The Atlantic during the campus protests

According to documents filed this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY, ICE has been lying for a year — not only to the public, but to the courts and to prosecutors — about being authorized to make arrests at 26 Federal Plaza and other immigration courts. (1/2)

Last year, the Idaho Legislature banned government entities flying the Pride flag on gov. property. An enforcement mechanism was not included and Boise City Hall continued to fly love's welcome rainbow despite a political firestorm of outrage. This year, a $2,000 per day penalty has been added.

Spent today at Barnes & Noble Union Square & it was great to see @letsgomathias.bsky.social’s To Catch a Fascist in the front window! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/to-catch-a...

Just had a great conversation with the author of a new book that is EXTREMELY RELEVANT to what is happening in America right now, 'To Catch a Fascist' by @letsgomathias.bsky.social I recommend this book to anyone that wants to fight back against Fascist right in America, and Sub to catch the video

Religious left: still a thing.

Went on @ms.now & ended up talking about a Christianity that is actually radical in protecting the marginalized, comparing it to the Christian nationalism that has Pete Hegseth doing public displays of piety from the Pentagon while bombing schoolgirls half a world away

The differences between the fates of detained immigrant parents under Biden and Trump are stark, our analysis shows. Trump is deporting about four times as many moms of U.S. citizen children per day as Biden did.

JOINING US - @robertgarcia.house.gov, @markhertling.bsky.social, @eavis.com, Rob Copeland, @mollyjongfast.bsky.social, @andreaflores.bsky.social, Ian Ward, @ezralevin.bsky.social, @letsgomathias.bsky.social, @suzannemaloney.bsky.social, @jamessample.bsky.social, @paoramos.bsky.social, @wisdems.org.

Copy obtained, and started. Read to catch a fascist by @letsgomathias.bsky.social An in depth dive into everyday Americans who infiltrate, document, track, and expose fascists. ↙️↙️↙️

On a new🔵BUBBLE POP🔵'To Catch a Fascist' author @letsgomathias.bsky.social joins @rachelgilmore.bsky.social to talk about his narrative novel about joining Antifa on infiltration missions with neo-nazi groups in a stunning work of non-fiction. rachelgilmore.substack.com/p/okay-but-h...

"Antifa's effectiveness is why they've been so relentlessly vilified" 🎯 sums it up 100%. Nobody needs to give anyone permission to start doing antifascist activism 😎 read To Catch a Fascist by @letsgomathias.bsky.social to learn more about this work.

How do you catch a fascist? Well, anti-fascists like @montrealantifa.bsky.social keep telling us. We just need to listen. @letsgomathias.bsky.social wrote a book exploring these tactics and the way Antifa has continued to keep fascism at bay for generations. I spoke to him on today’s episode:

I own very few physical books, but I can highly recommend this book, it's a fantastic read (and tbh the others too)

🚨 TOMORROW LIVE AT 11amET 🚨 How *do* you catch a fascist? Well, antifa activists have a pretty clear roadmap — but we need to actually listen to them. @letsgomathias.bsky.social wrote a book documenting Antifa’s fight to expose the far right. He joins me on Bubble Pop to share what he learned:

“I think this is the worst-case-scenario verdict.” New from @stevanzetti.bsky.social: Late last week, feds notched a victory in an unprecedented and controversial trial that sought to tie alleged members of “Antifa” to domestic terrorism, a case that could cast a long shadow over free expression.

Come for the death of The Daily Stormer, stay for the death of Infowars. I hope we live to eulogize the rest of the people who created this horrible moment in America’s history.

This book should be a movie. Hand to God, I burned right through it. It’s also great to listen to if that’s your thing.

Guys the @newyorker.com’s already called To Catch A Fascist “absorbing” and one of “BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR.” @publisherswkly.bsky.social already called it “an urgent, eye-opening debut” in a STARRED review. Now? Even better: It’s a STAFF PICK at @powells.bsky.social in Portland!

so i'd like to announce that i have two online talks coming up: “Countercultural Fascism” and “A Short History of Nazi-Satanism”
 April 9 and 16, 2026 at 1 pm EST / 10 am PST sliding scale $10–$100 (covers both)
 but NOTAFLOF 
to register: www.spencersunshine.com/presentations Please share!

god damn

ICYMI: I spoke with @letsgomathias.bsky.social about his new book TO CATCH A FASCIST for @buckscountybeacon.com It reads like an espionage thriller and should be required reading for anyone covering American politics in 2026.

