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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 20h

My version of this is that Vought, Yarvin etc represent a kind of braindead right-Gramscianism, which leaves out all the interesting subtleties and treats civil society _only_ as a realm of indoctrination, where one ideological master-narrative can readily be substituted for another.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21h

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 22h

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Buddy Spell @buddyspell.bsky.social · 1d

Fort Worth, Texas.

#WeAreEverywhere

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Aug 8

we can sneak around town / hunting working folks down / I hear they got a great benefit plan

join ICE boy ain’t it nice / join ICE take my advice

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 8h

He has…sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people…

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

—Declaration of Independence, 1776

David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 2d

ICE agents to US citizen: Turn around or you're getting the dog.

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Courtney E. Thompson @cethompson.bsky.social · 9h

Just think of how many TT faculty lines, graduate stipends, and resources for teaching and research this kind of money could buy...

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 10h

the more things change, the more they stay the same in college football (coaches being showered in cash for not working)

Firings so far this season by Arkansas, Oklahoma State, Oregon State, Penn State, UAB, UCLA and Virginia Tech have those schools committed to buyouts totaling $93.9 million, subject to mitigation and offset, but not including amounts that also will be owed to assistant coaches

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 10h

Nice to see that the, um, crack troops of Portland's Naked Bike brigade have shown up to provide some diversion down at the ICE facility protests.

BikePortland @bikeportland.org · 10h

Amazing Emergency Naked Ride. Here’s the moment thousands of riders rolled through the protests at the ICE facility and cheers erupted. 😮💯

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 10h

Chelly and Haley both have extensive PB ties. My sense was always that the PP and PB memberships were pretty porous.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 10h

I watched many livestreams from far right direct actions on the streets of Portland and Salem back in 2018-2020, and after a while I could recognize about half of the 50 or so usual suspects who showed up at those events. At least 8 of them are currently creating content at the ICE protests.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 10h

I've long wondered what happened to the Proud Boys and Patriot Prayer, far right groups that were ubiquitous in 2018-20 but who seemed to have largely disappeared. It turns out they've come back together not in the form of a street fighting unit, but in the form of "citizen journalists" on Twitter.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 10h

I just learned that the guy who in 2020 filmed Medina & Joey Gibson (the Black Conservative Preacher, i.e. Quincey Franklin) is currently in the MAGA "citizen journalist" corps down at the ICE facility. He attended the December 2020 meeting where the attack on the OR State Capitol was planned.

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Uzza @uzzamodea.bsky.social · 16h

So that makes at least 4 J6ers creeping on PDX ICE protests.

Fulfer, David Medina, Katie Daviscourt & Quincey Franklin.

It's been surreal watching them all code switch to calling anti-ICE protestors "insurrectionists" as soon as they realized it was the magic police state button.

Uzza @uzzamodea.bsky.social · 1d

Far-right asshole Josh Fulfer, who called for vehicular assaults on Portland protestors, has come up from California & is filming on the ground tonight.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 10h

Just learned that Haley Adams (now Haley Lewis) is also there creating content. Many have been wondering where the Proud Boys and Patriot Prayer went to...now we know that they've basically reformed and are serving as the MAGA "citizen journalist" corps at the ICE facility.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 11h

To paraphrase Orwell, "if you want to imagine the future, picture AI-slop videos of everyone you love or respect being ritually humiliated--forever."

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 12h

I’m sorry this just did me in.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 12h

ai is a fascist tool. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Ilyasah Shabazz didn’t want to look at the AI-generated videos of her father, Malcolm X. The seemingly realistic clips — made by OpenAI’s new video-maker Sora 2 — show the legendary civil rights activist making crude jokes, wrestling with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and talking about defecating on himself.

“It is deeply disrespectful and hurtful to see my father’s image used in such a cavalier and insensitive manner when he dedicated his life to truth,” Shabazz, whose father was assassinated in front of her in 1965 when she was 2, told The Washington Post. She questioned why the developers were not acting “with the same morality, conscience, and care … that they’d want for their own families.”

