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Annika Brockschmidt
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Author @Rowohlt, freelance journalist, senior correspondent Religion Dispatches, writes about Christian Nationalism & Right-Wing Extremism in the US & globally 1/2 of @femshelfcontrol.bsky.social
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Annika Brockschmidt @ardenthistorian.bsky.social · Feb 12
„Mit großer Sachkenntnis zeigt Annika Brockschmidt wie die Republikanische Partei im 21. Jahrhundert von jenem extremistischen Tiger gefressen wurde, den zu reiten sie 50 Jahre lang versucht hatte» - @adriandaub.bsky.social über #DieBrandstifter
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DER NIEDERGANG DER GRAND OLD PARTY Wie konnten die Republikaner, einst die Partei der Sklavenbefreiung, zu einer Partei werden, die eine autoritäre und rassistische Politik vertritt und eine Gefahr für alle darstellt, die keine Weißen, rechtskonservativen Christen sind? «Die Brandstifter» zeigt, wie rechte Akteure die Partei gezielt unterwandert und nach und nach die Grenzen des Sagbaren verschoben haben. Ein Prozess, der seinen Schatten auch auf Europa wirft. Die Grand Old Party ist zu einer Bedrohung für die amerikanische Demokratie geworden - mit potenziell dramatischen Folgen für den Rest der Welt. «Mit großer Sachkenntnis zeigt Annika Brockschmidt, wie die Republikanische Partei im 21. Jahrhundert von jenem extremistischen Tiger gefressen wurde, den zu reiten sie 50 Jahre lang versucht hatte.» Adrian Daub, Stanford University
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jeradwalker.bsky.social
what the actual fuck
A headline from the New York Times: Olivia Nuzzi Did It All For Love The article lede: By Jacob Bernstein Reporting from Los Angeles Nov. 14, 2025 Updated 12:07 p.m. ET Olivia Nuzzi loved him. She loved the politician, even though she was a political reporter and he was then a presidential candidate she had written about. She loved his eyes, "blue as the flame." She loved that "the sight of something as trivial as a rose" could move him to tears. She loved his insatiable appetites and his "particular complications and particular darkness." But she said "I love you" only after he said it first. He called her "Livvy" and wrote her poems. He said he wanted her to have his baby. He promised to take a bullet for her.
November 14, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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moiradonegan.bsky.social
This young girl was not “left vulnerable to exploitation.” She was in fact sexually exploited.
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · 18h
A teenager in Florida with a homeless parent wanted money for braces and ended up having sex for money with powerful men, setting off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of Representative Matt Gaetz. nyti.ms/49PSkL9
Matt Gaetz, wearing a paisley tie and black suit jacket. A headline reads: "In Matt Gaetz Scandal, A 17-year-Old Was Left Vulnerable to Exploitation." Photo by Kenny Holston/New York Times
November 14, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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moiradonegan.bsky.social
Important to understand that sexual violence is political violence, enacted specifically to enforce class, race, and, yes, gender hierarchies.
jakemgrumbach.bsky.social Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 1h
I sometimes feel like they don’t want to end poverty or reduce inequality because they believe they’re entitled to a class of people they can prey upon
