Christopher Mathias

Federal tactics on protesters escalate, hours after judge rules against Trump Hours after a federal judge paused the Trump administration’s plans to deploy 200 members of the Oregon National Guard to Portland, federal law enforcement officers escalated the tactics used on prote...

Hours after a federal judge paused the Trump administration’s plans to deploy 200 members of the Oregon National Guard to Portland, federal law enforcement officers escalated the tactics used on protesters in the city.

Troy and I were on the ground:

Reclusive Millionaire Who Financed American Fascists Dies The avowed white nationalist inherited millions from his prominent Republican family and used the money to fund the rise of the so-called alt-right.

m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_...

Christmas Adventurers Club is giving Charles Martel Society

“Lorenzo D’Agostino, a journalist and another flotilla participant, said after returning to Istanbul that Thunberg was “wrapped in the Israeli flag and paraded like a trophy” – a scene described with disbelief and anger by those who witnessed it.””

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

Signalgate 2.0, this time not about plans for attacking Houthis in Yemen, but sending the 82nd Airborne to Portland, Oregon

I am just so fucking proud of her.

This is literally directly across the street from an elementary school.

Lmao I don’t know if the world is ready but yes EJ I’ll be in touch lol

The anti-Muslim pundits of yore - Gaffney, Geller, Spencer et al. - lost a lot of their relevance in recent years but feels like all their vile talking points/policies are coming back in a big way

Trump Calls Cartel Members “Terrorists.” They’re Armed With Bullets From a U.S. Army Factory. The president blames Mexico for the flow of drugs into the U.S. — while enabling the flow of guns into Mexico by slashing federal regulators.

If the U.S. military does confront drug cartels in Mexico, it will find itself facing battle with its own weapons.

Last night was watching a drama taking place in Vienna in the 1930s that includes a scene of Nazis dragging residents out of an apartment building in the middle of the night and I thought “oh that’s just like…”

• THEWRAP. SUBSCRIBE Paramount to Name Bari Weiss CBS News Editor-in-Chief as Part of Free Press Deal Report Weiss will report directly to Paramount CEO David Ellison in an agreement expected in the coming days Corbin Bolies October 2, 2025 @ 2:30 PM

A potentially historic example of how manufacturing misinformation about universities is a reliable path to power and influence right now—and why that animus against universities is a symptom of broader threats to vital systems of public information + collective senses of fact, truth, and meaning.

Honestly the perfect coda to the cancel culture panic is one of its biggest promoters being actually so thoroughly uncanceled/unsilenced that she assumes the helm of a major news network

a heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated' The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

My god.

“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

Had a moment tonight on Urix (Norwegian foreign news program) where I tried to get across in a few sentences what @letsgomathias.bsky.social is saying here about Antifa, both the real Antifa and the bogeyman Antifa Trump and MAGA hallucinate at their convenience.

Ty Evan!

Really appreciate this Will!

Hearing "antifa" in the news is a trip; To me, it's such a relic of 2017-2018, when many of us covered regular right-wing protests and leftist counterprotests in the PNW.

Appreciated this necessary refresher on antifa and all the mythologizing around it by @letsgomathias.bsky.social on @kuow.org:

To Catch a Fascist A searing, provocative investigation into the rise of white nationalist and neo-Nazi movements in the United States, centered on the anti-fascist g...

all that said, when i set out to write my book, i didn't full anticipate having to write so much about nazis in the military... but alas i ended up having to devote a whole section to the topic. you can pre-order here: www.simonandschuster.com/books/To-Cat...

A National Guardsman Sent To LA Protests Is Under Investigation For Ties To Proud Boys The guardsman posted a photo of himself standing in front of a military vehicle inscribed with one of the neo-fascist group's slogans during a protest.

And during the uprisings in 2020, I wrote about a Proud Boy who was a member of the National Guard being sent to quell protests in Los Angeles — a story I'm thinking about a lot these days www.huffpost.com/entry/nation...

The Fascist Face Of Charlottesville Joined The Military. Then He Got Kicked Out. A rare example of the military taking proactive steps to keep an extremist — the man in a viral photo from the deadly 2017 white supremacist rally — out of its ranks.

I also found that the fascist face of Charlottesville's Unite The Right rally — seen here in an iconic photo from that fateful weekend — later joined the military

in his case, however, the military figured out quickly who he was and booted him www.huffpost.com/entry/peter-...

After HuffPost Investigation, 4 White Nationalists Out Of U.S. Military As Others Remain And others are still under investigation.

After these investigations, the military allowed some members of Identity Evropa to *stay in the military* www.huffpost.com/entry/white-...

Exposed: Military Investigating 4 More Servicemen For Ties To White Nationalist Group That’s 11 members of Identity Evropa who are under investigation by the U.S. armed forces.

A short time later, we identified another four members of Identity Evropa in the military www.huffpost.com/entry/white-...

Exclusive: 7 U.S. Military Members Identified As Part Of White Nationalist Group Leaked chat logs revealed military servicemen with ties to the extremist group Identity Evropa.

Back in 2019, I used antifascist research to help expose a seven white supremacists in the military who belonged to the group Identity Evropa www.huffpost.com/entry/white-...

Well-Known White Nationalist Kicked Out Of Air Force Following HuffPost Investigation Shawn McCaffrey enlisted and then graduated from boot camp just as the Pentagon was claiming to aggressively confront extremism in the ranks.

McCaffrey's story highlighted how inadequate the military's screening process seemed to be (after my story he was kicked out of the Air Force) www.huffpost.com/entry/white-...

The Military Says It’s Confronting Extremism. A Prominent White Nationalist Just Finished Boot Camp. As the secretary of defense issued an order to address extremism in the ranks, a well-known white nationalist was receiving combat training courtesy of Uncle Sam, according to an exclusive HuffPost in...

during the Biden admin, even *after the Sec of Defense issued a military-wide stand-down order to address the problem of extremism in the ranks*, i found out that prominent white nationalist influencer Shawn McCaffrey had successfully joined the Air Force www.huffpost.com/entry/extrem...