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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you know how i know im a 44yo dad? how much i laughed at this shit
December 6, 2025 at 3:31 AM
you know how i know im a 44yo dad? how much i laughed at this shit
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We literally found the stupidest people in the country and put them in charge.
December 6, 2025 at 5:48 AM
We literally found the stupidest people in the country and put them in charge.
Reading the opening of Leonard Zeskind's 2009 book Blood and Politics in the midst of Trump 2.0 is quite a gut punch. In 2000 he warned of a rising tide of violent white nationalism & Christian nationalism on the American right...few people took those warning seriously. And now here we are.
December 6, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Reading the opening of Leonard Zeskind's 2009 book Blood and Politics in the midst of Trump 2.0 is quite a gut punch. In 2000 he warned of a rising tide of violent white nationalism & Christian nationalism on the American right...few people took those warning seriously. And now here we are.
In 1983 Reagan voters were 48/44 opposed to MLK day and Reagan himself still thought MLK might have been a Communist. We know this because he said it to his friend Meldrim Thompson, a former NH governor who sat on the board of the John Birch Society in 1983.
December 6, 2025 at 1:56 AM
In 1983 Reagan voters were 48/44 opposed to MLK day and Reagan himself still thought MLK might have been a Communist. We know this because he said it to his friend Meldrim Thompson, a former NH governor who sat on the board of the John Birch Society in 1983.
The "War on Christmas" is coming from inside the house.
Get ready for the official government videos of Santa on Christmas Eve deploying cutting edge Palantir technology to distinguish between the children asleep in their beds who are naughty/deportable, and those who are nice and can stay.
Get ready for the official government videos of Santa on Christmas Eve deploying cutting edge Palantir technology to distinguish between the children asleep in their beds who are naughty/deportable, and those who are nice and can stay.
December 5, 2025 at 11:36 PM
The "War on Christmas" is coming from inside the house.
Get ready for the official government videos of Santa on Christmas Eve deploying cutting edge Palantir technology to distinguish between the children asleep in their beds who are naughty/deportable, and those who are nice and can stay.
Get ready for the official government videos of Santa on Christmas Eve deploying cutting edge Palantir technology to distinguish between the children asleep in their beds who are naughty/deportable, and those who are nice and can stay.
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This is a cruel act of bigotry against an amazing woman who served her country with distinction.
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered. n.pr/48HypvT
HHS changed the name of transgender health leader on her official portrait
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered.
n.pr
December 5, 2025 at 10:59 PM
This is a cruel act of bigotry against an amazing woman who served her country with distinction.
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If so, it is quite possible that the suspect reached this belief by consuming media produced by the current Director and Deputy Director of the FBI.
SCOOP: The Jan. 6 pipe bomb suspect told the FBI he believed in 2020 election conspiracy theories.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Pipe bomb suspect told FBI he believed 2020 election conspiracy theories
The suspect has been cooperating with the FBI, according to sources, and is expected to make his first court appearance on Friday.
www.nbcnews.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:31 PM
If so, it is quite possible that the suspect reached this belief by consuming media produced by the current Director and Deputy Director of the FBI.
A participation trophy for the very good boy who sits atop a movement comprised of Americans who resent how the libs have supposedly created a world in which children are rendered weak by all of the participation trophies they receive.
December 5, 2025 at 8:27 PM
A participation trophy for the very good boy who sits atop a movement comprised of Americans who resent how the libs have supposedly created a world in which children are rendered weak by all of the participation trophies they receive.
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The White House surrenders at 138 million views. Sabrina wins.
December 5, 2025 at 7:55 PM
The White House surrenders at 138 million views. Sabrina wins.
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SCOOP: The Jan. 6 pipe bomb suspect told the FBI he believed in 2020 election conspiracy theories.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Pipe bomb suspect told FBI he believed 2020 election conspiracy theories
The suspect has been cooperating with the FBI, according to sources, and is expected to make his first court appearance on Friday.
www.nbcnews.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
SCOOP: The Jan. 6 pipe bomb suspect told the FBI he believed in 2020 election conspiracy theories.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
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Now official policy of the United States:
—Immigration is exclusively harmful
—All nations must “only rarely” grant citizenship to foreigners
—Immigration will “erase” Europe within 20 years and the US must act to prevent that
Read it yourself.
