The kind of shallow (and wrong) political take that the GOP is "right+left" is a sad example of the state of the the Atlantic. I think I'm someone who pays a lot more attention to the pro-Trump populist left in the US than most. They exist, yeah, but they're light years from being the party base.

It’s like Hungarians didn’t even *read* Hillbilly Elegy.

Everyone please welcome CBS News Immigration Analyst Viktor Orban.

20-something millennial feminists got mild traction on tumblr and twitter for like four entire years and now every major media corporation is like "toy story 6 should be about the dangers of race mixing"

I asked ChatGPT how to shoot "a lot of things in a short amount of time" with an AR-15. It gave me detailed advice—and encouragement.

Small drone attacks are killing more civilians around the world than ever before. I made a map about it:

”Our headline writer thinks the ‘A’ in NATO stands for ‘America.’ Some experts are skeptical.”

Can you imagine how many people approved it before publishing? Shameful.

the people who set up how Google Sheets handles date values should be prosecuted at the Hague

The NYT says today’s #NoKings protests had “no shortage of skeptics,” and then quoted exactly one of those skeptics: The chairman of the Ole Miss College Republicans (as of 2025.) But of course, the Times doesn’t ID him as such. He’s just a Concerned Youth.

ZERO trans people competed at the 2024 Paris Olympics. The woman pictured here, Imane Khelif, is a cis woman. www.them.us/story/jk-row...

You, an idiot, in denial that the Internet has completely destroyed your brain Me, a wizened savant, in a state of sublime acceptance that the Internet has completely destroyed my brain

Like at what point are Platner stans going to say, OK, maybe we bet on the wrong horse here. Perhaps the other options aren't ideal, but we should move on. How many Nazi podcasts and red flags does it take?

Absolutely awesome that the federal government uses this thing to make important decisions

"the good news is that we have found a relatively cheap and easy way to prevent the cast from going through puberty. the bad news is that not everybody in this room is going to like it".

"A term first seen in 2016 that has recently gained popularity is "goyslop." It is said to have originated among young, white nationalist video gamers." The New Language of Antisemitism by Rabbi Toby H. Manewith reformjudaism.org/blog/new-lan...

Huge congratulations to @harryshukman.bsky.social for winning the prestigious Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award for his brilliant book Year of the Rat! It's a brilliant story about his time undercover in the far right for @hopenothate.org.uk

I re-read "Charlie Kirk's mentor just died in a freak pickleball accident. That's an incredibly strange coincidence" several times and I have come to the conclusion that Cenk does not know what 'coincidence' means

In a new interview with Tommy Robinson, Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) suggested Islam was a "cult," Muslims should leave Alabama, Muslims were "infiltrati[ng]" Congress, & Mamdani "wants everybody out of [New York] that's not Muslim." Robinson in turn lauded Tuberville's "strength" & "leadership."

Last night I joked Polymarket should let me bet that Bryan Betancur, the DC Metro hair toucher, would show up at the Monitoring the Situation bar bc I was there. I was right! After he was removed from the bar, he waited outside for me to leave.

Wow I wonder how anyone could assume Joe Kent might be antisemitic

A number of Jewish organizations are shrilly insisting that any criticism of Israeli genocide and warmongering is an illegitimate attack on Jews. At the same time, an increasing number of non-Jewish people are insisting that any attack on Jews is a legitimate attack on Israel. This sucks, man

1/ The Joe Kent leak investigation stuff, specifically peoples' instincts to defend him, really goes to show how valuable a trustworthy administration is. Kent is exactly the type of person who should be investigated following a leak. His social circle and beliefs are obvious security liabilities.

It’s amazing to see how many on the left come to the defense of other groups when they get hit with the gutter racism accusations of being “inbred” and “bloodthirsty,” but when an influencer levies the same accusations at Jews, some respond with, “Wait, let’s hear him out.”

Everyone who is like "criticizing Israel is not antisemitic" is correct but also the man said that Jews are inbred, which is psychotic racism.

