Shikha Dalmia
@shikhadalmia
ISMA @ismapolicy.bsky.social. The UnPopulist www.theunpopulist.net. Classically liberal. Hate dogmas, esp my own. Views personal, not institutional.
Of all the rave reviews #LibCon2026 received from luminaries, this heartfelt note from an attendee who I didn't know, is my favorite! It shows we are hitting exactly the notes we want to as we build a broad anti-authoritarian, liberal, tolerant coalition (although we are not leftish not lefty)
@nathanlawkc.bsky.social, the Hong Kong student activist who spearheaded the movement against the Chinese takeover delivering the Thursday dinnertime keynote. And @jenbaca.bsky.social who knocked it out of the park with her rendition of America the Beautiful.
Apologies that that the tags don't match in pics in the specific tranche. But the folks are somewhere in this thread. @walterolson.bsky.social Linda Chavez @jonrauch.bsky.social @andycraig.bsky.social Gabe Fleisher @racheljanfaza.bsky.social Anne Marie Slaughter @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social
Apparently, in the oral arguments today the guvmint lawyer was ranting that there are 500 companies helping Chinese with birth tourism. If so they must be operating at a massive loss. I wrote in 2011 about the infinitesimal numbers of such tourists when last time there was a panic about this:
Kettle-pot action going on here. Maduro, like Khameini, might be evil, but what moral right does a regime that is executing its own protesters on the streets with impunity have to do what it is doing?
Yes, some libertarians did warn against Trump. They are not the ones peddling their colleagues' NYT pieces gaslighting us right now.
Funny thing, how liberal societies work, which is why postliberals can't stand them. Fun piece at @theunpopulist.net open.substack.com/pub/theunpop...
I am trying to get some work done today, but, boy, they just won't stop rewriting history!
That Tom Homan's appointment to head ICE is being celebrated shows, as I noted to David Bier in my podcast with him, that. Also, Homan in Trump's previous term was no slouch when ti came to deportation raids: open.substack.com/pub/theunpop...
Just as libertarians who supported Trump because they believe he was anti-war are the most laughable creatures in the world, so are those who support Musk because they believe he’s a champion of free speech! So go ahead and laugh at them:
This item in Bari Weiss' new motto for CBS news made me LOL because, you know, the Free Press has distinguished itself by admitting its errors. It dutifully retracted Coleman Hughes bullshit story abt Derek Chauvin's wrongful conviction after @radleybalko.bsky.social's meticulous debunking. Not!
Happy New Year. Hope you can be as chill as Cherry and find rest and repose in the unlikeliest of nooks in 2026.
If this is liberty, give me death now please :( (So many libertarians are such lost souls.)
Is @theunpopulist.net doing something right or something wrong that it was quoted (favorably) by Tom Edsall of The New York Times and (unfavorably) Laura Loomer of Crazy Land in the same week?
If you still think that the left is a bigger problem, go get your head examined or admit you have surrendered any sense of morality and elementary decency:
This man is the face of the once respectable Manhattan Institute and the prized writer at @thefreepress.bsky.social
A conservative lawyer's scathing indictment of the conservative legal movement at @theunpopulist.net www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-confir...