—Immigration is exclusively harmful
—All nations must “only rarely” grant citizenship to foreigners
—Immigration will “erase” Europe within 20 years and the US must act to prevent that
Read it yourself.
A few thoughts on the new US national security strategy that was released today.
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December 5, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Now official policy of the United States:
—Immigration is exclusively harmful
—All nations must “only rarely” grant citizenship to foreigners
—Immigration will “erase” Europe within 20 years and the US must act to prevent that
Read it yourself.
—Immigration is exclusively harmful
—All nations must “only rarely” grant citizenship to foreigners
—Immigration will “erase” Europe within 20 years and the US must act to prevent that
Read it yourself.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, one of the more popular radio shows amongst the largely underground community of American neo-Nazis and white supremacists was called "America First Radio." How unpredictable that today's America First movement might attract people like Nick Fuentes's groypers.
December 5, 2025 at 2:46 PM
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, one of the more popular radio shows amongst the largely underground community of American neo-Nazis and white supremacists was called "America First Radio." How unpredictable that today's America First movement might attract people like Nick Fuentes's groypers.
We found the narc who is terrorizing Republicans in Idaho. Turns out he’s an ultra-MAGA county-level GOP activist who moved to Idaho from California because he wanted o live in a place more amenable to his racist politics. Story is from March. idahocapitalsun.com/2025/03/27/r...
Right-wing Idaho activist targets Republican legislator with calls for ICE raids • Idaho Capital Sun
President Donald Trump’s second term was only in its second day when Ryan Spoon — vice chair of the local Republican Party apparatus in Idaho’s Ada County — turned the force of the federal government ...
idahocapitalsun.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:15 PM
We found the narc who is terrorizing Republicans in Idaho. Turns out he’s an ultra-MAGA county-level GOP activist who moved to Idaho from California because he wanted o live in a place more amenable to his racist politics. Story is from March. idahocapitalsun.com/2025/03/27/r...
Many people are saying that there’s a wall just inside the front door where junior staffers post a little paper boat each time Trump orders an extrajudicial murder for peace in the Caribbean.
December 5, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Many people are saying that there’s a wall just inside the front door where junior staffers post a little paper boat each time Trump orders an extrajudicial murder for peace in the Caribbean.
Doing war crimes the right way
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces another boat strike in response to a request/wish from Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet.
December 5, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Doing war crimes the right way
This is 100% true and IMO has a 0% chance of happening.
The first school to market itself as AI free is going to corner the market on people interested in actually learning. And I would not be surprised if rich families and the children of people creating this tech were the first movers.
My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
December 5, 2025 at 1:46 AM
This is 100% true and IMO has a 0% chance of happening.
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"I wasn't able to let them know that I was going to get deported. I didn't even know I would be deported until I was on the plane."
December 4, 2025 at 1:31 PM
"I wasn't able to let them know that I was going to get deported. I didn't even know I would be deported until I was on the plane."
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When all is done, the OU undergrad will have scored a 6 figure right-wing media contract, the higher ed press will still be talking about grading rubrics for conservative views, the trans grad student will still be getting death threats and have her life/job ruined. And everyone else will move on.
December 4, 2025 at 3:47 PM
When all is done, the OU undergrad will have scored a 6 figure right-wing media contract, the higher ed press will still be talking about grading rubrics for conservative views, the trans grad student will still be getting death threats and have her life/job ruined. And everyone else will move on.
I know it's pointless to point out MAGA hypocrisy, but it really is stunning how the guy who ran in the GOP primary on the highly unorthodox message of "wars of regime change like Iraq were terrible mistakes" is now pushing us headlong into a war of regime change in Venezuela.
