Christian Foust
@christianfoust.bsky.social
Anti-fascist music and culture nerd - interested in political theory and praxis - historiography
“If there are ten people sitting at a table with one Nazi, you have eleven Nazis."
“If there are ten people sitting at a table with one Nazi, you have eleven Nazis."
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Let Chomsky go! He gone. Say bye bye. We don't fuck with people who fuck with pedophiles such that they may be pedophiles, this is a clear contradiction with their alleged aims to do good. He just wanted to be a rich superstar academic.
February 3, 2026 at 5:23 PM
Let Chomsky go! He gone. Say bye bye. We don't fuck with people who fuck with pedophiles such that they may be pedophiles, this is a clear contradiction with their alleged aims to do good. He just wanted to be a rich superstar academic.
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This is an important point; we'd get similar results from filling the streets with prison guards. Their entire job is to slap around a population of people we as a society don't give a shit about. Of course this is how it's going to go.
February 3, 2026 at 5:23 PM
This is an important point; we'd get similar results from filling the streets with prison guards. Their entire job is to slap around a population of people we as a society don't give a shit about. Of course this is how it's going to go.
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I think this is the essential quality that made CBP/BP and ICE so easily convertible into fascist squadristi www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
February 3, 2026 at 5:13 PM
I think this is the essential quality that made CBP/BP and ICE so easily convertible into fascist squadristi www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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no matter how hard this dude tries to rebrand as mainstream/acceptable (he was at anti-ICE protests like last week) he just can't help himself
he has not changed substantially, or been genuinely contrite, since my article exposing how he wrote for nazi sites under the name Richard Hoste
he has not changed substantially, or been genuinely contrite, since my article exposing how he wrote for nazi sites under the name Richard Hoste
Presented without comment. I just want everyone here to know.
I want you to know what you're looking at the next time you see this guy being interviewed or RTed by an Abundance bro.
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I want you to know what you're looking at the next time you see this guy being interviewed or RTed by an Abundance bro.
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February 3, 2026 at 2:55 PM
no matter how hard this dude tries to rebrand as mainstream/acceptable (he was at anti-ICE protests like last week) he just can't help himself
he has not changed substantially, or been genuinely contrite, since my article exposing how he wrote for nazi sites under the name Richard Hoste
he has not changed substantially, or been genuinely contrite, since my article exposing how he wrote for nazi sites under the name Richard Hoste
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The truck he's paying 13.8% APR on for 84 months is the icing on the cake here, the cake being an adult man getting beaten up by high school kids.
MAGA Adult Male assaults Texas High School students protesting ICE
February 3, 2026 at 5:18 PM
The truck he's paying 13.8% APR on for 84 months is the icing on the cake here, the cake being an adult man getting beaten up by high school kids.
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3. Some of the superpac organization around Ai is just about having too much money to burn.
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
Meta drops $65 million into super PACs to boost tech-friendly state candidates
The efforts launched last fall to counter what the company cast as a flood of overly burdensome AI bills from state governments.
www.politico.com
February 3, 2026 at 1:58 PM
3. Some of the superpac organization around Ai is just about having too much money to burn.
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
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2. You aren’t crazy. Your local and state elections do seem even more supercharged than usual. Speculative finance means donor class has more money to spend while their national voter suppression means there are fewer races to influence.
carolinapublicpress.org/73700/get-re...
carolinapublicpress.org/73700/get-re...
Get ready for most expensive Senate race ever
Contest to replace retiring US Sen. Thom Tillis in NC is predicted to draw more money than any Senate race in history.
carolinapublicpress.org
February 3, 2026 at 1:58 PM
2. You aren’t crazy. Your local and state elections do seem even more supercharged than usual. Speculative finance means donor class has more money to spend while their national voter suppression means there are fewer races to influence.
carolinapublicpress.org/73700/get-re...
carolinapublicpress.org/73700/get-re...
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We've seen this before. They will back up the mixer truck and fill the community swimming pool to the brim with cement before they'll allow it to integrate. And they will burn their nation to the ground before considering equitable treatment for all.
February 3, 2026 at 5:25 PM
We've seen this before. They will back up the mixer truck and fill the community swimming pool to the brim with cement before they'll allow it to integrate. And they will burn their nation to the ground before considering equitable treatment for all.
