Berny Belvedere

Hegseth’s Hatred of Americans Makes Him Unfit for Office but a Perfect Fit for Trump The secretary is a Christian nationalist who wants to eliminate those who don’t agree with his totalitarian vision

In one of his books, Hegseth complains that “the Left has never fought fair." He cites “electing Obama” among its dirty tricks, despite the fact that Obama won a greater share of both the popular and the electoral vote in 2008 and 2012 than Trump did in 2016 and 2024.

Political Triumphalism Is Contrary to the Spirit of Yom Kippur The Jewish holiday’s emphasis on repentance requires confronting our past sins, not burying them

Don't miss this Yom Kippur reflection why President Trump's attempts to erase America's past sins is so troubling on a deep philosophical and spiritual level.

From Conservative Civic Nationalism to MAGA White Nationalism: A Conversation with Jason Wilson The speakers and attendees at the 2025 National Conservatism conference were testimony to this terrifying shift on the right

“I thought Sen. Eric Schmitt’s speech at the National Conservatism conference was a rhetorically skillful presentation of white nationalism. And, in that sense, it was emblematic of the transition that the broader conservative movement is currently undergoing.”

@jasonaw.bsky.social

Trump Hit Brazil With Punitive Tariffs for Prosecuting His Ally But Promised Argentina a $20 Billion Taxpayer Bailout to Help His Other Pal Win Election: An Executive Watch Roundup Our early-October selection of the president's latest and greatest assaults on the rule of law

The level of corruption and frequency of illicit actions emanating from this White House continues to amaze.

It's impossible to read through @tracinski.bsky.social's latest roundup for @theunpopulist.net and think that any of this is within a tolerable range of normal politics.

Politics the right way!

Not a cult.

Please understand what's at stake. If we fail at this, if we fail to, for example, enlist an NFT craftsman to create an image series showing the president stomping on the faces of every professor on the TPUSA watchlist, then what will happen is no one will ever practice politics the right way again.

The Build-A-Bear request was nice. It was cute. But the only way we get real justice for Charlie is by commissioning a George Floyd baker to design a cake that commemorates one of Charlie’s most powerful podcast moments: when he annihilated every lib by declaring that “MLK was really awful.”

Left-wing posthumous cancel culture is out of control

Republicans believe free speech is when they can say what they want and when you can say what they want. bsky.app/profile/bern...

Criticizing Charlie Kirk is a fireable offense that incites domestic terrorism. But calling political opponents "the party of hate, evil, and Satan" is proper and good. Got it.

Decoding DeSantis’s Weird War on Disney It may seem crazy for a governor to wildly attack one of his state’s major employers—but you gotta understand MAGA logic.

I wrote another of his highly contrived and completely unnecessary clashes for @thebulwark.com

These were done to catapult him as the right's leading culture war king.

This faculty member is exactly right. What DeSantis set out to do in his run-up to the 2024 GOP race was engage in a number of high-profile clashes with "woke institutions" so that he could project himself as the right's most aggressively bellicose culture warrior.

Spending Soars, Rankings Fall at New College of Florida Student outcomes and rankings are slipping at the liberal arts college while spending is up. Critics believe the college is at risk of implosion, and some are calling for privatization.

Yikes

Oh hey how's the Chis Rufo-powered New College of Florida antiwoke redesign going?

Reading right-wing commentary is like traveling to an alternate dimension where innocuous things like funding for diplomacy are characterized as the work-product of Satan’s most hardened demoniacs.

Imagine being this sane.

Pastors need to start emphasizing Christ’s number one teaching: lethality.

Nah $150 million for *this*?

Losing my mind

Welp. Get ready for a "60 Minutes" investigation on why a trans swimmer's IG story expressing solidarity with Gaza will naturally require Trump running for a third presidential term in order to make right.

What a time to be alive.

Trump Tries to Turn Watchdogs Into Lapdogs by Defunding Inspectors General

Thanks, @bernybelvedere.bsky.social. Good examples: JB Pritzker, Gavin Newsom, Zohran Mamdani. They're all rising to the challenge of the moment.

A truly beautiful meditation.

Exactly right from @gregsargent.bsky.social

newrepublic.com/article/2011...

This is how the administration responded to the judge's ruling. Exactly zero of these claims were substantiated, let alone proven. This administration utterly despises immigrants.

🤔

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who is Salvadoran, filed an emergency motion to prevent his deportation to Uganda. An immigration judge just dismissed it because he ruled that the administration only said that it *may* send him there, not that it *necessarily would* send him there. Incredible stuff.

MAGA Christianity is a cesspool.