December 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I know it's pointless to point out MAGA hypocrisy, but it really is stunning how the guy who ran in the GOP primary on the highly unorthodox message of "wars of regime change like Iraq were terrible mistakes" is now pushing us headlong into a war of regime change in Venezuela.
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These are good moments to remember that the CEOs of all the biggest companies in America are happy to go to White House dinners and slap this guy’s back. They do not care about this. Remember this, years from now, when they want you to forget.
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 4, 2025 at 12:13 AM
These are good moments to remember that the CEOs of all the biggest companies in America are happy to go to White House dinners and slap this guy’s back. They do not care about this. Remember this, years from now, when they want you to forget.
“the Comet Ping Pong attack was nine years ago today—weeks after Trump’s 2016 win—and inspired by a conspiracy theory promoted by Jack Posobiec, who was recently invited to the White House, demands antifa be designated a terrorist group, and asked questions as “press” at the Pentagon this week”
something I wrote on in 2017 on how everything was becoming Pizzagate, after its promoters first appeared at the White House, leading up to Unite the Right and the murder of Heather Heyer thebaffler.com/latest/the-p...
December 4, 2025 at 1:39 PM
“the Comet Ping Pong attack was nine years ago today—weeks after Trump’s 2016 win—and inspired by a conspiracy theory promoted by Jack Posobiec, who was recently invited to the White House, demands antifa be designated a terrorist group, and asked questions as “press” at the Pentagon this week”
When people say shit like this about their precious “culture” they should be asked to immediately name their five favorite poets, novelists, composers, painters, film makers, & philosophers so everyone can see them squirm when they can’t name a single one other than Lee Greenwood & Jordan Peterson.
Fox News' Will Cain: "I’m sure there are very honorable law-abiding upstanding citizens and contributors from the Somali community here in the United States, BUT..."
He goes on to say "we aren’t going to pretend here that all cultures are of equal value or the same."
He goes on to say "we aren’t going to pretend here that all cultures are of equal value or the same."
December 4, 2025 at 1:35 PM
When people say shit like this about their precious “culture” they should be asked to immediately name their five favorite poets, novelists, composers, painters, film makers, & philosophers so everyone can see them squirm when they can’t name a single one other than Lee Greenwood & Jordan Peterson.
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Hush was a master class in reporting. It should be taught in journalism classes. Not cancelled.
On the day that @opb.org CEO Rachel Smolkin posted this video, saying OPB’s funding gap of $5 million was closed, I was also told by the Chief Content Officer that Hush was canceled. Eighty percent of my income, and my health insurance - gone. I was given no reason for the cancellation. 1/x
OPB has closed this year’s $5 million budget gap created when Congress ended federal funding. Our work is not done. A strong future for free and fair journalism requires your support.
https://www.opb.org/pressroom/presidents-update-funding-cut-update-building-trust/
https://www.opb.org/pressroom/presidents-update-funding-cut-update-building-trust/
December 4, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Hush was a master class in reporting. It should be taught in journalism classes. Not cancelled.
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Incredible optics here, really underscores it all.
Trump, continued: "What the Somalian people have done to Minnesota is not even believable. It’s not even believable. And a lot of it starts with the governor. A lot of it starts with Barack HUSSEIN Obama, because that’s when people started coming in... They want to kiss our country good night."
December 3, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Incredible optics here, really underscores it all.
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“Several other people…said they faced the same line of questioning about antifa. Some said they were asked if they’d been “flown in” by a moneyed group to protest, and were pressed to share the name of their “leader.”
www.opb.org/article/2025...
www.opb.org/article/2025...
Those arrested at Portland ICE protests recount disparate, confusing treatment by federal officers
OPB interviewed more than a dozen people who were arrested at the ICE protests between June and October. What they described was an apparent lack of standard operating procedures as various federal la...
www.opb.org
December 3, 2025 at 4:55 PM
“Several other people…said they faced the same line of questioning about antifa. Some said they were asked if they’d been “flown in” by a moneyed group to protest, and were pressed to share the name of their “leader.”
www.opb.org/article/2025...
www.opb.org/article/2025...