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.

See also this takedown of Yarvin’s supposed intellect by my friend @jondavidchurch.bsky.social: freethinker.co.uk/2025/02/is-d...

MAGA and Trump relentlessly portray the left as extremist. Meanwhile, one of Vice President Vance’s favorite “intellectuals” is openly fawning over…checks notes…Adolf Hitler.

Now imagine those words spoken by Special Counsel Smith in a criminal trial. Damning proof of criminal guilt.

I remember maybe three or four years ago someone introduced me to yarvin and said among other things that what makes him so dangerous is he’s really steeped in history and philosophy. Sophisticated stuff. So I read some stuff and well, no. This is the stuff you say after you read one thing …

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.

Mark Cuban: Dems are “not offering any solutions and they’re certainly not saying ‘Break up the big insurance companies, break up the big hospital networks.’ At least if they said that, it would show that they understood what the hell was going on.” lnk.thebulwark.com/3L9cCFO

Happy New Year! Multiculturalism is worth fighting for - and we shouldn’t let the MAGA right get away with turning it into a dirty word.

Happy New Year! Multiculturalism is worth fighting for - and we shouldn’t let the MAGA right get away with turning it into a dirty word.

BREAKING: The House Judiciary Committee has released Jack Smith's 255-page deposition transcript: judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Excellent explanation by Ryan Goodman of what we know about Epstein, what we should know, and what DOJ is doing to stop us from knowing what we should know. www.youtube.com/live/GZF-ojI...

"The real lesson of Washington’s life was that he helped build a nation where belief was a private matter and being an American wasn’t contingent on your theology. The people lying about what he stood for are tarnishing the very legacy they’re claiming to protect." open.substack.com/pub/friendly...

a little more on one of my favored analogies youtu.be/Msz2daPeTyg

I grew up in a household that loved Norman Rockwell’s art. It isn’t white nationalist propaganda and the Department of Homeland Security’s misuse of it for those ends is gross.

I grew up in a household that loved Norman Rockwell’s art. It isn’t white nationalist propaganda and the Department of Homeland Security’s misuse of it for those ends is gross.

Trump Boosts QAnon JFK Jr. Account on Truth Social Trump continues amplifying conspiracy accounts meidasnews.com/news/trump-b...

This Christmas, the Department of Homeland Security is sharing Christian Nationalist propaganda. Christian Nationalism remains a potent force - one that needs to countered by both apolitical Christianity and secularism.

So I have the cover story in next month's TNR. I interviewed the heads of police groups; immigration defense attorneys, ex-judges and ex-prosecutors; former DOJ and DHS officials, and the former head of Border Patrol. They're all horrified at what we've seen, and they all fear what's coming.

This Christmas, the Department of Homeland Security is sharing Christian Nationalist propaganda. Christian Nationalism remains a potent force - one that needs to countered by both apolitical Christianity and secularism.

And… TRO granted! A sweet Christmas present for @imranahmed.bsky.social, @counterhate.com--& for their mission of fighting antisemitism & protecting kids online. Also nice for our all-star legal team. A lump of coal in the stockings of authoritarians & the merchants of disinformation

The key idea that propelled Bari Weiss’s online career is that the media is ideologically biased and can’t be trusted to relay the facts. But her stated reasons for canceling the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT are factually wrong, revealing again her own bias. www.justsecurity.org/127901/fact-...

Bari Weiss’ two accomplishments so far are hosting an interview that she desperately wanted people to watch (but they didn’t) and trying to spike a news story that she desperately wanted nobody to watch (but they did)

The word “uncovered” is doing a lot of work here.

A Christmas week legal miracle--one that those of all faiths can enjoy: Trump's targeting of our client @markzaidesq.bsky.social incl pulling his security clearance was enjoined as unconstitutional retaliation A great win for him, for us @democracydefendersfund.org & for the superstar legal team👇

The word “uncovered” is doing a lot of work here.

Bari Weiss is now lecturing CBS News staff on “building trust” with the people - as if she has the intellectual and moral ground after canceling the 60 Minutes CECOT segment. She does not. She got basic facts wrong when explaining her decision: www.justsecurity.org/127901/fact-...

Bari Weiss is now lecturing CBS News staff on “building trust” with the people - as if she has the intellectual and moral ground after canceling the 60 Minutes CECOT segment. She does not. She got basic facts wrong when explaining her decision: www.justsecurity.org/127901/fact-...

