Norah MacKendrick

Screenshot that reads "New Video Analysis Reveals Flawed and Fatal Decisions in Shooting of Pretti"

How to explain this headline? This goes beyond so-called journalistic objectivity. I suspect NYT enjoys a little rage bait. #pretti #newyorktimes @nytpitchbot.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

“LET US OUT!”

women & children scream for help inside a detention camp in TEXAS, where private prisons like core civic make billions of taxpayer dollars holding them while abusing, neglecting them, refusing them health care, feeding them dirty food & water, etc.

In our name🇺🇸

Tell Delta: ICE OUT NOW Join us in demanding Delta: Publicly call for an immediate end to the ICE “surge” into MN and for ICE to leave the state; Exercise their 4th Amendment rights and publicly post signage denying entr...

I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Tell Delta: ICE OUT NOW. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

Tell Enterprise: ICE OUT NOW Join us in demanding Enterprise: Publicly call for an immediate end to the ICE “surge” into MN and for ICE to leave the state; Exercise their 4th Amendment rights and publicly post signage denying...

I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Tell Enterprise: ICE OUT NOW. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

Screenshot of a story called The Dangerous Paradox of AI Abundance from New Yorker App.

Correct. But what’s with the “WHAT IF”?? www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...

Ok, but EPA at least show some pictures of what you mean
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This is amazing.

It’s about time we had a men’s section in the cereal aisle.

Beef tallow is a small part of the report. What is more “interesting” is that RFK promised to end industry influence over dietary guidelines but his scientific panel takes money from cattle + dairy industries. And 🥛 and 🥩 just happen to be at the top of the new inverted pyramid.

So should you freak out about glyphosate residues in your food? Yeah, a little bit. But the solution isn’t shelling out for so-called glyphosate-free food. The solution is to push the EPA to re-evaluate this pesticide. I have zero faith that this will happen under a Trump administration.

A Study Is Retracted, Renewing Concerns About the Weedkiller Roundup

Glyphosate is a big problem full stop. It comes down to two things: 1. lack of independent research establishing its safety and 2. the huge volumes of this pesticide applied in agriculture all over the world. #glyphosate #roundup #pesticides www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/c...

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If you VPN into Canada you can watch the 60 Minutes CECOT story here (for now). Global TV appears to have posted the original tape by accident watch.globaltv.com/series/2893d...

MAHA Moms Are Angry at the E.P.A. Lee Zeldin Is Trying to Win Them Back.

This will be an interesting test of MAHA’s power. Will we see, in a month or two, a kind of capitulation to Zeldin, in the interest of keeping MAGA-MAHA aligned? Hard to imagine MAHA winning real reforms at the EPA.

What podcast is this? Looking for original source.

Opinion | The Closing of the MAGA Mind

If you want to understand the ideas behind this administration, read this and Field’s new book, Furious Minds. Essential reading for understanding the logic behind the MAGA machine.

She reimagined dolls for her daughter — and defied stereotypes about Indigenous women In her “First American Doll” series, Indigenous photographer Cara Romero showcases the diversity of tribes and their unique regalia and cultural histories.

I was able to interview Indigenous photographer Cara Romero about her stunning art in her "First American Doll" series.

If you need a visual pick-me-up this is it.

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If you read/cite/teach from journals, read this thread. We need librarians more than ever. ⬇️

Study on popular weed killer retracted after journal editor says Monsanto may have helped write it | CBC News An influential research article that claimed a popular weed-killer was safe has been retracted 25 years after it was published, prompting environmental groups in Canada to ask the federal government t...

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The chemical lobby has been spending millions of dollars to change the Toxic Substances Control Act. That's the main law that works to protect people from harmful chemicals.

What does industry want? They want less oversight and less concern for your health. #badidea

Lawfare Lecture: The Making of the MAGA New Right, with Laura Field 10 DEC 4 PM Laura Field will teach a 6 part class on the conservative intellectual movement and how it has shaped Donald Trump's presidency as a part of the Lawfare Lecture series. REGISTER

Beginning on Dec. 10, @lkatfield.bsky.social, the author of “Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right,” will teach a 6-part class on the conservative intellectual movement and how it has shaped Donald Trump’s presidency as a part of the Lawfare Lecture series.

MAGA’s Court Philosophers Once mocked as unsophisticated, Donald Trump in his second term has put forward an ambitious vision to reshape America. Surrounding the president is a loose network of intellectuals who provide his policies with a philosophy. An important new book maps it out.

Once mocked as unsophisticated, Donald Trump in his second term has put forward an ambitious vision to reshape America.

Surrounding the president is a loose network of intellectuals who provide his policies with a philosophy. An important new book maps it out.

A Mole in MAGA’s Midst | Los Angeles Review of Books Alexandre Lefebvre reads “Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right” by Laura K. Field.

“Few books in political theory foreground the author’s biography this much. But it lands.”

