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

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It’s almost as if America’s oligarchs think democracy poses a major threat to their power and hence needs to be acquired like one buys a business competitor, so as to neutralize them.

21.11.2025 14:02 — 👍 250    🔁 77    💬 5    📌 3
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Elon Musk’s Grokipedia cites Stormfront — a neo-Nazi forum — dozens of times, study finds An analysis by researchers at Cornell University is the first comprehensive look at Grokipedia since Musk launched his project last month.

Elon Musk's Grokipedia cites a neo-Nazi website 42 times, researchers say www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...

20.11.2025 15:05 — 👍 539    🔁 250    💬 34    📌 54

Meine Bücher „Die Brandstifter. Wie Extremisten die Republikanische Partei übernahmen“ und „Amerikas Gotteskrieger. Wie die Religiöse Rechte die Demokratie gefährdet“ (Rowohlt) sind laut Hoeres in der „Welt“ „radikale linke Kampfschriften“. Merch Idee?

21.11.2025 11:21 — 👍 1208    🔁 197    💬 128    📌 10

Hoeres ist ja auch mal beim MCC in einem Podcast aufgetreten… anyways…

21.11.2025 11:06 — 👍 20    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Hoeres schreibt in der Welt Hoeres Sachen (ob ich Verfasserin „radikaler linker Kampfschriften“ in meine Vita aufnehmen soll?)

21.11.2025 11:02 — 👍 214    🔁 25    💬 15    📌 0

Immer mal was Neues über sich erfahren!

21.11.2025 11:01 — 👍 56    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF

20.11.2025 17:56 — 👍 10285    🔁 3900    💬 148    📌 79
Now, that wasn’t a question for a number of years. People have accused Trump of antisemitism, but it turns out that that was pretty much hot air. Donald Trump gave a very, very clear answer to this. He likes having Jews in his coalition. Trump turns out to have probably the most pro-Jewish administration that there’s ever been.

Now, that wasn’t a question for a number of years. People have accused Trump of antisemitism, but it turns out that that was pretty much hot air. Donald Trump gave a very, very clear answer to this. He likes having Jews in his coalition. Trump turns out to have probably the most pro-Jewish administration that there’s ever been.


A U.S. Coast Guard vessel sails past the Statue of Liberty in New York earlier this year. (Getty Images)
BREAKING NEWS
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”

A U.S. Coast Guard vessel sails past the Statue of Liberty in New York earlier this year. (Getty Images) BREAKING NEWS U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”

On the left side, Yoram Hazony to Ross Douthat in the NYT, today. (www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/o...)

On the right side, a headline in the Washington Post, also today. (wapo.st/3Mbd9a6)

20.11.2025 18:36 — 👍 103    🔁 35    💬 2    📌 4
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Student's alleged threat sparks concern at UB Authorities search UB student's home amid alleged shooting threat. Multiple firearms confiscated; no ongoing campus threat, says UB Police.

1. UBuffalo student overheard threatening to "shoot up the school" with AR-15 in his backpack.

2. He is president of the campud chapter of the marquee conservativeb group Young Americans for Freedom.

3. This should be in the New York Times.

www.wgrz.com/article/news...

20.11.2025 21:46 — 👍 106    🔁 43    💬 2    📌 6
R. Emmett Tyrell, Jr., editor-in-chief of The American Spectator, and a well-known conservative columnist, wrote at the time specte Werren Richardson nomination:
"Liberty Lobby was founded in the mid-1950's by Willis Carto. Carto remains to this day its mainspring and its devoted treasurer. It has always had a colorful collection of bigots and simpletons around it practicing the solitary vice of political extremism -- namely, applying conspiracy theories to every vexatious public problem."
Finally, the conservative weekly, Human Events, described Liberty
Lobby, in its May 2, 1981 issue, as:
"An organization which most responsible conservatives have long believed exploits racist and antiSemitic sentiments and which is headed by Wills [sic] Carto, who has long been sympathetic to Hitler's Germany."

