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/
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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"
Someone should really tell that guy about stories like this. Surely he wouldn’t approve. bsky.app/profile/theg...
Irish man with valid US work permit held in ICE detention for five months
Irish man with valid US work permit held in ICE detention for five months
Seamus Culleton, who has lived in US for two decades, faces deportation after being arrested on way home from work
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An Irish man has spent five months in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention and faces deportation despite having a valid work permit and no criminal record.
Seamus Culleton was a “model immigrant” who had become the victim of a capricious and inept system, said his lawyer, Ogor Winnie Okoye. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
February 10, 2026 at 11:47 PM
Someone should really tell that guy about stories like this. Surely he wouldn’t approve. bsky.app/profile/theg...
It’s real, but from 2018 and in relation to him and his friends
February 10, 2026 at 11:46 PM
It’s real, but from 2018 and in relation to him and his friends
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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FWIW, one of the Nazis named in that 2005 story (now purportedly reformed) is currently a parishioner at our local Christian Nationalist church that hosted the Reawaken America tour when it came to town.
February 10, 2026 at 11:09 PM
FWIW, one of the Nazis named in that 2005 story (now purportedly reformed) is currently a parishioner at our local Christian Nationalist church that hosted the Reawaken America tour when it came to town.
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.
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Hey, Bluesky history nerds! Who are your favorite pre-modern historians on here?
February 10, 2026 at 10:51 PM
Hey, Bluesky history nerds! Who are your favorite pre-modern historians on here?
I suppose one might also say that Jesus has been doing the funniest thing every day since he died by getting people to speculate about the likelihood and timing of his return. This Polymarket thing is just the latest iteration of that funny thing.
February 10, 2026 at 10:55 PM
I suppose one might also say that Jesus has been doing the funniest thing every day since he died by getting people to speculate about the likelihood and timing of his return. This Polymarket thing is just the latest iteration of that funny thing.
Jesus has an opportunity to do the funniest thing, while also making a fucking killing on Polymarket.
February 10, 2026 at 9:41 PM
Jesus has an opportunity to do the funniest thing, while also making a fucking killing on Polymarket.
I'm being sarcastic here, but I can understand why the people who support a President who was allegedly Jeffrey Epstein's best friend for a decade, who bragged about grabbing women's genitals as a form of seduction, and who had sex with Stormy Daniels would find Bad Bunny's performance immoral.
February 10, 2026 at 7:30 PM
I'm being sarcastic here, but I can understand why the people who support a President who was allegedly Jeffrey Epstein's best friend for a decade, who bragged about grabbing women's genitals as a form of seduction, and who had sex with Stormy Daniels would find Bad Bunny's performance immoral.
Now Eisenhower, he's a Russian spy
Lincoln, and Jefferson and then Roosevelt guy
To my knowledge, there's just one man
That's really and truly an American
That's George Lincoln Rockwell [insert Nick Fuentes]
I know for a fact he hates Commies
'Cause he picketed the movie Exodus
Lincoln, and Jefferson and then Roosevelt guy
To my knowledge, there's just one man
That's really and truly an American
That's George Lincoln Rockwell [insert Nick Fuentes]
I know for a fact he hates Commies
'Cause he picketed the movie Exodus
February 10, 2026 at 7:28 PM
Now Eisenhower, he's a Russian spy
Lincoln, and Jefferson and then Roosevelt guy
To my knowledge, there's just one man
That's really and truly an American
That's George Lincoln Rockwell [insert Nick Fuentes]
I know for a fact he hates Commies
'Cause he picketed the movie Exodus
Lincoln, and Jefferson and then Roosevelt guy
To my knowledge, there's just one man
That's really and truly an American
That's George Lincoln Rockwell [insert Nick Fuentes]
I know for a fact he hates Commies
'Cause he picketed the movie Exodus
Well, I was sittin' home an' started to sweat
I figured they was in my T.V. set
I peeked behind the picture frame
Got a shock from my feet, right up in the brain
Them reds did it
I figured they was in my T.V. set
I peeked behind the picture frame
Got a shock from my feet, right up in the brain
Them reds did it
February 10, 2026 at 7:27 PM
Well, I was sittin' home an' started to sweat
I figured they was in my T.V. set
I peeked behind the picture frame
Got a shock from my feet, right up in the brain
Them reds did it
I figured they was in my T.V. set
I peeked behind the picture frame
Got a shock from my feet, right up in the brain
Them reds did it
Well, I got up in the mornin' I looked under my bed
I was lookin' every places for them gol-darned Reds
Looked behind the sink, and under the door
Looked in the glove compartment of my car
Couldn't find any
I looked way up my chimney hole
Even looked deep inside my toilet bowl
They got away
I was lookin' every places for them gol-darned Reds
Looked behind the sink, and under the door
Looked in the glove compartment of my car
Couldn't find any
I looked way up my chimney hole
Even looked deep inside my toilet bowl
They got away
February 10, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Well, I got up in the mornin' I looked under my bed