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Karl Marlantes : Getting officers out of combat gear will help cooler heads prevail. Our DHS secretary cosplaying in full combat gear and ICE and CBP officers costumed like Delta Force have only raised the temperature in what’s already a heated situation.
The Troubling Trend of Combat-Uniform Creep | National Review
What law enforcement officers wear matters.
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February 3, 2026 at 4:44 PM
Karl Marlantes : Getting officers out of combat gear will help cooler heads prevail. Our DHS secretary cosplaying in full combat gear and ICE and CBP officers costumed like Delta Force have only raised the temperature in what’s already a heated situation.
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Tom Homan in August: ICE agents “need a judicial warrant for a search” ⬇️
February 3, 2026 at 4:38 PM
Tom Homan in August: ICE agents “need a judicial warrant for a search” ⬇️
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it's grim, but the reality is that Trump wants more innocent people to die here in the Twin Cities and the GOP majorities in both chambers of Congress are either ambivalent about more lives being taken or outright support it
February 3, 2026 at 4:38 PM
it's grim, but the reality is that Trump wants more innocent people to die here in the Twin Cities and the GOP majorities in both chambers of Congress are either ambivalent about more lives being taken or outright support it
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This is, as we know, the problem with "better training and oversight."
It is already a clear violation of DHS/ICE's use of force guidelines to immediately draw and point your firearm at an unarmed person. They know this, and they know the administration will defend their rule-breaking.
It is already a clear violation of DHS/ICE's use of force guidelines to immediately draw and point your firearm at an unarmed person. They know this, and they know the administration will defend their rule-breaking.
happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
February 3, 2026 at 4:36 PM
This is, as we know, the problem with "better training and oversight."
It is already a clear violation of DHS/ICE's use of force guidelines to immediately draw and point your firearm at an unarmed person. They know this, and they know the administration will defend their rule-breaking.
It is already a clear violation of DHS/ICE's use of force guidelines to immediately draw and point your firearm at an unarmed person. They know this, and they know the administration will defend their rule-breaking.
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It is not illegal to watch, record, follow, or track immigration officers. It *is* illegal to threaten, punish, or point a gun at them when they've done nothing illegal. If all these people were doing is observing, this is a crime. As are all the similar videos.
We can't let this become normal.
We can't let this become normal.
happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
February 3, 2026 at 4:47 PM
It is not illegal to watch, record, follow, or track immigration officers. It *is* illegal to threaten, punish, or point a gun at them when they've done nothing illegal. If all these people were doing is observing, this is a crime. As are all the similar videos.
We can't let this become normal.
We can't let this become normal.
This!
This is the really hard part for me when someone is like "okay then what have YOU won, personally" when you say you are an experienced organizer.
Like, I have personally and individually won nothing.
I've been *part* of a lot of group wins, but nothing by myself. That's the point of the job
Like, I have personally and individually won nothing.
I've been *part* of a lot of group wins, but nothing by myself. That's the point of the job
I need you to know this because it's incredibly important: you do not ask someone what they did because they may be unable to answer either because there's a liability or because they have this crazy thing called humility where they recognize that everything is a group effort m
February 3, 2026 at 4:55 PM
This!
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Imagine seeing this and still thinking we need incrementalism. Social media has totally cooked people's brains. We got intelligent people who aren't willing to see the forest for the trees because they don't want to admit they were wrong to a bunch of people they'll never meet in real life.
happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
February 3, 2026 at 4:41 PM
Imagine seeing this and still thinking we need incrementalism. Social media has totally cooked people's brains. We got intelligent people who aren't willing to see the forest for the trees because they don't want to admit they were wrong to a bunch of people they'll never meet in real life.
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Again, this is FALSE. Administrative warrants are NOT signed by an immigration judge (or any judge at all). They are generated and signed by ICE officers themselves with no external oversight whatsoever.
Here is a blank sample warrant. Note who signs off on it; an "immigration officer."
Here is a blank sample warrant. Note who signs off on it; an "immigration officer."
February 3, 2026 at 4:46 PM
Again, this is FALSE. Administrative warrants are NOT signed by an immigration judge (or any judge at all). They are generated and signed by ICE officers themselves with no external oversight whatsoever.