R. Emmett Tyrell, Jr., editor-in-chief of The American Spectator, and a well-known conservative columnist, wrote at the time specte Werren Richardson nomination: "Liberty Lobby was founded in the mid-1950's by Willis Carto. Carto remains to this day its mainspring and its devoted treasurer. It has always had a colorful collection of bigots and simpletons around it practicing the solitary vice of political extremism -- namely, applying conspiracy theories to every vexatious public problem." Finally, the conservative weekly, Human Events, described Liberty Lobby, in its May 2, 1981 issue, as: "An organization which most responsible conservatives have long believed exploits racist and antiSemitic sentiments and which is headed by Wills [sic] Carto, who has long been sympathetic to Hitler's Germany."

It was impossible to be on "the right" in DC from the 1960s into the 1980s & not be aware of The Liberty Lobby. Most self-described "conservatives" dismissed Carto and the LL as "fringe kooks" who had little influence and weren't worth paying attention to. Unfair to tar the whole "right" with them.

20.11.2025 19:25 — 👍 61    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 0
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DAILY WORLD Tuesday, July 16, 1974
Politics
By MIKE ZAGARELL
(1)
To most Americans, nazism and antiSemitism are something foreign. Almost daily, politicians, some supported by antiSemitic organizations.
make
speeches
trying to convince the people of our coun try that the fight against anti-Semitism is the fight for the right of Soviet Jews to go live in Israel. In today's context, this includes newly occupied Arab land.
While these politicians keep pointing somewhere else. the fact is that within our country an anti-Semitic and racist web is growing.
Where is the headquarters of the world nazi movement?
West Germany? South Africa? Spain?
Greece?
All of these are good guesses. but the answer can not be found abroad. It can be found in Arlington. Virginia. four miles from Washington. D.C.. fifteen minutes from the Capitol building.
The headquarters of the World Alliance of National Socialists was set up in the mid-Sixties at the world meeting of
This article begins a consecutive six-part series
by Mike Zagarell
dealing with anti-Semitism in the
U.S, and its relevance to current electoral politics. You may order copies through your newsdealer or, for extra copies, phone 924-2523.
nazi groups in Gotswald. England.
At-
tending the conference were nazis from 25 countries. It is not accidental that the nazis of the world chose to make the United States their world headquarters. The United States is probably the world's largest producer of anti-Semitic literature.
While government officials travel the world over, speaking of supposed Soviet anti-Semitism. a vast web of anti-Semitic and racist organizations spew out their hate message daily aeross the United States.
A key part of the anti-Semitic web is the Liberty Lobby. Based in Washington.
D.C.. it was formed in the mid-Fifties. It now boasts it has more than 2.500 members on its board of policy. It employs more than 40 staff members. and its newsletter goes to an estimated 200,000 readers monthly.
Among its litera…

Page 6 DAILY WORLD Tuesday, July 16, 1974 Politics By MIKE ZAGARELL (1) To most Americans, nazism and antiSemitism are something foreign. Almost daily, politicians, some supported by antiSemitic organizations. make speeches trying to convince the people of our coun try that the fight against anti-Semitism is the fight for the right of Soviet Jews to go live in Israel. In today's context, this includes newly occupied Arab land. While these politicians keep pointing somewhere else. the fact is that within our country an anti-Semitic and racist web is growing. Where is the headquarters of the world nazi movement? West Germany? South Africa? Spain? Greece? All of these are good guesses. but the answer can not be found abroad. It can be found in Arlington. Virginia. four miles from Washington. D.C.. fifteen minutes from the Capitol building. The headquarters of the World Alliance of National Socialists was set up in the mid-Sixties at the world meeting of This article begins a consecutive six-part series by Mike Zagarell dealing with anti-Semitism in the U.S, and its relevance to current electoral politics. You may order copies through your newsdealer or, for extra copies, phone 924-2523. nazi groups in Gotswald. England. At- tending the conference were nazis from 25 countries. It is not accidental that the nazis of the world chose to make the United States their world headquarters. The United States is probably the world's largest producer of anti-Semitic literature. While government officials travel the world over, speaking of supposed Soviet anti-Semitism. a vast web of anti-Semitic and racist organizations spew out their hate message daily aeross the United States. A key part of the anti-Semitic web is the Liberty Lobby. Based in Washington. D.C.. it was formed in the mid-Fifties. It now boasts it has more than 2.500 members on its board of policy. It employs more than 40 staff members. and its newsletter goes to an estimated 200,000 readers monthly. Among its litera…

