SCOOP: I got exclusive internal documents from the white supremacist group Patriot Front, showing the group is in 49 states and has grown fast. The docs outline strict rules on propaganda and show the group’s expansion into racist “active clubs”: www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Here's a clip of Bovino praising Martin Sellner, the neo-Nazi activist who organized the conference. His associations include a man who went on to be a white supremacist terrorist. Of Sellner, Bovino said: "Your ideas. We talked a lot on that. Those ideas mirror each other" bsky.app/profile/sulc...

The money was always there for the good things.

Following the mass shooting that occurred in our city 2 weeks ago, Mayor Watson and APD Chief Davis have signaled an eagerness to trade our civil liberties for the false promise of security w/ a return of the Automated License Plate Reader program, which is now due to return to City Council in July.

woke 1 made the mistake of making people think it was problematic to make fun of healing crystals and astrology. woke 2 must be focused on the destruction of white shamanism

Keep reading Kit!!

Greg Bovino will speak at a white nationalist conference in Portugal tomorrow. He will share the stage with no fewer than five people who idolize Hitler, including one who joined a group created by two Nazi SS members. Another guy is a self-described racist who refers to women as "cockroaches."🧵

It's only been three days and the race is devolving into a dick-measuring contest.

NOW: I’m outside the Delaney Hall ICE prison in Newark, NJ where protesters are supporting detainees inside who are on a hunger and labor strike because of inhumane treatment. Follow this thread for updates.

New @byjustinmiller.bsky.social: The GOP dynamic was basically old-guard establishment vs. ambitious and uniquely hardline insurgents. The typical story, with the now-longstanding wild card of Trump’s kingmaking powers.

Texas Dems need run heavily on returning local control to rural counties. They need to target establishment GOP voters upset about datacenters and give them a clear reason to pull the lever for Dems rather than not show up to vote or leave the ballot blank. Give them a material reason to cross over.

It's going to be six months of nothing but truck nuts from the Texas GOP.

Our entire economy is being artificially propped up by astrology for men: AI, crypto, sports betting, and prediction markets. It's an economy shaped entirely by male insecurity and lack of impulse control, and we'll all pay the price.

An open proponent of the racist "Great Replacement" conspiracy who wants to deport all Muslims, more than a third of the country, and return to the so-called "natural order," is set for statewide office in November. No Democrat has held a statewide seat in Texas since 1994.

The teenagers behind a shooting at a San Diego mosque last week wore patches associated with Atomwaffen Division, a defunct neo-Nazi group, and drew clear inspiration from "Terrorgram," a loose network of neo-Nazis that supports the use of terrorism. Latest: www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...

Went to an anti AI datacentre protest march today and a friend of mine got a picture that summed it all up

NEW: In the morning, lawmakers plan to introduce an amendment to a $580 billion transportation bill that would make federal highway funds contingent on states and cities killing off their automated license plate reader programs, i.e., Flock, in most cases.

It is gross negligence for any news to report that this attack was nihilistic violent extremism. That is a separate category from accelerationist nazis. Folks who reserch this world have been worried since the creation of the NVE category that it would be used as political cover for Nazi attacks

Incredible. The newly-published DNC autopsy of 2024 is 192 pages. *Zero* mentions of the words "Israel," "Palestine," or "Gaza." (DNC Chair Ken Martin concedes the autopsy does not meet his standards, nor would it meet yours).

A very good analysis of the ongoing convergence of Camp Of the Saints-style fascism and climate change, as told through the rise of Bo French, the extreme Islamophobe running for the Texas Railroad Commission.

New from @byjustinmiller.bsky.social: Ken Paxton stands for the Trumpification of the Texas GOP, the beneficiary of an era wherein one can enjoy the trappings of a Christian conservatism brand while possessing the personal ethics and morality of an unrepentant hustler.

"‪It would emit more CO2 than the entire nation of Jamaica."

RFK wants you to get sick and die, and wants people in Africa to get sick and die first

After a town banned Flock, a councilmember crashed out and said he would be introducing measures to ban cell phones, the internet, cameras, and nearly all technology in the town of roughly 900 people. www.404media.co/after-town-b...

Important: Dems will seek to force Republicans to vote on a bill blocking Trump's illegal $1.8 billion slush fund, Rep Jamie Raskin tells me. Dems will use discharge petition. Hakeem Jeffries is supportive of Raskin's efforts, I'm told. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/2106...