I fucking promise you that yelling free Palestine at random Jewish people on the street is helping Nick Fuentes and Benjamin Netanyahu, not Palestine do literally anything else. Literally just write free Palestine on the sidewalk it's infinitely more productive Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

It's really not good that faced with the complete impotence of the American left in the face of Israel's genocide in Gaza a bunch of people seem to have decided that being antisemitic somehow makes you more radically pro-Palestine and like buddy it Does Not Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

This piece is honestly one of the most offensively out-of-touch piles of drivel that I've read in a while and ironically provides a perfect encapsulation of what many in academia are fighting against. Like, look at this shit. The author has a PhD from Oxford and tenure-track job at UChicago btw.

Western Standard: Canadians with German, Ukrainian and Dutch Bloodlines Are Not Pure ‘Ethnic Canadians’ A right-wing alternative media outlet gave a soap box to a white nationalist leader – you won’t believe what happened next

Lot of resistlibs that never heard of Joe Kent are probably going to follow him into some problem podcasts by next week huh

Iran war was a bad idea from start. But Joe Kent is not the right messenger on this. See his alleged associations with Nick Fuentes and live streamer who said Hitler was “a complicated historical figure which many people misunderstand” @splcenter.org @westernstatescenter.org 2025 letter:

Joe Kent has given sympathetic interviews to Holocaust deniers. Even in his resignation from the National Counterterrorism Center over the Iran War, he finds a way to blame it on "Israel and its powerful American lobby" (read: Jews). Progressives *really* do not have to hand it to this guy.

It's not sarcasm. Joe Kent holds some pretty kooky views. He and wife served honorably, she gave her life. No shade on his service to his country, but "this war is about the Jooz" is, like, typical

+ an offhand reference to fully "defeating ISIS" between 2016 to 2020! No one told the remaining IS factions I guess

there's got to be a word for the weird feeling when the totally unqualified extremist resigns over the disastrous iran war with a vaguely antisemitic gripe.

I know a lot of folks here are gonna cheerlead this act of dissension but Kent’s claim that Israel dragged the U.S. into the 2003 invasion of Iraq is a pile of horseshit. It also raises the question of how he got a federal appointment in the first place.

The Washington Post won a Pulitzer Prize for public service in 2022 for its coverage of Jan. 6. Their entry's capstone was a mammoth feature titled "The Attack," featuring reporting by 26 journalists. By my count, 8 of them are still at the paper. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

Estimates of deaths linked to Germanic New Medicine (GNM) range from 80 court documented cases to approximately 500 people since 1983 ⬇️ GNM is an alt medical theory developed in the 80s by a former physician repeatedly convicted in Germany/France for practicing medicine without a license & fraud.

Antisemitism can be subtle and cloaked, but what a huge fraction of the tankies online have gotten into is not even remotely:

Department of Homeland Security leaders removed top privacy officers who objected to mislabeling government records to block their public release, WIRED has learned.

The leader of the violent neo-Nazi group whose members were the "victims" in this San Diego case was a donor to and supporter of the DA, Summer Stephan, who owes her career to the (literal) neo-Nazi former chairman of the San Diego GOP, Tony Krvaric (whose sons were both Patriot Front recruits).

NEW: John Mays, an Alabama criminal defense lawyer, represented Rocky Myers, a Black man charged with murdering a white woman. Investigators for a legal team seeking to overturn Myers' conviction discovered Mays was actively involved with United Klans of America. www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...

This is going to keep happening. If you’re on X and see a post from someone you’ve never heard of, they’re a fascist.

Another high profile Democratic federal Congressional candidate has retweeted neo-Nazi Stew Peters. That's two in two weeks. This time it's Dr. Annie Andrews, who is running for Lindsay Graham's Senate seat in South Carolina.

when you’re arguing about politics here on bluesky just remember there’s a young sheldon spinoff called george and mandy’s first marriage that’s watched by millions of people

Almost every major outlet has run a piece entitled “who are the Kurds?” In the last week. Which other ethnic group, much less US ally for decades, would they write like this about? Why do Kurdish people have to be treated like some kind of oddity every time they’re relevant to a US audience?

One thing I've learnt about conflict investigation in this age of open source evidence is you always see the same lies, just dressed in different uniforms. "It can't be my side that blew up the mosque/hospital/school it's a false flag/errant munition from the other side" with scant evidence produced

Happy International Women's Day