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writes that “the Red Scares of earlier times always came wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross. It is no accident that they often invoked the language of religious authoritarianism. If God is on our side, according to the paranoid style of American politics, then the other side should have no rights at all. The presence of religious supremacy combined with a rejection of pluralism and equality — a Christian nationalist ethos — was always a sure indicator of profoundly anti-democratic intent.”

writes that “some tragedies are hard, if not impossible, to overcome. But I have returned to this this city now two times in the last four years. Maybe it’s to reckon with my history, but also to sort through how it’s possible to take the worst of times, learn from them and emerge wiser and stronger.”

America, America

The Many Layers of History

My father, his brother and mother escaped from Nazi Germany in March 1939 on the USS Manhattan headed to New York from Hamburg. My grandfather—a ph…

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a month ago · 163 likes · 10 comments · Steven Beschloss

writes that “this has been a hard week to write, because it’s never fun to confront just how much one’s own country hates her and women like her. We can call it misogyny, but that word implies how MEN hate WOMEN. It misses how many WOMEN hate WOMEN, how enthusiastically women participate in the flaying subjugation humiliation oppression of other women.”

For Such a Time as This

The United States of America Hates Women

I’ve been sick this week. I spent yesterday convalescing with some of my favorite movies. One of my all-time favorite films is Contact, starring Jodie Foster (my all-time fave actress) and Matthew Mc…

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a month ago · 117 likes · 21 comments · Andra Watkins

writes that “the amount of money Donald Trump, his family and friends are making off the presidency is historic. The conflicts of interest in his administration are unprecedented. The taxpayer dollars he is spending on vanity construction projects is unheard of. His handling of the Iran war is catastrophic. The economy is a house of cards built on rampant speculation over artificial intelligence and crypto, which Trump and his cronies are profiting from. The scale of Trump and others’ efforts to sow distrust in and likely try to overturn the midterm elections has no comparison in all of American history.”

American Doom

The overwhelming scale of corruption and election interference

A quick note: Last week, we detailed Trump’s extreme efforts to sow distrust in — and likely try to overturn — the November election. You can read all four parts of the Start the Steal series at Zeteo. In the planning stages, we called these stories…

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a month ago · 13 likes · 1 comment · Justin Glawe

writes that “the hypothesis that including transgender people will somehow destroy women’s sports has already been field tested for decades, and the evidence is pretty clear: trans athletes are a tiny and under-represented group in the sports they play, and they are far from dominant. The idea that trans people should have their own separate but equal events has been tested and failed.”

Public Notice

Transgender athletes are a red herring

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a month ago · 627 likes · 31 comments · Brynn Tannehill

writes that “I’m annoyed by AI slop in general. But there’s something particularly troubling when someone claiming to offer “inspirational” Christian content is so willing to break multiple commandments just to make a bit of money with AI. Like the one about not bearing false witness and the one about not stealing…”

A Public Witness

What We Can Learn From AI Slop Images Celebrating Pentagon Worship Services

I first noticed something odd after reporting on Pete Hegseth, who likes to call himself “secretary of war,” reading Psalm 144 during the Pentagon worship service in January to justify the U.S. military operation in Venezuela. My later reports on Pentagon services that broke the news of Doug Wilson…

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White Supremacists, Militias, and Far Right Authoritarian Movements

• The Only Thing Left to Do About January 6 Is Remember [The New Republic]

• Jan. 6 prosecutions are over, but the fight lingers [Axios]

• A pardoned Capitol riot defendant wants her restitution money back. The Justice Department wants to keep it [CNN]

• Indiana women pardoned in Jan. 6 sue feds for $1M each [NPR]

• Trump’s Attack on American Democracy [Foreign Policy in Focus]

• Trump signals openness to unconstitutional plot to take over elections [Democracy Docket]

• Oregon lawmakers condemn reported attack against Sen. Janeen Sollman [Salem Statesman Journal]

• Oregon lawmakers condemn ‘intimidation and violence’ after state senator says she was physically accosted [The Oregonian]

• Oregon legislative leaders condemn confrontation involving constituent and Senator Janeen Sollman [NBC News]

• Oregon lawmakers condemn violence after ‘confrontation’ at forum [CBS News]

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Morning Briefing: Andrew Takhistov, the far right violent extremist associated with the Terrorgram Collective, has reportedly been indicted by a federal grand jury on “two charges related to an investigation that accused him of soliciting a partner to damage a PSE&G substation via an explosion.”

