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This segment had been fully prepped and vetted, and at the last minute was canceled after Bari Weiss requested numerous revisions, per NYT. Would absolutely love to see what the revisions were.

"America's openness to immigrants caused me to become a white nationalist" is such a pathetic argument.

This is utterly antithetical to one of the core functions of journalism: to uncover truths that those in power would rather keep suppressed. This editorial decision gets the job exactly backwards.

Absolutely brilliant response to Helen Andrews' hysteria over "the Great Feminization" by @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com in @theunpopulist.net

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This is utterly antithetical to one of the core functions of journalism: to uncover truths that those in power would rather keep suppressed. This editorial decision gets the job exactly backwards.

Trans people get blamed for crimes they had nothing to do with.

Winning culture, to these people, looks like honoring some rando Kirk stan—for surviving an encounter with a resistlib karen at Target—at a griftapalooza conference with WWE aesthetics.

Sigh… As one of those aforementioned white men, I gotta tell you, despite everything guys like Walsh bitch about, we still have it pretty good. Truly an insecure bunch these righties are.

i have never quite understood the praise for deneen's work because he honestly just seems like a crank

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We are unmovably mighty. But also, all it takes for us to feel excluded and demand state-driven restitution, by a culture war pop up store masquerading as a presidency, is when you do things like elect a president to the left of Donald Trump. That’s the point where we say, “No more. This stops now.”

Mad respect for Dr. Dre letting us know exactly what would happen if we ever let him slip. He was super clear about it and that's appreciated. 👍

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Andrew Paul Johnson was charged in November for molesting an 11-year-old boy—and tried to silence his victim by offering to share an anticipated multi-million-dollar compensation for his Jan. 6 arrest, a payout championed by Trump.

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This man peered into the soul of the Epstein files and it broke him. He expected confirmation of his tinfoil reveries, but even the FBI proved too fact-conscious an environment to satisfy his conspiratorial longings. He is going home again.

Wow, obviously a great choice to give her airtime, then 👍

Uses "reverse Empire" pejoratively as if it's axiomatic that imperialism is good. These are ethnonationalist extremists who underwrite international engagement only when it qualifies under their strict standard of being exploitative, extractive, or destructive.

Wow, yeah, God can now say that. Very powerful reflection here.

Walsh is operating as if "historical significance" is the sole qualifying criterion for inclusion among our public monuments. But the appeal to significance cuts both ways: another function of our public memorialization is to advance our collective appreciation for unsung heroes.

"Everyone at The Bulwark voted for Trump" is an example of the analytical precision and dogged commitment to factual reality that kluxville historian Martyr "Hitler Was The Hero Of WW2" Made brings to the table.

Do it!

Worst of all worlds: Russell Vought as the behind the scenes de facto commander in chief while Donald Trump is the public-facing avatar of the American presidency. We got the worst configuration imaginable.

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Unwittingly self-discrediting to portray more or less standard center-left progressivism as an equivalent to what was essentially the forerunner to Trumpism.

"Nationalism doesn’t just historically correlate with bigotry—it consistently drives antisemitism and other racial and ethnic prejudices. Indeed, nationalism intensifies preexisting antisemitic impulses." 🔥 from @ilyasomin.bsky.social

Um, what? lol

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Inside The UnPopulist are two wolves. One that the NYT relies on to understand this moment, and the other that Laura Loomer blasts on X for calling out the modern right. Okay maybe it's just one wolf—opposing authoritarianism—and only the far right and its enablers react negatively to it.

This person was a news anchor at NBC and is now asking the director of the FBI if Charlie Kirk’s own organization assassinated him and if Macron put out a hit on Candace Owens. MAGA trajectories are wild.

What if the next Secretary of State unilaterally designated YOU as terrorist, Batya? Would you still make the same argument?

If you're a mother of a kid who overdosed, you probably want to know that the people being targeted actually are harming people with drugs, and not innocent fishermen being murdered. You also might be uncomfortable with your grief being used to kill other mothers' children

I'm old enough to remember when conservative Christians realized defending religious freedom for one group defended religious freedom for all. I miss those days.

The theocratic right considers the First Amendment and freedom of religion to be “cultural suicide.”

Trump's transformation of the presidential pardon power into an all-purpose instrument for his most depraved and corrupt instincts is truly horrifying. @tracinski.bsky.social lays it all out in his latest for @theunpopulist.net Read this and weep

Bruh

I asked the mothers of kids who overdosed and they said “why are you talking to us about random boats, our kids died from opiates, getting hooked on prescription meds, what are you doing about that?”

everyday i learn about a new empty headed idiot who happily gobbles up the administration's slop in defense of the utterly indefensible

Batya might be just fine with a dudetrustme basis for a terrorist designation, but Americans with a functioning moral compass actually expect a plausible public rationale for who is to be treated as a terrorist in our name.

People are WORKING on it, Berny! It’s not even 18 years yet, be patient!

Laugh all you want, but not a single one of you has managed to DISPROVE this powerful thesis.