My new, free access Patreon post is an overview of Hardline, based on Phoenix X Eeyore's "Total Revolution?" This bizarre micro-subculture promoted straight-edge, veganism, militant animal rights- & was anti-abortion & homophobic. Most fascinating book I read in 2025! www.patreon.com/posts/147487...

“Trump said he wants more immigrants from Norway. I have reviewed the offer, and I have to decline… Moving to the US right now feels like leaving a spa to go work in a burning hot dog stand. Thanks, but we will stay in the snow." www.newsweek.com/trump-wants-...

Searchlight editor Gerry Gable (1937-2026)

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

writing a tardy Patreon piece about 1990s micro-subculture Hardline. This was a part of the hardcore scene that was militantly (and sometimes violently) straight-edge, vegan and animal liberationist, and radical environmentalist - but at the same time anti-abortion and homophobic.

will the price of eggs go down now? asking for a friend

A college sophomore at an Occupy rally could not have generated such a grotesque outsized caricature of US imperialism

Hussein was a really horrible dictator - so bad that in fact some on the left accepted that the Iraq invasion was worth the price if it resulted in a democracy. But this? / waves hand/ what is there even to say?

openly bragging about being a mouthpiece for state propaganda

was waiting until this was confirmed, but apparently the reports that Denis Kasputin aka “White Rex - a Russian neo-Nazi fighting for Ukraine - was killed were a ruse. www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-ru...

NEW: White Supremacist Mass Shooter of Protesters To Be Released From Prison in First Week of 2026 A decade after shooting five unarmed Black protesters in Minneapolis, white supremacist Allen “Lance” Scarsella is set to be released from his prison sentence on January 5, 2026.

uh holy SHIT?

Nothing made me appreciate the US more than spending time in Russia

America First Policy Institute probably has more connections to Trump cabinet officials than any other conservative organization. This is corruption, through and through.

Good morning, kids. Be safe out there. 🥰

"we're here to inspect your daycare center"

Curtis Yarvin, JD Vance’s friend & ideological influence, ended 2025 by claiming “only Hitler spoke the truth” about “too many subjects” & “Hitler was a genius.” Extremism isn’t fringe on the right. Once marginal online extremists like Yarvin are influential at the highest levels of government.

The idea that we need to deport 100 million people - almost one out of every three Americans! - was, a year ago, a deranged claim you’d hear from neo-Nazis to give themselves permission for limitless mass violence. Now it’s coming directly from this horrific agency’s horrific press office

Here a novel idea, let’s let the survivors redact the Epstein files.

Full story from NY Times (paywall removed): archive.is/202512312208...

“The Trump administration is closing NASA’s largest research library on Friday, a facility that houses tens of thousands of books, documents and journals — many of them not digitized or available anywhere else.”

Uh… check out what ChatGPT allegedly told a man before he killed his mother and then himself. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Exclusive: The Kennedy Center adopted bylaws earlier this year that limited voting to presidentially appointed trustees, a move that preceded a unanimous decision this month by board members installed by President Donald Trump to add his name to the center.

2025 - The Year of the Robber Baron The U.S. has over 900 billionaires and their wealth soared by 18% to $6.9 trillion this year, UBS says. fortune.com/2025/12/08/h...

happy last day of taint!!

Trump guys are about to Comet Pizza every third daycare center because they think they are all fronts for Somali money laundering. They're only doing this near cities with progressive mayors. This is straight up Government by LibsOfTikTok.

Very bad: two German banks shut down accounts of Rote Hilfe (Red Aid), the main prisoner support group, because the U.S. designated “Antifa Ost” (a made-up group) an FTO - something which has no legal standing in Germany. www.bizpacreview.com/2025/12/29/f...

Matt Taibi is an unrepentant POS.

The largest generation in U.S. history is in their 70s now. And Stephen Miller’s podcaster wife thinks it’s suspicious that there’s a huge surge in home health aides.

Pretty clear that Marjorie Taylor Greene was smart enough to realize that women collaborators would never have actual loyalty or gain actual power in Trump's MAGA, saw Trump as a lame duck and peaced out. Hopefully she has some genuine remorse but I doubt it. Love it when they fight tho.

#BestOf2025, from @stevanzetti.bsky.social: The Texas Observer revealed that ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden operated "GlomarResponder," a white supremacist account on the social network X.

antisemites who have learned a little yiddish are the *worst*. i'd rather deal with a "it's the jooooos" type than one that's gonna cite a 250 BCE source, ask for a citation for every rebuttal, and if you waste yr time finding it will proceed to dismiss it. just vulgar judenhass all dressed up.

JUST IN: The alleged J6 pipe bomber confessed, said he wanted to “speak up” for those who believed 2020 election was stolen, dislikes both parties and modeled his attack on the Troubles in Ireland. Says he wasn’t targeting the joint session of Congress storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

we're sacrificing children to this thing we've built with our own hands. we've reinvented Moloch.

Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. “Big tech has made their choice.” www.404media.co/google-has-c...

NEW: A prominent free speech group helped right-wing dark money score a legal win against an Ohio school board and its anti-bullying policy, which protected transgender and nonbinary students. www.importantcontext.news/p/how-a-free...

i have spent time with bari weiss, who used to date my former roommate and who i am in an alumni program with, and i feel comfortable saying she is both stupid and evil

hair styles today: I’m ecstatic that bangs are in for women and despise that mustaches are hegemonic for men

There is nothing in the Constitution that forbids a president from mass redacting FBI documents to hide evidence of his sex crimes. So the Democrat Party's outrage du jour is, as always, much ado about nothing. by Jonathan Turley

That time of year again!

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"wHy aRe LeoPardS eAtIng MY fAce?!" tho TBH better late then never. critical support for Loomer & Shapiro in driving the full fash out of the GOP - altho the cat is well out of the bag and in full heat

If you’re using your winter break to catch up on your cutting edge left-wing analysis of neglected but vital international issues, here’s a thread of some recent material we’ve re/published on #LeftRenewal:

GOP operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, convicted election fraudsters, were paid $960,000 in the second quarter to secure a pardon for a former nursing-home operator who defrauded the government of $38 million. Trump pardoned the man, Joseph Schwartz, last month.

Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.

Des & 8 more defendants in this Prairieland noise demo federal case will be going to trial starting Feb 17, 2026 in Fort Worth, TX. We'd appreciate any support in spreading the word re: trial, encouraging fundraising, letter writing, & court support. https://www.givesendgo.com/supportDFWprotestors

A new date has been set for the start of the Prairieland Defendants’ federal jury trial: Feb 17! We have been told by multiple lawyers this date is very unlikely to change. The North Texas federal court circuit in Fort Worth is well known for being fast and firm with trial dates.

someone just emailed me a thank you for some info I sent to them 18 years ago.

Read the CBS Report Bari Weiss Doesn’t Want You to See open.substack.com/pub/thenatio... Transcript