About to be the family that owns TikTok.

🚨 IMPORTANT THREAD 🚨 People are protesting the Broadview ICE facility tonight. This will likely be an extremely high-risk action. I caution you to consider your risk level before attending. I will not attend. Attendance risks your safety, but also the safety of Broadview residents + detainees. 1/6

Today is a great day to donate to @unraveledpress.com unraveledpress.com/support-unra...

Trump shares an Ai generated video promising every American a “MedBed card.” Tammy’s been waiting since 2021. How do we bring people back to a shared reality when people in power keep stringing them along?

Trump has finally unveiled his long-awaited healthcare plan. “Every American will soon receive their own MedBed card.” — DJT

A man was just chased and arrested outside of the Broadview ICE facility in Chicago. When legal observers from the National Lawyers Guild asked why, an agent threatened to arrest them too.

“There’s a lot of talk about teen boys and the internet, but there’s plenty of sexist influencers for women, too.” Read an excerpt from extremism researcher Dr. @milleridriss.bsky.social‘s new book ‘Man Up: The New Misogyny and the Rise of Violent Extremism.’ www.teenvogue.com/story/how-tr...

Back at the scene where this story begins. Preorder now: noellecook.com/book

October on Faithful Politics brings powerful voices—whistleblowing truth-tellers, Emmy-winning storytellers, journalist, respected scholars, and fresh perspectives on faith, justice, and culture. We do no advertising, so help us spread the word and expand the conversation!

Accompanied my wife on a research trip to photograph the Stop the Steal rally on Jan 6, 2021. Five years later, the results of her wild ride tracking J6ers as they headed even deeper down the rabbit hole will be in bookstores! Pre-order now! noellecook.com/book

Back at the scene where this story begins. Preorder now: noellecook.com/book

Inside Charlie Kirk's Memorial: A Deep Dive into Christian Nationalism and Political Polarization youtu.be/TiRh0xy7QPg?...

The lack of attention this endeavor got and the experience of pitching this were some of the biggest black pills. Not to mention years of trying to place stories about people who now have important jobs.

In the 1st Congress, when the Washington administration tried to claim executive rights to dismiss senate-approved officers, Sen Maclay of PA had this to say: "What avowed and repeated attempts have I seen to place the President above the powers stipulated for him by the Constitution!"

Love this. When we talk about diversity in film, age is often left out. Older women are treated as if they’ve aged out of relevance. But age brings complexity, power, & perspective. Representation should reflect us all across identities AND generations. Will definitely be giving this a watch.

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

In his new piece--which is largely about the reaction to his last piece--Ezra Klein says that he is deeply shaken by Charlie Kirk's murder essentially because they were in the same business: They both did public politics. This is honest on his part. It's also the problem. >

In June, I did a 2 hour podcast about Nick Fuentes and groypers with @jaredlholt.bsky.social and @michaelehayden.bsky.social.

A few weeks ago my friend @noellecook.com was interviewed for an article about women & extremism. Many ppl see women as inherently innocent, incapable of agreeing w their abhorrent husbands. But that simply isn't true. Keep this in mind w Kirk's widow. www.huffpost.com/entry/usha-v...

An economy that is turning towards almost exclusively graft, speculation, fraud and gambling to obtain wealth, which is basically what we currently have, is going to only create more conditions that lead to social isolation and violence.

Any fellow journalists saying, “well, he was pleasant when we shared a green room once”: yes, and: he spoke in favor of televised executions of those deemed enemies of the regime. But I’m sure he’d have been polite as he pulled the trigger.

I see yesterday's Colorado school shooting is not news today.

I’ve been writing about what I call “slow civil war” for some years now. This won’t tip us into the fast kind but it could bring us much closer. & friends, nobody would win that war. Nobody.

If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.

Re today's fatal shooting: 'Under the changes in HB 128, which went into effect on May 7, individuals who are 18 years old or older and have a current Utah concealed weapon permit (CWP) may carry a weapon on campus, including in an “open” fashion.'

Our film THE CONSPIRACIST featuring @noellecook.com just won the award for Best Feature Documentary at the Miami Women Film Festival. 🎥 Watch the trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O_N...

The disinformers know what they are doing, undermining science acceptance to make few more bucks before the climate collapses and takes us with it.

The Conspiracists won Best Feature Documentary at the Miami Women Film Festival. Grateful for the recognition. “Films about women, made by women—particularly middle-aged women—are still far too rare given that we make up half the population.” —Liz Smith

Framed as a campaign for maternal education, the “Better Babies” contests were in fact public performances of eugenics. Babies were examined like livestock. Publicly and systematically. They were weighed, measured, and graded against standardized charts. open.substack.com/pub/noelleco...

We’re watching a rapid dismantling of education, healthcare, science, and social programs—systems meant to reduce harm, expand access, and provide care. In their place: powerful billionaires deciding who survives and who doesn’t. open.substack.com/pub/noelleco...

Proud and pleased to be part of this team!

The Conspiracists won Best Feature Documentary at the Miami Women Film Festival. Grateful for the recognition. “Films about women, made by women—particularly middle-aged women—are still far too rare given that we make up half the population.” —Liz Smith

You go along, working the fascism beat, you know what to expect, try to stay level-headed, & then every now & then there’s a *fact,* a detail, not the biggest news or anywhere close, that makes you wish for the holy wrath of an angry god…

🧵 The “Skull Mask” (worn here by a federal agent) is favored and worn by domestic and international Neo-Nazi militant accerlationists. The skull echoes the Totenkopf, or "death's head,” worn by Nazi SS officers who guarded concentration camps.

My son and his husband married in March 2024 and saved for their dream trip to Bora Bora. On their long-awaited honeymoon, they were given an incredible gift: humpback whales singing beneath them as they snorkeled. My son-in-law posted this video. It’s incredible. youtu.be/LN2SCot1rfY?...

Our resident vermilion fly catcher in full sun. 🪶

Just the vice president crashing out on Twitter on a Saturday morning.

rfk jr is literally a murderer

How far the rebranding might go is unclear, but any comprehensive effort would saddle taxpayers with costs in the hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars. Read more: www.wired.com/story/depart...

“Maximum lethality, not tepid legality. Violent effect, not politically correct,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said of the change. Every prior name change for the department came through legislation. www.wired.com/story/depart...

What’s War.gov? That’s the new URL for the Pentagon’s website, which, along with its social media channels, was overhauled Friday at President Donald Trump’s behest to reflect the US Defense Department’s new “Department of War” persona. www.wired.com/story/depart...

I said this was likely to happen when Musk urged people to upload medical records to Grok, and when RFK Jr. echoed a return to American eugenics. For them, anyone over 60 is expendable—especially women, stripped of worth beyond fertility.

In an appearance on an anti-vax podcast, Kelly Victory, a known COVID misinformer (www.factcheck.org/2022/08/scic...), said RFK Jr., with "with whom I speak not infrequently," had "fully vetted" her for surgeon general, speaking with him "& his staff & the Trump transition team about" the position.

As part of my job as a certified peer specialist, I play bingo with people who have severe mental health challenges.

My book is absolutely great. My book is absolutely great. This is my mantra as I read it for the nth time while doing copyedit corrections. Please you guys preorder this book because I have suffered to deliver it to you lolsob (actually it really is great I’m just tired, please preorder)

This is 100% correct.

Trump says he’s sending the National Guard to Chicago. Great time to listen to our chat with @marisakabas.bsky.social about what that’s looked like in DC podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...