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writes that “across all of these cases - separated by decades, continents, languages, and political systems - the strategic logic is identical: Arts and culture were not deployed to illustrate a political argument. They were deployed to create an emotional reality that made political participation feel desirable, joyous, and socially rewarding.”

The Anti-Authoritarian Playbook

How a Jingle Defeated a Dictator

On October 5, 1988, Chileans did something most of the world thought was impossible. They voted a dictator out of power. Not through a coup. Not through armed revolution. Through a plebiscite in which 55.99 percent of the population said “No” to General Augusto Pinochet’s bid to extend his fifteen-year military dictatorship for another eight years…

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a month ago · 34 likes · 1 comment · Scot Nakagawa

writes that “friends, I am tired. I have lost sleep and time and productivity. Much as I try to shrug these things off instantly, it always takes me at least a day or two—and considerable social support—to regroup and regain my usual equanimity. Our minds can tell us, accurately, that we are above these indignities; but our bodies often react despite ourselves to the onslaught.”

More to Hate

The Misogyny Tax

It can be hard to know. Something happens to you as a woman—you are insulted, condescended to, or scolded—and you wonder if it was you, or if it was misogyny. Such epistemological quandaries can often be addressed by asking the simple question: “Would this have happened to my male counterpart?” And the answer is often revealing about what I’m calling he…

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a month ago · 133 likes · 21 comments · Kate Manne

writes that “the Trump administration will keep pushing to act outside the law. Every person in the other branches who decides to ignore that reality, well established at this point, is choosing to empower that lawlessness. They will be remembered for their failure to play their proper role in our constitutional structure.”

Law Dork

Three examples of how Trump's lawlessness is spreading — and how the other branches are failing

Three concerning developments over the past three days merit attention, illustrating, as they do, the failings of all three branches in this moment…

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a month ago · 231 likes · 13 comments · Chris Geidner

writes that “We now understand Trump’s operating principles at DOJ: He runs the show, his enemies get indicted even when the cases are bogus, and his friends get forgiveness no matter what the crimes they’ve committed are. The idea that this administration would have ever defended the convictions of the January 6 insurrectionists is laughable in hindsight, because it’s Trump’s Justice Department. Todd Blanche is just the puppet. Donald Trump is pulling the strings.”

Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance

Erasing January 6

Before there was the 1776 slush fund and Donald Trump's efforts to reward January 6 rioters, there were pardons. Pardons that erased criminal convictions for people who stormed the Capitol, who defaced it, who fought with and injured law enforcement. On January 20, 2025, shortly after he was inaugurated for the second time, Donald Trump issued a “presid…

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a month ago · 2040 likes · 179 comments · Joyce Vance

writes that “to further make up for lost personnel from the mass firings and resignations that have plagued the office, the DOJ has been recruiting government attorneys beyond JAG to spend time as prosecutors at USAO-DC. Now, this effort appears to include attorneys who were hired to work for the Department of Homeland Security, representing the state in deportation proceedings.

The Turtle Diaries

"Sacrificial Lambs": The ICE Attorneys Working as DC Prosecutors

It has been almost a year since the Make DC Safe and Beautiful Task Force brought a surge of federal agents and National Guard to Washington, DC. As part of this mission, military lawyers were brought on to prosecute crimes in DC Superior Court last August, working as Special Assistant United States Attorneys (SAUSA…

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a month ago · 17 likes · Amanda Moore

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I have cancer. Specifically, I have breast cancer. I learned the news last week, and even though I went through multiple rounds of tests, the diagnosis came as a shock…

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a month ago · 59 likes · 16 comments · Melissa Ryan

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White Supremacists, Militias, and Far Right Authoritarian Movements

