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/
They were about to throw brooms.
CURLING BEEF! CURLING BEEF! CURLING BEEF! CURLING BEEF!
(I never post Olympic videos bc the IOC will hunt you down but I am taking that risk so that you can hear the Canadian curling cursing)
(I never post Olympic videos bc the IOC will hunt you down but I am taking that risk so that you can hear the Canadian curling cursing)
February 13, 2026 at 9:55 PM
They were about to throw brooms.
Posted publicly today by an official government account. Is it too much to ask for the government to just stop being so freaking weird?
February 13, 2026 at 9:32 PM
Posted publicly today by an official government account. Is it too much to ask for the government to just stop being so freaking weird?
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The historian who wrote about the 20th century academy have long been clear about this point. The existance of mass higher education was always predicated on elite and state priorities. Through funding and political support, these two broad categories of people always shaped research and teaching.
I'd like at add a few things to this. (1) humanists have not been able to convince any political party that curiosity-driven humanities research is a public good that should be funded using tax dollars. Republicans don't believe this, but neither do Democrats.
It's possible to do a non-reactionary critique of the current landscape of humanities research funding: www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
February 13, 2026 at 6:09 PM
The historian who wrote about the 20th century academy have long been clear about this point. The existance of mass higher education was always predicated on elite and state priorities. Through funding and political support, these two broad categories of people always shaped research and teaching.
I dunno guys. I’m starting to think that this Noem person who auditioned for her tough guy/border enforcer job with the Trump administration by bragging in her memoir about shooting the family dog in a gravel pit, might not be a good person.
February 13, 2026 at 6:03 PM
I dunno guys. I’m starting to think that this Noem person who auditioned for her tough guy/border enforcer job with the Trump administration by bragging in her memoir about shooting the family dog in a gravel pit, might not be a good person.
“Antisemitism is the socialism of fools.”
Antisemitism is literally a strategy going back centuries to distract people from the real enemy, the aristocracy. This is extremely well documented.
Skin in the Game
Antisemitism forms the theoretical core of White nationalism.
politicalresearch.org
February 13, 2026 at 5:30 PM
“Antisemitism is the socialism of fools.”
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You really don’t need to be antisemetic about Epstein.
He’s evil because he’s evil. Not because he’s Jewish.
He’s evil because he’s evil. Not because he’s Jewish.
February 13, 2026 at 5:13 PM
You really don’t need to be antisemetic about Epstein.
He’s evil because he’s evil. Not because he’s Jewish.
He’s evil because he’s evil. Not because he’s Jewish.
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This is so important. I’ve never seen a bunch of leaders more afraid of public opinion — and more unwilling to try to shift it — then current Democratic leadership
"Democratic politicians urgently need to adopt the GOP view of public opinion—that it’s movable, and it’s their job to move it." newrepublic.com/article/2058...
Instead of Pandering, Democrats Should Try Changing Voters’ Minds
How can the party of liberalism make liberal ideas more popular? By creating a more liberal electorate. Yes, it can be done. Here are five ways how.
newrepublic.com
February 13, 2026 at 5:25 PM
This is so important. I’ve never seen a bunch of leaders more afraid of public opinion — and more unwilling to try to shift it — then current Democratic leadership
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one of america’s most cherished folk singers wrote an entire song about what a cruel criminal piece of shit donald trump’s father was all the way back in 1954 and somehow this basically never comes up in any story about the trumps, they have literally *always* been this way
the whole fucking family from trump’s parents on down have been a goddamned blight on this country for at least seven decades
February 12, 2026 at 9:40 PM
one of america’s most cherished folk singers wrote an entire song about what a cruel criminal piece of shit donald trump’s father was all the way back in 1954 and somehow this basically never comes up in any story about the trumps, they have literally *always* been this way
Stephen Miller's gambit is based upon his (fairly accurate) reading of US History that if a politician is broadly unpopular in a racist way, then they still have a decent chance of winning. But if they're unpopular in an anti-racist or leftish way, then that makes it harder for them to get elected.
AP-NORC poll | 2/5-2/8
President Trump approval
Disapprove 62% (+3)
Approve 36% (-4)
apnorc.org/projects/abo...
President Trump approval
Disapprove 62% (+3)
Approve 36% (-4)
apnorc.org/projects/abo...
February 13, 2026 at 4:34 PM
Stephen Miller's gambit is based upon his (fairly accurate) reading of US History that if a politician is broadly unpopular in a racist way, then they still have a decent chance of winning. But if they're unpopular in an anti-racist or leftish way, then that makes it harder for them to get elected.
The rapid Stormfront-ification of Fox News and GOP media in general reveals the extent to which "palingenetic right wing ultra-nationalist populism" (i.e., fascism) has been the telos toward which much of the "American conservative movement" has been oriented since the 1940s.
Current state of things: One Fox News host casually declares that Epstein’s money comes from “Jewish billionaires” and a “Jewish banking family,” another responds that he was a “sex rabbi.” www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/jes...
February 13, 2026 at 4:05 PM
The rapid Stormfront-ification of Fox News and GOP media in general reveals the extent to which "palingenetic right wing ultra-nationalist populism" (i.e., fascism) has been the telos toward which much of the "American conservative movement" has been oriented since the 1940s.
Kristi Noem: The Pretti Good Candidate for President
The ads write themselves.
The ads write themselves.
I have to admit that I'm kind of rooting for Noem to get the GOP nod for 2028 POTUS nominee. She is so crushingly corrupt, uncharismatic, unlikeable, and ignorant that it just might be what the nation needs to come to its senses.
February 13, 2026 at 3:57 PM
Kristi Noem: The Pretti Good Candidate for President
The ads write themselves.
The ads write themselves.
This story about Lewandowski has a real "Nixon gives Elvis a DEA badge" kind of feel to it. Only in this case, it would be more like "Nixon gives Elvis's girlfriend a DEA badge."
February 13, 2026 at 3:42 PM
This story about Lewandowski has a real "Nixon gives Elvis a DEA badge" kind of feel to it. Only in this case, it would be more like "Nixon gives Elvis's girlfriend a DEA badge."
If you clean your room and pay $599 to Jordan Peterson, you can meet comely long-legged British heiresses in scintillating online lectures from Jordan Peterson and the President of Hillsdale College on sexy topics like Nietzsche and Winston Churchill.
February 13, 2026 at 3:07 PM
If you clean your room and pay $599 to Jordan Peterson, you can meet comely long-legged British heiresses in scintillating online lectures from Jordan Peterson and the President of Hillsdale College on sexy topics like Nietzsche and Winston Churchill.
Gonna do my bit to make America healthy again à la Mike Tyson by eating an elephant’s ear for breakfast and then a spicy garlic pig ear stir fry for lunch.
February 13, 2026 at 2:42 PM
Gonna do my bit to make America healthy again à la Mike Tyson by eating an elephant’s ear for breakfast and then a spicy garlic pig ear stir fry for lunch.
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It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.
February 13, 2026 at 4:48 AM
It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.
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.