If the Trump administration is now committed to investigating dark sources funding domestic terrorism, that's great - they can start with asking about Charlie Kirk managing the money that brought the mob to DC for the Jan 6 Capitol attack. Any reporting on this should include that little detail. 1/3

Everyone meeting Jack Posobiec for the first time in his 'man of god' persona, remember he got his start as an employee of Roger Stone going to white supremacist events at the 2016 RNC. Then was part of the MAGA3X disinfo op run by an avatar of Peter Thiel, and pushed the Pizzagate conspiracy. 1/

No one should be caught off-guard when Stephen Miller says the government will now control what is taught in America, from K-12 to university. That's always been a key goal. In 2020, Trump gave the religious right the '1776 Commission' - control over education bartered for support for his coup. 1/

To all commenting on the news that the French first lady will show 'proof of gender' in court in her suit against US influencer Candace Owens: this isn't humiliation, it's calculation. US far-right influencers have been trying to take down Macron since 2017. He is judging now he can ruin Owens. 1/

To honor Charlie Kirk, a thread on his words about Jan 6. Let us cherish and remember them - which is easy since 41 of his sentences are "I'm invoking my Fifth Amendment right not to testify". That is, Kirk thought his words could be used in a criminal prosecution. 1/ www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...

If Trump is once again declaring Antifa a terrorist organization, that's not a good sign. The last time he did that was on Jan 5, 2021. The next day the Proud Boys "dressed as Antifa" when they set off the attack on the US Capitol. 1/

If you can't laugh at the government, it's not a democracy. Networks have now cancelled the biggest 2 late-night comedy shows for offending the regime: in July, CBS pulled Stephen Colbert (top-ranked), now ABC pulls Jimmy Kimmel (top for younger viewers). It can happen here - it is happening. 1/

A reminder here: when Todd Blanche talks of using RICO to go after "organized" protestors, the case he's talking about is the 'protest' at a DC restaurant by the astroturfed, pro-Russia group CodePink. If anyone was going to be enlisted for some bizarre kind of kayfabe, it would be CodePink. If 1/

FBI Director Kash Patel keeps handing gifts to the defense attorneys for Charlie Kirk's killer. Today he testified to the Senate about "my friend Charlie". But it's more: Patel's girlfriend worked for Kirk as a "TPUSA ambassador". This June she appeared with Kirk's wife; in July with Kirk. 1/

Well, here it is: the state of Texas is assuming control over the contents of university classes. This account called it early: the key goal for part of Trump's coalition is control over curricula, from K-12 to university. To control what your kids learn. They're copying Viktor Orban in Hungary. 1/

As weird as it is to see Trump, his VP, SecDef, and SecState out in DC with hardly any security, it is weirder that it was Codepink that was protesting. Codepink is an astroturfed "women for peace" organization whose "peace" means giving Putin whatever he wants. ("No escalation in Ukraine!"). 1/

Ukrainians crazy enough to consider trusting Erik Prince with their national security must remember - he started his career working for "Putin's favorite Congressman", Dana Rohrabacher. Paul Behrends, all-in for Putin, got him the job. Prince then made his first trip to Russia at age 21. 1/

Our bizarre times: in 2025, the media doing essential reporting on fascism include Wired, Teen Vogue, and.. Bounces, a tennis newsletter. Bounces reports not just that Trump is will attend the US Open (his first air travel in weeks) and that USTA is trying to censor the boos he'll get. 1/

On January 6, invaders to the US Capitol smashed what they could, lit joints in the Rotunda, and pooped on the floor. They shouted "our house!" but then defiled it. This is worse. It is Trump and his people shitting on our national symbols, to cut them down to their size. 1/

Welcome comrades to the new free-speech university UATX, created by the co-founder of Palantir! Today after early-morning calisthenics we will discuss the writings of esteemed Leader Alex Karp, Palantir CEO. Come prepared to discuss Leader Karp's belief that companies must take over the state. 1/

NatCon's panel on overturning Obergefell is a reminder of how long the roots are of US divisions. John Eastman here, now famous for trying to steal the 2020 election for Trump, was crusading against gay marriage in CA a decade ago: as chair of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) in 2011. 1/

I've always believed that the reason the Russians invested so much time pushing anti-vaccine sentiment in the US is that they knew if successful it could tear the country apart. And here we are.