• US judge grants DOJ request to dismiss January 6 cases against Oath Keepers [Reuters]

• Judge Pained as He Grants Dismissal of Jan. 6 Charges Against Oath Keepers [The New York Times]

• Judge reluctantly dismisses case against Oath Keepers militia group over Jan. 6 riot [NPR]

• Judge criticizes Justice Department as he dismisses Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy case [The Tribune-Democrat]

• Judge Torches Trump’s DOJ Goons in Scathing Ruling [The Daily Beast]

• Has a US court just set the grounds for another January 6 insurrection? [Al Jazeera]

• Inside a Mass Shooter’s Harrowing History With ChatGPT [Mother Jones]

• Man who killed top Minnesota lawmaker and her husband makes first state court appearance [Associated Press]

• Inside the 'white-only' community where founder fights to preserve 'European identity' [Express]

• Trump defends massive settlement for ‘great American Patriots’ of Jan. 6, attacks GOP senators [States Newsroom]

• What’s Really Behind the Far Right’s Obsession with South Africa? [Inkstick Media]

• Funny Fascism: how Trump launders the unthinkable through jokes and memes [Canary]

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Morning Briefing: This week, Vance Boelter, who pleaded guilty to assassinating a Democratic lawmaker in Minnesota and was “sentenced to two life terms plus 40 years in prison,” made his initial appearance in “state court where he faces similar charges. During the hearing, Boelter reported…

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writes that what Donald Trump wanted was “the chance to stand in front of a profession he’s spent a year and a half suing, subpoenaing, banning, and defunding, insult it to its face for an hour on live television, and watch it hold still. He was there specifically for the silence.”

The Present Age

Dinner Theater

Wolf Blitzer stood at a podium inside the Presidential Ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria on Friday night, a few feet from the president, and told the White House correspondents' dinner what it has cost the Wall Street Journal to report that Donald Trump once sent Jeffrey Epstein a birthday letter. There's…

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2 months ago · 152 likes · 9 comments · Parker Molloy

writes that “Trump’s takeover of American democracy is not complete. This November will be the ultimate test of whether his power expands or contracts. If he wants to ensure victory, he needs to find a way to extend his system of patronage and clientage to the voting masses.”

Bug-eyed and Shameless

There's Always Free Cheddar in the Mousetrap, Baby

The Magna Carta was not quite, as many like to believe, a clipping of the wings of the English monarchy…

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a month ago · 3 likes · Justin Ling

writes that “the lesson is a clear one: Men will not protect you. An ideology that enforces male power and female submission will be one that enforces male power and female submission — and that breaks whatever promises of protection it makes to women the second that protection would require challenging the power of its men.”

Throughline by Jill Filipovic

Why Don't Conservative Men Protect Their Own Daughters?

Republican Rep. Max Miller is currently running for reelection in Ohio. His ex-wife, Emily Moreno, has just filed another restraining order against him, after, she says, he laid hands on her lawyer — the person she hired to help protect her from him. Moreno also says that Miller threw boiling water at her, held a gun to her head, and broke their baby’s …

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a month ago · 103 likes · 8 comments · Jill Filipovic

writes that “Fauci became the face of the pandemic response because he was uniquely credible compared to the rest of Trump’s team. And for that service, he has been threatened and harassed into his retirement. An esteemed medical scientist, he was lectured to by cranks, forced to testify to a group of Senators hoping to send him to jail.”

writes that “it isn’t scary or threatening to center the story of slavery as it was. Or the stories of women’s rights. Or the resilience of the LGBTQ people and communities. These stories open the doors of our minds and hearts a little wider; they invite us into historical empathy (which, of course, is a bad word in Trump world).”

The Cottage

History and Slavery

I spent most of July in Ireland…

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a month ago · 70 likes · 23 comments · Diana Butler Bass

writes that “a growing number of Americans rightfully feel unrepresented by the major parties. This is not limited to the Democratic Party as the GOP is going through its own changes even while many continue to believe it is a homogeneous body. This has created a class of voters that is going largely unseen and misunderstood. I call them the Radicalized Orphans.”

Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The New Politics: Behind the Democratic Civil War and the Rise of Fascism

It was a rough week for the Democratic Party. But, then again, most weeks now are hard weeks for the Democrats. For awhile now there have been whispers that have grown into open rumors regarding the direction of the Democratic National Committee. Hardly a meeting or call would go by without someone mentioning “the money.” Namely, that the DNC has none. …

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2 months ago · 155 likes · 5 comments · Jared Yates Sexton

writes that “in the 20th century, we grew up surrounded by small things designed by human hands left in public places: posters, packaging, paraphernalia. We could hold them, which meant we could hold them in disdain. We thought the great sin was materialism. But materialism still had material. You could trace its roots.”

Sarah Kendzior’s Newsletter

Quicksand

They trained us to fear quicksand. They laughed at us when we did. But we were right…

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2 months ago · 953 likes · 216 comments · Sarah Kendzior

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Monthly Reports on Far Right and Violent Extremist Activity

• “Extremist groups participated in more anti-LGBTQ+ demonstrations in June, which is commemorated as Pride month in the United States, than the entirety of 2025. Though extremist groups in the United States have seen a precipitous decline in their overall public activity over the …

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The latest reporting on extremist groups within the Radical Right.

White Supremacists, Militias, and Far Right Authoritarian Movements

• The Rapid Rise of Right-Wing Militias [Reveal]

• Inside the culty white supremacists the feds are ignoring [NPR]

• A weekend with the Proud Boys [NPR]

• ICE agents used racial slurs during Los Angeles crackdown, court files show [The Guardian]

• The Trump-whispering anti-Muslim conspiracy theorist now reversing on Russia and Ukraine lies [Conspiracy Watch]

• Laura Loomer says she was ‘bamboozled by Russian propaganda’ to oppose Ukraine [NBC News]

• The Tate Brothers, in Federal Custody, Watch Their Powerful Backers Go Quiet [The New York Times]

• Andrew Tate’s arrest causes trouble for Trump’s youngest son [Salon]

• Tentacles of fascist fight club reach into Tennessee, critics call Active Clubs a ‘neo-Nazi militia’ [CBS News]

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Morning Briefing: The U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling that will “motivations of racial hatred as aggravating factors into the upcoming federal death penalty case against Payton Gendron,” the White Supremacist who pleaded guilty to state charges for shooting and killing 10 people at the Tops …

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writes that “Trump’s campaigns have always relied heavily on communities such as QAnon and MAHA to win elections and drive media narratives. Now that he’s back in power, the false conspiracy theories MAGA adherents believe, no matter how insane they sound, are increasingly driving policy, legislation, and the White House’s political priorities.”

Ctrl Alt Right Delete

The Pipeline from Fringe Conspiracy to Trump Policy

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2 months ago · 19 likes · 1 comment · Melissa Ryan

writes that “Trump is a skillful propagandist who has surrounded himself with other skillful propagandists with long histories of television and media performances on Fox and elsewhere. Watch how their language and slogans align and how Communist threats to elections become the drum they beat as we head into the midterms.”

Lucid

A Desperate MAGA Invents a Communist Conspiracy

Welcome back to Lucid, and hello to all new subscribers. Thank you to those who alerted me that the links for paid subscriptions were not working. To make up for the inconvenience, I am having a sale on those subscriptions: use this link to get 30% off the first year (monthly and annual). It’s good through Sunday evening…

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2 months ago · 1175 likes · 41 comments · Ruth Ben-Ghiat

writes that Luara Loomer is “now a full-on Ukraine booster, urging Trump to send the nation more Patriot missiles to defend itself, among other steps. And she has turned, with no apparent sense of irony, against conservative influencers who use their perch to sell pro-Russian propaganda. About this issue, anyway.”

Wonkette

Laura Loomer Likes Ukraine Now, But Don't Worry, She Still Sucks

You might be seeing some headlines about OG Mar-a-Lago face Laura Loomer changing her mind on the Russia-Ukraine war. And it’s true, she does seem to have done exactly that. Loomer returned a few days ago from a trip to Ukraine having renounced her earlier views that Russia was an innocent forced into invading, Ukraine was …

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2 months ago · 139 likes · 1167 comments · Gary Legum

writes that she thinks “Musk and his ilk hate this version of The Odyssey because it reminds us of Xenia, our fundamental human obligation to one another. It spotlights how far this regime and its enablers have strayed from basic humanity.”

