Annika Brockschmidt

And as a final note: just like back then, so many of the people who would have the least to lose by speaking up remain silent. Because doing something would be uncomfortable. Others, meanwhile, can’t wait to assist fascism’s rise (in German: they are Steigbügelhalter) in the name of “civility.” #Fin

I think @historleans.bsky.social is very right in her analysis: we have studied fascism. We KNOW how it worked. What we learn is the emotional dimension of it, how it actually FEELS.

I meant that in 2023. And 2022. And 2021. And 2020,… bsky.app/profile/hist...

The belief that fascists don’t mean what they say/will be “responsible” while in office, the sheer complacency of many, the “doomer” reproaches for the past years, the “A (no state power) is just as bad as B (all state power),” the normalization of violence, the (not so secret) enthusiasm, all here.

As a historian who grew up in Germany, I studied a lot on the collapse of the Weimar Republic and German fascism, especially the early 1930s. The intellectual question of “how could people do this/let this happen” were answered then. Now, people are answering the emotional aspect of that question.

Inhaltlich brauchen wir arbeiten über rechtsradikale baukastensätze, der artikel ist gutes material der funktion von Adverbien- ausgerechnet, angeblich, etc - in der Herstellung von reactionary vibe articles

@StephenM on X: Legal insurrection. The President is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, not an Oregon judge. Portland and Oregon law enforcement, at the direction of local leaders, have refused to aid ICE officers facing relentless terrorist assault and threats to life. (There are more local law enforcement officers in Oregon than there are guns and badges in the FBI nationwide). This is an organized terrorist attack on the federal government and its officers, and the deployment of troops is an absolute necessity to defend our personnel, our laws, our government, public order and the Republic itself.

Everyone is trying to have a normal Saturday night and the president's top advisor is on X announcing that civil war is necessary

Es gibt zahlreiche Beiträge darüber, wie medial-politisch der Umgang mit der A*D und ähnlichen Akteur*innen (weltweit) langsam, aber stetig gesellschaftliche, demokratische Grundlagen aushöhlt. Diese Folge ist diesbezüglich pure Essenz, zu diversen Aspekten. (Empfiehlt sich auch sehr für die Lehre.)

✨️ Große Hörempfehlung - besonders für Journalist*innen und Medienmacher*innen.

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Vielen vielen Dank @ardenthistorian.bsky.social, @tabouchadi.bsky.social und @nadiazaboura.bsky.social für Eure Arbeit.

You are valued!
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Ernüchternd: «Der Blick auf die Geschichte der deutschen Universitäten im 20. Jahrhundert zeigt, dass sie als Institutionen äußerst anpassungsfähig an die politischen Gegebenheiten waren. Gleichzeitig traten sie … nach 1918, 1945 und vor 1989 nicht als Treiber demokratischer Entwicklungen auf.»

ICE Agents Rappel from Helicopter in Overnight Chicago Raid, Dragging Kids from Beds to U-Hauls Overnight on Tuesday, Sept. 30, federal agents from different agencies raided an apartment building on the South Side of Chicago, pulling men, women and children — some of them allegedly naked — from ...

I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...

Purdue University student newspaper parts ways with F-1 visa students The Exponent and the university came to similar conclusions after Purdue distanced itself from the publication this summer.

“We are not hiring international students in the interest of their safety and to avoid jeopardizing their legal status in the United States – not because we don’t want them,” said Editor in Chief Olivia Mapes in an editorial Thursday.
www.wfyi.org/news/article...

A tweet where Alex Jones says he's hosting the live feed of Charlie Kirk's memorial with Kyle Sortor

To call Sortor "conservative" is to grant that "conservative" is a term that could accurately apply to someone who appeared on Alex Jones's livestream of the Charile Kirk memorial.

Arrest of conservative influencer Nick Sortor outside Portland ICE building now under federal investigation | CNN A conservative influencer who this week posted videos of clashes outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Portland, Oregon, has been released without bond after he was arrested late...

Let's talk a bit about the broader context of the DOJ's newly announced investigation of the Portland Police's arrest of "conservative" influencer Nick Sortor. For context, Sortor is one of over a dozen far right "citizen journalists" who has come to Portland. www.cnn.com/2025/10/03/u...

