And of course the typical mainstream appeals of the 1960s far-right, attempting to avoid or deny the extremism we find in their private correspondence and materials in the archives.

Made me think of Novak's "Agony of 1964" book, with the growing young Birchers and Goldwater kids staking out extreme far-right positions throughout the party organization and events at the time.

Anyone familiar with the political culture of the Trumpian GOP will not be surprised by this reporting on today's Young Republicans, but all decent human beings will be appalled by it.

Call me crazy, but I feel like Bezos torching the paper's credibility deserves more than a passing mention here

State Department set to launch ‘Office of Remigration’ The concept of remigration has explicitly neo-Nazi roots and has been popularized in Europe.

SCOOP: The State Department's new reorganization plan includes the opening of an "Office for Remigration," a term popularized by far right extremists and neo-Nazis in Europe. The office will coordinate directly with DHS "to advance the President’s immigration agenda."

My report:

“How do you do, fellow kids” meme, except it’s JD Vance saying “how do you do, fellow internet Nazis.”

JD Vance doth protest too much about group chats where Republican staffers are “just joking” about putting people they don’t like in gas chambers.

Major news outlets are standing together and refusing to sign. ABC News, CBS News, CNN, Fox News, and NBC News have all rejected a new Pentagon policy that would impose unprecedented restrictions on news gathering.

This tweet has been doing the rounds on Twitter now that Nathan Gill has pleaded guilty.

If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐

There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..

Carole Cadwalladr was right and we’d be in a better world if more people had listened.

This version is confirmed, by Hoffman Estates police, puncturing the official DHS statement.

At this point, there is a statement from DHS re 🧊 activities in the Chicago area that’s refuted in similar fashion on nearly a daily basis at a minimum over the past week

PSA: It’s okay to be wait-and-see on Gaza and the Israel-Hamas deal. You don’t have to definitively declare what’s going to happen and comment on that, nor take any national leader’s word on what they expect.

The media generally seems to be really driving a premature "peace" narrative that views it as both unprecedented and some dramatic long term shift. Mostly relying on the framing of the participants themselves.

I fear they may just be solemnizing genocidal actions towards future horrors.

"Discrete?"

Also in every time, but especially in the age of chattel slavery, there were plenty of people in the dominant in-group who objected to these things. I spent a good bit of time on this point in the first Lawful Extremism paper:

www.middlebury.edu/institute/ct...

Obergruppenführer Bovino giving all the Obergruppenführer vibes and DHS's role as a paramilitary organization for Trump in Chicago:

Peak white mediocrity (Bari Weiss) is publishing the same basic article that was published in 1990 about David Dinkins, or in 1983 about Harold Washington, and applauding oneself for being a brave truth teller.

Seeing how that plays out in a modern "managed democracy" model in Putin's Russia was terrifying. They had far less democratic norms and institutions to backslide from into authoritarianism... and yet... we see the same or similar processes playing out here.

Hannah Arendt distinguished totalitarianism “from other forms of political oppression known to us such as despotism, tyranny and dictatorship” in that totalitarianism seeks to subjugate civil society and private lives, not just political opponents, using psychological, not just physical, repression.

talia has been an indefatigable witness to our national turn towards fascism and has been relentlessly targeted for exposing the culprits behind the state-sanctioned violence perpetrated in our streets against regime opponents. we must do all we can to keep her and her family safe!

i guess i should finish this article i’ve been sitting on. no deadline quite as motivating as “because you might get disappeared from your home in a federal raid targeting perceived political enemies due to your great reporting”

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training. FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

meanwhile, back at the “free speech zone,” the illinois department of transportation is adding more concrete barricades.

It is devastating to see how much localities and the state have become accessories in ensuring continued attacks and human rights violations on our neighborhoods by Trump's gestapo.

The sheer manpower, money and other resources to aid Trump's expanding police state on their own homes.

Gotta keep the roads clear for the gestapo. No free speech after 6pm.

Anybody else reminded of the Wehrmacht's role in surrounding towns and suppressing resistance so the Einsatzgruppen could do the dirty work?

This regime will make accomplices of us all if we let them.

The lower court refusing to block the troops it knew the regime was going to fly in before his decision has played out in the regime's favor... again.

This may (?) block the regime from sending additional troops, but even that is uncertain. The regime continues to play the courts like a fiddle.

I can't tell if this actually affects the troops already here in any way: “Members of the National Guard do not need to return to their home states unless further ordered by a court to do so,” the court order said.

The lower court refusing to block the troops it knew the regime was going to fly in before his decision has played out in the regime's favor... again.

This may (?) block the regime from sending additional troops, but even that is uncertain. The regime continues to play the courts like a fiddle.

I can't tell if this actually affects the troops already here in any way: “Members of the National Guard do not need to return to their home states unless further ordered by a court to do so,” the court order said.

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More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...