James Hillegas-Elting

Gasworks Park.

Finished the episode a short time ago and while the subject was disgusting the insights you and @adriandaub.bsky.social brought to it were phenomenal! I was both educated and inspired. Thanks so much for the pod generally and this episode specifically!!

Excellent!

Timely and for me geographically relevant!

Won’t be able to listen today, but I’ve got it queued up for my work commute tomorrow morning.

Watching this now and it’s a difficult but important and unfortunately timely conversation to have. As a gun owner in that “privileged class” I agree 100%. Well done @stephengutowski.bsky.social and @inrange.tv !!

Similar vibes to the DOGE/Musk “fork in the road” email fed employees received about a year ago.

Fascists gonna fascist!

This x 1,000!!!

As a historian this is also my critique of this AI use case. There is no shortcut to this type of deep and broad analysis and understanding.

The Entrepreneurial Ethic & How We Work Today (w/ Erik Baker) | Know Your Enemy Matt and Sam talk to historian Erik Baker about his new book, "Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America."

Just started reading @erikmbaker.bsky.social ‘s book Make Your Own Job after learning about it on the fantastic KYE episode from January (know-your-enemy-1682b684.simplecast.com/episodes/the...). Fantastically insightful & overlaps with magical thinking topics the Conspirituality pod team covers.

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YouTube video by InRangeTV Community Defense Saves Lives - Abolitionists & the 1860 "Race Riots" in Grinnell, Iowa

“the intentionally induced amnesia that is in our historical system—especially here in the US—means that stories like this don’t generally get told.”

Thanks, @inrangetv.bsky.social !!

youtu.be/Q3pwUgq2Mkg?...

Photo of the cover of Helaine Olen’s 2012 book titled “Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry.”

2/3 thru this informative and well-written book, upon recommendation from the @ifbookspod.bsky.social team. Eye-opening to learn more about this variant of grifting within our grift-centric society.

Thanks for putting this knowledge into the world for the rest of us, @helaineolen.bsky.social!

Speaking for the River Since the late 1960s, Oregon has been at the forefront of environmental protection in the United States. The state generally, and Portland in particular, continue to have strong “green” credentials we...

@derekberes.bsky.social , just listened to Episode 246 and considering what you shared about OR history thought you’d be interested in my book on the history of Willamette River water pollution abatement. osupress.oregonstate.edu/book/speakin... Shameless plug yes, but it’s at the library! 🙂

Brief: Antifascist Woodshed — Conspirituality Matthew critically reviews six books that define fascist eras and recount how they have been opposed. A kind of “here we are, now what?” episode that hopefully interrupts the doomscroll with the sobri...

www.conspirituality.net/episodes/bri...

This is such a fantastic analysis.

The Conspirituality Pod team consistently provides excellent content, but this was out of the park.

Thanks for all you do @matthewremski.bsky.social, @derekberes.bsky.social, @julianwalker.bsky.social

No, I Will Not Welcome Ex-MAGA to the Resistance As I’ve mentioned here before, I am on BlueSky, and overall I quite like it. Friendly interface, effective tools for curating your feed and/or blocking and muting people, and most of the people I l…

Just a little rant today: please stop telling me to be nice to the Nazi sympathizers once they claim to stop sympathizing
skepchick.org/2025/02/no-i...

Just watched and YES!!!! Thanks for articulating this so effectively.

Yes, embarrassing for us in the USA!

If it would be helpful, the team at Conspirituality podcast have done extensive deep-dives into RFK Jr’s sad delusional sickness: www.conspirituality.net

Chilling and sad, but very well written and compelling. Great job bringing this story together, @kimatiwagner.bsky.social

FDR does not demand absolute power in his first inaugural. you can read it here. yarvin is giving a wildly distorted gloss because he is a dummy and an ideologue who only hears what he wants to hear avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century...

Big Money and Trump’s New Cabinet The Political Scene | The New Yorker · Episode

This conversation about the total takeover of the GOP by conspiracy-obsessed reactionary oligarchs in the age of Trump got me thinking about the long history of attempts by conspiracy-obsessed reactionary oligarchs to control the GOP in Oregon beginning in the 1960s.
open.spotify.com/episode/5n24...

@jm-elting.bsky.social

A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found. Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends....

Original post didn’t include a link to the article because I’m inept at this thing.

Here we are: www.propublica.org/article/ap3-...

Wow!

@sethcotlar.bsky.social with another fantastic thread bringing a bright light into the darkest corners of present-day Christofascism and white supremacy.

A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found.

Fascinating, and scary!! But important info so thanks for sharing, Joshua Kaplan and @propublica.org

The Worst Magazine In America The Atlantic poses as a magazine of ideas, but its writers get away with terrible arguments. Its ascendance is a sign of the dire state of American intellectual life.

www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-wor...

“in practice that means you can use the pages of The Atlantic to float dumb ideas that do not have evidentiary support, and hundreds of thousands of people will read and discuss them who will not read the subsequent refutations in scholarly publications”

John Roberts is very upset that the public has lost confidence in John Roberts and the institution John Roberts leads following a series of confidence-cratering actions by John Roberts and his colleagues, and therefore would like everyone to know that this is not John Roberts' fault, it's yours.

These folks won’t cave to the fascists: @fivefourpod.bsky.social, @sceneonradio.bsky.social, Conspirituality pod, @ifbookspod.bsky.social

I suppose I know more about "the history of rural Oregonians who disseminate anonymous racist letters intended to create a climate of white supremacist fear" than anyone else...so here we go...let's talk about Lincoln County Nazi (and pal of OR GOP chair Walter Huss) ca. 1970s-80s Bill Gardiner.

Thanks as always for the context you share about my home state—and in this case my home county!

Maybe that says something about the persistence of radical centrism and the privileges of being rich, white, and male?

Wow, Hatfield’s is a very terrible take, for a longstanding OR politician with many otherwise decent or relatively great takes. The text reads like something from the 2024 NYT, however, in its ahistoricity and both-sidesism.

These seem like the sort of people whose favorite part of The Diary of Anne Frank is the ending.