Jan 6 could not have happened without the far-right online propagandists who promoted it. That world did not arise organically: influencers were paid to push ideas, then amplified by bots. Charting their rise shows the ramp-up after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014. 3/ docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

As Trump Jr says the US will "walk away from Ukraine", let's face up to it: we should have seen this coming; Russia has deeply corrupted our GOP. This account stuck with Jan 6 because the attack was orchestrated - and also the people who promoted it were so tied to Russia. It was an act of war. 1/

I need you to listen to and share this story - of how Trump is preparing to abandon Ukraine in exchange for Russian money for his billionaire friends. It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich.

The National Security Strategy is just a piece of paper, but it shows what Anton and many around Trump are pushing for: a world obsessed over non-white immigration, fixated on cultural grievances, and withdrawing from Europe while handing Ukraine to Russia. 5/ www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

Anton started as a speechwriter, and he has a way with words. Just before the 2020 election, his book introduced the idea of "Red Caesar", a "post-Constitutional" strongman who rises to power to restore America. Much of the far right now pushes "Red Caesarism" - folks at Hillsdale and Claremont. 3/

Anton, a fellow at both the Claremont Institute and Hillsdale College, is part of a circle of faux-intellectuals who try to rationalize fascism. In Sept. 2016 he wrote an essay saying electing Trump was worth violence. Vanity Fair called him "Machiavelli in the White House". 2/

Trump's National Security Strategy shocked many in pushing to overturn our alliances and cozy up to Russia. Reports now say it was largely written by Michael Anton, one of the first to push election-fraud claims in 2020: "Game on for the Coup", he wrote. Today's players are still the Jan 6 crew. 1/

The “no tax on tips” rule as part of the Big Beautiful Bill doesn’t apply to pornographic content. This means when someone with an OnlyFans files their taxes and expects their tips not to be taxed, the IRS needs to watch their content to decide if it’s porn or not. 🤦🏾‍♂️

NEWS: Judge Boasberg orders Erez Reuveni and Drew Ensign to testify in court next week as part of his ongoing contempt inquiry over Alien Enemies Act flights.

New WSJ reporting: "During a December visit to Washington, David Ellison offered assurances to Trump administration officials that if he bought Warner, he'd make sweeping changes to CNN, a common target of President Trump's ire, people familiar with the matter said..."

If you live in these states--call your governors NOW. No baby deserves to acquire #hepatitis B. 3/

Over on Xitter, Kirill Dmitriev, whose country censors Xitter entirely, is on a 7-plus tweet rant about the EU enforcing transparency rules on Xitter.

This is a great list (and don't forget Marisa herself).

When I saw the story in passing I thought it was the same dumb bit as the army parade, the fig leaf of using Flag Day because it happens to also be his birthday. But no, Trump's birthday as such is now an official commemoration for NPS free admission days. www.nps.gov/planyourvisi...

Could not be more contrary to American traditions. A gold-bedecked White House with a massive gilded ballroom and a government-created personality cult around the president complete with giant banners of his face on government buildings and official celebrations of his birthday.

In 1999, "[Zeskind] predicted a mid-21st century conflict within the US as white people became a minority in a nation of minorities & were no longer able to preserve a system of white privilege through majority-rule winner-take-all democracy."

Reading the opening of Leonard Zeskind's 2009 book Blood and Politics in the midst of Trump 2.0 is quite a gut punch. In 2000 he warned of a rising tide of violent white nationalism & Christian nationalism on the American right...few people took those warning seriously. And now here we are.

In January 1954, Joe McCarthy’s favorable/unfavorables amongst Republicans was 62/19, amongst Democrats they were 39/38. Independents were 53/28. content.time.com/time/magazin...

A 2011 poll found that only 28% of Republicans believed Obama was born in the US. This was BEFORE Trump began promoting birtherism . www.politico.com/story/2011/0...