I was lookin' every places for them gol-darned Reds
Looked behind the sink, and under the door
Looked in the glove compartment of my car
Couldn't find any
I looked way up my chimney hole
Even looked deep inside my toilet bowl
They got away
I was lookin' every places for them gol-darned Reds
Looked behind the sink, and under the door
Looked in the glove compartment of my car
Couldn't find any
I looked way up my chimney hole
Even looked deep inside my toilet bowl
They got away
Well, I was feelin' sad & kinda blue
I didn't know what I was gonna do
Them communists was comin' around
They was in the air
They was on the ground
They was all over
So, I run down most hurriedly
And joined the John Birch Society
I got me a secret membership card
I went back home to the yard
I didn't know what I was gonna do
Them communists was comin' around
They was in the air
They was on the ground
They was all over
So, I run down most hurriedly
And joined the John Birch Society
I got me a secret membership card
I went back home to the yard
Rep Mark Alford (R-MO) says House Rs are "investigating" Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show & talking with FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr. Alford says he didn't watch the whole thing & also doesn't know Spanish but suspects it might have been "much worse than the Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction"
February 10, 2026 at 7:25 PM
Well, I was feelin' sad & kinda blue
I didn't know what I was gonna do
Them communists was comin' around
They was in the air
They was on the ground
They was all over
So, I run down most hurriedly
And joined the John Birch Society
I got me a secret membership card
I went back home to the yard
I didn't know what I was gonna do
Them communists was comin' around
They was in the air
They was on the ground
They was all over
So, I run down most hurriedly
And joined the John Birch Society
I got me a secret membership card
I went back home to the yard
He’s “at Yale” in the same sense that Sean Spicer was “at Harvard,” but yeah.
February 10, 2026 at 4:57 PM
He’s “at Yale” in the same sense that Sean Spicer was “at Harvard,” but yeah.
The institution that gave a fellowship to a serial lying propagandist which he used to work on his project of “laying siege” to all of the nation’s institutions, is just trying to figure out, totally in good faith, why the institutions of our democracy are failing. bsky.app/profile/seth...
Their vision of "freedom" is a world without democratic institutions like journalism, universities, federal agencies, public schools, courts that enforce the rule of law equally. They see these institutions as tyrannical, but they are not. They are barriers to THEIR tyrannical aspirations.
February 10, 2026 at 4:55 PM
The institution that gave a fellowship to a serial lying propagandist which he used to work on his project of “laying siege” to all of the nation’s institutions, is just trying to figure out, totally in good faith, why the institutions of our democracy are failing. bsky.app/profile/seth...
The very Christian and conservative institution that published a piece in early 2022 explaining how the political violence of January 6, 2021 was no big deal, is just trying to find the guy who made American politics so radical lately. bsky.app/profile/seth...
The chair of this commission was the President of Hillsdale College, Larry Arnn. In 2022 Hillsdale's magazine published this piece (by the head of Yale's Bill Buckley Center) explaining why Jan 6 was really no big deal. Because, you know, rule of law and reverence for the Constitution is essential.
February 10, 2026 at 4:49 PM
The very Christian and conservative institution that published a piece in early 2022 explaining how the political violence of January 6, 2021 was no big deal, is just trying to find the guy who made American politics so radical lately. bsky.app/profile/seth...
The Christian Nationalist MAGA college run by Larry Arnn, a Founder of the Claremont Institute and longtime trustee of the Heritage Foundation, asks the question few are brave enough to ask, How has “the left” been able to make American politics so darn radical lately?
February 10, 2026 at 4:46 PM
The Christian Nationalist MAGA college run by Larry Arnn, a Founder of the Claremont Institute and longtime trustee of the Heritage Foundation, asks the question few are brave enough to ask, How has “the left” been able to make American politics so darn radical lately?
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have never seen popular public opinion shift so fast about a surveillance product than the fallout from ring's super bowl "search party" ad. they'll teach this in advertising courses one day. chef's kiss baby www.404media.co/with-ring-am...
With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet
Ring's 'Search Party' is dystopian surveillance accelerationism.
www.404media.co
February 10, 2026 at 3:14 PM
have never seen popular public opinion shift so fast about a surveillance product than the fallout from ring's super bowl "search party" ad. they'll teach this in advertising courses one day. chef's kiss baby www.404media.co/with-ring-am...
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The latest from YouGov (n ~ 7k) gives me some methodological concerns. They allowed people to rate their pun making as "outstanding" but, statistically, most are sitting indoors at the time
today.yougov.com/topics/socie...
today.yougov.com/topics/socie...
February 10, 2026 at 3:14 PM
The latest from YouGov (n ~ 7k) gives me some methodological concerns. They allowed people to rate their pun making as "outstanding" but, statistically, most are sitting indoors at the time
today.yougov.com/topics/socie...
today.yougov.com/topics/socie...