For Such a Time as This

Why Elon Musk Really Hates The Odyssey

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2 months ago · 88 likes · 45 comments · Andra Watkins

writes that “none of the arguments made against transgender people, including those in the military, were made in good faith. They were always designed to ultimately remove transgender people from public life.”

Public Notice

Gender-affirming care for insecure men

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2 months ago · 540 likes · 21 comments · Brynn Tannehill

writes that a Florida school district is considering “eliminating school libraries altogether. Clay County School District, a conservative school district which serves over 40,000 students south of Jacksonville, has removed more books than nearly any district in the state. Now, the fate of school libraries themselves appear to hang in the balance.”

Erin In The Morning

Clay County School District In Florida Considers Getting Rid Of Libraries In Response To LGBTQ+ Books

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2 months ago · 425 likes · 40 comments · Erin Reed

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Morning Briefing: After a serious escalation in political violence, this year, local elected officials report that they are “facing sustained threats to their safety and security,” according to a survey published by the Bridging Divides Initiative (BDI).

BDI-CivicPulse survey, based on responses from more than 460 elected officials, found that 54% of el…

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The latest reporting on extremist groups within the Radical Right.

White Supremacists, Militias, and Far Right Authoritarian Movements

• White-Only Villages Network in America: The Separatists’ Legal Strategy [La Voce di New York]

• The rise of whites-only “heritage communities” [Axios]

• Lawsuit claims Arkansas group rejected woman’s land purchase due to Jewish ancestry, Black husband [Associated Press]

• A federal lawsuit challenges the development of a whites-only community in Arkansas [NPR]

• Inside the Alleged Bid To Bring America’s ‘Whites Only’ Community Model to Britain [International Business Times]

• The ‘whites only’ enclave in the heart of rural Wales: Far-right group inspired by remote town in America’s Ozarks build their own racially segregated community [Daily Mail]

• With the white nationalist group Patriot Front, what you see is not what you get [NPR]

• Far-right fight clubs admit women to be part of ‘parallel society’ [The Times]

• The Supreme Court grapples with a new era of political violence [The Washington Post]

• ‘It becomes inevitable’: the toxic mix fuelling deadly political violence around world [The Guardian]

• DOJ says white supremacist charged after threats to US lawmaker, Muslims and transgender people [Reuters]

• Pittsburgh man indicted on charges of threatening to kill a member of Congress [CBS News]

• Prosecutors say Boelter should ‘never be free ever again’ in Minnesota lawmaker shootings [NPR]

• QAnon Conspiracy Theorists Have Taken Over a Prison [The Bulwark]

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writes that “the implication is clear: Secretary of State Marco Rubio thinks there should be a modern-day blacklist of the political left in America. In fact, the report explicitly mentions the ‘blacklists, McCarthy-era investigations and prosecutions’ of the 1950s and their effectiveness at dismembering the Communist Party USA.”

Ken Klippenstein

After "Political Terrorism" Event, U.S. Names 43 Americans + Groups

A new State Department report on Cuba’s “campaign of subversion against the United States” is a virtual government blacklist against left-wing Americans and groups. Linked to last week’s Rubio-led summit on “political terrorism,” the report is unusually candid about the government…

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2 months ago · 276 likes · 27 comments · Ken Klippenstein

writes that “if you see a journalist or influencer posting positively about a prediction market on social media, ask them in the comments whether they have any financial ties… Prediction markets, as currently operated, stink to high heaven.”

Stop the Presses

Trump and prediction markets are building a society of suckers

This newsletter is brought to you by Action Network Boost, a new set of features built for the most advanced digital programs…

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2 months ago · 47 likes · 3 comments · Mark Jacob

writes that “when you look across the eras, you detect a pattern. The injustice that mobilizes people is almost always the one that is violent, visible, and visceral.”