Big news: California, Oregon and Washington State just announced a joint "West Coast Health Alliance" to counter Trump/RFK destruction of our public health system. As I argued last week (see below), this is becoming a new frontier in Dem Gov resistance to Trump.

New acting director of CDC Jim O'Neill expressed being pro paid organ donation. "There are plenty of healthy spare kidneys walking around, unused."

The techbro takeover of the US continues: while CDC employees "clap out" their principled leaders who resigned, Trump swears in a 2-decade Peter Thiel advisor to lead CDC. Thiel's Palantir already has all your data. He controls your Vice President. Now he controls your public health too. 1/

As Trump rambles about "the Congo" in "deepest darkest Africa", realize: that term started fading with independence in 1965. The DRC has had its name since 1997. Either Trump never learned, or his mind is reverting to childhood - and he's OLD. ("Tintin in the Congo" came out in 1930, & looks it.)

Trump has long wanted to use the US military on citizens protesting. He said so in 2020, then replaced the SecDef who wouldn't shoot, AFTER HE LOST THE ELECTION - to prep for Jan 6. Now SecDef Pete Hegseth says the National Guard he is sending to US cities should carry weapons. Of course. 1/

The military occupation of DC just got a whole lot worse with propagandist Charlie Kirk pushing the language of the Rwandan genocide: DC residents are "cockroaches". That word is not an accident. Everyone, even community college dropout Kirk, knows what this means. 1/ h/t @ftpmutualaid.bsky.social

All eyes on Missouri: Sen. Eric Schmitt, who calls to prosecute Obama on fake charges, is the former MO Attorney General. His successor Andrew Bailey, now moving to the FBI, would help lead the investigation. The senior Senator from MO, Josh Hawley, was key to Trump's Jan 6 attempt to seize power.

Reporters must ask Trump's BLS nominee EJ Antoni why he was wearing U Penn athletic gear at the Capitol - he has no link to Penn. @ryanjreilly.com: he seems like just an idiot, but if he borrowed that shirt because he needed something bright to let others find him, it can matter. Make him answer.

Correction: the new head of US labor statistics recorded a podcast promoting Project 2025 IN FRONT OF AN IMAGE OF A NAZI WARSHIP. Compare the pictures. Who would put the Bismarck on their wall? Can we finally talk about the actual Nazis in our government? (Flagged by @fitch64.bsky.social) 1/

As Trump tries to take over DC's police, realize: without the MPD, the Jan 6 Capitol attack may have succeeded. The attack was intended to be fast, and nearly was. It stalled when MPD bike cops arrived on the West Plaza. Made this video in 2022 to show that fast action by DC officials saved us. 1/

Don't sleep on how telling it is for Trump to prepare to abandon Ukraine to Russia by invoking Putin-loving Hungarian autocrat Viktor Orban as the excuse: 'Orban told me that Russia is too powerful'. Remember that Orban, Trump, and Netanyahu are the product of the same US political machine. 1/

For people upset today that the NYT is using neo-fascist Curtis Yarvin language about destroying the "cathedral" of higher ed, note that these reporters are the same ones who last month reported that Harvard was conceding to Trump, hiding that their 'sources' were White House officials. 1/

Grim news today. It had been a rare bright spot this year that the FBI had not been fully gutted: that some competent, honest people were left in leadership. Now, six months in, looks like the start of a real purge and a more serious effort to rewrite the history of Jan 6. 1/

Trump's installing racist propagandist Darren Beattie at USIP is crazy, but look how Politico 'sanewashes' it: they call Beattie an "academic". Based on, apparently, one year of temp-teaching at Duke in 2017? Beattie's main job since is pushing propaganda at Revolver News, an InfoWars knockoff. 1/

People missed the likely explanation for Trump's bizarre ramble yesterday, when he falsely said his MIT-professor uncle taught the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski. Trump is under huge stress right now about the Jeffrey Epstein files. And it's Epstein who told people that he studied with the Unabomber. 1/

Billionaire Marc Andreessen, who calls for our National Science Foundation to receive the "death penalty", owes his fortune to...the National Science Foundation. It funded the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) where employee Andreessen helped develop the first web browser. 1/

If I were a billionaire that went to a state school, I would simply show people how awesome of a path to corporate success that can be. Not whatever Andreessen is doing.

