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hannah gais
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Senior researcher & journalist. @splcunion.bsky.social. Former internet person at @thebaffler.com. [email protected] Signal: 334-315-8634 http://seedisclaimer.com. Newsletter: https://postsfromunderground.ghost.io/
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Right-wing propagandists in the Pentagon trying one their second day on the job to explain why Trump can drone strike whomever he wants and it isn't illegal.
December 2, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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I didn't realize that the pro-eugenics natalist couple that was inexplicably profiled by several major outlets for having a lot of kids through IVF started a podcast. Here's an unlistenable episode where they try and argue that Hitler was a hipster and not "right wing."
Simone & Malcolm Collins @SimoneHCollins YouTube took this video down—in which we denounce Hitler as a failson, vegetarian, druggy artist who steadfastly blamed his failures on his father for being too strict and marched under a proto-Wiccan symbol. 🤷‍♀️ God forbid people question the narrative that he was right wing. photo of two people who look nearly identical wearing nearly identical glasses as one of them holds a sleeping baby for some reason
December 2, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Hannah Claire Brimelow, whose father Peter Brimelow founded the white nationalist group VDARE, appears to be one of the propagandists in the Pentagon this week.

VDARE's contributors include lead organizers of the deadly 2017 "Unite the Right" rally, as well as other prominent white nationalists.
Hannah Claire Brimelow @hannahclaireb What questions do you want me to ask this week? photo from the Pentagon press briefing room
December 2, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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How to tell your government is confident in its performance and nothing is wrong.
November 30, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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I talked to @jasonaw.bsky.social about why I’m unsurprised, but distressed, how many Project 2025 applicants cited explicit authoritarian figures as influencing their thought and career choices. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Hannah Gais, a senior analyst at the civil rights organization the Southern Poverty Law center, told the Guardian: "Given Project 2025's reactionary goals, it's no surprise that these applicants would cite any myriad of influences peddling such authoritarian and anti-democratic rhetoric. Gais added: "These are the fruits of the strategy that some activists have embraced of 'no enemies to the right. But it's nevertheless telling that these applicants felt safe citing such radical figures."
November 28, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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I don’t normally bitch about this stuff publicly, but after Charlie Kirk’s death, prominent right-wing commentators spent weeks calling me and several of my friends “terrorists” and “fascists.” So, was that incitement to murder?
November 27, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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It's sort of endearing when these guys pretend they can read.
November 25, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Shot, chaser.
November 24, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Disrespect me daddy
November 23, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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The weird MAGA account that fantasizes about sister incest is based in the United States.
Sólion... @Anarse... • Dec 24, 2024 S If israel was never created, I would have a cute younger sister clinging to me, and hugging me, and kissing my cheek, and running her hands through my hair - and all of the family visiting us for Christmas would make remarks about how close we've grown since they last saw us. 32 2 165 9 973 Ill 109K く Sólionath @Anarseldain Follow . . We would sneak around, and look nervously to make sure that there were no family members nearby, before stealing a kiss. Sólionath @Anarseldain Date joined November 2024 Account based in United States Verified since Since November 2024 1 username change Last on November 2024 Connected via ...^^......•• United States App Store
November 23, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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X now lets you see where an account is located, and this one is fascinating.
lan Miles Cheong @ianmiles Date joined September 2008 Account based in United Arab Emirates Verified since Since August 2016 An affiliate of@bonkbot io 1 username change Last on November 2025 Connected via United Arab Emirates App Store
November 23, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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He retweeted and pinned this. They’re struggling.
November 22, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Laura Loomer @LauraLoomer Mamdani openly campaigned with Palestinians who stormed synagogues. He campaigned with a 1993 World Trade Center bombing co conspirator. Mamdani said globalize the intifada. Mamdani wants white people to be taxed more. Mamdani wants to ban ICE. What part of any of that makes anyone feel comfortable? What is the GOP going to campaign on ahead of the midterms if the GOP is saying Mamdani is good? This is very bad for our country to normalize Mamdani’s polices. Trump said Mamdani is a communist who will destroy New York. He is still the same Mamdani. Nothing about any of that should make anyone feel comfortable. It’s going to be a disaster. You’ll see.
