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Author @Rowohlt, freelance journalist, senior correspondent Religion Dispatches, writes about Christian Nationalism & Right-Wing Extremism in the Europe & the US 1/2 of @femshelfcontrol.bsky.social Agent: Landwehr & Cie Events: Paula Döring, Kulturagentur

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Just because it's liberating to say obvious shit out loud sometimes: this is not what "defensive" means.

03.03.2026 03:44 — 👍 1148    🔁 164    💬 49    📌 4

Wow.

03.03.2026 15:08 — 👍 333    🔁 53    💬 53    📌 2

Who is making the US unsafe for visitors?

03.03.2026 14:47 — 👍 989    🔁 183    💬 22    📌 3

I’m sorry, but who exactly introduced the idea that Trump is “a bloodthirsty president who wants to take over the world?”

03.03.2026 15:02 — 👍 125    🔁 20    💬 5    📌 0

Ah, Liberty University Law School, the one that has taught its students that disobeying a court order is justified if you think it violates "God's law."

Perfect for the Trump administration!

03.03.2026 14:18 — 👍 73    🔁 24    💬 1    📌 1

I don't think that's quite true? There are at least a handful of minority groups that regularly get talked about this way by Loomer & Co. She's wrong and evil, but the public has a pretty high tolerance for exterminationist rhetoric from Trump's advisors.

02.03.2026 17:48 — 👍 371    🔁 36    💬 17    📌 1

I think Apple Podcasts and Spotify should automatically create a transcript of you listen via RSS link but I’m not a 100% sure

03.03.2026 12:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Scheidung erschweren.

03.03.2026 11:53 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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USAUpdate 262: Der neue Plan der Heritage Foundation - Heiraten für's Vaterland | Annika Brockschmidt Get more from Annika Brockschmidt on Patreon

Neue Episode #USAUpdate: Der neue Plan der Heritage Foundation - Heiraten für's Vaterland. Ein Deep Dive in die neuen Empfehlungen der Heritage Foundation zur "Rettung der Familie" und was dahinter steckt.

28.02.2026 20:02 — 👍 362    🔁 124    💬 15    📌 1
Screenshot of news article printed in Yahoo from Jewish Insider: “Platner faced blowback this week for boosting a social media comment about a looming war with Iran by Stew Peters, a neo-Nazi influencer who has frequently espoused antisemitic tropes and engaged in Holocaust denial. Platner's team said the post was made in error and "immediately" removed it after learning it elevated a "despicable account."

In late January, however, Platner sat for a lengthy online interview with Nate Cornacchia, a retired Green Beret who has also promoted antisemitic conspiracy theories. Near the end of their hour-long conversation, Platner, a fellow military veteran, called himself "a longtime fan" of Cornacchia's YouTube channel, "Valhalla VFT," and said it was "an absolute pleasure being" on the show.”

Screenshot of news article printed in Yahoo from Jewish Insider: “Platner faced blowback this week for boosting a social media comment about a looming war with Iran by Stew Peters, a neo-Nazi influencer who has frequently espoused antisemitic tropes and engaged in Holocaust denial. Platner's team said the post was made in error and "immediately" removed it after learning it elevated a "despicable account." In late January, however, Platner sat for a lengthy online interview with Nate Cornacchia, a retired Green Beret who has also promoted antisemitic conspiracy theories. Near the end of their hour-long conversation, Platner, a fellow military veteran, called himself "a longtime fan" of Cornacchia's YouTube channel, "Valhalla VFT," and said it was "an absolute pleasure being" on the show.”

Screenshots of the Valhalla VFT YouTube channel thumbnails include vile racist images of the “Somali fraud scandal” and “robberies and looting” due to SNAP benefits being cut, depicting black people robbing stores

Screenshots of the Valhalla VFT YouTube channel thumbnails include vile racist images of the “Somali fraud scandal” and “robberies and looting” due to SNAP benefits being cut, depicting black people robbing stores

Graham Platner, the guy who had to cover his Nazi tattoo to save his senate campaign in Maine, went on the YouTube channel “Valhalla VFT” in January where he said he’s a “longtime fan of the show.” Check out these vile racist thumbnails from the channel & reporting on the antisemitic host.

01.03.2026 19:26 — 👍 1888    🔁 614    💬 55    📌 152

BREAKING: Credible whistleblower discloses that FBI forensic experts were ordered to stand down from processing the scene where Renee Good was killed, because Kash Patel did not want Good referenced as a “victim” in the warrant.

02.03.2026 20:52 — 👍 10447    🔁 4376    💬 201    📌 255

As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.

02.03.2026 20:39 — 👍 7804    🔁 2165    💬 114    📌 68

There is a very very obvious answer to this question.

