Katherine Stewart

What's behind the Trump administration's immigration memes? White supremacist tropes and ironic viral jokes illustrate the administration's project of redefining who belongs in the United States.

DHS’s immigration memes aren’t just trolling—they fuel extremist narratives. Immigrants are cast as “violent invaders who need to be… dragged in the streets, taken away, put in vans, removed—if we want that white culture to ever flourish again,” said @heidibeirich.bsky.social.

Read more at @npr.org

Gavin Newsom responds to Fox's Dana Perino melting down over his tweets:

Is that why the masked thugs are patrolling "slums" like the Lincoln Memorial?

They might be making Trump mad, but Newsom has been throwing these at the press -- if you think these are beneath my office, why don't you say that when the president does the same thing?

He's exposing that the media has a separate set of standards for Our Very Special Boy and that's good.

Gov @gavinnewsom.bsky.social’s social media team isn’t just throwing haymakers they’re out here landing combos 👀

JD Vance and James Orr's special relationship and the 'illiberalizing' of the US and UK (RNS) — The professor and the vice president are both key figures in a collective of intellectuals, activists and funders who are bringing a new wave of American-style culture-war illiberalism to the ...

Who is JD Vance's "British sherpa"? My latest for @rns.org religionnews.com/2025/08/14/j...

JD Vance and James Orr's special relationship and the 'illiberalizing' of the US and UK (RNS) — The professor and the vice president are both key figures in a collective of intellectuals, activists and funders who are bringing a new wave of American-style culture-war illiberalism to the ...

Who is JD Vance's "British sherpa"? My latest for @rns.org religionnews.com/2025/08/14/j...

JD Vance and James Orr's special relationship and the 'illiberalizing' of the US and UK (RNS) — The professor and the vice president are both key figures in a collective of intellectuals, activists and funders who are bringing a new wave of American-style culture-war illiberalism to the ...

religionnews.com/2025/08/14/j...

"It is not enough to obey him: you must love him"

“the documents reviewed by The Times — including income statements and balance sheets covering 23 years — offered new insight into SpaceX’s revenue sources, investors and taxes.”

Time to focus on Phil Hegseth. He's Pete Hegseth's younger brother and a senior adviser to Homeland Security Sec Kristi Noem. He's also DHS liaison to Pentagon. Hegseth the Younger is pushing for more military involvement in domestic enforcement, apparently w/Pete's help. This needs more discussion.

If Orr and his allies Vance and Thiel have their way, politics in Britain may soon reflect the illiberalism taking hold on our side of the Atlantic. My latest for @rns.org

The official voice of the US government Is cruel, gross, and weird. What is that doing to us? Joking memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize.

The official voice of the U.S. government draws from 4chan trolls, explicitly white nationalist phrases and talking points, and radicalizing, dehumanizing, desensitizing language for its targets. I talked to propaganda experts about what it’s doing to us:
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

JD Vance and James Orr's special relationship and the 'illiberalizing' of the US and UK (RNS) — The professor and the vice president are both key figures in a collective of intellectuals, activists and funders who are bringing a new wave of American-style culture-war illiberalism to the ...

My latest for @RNS religionnews.com/2025/08/14/j...

If Orr and his allies Vance and Thiel have their way, politics in Britain may soon reflect the illiberalism taking hold on our side of the Atlantic. My latest for @rns.org

JD Vance and James Orr's special relationship and the 'illiberalizing' of the US and UK (RNS) — The professor and the vice president are both key figures in a collective of intellectuals, activists and funders who are bringing a new wave of American-style culture-war illiberalism to the ...

My latest for @RNS religionnews.com/2025/08/14/j...

I have a question.

We need better terms for wingnut propagandists than "conservative activist."

"Look closely and you’ll see that the targets are often Black Democratic voters and officials, and, in Texas, Hispanic ones."

ICE attacked US citizen Andrea Velez, slamming her to the ground

No probable cause, no warrant and-while they claim no racial profiling-it seems clear why they did it

Then they arrested her to cover it up

Throwing her in a cell without even a glass of water

Unsurprisingly she's not the only one

White House Announces Comprehensive Review of Smithsonian Exhibitions

You can't teach U.S. history without "divisive" narratives. Slavery wasn't "unifying." The Japanese incarceration wasn't "unifying." The anti-immigrant Operation Wetback (real name) wasn't "unifying."
It's history's job to tell the truth, not cover up past racism to pave the way for future racism.

Texas DA who charged abortion patient with murder accused of once paying for one Three years after Texas prosecutors charged a woman with murder for inducing her own abortion, the local district attorney is accused of paying for an abortion while having an affair decades ago.

Texas DA once paid for an abortion — then charged a woman who had one with murder, court filing claims www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Latest ICE Recruitment Materials Include Overt Neo-Nazi Reference and Nazi-Nazi Script It’s not the first time we and others at Religion Dispatches have had to point out that Trump’s Department of Homeland Security is firehosing the internet with white supremacist propaganda. And it wil...

@tlecaque.bsky.social and I wrote about the latest fascist bullhorn used by DHS- a reference to “Which Way, Western Man” by White Supremacist William Gayley Simpson - a book that was reprinted by a neo-Nazi press founded by the author of The Turner Diaries, as @hannahgais.bsky.social pointed out

Homeland Security @DHSgov Which way, American man? http://JOIN.ICE.GOV photo of uncle sam with his hat off at a crossroads with title "America Needs You, Join ICE Now"

DHS is recruiting using a not-so-subtle reference to a 1978 book from white nationalist William Gayley Simpson, Which Way Western Man?

Simpson's book was released under an imprint associated with the National Alliance, founded by Turner Diaries author William Luther Pierce.

New Zealand woman and six-year-old son detained for three weeks by Ice in US enduring ‘terrifying’ ordeal Sarah Shaw, who has a US visa and lives in Washington state, was detained after attempting to re-enter US from Canada

Someone gets paid for every day that people like Sarah & her son are wrongfully detained www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth belongs to an archconservative church network. Here's what to know Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has expressed pride in being part of the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches, a conservative Christian network.

I talked with an AP reporter yesterday about Pete Hegseth, Doug Wilson, and the CREC. He's written a nice piece. Here is the link
apnews.com/article/pete...

Supreme Court Fast-Tracks Potential Demolition of Section 2 of Voting Rights Act by Setting Argument October 15 in Louisiana Case, Possibly in Time to Affect 2026 Midterm Elections #ELB We know the Supreme Court dallied a long time in setting the Louisiana case for reargument, only recently adding a doozy of a question in this racial gerrymandering case that could tee up a potential ...

Supreme Court Fast-Tracks Potential Demolition of Section 2 of Voting Rights Act electionlawblog.org?p=151533

We Need to Talk About the Pink-Pill Pipeline You can't slap a tiara on a human rights crisis and call it the 'princess treatment'

You can't slap a tiara on a human rights crisis and call it the 'princess treatment' open.substack.com/pub/jessica/...

When communities lose local newspapers, untrustworthy far-right propaganda outlets like The Epoch Times often fill the void.

i will never not be amused by how the conservative world is governed by the kind of “affirmative action” they say happens in mainstream institutions. totally unqualified dipshits are handed the keys to institutions because they say the right thing and have the right look.