By 1974 the Liberty Lobby is raising money for 33 people running for Congress, 29 of whom won. Carto is one of the main ring leaders of a resurgence of neo-Nazism around the globe, and he's in regular friendly contact with a surprisingly large number of US "conservative" politicians and media types.

20.11.2025 19:18 — 👍 81    🔁 10    💬 2    📌 0
The WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Aq
Drew Pearson
Washington
-While the world press has
sounded the alarm over the rise of Neo-Nazism in Germany, the extremist Liberty Lobby held a convention last weekend right in the capital of the United States.
The featured speaker was Rep.
Watson, R.-S.C., who previously has let the organization use his name to promote its propaganda. Also listed on the program was Congressman-elect John Rarick, D-La
The Liberty Lobby is supported on Capitol Hill by a number of other right-lane fellow travelers, including Congressmen E. Y Berry, R-S.D., W. J. Bryan Dorn, D-S.C., John Dowdy, D-Tex., Otto Passman, D-La.,
Joe Waggoner Jr., D.
La., and John Bell Williams, D-Miss.
The concern over the resurgence of Neo-Nazism in Germany is such that 29 distinguished Americans, including former Under-
State Robert Murphy
Charles Saltzman, have conducted an investigation of the German situation.
But little public concern has been expressed over the way the same philosophy is gaining converts in the ruling circles of America. No one is investigating the Liberty Lobby whose founder and leader, lis Carto, is an outspoken admirer of Adolf
Carto not only has called Hitler's defeat a historical tragedy, but has inspired propaganda in this country against both Jews and Negroes. He has gone so far as to start a campaign to exile to Africa all American citizens whose skin happens to be black. In his letters to fellow extremists, at least those seen by this column, he hasn't said how he would solve the "Jewish problem."
Roll Call of Lobbyists
Carto has surrounded himself on Liberty Lobby's policy board with such extremists as the following
Tyler Kent—He was convicted by a British court in 1940 for delivering secret information to the Axis. The Liberty Lobby describes Kent as "an authentic American hero who was illegally sent to a British jail
to expose Roosevelt's criminal
war plans."
Ed Delaney-As a broadcaster on Berlin radio, he worked for the Nazi foreign office…

The WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Aq Drew Pearson Washington -While the world press has sounded the alarm over the rise of Neo-Nazism in Germany, the extremist Liberty Lobby held a convention last weekend right in the capital of the United States. The featured speaker was Rep. Watson, R.-S.C., who previously has let the organization use his name to promote its propaganda. Also listed on the program was Congressman-elect John Rarick, D-La The Liberty Lobby is supported on Capitol Hill by a number of other right-lane fellow travelers, including Congressmen E. Y Berry, R-S.D., W. J. Bryan Dorn, D-S.C., John Dowdy, D-Tex., Otto Passman, D-La., Joe Waggoner Jr., D. La., and John Bell Williams, D-Miss. The concern over the resurgence of Neo-Nazism in Germany is such that 29 distinguished Americans, including former Under- State Robert Murphy Charles Saltzman, have conducted an investigation of the German situation. But little public concern has been expressed over the way the same philosophy is gaining converts in the ruling circles of America. No one is investigating the Liberty Lobby whose founder and leader, lis Carto, is an outspoken admirer of Adolf Carto not only has called Hitler's defeat a historical tragedy, but has inspired propaganda in this country against both Jews and Negroes. He has gone so far as to start a campaign to exile to Africa all American citizens whose skin happens to be black. In his letters to fellow extremists, at least those seen by this column, he hasn't said how he would solve the "Jewish problem." Roll Call of Lobbyists Carto has surrounded himself on Liberty Lobby's policy board with such extremists as the following Tyler Kent—He was convicted by a British court in 1940 for delivering secret information to the Axis. The Liberty Lobby describes Kent as "an authentic American hero who was illegally sent to a British jail to expose Roosevelt's criminal war plans." Ed Delaney-As a broadcaster on Berlin radio, he worked for the Nazi foreign office…

