It is with deep sadness that I have to report the passing of Chip Berlet. He was one of the few people to consistently research and organize against the U.S. Far Right from the 1970s through the '00s. His co-authored 2000 book "Right-Wing Populism in America" unfortunately remains all-to-relevant.

If you only read one Nick Shirley story this week ... well you probably already did because the Times published one Tuesday. But if you read two (and you should) I spoke with @jaredlholt.bsky.social about San Diego being his next target: www.kpbs.org/news/local/2...

JD Vance getting lip fillers is so fucking funny

3 yrs ago I started writing a book that is in stores TODAY. It's narrative nonfiction, anti-fascist spy thriller set in Trump era. It's timely as hell & I'm proud of it. A thread of what people are saying abt it & why I hope you'll help make it a bestseller www.simonandschuster.com/books/To-Cat...

I wrote about how tabloids are covering ICE. Lots of people are tuned out of political news, and are getting their coverage of Trump through cultural outlets and scrolling social media. Here's what they're seeing: Subscribe below⬇️ numbertwopencil.substack.com/p/how-tabloi...

It really is a determined, systematic effort to take everything the government does that people might find helpful or worthwhile and destroy it

This one is long on news because we have a bio ep on Monday. Important news about the president’s alleged incontinence for ex

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Strange People on the Hill by @michaelehayden.bsky.social, publishing on April 7 from Bold Type Books, received a positive review from Publisher’s Weekly @publisherswkly.bsky.social: www.publishersweekly.com/9781645030607

Is the administration’s bit that they encourage right-wing influencers to find “fraud” in blue states; influencers “investigate” and publish propaganda claiming said widespread fraud was responsibility of immigrants; and then gov’t sends in ICE to terrorize people because of it?

After years of raising money off of our legitimate fear of fascism, this is how meekly the current iteration of SPLC responds to ICE agents executing people in the streets:

Tell people to get off X all you want, but where else will you get some random anonymous person who "hates both sides" almost ratio'ing MAGA's favorite rapper?

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@michaelehayden.bsky.social @jaredlholt.bsky.social Clips for Klipps should be a segment every week.

Stick around for us playing Kash Patel clips for @kenklippenstein.bsky.social

I can’t

His natural chin seems like it’s fighting back and winning.

They used "anti-semitism" as a pretext to deport foreign-born students and chill free speech, and their deportation chief -- the one with the nonstandard Hugo Boss-style greatcoat -- was spouting anti-semitic insults at a US attorney

Stephen Miller's designs on America are tearing us apart. Michael's stories about Miller's emails to Breitbart provide the clearest picture of this metastasizing narcissism. In this interview, Michael freestyled the best explanation I've heard of how we got here. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Jeffrey Epstein sent a link to the white nationalist podcast The Right Stuff, whose core hosts played an active role in the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally. He did so in February 2016. Before TRS made national news, really. Genuinely bizarre.

you know, those QAnon loons were wrong about so, so many things but the whole "gov't, finance, high society are secretly controlled by a gang of elite pedophiles" thing... well, uh you kinda gotta hand it to 'em

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New: Antifa unmasked a new generation of fascists in the Trump era. Now it's exposing ICE. "Predators don’t get anonymity." My latest for @us.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

A small organized group effectively stopped Patriot Front from being able to produce propaganda and recruit at an anti-choice rally last weekend. Instead of the usual barge of videos following rallies, PF has been sharing videos of past rallies alongside photos of last weekend.

So, ummm, some personal news!

Tim has been making this (idiotic) argument for a while. "The Constitution doesn't bar private ownership of nukes so ppl can own them. Defense contractors have them. Why can't we? In the 17th century, ppl owned cannons" etc etc He's a dim, scared child bsky.app/profile/mich...

Tim Pool, still visibly red faced with rage after fans called him a bootlicker, is now calling for "the private ownership of nuclear and biological weapons" to compensate. www.mediamatters.org/tim-pool/tim...

Chaya Raichik, who runs the social media account Libs of TikTok, has spent the days following Alex Pretti’s killing doxxing ordinary working people — teachers, nurses, school board members — for speaking out against federal immigration officials or expressing sympathy for Pretti.

I just finished listening to the bonus episode while I was cooking dinner, and Tim Pool’s I Am The Boot bit was just eye rollingly pathetic. (Also, Curtis Yarvin: Sentient Booger made me laugh so hard my husband came in from the other room to find out why.)

The self-deception always angered me but I think it's probably worse for all of us that MAGA is now comfortably saying "we are the Imperial Army from Star Wars, actually"

Yes, Tim. Reason is saying MAGA is a fascist movement. You are confirming that thesis. Read the headline again. It's not that complicated.

I’m not sure if it was @jaredlholt.bsky.social @michaelehayden.bsky.social or @justinbaragona.bsky.social is that did the Ngo impersonation on the latest Posting Through It, but I get the giggles when I see him name now.

NEW: Right-wing social media influencers are drawing tenuous parallels between the usernames found in Minneapolis neighborhood Signal groups and claiming they are the handles of public figures involved in an insurrectionist conspiracy enveloping Minnesota. unicornriot.ninja/2026/conspir...

On tomorrow's PTI premium ep, @michaelehayden.bsky.social and I look at MAGA's attempt to use the "anti-antifa" playbook in Minneapolis after federal agents killed Alex Pretti. People in this country are finally waking up to the evils of ICE and MAGA is flailing. www.patreon.com/posts/075-pe...

VDARE were one of the OG “respectable” white supremacist websites we were fighting two decades ago—pseudo-academic, think The Bell Curve readership & museum membership crowd, not roundabout-painting sausage roll thieves or flag shaggers with truck nuts…but the same toxic arrogant cruelty

hell yeah

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He also lives off his wife's paycheck and spends his time name searching himself on Bluesky. @jaredlholt.bsky.social and @michaelehayden.bsky.social did an episode of their show about him, it's their fault that I know all this

The "ban whistles" stuff is how you know whistles are working incredibly well

Alex Pretti and Renee Good are who was killed when observers were filming.

video of the moment a man tried spraying something at ilhan omar at her town hall in minneapolis tonight

Prize-winning composer Philip Glass has canceled the world premiere of his symphony about Abraham Lincoln at the Kennedy Center.

SCOOP Meta has started blocking links to ICE List on Facebook, Instagram and Threads www.wired.com/story/meta-i...

Genuinely interesting. Kristi Noem is snitching that Stephen Miller is the one who made up the bullshit about Alex Pretti. It would be genuinely useful if Congress can get her to admit that he has been dictating ALL OF THIS just like he dictated the murderboats. www.axios.com/2026/01/27/t...

NEW: The left's response to Charlie Kirk's death isn't remotely comparable to the sociopathic sadism we've seen on the right after the ICE killings. www.peoplesline.org/p/theyre-lyi...

My man cosplaying Snidely Whiplash on Newsmax

After federal officers killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, right-wing media reinvigorated dubious claims associating anti-ICE organizing with left-wing domestic terrorism. Across 7 platforms, we saw those narratives spike after officers killed Good, and against after they killed Pretti