November 21, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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What's fascinating about this post is as a "Marxist female researcher," I can't say I've ever really thought about Hitler's penis one way or another. But I guess JF Gariepy does?
November 19, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Rod Dreher is the greatest conservative journalist of all time.
Rod Dreher @roddreher For the record, I clearly sd this number was given to me 1st by a DC MAGA insider. I interviewed about 10 DC Zoomercons, all of whom sd yes, sounds right. @emilyjashinsky did her own interviewing, got lower number. I hope she's right! Plus, the bizarre chair smashing w/no one around it & a chair turning over in a Rome restaurant while I was telling the story of the smashed chair was judged by a Vatican exorcist I consulted for his take to be a warning. FWIW.
November 18, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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I asked ChatGPT to write a story about a journalist having an affair with a roadkill-eating politician from a prominent political dynasty in the style of Cormac McCarthy. While I hate AI, I think it's actually more readable.
THE SECRETARY IN THE FOG as told by Mara Kestrel I learned early in my coverage of Secretary Mateo Calderón that the most dangerous beliefs are the ones held by educated men. Men raised in Washington brick mansions with ancestral portraits watching. Men whose families had roots plunged deep into Massachusetts granite and who carried that history like a hereditary burden. Mateo was one of those. A man of lineage and prophecy and ruin. He was Director of Health and Human Services then, overseeing the nation’s great frailties. A post that demanded faith in medicine, in science, in the silent elegance of the microscopic world. But he had none. He told me once—quietly, as though confessing a sin to a stranger in a train station—that he didn’t believe in vaccines. Said they were “meddling.” Said the body should be left to its wars. He spoke like a man who trusted only what could be torn from the earth with bare hands. A medieval soul in a modern suit. I remember thinking: How the hell did you get this job? But in Washington the truth is a poor competitor against lineage. And California, where he lived now, had welcomed him like a prodigal saint. I followed him for months. Watched him give speeches about health while sidestepping the word immunization as if it were an old enemy. Watched the medical advisors tense behind him like dogs catching the scent of something dead. Which was fitting, in its way. Because he did eat the dead. Not people. Not anything monstrous enough to make the headlines. No—his appetite had stranger, smaller aims. Roadkill mostly. Creatures the highway had already claimed. He said the worm in his brain demanded it. Whispered from some deep cavern of the mind. A parasite the doctors had dismissed as benign but that he believed was steering him like reins on a blind horse. He told me this in a motel south of Carmel, under a jaundiced bulb that flickered as though unsure of its own existence. He sat on the edge of the bed, elbows on knees, and spoke in a voice emptied of hope. “The worm knows when something’s dead,” he said. “And it wants it.” I didn’t know whether to comfort him or call for help. In the end I did neither. His wife Aurora Vega—the actress with the face of a woman carved from sunlit stone—returned from her film set once the rumors reached her. When she arrived at a gala where he was scheduled to speak, the photographers captured them together. Her hand on his arm. His eyes set forward like a man trying not to meet the gaze of the person who loved him most. I wasn’t there for the argument that followed, but I imagine it shook the gilded walls of their home. She believed in medicine. Trusted experts. Trusted the long, slow machinery of science. And she loved him, which made it all worse. The end of it came near Big Sur, where the cliffs drop clean into the Pacific like the edge of the known world. He asked me to meet him at dusk. Said he couldn’t speak to his wife anymore—not about the worm, not about the hunger, not about the things he believed or feared were true. When I found him he was staring out at the sea, its surface the color of hammered pewter. “I’ve tendered my resignation,” he said. “They’ll say it’s health-related. They won’t be wrong.” He laughed then, soft and broken. “I don’t trust vaccines but I trust this damn thing in my skull. You see the irony.” The fog rolled up the cliffs like something alive. He stepped toward it. “I can’t keep doing this,” he said. “Not to the country. Not to her. Not to you.” I reached for him. He moved back. One last glance, more apology than farewell. Then he walked into the fog until the world took him. I waited until the stars appeared faint and cold above the sea. Until the wind chilled me through my coat. Until I could no longer tell where the cliff ended and the night began. He never returned. Aurora vanished into her work. The Department issued its sterile statements. Washington buried him quietly, the way families with too much history bury their failures. And sometimes—driving the long, lonely highways of California—I see shapes on the shoulder. Broken bodies. Small casualties of speed and steel. I do not stop. But I always wonder: Is he out there still? Following the hunger, or fleeing it?
