Chris Rufo's disastrous takeover of New College in Florida shows what universities would become if they sign the Trump regime's extortionary "compact." New College was supposed to model the anti-woke conservative higher-ed Americans crave. Instead, it showed the opposite, and serves as a warning.

More @katmabu.bsky.social energy in the halls of power, fuckin please.

Clear desire to use the US military against Americans for authoritarian theater. “82nd is like our top tier [quick reaction force] for abroad. So it will cause a lot of headlines,” he added. ‘Probably why he wants potus to tell him to do it.’”

I have talked to CBS staffers who are worried about what will happen when they have a major story

Judge Arun Subramanian said “a history of good works can’t wash away the record in this case." globalnews.ca/news/1146141...

A youth bulge, economic failures, corruption and the perversion of democratic processes are shared causes behind the protest movements that have toppled governments in Southasia, write Anupam Debashis Roy and Rishija Singh

It's like the Stanford Prison experiment is going on again, except it's the whole country.

A car ramming and stabbing attack outside the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in Manchester on the morning of Yom Kippur has left four people injured. The suspect was shot by Greater Manchester Police; their current status is unknown.

What a weak, sad, broken, little man.

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Last week, Trump declared “Antifa” a domestic terrorist organization. This is why the far-right in the US & Canada see it as an obstacle that has to be cleared in order to carry out their smash-and-grab of the political establishment. 👇 🧵 www.antihate.ca/trump_lying_...

From the Insight Monitor archives, here's a look at how states employ criminals for targeted killings and transnational repression: newsletter.insightthreatintel.com/p/state-secr...

Democrats "blocked" this bill by ... not voting for it. No dirty tricks or sneaky moves, they just didn't vote for a GOP bill. It needed 60 votes to pass, 53 Reps and 2 Dems voted for it. That, according to the broken Washington Post, means Democrats Are To Blame even though the GOP runs it all.

Shoutout to @hereticmasked.bsky.social for another amazing book cover 🔥

So good to see the obvious written out though. “In a blistering opinion, a federal judge in Boston said the Trump administration used the threat of deportations to systematically intimidate certain campus demonstrators into silence.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...

Must be harrowing to spend research careers studying these topics--but it's very important and couldn't be more timely given mainstream cluelessness about what's happening in these hideous cultures. It's why academia matters. Kudos to @maargentino.com, @amaramarasingam.bsky.social & others.

It is Book Launch day for @amaramarasingam.bsky.social and My edited volume "Contemporary Far-Right Culture The Art, Music, and Everyday Practices of Violent Extremism" www.routledge.com/Contemporary...

Dude dragged everyone from around the world to his Patton movie set.

Quick reminder that fascism is almost always obsessed with the aesthetics of the male body—sculpted, uniformed, disciplined.

dumbest. fucking. timeline.

I have been haunted by this statement all day www.kgw.com/article/news...

Also, on top of the inability to read graphs correctly, this 'study' relied on deeply questionable ways of counting this stuff.

When math is hard.

A panopticon society is a polite society

The President of the United States has posted a fake AI video of himself announcing a non-existent policy to give people access to a fake miracle cure that also doesn't exist truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT... We are fully through the looking glass, folks.

Phew

There's some interesting stuff in here. One thing that comes across in lots of the comments is the stultifying pressure of everything always being recorded & posted. Everything you do or say could be in front of the whole world in minutes. Everyone is *one stage*, all the time. Who can breathe?

This is how it’s done. May we hope the United States will be handing out such medals in a few years

Portland is not "war ravaged." This is delusional and dangerous. Sending troops into American cities doesn't make our communities safer — it just stokes fear and stirs up chaos. Trump is plunging further into authoritarianism every single day.

Microsoft terminates Israel's access to Azure technology after a Guardian investigation found it was operating a powerful, mass & illegal surveillance system that collected millions of Palestinian civilian phone calls made each day in Gaza & the West Bank: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age." She was 78.

I will reserve my judgment of this article until I get a chance to view the full study and data. Byman is a seasoned scholar and has produced exceptional work over the years. With that said, in my view, the insistence that “far-right” always equals “pro-Trump” is a mistake. 1/

A mass walkout of the UN General Assembly as Netanyahu prepares to speak.

This is really bad. It won’t get the popular opposition the Kimmel incident did, but it’s way more sweeping and authoritarian. This is an effort to bring the full force of government down on any and all opposition to this administration. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Whether you want to admit it or not, we no longer have rule of law. We don’t have checks and balances. He has weaponized the Department of Justice. Pure retribution and nobody willing to stop him.

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🚨Today we have a special edition of Insight monitor, where on a Friday morning I woke up and chose data. I take a close look at claims of rising left wing terrorism in the US: open.substack.com/pub/insighti...

Incredible how vaccine hesitancy has become increasingly about POLITICAL IDENTITY...

I've said it before, but I think the current spree of memekillings is the product of an ideological transition. It's hard to parse because it's rapidly evolving. It's clearly derived from far right precursors, but it hasn't progressed to coherence yet.

An important read about the background and possible motivation of the ICE shooter. His friends describe him as an extremely online edge lord, with no strong political leanings. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-ice-sh...

Perfection.

The anti-trans side constantly used this exact and talking point about a 4000% increase in trans youth. Similarly, there was a change in diagnostic criteria along with increased access to care. It's the same exact playbook.

This is easily one of the biggest long-term tragedies of the Trump administration. The politicization of federal agencies and the steady erosion of institutional trust won't all just magically be fixed with the next election cycle.

Whether they're blaming vaccines and Tylenol, or selling dubious "remedies," what they're really doing is promoting the perception that families (and especially mothers) can prevent and treat Autism. And thus also the perception that people with Autism and their families don't need social support.

Making Gaddafi's speech look very rational.

Charlie Kirk's murder has been very good for Nick Fuentes -- which is very bad for literally everybody else. Great reporting from @davidgilbert.bsky.social

I think we should have a show where there is a rapture, and everything is just way easier and nicer on earth once the saved are gone.

At the risk of staying the obvious ... If you sign this, you are in no way a journalist.

My new op-ed in @globeandmail: Canada & allies recognize Palestinian statehood. Both critics and supporters exaggerate the impact and the change in policy it represents. It is a small but useful step - but only if it is part of a broader peace process. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

If anyone ever wants to close a religion department at your university, just email them the Charlie Kirk memorial.