When Putin orchestrated a hostile takeover of an independent TV channel in Russia, the State Department had no trouble recognizing it for what it was. 2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/prs/dpb...

The founding meeting of NAACP was hosted by William English Walling and Anna Strunsky, who reported on the Springfield Riot after returning from a trip to Russia and saw a danger of losing democracy: "The day these methods become general in the North every hope of political democracy will be dead…"

when I broke story abt Hanania being Nazi, almost none of folks he was tied to - Substack, NYT, WaPo, Atlantic, Stanford, UT, U of Austin, WSJ, Andreesen, Thiel, Ramaswamy, Sacks, Vance, Federalist Society - would comment my book describes how this was indicator of this fascist political moment

It’s important to remember that Rufo would have been nobody without Tucker Carlson. He owes all his recognition to Carlson's promotion of him on Fox News in September 2020.

Pauli Murray saw injustice where others accepted it. She refused to shrink to fit someone else’s boundaries. Lawyer and activist whose work shaped civil rights and gender equality law, including the legal foundation behind Brown v. Board of Education. Black History. Always. 🖤 #SheShed #V4V

I won't be attending the State of the Union address. I’m not interested in hearing another campaign rally full of lies.

Joy is a secret weapon of resistance. It helped defeat Pinochet in Chile. "The opposition’s optimistic slogans ‘Joy is coming’ and ´Happiness is a rainbow’ helped to lessen fear and fatalism. A March for Joy, held days before the election, attracted hundreds of thousands."

Tucker Carlson was pretty clear about what he thinks of people from the Middle East: "If I didn't like Canada, I wouldn’t consider it worth invading. I mean, Iraq is a crappy place filled with a bunch of, you know, semiliterate primitive monkeys -- that’s why it wasn't worth invading."

Notably, Jeffrey Epstein’s story disproves the "Elders of Zion" conspiracy theories. Sure, Epstein fleeced Jewish billionaires like Lex Wexner and Leon Black, but he liked to hang out with his real friends, Nazi-adjacent Peter Thiel and Steve Bannon, or, earlier, with his best friend Donald Trump.

This was an incredible treat: a visit to one of Diego Rivera's rarely seen murals, "The People's Demand for Better Health," located in a Mexico City public hospital and thus difficult to access. Completed in 1953, the mural is a sweeping visualization of forms of ancient & modern medicine (thread)

Dinesh D’Souza wrote the blatantly racist article "Dis Sho Ain't No Jive, Bro," and certainly was an inspiration for Harmeet Dhillon.

In 2016, Anglin demonstrated the power of alt-right mobilization by orchestrating a harassment campaign against Julia Ioffe, a journalist who had profiled Melania Trump.

When Trump said, "I know nothing about Project 2025," the journalists should have recognized it as a standard Trumpian idiom. Previous hits: "I know nothing about David Duke," “I know nothing about Russia," "I know nothing about WikiLeaks," "I know nothing about QAnon,” etc.

"Modern Hungary is not just a model for conservative statecraft, but the model." Kevin Roberts, the architect of Project 2025. www.hungarianconservative.com/articles/int...

Je voudrais que tu sois mort, s'il te plaît Va aux enfers en escalator, il y fait bien chaud Ne m'envoie pas de carte postale Ne me fais pas de vocal Pense à moi quand tu t'endorms Je voudrais que tu sois… youtu.be/NSh7He3AvLI It’s OK to wish a certain person to go to hell already.

"The Bible should be one sheet of paper, and on that sheet of paper it should say: Try not to be a cunt. And if you do that every day, you’ll be a good person."

In 2019, Rubio condemned Orban’s Hungary. "In recent years, democracy in Hungary has significantly eroded…Hungary has experienced a steady corrosion of freedom, the rule of law and quality of governance according to virtually any indicator, including the assessments of the Heritage Foundation…"

When Rubio talks about “the fabric of our society,” and Miller talks about "the social contract," they repeat talking points from The Social Contract, "a program of U.S. Inc, the foundation created by John Tanton, the racist founder and principal ideologue of the modern nativist movement."

Bringing a copy of Magna Carta to the US was intended to show that it is not blood or language that unites our countries. "It is felt that Magna Carta symbolizes more than any other document the common origins of British and American democracies," explained R. A. Mitchell, dean of Lincoln Cathedral.

A tradition opposite to that of Magna Carta existed elsewhere. "In his conduct of state affairs, Nicholas I often bypassed regular channels and generally resented formal deliberation, consultation, or other procedural delays."

On his birthday, we honor the legacy of John Lewis.

The attraction of Hungary is that it shows that you don’t need Trump. Even a dork like Orban can stay in power by meticulously following the fascist playbook. "Sign me up,” said DeSantis and Vance. "Modern Hungary is not just a model for conservative statecraft, but the model," said Kevin Roberts.

This is why I fight: for the promise of what America could be, per Barbara Jordan and Langston Hughes. (full text of the Hughes poem: poets.org/poem/let-ame...)

It is clear who their role model is.

Mes œuvres sont jouées Tout ça parce que je n'osais pas lui dire non Quand il passait son temps à jouer à la poupée, Tandis que j'écrivais ses symphonies. youtu.be/rHxAwjGBOsk Our world would be a better place if it showed more appreciation for women’s creativity.

Mes œuvres sont jouées Tout ça parce que je n'osais pas lui dire non Quand il passait son temps à jouer à la poupée, Tandis que j'écrivais ses symphonies. youtu.be/rHxAwjGBOsk Our world would be a better place if it showed more appreciation for women’s creativity.

