Michael Alvard

Washington Post paperback bestsellers A snapshot of popular books.

"On Tyranny" is #1 on the WaPo bestseller list this week. I wish it weren't necessary, but I'm glad that people are finding the book useful.
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Child sacrifice absolutely was not widespread in the new world when Columbus arrived. He brought institutionalized horror

Weekly rage protest click for the details

College Station, TX

Not that there's anything wrong with that of course

His neck vulva has a little clit look

The image is an X post by Mike Nellis (@MikeNellis ) from 19 hours ago, stating: "So let me get this straight: a Blackhawk helicopter and dozens of masked, armed federal agents roll up on a Chicago apartment building, cuff everyone—including kids—and then run checks for warrants and immigration status? What the hell is going on in this country? How is that not fascism?" The post includes a verified badge.

Narrator: This is fascism.

Text card: Listen for dangerous words. Be alert to the use of the words extremism and terrorism. Be alive to the fatal notions of emergency and exception. Be angry about the treacherous use of patriotic vocabulary. #OnTyranny

One of the lessons I discuss in "On Tyranny":
Listen for dangerous words.

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen.

By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

Response to the ‘Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education’ | Office of the President

President of Dartmouth, Sian Leah Beilock, tells Trump to fuck off

The Most Dangerous Thing Happening Right This Minute We have entered the "Papers. Please" era

“It was a glimpse into our new reality created by the Court’s decision in Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo…Justice Kavanaugh wrote that federal immigration officers can stop and briefly detain anyone they have ‘reasonable suspicion’ to believe is in the country unlawfully.”

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I want to hear Greta speak about this

Here's the first page of the United States Forest Service website

I'm no expert but many of the 400 million gun owners in the United States would be on the Trump side, no?

"Are we the baddies?" Lands as a joke because it genuinely would have been a novel thought to front-line 1942 Germans who, like 90% of Americans in 2025, had not considered that their national project might be some kind of great historic evil the likes of which the world had never known.

Well, yeah....

Today. 6:00 academic Plaza Texas A&M University.

I think this fills the template no?

A man in Washington, DC, plays the Imperial March from Star Wars while following patrolling soldiers. One of the soldiers threatens to call the police.

I'm on the watch list and my university (Texas A&M) did nothing except monitor my classroom content for years.

His constituency is young men who are not known for their restraint.

This is what ethnic cleansing looks like

The Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs is notorious for its Christian nationalism. The entire town is Maga religious nuts. This doesn't surprise me. I hear that Maga is well represented in the army too but it's hard to get data

Nothing even remotely subtle or confusing about what this is.

If you’re a convicted felon and your character witness is your dear old friend, the convicted child sex trafficker and enabler of your other dear old friend, the most notorious raper of children in modern history, you’re definitely a total piece of shit.

The original executive order was very specific about what was considered inappropriate ideology. The example was a display of sculpture with a message that race is a social construct. That idea that race is a social construct was the inappropriate ideology.