Sen. Tim Kaine: "Brian Kilmeade 10 days ago suggested that homeless, mentally ill people should be lethally injected. He apologized...He didn't get pulled off the air."

Trump's civic purpose in relighting the flames of patriotism

Something that makes me truly sad about this moment is that it's a missed opportunity to come together for real gun reform. But the White House isn't interested in doing that.

An absolute clown show. Avoiding chaos like this is one of the many reasons a for *not* having EOs be the normal method of legislating or regulating. You really want more careful review than “Steve Miller doodled it on a napkin and Trump signed it with a sharpie.” www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Pretty clear illustration of "you may as well stand up for what you believe in, they're coming for you anyway."

Great dialogue between @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social and @lkatfield.bsky.social on the thinkers of the New Right podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

Read @chancephillips.bsky.social over at @thebulwark.com on the Buchanan and Bukele fans in the administration www.thebulwark.com/p/the-trump-...

When you’ve lost john yoo

this from my piece on charlie kirk is probably the most important takeaway if you want to know why bad faith, right-wing voices in media are treated as just another set of peers

Stephanie Slade (@sladesr.bsky.social) has written a terrific article on the latest NatCon 5 conference, contrasting Yoram Hazony's interview with @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social to the scenes unfolding at the conference. A must-read for anyone watching the MAGA New Right. reason.com/2025/09/08/n...

TCW pushing a gross and dangerously inflammatory lie

“There’s a disconnect that exists between the culture warring on the right and the procedural, quietist approach left of center. Conservatives would not agree with my assessment—they think that ‘the left’ is a culture warrior juggernaut. But I disagree.” — @lkatfield.bsky.social

Stephanie Slade (@sladesr.bsky.social) has written a terrific article on the latest NatCon 5 conference, contrasting Yoram Hazony's interview with @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social to the scenes unfolding at the conference. A must-read for anyone watching the MAGA New Right. reason.com/2025/09/08/n...

Politics never ends. It is ultimately a competition for power, and while that has significantly changed in America, it’s never over. Authoritarian consolidation is partly institutional—lawbreaking, purges, etc.—but a lot depends on pretending it’s already over and popular. It’s neither. Thread:

One of the crisper articulations of Trumpism I've ever heard www.axios.com/2025/09/08/i...

This @washingtonpost.com editorial doesn’t make it past the second paragraph without a glaring (and telling) factual error. President Washington didn’t create the War Department in 1789; *Congress* did: www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...

oh this is straightforward white nationalist agitprop

Wonderful to see @lkatfield.bsky.social's forthcoming book Furious Minds (out November 4) receive a starred @publisherswkly.bsky.social review ($): www.publishersweekly.com/pw/reviews/n...

The thing is even if in your heart of hearts you think its all gender nonsense etiquette and manners gets you 95% the way there If theres someone who doesn’t like to use their legal name because of childhood abuse you’re just an asshole for not respecting that or prying into what it was

I'm writing an occasional newsletter called LK Field Notes. Here's the first post, below. It includes updates about the book, links to other recent writing, and notes about other stuff I've been up to. It has been a busy few months! open.substack.com/pub/lkfieldn...

@lkatfield.bsky.social channelling Charles Mills with some wise advice. Great book!

This is a real danger but to jamelle's point in this thread, folks often don't appreciate the scale of American elections: how many polling places, election workers, and decentralized redundancies, and how little of it is under any federal control. It far outstrips federal manpower in its vastness.

Very good discussion of the intellectual roots of MAGA, its deep flaws and incoherences, and the challenge of the moment for liberalism in response, from @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social and @lkatfield.bsky.social, off of her new book, which I highly recommend: www.theunpopulist.net/p/what-is-th...

This interview, which is also available to listen to as a podcast, provides a useful overview of some of the dangerous trends we’ve been seeing in recent months regarding federalization and militarization of state and local police functions.

