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zeets.bsky.social
Well said.
January 26, 2026 at 1:22 PM
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zeteo.com
“[Palantir CEO] Karp sees the second Trump presidency as a massive opportunity.”

Author Michael Steinberger speaks with @mehdirhasan.bsky.social about AI tech firm Palantir & its partnerships with both Democratic & Republican administrations.

Watch the full conversation: zeteo.com/p/alex-karp-...
January 25, 2026 at 6:09 PM
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philbc3.bsky.social
"Burnham was a chance, *the chance* to turn things around. Instead, the NEC have engaged full steam ahead toward inevitable disaster."
Farewell Labour
Mark it on the calendar. 25th January, 2026. The date the Labour Party called it a day. I have no brief for Andy Burnham. Politically, he...
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January 26, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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hypervisible.blacksky.app
I’m sure most people saw this coming, but it’s still unsettling to see it stated so plainly. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
“Today I asked about whitening my teeth, and she was like, ‘Make sure your dental hygiene is good,’ and I was like, ‘Damn, girl,’” Drew said. “Nobody else would come up to me and say that. It was pretty cool because I guess I needed to hear it.” Users see ChatGPT as a more objective measure of beauty because, unlike friends and family, it doesn’t factor in qualities like kindness or humor, said Jessica DeFino, a beauty critic who writes the Review of Beauty newsletter. Internet-era beauty standards turn the self into an object, she said, and what better way to evaluate an object than by asking another (AI-powered) object? “If we’re trying to optimize ourselves as beautiful objects, we can’t consider the input of a human who is, say, in love with us,” DeFino said.
May 25, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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johnmerrick.bsky.social
For the New Statesman I tracked the career of the corporate raiding Thatcherite turned populist tribune, James Goldsmith

www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2026/0...
James Goldsmith, godfather of British populism
Unlike Nigel Farage or Rupert Lowe, Goldsmith told the truth
www.newstatesman.com
January 24, 2026 at 1:37 PM
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juliaserano.bsky.social
just re-read this essay from last year. think it holds up fairly well as a metaphor for how Reactionary Centrists have behaved during Trümp 2.0, desperate for approval yet reflexively punching left
on Medium: juliaserano.medium.com/syril-karn-a...
& Substack: juliaserano.substack.com/p/syril-karn...
Syril Karn and Reactionary Centrism
This essay contains spoilers for Andor season 1 through Andor season 2, episode 8 (but not episodes 9 through 12).
juliaserano.medium.com
January 21, 2026 at 9:59 PM
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willbunch.bsky.social
The ICE deaths we're not talking about

Trump's biggest concentration camp in Texas is rocked by 3 deaths in 33 days - one deemed 'homicide' after a violent encounter with guards. The ICE detention death rate is 10X (!!) Biden's final year

My new column on a crisis www.inquirer.com/opinion/deat...
People are dying in Trump’s squalid concentration camps | Will Bunch
People are dying in ICE detention facilities at nearly 10 times the rate of the Biden years. It will likely get worse.
www.inquirer.com
January 22, 2026 at 5:51 PM
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katewagner.wehwalt.net
wrote about the much-deserved death knell of the world's worst architecture project for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/worl...
The Line, a Saudi Megaproject, Is Dead
It was always doomed to unravel, but the firms who lent their name to this folly should be held accountable.
www.thenation.com
January 21, 2026 at 9:35 PM
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transform6789.bsky.social
This was a really interesting piece
bobcluness.bsky.social Kitchen Sink Technomystic @bobcluness.bsky.social · 15d
w/end reading #2: Smiling Dave did a deep dive in the archives of Leeds public library & found several news articles showing that (quelle surprise) despite his denials founder of the O9A David Myatt was an aspiring satanic fascist all the way back in the 70s.
davenumber7.substack.com/p/david-myat...
David Myatt in Leeds
The Temple of the Sun and the origins of the Order of Nine Angles
davenumber7.substack.com
January 21, 2026 at 4:17 AM
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nateo.bsky.social
And here’s some more. Tried not to make it a polemic bsky.app/profile/nate...
nateo.bsky.social Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 5d
Some more notes, with examples:

