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/
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.
Put down your cigarette
And drop out of the EU
Alright!
And drop out of the EU
Alright!
February 11, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Put down your cigarette
And drop out of the EU
Alright!
And drop out of the EU
Alright!
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"
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...