In our latest podcast episode, @reedvanschenck.bsky.social and I look at Shmitt's "The Concept of the Political" and explore how his idea of the Friend/Enemy dynamic is increasingly relevant to the volatile polarization in our modern democracies. rolfstromolsen.substack.com/p/179403645?

It's finally live! Listen to "While Our Students Are Sleeping." Join me and Rolf as we dissect political theory for our students. Our first few episodes are about Carl Schmitt, trad-cath Nazi jurist. All relation to current events is strictly non-coincidential. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

In IE Insights today, I write that Europe needs to de-risk from the U.S. or face a major, digitally-mediated identity crisis. www.ie.edu/insights/art...

New article just dropped! "Christian Nationalism as Media" explores how the political identity of Christian Nationalism retrieves racist and sexist ideas of the human through its obsession with owning and controlling the media. ijoc.org/index.php/ij...

Just pasted the whole book in 1 word doc. I only have to trim a minimum of 800 words! I'd like to thank my 10th grade English teacher.

They are priming themselves to lead MAGA after Trump, a kind of fascist theocracy.

Pretty crazy how "America is a legit, no bullshit fascist country" is now a NYT headline.

In 2019 Nick Fuentes' neo-Nazi "Groypers" engaged in a systematic campaign to harass Charlie Kirk at his events for not being racist enough. He responded by becoming more racist. www.thebulwark.com/p/how-the-gr...

Check out this resource library NCA has launched! "Addressing Authoritarianism" is a resource to enable successful pedagogical, research, creative, and administrative interventions into authoritarianism and fascism. www.natcom.org/addressing-a...

Check out my review of @transform6789.bsky.social's fascinating and all-too-timely book Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason's Siege. And if that doesn't sound like too much nausea for a summer, read the book!!! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"This silence has made a mockery of the slogan 'Never again,' transforming its meaning from an assertion of resistance to inhumanity wherever it is perpetrated to an excuse, an apology, indeed, even a carte blanche for destroying others by invoking one’s own past victimhood."

Wow @reedvanschenck.bsky.social absolutely killing it on the top papers of ethnicity race & comm panel w their paper on white supremacists, Telegram, and interfaces

Ding ding ding

I just signed a book contract! The Reactionary Web is a book about why white supremacists manage to stay online, and what that teaches us about the racist conceits of the internet at large. Coming in 2026 from @brisunipress.bsky.social

This happened a couple years ago, and the group that did it has not fared well since, but the point stands.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Israel, "We do not trade with a genocidal state"

So basically, there was a Signal chat with tech folks and some Harpers Letter writers, and the Harpers folk were chased out when Andreessen realized they would not go along with censorship. But the tech guys stuck with Chris Rufo. www.semafor.com/article/04/2...

Seems like all those tactics people have been using to diminish the value of Tesla have worked more effectively than both the legislative and judicial branches.

A "sex" that's immutable even if you change every single sex characteristic you have is not a biological one actually

It's a high bar, but this from @radleybalko.bsky.social might be one of the most fucked up things I've read in the new Trump era. For context, this TX lawyer had just had an informal conversation with a family caught up in ICE raids. Seriously. Read this. radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-courag...

I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.

Pope Francis staying alive long enough to insult JD Vance is an amazing exercise in will. May his memory be a blessing.

Wow Punked JD Vance and then just dropped the ultimate mic Hall of fame hater moment RIP to a real one

I'm not sure how it is possible to burn cold brew but the Starbucks next to campus found a way.

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

One more re-up for my hissy fit about wolves. arutherford.substack.com/p/dire-wolve...

in so much news coverage there’s still this sense of propriety and decorum in the face of an outright assault on our civil and human rights. i just want to remind journalists that your politeness will not save you—so you might as well say what you really mean.

60 Minutes could find no criminal records for 75% of the Venezuelans the U.S. sent to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4clubLP

In my element! Had a great time coaching the media team during the #iehonorsprogram

This has been the "alt tech" end game. Build infrastructure (platforms for now) to self-isolate from governance, which Torba displaces onto the Third World. The real question is -- What can we do to build an Internet that doesn't give so much power to racists who happen to own web infrastructure?

Sign to support the reinstatement of Dr. Ricky Crano, a phenomenal colleague whose scholarship and activism have put him in the crosshairs of an institution complying with the regime. actionnetwork.org/petitions/re...

If you're new here: a critical tech and Internet culture starter pack I made last year, featuring some of my favourites. There are a few bigger accounts here, but the point is mostly to point folks to voices and people they might not otherwise find go.bsky.app/VFxSES6

Mike spotted this before the rest of us. 🫡 Publications from 2025 are shared more on Bluesky than on X/Twitter.

they’re already calling for eradication openly in friendly ABC news interviews

Joshua Lee Atwood, who was pardoned by Donald Trump, was in court last week for a "status hearing on charges connected with a stabbing at a Chester restaurant in April 2023." Atwood is now the 9th pardoned Capitol Rioter to be arrested or face additional criminal charges since Trump's pardons. ⬇️

Guess I need to say this is loudly and as bluntly as possible but: effective altruism has always just been fascist social Darwinism in a techno fascist newspeak paint job.

I, for one, am shocked to discover that the big metrics, attractive name, hot takes journal that makes you pay APCs cares more about workflow efficiency than quality of scholarship.

The 3€ bottles of Evian water at the Segovia train station hate to see me coming...

Merchet, qui retweete des fascistes et des réacs à tout-va, a fait un post – effacé depuis (on se demande pourquoi ?) – sur la symbolique nazie, qui était très pertinent. Sémantique et "dog whistling" nazi dans la propagande de l'AfD, en images 🧵⏬⏬

The first thing all European governments should do is get off X, get off starlink and start investing in our own technologies and infrastructure.

Some of us called this out a few weeks ago... www.techdirt.com/2025/02/03/m...

There’s a corrupt bargain in the offing. Chunks of E Europe for Taiwan S China Sea and Panama & more Some will reluctantly accept it because it appears to avoid war. But it actually cements war itself at the heart of our international system. All the suffering & lessons of the 20th C forgotten

SPLC deliberately gutted its Hatewatch imprint. They have no full time investigative reporters working in the intelligence project, which covers the radical right. They moved the editor of Hatewatch into the comms department. Spend your money elsewhere during Trump II.

I am not as excited for the new Lady Gaga album as I wish I was. She is trying to return to form (finally) but this new music feels MUCH safer than The Fame/Born This Way.

You have to wonder what the assassinated Boeing whistleblower would be telling us right now.

Covering fascist expansionism like fantasy sports

The DOGE website is reportedly hosted on non-government servers, not secured against database attacks and can be easily defaced, 404 reports www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...

Realizing that I can take care of tricky sections in my writing with this simple trick: Delete them.