If you want to publish a far tighter version of this, DM me. None of this is particularly novel! This is the conservative intellectual project!
January 21, 2026 at 12:13 PM
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nateo.bsky.social
Here were some of my notes on the intellectual scaffolding surrounding that black hole at the centre—the Lakatosian ‘hard core’ to the conservative intellectual project, all orbiting that invisible, unstated core premise: ‘fuck you, gimme’
* Everyone always acts in their self-interest. If someone claims otherwise, that they wish to help others for no personal gain out of a sense of solidarity, empathy or mutual self-interest, they are lying. To care for and love the Other is weakness, and is naturally obliterated from existence whenever it should arise, since the Other, acting in their self-interest, will take what they want from you and burn whatever remains. If a soldier sacrifices himself by jumping on a grenade to protect his friends, it is only through self-interest; if a random passer-by bum-rushes a mass shooter, it is explained away through a form of self-interest; there cannot be, by definition, a Good Samaritan. There is no moral virtue, and those that advocate for moral virtue do not believe in moral virtue, but in receiving social credit for expressing care for others. * Life is nothing but winners and losers, the strong and the weak, wolves and sheep, the superior and inferior, the deserving and the undeserving. The cream always rises to the top. Existence is zero-sum and we as humans are always in competition with one another for limited resources: for one class or group to succeed, another must fail; there are winner and losers in both arguments and fistfights, life is competition and domination both across and between societies, and compromise and collaboration is a myth, perhaps little more than a temporary ceasefire while both sides ready themselves for battle; life is little more than red in tooth and claw. Law exists only to temper this violence and universal self-interest into an orderly state. To believe otherwise is to be a naif and a fool. * Humans fit into simple, rigid, inflexible hierarchical categories, expressed by Scruton as: ‘“Equality” is a mysterious and irrational ambition. … elevated to an absolute value, the idea of equality is empty and unappealing. … People are unequal in intelligence, strength, looks talent, health, and original social position—in other word… the structure of social institutions (there are leaders and followers), the structure of the state (the state directs the citizenry), the structure of history itself (an empire will rise and fall, only to be replaced by another empire; a political leader will assume the position, then be replaced by another leader, and so on) and the structure of the universe itself in a revealed ‘nature’ or ‘natural law’: God is in control of the universe; for the more secular-minded, God is replaced by the immutable laws of nature itself, which are revealed by ‘science’, and elite ‘scientists’ lay down the immutable laws of nature, and dictate the lower structures: what is a description of reality becomes (or always was) normative, since what is, ought to be. Through analogical reasoning, the father is God is the state is the leader is the empire is the brain. Reality itself, by its very nature and essence, is necessarily hierarchical and immutable, and therefore this is how we must order our lives. In no world, not even in Heaven, will the last be first, nor the first last. * Fission and social/psychic tension is caused by inferiors undermining the natural order of the system. Roger Scruton, for example, notes the ideal society is built on obedience: ‘obedience, in its turn, is the prime virtue of political beings, the disposition which makes it possible to govern them, and without which societies crumble into “the dust and powder of individuality”’ (https://newcriterion.com/article/why-i-became-a-conservative/ ). How is the universe imperfect, full of this dust and powder, since these structural inequalities are good, and produce order and regularity across time and space? In other words, what best explains any violation of this natural order? Imperfection and violation of this natural order must be explained, and perhaps is the key locus of the explanatory content of the conservative intellectual, and must be constantly maintained by society, since they are natural, necessary… * The strong face constant threats of psychic/physical infection from without and degradation by forgetting what makes them strong: a perceived attack on one part of the system is not just a moral evil, it is in fact an attack on the entirety of the system. A strong, rigid system is constantly at risk of infection from without by the physical bodies of inferior, disgusting invaders or 'vermin’ (or foreign ideas), dressed up in the fancy language of Roger Scruton as defending ‘culture and institutions in the face of the challenge presented by mass migration’, or ‘the belief in sacred things and the desire to defend them against desecration’ (How to Be a Conservative), or infiltration and subversion from within by fifth columnists and demonic intellectuals. Consider, for a moment, how Scruton describes Foucault: ‘a satanic mendacity’ that employed rhetorical strategies ‘invented by the Father of Lies’ https://newcriterion.com/article/why-i-became-a-conservative/. Correspondingly, the strong must constantly maintain their own bodies and minds, since if they ever accept aspects of the weak, the elites will become like the inferiors, and will succumb to their vices. The strong must constantly be vigilant and protect order at all costs. Men can never show any weakness, never admit they have lost an argument, never admit they are wrong, never show weakness and constantly suppress and repress any allegedly ‘effeminate’ aspects, and never succumb to debauchery and softness. Be ever-vigilant! Hard times make hard men, but weak times make weak men! Therefore, times must be hard, for everyone, forever. * The strong deserve the world, and best explanation for failure of the strong is usually not due to any deficiencies, since they are strong, but is due to a stab in the back: when those at the top fail, that is, when there is an apparent violation of nature, those at the bottom are the most likely to blame—there is no moral luck explaining success for those at the top; What …
January 21, 2026 at 11:35 AM
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justinhendrix.bsky.social
"The lies this administration is telling about Ms. Good aren’t those you deploy as part of a cover-up. They’re those you use when you want to show you can get away with anything. They’re a projection of power." - @radleybalko.bsky.social
Opinion | I’ve Covered Police Abuse for 20 Years. What ICE Is Doing Is Different.
www.nytimes.com
January 21, 2026 at 12:19 PM
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jacobware.bsky.social
"What begins as an American, largely online phenomenon, thus becomes a portable script for violence that can be adopted by teenagers in any country with the same platforms and subcultures."

