Seth Cotlar
@sethcotlar.bsky.social
Teaches US History at Willamette Univ. Working on a book about the long history of the US Right. https://rightlandia.ghost.io/
Mike Lee believes that any sane American recognizes that they've been subjected to a bombardment of Marxist propaganda since kindergarten, but he finds it inconceivable that any non-white American might feel nervous about the presence of ICE at polling places in the age of violent Kavanaugh stops.
February 12, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Mike Lee believes that any sane American recognizes that they've been subjected to a bombardment of Marxist propaganda since kindergarten, but he finds it inconceivable that any non-white American might feel nervous about the presence of ICE at polling places in the age of violent Kavanaugh stops.
I didn't read the piece as a criticism of UMiss specifically, but rather UMiss was just a representative example of where the broader political culture of young conservatives is these days.
February 12, 2026 at 5:09 PM
I didn't read the piece as a criticism of UMiss specifically, but rather UMiss was just a representative example of where the broader political culture of young conservatives is these days.
For sure. Broad generalizations about huge student populations are pretty useless. That NYMag journalist spent a good amount of time talking with specific groups of students and what he learned about what it means to be a self-described "young conservative" squares with what others have found.
February 12, 2026 at 5:08 PM
For sure. Broad generalizations about huge student populations are pretty useless. That NYMag journalist spent a good amount of time talking with specific groups of students and what he learned about what it means to be a self-described "young conservative" squares with what others have found.
She’s a fan of Candace Owens too. It’s totally understandable why young conservatives would consume the content that’s blasted at them. It’s lamentable that this is what “grown up” conservative discourse has come to look like.
February 12, 2026 at 3:28 PM
She’s a fan of Candace Owens too. It’s totally understandable why young conservatives would consume the content that’s blasted at them. It’s lamentable that this is what “grown up” conservative discourse has come to look like.
A thread on the article about TPUSA at Ole Miss that contains that detail. bsky.app/profile/seth...
The future of the Republican Party is incredibly bleak. Imagine a “conservatism” in which the Nick Fuentes-curious TPUSA kids (overwhelmingly women) are the normies, while the Nick Fuentes fanboy incels are running the predominantly male College Republicans. nymag.com/intelligence...
February 12, 2026 at 3:21 PM
A thread on the article about TPUSA at Ole Miss that contains that detail. bsky.app/profile/seth...
The future of the Republican Party is incredibly bleak. Imagine a “conservatism” in which the Nick Fuentes-curious TPUSA kids (overwhelmingly women) are the normies, while the Nick Fuentes fanboy incels are running the predominantly male College Republicans. nymag.com/intelligence...
Inside the Conservative Campus Revolution
How Charlie Kirk’s youth movement was overwhelmed by darker forces after his death.
nymag.com
February 12, 2026 at 3:16 PM
A thread on the article about TPUSA at Ole Miss that contains that detail. bsky.app/profile/seth...
By her own account, the very popular student at University of Mississippi who heads up their TPUSA chapter is a regular consumer of Fuentes’s content. She thinks he’s funny. She and her group are also considered to be some of the more normie conservatives on campus.
Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”
Nick Fuentes: “The number one political enemy in America is women. … They have to be imprisoned.”
www.mediamatters.org
February 12, 2026 at 3:13 PM
By her own account, the very popular student at University of Mississippi who heads up their TPUSA chapter is a regular consumer of Fuentes’s content. She thinks he’s funny. She and her group are also considered to be some of the more normie conservatives on campus.
The GOP has put the federal government on a war footing in relation to cities and states that didn’t vote for them, and then Republicans lament that we seem to be sliding into Civil war. It’s like if a Confederate had been elected president in 1860 and immediately started invading Northern cities.
February 12, 2026 at 2:59 PM
The GOP has put the federal government on a war footing in relation to cities and states that didn’t vote for them, and then Republicans lament that we seem to be sliding into Civil war. It’s like if a Confederate had been elected president in 1860 and immediately started invading Northern cities.
It’s truly fucked up that the government regularly refers to actions it’s taking on American soil using military terms like “surge” (as in, the Iraq troop surge of 2007) and “Operation Midway Blitz” as in the Blitz of 1940, when the Nazis attacked Britain.
Homan in Minnesota: "I have proposed, and President Trump has concurred, that this surge operation conclude. A significant drawdown has already been underway this week and will continue."
February 12, 2026 at 2:53 PM
It’s truly fucked up that the government regularly refers to actions it’s taking on American soil using military terms like “surge” (as in, the Iraq troop surge of 2007) and “Operation Midway Blitz” as in the Blitz of 1940, when the Nazis attacked Britain.
Another banger from 1964
February 12, 2026 at 4:48 AM
Another banger from 1964
Sometimes the FB algorithm hits just right.
February 12, 2026 at 4:45 AM
Sometimes the FB algorithm hits just right.
There must be some mistake. I was assured by Brett Kavanaugh that detainees were sorted only by the content of their character, and it was purely coincidental that this mapped on to the color of their skin.
This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
February 12, 2026 at 3:29 AM
There must be some mistake. I was assured by Brett Kavanaugh that detainees were sorted only by the content of their character, and it was purely coincidental that this mapped on to the color of their skin.
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OK ... I just watched a large amount of Joe Rogan for the first time in order to see WTF Cheryl Hines was gonna be on about.
Oh my god. Oh my god. It's like the worst stoner conversation I've ever been trapped in.
Oh my god. Oh my god. It's like the worst stoner conversation I've ever been trapped in.