"She's doing what she was hired to do." Bari Weiss just spiked a "60 Minutes" story on the notorious CECOT prison, sparking outrage. @samsteindc.bsky.social and @jvl.bsky.social are joined by @maxtani.bsky.social to break down what happened, why Weiss made the call, and how Trump’s shadow looms.

Forest and trees re Epstein documents, as of now. Trees: Controversies about particular documents. Forest: Virtually none of the key documents, ones that we know exist, the ones the victims and knowledgeable observers have been demanding to see, have been released. And so the coverup continues.

The US State Department is now going to be deporting people and/or revoking visas over Benz, Taibbi, and Shellenberger’s “censorship industrial complex” hoax. Let that sink in. This is what the Twitter Files pretext was actually about. Water boys for authoritarians. www.state.gov/releases/off...

The “free speech” and “cancel culture” panics have led to overt state censorship because that was always their purpose. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Nina Jankowicz: “They’re not doing this because they have any evidence of censorship — they lost a Supreme Court case that made those claims… They’re doing this because the group of researchers and advocates have stood up to liars like Donald Trump and the platforms that enable them.”

The key idea that propelled Bari Weiss’s online career is that the media is ideologically biased and can’t be trusted to relay the facts. But her stated reasons for canceling the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT are factually wrong, revealing again her own bias. www.justsecurity.org/127901/fact-...

Trump is threatening the press again. It’s been generations since America has had a president who is so hostile to the First Amendment.

Trump is threatening the press again. It’s been generations since America has had a president who is so hostile to the First Amendment.

The @rgoodlaw.bsky.social/ @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social post below is essential reading. But if you're starved for time, Bari Weiss's argument on the CECOT story -- indeed, her entire editorial, townhall-obsessed worldview -- can be summed up in this 8-word screenshot. ⤵️

I just penned this piece with Tom Joscelyn Fact Checking Bari Weiss: The Stated Reasons for Spiking 60 Minutes “Inside CECOT” "If 60 Minutes had 'explained this' as Weiss described they should, the segment would have included false or highly misleading information."

"If 60 Minutes had 'explained this' as Weiss described they should, the segment would have included false or highly misleading information" Fact Checking Bari Weiss: Stated Reasons for Spiking 60 Minutes “Inside CECOT” By Ryan Goodman & Tom Joscelyn @rgoodlaw.bsky.social @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social

Judges who ruled against Trump say harassment and threats have changed their lives @lawrencehurley.bsky.social: www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

After Epstein's 2019 death "prosecutors produced a seven-page memo on co-conspirators they might consider charging and followed that with an 86-page update in December ... a 13-page memo of corporate prosecutions they might pursue and a 26-page memo regarding another target prosecutors considered."

Recommend everyone take 15 minutes and watch and share this segment, which CBS executives did not want you to see.

Just watched the 60 Minutes segment. Basically it debunks the fundamental claim used by Trump admin that the detainees it sent there are “terrorists” and corroborates torture using clips from El Salvadorean influencers Bukele uses internally. Would be a shock to low information voters, probably

On left: Bari Weiss: 60 Minutes segment failed to show Government view that CECOT detainees are due judicial review On right: Judge Boasberg Dec 22: "The Government itself has not even contested that the detainees who now make up the CECOT class received inadequate process prior to their removal"

The Trump regime refused to answer questions about the men it illegally sent to El Salvador to be tortured. Bari Weiss claims 60 Minutes can’t run a segment on the regime’s illegal torture without getting the regime to answer questions about it. So she canceled it - giving the regime a veto.

Asking this seriously: has Bari Weiss ever in her career reported out an investigative story?

JD Vance’s position at the TPUSA event was that he would have no enemies to the right, including in the neo-Nazi right. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...

JD Vance’s position at the TPUSA event was that he would have no enemies to the right, including in the neo-Nazi right. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...

Not only is the head of US intel aping Russian propaganda, it doesn’t make a lick of sense. NATO/EU want to pull the US into direct war with Russia?!? The US is in NATO. The Russia-Ukraine war has been going for nearly 4 years. NATO could’ve gone to war but didn’t. If anything, been quite cautious.

It’s impossible to overstate how much conspiracism drives the Trump regime’s agenda. Here Tulsi Gabbard, the head of ODNI, claims that “NATO and the EU really want…to pull the United States military directly into war with Russia.” Which is a Russian talking point, spread by conspiracy sites.