The White House is confused why Iran won't simply give up after seeing that we parked warships nearby. My good friend @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social’s new piece in @theunpopulist.net breaks down why this keeps happening with Trump's foreign policy.

It is bizarre…

I forgot how good this thread was.

I forgot how good this thread was.

Aaron is a real G and worth fully supporting. I know people on this project and they’re all top. I’m really excited for this project. Please sign up for it.

So are they just injecting protein into every grocery product in existence now or what

Your favorite thing to eat—to the degree that you even want to or can eat—when you’re sick with a flu-like thing? Definitely and obviously asking for me.

This is a must-read. Absolute fuego as usual from @radleybalko.bsky.social in @theunpopulist.net

These people have been engaged in a years-long project to conceptually reengineer what it means to be American along their reactionary and ethnonationalist lines.

Reactionary jurisprudence in a nutshell

Ball is life. Respect to this baby goat right here.

In the midst of the most aggressive and alarming federal assault on the First Amendment since the Palmer raids, the Biden-era free speech warriors have focused their outrage on . . . the injustice of releasing the Epstein files.

Pure 🔥🔥 from @masnick.com in @theunpopulist.net

You’ll encounter a few of the characters I’ll be talking about in more detail in my book here. Britain’s right is getting weirder. And more dangerous.

Super important piece by @aselrod.bsky.social in @theunpopulist.net

YES. A turn to state constitutions for substantive protections from federal authoritarianism is a necessary development under the present circumstances. I've long seen federalism as on balance bad for rights—Jim Crow, after all, lasted nearly a century. But today, its potential can't be denied.

Important thread

For an entire decade now, the heterodox set has done its best to assure everyone that the reactionary backlash against the "Great Awokening" is a justified reaction to "progressive excesses"—and that the backlash only concerned true instances of overreach. This is what they were actually enabling:

Why did the right turn toward economic nationalism? And what can a dive into the history of capitalism tell us about where things might go? @bernybelvedere.bsky.social welcomes The New Yorker's @johncassidysays.bsky.social to discuss on a new episode of Zooming In. Audio and transcript inside.

My conversation with @johncassidysays.bsky.social for our Zooming In podcast is out. Go forth and listen—or read!👇

A New York Times op-ed last week boasted libertarians "told you so" about Trump. But it was only a few, since politically exiled, who saw Trump's rise and said: “You know what? I think he and a lot of his followers mean it with the racism, violence and fascism.” (new @ms.now column)

Amazing product

"Worry—but don't panic" is precisely the right stance to take as Trump revs up his election delegitimization machine. Excellent from @andycraig.bsky.social in @theunpopulist.net.

basically the far-right would win the culture war if its ideas were broadly popular, and this guy finds it very frustrating that he can’t figure out how to make a version of ideas like “the nazis had a few things going for them” that people outside his bubble would proudly espouse

You’ll rarely find a clearer statement of ressentiment. It’s the only perspective these guys have through which to view our world.

i mean this guy is right in the sense that the nazi regime demonstrated the logical end state of far-right politics and it was so obviously evil that it made being far-right almost universally socially unacceptable until the bulk of people who could remember it first-hand had died

My debut with @theunpopulist.net - thanks to @shikhadalmia.bsky.social and @bernybelvedere.bsky.social, as well as @berinszoka.bsky.social!

"It used to be that official White House social media accounts offered bland informational updates. Noem’s DHS, by contrast, uses social media like a perpetual white nationalist recruitment campaign." Scary piece @theunpopulist.net by @bernybelvedere.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/theunpop...

Easily the most pretentious conversation two brothers have ever had in the entire history of the world.

As the subtitle says, we need a movement to fully unlock the potential for resistance by states.

The Blaze pays for this content because it's what its audience wants to consume.

This is obviously incorrect as a description of fact but it is a forthright expression of MAGA goals and aspirations: they believe it should be illegal to not like, agree or associate with them bsky.app/profile/bern...

When govt shares many things "from white nationalist discourse, it’s the opposite of an innocent mistake. It’s a pattern. It’s intentional. It’s official policy." Can add the all-white-guy Dept of Labor posters, and much more. As @bernybelvedere.bsky.social writes, white nationalism is the policy.

This is very good from @bernybelvedere.bsky.social on little-noticed examples of DHS echoing fascist language on the agency's official twitter feed, and how that illuminates Trump/MAGA's broader project of state violence and terror: www.theunpopulist.net/p/trumps-vil...

The right is determined to manufacture a reality out of sheer lies. A world of pure imagination.

Up until very recently I would’ve replied to this by laughing at the idea that this absolute icon of the tinfoil collective has any legit NatSec sources. In Trump’s administration, however, she’s probably besties with scores of them.

Imagine being this sane

Very much looking forward to this. @aselrod.bsky.social and @pulaskiinstitution.bsky.social are doing big things.

Very excited to announce @roberttalisse.bsky.social and @bernybelvedere.bsky.social have joined the lineup! Register today! Attendance is free!

It used to be that official White House social media accounts offered bland informational updates. Noem’s DHS, by contrast, uses social media like a perpetual white nationalist recruitment campaign. @bernybelvedere.bsky.social

Trump's racist video depicting the Obamas as apes wasn't a mistake—it's part of a pattern. From DHS posting neo-Nazi recruitment material to erasing slavery exhibits, white nationalism has become official government policy. My latest in @theunpopulist.net

Reason publishes how its staff are voting. Which is a kind of admirably honest exercise, I suppose. But it rather undercuts "I told you so" if your answer was this. In all they had twelve third-party voters, six non-voters, three Harris, two write-ins, and two who said undecided but maybe Trump.

It's dope that it's an annual tradition now that the super bowl halftime show makes republicans extremely angry. We should just keep doing this

Absolutely delicious.

Yep. Many of us who weren't sufficiently Trump-curious had to find other places to work. The libertarian movement had one job, and it failed, and now it wants credit for success.

Yes, some libertarians *did* try to warn you about Trump. But you canceled them for it.

one thing conservatives do a lot is go “i didnt watch the thing but heres what i think about it”