Lol! This is me. I just forgo the cash, until one of my closest friends grabs my laptop and fills out the forms while side eyeing me

WOW -- Danish reporter *goes there* with Rutte "You sit next to Trump when he talks about conquering Greenland, lashes out at allies like Spain -- things it doesn't seem like the old Mark Rutte would approve of. Does this have any affect on your self-respect when you sit there and say nothing?"

I can't keep up with our many wars! Now we're fighting the "the Islamic Republic of Japan"

The Trump Justice Department sent letters to at least 10 states threatening criminal prosecution of top election officials if ballots cast by noncitizens were counted in upcoming elections.

Live shot of GOP leaders speaking to McConnell.

A post by Jamil Jivani reminded me of the tactics of the John Birch Society in the late 1950s. Lies, conspiracies, and a tale from a friend of friend fires up the right wing, racists, and reimigration supporters. open.substack.com/pub/drcarmen...

Do we have our answer?

In better news, John Oliver's three-day stint/stunt as a corporate villain on legendary soap opera "General Hospital" appears to be going... fucking brilliantly?? I have watched this clip on a loop for like 20 mins I really, truly need to see the full episodes NOW

“After it ended, the Belgian team’s social media account had a message to the U.S. on Twitter: “Overturn this.” Perfect. #WellPlayed #Belgium

Confirming what Europe and the world already knew.

And the coded language to young white Christian males continues. Our Temu Trump keeps appealing to Maple Maga

France striker Kylian Mbappé hits back at a Paraguayan senator, describing her as a “despicable woman” after she launched a racist attack on him following Paraguay’s elimination from the World Cup.

Are you telling me that an author who has written repeatedly for Quillette is perhaps full of shit????????

Early morning press conference at the Whitehouse.

The conservative critique for years was that academic history was too niche, too inaccessible to people outside the academy. A lot of scholars forays into punditry came with the push to make scholarship feel more urgent and relevant—people just didn’t like what that scholarship pointed to.

First, this is such a weird piece. Historians need to stay in their lane when analyzing today according to the author, but US religion history is ok to bring up to defend your thesis. I have thoughts. So many thoughts!

What are the chances Trump is drafting an EO to ban Belgians?

I wonder if Trump is offering Haaland, Mbappe, Ronaldo, and Messi his million dollar gold visa and citizenship right now? Calling Infantino explaining new team members, stopping the game, so he can cheat and win?

I wrote a little piece about CPC MP Jamil Jivani's Canada Day and July 4th celebrations. They were centred on hate, conspiracy theories, and fearmongering. open.substack.com/pub/drcarmen...

A creature of the 1̶9̶8̶0̶s̶ 1880s

never suspected (though should have) that FIFA baked a Schmittian state of exception into its rules, but here we are

That peace prize is really paying off for fifa

I do appreciate the Bosnian energy here given they went down by an additional goal *after the red was issued*.

lol of course why not www.nytimes.com/athletic/742...

for the first time in almost a thousand years, the universe has called upon Norway to crush the English

Screw it let's just put the power to decide soccer matches in the hands of politicians: ww3 begins over the golden boot. This is the worst timeline

Sit Balogun out. In a perfect moral world he would admit what he did was wrong and choose to sit out. Why is it everything in the orbit of Trump is always destroyed? FIFA has always been corrupt but now they have decimated the shreds of legitimacy they had.

Thanks to Trump, “the integrity of the game is at stake”. #ETTD

I wrote a little piece about CPC MP Jamil Jivani's Canada Day and July 4th celebrations. They were centred on hate, conspiracy theories, and fearmongering. open.substack.com/pub/drcarmen...

Investment accounts owned by President Trump engaged in more than 300 previously undisclosed stock purchases on April 8, 2025, one day before his surprise announcement that he would pause a number of his “Liberation Day” tariffs, his financial disclosure report says.

Happy MAGA World Cup to all who continue to normalize, oops I mean celebrate.

Hosting the World Cup means everyone bends over backwards to help you. It is a tale as old as the tournament itself.

A story on CBC News this morning, about a Muslim family being harassed and threatened in Clarington Ontario, inspired me to write about a moral panic based on pets, halal food, and remigration. This little pocket of Ontario is not new to this hate rhetoric: open.substack.com/pub/drcarmen...

A story on CBC News this morning, about a Muslim family being harassed and threatened in Clarington Ontario, inspired me to write about a moral panic based on pets, halal food, and remigration. This little pocket of Ontario is not new to this hate rhetoric: open.substack.com/pub/drcarmen...

I am proud of this article I wrote for @sojo.net on the Christian nationalists who have taken control of the US Military. While many have been writing about Hegseth's words, I believe the Christian movement in the ranks, is really what we should be focused on. sojo.net

I've been writing about and researching Orthobros.

I am proud of this article I wrote for @sojo.net on the Christian nationalists who have taken control of the US Military. While many have been writing about Hegseth's words, I believe the Christian movement in the ranks, is really what we should be focused on. sojo.net

Trump's father was born in New York to a non-citizen mother who arrived six months pregnant

This is an extremely vile but important new quote from Stephen Miller, highlighted below by @larryglickman.bsky.social. It's an expression of Miller's overt ideology of civilizational supremacy, which we tried to dissect at some length recently: newrepublic.com/article/2041...

I read the Rufo/Klein interview in the NYT, and basically Rufo is the 21st century version of Paul Weyrich (JBS member, founder of the moral majority and the Heritage Foundation). So many lies, conspiracies, and disinfo. I HAD to write. open.substack.com/pub/drcarmen...

Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition! I wrote a little piece on the viral clip from a Kentucky Vacation Bible School where children chant "Blow Him Up!" while men dressed in full military fatigues lead a mock execution: drcarmencelestini.substack.com/p/praise-the...

I read the Rufo/Klein interview in the NYT, and basically Rufo is the 21st century version of Paul Weyrich (JBS member, founder of the moral majority and the Heritage Foundation). So many lies, conspiracies, and disinfo. I HAD to write. open.substack.com/pub/drcarmen...

Working today is facing some obstacles. The cutest obstacles but removing this obstacle would be cruel.

Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition! I wrote a little piece on the viral clip from a Kentucky Vacation Bible School where children chant "Blow Him Up!" while men dressed in full military fatigues lead a mock execution: drcarmencelestini.substack.com/p/praise-the...

We're launching a funding drive on Bellingcat today. It's a tough funding environment at the moment with global funder cuts & the fear of Trump scaring off donors, so support us here www.bellingcat.com/donate/?utm_... A short video about what your donations will fund www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Vzb...

"PayPal is being used to process payments by far-right groups that promote nationalist and anti-immigrant views under the guise of feminism" www.ftm.eu/articles/far...

Trump has a new side project: counting the number of trees in a public park across the street from the White House. He wants Lafayette Square to feature 47 trees — to match his 47th presidency, per people familiar. with @jakespring.bsky.social

Awww humanity, emotions, and care. I miss this

Jim Jordan on the World Cup: "Look at the UFC fight where the American beat the Spanish guy in the main event. We're on a roll so let's hope the hockey team can do the same." (The World Cup isn't a hockey event ...)