Footnotes by Jemar Tisby

How to Stop ICE from Killing People

Most outlets will report an ICE shooting and move on. Footnotes is where I put the numbers they skip, like the 2,000-arrests-a-day quota, next to the long history of how movements actually win. Subscribe so the next injustice finds you ready to act instead of numb…

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2 months ago · 87 likes · 4 comments · Jemar Tisby, PhD

writes that “what’s happening to immigrant communities right now isn’t immigration enforcement. It is a campaign of systemic terror, operating on multiple simultaneous fronts, designed to make 13.7 million people - and the families, friends, neighbors, coworkers, and communities attached to them - feel that no corner of their life is safe.”

The Anti-Authoritarian Playbook

They Are Not Coming for “Illegal Immigrants”

The communities most targeted by this administration’s immigration enforcement are among the most contributing communities in the country. The people it is happening to are not abstractions. They are, in the most literal and complete sense of the word, us…

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2 months ago · 68 likes · 1 comment · Scot Nakagawa

writes that “tThe truth is that they want men like David Brouillette on the streets, committing acts of state-led terrorism and even, upon occasion, execution. The price of precious human lives like that of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero is no price to pay for them: indeed, it’s likely a benefit. All the better to intimidate and cow the rest of us into obedience and silence.”

More to Hate

This is What Happens When You Empower Domestic Abusers

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2 months ago · 191 likes · 12 comments · Kate Manne

writes that “with every persecution of the LGBTQ community, with every unprovoked attack on immigrants, with every planet-wrecking decision, with every defense of a serial predator, with every regressive civil rights assault, with every attempt at theocracy by these professed believers, the flight from Christianity rightly continues.”

The Beautiful Mess by John Pavlovitz

Christian Nationalists Are Mocking Jesus, Making Atheists, And Creating An Exodus From The Church

Growing up in the Church, I was taught that the worst thing one could be was a non-believer; that nothing was as tragic as a damned soul that condemned itself by rejecting God…

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2 months ago · 304 likes · 35 comments · John Pavlovitz

writes that “a manosophere I can get down with: remove the unrealistic demands and you find something much more realistic, without the puffed up pretensions disguising a neurosis about living up to impossible standards.”

re:frame

The mythology of the manosphere

I take no pleasure in reporting that Jordan Peterson is back…

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2 months ago · 18 likes · Derek Beres

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Radical Reports is returning to publishing on a regular schedule, and will be publishing daily editions and other weekly and monthly features. After an extended hiatus and limited publishing during the last several months, I am returning to investigating and researching the far right and extremist movements.

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The latest reporting on extremist groups within the Radical Right.

White Supremacists, Militias, and Far Right Authoritarian Movements

• Rise of the Blood Populist [The Atlantic]

• The `Blood Populism’ Driving Political Violence in America [PBS News]

• Is the U.S. in a new era of political violence? Experts say it’s complicated [Scientific American]

• Luigi Mangione, Copycat Crimes, and the Rise of Political Violence [Rolling Stone]

• Repeated violence puts spotlight on divisive political speech [The Washington Post]

• New poll finds a majority of Americans unsure if attempts on Trump’s life were real [NPR]

• The UFC match plot: how a far-right group tried to assassinate Trump at his own event [The Guardian]

• Could neo-Nazi youth, or ‘active clubs,’ have played a role in Belfast riots? [NPR]

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Morning Briefing: Jury selection began for the federal trial death penalty of Payton Gendron, the White Supremacist who previously pleaded guilty to state charges for shooting and killing 10 people at the Tops Friendly Market in Buffalo, New York. Gendron is currently serving …

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writes that “we cannot stop Americans from worshipping false gods, but we can end the false narratives and political power of a despotic White House occupant, his regime and party, and other institutions that have abandoned their democratic obligations. In less than six months, we can hasten their addition to the ash heap of history.”