The girl later told congressional investigators that she saw Mr. Gaetz use cocaine that night. For having sex with him twice, the girl was paid $400, according to testimony she gave to the Ethics Committee. That fall, the girl moved to live with a family member in Texas, according to Ms. Wolf. She did not complete her senior year in high school. She continued to work for minimum wage in the food services industry. Ultimately, between the money she made from her interactions with men and in the food services industry she was able to save up enough money to get braces.
November 14, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Europa-Parlament: Konservative kooperieren mit extremen Rechten: Die europäischen Konservativen brechen ein Tabu. Im Europaparlament lassen sie es auf eine Mehrheit mit Rechtsextremen ankommen, um das Lieferkettengesetz zu lockern. Die Schuld geben sie den Sozialdemokraten.
Europa-Parlament: Konservative kooperieren mit extremen Rechten
Die europäischen Konservativen brechen ein Tabu. Im Europaparlament lassen sie es auf eine Mehrheit mit Rechtsextremen ankommen, um das Lieferkettengesetz zu lockern. Die Schuld geben sie den Sozialdemokraten.
www.spiegel.de
November 13, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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sethcotlar.bsky.social
Sometimes time just feels like a flat fucking circle. bsky.app/profile/seth...
sethcotlar.bsky.social Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · May 31
This page from the 2005 Council of Conservative Citizens' publication might sound familiar--the 14th Amendment sucks, Harvard has gone woke (by Pat Buchanan), and white nationalist misogynist Sam Francis defending Larry Summers' sexist essentialism against Harvard's woke mob.
Page 4 Citizens Informer P.O. Box 221683 / St. Louis, MO 63122 ISSN: 0887-3186 www.cojec.org Joel T. LeFevre Editor-in-Chief Samuel Francis, Ph.D. Editor 1999-2005 Fred C. Jennings Editor Emeritus Gordon Lee Baum, Esq. Council News Editor Anthony Boor Letters to the Editor / Council News Edward A. Schaefer Washington Correspondent William Rolen Distribution Editorial Advisory Board Sam G. Dickson, Esq. William Flax, Esq. Tom Markin, Ph.D. Brent Nelson, Ph.D. James Owens, Ph.D. Robert B. Patterson Hon. John Rarick, Esq. Rev. Robert L. Slimp, M.Div. Jared Taylor i Miles Wolpin, Ph.D. The Citizens Informer contains a wide range of views and opinions. These views expressed in columns, arti-cles, and letters are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the editor or publisher. Advertise in the Citizens Informer Write to: P.O. Box 807 Charles Town, WV 25414 Phone: 304-728-6646 E-mail: jtl@jtl.org Citizens Informer April - June 2005 "That no free government, or the blessing of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue, frequent recurrence to fundamental principles." VIRGINIA DECLARATION OF RIGHTS June 12, 1776 Editor's Note: by Joel T. LeFevre We would first like to express our heartfelt thanks for the positive feedback we received on our last issue of the Informer. Given the very difficult circumstances attending this first endeavor- particularly the sud- den and devastating loss of Dr. Sam Francis your encouragement meant more than we could ever express. We begin this round with an article by Kyle Rogers that we had originally planned to run in the last issue. Mr. Rogers's excellent essay marks the last to have been personally commissioned by Dr. Francis. The quote offered above from the Virginia Declaration of Rights, penned primarily by the great Col. George Mason, should in our view be the motto of Traditionalist Con-servatism- especially the last clause invoking …
November 13, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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adamlaats.bsky.social
Nnnnnnnnnope.