Marc Andreessen's rant to WaPo shows not only his racism but his bizarre fixation on elite universities. He whines: "DEI and immigration" have "cut.. the children of theTrump voter base out of...higher education." No: the colleges that educate MOST students in the US admit over 3/4 of applicants. 1/

Paying Trump millions to appease him is obviously a brilliant strategic choice by Columbia and hopefully they are being advised by the excellent lawyers at Paul, Weiss who pioneered this successful strategy.

Proud Boy leader Joe Biggs, convicted of seditious conspiracy for Jan 6, is complaining about not being pardoned. It's an interesting question: why did some key J6ers get only commutations? Was it random, or was Trump enforcing their silence? Pardoned people can't take the 5th. Biggs still can. 1/

A part of the Epstein haha-nothing-to-see-here fiasco that no one's talking about: what happened to the "army of FBI agents" pulled off their cases in March and ordered to work on the Epstein files? Pam Bondi made people move to DC, pull all-nighters redacting files. Did they just.. go home? 1/

Thom Tillis' comment that 100s of people should still be jailed for Jan 6 could mean either of two things: 1) Trump should not have pardoned violent rioters, or 2) 100s of organizers remain unpunished and not even publicly identified. Both of those things are true. Many people planned Jan 6. 1/

When techbros say they dream of a surveillance state, believe them. As expected: the company installing surveillance towers in the US will be Anduril (Lord of the Rings name, Peter Thiel investment). The one consolidating all your data and picking ICE targets: Palantir (LoTR name, Thiel founded). 1/

Update on Seth Cotlar's nice thread on Chris Rufo, who the NYT now defers to. Rufo's start as an alt-right activist was even earlier: he was tapped by 2017. His "journalism" since then is manufactured outrage. Here's a copy-edited version his bio - note his tie to Peter Thiel & Russ Vought. 1/

FYI: just deleted a thread on FEC filings for an "America Party", and for Elon Musk as a candidate, listing Musk and Vaibhav Teneja, since there are enough weirdnesses about the 2nd filing that it looks like a prank, and seems better to delay til even the 1st can be confirmed. Sources to follow. 1/

The New York Times was more skeptical of the academic qualifications of a black woman who had secured tenure and become the president of Harvard than they were of a white man who washed out of a grad program with a massive scandal and then became a white nationalist troll.

Again, according to @nytimes.com Claudine Gay had lost all moral authority to operate in academia thanks to several largely accepted uses of shorthand, but Lasker can be identified as an academic source when his sole publication got his co-author fired for academic dishonesty?

The saga of the NYT's anti-Mamdani story taken from notorious white supremacist Jordan Lasker (they call him an "academic") gets even more amazing: Lasker's only impactful paper, which claimed white people are smarter, is infamous: it misused data so badly it got his tenured co-author fired. 2/

Rep. Andy Ogles of TN, who just quietly caved on Trump's bill, is a reminder that dark dirty secrets in politics is a feature, not a bug. A candidate with a hidden crime or sexual shame is a plus - he'll be a compliant tool. 1/

As the Supreme Court strips away rights in what @elienyc.bsky.social calls a "devastating blow for women" - let's be clear on who created this case: not the plaintiff but the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), who argued it. The same ADF that helped in Trump's attempted coup in 2020. 1/

This NYT article implying Harvard will cave to Trump seems worrisome but note that it is anonymous rumor. Facts: there was a meeting, the Trump admin re-stated its demands, 1 person "close to Harvard" said no change, 3 anons not in the meetings said Harvard is wobbling. That's enough for the NYT! 1/

Reminder: Elon Musk, whose Starship just blew up on the test stand (with extra fuel tanks piled beside it), was allowed for THIRTY YEARS to lie about his training in science. He started lying in 1995, got trapped in the lie - and suffered no consequences. But physics itself has consequences. 1/

Since Sen. Mike Lee is going viral for mocking murdered lawmakers, can journalists finally ask him what he meant when, days before the Jan 6 Capitol attack, he fretted to Mark Meadows over "the way..Ted [Cruz] is going about this effort"? What did he know about plans for Jan 6? 1/