My latest interview/review for @buckscountybeacon.com is Christopher Mathias’ excellent and important TO CATCH A FASCIST. You can buy it right now. bookshop.org/p/books/to-c...

@letsgomathias.bsky.social's "To Catch a Fascist" made it on the New Yorker's Notable Books of 2026 list! www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Declaring that no quarter will be given unequivocally violates international humanitarian law. Indeed, ordering that no quarter will be given, threatening an adversary therewith or conducting hostilities on this basis is prohibited and constitutes a war crime.

From fringe to power: Chris Mathias and Ken Harbaugh unpack fascism’s rise in America and what expanding detention systems signal for the future. @letsgomathias.bsky.social Watch the full video here: open.substack.com/pub/thekenha... Follow The Ken Harbaugh Show here: linktr.ee/thekenharbau...

Too excited for this to come to Barnes and Noble today. @letsgomathias.bsky.social

INTERVIEW: @zdroberts.bsky.social talked to @letsgomathias.bsky.social about his new book ‘To Catch a Fascist: The Fight to Expose the Radical Right’ | Mathias provides readers with a peak into a world that’s rarely written about. It shows us firsthand the real work of antifascists.

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...

These orders affect availability in bookstores, printing numbers &more. If accountability for Palestine matters to you, or if my investigative reporting has ever struck a chord, please place an order. To those who made this possible: I can’t thank you enough. Onward to publication day: September 22!

..yet he continued rushing weapons to Israel after Benjamin Netanyahu crossed it. He sent Israel a message of impunity & sent Americans a message of disdain+incompetence, helping Donald Trump win back power. I’m thrilled to share the book is now available for pre-order: wwnorton.com/books/978132...

CROSSING THE RED LINE, the book I’ve been working on for >2 years, documents the Biden admin's failures in Gaza and beyond. I conducted >150 interviews to detail why the U.S. enabled unimaginable violence against Palestinians + Lebanese, and ignored off-ramps toward peace. Biden drew a red line...

News from Iran & Lebanon increasingly resembles years of bloodshed in Gaza—civilian areas pummeled, international law ignored & a spiral of war endangering millions. Understanding why means understanding the US-Israel dynamic in one key period: under President Joe Biden, after October 7, 2023 (1/4)

Had such a great convo with @joesudbay.bsky.social! Tune in!

ANTIFA: Real or Fake @letsgomathias.bsky.social, author of To Catch a Fascist joined @sjdemas.bsky.social on First Draft to dispel the propaganda put out by the far right. Subscribe to watch www.lincolnsquare.media/p/the-truth-...

will addd @katz.theracket.news' Gangsters of Capitalism to this suggestion!

The mixture of fascism, grift, and incompetence that goes into making SECRET POLICE trucks for your secret police is such a good distillation of this administration

“Why won’t our secret police drive the SECRET POLICE trucks we got them???”

Just out @propublica.org: How did the Pentagon make the horrible mistake that left more than 150 school children dead? Perhaps because it cancelled an effort to limit such harm in favor of Hegseth’s lust for “lethality.” www.propublica.org/article/trum...

NEW: Join "To Catch a Fascist" author @letsgomathias.bsky.social and @sjdemas.bsky.social for an urgent breakdown of the current administration’s playbook. Watch the full interview on Lincoln Square: www.lincolnsquare.media/p/the-truth-...

The screaming subtext here is a call for ethnic cleansing, in a healthy pluralistic government he’d be censured and expelled

Attacks leave dead vs killed

I'd forgotten how hard the preface to DuBois's "Black Reconstruction" (1934) went...and am saddened by how contemporary it still feels.

INBOX: @couriernewsroom.bsky.social is circulating a video of #TX23 Republican nominee Brandon Herrera showing off his "1939 edition" copy of Mein Kampf.

The audio book finally came up for me on Libby. Love to hear AFA researchers getting their due! @letsgomathias.bsky.social

"She frequently reported on stories critical of ICE for Nashville Noticias, the Spanish-language outlet." www.tennessean.com/story/news/l...

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there. They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

LIVE at 2pm ET— @sjdemas.bsky.social sits down with author and journalist @letsgomathias.bsky.social to discuss his new book, To Catch a Fascist.

so much going on I just remembered our government kidnapped the president of Venezuela and he's just like, sitting in a federal detention center in Brooklyn

“No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.” www.columnblog.com/p/corporate-...