No conservative intellectual can say they just didn't think to distance themselves from their violent and racist right wing.

Since Buckley, that has been their whole thing.
[gift link:]
In Explaining His Gaffe, Heritage Foundation Leader Pleads Ignorance
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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cwarzel.bsky.social
Importance: High

subj: An article for U (gift link)

i wrote ,,,,,, about jeff epstein. s emails.

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
When QAnon Meets Veep
The dumb, abhorrent truth at the heart of the Epstein scandal
www.theatlantic.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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brendannyhan.bsky.social
Mafia governance in action

"the only offer on the table was that I needed to resign by 5pm that day or the DOJ would basically rain hell on UVA... If I did not resign that day, I was told that the DOJ would extract/block hundreds of millions of dollars from UVA before they would even negotiate."
November 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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aselrod.bsky.social
Benny really is one of the worst people in a sea of truly terrible individuals
accountablegop.bsky.social Republican Accountability @accountablegop.bsky.social · 23h
Benny Johnson implies that Virginia Giuffre did not commit suicide, and that Democrats were involved in her death in order to frame Donald Trump...
November 14, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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aridrennen.bsky.social
“would you like photos of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen?” -Jeffrey Epstein
November 12, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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daisyrazorgrl.bsky.social
The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives has returned and I may never recover from this sentence uttered by Marciano.
November 13, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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nadiazaboura.bsky.social
Gespannt darauf, wie deutsche Nachrichtenmedien auch diesen „Militäreinsatz“ und weitere politische Sprache 1:1 übernehmen - und sie so im deutschen Diskurs mainstreamen.
November 14, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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liberalcurrents.com
“Overseeing the GOPs transformation into an ever more radical party, McConnell excused the party’s increasingly open bigotry. Now, faced with the monster he created, McConnell pleads ignorance.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-heritage...
The Heritage Foundation, Groypers, and the Narcissism of Small Differences
Fuentes is the fly born of Heritage’s maggot.
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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kknuth-herzig.bsky.social
Vier Jahre Projektförderung ab 2026 mit 500.000,- pro Jahr. Bisher gibt es offenbar weder eine Projektidee noch einen konkreten Antrag.
www.rnd.de/politik/koal...
Schwarz-rote Koalition will Förderung für konservative Denkfabrik R21 verdoppeln
Bei den abschließenden Haushaltsberatungen für das laufende Jahr im September hatte die schwarz-rote Koalition für die konservative Denkfabrik Republik 21 eine staatliche Förderung von jährlich 250.00...
www.rnd.de
November 14, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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rav-ev.bsky.social
Einmal mehr offenbart diese Bundesregierung, was sie von Rechtsprechung und Menschenrechten hält: Nämlich nichts! Sie setzt eine Verpflichtung des UN-Sozialausschusses nicht um und lässt einen Menschen in der Obdachlosigkeit. @freiheitsrechte.org
www.tagesschau.de/inland/innen...
Bundesregierung setzt UN-Aufforderung nicht um
Deutschland muss sich das erste Mal in einem UN-Verfahren zur Wahrung sozialer Rechte verantworten. Eine Aufforderung des zuständigen Gremiums befolgt die Bundesregierung seit Wochen nicht. Von Claudi...
www.tagesschau.de
November 13, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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arnesemsrott.bsky.social
bei der bürgergeld-diskussion hat schwarz-rot die ganze zeit auf einsparungen gedrängt und jetzt schenkt die privatjet-regierung der luftverkehrslobby 350 millionen euro.

da gibt es nichts zu entschuldigen. was für ein dreck

www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...
Schwarz-Rot verständigt sich auf Industriestrompreis, Kraftwerkstrategie und Senkung der Luftverkehrsteuer
Union und SPD haben sich in ihrem Koalitionsausschuss auf die Einführung eines Industriestrompreises geeinigt. Außerdem soll Fliegen wieder günstiger werden.
www.spiegel.de
November 13, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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victorerikray.bsky.social
If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.

You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 18h
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
A photo of Texas A&M University’s logo
November 13, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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wookieerichter.bsky.social
Die Kürzung der Ticketsteuer fürs Fliegen führt zu Mindereinnahmen von 350.000.000 Euro im Bundeshaushalt.

Das ist genau der Betrag, um den die Bundesförderung für das Deutschlandticket gekürzt worden ist.

Prioritäten. So wichtig.
November 13, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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moiradonegan.bsky.social
Pro tip: Submission is not power, and people who tell you that it is are trying to trick you.
changeovertime05.bsky.social changeovertime05.bsky.social @changeovertime05.bsky.social · 1d
Conservative women in the 19th century also argued about "submission as control."
November 13, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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moiradonegan.bsky.social
In defining rape in law and public discourse, Catharine MacKinnon wrote, "The level of acceptable force is adjudicated starting just above the level set by what is seen as normal male sexual behavior, including the normal level of force, rather than at the victim's, or women's, point of violation."
November 13, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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moiradonegan.bsky.social
"That can't be rape; basically every guy does stuff like that." - Someone who is so close to getting it.
November 13, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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jesspish.bsky.social
They are coming to Charlotte literally because of a few right-wing propaganda accounts on X and I am livid.
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · 23h
Gregory Bovino, the top Border Patrol official leading the charge on the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in cities, and his officers are heading to Charlotte, according to a source familiar with the planning. That was news to city officials. https://cnn.it/49crpZT
November 13, 2025 at 9:30 PM
ardenthistorian.bsky.social
Vile.
accountablegop.bsky.social Republican Accountability @accountablegop.bsky.social · 1d
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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cajohnson-craig.bsky.social
the degree of cruelty just stops you in your tracks multiple times a day
November 13, 2025 at 7:22 PM
ardenthistorian.bsky.social
(If you haven’t seen it yet - this is about former nominee for Attorney General Matt Gaetz, who was paying a 17 year old girl who lived in a homeless shelter for sex, she was saving up for braces.)
gonebabygone.bsky.social The Nucky Thompson of Going on My Phone @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 22h
"American girls have to sell sex to the nominee for attorney general of the United States to get braces" sounds like Soviet propaganda
November 13, 2025 at 9:02 PM