Rob Fields

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I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Americans’ Support for Israel Dramatically Declines, Times/Siena Poll Finds

Ya think?

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/p...

How to Tell If the Art You’re Buying Is Investment-Grade 8 signals I use to advise collectors

A common question from new collectors about pieces of art they're considering: "But is it a good investment?" In my latest Substack post, I share some of the signals I evaluate as I advise my clients on potential art purchases. Read on.
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Suicide Turned Outward: Why White Men Are Turning Their Self-Destruction Into Mass Violence This Substack is reader-supported.

One of the best pieces I've read recently on this moment of constant mass shootings.

"America is reading a suicide note written in the hand of white male grievance...And the country keeps pretending the note doesn’t exist."
drstaceypatton1865.substack.com/p/suicide-tu...

One of the biggest offenders when it comes to bad faith arguments, Bret Stephens, is at it again. Basically, folks like Stephens believe they should be able to say anything, without consequence.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/o...

I hate how everybody in this administration is dead-set on linking DEI to "lowered standards", when that's not at all the case. Meanwhile, what folks SHOULD be upset about is the placing of unqualified people in Federal positions just because they're sycophants for Orange Julius.

Robby Starbuck is a far-right activist. Meta putting him in the position of being a "bias advisor" for its chat bot is insane.

The Dallas shooter, Joshua Jahn. If he were Black/Muslim, we'd already be hearing things like, "Where were his parents?" or, "Where was he radicalized?" Right-wing trolls would be implying the inherent criminality in our community. Where's the national convo on what's going on w White men & boys?

I've written about this a half-dozen times since 2015, because it continues to be relevant that the alt-right originally weaponized irony and memes in order to 1) spread extremism without consequence and 2) cultivate all these semi-ironic violent extremist edgelords foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/15/c...

Pure bloodlines? Ancestral homelands? DNA science says no. — Harvard Gazette Geneticist explains recent analyses made possible by tech advances show human history to be one of mixing, movement, displacement.

The white supremacist conceit that everyone in antiquity was living under some kind of global jim crow segregation is just complete bullshit news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Where that Rapture at, tho?

And congrats on your convo yesterday at BKBF!

Get ready for that BS.

No backbone, no profits. Ht @hystericalblkns.bsky.social

By next spring, they'll be bragging about the passenger airliner they shot out of the sky because it was filled with "antifa commandos"

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Christian nationalism is backed by radical right wing think tanks, media companies, gun manufacturers, etc. It's a web of money & extreme ideas connecting Christian nationalists to those behind the scenes, such as Federalist Society kingpin, Leonard Leo.

This is what the slow breakup of the United States could look like—not political violence or civil war, but blue states banding together to protect themselves from Trump's unchecked and unaccountable regime.

And meanwhile, states like Florida ban vaccine mandates. apnews.com/article/flor...

This, and Schumer, Jeffries, and Gillibrand STILL haven't endorsed Mamdani.

The Democratic Party’s Voter Registration Crisis www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/u...

“Feeling cute, might violently beat up a brown person later.”

Read this very carefully: *61%* of all the people who have died of starvation in Gaza over the past 22 months have died in the past *3 weeks*

Sudan civil war: Besieged el-Fasher city residents face starvation, UN warns - BBC News El-Fasher, encircled by RSF paramilitary fighters, has not had food deliveries for over a year.

Sudan is starving. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Isn't that just called a measles vaccine? Geez. Ht @ebogjonson.bsky.social

I’m glad that the woman at the center of this story was able to make the choice she felt was right for her and her family. But what’s happening here is horrifying: conservatives are valorizing these stories strategically—they want to make the skyrocketing maternal mortality rate *positive*

Chapter 15: The Next Time Some Idiot Tries to Tell You the GOP is “The Party of Business” Your weekly excerpt from one of my books. This week: "The Hidden History of the American Dream"

The Next Time Some Idiot Tries to Tell You the GOP is “The Party of Business” hartmannreport.com/p/chapter-15... via @hartmannreport.com

For those who don't know, Blood Tribe is a neo-Nazi group. These groups sometimes pile out of vehicles and do quick marches that they can film and post online. This time, they ran into some folks who weren't down with seeing Nazis on their streets, and they got beat.

How Axios rebranded conservative ideology as objectivity The biggest lie in media is the one that it tells about itself.

Sinclair Broadcast pushes right-wing propaganda into 40% of local news markets.

Fox News is in 70M homes.

The WaPo and Politico owners are Trump donors.

CBS has a political bias monitor

Our news is carefully curated by conservative billionaires.
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Good morning, everyone. Wishing you all a productive day. Please stay safe and sane out there.

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