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/
Michael Kinsley describing Robert Novak: "Underneath the asshole is a really nice guy. But underneath that nice guy is another asshole." A pleasurable lol moment in this excellent character study of the odious Tucker Carlson. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/808029...
Hated by All the Right People by Jason Zengerle: 9781638932932 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
“[M]ordant, insightful, vigorously reported and, yes, deliciously entertaining…as much a work of media criticism as it is a professional biography of Carlson.” —Becca Rothfeld,...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
February 13, 2026 at 2:12 AM
Michael Kinsley describing Robert Novak: "Underneath the asshole is a really nice guy. But underneath that nice guy is another asshole." A pleasurable lol moment in this excellent character study of the odious Tucker Carlson. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/808029...
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“History shows that wars can be lost [quickly] if defenders surrender strategic terrain without a struggle. For universities, that terrain is the ultimate high ground: human intelligence itself. If we do not fight for it now, those who come after us will face an even more unequal struggle.”
I've said it before, but the first school that promotes itself as "AI-free" is going to corner the market on folks committed to learning. (gift link)
Opinion | How A.I. Companies Are Preying on College Students
www.nytimes.com
February 12, 2026 at 11:50 PM
“History shows that wars can be lost [quickly] if defenders surrender strategic terrain without a struggle. For universities, that terrain is the ultimate high ground: human intelligence itself. If we do not fight for it now, those who come after us will face an even more unequal struggle.”
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This is absolutely brutal. Just SIXTY journalists make up Oregon's largest newspaper chain.
In testimony on a journalism funding bill, a Carpenter Media representative reveals that the company that owns the largest share of newspapers in Oregon employs 60 journalists. Before Carpenter bought them, the Pamplin chain employed 110 people and EO 185, though not all were journalists.
February 13, 2026 at 1:34 AM
This is absolutely brutal. Just SIXTY journalists make up Oregon's largest newspaper chain.
Shorter Jeremy Carl.
February 12, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Shorter Jeremy Carl.
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.
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.
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.
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...
“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.”
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.
Sounds like a made up story behind a new concept album by The Modern Lovers.
‘Georgescu’s political programme is based on the need to heal Romania by creating a synthetic medieval country, agrarian, artisanal, patriarchal, self-sufficient in organic food, purged of chemicals, purged of modernity, purged of everything and everyone he dislikes.’
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
James Meek · Far-Right Wellness Product: Romania’s Far Right
Călin Georgescu’s entire political programme, in so far as he has one, is based on the need to heal Romania by...
www.lrb.co.uk
February 11, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Sounds like a made up story behind a new concept album by The Modern Lovers.
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A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years
February 11, 2026 at 3:43 AM
A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years
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“what we’re witnessing is…on the scale of the larger concentration camp systems in history—the Soviet Gulag, the Nazi concentration camps, & Chinese labor camps…The admin is actively aspiring to a system of that magnitude to reshape society to its racial, political & cultural prefs for generations”
When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.
Building the camps
The warehouseification of detention and initial thoughts on stopping it.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
February 11, 2026 at 3:40 AM
“what we’re witnessing is…on the scale of the larger concentration camp systems in history—the Soviet Gulag, the Nazi concentration camps, & Chinese labor camps…The admin is actively aspiring to a system of that magnitude to reshape society to its racial, political & cultural prefs for generations”
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This is the second time an ICE employee has been arrested in in a Bloomington, MN underage sex trafficking sting www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
Police in Bloomington, MN just announced that one of the guys they arrested in an underage sex trafficking sting was a **background checker for ICE agents.**
He had a high security clearance in the Trump administration... and he was caught trying to abuse children. Sickening.
He had a high security clearance in the Trump administration... and he was caught trying to abuse children. Sickening.
February 10, 2026 at 9:26 PM
This is the second time an ICE employee has been arrested in in a Bloomington, MN underage sex trafficking sting www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
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this may draw a lot of mockery On Here but it's true, the u.s. build a mount everest of soft power that it is now in the process of burning to ashes
people born in america probably don’t realize how cool america used to be. the death of US soft power is going to have long term consequences we are only beginning to see
February 10, 2026 at 3:26 PM
this may draw a lot of mockery On Here but it's true, the u.s. build a mount everest of soft power that it is now in the process of burning to ashes
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in a text string after the shooting, a fellow agent told Exum he's a "legend"
"Beers on me"
"Beers on me"
February 10, 2026 at 11:46 PM
in a text string after the shooting, a fellow agent told Exum he's a "legend"
"Beers on me"
"Beers on me"
I don’t know who this guy is, but he makes a good point about how important the rule of law and due process are. Imagine if a government agency dramatically disrupted an innocent person’s life without following all of the proper procedures. This guy would be outraged I’m sure.
February 10, 2026 at 11:43 PM
I don’t know who this guy is, but he makes a good point about how important the rule of law and due process are. Imagine if a government agency dramatically disrupted an innocent person’s life without following all of the proper procedures. This guy would be outraged I’m sure.
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Before Elon bought Twitter, this is the sort of pathetic shit American Nazis had to do to get noticed by the general public. Now they have hundreds of thousands of followers on twitter and lucrative Substack accounts.
February 10, 2026 at 11:06 PM
Before Elon bought Twitter, this is the sort of pathetic shit American Nazis had to do to get noticed by the general public. Now they have hundreds of thousands of followers on twitter and lucrative Substack accounts.