02.03.2026 21:53 — 👍 624    🔁 129    💬 7    📌 1

Publicly announcing that the limiting factor on the duration of a war you just started is how long it takes you to get bored with it is an incredible move.

02.03.2026 17:31 — 👍 93    🔁 17    💬 0    📌 3

“war of choice” is a too kind way, in this case, of saying “war of aggression” — and aggression is itself a war crime that generally results in many others.

28.02.2026 16:34 — 👍 441    🔁 108    💬 6    📌 1

And if it’s not clear to those who don’t study the far right, in the idiot math of antisemitic circles 88 stands for HH, as “heil” you know who.

02.03.2026 21:20 — 👍 191    🔁 46    💬 7    📌 3

Maybe he can ask the antisemitic host of the podcast he recently went on (and claims to love) about it.

02.03.2026 21:43 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Why in the world is Melania Trump leading a UN security council meeting? | Arwa Mahdawi The first lady is a Trump and therefore automatically qualified to do anything her heart desires

Why in the world is Melania Trump leading a UN security council meeting? | Arwa Mahdawi

28.02.2026 14:26 — 👍 355    🔁 134    💬 63    📌 33

Also, this:

02.03.2026 21:02 — 👍 75    🔁 11    💬 2    📌 0

Wenn das der einzige Vorfall wäre - ok. Aber das hier ist der Kontext:

02.03.2026 21:01 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Platner sat for lengthy interview with antisemitic conspiracy theorist, said he was ‘longtime fan’ of his show Weeks before Graham Platner promoted an antisemitic conspiracy theorist in a now-deleted social media post on Thursday, the controversial Maine Senate candidate appeared on a popular YouTube show whos...

It just doesn’t stop with Platner. Lying about a Nazi tattoo; dogwhistling Protocols of Elders of Zion; retweeting a Holocaust denier; and now this. Dont tell me this is converting MAGA. It is MAGA. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

02.03.2026 13:54 — 👍 265    🔁 81    💬 16    📌 9

Scott Galloway has been wrong about a lot of things for a long time

02.03.2026 14:24 — 👍 168    🔁 25    💬 14    📌 2
Tweet from Ryan Grim: "Understand what Neera is arguing for here: she thinks that no Democratic candidate should appear on any podcast where a host has flirted with conspiracy theories around Charlie Kirk and Israel. I don't think she understands how many podcasts that includes.

And if you make the opposite argument, and say no, actually, tens of millions of people love those shows, Democrats should be on them, she says I'm "defending anti-semitic conspiracy podcasters." The good news is that this stuff doesn't work anymore. Save your breath, nobody cares."

Tweet from Ryan Grim: "Understand what Neera is arguing for here: she thinks that no Democratic candidate should appear on any podcast where a host has flirted with conspiracy theories around Charlie Kirk and Israel. I don't think she understands how many podcasts that includes. And if you make the opposite argument, and say no, actually, tens of millions of people love those shows, Democrats should be on them, she says I'm "defending anti-semitic conspiracy podcasters." The good news is that this stuff doesn't work anymore. Save your breath, nobody cares."

I really don't think "There are so many antisemitic podcasts out there that you just can't help but appear on them" is the defense they think it is.

02.03.2026 14:07 — 👍 2761    🔁 539    💬 81    📌 97

Another day, another Nazi incident surrounding Platner.

02.03.2026 20:28 — 👍 423    🔁 111    💬 21    📌 13
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Like if another candidate for office put me in this advertisement I would probably say something.

02.03.2026 14:03 — 👍 594    🔁 102    💬 16    📌 89
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The WH reporter for the NYT thinks “that’s the way it is” = expressing condolences. 😳

01.03.2026 23:03 — 👍 2303    🔁 511    💬 228    📌 108

It is actually not all that hard to avoid coming across as a crypto-nazi, main thing is to not be a crypto-nazi

01.03.2026 20:49 — 👍 949    🔁 45    💬 3    📌 2
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Platner sat for lengthy interview with antisemitic conspiracy theorist, said he was ‘longtime fan’ of his show Podcaster Nate Cornacchia has said that Israel was behind John F. Kennedy’s assassination and the global war on terror

I mean...this keeps happening with Platner...

jewishinsider.com/2026/02/grah...

02.03.2026 06:33 — 👍 278    🔁 63    💬 31    📌 6

Platner said he's a long-time fan of THIS show

02.03.2026 01:29 — 👍 417    🔁 119    💬 18    📌 16

Pretty sure the complaint is that young Americans are only in harm's way because the deranged president launched an unconstitutional war without any effort to justify it and, apparently, with no real plan or agenda in mind.

So, now seems like the best time for all that?

02.03.2026 17:25 — 👍 1164    🔁 192    💬 55    📌 3