You can't understand U.S. politics today without making a serious study of antisemitism.

Time for everyone to read up on the Spanish Falange & the Romanian Legion of the Archangel Micheal. No reason.

How did the national enshrinement of Kirk sound to scholars & journalists who specialize in the far right?

We're laughing, but he's winning, bc it's not the judicial verdicts but the threats & the image of strength that are the point.

Most people don't know what fascism is, & millions are drawn to its mobilizing passions. Sadly, that makes the term a poor tool of persuasion. Study it, learn how to fight it, but don't expect shouting "fascist" to do more than alienate radical moderates & drive conservatives further right.

Not that I expect an actual moment of recognition to come from any of the oligarchs who helped lead us to this crisis. #Andor #Resistance #NoKings

There's probably a term for using the total, combined force of government, the market, the culture, & society to stamp out those politically opposed to fascism. I wonder what it could be?

Last call to save what's left of the so-called public sphere.

We no longer have a paper of record in the US.

Posting this to keep a pin in the info.

If you only have time for one article on the #groypers, you can't do better than this 2020 PRA feature from @benlorber8.bsky.social. politicalresearch.org/2021/01/15/a...

Groypers aren't exactly a "fringe" group. They grew out of the alt-right & sit at the terminus of three interrelated "drives," white supremacism, masculine supremacism, & the so-called "Authoritarian Complex" (essentialist antisemitism). All lead toward a neofascist synchrony. 1/ #AmericanId

There has been a concerted effort over the last decade by newsrooms to destroy the capacity to correctly report on the unique threat of the deeply online right and their ties to the broader Republican fascist apparatus. It goes hand-in-hand with the institutional capture of media by the wealth class

Our universities are administered by Quislings.

Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative

@jeffsharlet.bsky.social is an essential voice right now. We are, none of us, prepared for what may go down shortly in the US.

Straight-up neofascist rhetoric.

I guess its a *good* thing when the Evola-enamored, neofascist, former, special advisor to your country's ruling regime announces the opening salvo of World War III to an all but empty room? #NationalConservatism #NatCon #Fascism

Hope they sue Meta into the ground.

From yesterday's walk #PhillyForms

Being a conservative means never having to admit you were wrong. Being a liberal means always having to act like you were.

DHS’s immigration memes aren’t just trolling—they fuel extremist narratives. Immigrants are cast as “violent invaders who need to be… dragged in the streets, taken away, put in vans, removed—if we want that white culture to ever flourish again,” said @heidibeirich.bsky.social. Read more at @npr.org

Shameful, U of O.

In other words: They lied.

Loving this. @nanlawson.bsky.social

Last semester, when students first walked through the door into my classroom, they didn't live in an authoritarian electoral autocracy. Now, some experts say they do.

"Which Way, Western Man" is a notorious 1978, neo-Nazi classic by eugenicist William Gayley Simpson. It blames Jews for the racial destruction of the modern world and calls for a violent, global "revolution" modeled on Hitler's genocidal anti-Jewish campaign. /1

Some thoughts about the right-wing paranoia machine. americanid.substack.com/p/fetching-g...

15/1. That's the ratio between high profile X accounts on the right & left that are sounding off about #SydneySweeney. The right is so desperate to make "fetch" happen. @politifact.bsky.social #AmericanEagle #Sweeney

An important set of points. Liberal #guardrails didn't hold, & our capitulating institutions are now being occupied in a far-right "war of position." Meanwhile, the #democratic establishment doesn't even know what that phrase means anymore.

For months myself and others within the countering authoritarianism academic community have been warning that rule of law was being reconstituted as an entirely authoritarian entity. Rule of law is being retooled into an arm of the authoritarian project and is being used to solidify fascist power

Somehow simultaneously caught up in King's "Fairy Tale," Sayers's, "Unnatural Death," Tolkien's "Fellowship," & Stoppard's "Leopoldstadt." August's mood is radical, literary non-monogamy. #SummerReads

It's like that famous saying, something or other... "shoot the messenger."

Bluesky REALLY wants me to discover cute animal vids lately.

This is serious. Very serious.

Another great chat by @thebulwark.com crew on the new fascist youth (linked below). But @jvl.bsky.social, you're mistaken about ISI, unfortunately, which had at least two fascists on the board into the 2000s. 1/ @timmiller.bsky.social @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social

Only our corporate overlords get nice things.

They're coming for protesters. Lawyer-up, everyone.

Our mainstream & social media drivers have to learn to sustain multiple conversations at once. War involvement in Iran can't distract us from political assassination & Christian, ultra-nationalist terrorism. The US right is successfully normalizing violence. americanid.substack.com/p/a-minnesot...

Why don't we just call them Christian, ultra-nationalist terrorists? americanid.substack.com/p/a-minnesot...

Here's some deeper context for Robert Reich's little article on the dangers of Peter Thiel's Palantir. Tolkien isn't just a weird, little in-joke to Silicon Valley's techno-fascist broligarchs. americanid.substack.com/p/why-so-wei...

Fascist & neo-Nazi activists are stirring up their members to disrupt & attack protestors at Saturday’s NO KINGS rallies (several have called for vehicle attacks). 1/ globalextremism.org/post/violenc...

New York, I need y'all to make Schumer's life a living hell until he takes serious action

This is a explicitly neofascist declaration. They are normalizing the idea of permanent revolution against the democracy.

My little contribution for the day.

Disappointed. This took more than 24 hours. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-s...

As much fun as I'm having watching the two gorillas in the cage match, this little story will have a much bigger impact on all of our lives.

And don't you DARE tell me Balrogs don't have wings!

But who gets custody of the white nationalists?!