Getting some some cool, normal ads on twitter

Some powerful people have now decided that McCarthyism is good, actually, and that we should do it again on an even more profound scale: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

"It’s probably going to become even more of a thing as younger people who have been more deeply steeped in the internet get older. So it is here, and it will be here for a long time," @alibreland.bsky.social says of what CJR calls "the far-right media bubble." www.cjr.org/the-intervie...

Peered into how Epstein’s interest in pseudoscientific racism prefaced the ideology’s ongoing renaissance amongst the powerful www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

A great piece from @alibreland.bsky.social on Epstein's race science obsession—one he shares with much of the contemporary right wing elite www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Trump is clearly distancing himself from the bad pr of noem and miller, he’s not calling Alex Pretti a terrorist he’s calling him an insurrectionist who had it coming. Big difference in style and substance here

Important story from @alibreland.bsky.social about how the us government now speaks in the voice of an incel groyper www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Wrote about how the teens are sharing Nazi occult memes w/ @willgottsegen.com This isn’t an exaggeration. Lots of them are doing this www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Some official U.S.-government social-media accounts have become a reliable stream of xenophobic messaging that aims to redefine what it means to be American, @alibreland.bsky.social reports:

This is the precise rationale that internet white supremacists use when they talk about immigration—especially when they talk about immigrants from African countries. Fully indistinguishable from something someone would say at an ethno-nationalist event

An entire economy of weird, atomized buy-my-course, infinite side hustle, grindset guys who are excised from the traditional job market is probably not good for society and is going to have a bunch of bad externalities.

At my first turning point USA America fest. This is amazing. They brought Ben Shapiro out to club level pulsing bass, red white and blue laser lights and plumes of smoke (I don’t think they can do tpusa standard pyrotechnics in here)

For the @thebaffler.com I wrote about how Nick Fuentes and "The Groyper Wars" changed Charlie Kirk thebaffler.com/latest/ready...

“texas shouldn’t go to the playoffs because they have three losses,” is simply a broke hater mentality. be positive and virtuous. appreciate beauty and perseverance. believe in something.

ruining a&m’s best shot at an undefeated season since like 1939 feels so good

geese is a new kind of band that helps aging millennials deceive themselves into thinking their tastes haven’t calcified and that they’re into new stuff even though it’s just a slightly modified redux of the wilco, real estate, etc era

There is no right wing civil war. The groypers are just winning. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

HARK DAILY - Today's best podcast moments in one playlist, featuring: - Trump echoes Biden's biggest mistake on the economy @vox.com - How neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes went mainstream @alibreland.bsky.social - Creating a new company using only A.I. @evrat.bsky.social

It was great to be on Canada’s @cbcnews.ca Front Burner podcast alongside @alibreland.bsky.social to discuss the mainstreaming of Nick Fuentes on the MAGA Right www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...

“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...