This DHS post in a fashy font features the sizzle reel of the raid on the Chicago apartment building, set to a cover of “Jesus Walks,” a song by Ye…an artist originally from Chicago who is now best known for his “Christian,” pro-Hitler stance. Very subtle.

This 1961 piece about race & Western Civilization from the neo-nazi National Renaissance Party is virtually indistinguishable from the way the White House is currently talking about immigration and "Western Civilization." Substitute "woke professors" for "Jews" and it could be a WH press briefing.

The top priority listed in this document is “Ending Mass Migration.” Hard to highlight a single passage here—this entire page is a pretty explicit defense of using the state as a means of enforcing white supremacy.

The new national security strategy of the U.S. says Trump’s war on DEI is “re-instilling a culture of competence.” Tell that to the Ssectretary.

Interesting to see National Review taking a forceful “anti-local control” and “pro-masked agents of the state” position in regards to this issue that they totally misrepresent. youtube.com/shorts/mrpjI...

What an interesting coincidence.

A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings. “It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale. This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading: www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...

what follows immediately after the birthright clause? the privileges and immunities and due process clauses? and what follows them? the equal protection clause. all of this is explicitly to say, "the declaration is the constitutional law of the land"

the birthright clause was not just written to wipe dred scott off of the books, it was written to repudiate the *idea* behind dred scott, you might say the larger *ideological project* of dred scott. and the whole of section 1 of the 14th amendment is a constitutional statement of political equality

dred scott, in their minds, established the united states as a place of tiered citizenship and permanent inequality among americans. it was a ruling that said, in effect, that all men *were not* created equal and would *never* be treated as such.

i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.

i made a video about the president's gutter racism against somali-americans and how a scandal became a smear became a call for de facto ethnic cleansing

The constitution is colorblind unless you want to discriminate against nonwhites. Then it’s fine apnews.com/article/supr...

This position is fundamentally segregationist—civilization is "erased" by the presence of people who do not share the ethnic background of the present majority—something ironically at odds with the history of Europe, which has been profoundly shaped by migration bsky.app/profile/matt...

“The Justice Department ordinarily would prevent attacks on voting rights. Now it’s carrying them out”

They’ve nullified the 14th amendment once already, they don’t care what the constitution says, only what their political allies want it to say

Trump’s remarks about Somalis being “garbage” reflects the bigoted logic of an administration whose policies are designed to maintain an aristocracy of race and class www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Sabrina Carpenter is Illegal now: www.out.com/gay-music/sa...

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As some have pointed out my “trump is fuming, both privately and publicly” reporting can grow tiresome because he’s frequently mad; and “trump seethes” reporting since 2017 has so often been superfluous. However, some things highlighted by MS Now here and in our @zeteo.com coverage that I think are…

There are well upwards of a BILLION dollars (of OUR money) this year funneled to projects designed specifically to make Trump feel Good about himself: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... Trumps private and public furious response to the onrush of media coverage about his mind, health, age, sleep…

Trump Bizarrely Brags About 'Acing' This Cognitive Test. Can You? Take a shot at getting a perfect score like the very insecure president claims he did on a test that is designed, in part, to test for... dementia. Read: zeteo.com/p/trump-says...

The entire debate over birthright citizenship is anti-constitutional because the purpose, intent, and text of the 14th Amendment were designed to foreclose any argument about who counts as an American citizen.

The Supreme Court Friday agreed to decide whether President Donald Trump can unilaterally limit the constitutional right to citizenship granted to virtually every person born in the United States. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Not the onion.

Nearly all of these people revealed themselves to be monsters.

I really can't emphasize enough that if you care about local politics, all you gotta do is show up. Just a regular schmegular person showing up. Literally just show up consistently in person and within a remarkably short amount of time, you will have a shocking amount of influence.

lmao whoops - got distracted

By “sovreignty” he means “states should be weak enough so that billionaires like me should be able to treat them as feudal vassals” bsky.app/profile/lora...

"Trump would have never won the presidency with only MAGA support. He had to win the hearts of 'reconciliationists' who were amenable to his promise to make America great again."