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Events Upcoming Events Stephanie Halmhofer – Manufacturing History: Pseudo-archaeology, Conspiracy, and the Far-Right Date and Time: 17-07-2025, 17:30BST//09:30PDT To Register: About the Speaker: &#…

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On 14/10 Steph Halmhofer (@cultarchaeo.bsky.social) will speak on 'Manufacturing History', examining the relationship between pseudoarchaeology, conspiracy, and the far-right and highlighting its contemporary relevance. Go to archaeologistsrfa.wordpress.com/events/ to register.

Cover for a book called Conspiracy Theories and Extremism in New Times, edited by Christopher T. Conner, Matthew N. Hannah, and Nicholas J. MacMurray.

First page of my chapter, titled "Manufacturing History: Atlantis, Aryans, and the Use of Pseudoarchaeology by the Far-Right"

My author copy of the home of my recent chapter on far-right uses of pseudoarchaeology arrived today 🙌 Timely, given that a certain Netflix series with a season premiere date right around the corner makes an unfortunate appearance in here 👀
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OK, and also, if ChatGPT could ACTUALLY do your job, I might agree. The things is, it can't, and the only people who think it can, are people who don't understand what you do and wouldn't be able to do it themselves if you put a gun to their heads and also think they know everything.

So, Altman.

We have Jacob Gregor with us to talk about his new movie END OF HISTORY, a story about the loneliest man in America absolutely boiling his brain with right wing, manosphere, productivity content.

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National Museum of the American Indian Among Smithsonian Museums Under Trump-Era Review The National Museum of the American Indian—with locations in New York City and Washington, D.C.—is one of eight Smithsonian Institution museums currently undergoing a “comprehensive internal review” t...

p.p.s. It is important to connect Hegseth et al's effort to rewrite history to erase the genocide of Native Americans to the Trump Administration's recent attack on the Smithsonian, including the National Museum of the American Indian

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Fortunately, history does not work as Hegseth seems to believe. It is never "settled" and the government cannot (at least for now!) impose its interpretation of events on the rest of us--especially an interpretation so at odds with the historical record. 6/

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

Left-Wing Terrorism and Political Violence in the United States: What the Data Tells Us The Warfare, Irregular Threats, and Terrorism Program examines the state of political violence, finding left-wing violence has risen in the last decade but from very low levels and still well below hi...

5. It's 5. The number they're citing, that's a rise, is 5.

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An assassin writes Bella Ciao in the same breath as a Notices Your Bulge meme on his bullets. One of the government responses is a practicing Hindu asserting that the fundamentalist Christian victim will join him in a Norse pagan afterlife. Welcome to the epistemic collapse.

The one man who was willing to have an honest debate

This ep was part of a group of episodes where we dove into the background and origin story of a person or people who've had an outsized impact on shaping the way many people worldwide see themselves and their place in the world.

What's the book???

I have a chapter in a book @kishonna.bsky.social blurbed and I'm... fanboying pretty damn hard.

We get into the QAnon prophecy possibly fulfilled by Trump federalizing the Metro police in D.C. It gets really wild, really fast and ends up reaching to the City of London and Vatican City.

We catch up on ChatGPT 5, the AI hype machine, and AI soulmates aka the Wireborn

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Book cover with yellow and black border and white background. Black title: "Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile. Sarah Goodyear Doug Gordon Hosts of The War on Cars Podcast and Aaron Naparstek" Graphic shows yellow traffic light with vines on it.

Coming October 21st...

"Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile."

A new book about how cars ruin everything and what we can do to fight back.

Pre-order here: www.lifeaftercars.com

Midjourney-generated image, prompt was: happy german family --ar 4:3

In recent weeks, we've seen a wave of AI-generated images of white, blonde families presented by neo-fascist online accounts as models of a desirable future. As disgusting as this is, it seems no coincidence that AI is being used for reactionary propaganda
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If you missed it (like I did, I just got back from a Boundary Waters Canoe trip!), @ardenthistorian.bsky.social and I have another piece out over @religiondispatches.org on DHS's fascist rhetoric!

The past has always been a popular subject in far-right worldviews, and they've recognized that pseudohistory (incl. pseudoarchaeology) can be powerful a door-opener and have weaponized that. Hardy Lloyd has said similar to Cooper, in using pseudohist. claims to initiate ppl without scaring them.

Trump never had to campaign on the Epstein files but he can't help himself. He could have just let it go like he did when he promised to lock up Hillary. Everyone forgot about that. But he leaned into the Epstein files and now he can't shake it off.

Thanks! We appreciate that!

Trump never had to campaign on the Epstein files but he can't help himself. He could have just let it go like he did when he promised to lock up Hillary. Everyone forgot about that. But he leaned into the Epstein files and now he can't shake it off.

Wetwired Culture, control, and empire

Tune into @wetwired.bsky.social’s podcast featuring
@biancatylek.bsky.social as she discusses The Prison Industry book and how the carceral system profits from exploitation without delivering justice: bit.ly/4kt9d09

"This movie is absolutely a film that will be watched by people. The characters are played by actors who act out their parts while in character. One thing that most people probably won't point out about this movie is that it has a run time. Kevin James is in it and he's acting, in character. Christina Ricci and Luis Guzman also have parts as their characters who are entwined within the story. The director did his job in directing this film and as you can see he followed it through to completion. One other thing that's worth pointing out is that the location scouts and costume designers for this film also had a job that they did as well. I have to say that I absolutely 100% acknowledge that this is a movie that people worked on and made. Their hard work and dedication may be something that exists for them and that they are proud of. So, if you like movies, this definitely is one."

Very helpful review of the 2025 Kevin James action movie "Guns Up"

New ep!
We talk about the White House's homicidal attention seeking that demands Trump did a very good job destroying the Iranian nuclear program. We also cover the hysterical Republican and Democrat reactions to NYC mayoral candidate Mamdani.

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Had a blast talking about RAW and the Dark Enlightenment on this one! S/O to Sean and Jules!!!

We chat with @propanon.bsky.social about the legacy of Robert Anton Wilson and Timothy Leary’s 1970s and 80s hope-fueled tech utopianism in the age of Musk and Thiel’s tech-fash dystopia.

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If that’s what they do to a United States Senator with a question, imagine what they can do to any American that dares to speak up. We will hold this administration accountable.

The boys stroll through the latest news about Kanye, Starmer, Macron, and Merz's (totally fake) coke fueled train ride, and how ChatGPT might be driving some people insane.

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