“The gap between Fuentes and the rest of the right is narrower than it has ever been,” @alibreland.bsky.social writes www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

The gap between the white-supremacist influencer Nick Fuentes and the rest of the right is narrower than it has ever been, @alibreland.bsky.social argues.

We are nearing the end stage of the groyperfication project www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Dug into how Jack Posobiec of Pizzagate fame went from being a hoax posting troll to one of the most influential media figures within MAGA—he now has “almost immediate access to anybody he wants in the White House" and close relationships across the admin www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

mildly interesting that "crash out" went from meaning recklessly doing life sentence level crimes (murder, grand theft auto with a screwdriver, etc.) to being a little too upset in public

Must-read @andykroll.bsky.social on Russ Vought www.propublica.org/article/russ...

when america first, nick fuentes-acolyte, groypers took over local campus conservative clubs around 2020, it was notable and unprecedented enough, that it garnered a bunch of separate local media stories across the country each time it happened

For those tempted to say Young Republicans have always been this way, they really have not. When I worked on campus and did bipartisan college events after, they were very much not like this. That’s why groups like YCT and eventually TPUSA formed — because Young Republicans weren’t radical enough.

"the only true insight seems to be that interest rates and cheap rent determine everything." nemesisglobal.substack.com/p/emily-in-b...

The nativist right keeps talking about “heritage Americans.” It's a buzzword engineered to move the goalposts on immigration even further, argues @alibreland.bsky.social. https://theatln.tc/bLRZoopN

Wrote about the new attempt to reimagine America as a sort of ethnonationalist blood and soil state that's starting to catch traction www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Taking a brief break from sporadically posting photos of my pitbull to shout this into the void: I’ve spent the last seven months thinking about the Antichrist, and now those thoughts are published over at @wired.com. www.wired.com/story/the-re...

Wrote about the right-wing reversal on "cancel culture," extremists attempting to capitalize on Kirk's death, and talked to the Proud Boys and Hasan Piker about the former's attempts to get the latter banned from Twitch. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

“Tarrio told me that he and other Proud Boys have teamed up in a group chat with other right-wingers who all want to get Piker kicked off Twitch by running a bigger and more sustained version of their other active mass-firing campaign” We’re just at the beginning. by @alibreland.bsky.social

The Atlantic's @alibreland.bsky.social talked to Enrique Tarrio of the Proud Boys. Tarrio told him that cancel culture “sucked for us. I always said I wouldn’t do it back to anybody... I’m in a different mindset right now. An eye for an eye right now.” www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

ben is right. it’s still premature with the info we have to confidently assert that he was a groyper at this point. it’s possible, but the gopnik/squatting slav meme and all of the other memes robinson reffed are general deeply online memes that are not signature groyper tells

it’s early but it seems like maybe this is relevant again (wrote it last week fml)

Grateful to have spoken w brilliant colleagues on the immediate weaponization of Kirk's killing. 1. My excellent colleague @akelalacy.bsky.social hosted @alibreland.bsky.social and me on @theintercept.com podcast. including dangers of hagiographies like Ezra Klein's theintercept.com/2025/09/12/b...

NEW 🎧 POD: After the shooting of Charlie Kirk on Wednesday, many influential voices were falling over themselves to valorize his legacy. But who was the real Charlie Kirk? @natashalennard.bsky.social & @alibreland.bsky.social help me break it all down podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

I'm proud to share a new project that @alexreisner.bsky.social and I launched at @theatlantic.com today! It's called AI Watchdog, and it's our new home for all of the investigations into training data sets, such as LibGen, Books3, and OpenSubtitles. www.theatlantic.com/category/ai-...

notable tidbit from a chris rufo column today

cracker barrel is not the rural south. it is a corporate simulacra that commodifies nostalgia (that makes solid food, tim duncan of chain restaurants, etc.)

Wrote about how, against the odds, Nick Fuentes has continued to endure as a figure on the right www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

i love checking in every few months to see what jason whitlock is up to

Reported out and wrote about the current state of the Proud Boys, militias, and similarly styled far-right groups. They were the bleeding edge of the right in Trump I, but in Trump II, they’ve been superseded. The federal government is the vanguard now. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

"The bigger reason that [The Proud Boys] remain underground is that the Trump administration’s aggressive agenda has left them with little to do" @alibreland.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

it's true, they did.

(certain types of) australians cannot keep getting away with this. "brekkie" and "sando" should have been the first clues of the cultural damage they would bring www.vice.com/en/article/m...

saw a german woman on the plane yesterday taking bites out of a cucumber as though it were an apple. honestly makes sense. true innovation is often simple and elegant

NEW: Jordan Lasker recently made news by leaking hacked admissions data about Zohran Mamdani. Our investigation shows a Reddit user who posted highly specific details that fit with his offline life once wrote: “I actually am a Jewish White Supremacist Nazi.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

had a great time speaking with jonathan about the current epstein moment and laura loomer

New: After he leaked Zohran Mamdani’s Columbia application data to the New York Times, critics called Jordan Lasker a “eugenicist.” A Mother Jones report shows there’s much more to his backstory. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

superb story by on the prominent pro-race science account cremieux, aka jordan lasker, and his previously unreported on past, including an old reddit account with biographical details that line up with lasker's www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

"It’s arguable that this moment is one such period of [Habermas's conception of 'illegitimate'] rule, where unpopular policies, like mass deportation, are presented as popular will." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/o...

saw a guy on the subway with bagged rotisserie chicken strapped to the belt loop of his pants. honestly was an immaculate look. bagged chicken is a superb disheveled elegance accessory

notable switch up in response strategy from a couple years ago www.texastribune.org/2021/02/17/a...

i have once again written about how and why the race science business is booming: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

they made it full nazi

So far, deportations haven't dramatically spiked under Trump, writes @alibreland.bsky.social. But the administration’s immigration tactics are so shocking, callous, and inescapable that they have generated the appearance of mass deportations.

Over on X yesterday, Grok became obsessed with the conspiracy of "white genocide." Some theories as to what is going on with @alibreland.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

What is the actual deal with that "panzer" tattoo? @alibreland.bsky.social investigates: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Essential @alibreland.bsky.social on the Trump administration's different standards of meaning www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

"The Trump administration seems to strongly agree with the notion that tattoos are meaningful—but only when convenient for the president’s agenda." Good one by @alibreland.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

I wrote about how all this MAGA tariff support is just like finance QAnon (even when Trump backs down). Trust the plan. Follow the crumbs. Trump's in control. A golden age is nigh. This is how people break from reality now. (gift) www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Today's #MustReads: Laura Loomer Is a Warning: No one else with direct access to the president has been as outwardly bigoted. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... by @alibreland.bsky.social

Laura Loomer is a testament to how much further to the right Trump has moved since his first term, and how much further he may be open to going, writes @alibreland.bsky.social.

NEW: I reached out to Tim Pool ahead of our latest podcast episode. He said some interesting stuff. Pool, who called himself a “victim” of an alleged Russian influence plot that paid him millions, now doubts whether evidence feds put forward was legit. postthroughit.substack.com/p/tim-pool-q...

Spoke to Ali Breland over at @theatlantic.com on the prospects of Fusionism 2.0 and the (lack of) a crackup on the right in the first few months of the Trump administration. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...