Tremendous work by @valdemarballe.bsky.social for @gnetresearch.bsky.social.
The Nordic Front of ‘764’: Trends, Drivers, and Countering Youth Exploitation and Radicalisation - GNET
gnet-research.org
January 15, 2026 at 8:53 PM
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robrubsam.bsky.social
ICYMI: the only essay you'll likely read to combine WWI historiography, a discussion of the Nazi Kampfbund, and the music of @loscampesinos.bsky.social
robrubsam.bsky.social Robert Rubsam @robrubsam.bsky.social · 6d
Last year I set out to review Joseph Leo Koerner's Art in a State of Siege for @readliberties.bsky.social. That morphed into a study of how the First World War changed artistic expression, fascist art anxiety, and one year of bootlicking backlash in the USA: libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...
The Besieged
1. In the late autumn of 1914, the German army waged all-out war against the small Flemish town of Diksmuide. Having failed to capture Paris before the arrival of British troops on the continent, the ...
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January 21, 2026 at 2:03 PM
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thebaffler.com
Terminally online young men are increasingly inclined to assemble their politics à la carte. Will Harrison wades through the ideological disarray on offer.
If You Read This You Are Gay | Will Harrison
Terminally online young men are increasingly inclined to assemble their politics à la carte.
thebaffler.com
January 21, 2026 at 3:20 PM
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kissphoria.bsky.social
I did some cultural criticism and wrote about Connor Storrie and Club Chalamet. It feels like because of social media and online stan culture, people get way too famous, way too fast. Waiting to devour them are creators like Club Chalamet, who buy in like stocks: www.chron.com/culture/arti...
The internet's biggest fan account is after this Texas actor. It's a bad sign.
Club Chalamet's newest obsession signals something dark about stan culture.
www.chron.com
January 21, 2026 at 8:51 PM
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professormusgrave.bsky.social
It is even worse than it looks
The Old World Order is Dead
Unipolarity was given, not taken
open.substack.com
January 20, 2026 at 5:19 PM
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nathankalmoe.bsky.social
Undefeated 👇 -- in a brief polisci blog comment, a classical music composer was more insightful than most of my field's textbooks.
“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect…As the core proposition of conservatism is indefensible if stated baldly, it has always been surrounded by an elaborate backwash of pseudophilosophy, amounting over time to millions of pages. All such is axiomatically dishonest and undeserving of serious scrutiny. Today, the accelerating de-education of humanity has reached a point where the market for pseudophilosophy is vanishing; it is, as The Kids Say These Days, tl;dr. All that is left is the core proposition itself — backed up, no longer by misdirection and sophistry, but by violence. So this tells us what anti-conservatism must be: the proposition that the law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone, and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.” Frank Wilhoit, Composer Comment on “Crooked Timber” political science blog March 22, 2018
January 20, 2026 at 7:16 PM
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thenerve.news
A guide to the US government’s flirtation with Nazi slogans and racist memes

Federal departments are under fire for social media posts that reference far-right ideology & symbolism. John Mulholland makes sense of the noise and rounds up the most shocking examples

www.thenerve.news/p/us-governm...
Nazi slogans and racist memes: a guide to the US government’s flirtation with fascist propaganda
Departments are under fire for social media content that references far-right ideology and symbolism - and which seems increasingly explicit. John Mulholland rounds up the most shocking posts
www.thenerve.news
January 19, 2026 at 7:37 PM
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newstatesman1913.bsky.social
The alt-right’s fantasy Britain

Right-wing culture warriors have concocted a new myth of Britain’s “Christian” origins

By Ella Dorn
The alt-right's fantasy Britain
Right-wing culture warriors have concocted a new myth of Britain's "Christian" origins
www.newstatesman.com
January 20, 2026 at 9:52 AM
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joshuaerlich.bsky.social
incredible stuff
her said. "'If you've got an issue with me, take your shot. You've never seen the likes of me. I'm so unpredictable, so heterodox.
January 19, 2026 at 3:45 PM
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segyges.bsky.social
this is dated nov 1, 2024. was there an earlier serious proposal to do with annexing Greenland. would anyone like to argue that it is false that we are doing the Greenland thing because of a Thiel conference that also featured a data-driven orgy talk by Aella
January 11, 2026 at 6:22 PM
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segyges.bsky.social
paypal mafia + founders fund dude is ambassador to denmark? yeah no this is a thielworld joint, 100%. these are authentic, homegrown, unethically sourced, artisinal techbro brainworms that they are simply sharing with the king. they are not the king's brainworms. bsky.app/profile/capi...
capitolhunters.bsky.social capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 15d
For @segyges.bsky.social: Greenland's been a fantasy of techbros for a long time; the 2024 Hereticon panel wasn't the first mention. Obviously talk would ramp up in anticipation of Trump's victory that week. We knew the plan to seize Greenland was serious when Howery was named ambassador to Denmark.
January 11, 2026 at 7:01 PM
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jennycohn.bsky.social
3/ Related thread. bsky.app/profile/jenn...
jennycohn.bsky.social Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 29d
What do Greenland, Honduras, Venezuela, and Nigeria have in common? The “network state” cabal—which includes Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, & Joe Lonsdale—has been circling them like vultures. 1/
January 8, 2026 at 12:01 AM
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hyrax-m-m.bsky.social
To start, I just read this translated interview networkcultures.org/geert/2025/0... which was a bit life-changing
January 19, 2026 at 2:35 PM