America, America

False Gods and False Narratives

On Thursday, at the National Mall, ABC News correspondent Rachel Scott asked Donald Trump a clear and necessary question: “Mr. President, you are here against the backdrop of the war in Iran. Why focus on all these projects right now, especially with gas prices soari…

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4 months ago · 264 likes · 24 comments · Steven Beschloss

writes that during the “Trump era, the Confederacy itself is celebrated while a new and explicit advocacy for whites qua whites holds sway in both the administration and the Supreme Court… One lesson to take from this abysmal moment is that no victory is permanent and politics never ends. The right knew it, and the left can no longer ignore it. But that also means that the horrors now being unleashed on the country can be undone.”

Public Notice

The Confederacy rises again

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4 months ago · 741 likes · 37 comments · Paul Waldman

writes that “the fact that the white folks in Louisiana thought that a January 6 guy was the perfect face for their assault on the Voting Rights Act should tell you all you need to know about the reasons these folks decided to bring the case. Louisiana v. Callais is not about Republicans versus Democrats in the battle for control of Congress. It’s about white folks trying to take political power away from Black folks.”

Elie Mystal

The Return of Jim Crow

An explosive report from Democracy Docket revealed that Bert Callais, the lead plaintiff in Louisiana v. Callais, the case that demolished the Voting Rights Act, was a January 6 protester. It’s unclear if Callais also attacked the Capitol as part of Donald Trump’s failed coup d’état, but it is clear that he’s an election-denying conspiracy theorist…

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4 months ago · 2248 likes · 70 comments · Elie Mystal

writes that “it’s easy to nit-pick and fact check the delusions of a racist and it should be done regularly and publicly. Rarely can they handle the easy corrections as their ‘academics’ work in a different world… It’s all delusional, not based on any real history or honest understanding of facts like every racist movement in time. Whether it be National Socialism, the Klan or Stephen Miller’s Republican Party - their racism is based on bullshit that they position to be real facts.”

VisuNews

The Ill-Informed Delusions of an 'Academic Racist'

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4 months ago · 3 likes · 3 comments · Zach D Roberts

writes that “most women don’t want to be farmed like livestock, and today’s press conference started to make me feel a little bit like a goat. If this administration wants more babies, they should really start by giving a shit whether women live or die, and then maybe work up to understanding what kind of world people might want to bring a child into.”

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New term for child-free women just dropped

I happened to start watching The Testaments on Hulu last night, the sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, after weeks of avoiding it. I’ve found it harder this time to mentally psych myself up for another show set in Gilead after a long day of the bleakest possible news about our real-life dystopia, but it turned out to be a really exc…

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writes that “true faith has never depended on controlling political power. Christianity has often lost moral credibility when it became too closely aligned with governments and empires. Some of the clearest witnesses to the Christian faith have come from communities pushed to the edges of society rather than those seated at the center of authority. Oppressed believers around the world continue to practice courage, compassion, conviction, and hope without controlling the state.”

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The latest reporting on extremist groups within the Radical Right.

White Supremacists, Militias, and Far Right Authoritarian Movements

• Far-right US soldier wanted to ‘kill every Jew’ [Searchlight]

• US soldier wanted to ‘kill every single Jew’ in synagogue, DOJ says [USA Today]

• U.S. soldier accused of threatening Jews posted whites were also victims of racism [NBC News]

• Hollow‑Earth myths and Nazi UFOs on TikTok are bringing white supremacism into the mainstream [The Conversation]

• The soldier who infiltrates neo-Nazi groups [The Boston Globe]

• Far-Right Extremist Fight Clubs Are Happening in America’s Forests [Newsweek]

• White Nationalist Group’s Recruitment Flyer Found in Quakertown [Bucks County Beacon]

• Some white nationalists swoop in after natural disasters, trying to soften their image while offering help [CBS News]

• He spreads hate online — and fans pay him hundreds of thousands of dollars [The Washington Post]

• Far-right influencer Nick Fuentes is making a staggering fortune preaching hate [AlterNet]

• Nick Fuentes Is Physically Disgusted by His Own Groyper Fanboys [The Bulwark]

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Morning Briefing: The Pennsylvania House of Representatives narrowly passed a “bill to prevent white nationalist groups from creating their own housing communities,” as White Nationalist groups such as Return to …

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