of his master. That petition would be denied, and he bid go back to the tyrant.
13 WTHR 'It's pathetic' | Indycar driver Graham Rahal calls Indianapolis a 'complete dump' on social media Author: Mike Potter Published: 12:14 PM EDT June 19, 2026
Substack 6:24 PM Chris Cillizza posted a note We can't even agree on what color the Reflecting Pool is these days! [Cillizza.jpg]
Cover of "'Race Is Everything': Art and Human Difference" by David Bindman
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The New York Times Two Religious Conservatives and a Marxist Walk Into a Journal Compact, a new online magazine edited by two religious conservatives and a Marxist proponent of "labor populism," aims to challenge both "a libertine left and a libertarian right."
Liberal Currents ‪@liberalcurrents.com‬ "I have to say that I think the event was worse than I imagined it would be. The whole thing was a base celebration of the worst qualities humans have to offer." www.liberalcurrents.com/donald-trump... Donald Trump Put America In a Cage Match With Itself. We Lost. This was never for the American people; it was for the most vicious and barbarous among us.
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Jesse what are you talking about
As old as Donald Trump is, he puts on an act of a man born yesterday. Since this man doesn’t know much about history, since when he looks around America he mostly sees people like himself calling the shots, and since when he passed through school and when he watched television he was shown White men like himself doing most all the things deemed important and great—right up to being the only child that God has fathered—he figures he may as well define American identity as “White” identity, even as “cis White heterosexual Christian male born in the United States to parents who were born in the United States” identity.
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Which NBA franchises are storied? by a guest · 20 hours ago Boston Celtics 16.07% (9 votes) Los Angeles Lakers 16.07% (9 votes) San Antonio Spurs 12.5% (7 votes) Philadelphia 76ers 10.71% (6 votes) New York Knicks 8.93% (5 votes) Chicago Bulls 7.14% (4 votes) Golden State Warriors 7.14% (4 votes)
New York Knicks owner James Dolan
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Last week, as Trump began floating the idea of attending a game, New York magazine published an article, “Is Trump Really a Knicks Fan? An Investigation.” The story, filled with pictures of Trump at Knicks games from 1991 to 2014, described him as a “textbook example of a celebrity bandwagon fan.”
Maggie Haberman @maggieNYT NEWS: President Trump has filed a declaration of domicile in Florida, declaring himself a former resident of Trump Tower From nytimes.com 6:43 PM · Oct 31, 2019
Maggie Haberman @maggieNYT NEWS: President Trump has filed a declaration of domicile in Florida, declaring himself a former resident of Trump Tower From nytimes.com 6:43 PM · Oct 31, 2019
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Michael Scott: "I declare immunity from the IRS!"
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midwit meme: "They don't know what they're missing," "Arghh they don't know what I'm talking about," "They don't know what they're missing"
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Talarico's agenda: 1. Watch the Spurs in game 7 2. Beat Ken Paxton
But courts and governments can indeed be corrupted, yielding effects similar to those when a school board is intimidated by a rich parent. Laws can be bent or broken by the rich man who corrupts or intimidates the courts. So it is possible for the rich kid to keep living the same way he always has, and in fact to be validated in his youthful worldview—if, rather than being forced to submit to the rule of law, he keeps finding that it's the same as the rules of schools, that judges don't faithfully enforce the law when he pushes on them, and thus that laws are ultimately a fraud and a yoke that can be cast off if you have the courage.
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That path of conviction is open to Newsom too. But it’d require accepting what happened in 2025: the spell is broken. Liberals, Democrats, Centrists, you are free of the enchantment. There is no kryptonite, there is no secret IWIN button for conservatives, most people don’t care if you’re for they/them. Stand tall and act like it.  Do you value what you just read?
Commentary Admit It: You People Want To See How Far This Goes, Don’t You?
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Leonhardt: What do you think is the most likely mistake that Democrats would make in 2028? Thaler: Choosing the candidate that Democrats like best rather than the one who has the best chance to get elected.
I voted
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Florida Analysis Human cages and overflowing toilets at $1m a day: the brutal legacy of Ron DeSantis’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ jail Richard Luscombe
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Post by @Austin_Police on X: "We are aware of a potential illegal public street takeover in the Barton Springs area today, May 22, 2026. Austin Police (APD) will not tolerate reckless driving or illegal activity. Anyone participating in a street takeover will be subject to arrest, and their vehicle will be impounded. We urge community members to stay vigilant and report any suspicious activity. Help us keep our streets safe."
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