Really excited to finally be diving into this opus by @lkatfield.bsky.social

the reason this discourse will never end is because it is completely untethered from any kind of evidentiary standard. as long as there is a 19-year-old barista somewhere saying “cultural appropriation,” guys like nichols will complain that “democrats” use alienating language.

In November 2024, I made a list of things I thought the fascism theory of Trumpism predicted could happen.

just thinking about it makes me so angry. the worst kind of open race baiting in american politics since george wallace.

BREAKING NEWS: The FBI has descended upon the house of John Bolton, former national security advisor to Donald Trump who broke with Trump and has openly criticized him. www.thebulwark.com/p/developing...

🚨🚨🚨 DEVELOPING: The FBI Is at John Bolton’s House "Shortly before 7:00 am Friday morning, the FBI and Montgomery County police were seen at the Bethesda home of John Bolton...Montgomery County police confirmed that they were on site in support of the FBI." www.thebulwark.com/p/developing...

They are dense

Itsekin aina välillä tulee mietittyä miten nuo Yhdysvaltojen keskenään hyvin erilaiset oikeistoryhmittymät tulevat keskenään toimeen, etenkin kun tavoitteet ja käytännön politiikka ovat räikeän ristiriitaisia. Tutkija/kirjailija @lkatfield.bsky.social oli The Gray Area podcastissa puhumassa 1/3

it is genuinely maddening to see pundits and reporters say things like “well trump has an advantage on crime” while the public consistently says “we think this guy sucks on crime”

It's difficult to summarize how much damage Trump has done to our country, partly b/c his actions are diffuse and partly b/c they often relate to things that would pay off in the future. Take this story—an example of obscure research that could someday improve life, if Trump hadn't shut it down.

So this is happening

If you want to put back statues and memorials and names of Confederate traitors while tearing down museum exhibitions on slavery because they don't show the greatness of the nation... the nation whose history you're celebrating is whiteness. The kind of nationalist you are is a white nationalist.

This one's a must-preorder!

So exciting to see a starred review for Furious Minds in Publisher’s Weekly! @publisherswkly.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social www.publishersweekly.com/9780691255262

As usual, orders of magnitude worse than anything blue states did during the "left wing illiberalism" panic

The political juggernaut that elected Ds and institutions alike cower in front of

Text of Vladimir Kara-Murza's terrific speech at #LibCon2025, including introduction by Institute of Humane Studies president Emily Chamlee-Wright, and video:

“Her book is a fascinating taxonomy of the wild world of far-right thinking, it’s definitely one you should pre-order.” Listen to @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social's interview with Furious Minds author @lkatfield.bsky.social. Her book is out November 4.

Putin tried twice to poison @vkaramurza.bsky.social. Threw him in prison, releasing him last year only in a prisoner swap. Yet this man, a genuine hero, stood unbowed at LibCon2025 and warned of the dangers of appeasing tyrants.Please listen @theunpopulist.net www.theunpopulist.net/p/appeasing-...

The Independent has identified Eric Lendrum as the DHS PR officer responsible for a relentless flood of social media posts on DHS pages using Nazis memes, slogans and images. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Love to hear @lkatfield.bsky.social on one of my favorite podcasts talking her new book, which I’m super excited to read podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

A man understandably refused to hand over his ID or get out of the car for a bunch of masked thugs who refused to identify themselves. And when he drove away, they opened fire on him. This isn’t how you do any sort of enforcement when your goal is to uphold the law. This is gangsterism.

If pundits would like to talk about violence, a terrorist recently shot up the CDC and another assassinated Democratic officials in Minnesota but they sort of let both stories disappear Not as threatening as motorbikes in DC I know but maybe we could circle back?

I want to congratulate leading Democrats’ for their insistence on saying the takeover of DC is a “stunt” or a “distraction.” It’s a rare trifecta of intellectual failure, political stupidity, and moral obtuseness.

*Reads inscription* "What is this woke nonsense"