Unraveling Democracy

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The Groyper milieu is an internet-native network built around the influencer orbit of Nick Fuentes. It rebranded the alt-right by swapping out tiki torches for crucifixes and polo shirts for suits, and by invoking Christian nationalism and “America First” traditionalism to rehabilitate Jim Crow.

The Groyper milieu is an internet-native network built around the influencer orbit of Nick Fuentes. It rebranded the alt-right by swapping out tiki torches for crucifixes and polo shirts for suits, and by invoking Christian nationalism and “America First” traditionalism to rehabilitate Jim Crow.

Ideologically motivated violence is disproportionately perpetrated by far-right extremists, especially white supremacists. The assassination of activist Charlie Kirk, illustrates how political rhetoric and right-wing media narratives misrepresent the sources and nature of political violence.

Ideologically motivated violence is disproportionately perpetrated by far-right extremists, especially white supremacists. The assassination of activist Charlie Kirk, illustrates how political rhetoric and right-wing media narratives misrepresent the sources and nature of political violence.

Ideologically motivated violence is disproportionately perpetrated by far-right extremists, especially white supremacists. The assassination of activist Charlie Kirk, illustrates how political rhetoric and right-wing media narratives misrepresent the sources and nature of political violence.

Ideologically motivated violence is disproportionately perpetrated by far-right extremists, especially white supremacists. The assassination of activist Charlie Kirk, illustrates how political rhetoric and right-wing media narratives misrepresent the sources and nature of political violence.

Ideologically motivated violence is disproportionately perpetrated by far-right extremists, especially white supremacists. The assassination of activist Charlie Kirk, illustrates how political rhetoric and right-wing media narratives misrepresent the sources and nature of political violence.

Ideologically motivated violence is disproportionately perpetrated by far-right extremists, especially white supremacists. The assassination of activist Charlie Kirk, illustrates how political rhetoric and right-wing media narratives misrepresent the sources and nature of political violence.

Ideologically motivated violence is disproportionately perpetrated by far-right extremists, especially white supremacists. The assassination of activist Charlie Kirk, to illustrate how political rhetoric and right-wing media narratives misrepresent the sources and nature of political violence.

From 2015 to 2025, far-right extremists, especially white supremacists, were the main perpetrators of ideologically motivated gun violence in the U.S. Despite this, right-wing media and political narratives distort reality by portraying the left as the primary source of violence.

Central Planning for Dummies, Written by the Party of “Freedom” Tariffs, tamed numbers, and the everyday horror of power

There is a specific kind of quiet that settles when rulers start rearranging facts. You can hear it in the pause between a question and the non-answer that follows, in the sudden disappearance of a spreadsheet that used to arrive like clockwork, in the tantrum that becomes policy.

Pearls Before ICE: Nancy Mace, Bible Theater, and the Gospel According to Cruelty Hello there, fellow watchers of the unraveling veil.

Somewhere between the Gospel of Matthew and the acid-laced sermons of Southern television politics, we arrive at the doorstep of Rep. Nancy Mace. She knocks loud. She brings receipts: rolled-up legislation, cherry-picked Bible verses, and a smile that’s been fine-tuned for Fox News hits.

YouTube video by EchoPulse AI No Face, No Name

What happens when cruelty becomes the policy and silence becomes the law? No Face, No Name is a searing protest anthem set to haunting visuals. This animated video brings to life the true horror of a nation losing its soul. youtube.com/watch?v=fhAl...

The Boogeyman Budget and the Birth of the American Police State How a $3.3‑Trillion Debt Bomb, a $1‑Trillion Medicaid Massacre, and a $175‑Billion ICE Windfall Are Dismantling the Republic, and Why the Fight Begins on Your Block

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” Animal Farm
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DHS appears to accidentally confirm CNN's reporting in an unhinged reply to MeidasTouch on X, noting that "by Tuesday, FEMA had deployed" staffers.

This aligns with CNN's reporting that Noem didn't authorize FEMA's deployment of Urban Search and Rescue teams until Monday.