Here is a blank sample warrant. Note who signs off on it; an "immigration officer."
Here is a blank sample warrant. Note who signs off on it; an "immigration officer."
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And if you realize you are out of your depth, you call someone over who CAN be nonreactive and calm and de-escalatory, or someone who is simply a more trusted messenger.
It doesn't matter if it's black bloc or some guy who's off his meds.
This is part of the work.
It takes practice.
It doesn't matter if it's black bloc or some guy who's off his meds.
This is part of the work.
It takes practice.
February 3, 2026 at 2:25 PM
And if you realize you are out of your depth, you call someone over who CAN be nonreactive and calm and de-escalatory, or someone who is simply a more trusted messenger.
It doesn't matter if it's black bloc or some guy who's off his meds.
This is part of the work.
It takes practice.
It doesn't matter if it's black bloc or some guy who's off his meds.
This is part of the work.
It takes practice.
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Asking for body cams for ICE is like staring at a burning barn and suggesting the doors be painted
February 3, 2026 at 4:48 PM
Asking for body cams for ICE is like staring at a burning barn and suggesting the doors be painted
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happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
February 3, 2026 at 4:19 PM
happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
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By this point it feels strange to say things like this and not reflexively end with a "Furthermore he should be impeached and removed from office"
Foreign countries are bribing our president to sell out the American people.
Trump family businesses made $187 MILLION from this deal, and just months later he gave the UAE some of our most top-secret AI tech.
They are selling our national security to the highest bidder.
Trump family businesses made $187 MILLION from this deal, and just months later he gave the UAE some of our most top-secret AI tech.
They are selling our national security to the highest bidder.
February 2, 2026 at 2:22 PM
By this point it feels strange to say things like this and not reflexively end with a "Furthermore he should be impeached and removed from office"
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One of the few heartening things to behold these days is the resurgent public interest in the history of abolitionism. The parallels are too striking to ignore - the erasure of black history, the oligarchization of American politics, and ICE agents acting like slave catchers.
From Powerlessness to Power
We will not achieve any of our ultimate goals without exercising state power, and the most effective way to take state power is through nonviolent but confrontational resistance.
www.liberalcurrents.com
February 2, 2026 at 3:46 PM
One of the few heartening things to behold these days is the resurgent public interest in the history of abolitionism. The parallels are too striking to ignore - the erasure of black history, the oligarchization of American politics, and ICE agents acting like slave catchers.
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This is the Libertarian Party of Wisconsin, who are usually aligned with the right. They're having a conference this spring in the northern part of Wisconsin, which is very conservative territory. Their official position is to Abolish ICE.
February 2, 2026 at 4:34 PM
This is the Libertarian Party of Wisconsin, who are usually aligned with the right. They're having a conference this spring in the northern part of Wisconsin, which is very conservative territory. Their official position is to Abolish ICE.
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Social media Doomerism is illogical and unproductive, but silly and illogical are fine in this format. It isn't hurting anyone, because arguing otherwise requires believing that posting is doing anything at all. It isn't. We're just talking. It's not Productive. That's the very best thing about it.
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February 2, 2026 at 4:15 PM
Social media Doomerism is illogical and unproductive, but silly and illogical are fine in this format. It isn't hurting anyone, because arguing otherwise requires believing that posting is doing anything at all. It isn't. We're just talking. It's not Productive. That's the very best thing about it.
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You're gonna disagree with some moots about all the shit going on. Some people cope with the stress through optimism and some wish Chuck Schumer to be flung into the Potomac. Try not to be too dickish to people you largely agree with and focus your anger on America's real villain, Michael Rapaport
January 30, 2026 at 6:57 AM
You're gonna disagree with some moots about all the shit going on. Some people cope with the stress through optimism and some wish Chuck Schumer to be flung into the Potomac. Try not to be too dickish to people you largely agree with and focus your anger on America's real villain, Michael Rapaport
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me, emotionally writing an essay on the use of force by federal agents: ok but what if i packaged this in the most insane way possible www.theverge.com/policy/86857...
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“How did these people go out and get gas masks?” AG Bondi asked.
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January 29, 2026 at 2:25 PM
me, emotionally writing an essay on the use of force by federal agents: ok but what if i packaged this in the most insane way possible www.theverge.com/policy/86857...