Christopher Mathias

New details from a text shared with @thebaltimorebanner.com: “The trip back home was extremely tiring,” Tran told Nash in a text message shared with The Banner. “We were in shackles the entire trip. ... I felt like we were less than animals.”

Senators Want Extremism Researchers to Surrender Documents Linked to Right-Wing Grudges The Senate homeland security committee's chair has asked researchers to turn over troves of documents related to the January 6 attack, vaccines, and more, according to a letter reviewed by WIRED.

A powerful US Senate committee has requested that multiple academic research centers focused on political extremism hand over years worth of documents related to the January 6 attack, vaccines, and more, according to information obtained by WIRED. www.wired.com/story/senato...

Laurels and Darts: Execution forestalled in Oklahoma; White House tries to talk turkey, gets gobbled; RFK Jr.,purple-prose muse. On the ground in Oklahoma at the eleventh hour. Plus: White House tries to talk turkey; gets gobbled up by ABC News. And RFK Jr., purple-prose muse.

“Wood’s near miss w/ executioner’s syringe came after months of meticulous attention to his case by… Jessica Schulberg, whose coverage helped set the stage for Wood’s miraculous escape”

grateful for @bgrueskin.bsky.social giving @jessicaschulberg.bsky.social her flowers www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...

A provocative bestseller wins the National Book Award for nonfiction Omar El Akkad’s “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This” criticizes Western indifference to civilian suffering in Gaza.

"Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, whose novel 'We Are Green and Trembling' won the award for translated literature, opened her remarks by saying, 'I’m going to speak in Spanish because there are fascists who don’t like that.' ”

www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...

as bad as shit is, very cool to meet a new folk hero seemingly every week

I’ll have more on Tisch’s appointment in part III of my Mamdani & the NYPD trilogy but here’s a salient bit from part II (for @wired.com)

www.wired.com/story/welcom...

It’s been one hell of a week for poking holes in the idea that we’re living through is a natural reaction to the 'dreaded Woke Times’ when people were hounded out of public life for every innocent mistake etc.

A big indicator of this fascist moment, for me, was exposing Hanania’s past as pseudonymous white supremacist blogger, him issuing a non-apology apology then writing gutter racist shit under real name, & nevertheless enjoying mainstream success

reminder of who he is www.huffpost.com/entry/richar...

this is so beautiful!

On the beach S.I. Rosenbaum debuts a new graphic memoir of devastation and love

TODAY: @sirosenbaum.bsky.social debuts a new GRAPHIC MEMOIR! Introducing TEETH BEACH, pt. 1 flaminghydra.com/issue-444/#t...

this is so gorgeous, ty

a two party system with one party completely & utterly devoted to a man who responds this way when asked by a woman about credible accusations he sex trafficked underage girls - like there’s no reforming a party like that

Tom, standing outside an ICE concentration camp, screaming at the detainees inside: don’t worry this isn’t full fascism!

This is nauseating: “As the emails stretch through the years, they show how that protected realm vanished into the mists of time, pulled under by the rising forces of the internet and the #MeToo movement.” A “Gone With the Wind” framing for sexual abuse and harassment.

Right wing screeching about the “war on Christianity” never includes complaints about secret police raiding houses of worship to rip families apart (or, for that matter, bombing churches in Palestine)

ICE Caged This Man For His Instagram Posts And Likes New details about Yaa'kub Ira Vijandre's detention show his posts supporting Palestine and the wrongfully convicted representing, in Homeland Security's eyes, support for terrorism

Hair-raising story by @attackerman.bsky.social with new documents showing that a detained journalist is being held by ICE for his Instagram likes.

🚨🚨 NEW: Body Cameras Show How Police Acted During Minneapolis’ Largest Mass Arrest

Unicorn Riot is releasing the footage of 73 Minneapolis Police videos from the arrest of over 646 people the night after the 2020 elections.

View the story, videos, & a curated media guide at our website. 🧵

Tremane Wood is facing execution on November 13. I revisited his case to investigate how a group of judges and prosecutors have secretly coordinated in ways that have undermined Tremane’s final chance to live. www.huffpost.com/entry/oklaho...

Wrote article once tracing the white supremacist lineage of the phrase “diversity is not our strength” - and now the former Democratic gov, fresh off posting one of the most racist (& AI-generated) campaign ads in recent memory, says this www.huffpost.com/entry/steve-...

Tim is one of the best reporters in the country - just such a stupid decision on the part of Penske Media

Trump Used An Alarming Word — And Most People Missed It Most people didn't notice when the former president used the term in a Truth Social post. But white nationalists did.

and here's the fascist history of the term, which is just a European euphemism for genocide/ethnic cleansing www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

wrote about this in my book, but the first time i saw/heard Americans use the term "remigrate" it was in the leaked private chats of the white supremacists who organized the deadly Charlottesville rally in 2017 — including Thomas Rousseau (now head of Patriot Front) & the leaders of Identity Evropa

need to consider that this administration's anti-antifa campaign is essentially directed by the likes of Glenn Beck, Andy Ngo, & Jack Posobiec

pointing out this hypocrisy to the admin won't accomplish much of course because, as i argued here, the *hypocrisy is the point* zeteo.com/p/if-trump-c...

If Trump Cares About Fighting Antisemitism, Why Did He Pardon These Jan. 6 Insurrectionists? Some praised Hitler. One wore an ‘Auschwitz’ hoodie. Another gave a Nazi salute. The MAGA insurrection was a festival of antisemitism.

starting to suspect their claim to want to fight antisemitism isn't being made in good faith zeteo.com/p/if-trump-c...

the admin that imprisoned and tried to deport a student over a pro-Palestinian op-ed, calling it anti-semitism, calls outrage over "I love Hitler" texts by young Republicans "pearl-clutching"

Always funny to think back about how the GOP uniformly blamed antifa for J6 in the immediate aftermath… fast forward a few years later and they’re like “no J6 was good and we did it and only we can assault Capitol police officers #BackTheBlue”

This was a lot of fun. Tune in for a longer chat about Andy Ngo, where Mike and I try to explain his schtick and the ways other right wing influencers have sought to emulate his “anti-antifa” formula

fwiw really not trying to say it's a new thing! Only that it escalated and intensified.

Remember when Alex Pareene predicted this after Charlottesville in 2017 www.splinter.com/charlottesvi...