Superman Has Always Been Woke and Right-Wing Manufactured Outrage Is Boring The Man of Steel Was Born of Immigrants, Raised on Hope, and Has Always Punched Fascists in the Face

This story has roots deeper than Smallville’s wheat fields, and it blows in from the direction of a 1930s jazz joint, echoing the fears, hopes, and dreams of two Jewish kids in Cleveland. And, yes, we’re going there. open.substack.com/pub/richardj...

Prelude to a Deluge: How Billionaire Tax Cuts Washed Away Texas Warning Sirens Disaster capitalism drowns Texans while the one percent buy lifeboats.

More than 100 Texans, many of them children at Camp Mystic, never got a chance to wonder whether the storm sounded like “When the Levee Breaks.” They had no warning because the very agencies built to sound the alarm had already been hollowed out for the sake of a billionaire tax bonanza.

The builders behind Alligator Alcatraz and other detention sites are top DeSantis donors.

They scored no-bid or “emergency” contracts worth tens of millions—while funneling cash into his political machine.

Pay-to-play isn’t just speculation—it’s backed by the paper trail.
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Money for Nothing, Debt for Free: How the Wealthy Robbed the Working Class and Inflated the Next Economic Collapse A deep dive into economic injustice, the coming financial implosion, and why the ruling class handed us the bill for their champagne.

Imagine this: a man in a penthouse sipping single malt scotch, staring at three screens lit up with numbers you and I weren’t meant to understand. He leans back, clicks a button, and a thousand people lose their homes.

Won’t Get Fooled Again: Charisma, Control, and the Choirs of Compliance A long-form meditation on why good people line up behind bad ideas, spun through the howl of a 1971 power chord and the enduring anthropology of cult behavior.

Pull up a chair or, better, a bar stool, because this one’s going to unspool like an all-night session at your favorite dive. We will riff on how cults fuse anthropology, psychology, and raw political expediency; why we clutch their banners even as reason begs for a timeout.

Happy 4th of July. Nothing says freedom more than building Concentration Camps.

If someone doesn’t ask Karoline Leavitt why she posted on social media that this bill includes no taxes on Social Security when she knows it is a lie and she intentionally lied to the American people, everyone in the room should lose their jobs.

Won’t Get Fooled Again: Charisma, Control, and the Choirs of Compliance A long-form meditation on why good people line up behind bad ideas, spun through the howl of a 1971 power chord and the enduring anthropology of cult behavior.

Hello there, fellow travelers in this uneasy republic we still call home, where the bass drum of history thumps beneath our feet and the feedback of yesterday’s revolutions screeches into the present.
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I need more of my fellow anthropologists to start speaking out. In particular, you comfy University types. If you are staying silent now, don't call yourself an anthropologist; you are a career grant scammer.

DEMS are absolutely USELSS! You have stood by and watched, or worse, voted for fascism since 2016. You are more of a problem than MAGA because you DO NOTHING~

A global study ranked the United States fifth in ignorance worldwide. That's around 77 million people, about the same number of Trump voters. That is how much of our population is ignorant. Ignorance is deadly to democracy and freedom. So when I say MAGA are ignorant MFers, it is based on DATA.

A global study ranked the United States fifth in ignorance worldwide. That's around 77 million people, about the same number of Trump voters. That is how much of our population is ignorant. Ignorance is deadly to democracy and freedom. So when I say MAGA are ignorant MFers, it is based on DATA.

A global study ranked the United States fifth in ignorance worldwide. That's around 77 million people, about the same number of Trump voters. That is how much of our population is ignorant. Ignorance is deadly to democracy and freedom. So when I say MAGA are ignorant MFers, it is based on DATA.

A global study ranked the United States fifth in ignorance worldwide. That's around 77 million people, about the same number of Trump voters. That is how much of our population is ignorant. Ignorance is deadly to democracy and freedom. So when I say MAGA are ignorant MFers, it is based on DATA.