Harmeet K. Dhillon Follow @pnjaban The Rose City Antifa criminal enterprise that made the concrete milkshakes to assault our client @MrAndyNgo had custom cups printed up with their criminal gang symbol. Who is the printer? Can anyone identify who made these cups? 10:57 PM - 29 Jun 2019 4,366 Retweets 6,363 Likes 538 4.4K 6.4K

Fun fact. The current head of the DOJ's Civil Rights division was the lawyer that represented Ngo in his specious claim that the milkshake he was hit with contained cement.

they’re intenionally advertising to and recruiting far right loyalists. they post and reply to explicit groyper memes. they’re not super subtle about what this government is

New reporting from MSNBC and @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social: A source familiar with the matter confirms an FBI agent in the Washington field office has been fired for refusing to arrest and perp walk James Comey. Comey is being allowed to surrender for booking at his arraignment next week

Doubting his worth, Smith needed reassurance. He actively sought Praise and flattery and surrounded himself with sycophants in order to bolster his ego. His vanity and egotism could barely conceal his self-doubt and lack of confidence. He fed on friendships with persons who agreed with him, or pretended to, and he rarely questioned anyone who told him he was a great man. In an attempt to win sympathy and support, he bared his soul to people he hardly knew. When I visited him late in his life, Smith confided his most private thoughts in the hope of gaining my admiration and respect. The supreme irony of his career may have been that his bigoted crusading and hate-mongering were in fact a quest for love. To give meaning to his life and to overcome the tremendous guilt he felt, Smith created out of his own imagination his mission to save civilization and gave it God's stamp of approval. He convinced himself that he had been chosen by God to save Christianity and America. But his hate-inspiring crusades against minorities fulfilled only his own needs. His battle, no less real because internal, was not really against flesh-and-blood foes but against imaginary ones. No evidence exists that he was ever wronged by Jews or Communists. Only their opposition to his activities confirmed his convictions and further fueled his insecurity until at last he lived fully in a world of fantasy in which every action and reaction had a hidden meaning.

These two paragraphs from a 1988 book about the founder of the America First party and the Christian Nationalist Crusade sound a bit like a certain someone in the news these days.

The smartest newsroom in America: is intentionally hitting two people with a vehicle at 70 miles per hour some sort of crime?

Youth Action News was produced by a former associate of George Lincoln Rockwell. Another big National Enquirer fan was this Hitler-admiring upper-middle class woman from West Palm Beach who corresponded with coup-plotting former Lt. General and fascist, Pedro Del Valle. bsky.app/profile/seth...

Tucker Carlson's content is to the 2020s what the National Enquirer or Weekly World News were to the 1980s. The difference is that those two publications were not algorithmically amplified by the world's richest man (the way X amplifies Tucker), and were taken seriously by neither political party.

A statute may "enshrine a tradition," but that is not the only thing it does. A statute codifies law, just the same as statutes criminalizing homicide and bank robbery, and it is just as "clear" that violating the statute is unlawful.

Nope, no translation unfortunately

Nach über 10 Jahren von diesem Quatsch denken wir immer noch, dass virale Videos in denen jemand neurechte talking heads "demaskiert", es ihnen so richtig zeigt, irgendetwas helfen. Stattdessen sind Reichweite, Legitimierung und Normalisierung durch geteilte Räume genau das, was diese Leute wollen.

Hardline nationalist to become Japan’s first female prime minister Takaichi is to succeed prime minister Shigeru Ishiba as she wins in run-off against Shinjiro Koizumi

I won‘t claim to be an expert in Japanese politics but a radical right party doing well in elections and the mainstream right party shifting sharply to the right sounds awfully familiar. Let‘s just say good reasons to believe that this won‘t be great for Japan.

www.independent.co.uk/asia/japan/j...

Absolutely shameful.

Oh, davon gehe ich aus. Aber nicht alle hier kennen sich mit der Forschungslage aus - ich gehe nicht davon aus, dass Merz oder seine Mitarbeitenden sich den Podcast anhören 😅

*Rome burning* Nero is winning.
What's his next move?

Hier ist auch nochmal der Patreon-Link (die Episode ist freigeschaltet für alle):

Audio-Essay: Umgang mit der AfD - was sagt die Forschungslage? - mit Tarik Abou-Chadi

Weil dank Merz jetzt wieder darüber geredet wird, dass man die „AfD inhaltlich stellen“, also ihre Themen bedienen müsse, hier nochmal mein Interview mit @tabouchadi.bsky.social zur Forschungslage (es funktioniert nicht). Wir reden über medialen & politischen Umgang mit Rechtsextremen & was hilft.