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 11h

It's worth remembering that the disgraced and disgraceful Rudy Giuliani rode into the national spotlight in the late 80s and early 90s thanks, in part, to a racist backlash against David Dinkins that Rudy actively stoked. www.thenation.com/premium/poli...

Rudy Giuliani Has Been Peddling Racist Political Tropes for More Than 3 Decades

David Dinkins campaigned for mayor of New York in 1989 as a longtime member of Democratic Socialists of America who had worked for decades on progressive causes and served as New York cochair of the R...

www.thenation.com

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 11h

Speaking of Harold Washington, I listened to this recently and found it to be really engaging and informative. I lived in Chicago for a few years in the mid-90s and the ghost of Harold Washington (and the racist backlash against him) was very palpable. www.thisamericanlife.org/869/harold

Harold - This American Life

The story of Harold Washington and the white backlash that ensued when he became Chicago's first Black mayor.

www.thisamericanlife.org

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 11h

Peak white mediocrity (Bari Weiss) is publishing the same basic article that was published in 1990 about David Dinkins, or in 1983 about Harold Washington, and applauding oneself for being a brave truth teller.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 13h

If someone ever makes a documentary about Benny Johnson, I hope they call it "Dumb and Duma." www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

Well-known right-wing influencers duped to work for covert Russian operation, U.S. prosecutors say

The accusations mark the third straight presidential election in which U.S. authorities have unveiled politically charged details about the Kremlin's attempted interference in U.S. politics.

www.pbs.org

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 15h

I too feel remorse about Babbitt's death and anger at those responsible for it--that is, the wealthy and powerful people who lied incessantly to her about a "stolen election" and thereby convinced her that it was her duty to storm the US Capitol and risk all on January 6 to "save America."

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 16h

But it's not like they're incapable of feeling remorse for people who've been shot. Ashli Babbit, who was shot (after being warned multiple times) while trying to break into the US Capitol with an angry mob of people chanting "Hang Mike Pence," is considered a noble martyr by Oregon Republicans.

A picture of a "Justice for Ashli Babbitt" flag that was flown at an Oregon Republican event at the State Capitol building in Salem in 2022.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 16h

The amount of money we are giving to Argentina amounts to $450 per resident of that country. But we're not even giving it to people there who need it, we're giving it to prop up Elon's pal, the corrupt President of that country, who'll then shovel some of it into the pockets of Trump's friends here.

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16h

“America First.”

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 16h

I make the Radio Rwanda comparison because my sense is that if a peaceful protester is killed by feds in Portland, OR; it seems more likely than not that Oregon Republicans would express little to no concern about it. They've so dehumanized Portlanders and "the left" that they'd shrug off murder.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 16h

This is a thread from last summer on this particular weekly show broadcast on one of Salem's GOP-aligned AM radio stations. This is what passes for "normal political discourse" amongst many Oregon's Republicans these days. It's approaching Radio Rwanda level hyperreality. bsky.app/profile/seth...

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · Aug 25

There's a dynamic known as "nutpicking" where a critic picks out unrepresentative voices from a movement or organization in order to associate it with its most extreme elements. That's not what I'm doing. Don Powers & Noncompliant America are "nuts," but they have influence and power in the OR GOP.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 16h

This particular person has been like this for many years now

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 16h

He's also a big Candace Owens fan who thinks Laura Loomer is a neocon warhawk with divided loyalties. He also thinks 9/11 was obviously an inside job and wonders why people are constantly talking about how the Jews were the victims and the Nazis were the bad guys in WWII.

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who helped facilitate 9-11? So again, she's pulling the 9-11 narrative that these guys from a cave across the country, from this country called Afghanistan, which by the way, the leader of the Taliban, Osama bin Laden, he had no connection to the Bush administration at all, folks. He had no connection to the Bush administration, so he masterminded the most sophisticated attack on US soil ever.
Come on, come on. Again, it's been debunked, but so she's doing the same thing that I feel like a lot of people do when they're constantly talking about World War II and constantly referring to the Nazis and the Jews and the Jews are the victims and the Nazis are the bad guys. And this weird thing that is being talked about 60, 70 years, 80 years later, let it go.
Let's talk about the future. Let's talk about the future. Right?
NONCOMPLIANT AMERICA

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