November 18, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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The overly online woman who set up a crummy database to ostensibly help DOGE is convinced that Nick Fuentes’ fans aren’t real.
DataRepublican (sma... & @DataRepublican Follow "America First" is not organic - take that to the bank. 6:32 PM • Nov 16, 2025 • 168.3K Views 513 t7 582 • 3.5K 86 企 DataRepublica... & @DataRep...•4h g g... Take that as someone who gets contacted for pay to send messages, and rejects them all. 63 17 148 1.7K Ill 63K DataRepublica... @DataRep…•4h g Are "America First" people focusing you on NED, ex-USAID, the UN SDG, and other perpetuators of the color revolution for which there are receipts? No? That's how you know that it's a red herring. 124 t7 348 9 1.9K 1hl 52K 企
November 17, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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Here's Fuentes thanking Trump on X for his comments in support of Tucker Carlson interviewing whoever he wants.
November 17, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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As a gonzo socialist reporter and former staffer (and current contributor) at @thebaffler.com: Sorry for being right.
November 11, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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It’s genuinely really wild to me that I periodically come across videos featuring this guy in my normie jiu jitsu Instagram follows, and yet all he seems to do now is interview white nationalists and neo-Nazis and tweet like this.
Fight Back Podcast @ShieldsClips Follow There will never be a better insult than calling someone a jew 11:07 AM • Nov 6, 2025 • 32.7K Views 99 t> 161 2.2K 23 Jake Shields @jakeshieldsajj • Nov 6 Shut up jew @ 34. t>65 O 2.1K thi 19K
November 11, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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Chuck Schumer to the DNC.
"Hey! I'm so glad you reached out. I'm actually at capacity / helping someone else who's in crisis / dealing with some personal stuff right now, and I don't think I can hold appropriate space for you. Could we connect [later date or time] instead / Do you have someone else you could reach out to?"
November 10, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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Over on X, the weird life extension guy just did a heroic dose of magic mushrooms (5g), and someone is live tweeting it for him.

Clearly someone misguided him along the way, though, because he seems to be under the impression he’s peaked after just one hour.

Bad news for you, buddy…
November 9, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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I feel bad for the bourbon.
November 8, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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This is genuinely hilarious. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...
Sargeant: It’s a question. It’s only a criticism depending on your answer. Andrews: If you want to know what I like about women —— Sargeant: No, that’s not my question. Andrews: You can ask me. Douthat: What do you like about women, Helen? Andrews: Well, just to finish that particular thought before I answer that question: It’s a little bit feminine, honestly, to focus on my likes and dislikes —— Sargeant: I’m not asking about your likes or dislikes —— Andrews: I don’t write about myself —— Sargeant: I don’t care about —— Andrews: I write about the world ——
November 6, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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The manosphere bros are freaking out.
Cernovich @Cernovich If you didn’t know anything about politics, you would say, “This is the side I want to be on.” Conservative Inc is joyless. It’s a house of scolding nags. It offers young men nothing beyond a moralizing and hypocritical lecture. Quote Cernovich @Cernovich · 3h This is a rowdy masculine environment. You can feel the energy. As the Heritage Foundation is putting members through a struggle session and demanding a DEI dean, the left is winning.
November 5, 2025 at 9:29 PM