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Another horrific link in Tarrant's ecofascist daisy chain. The manifesto calls for a return to the "natural order" and lays blame for enviro destruction on Jews and "overpopulation of the sick-minded people." It calls for mass murder of marginalized populations as a solution to the enviro crisis.

In an unconfirmed livestream video of the mass shooting, the shooters appear to both be wearing black sun (nazi) patches and AWD (atomwaffen division) patches. Writings on the gun include the logo for the nazi accelerationst group The Base, the numbers 14 and 88, TND, and the othala rune.

As my editor @johnalight.bsky.social wisely points out, Cassidy's loss (and Massie's potential loss tonight) likely have Trump high on his own supply, leading to the 11th hour Paxton nod talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-t...

Fantastic article from Candice Bernd with @texasobserver.org A Must Read. #txlege

As bad as you may think Texas statewide GOP officials are now, Bo French's explicit and detailed fascism actually does remain an outlier: www.texasobserver.org/bo-french-bl...

I wrote about Bo French's fossil fascist campaign for Railroad Commissioner, which not-so-incidentally provides a sneak peak at my forthcoming book on fascism and climate change. www.texasobserver.org/bo-french-bl...

ICYMI: I reported and hosted Season 5 of The Unforgotten: Riding Shotgun. We dove into the curious death penalty case against Charles Flores, who was convicted after a key witness was hypnotized by police. Check it out anywhere you get your podcasts. (Apple chose us as a featured show this week!)

Many of these folks believe that nature simply doesn't make mistakes. It does: Babies are born with deformities all the time. They are born without brains, without skulls. MAHA's skepticism of Big Pharma is mutating into a deadly back-to-nature obsession with an unattainable state of organic purity

“The builder is advertising the final lots in Phase 1 and pre-selling Phase 2 — which is being built, the whistleblower said, on the precise part of the property where he helped bury the highest concentration of toxic waste. Homes are available for $339,990 to $584,990 apiece.”

In "Illness as Metaphor," Susan Sontag unpacked the ways in which common metaphors linked illness to people's psychological traits & reinforced victim-blaming narratives. (Sontag was being treated for cancer as she wrote the book.) The pseudoscience of "The Body Keeps the Score" works the same way 🧵

Little know fact: Far more birds are killed annually by RFK Jr than by wind turbines

Heartland Institute climate deniers want to repeal of the 17th Amendment, which would strip away direct elections of U.S. senators and hand that power to state legislatures.

Texas authorities are using license plate readers to track immigrants and even investigate abortions. A few cities have rejected surveillance cameras, but networks are already immense. #privacy #immigration @candicebernd.bsky.social @texasobserver.org www.texasobserver.org/license-plat...

Wall Street analyst: valuing Fermi at $19B for its planned 17 GW data center campus, despite not having a single tenant or a dollar of project finance, "was a lot in hindsight.” In hindsight? It was ridiculous from the get-go.

From Wednesday: Flock has sold nearly 92,000 cameras to local police departments—including more than 10,000 in Texas, according to an open source map. Privacy advocates are determined to bring that number down, and they're starting to get their way.

Bluesky, famous for our refusal to ever blame Chuck Schumer.

Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr has indicted three Cop City protesters on questionable charges based on allegations from 4 years ago. Why now? Carr is seeking redemption with far-right voters after his failed years-long campaign to get RICO convictions of Cop City activists.

What makes UPF a potential pipeline to the far right is how it reinforces a politics of “purity” that easily melds with the logic of eugenics Food additives/stabilizers are harmful, but UPF is broad to the point of promoting a kind of organic purity that lends itself to ideas of the “natural order”

Trump’s border wall construction has now damaged a 200-foot-long Indigenous etching in Arizona believed to be at least 1,000 years old.

Charlottesville used bookstore’s got game

We must understand that the Voting Rights Act was not merely about ensuring Black Americans rights, it was about democratizing America. This ruling is not just a decimation of Black rights and Black Americans’ ability to have representation, it is a fatal blow to multiracial democracy.

New from candicebernd.bsky.social: Though they haven't won every battle, privacy advocates in Texas are fighting an increasingly successful war against Flock Safety's invasive network of cameras.