My LARB review of Furious Minds by Laura Field. A terrific book. @princetonupress.bsky.social:

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I have been writing about New Right intellectuals since 2019. The most common response I get when I mention this to liberals is something along the lines of "Trumpy intellectuals? Now that's an oxymo-ron!" or "Hahaha, I think you mean dumb fascists!" While the impulse is understandable, it's also mistaken and counterproductive. Many on the left assume that the only serious reason to support the GOP has to do with finance and tax returns, and that right-wing voters are racists. But people's motives are mixed, and America's reactionary intellectuals are armed with more than greed and preju-dice. They also have reasons and arguments that they appear to care about, whole epochs and libraries full, ready-to-hand. What the writer Matthew Rose says about the radical right is true of the New Right, too: Almost everything written about the "alternative right" has been wrong in one respect. The alt-right is not stupid; it is deep. Its ideas are not ridiculous; they are serious. To appreciate this fact, one needs to inquire beyond its presence on social media, where its obnoxious use of insult, obscenity, and racism has earned it a reputation for moral idiocy. The reputation is deserved, but do not be deceived. Behind its online tantrums and personal attacks are arguments of seductive power.* The New Right's questions, ideas, and arguments may not be of the sort to convince the average New York Times subscriber, but they are eftec-tive in their contexts, and it's not like they are easy to refute. Education and specialization being what they are today, the people I focus on in this book know more than your average JD or political science PhD about early American political history and about the history of the so-called West, and of course many of them have other specialties and areas of expertise besides. I am generally not an admirer of the people I write about here, but it would be foolish to deny that they are smart and

INTRODUCING THE MAGA NEW RIGHT 25 well-informed in their own way. It's obviously possible to be highly knowledgeable and to have terrible judgment or dangerous politics. To presume otherwise— to believe that there is nothing to learn from these thinkers and no compelling noneconomic reasons to support something like Trumpism-is naive and dangerous. It misunderstands and fetishizes intelligence, by presuming that real brains never chase after raw power. It fails to see the possibility and power of genuine intellectual fanaticism—and the allure of people who have strong convictions backed by strong arguments. And it assumes a deep sameness about one's fellow citizens and so refuses to contend with real, protracted ideological disagreement and conflict. In other words, it refuses to reckon with what might be the greatest challenge posed by political life: the fact that people really do think differently and disagree, about just about everything, and especially about the most important things, like the meaning of life, God, and the soul, and what is good. Above all else, the naive view overestimates liberalism's immediate appeal and underestimates liberalism's fragility. Growing right-wing extremism has not emerged in a vacuum but in many instances is a re-sponse, however misguided, to real problems, and to the real vulnerabilities of liberal democracy. It reflects some of the actual failures of modern liberal politics and economics, of modern liberal culture, and of the corporate neoliberal academy. One of the major advantages of spending time with the New Right is that it allows us to see these challenges more clearly, and to think through future possibilities for a pluralistic liberal order more deeply. And with some urgency.

I'm a few chapters into @lkatfield.bsky.social's great new book on MAGA intellectuals and I thought the close of her introductory chapter made a very important point about the dangers of talking about MAGA as it it is an intellectual desert. It's more like a refulgent swamp of shitty, toxic ideas.

BREAKING: A federal court blocked the Trump-Vance administration’s attempt to cut off food assistance for 42 million people during the ongoing government shutdown.

We'll keep fighting to ensure that federal programs serve their lawful purpose: to help, not harm, people and communities.

These programs are amazing: fresh food for those on public assistance and more money in farmers’ pockets. Now the Big Beautiful Bill is kicking thousands of people, just like @writingelizabeth.bsky.social here, off of #SNAP. And the shutdown threatens everyone’s benefits. Cruelty is the point.

Opinion | $149.57 Is Going to Have to Feed My Family Indefinitely

When doing research for my book, I spoke to mothers who felt ashamed to use SNAP at farmers’ markets, because it’s perceived to be too posh for the poor. But it’s smart budgeting. #SNAP dollars often go further at these markets because of special programs. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...

As a Canadian in the U.S. this is 💯 accurate.

Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals Endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) are defined as: “an exogenous chemical, or mixture of chemicals, that can interfere with any aspect of hormone action”…

Take, for example, this position statement from the largest professional organization representing endocrinologists. These people study the endocrine system. Are they feeling chill about environmental chemicals? Nope. #endocrinedisruptors

A New Type Of Phobia Is Spreading Through American Households — And MAGA Is Partly To Blame The fear tactic strikes a nerve with both conservatives and liberals alike. Here’s what you need to know.

Calling it “chemophobia” gets it wrong. It sweeps valid concerns under the rug at a time when we have very solid science showing that many of the pesticides and chemicals in our food and consumer products are not safe. This framing plays right into the hands of the chemical industry. #greensky

Quebec plans to table bill banning prayer in public | CBC News The Quebec government intends to present a bill banning prayer in public. Secularism Minister Jean-François Roberge said Thursday that the “proliferation of street prayer is a serious and sensitive is...

It's gonna be hard to enforce this at hockey games.