February 12, 2026 at 2:39 AM
OK ... I just watched a large amount of Joe Rogan for the first time in order to see WTF Cheryl Hines was gonna be on about.
Oh my god. Oh my god. It's like the worst stoner conversation I've ever been trapped in.
Oh my god. Oh my god. It's like the worst stoner conversation I've ever been trapped in.
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There's a link between the AI disruption and the authoritarian political attacks on expertise. Highly educated white collar folks considered ourselves to be a powerful culture, on the basis of our expertise & credentials. But that's not where power comes from, and we're learning that the hard way.
All I'm saying here is that there's a strong air from white collar people like we're not supposed to be disrupted. That's for blue collar folks. But we're not special. We never have been. Just lucky. And eventually your luck runs out. Capitalism comes for everybody eventually.
February 12, 2026 at 2:01 AM
There's a link between the AI disruption and the authoritarian political attacks on expertise. Highly educated white collar folks considered ourselves to be a powerful culture, on the basis of our expertise & credentials. But that's not where power comes from, and we're learning that the hard way.
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The person photographed here who is in their bathrobe filming armed, masked federal agents in St. Paul is MPR News journalist @samstroozas.bsky.social @mprnews.org . She is an incredible journalist and person. We do not deserve her.
A high-speed car chase involving a federal agent in St. Paul ended with a multi-vehicle crash and injuries to the fleeing driver, who was taken away in an ambulance. bit.ly/4kvJo0M
📸: Leila Navidi
📸: Leila Navidi
February 11, 2026 at 9:26 PM
The person photographed here who is in their bathrobe filming armed, masked federal agents in St. Paul is MPR News journalist @samstroozas.bsky.social @mprnews.org . She is an incredible journalist and person. We do not deserve her.
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This is some genuinely psycho shit...
February 11, 2026 at 8:02 PM
This is some genuinely psycho shit...
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Career communications staff at the Dept of Labor were ignored and many resigned when a 21 year old starting posting white nationalist meme. Now he is going to DHS. This is who prospers under the clicktatorship.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...
Homeland Security Hires Labor Dept. Aide Whose Posts Raised Alarms
www.nytimes.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:39 PM
Career communications staff at the Dept of Labor were ignored and many resigned when a 21 year old starting posting white nationalist meme. Now he is going to DHS. This is who prospers under the clicktatorship.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...
This is why people who know anything about history generally avoid going to work for mobster authoritarians, because they know what fate often befalls mid-level functionaries who are perceived as dispensable by the higher ups.
February 11, 2026 at 5:21 PM
This is why people who know anything about history generally avoid going to work for mobster authoritarians, because they know what fate often befalls mid-level functionaries who are perceived as dispensable by the higher ups.
To me, this looks like someone who fears that she’s about to be thrown under the bus by the amoral monster she chose to work for…someone who knows that her boss would happily see her locked up if it would help advance his own interests.
February 11, 2026 at 5:18 PM
To me, this looks like someone who fears that she’s about to be thrown under the bus by the amoral monster she chose to work for…someone who knows that her boss would happily see her locked up if it would help advance his own interests.
“What is the sound of one gum flapping?” A famous line from the ancient Republican scriptures colloquially known as the “Dow, Ka Ching.”
Bondi crashes out over Epstein: "The Dow is over 50,000 dollars! I don't know why you're laughing. You're a great stock trader as I hear, Raskin. The Dow is over 50,000 right now. The S&P at almost 7,000, and the Nasdaq smashing records. That's what we should be talking about."
February 11, 2026 at 5:13 PM
“What is the sound of one gum flapping?” A famous line from the ancient Republican scriptures colloquially known as the “Dow, Ka Ching.”
Twitter these days feels like a mashup of Hustler Magazine and Soldier of Fortune where people pay to post their recruitment ads for gullible rural white boys to get rich quick by selling Grit Magazine door to door.
February 11, 2026 at 4:05 PM
Twitter these days feels like a mashup of Hustler Magazine and Soldier of Fortune where people pay to post their recruitment ads for gullible rural white boys to get rich quick by selling Grit Magazine door to door.
More relevant context that, surprise surprise, is rarely mentioned on X, the free speech app. bsky.app/profile/linc...
February 11, 2026 at 3:54 PM
More relevant context that, surprise surprise, is rarely mentioned on X, the free speech app. bsky.app/profile/linc...
It perfectly encapsulates what Twitter has become that the main topic of conversation there this morning is this AI-written post by Matt Shumer, an AI hype man who’d been busted previously for lying about what his company’s product can do.
Surely, the author of the “AI is an existential threat to the economy and your wellbeing, and the only solution is to use more AI immediately, please” has no financial incentive in making people believe that. Now to take a big sip of my coffee and check out his bio…
February 11, 2026 at 3:52 PM
It perfectly encapsulates what Twitter has become that the main topic of conversation there this morning is this AI-written post by Matt Shumer, an AI hype man who’d been busted previously for lying about what his company’s product can do.
Motion to rename this song “The Ballad of RFK, Jr and Olivia Nuzzi.”
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The Modern Lovers - Pablo Picasso
YouTube video by JMo27
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February 11, 2026 at 3:42 PM
Motion to rename this song “The Ballad of RFK, Jr and Olivia Nuzzi.”
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Should he ever need a place to go into exile, this would be perfect for him.
February 11, 2026 at 3:37 PM
Should he ever need a place to go into exile, this would be perfect for him.