Guido Lombardi seemed like an important figure but suddenly disappeared. "Mr. Lombardi, 66, considers himself a bridge to Mr. Trump for his old friends and ideological allies in Europe, including Marine Le Pen of France, Geert Wilders of the Netherlands, Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary…"

Occasionally, the mask slips, revealing psychological troubles. "Tucker Carlson once bragged on national television about the time he and a buddy beat up a gay man in a bathroom."

Highly recommend watching Alysa Liu's gold-metal free skating performance. Even if you know nothing about the technical aspects, there's no way not to get caught up in the raw talent & beauty & joy. Humans can do some pretty cool stuff.

The guy who urged Musk to buy Twitter was appointed to the government and shut down the Global Engagement Center, an agency created to combat foreign disinformation. "Beattie has said that most Western institutions would benefit from being ‘controlled’ by Vladimir Putin."

Before Drokova met Epstein, she was peddling stupid schemes, like Pokemon Go insurance by Russian Sberbank. "I would never create my fund without the ideas and knowledge you shared with me,” she wrote to Epstein in 2019. Great reporting by David Z. Morris: davidzmorris.substack.com/p/i-found-ep...

Weird vibes. "Masha (Maria) Prusakova is a Partner at Davos-Apartments.com and Davos-2020 projects. We provide accommodation to Davos Conference Week attendees and organise events in Davos every third week of January." web.archive.org/web/20230611...

Doug Wilson’s co-author was Steve Wilkins, a founding member of the League of the South. "Openly racist and anti-Semitic, the League of the South espouses white supremacist ideology and southern nationalism, advocating for an independent southern nation devoid of Jews and other minorities."

Putin’s playbook. "In interviews, journalists said that they did not believe the Kremlin kept an official master stop list, but that the networks kept their own, and that they all operated under an informal stop list, — an understanding of the Kremlin’s likes and dislikes."

Thiel acknowledged the link between Jesse Jackson, the founding of The Stanford Review, and William Bennett's visit to campus. Less known is the connection between The Diversity Myth and Condoleezza Rice serving as Stanford's provost. Rice was appointed by Gerhard Casper, a fellow German immigrant.

A traumatic event was Jesse Jackson’s visit. "Jackson was also outspoken on the apartheid issue and called on Stanford to divest completely from South Africa, claiming that the United States is treating South Africa with too much tolerance and patience." archives.stanforddaily.com/1987/01/16

I love to see you strut Up and down the floor When you're talking to me That baby talk youtu.be/MTln9hsgORQ The Great Migration, which brought blues musicians from Mississippi to Detroit, created a quintessentially American contribution to world culture.

European countries ban Nazi symbols, Holocaust denial, etc. They learned the hard way that freedom of speech cannot be absolute; otherwise, the enemies of freedom would abuse it.

Weev on LJ in 2016: "We need to shout at Trump that we expect all fifty million deported, and the compromise we're willing to make with the sobbing faggot left is that none of those foreign invaders get beheaded in the meantime." Deporting millions of immigrants is in the official 2024 RNC Platform.

An old BuzzFeed investigation uncovered links among Milo Yiannopoulos, Weev, and Yarvin, as well as between Yarvin and Thiel. Chuck Johnson, from the same Nazi swamp, connected his pal Weev with Peter Smith during the Trump campaign’s hunt for hacked Clinton emails.

I want to be where the sun warms the sky When it's time for siesta, you can watch them go by Beautiful faces, no cares in this world Where a girl loves a boy, and a boy loves a girl youtu.be/2lJC9qsClWE Madonna called La Isla Bonita a celebration of "the beauty and mystery of Latin American people."

Victor Orban, the MAGA idol that Rubio is traveling to visit and endorse, has been telling Hungarians that the European Union rule is worse than the Soviet one. "Orbán accused the EU of seeking to strip Hungary of its identity by imposing a model of liberal democracy that he said Hungarians reject."

The worship of Scots-Irish as bearers of an immutable, honorable warrior culture, exemplified by Robert E. Lee, is neo-Confederate bullshit. Jim Webb, who wrote How the Scots-Irish Shaped America, wasn’t trying to hide it.

Rubio appears eager to escape Cuban culture because it is tainted by African influence. In striving for whiteness, he claims that American cowboy culture was "born in Spain," thereby erasing the true multiracial history of Mexican Vaqueros.

Marx lived in London as an immigrant. Regarding international solidarity, he noted that the English working classes prevented their government from intervening in the American Civil War on the side of the Confederacy. He called for the same solidarity in support of Poland’s independence from Russia.

Madeleine LeBeau and her husband, Marcel Dalio, escaped from Nazi-occupied France thanks to Sousa Mendes, the Portuguese consul-general in Bordeaux, who defied orders of Salazar's regime and issued visas to thousands of refugees. Sousa lost his job and died in poverty.

Rubio’s speech was big on refusing to apologize. "The vaulted ceilings of the Sistine Chapel and the towering spires of the great cathedral in Cologne… foreshadow the wonders that await us in our future. But only if we are unapologetic in our heritage and proud of this common inheritance…"

"There is not a single celebrated Southern name in any of the departments of human industry except those of war, murder, the duel, repudiation, & massacre. There is not a living Southern celebrity in art, today; nor science etc." Mark Twain, 1877. marktwainstudies.com/mark-twain-i...

Rubio claimed whiteness by citing his Spanish-Italian heritage. Many American Latinos, including Cuban immigrants, have 100% European ancestry. They are still “people of color" because their cultures normalized racial mixing, and therefore, they cannot be trusted by true American whites.