A significant number of Congressmen and their staffs have been identified as having friendly relations with a straight up neo-Nazi outfit called the Liberty Lobby, run by a man named Willis Carto who has busts of Hitler in his office. Strangely, it seems few are all that concerned. The year is 1967.

20.11.2025 19:15 — 👍 296    🔁 91    💬 5    📌 8

Absolutely incredible; after shooting Marimar Martinez 5 times and arresting her on claims that she rammed them and pulled a gun, prosecutors have now moved to dismiss ALL criminal charges against her and her codefendant.

20.11.2025 17:50 — 👍 3940    🔁 1231    💬 84    📌 54
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U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

20.11.2025 20:53 — 👍 26    🔁 11    💬 1    📌 5
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U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”

So much for the Trump administration's alleged concern abt antisemitism. New Coast Guard (under DHS) policy now says swastikas and nooses are no longer considered hate symbols but just "potentially divisive." Coast Guard/DHS Officials refuse to respond.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

20.11.2025 21:18 — 👍 154    🔁 61    💬 18    📌 18
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Trump is calling for the six Democratic lawmakers who urged the military not to follow any illegal orders to be arrested, and he’s reposting replies saying they should be hanged and calling them terrorists.

20.11.2025 14:23 — 👍 3703    🔁 1556    💬 567    📌 261

Trump Suggests Hanging Democratic Members Of Congress

www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

20.11.2025 15:23 — 👍 71    🔁 12    💬 6    📌 4
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A message sent by a fan on Nick’s show last night. It isn’t 30-40%, but it is happening

19.11.2025 00:47 — 👍 48    🔁 14    💬 0    📌 3

Wird bezeichnet als party realignment. Beschreibe ich in „Die Brandstifter“ ausführlich- das gab es auch mal bei der BPB, weiß aber nicht ob da noch Exemplare übrig sind

20.11.2025 11:38 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ja, gerade. Unfassbar

20.11.2025 11:37 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

CDC now spreading anti-vax lies under RFK Jr.

20.11.2025 11:37 — 👍 233    🔁 74    💬 6    📌 2

Wenn doch nur die Unionsparteien das mit ernsthaftem Willen lesen würden, daraus zu lernen. Das macht mich so fertig, diese Überheblichkeit, mit der man glaubt, man könne es besser.

21.07.2025 15:03 — 👍 78    🔁 15    💬 2    📌 0

Vielen Dank fürs Kommen! 💖

19.11.2025 23:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Das hat so Spaß gemacht! Und auch teilweise sprachlos. Herrje!

19.11.2025 21:44 — 👍 13    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Ich freu mich schon auf heute Abend!

19.11.2025 14:27 — 👍 19    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Annika Brockschmidt & Anja Rützel - Lesetage 2025 - „Der Bätschcast – LIVE“ - Reservix - dein Ticketportal Annika Brockschmidt & Anja Rützel - Lesetage 2025 - „Der Bätschcast – LIVE“ in Wolfsburg, Hallenbad - Kultur am Schachtweg am Mi. 19.11.2025 um 20:00 Uhr

Wolfsburg! @anjaruetzel.bsky.social & ich sind am 19.11. mit unserer Show "Trash TV & Politik" im Hallenbad zu Gast. Es wird ein wilder Ritt durch den US-Bachelor, christlichen Fundamentalismus und verwandte Trash Formate. Vorwissen nicht nötig! Ein paar Tickets gibts noch, kommt vorbei!

18.11.2025 10:10 — 👍 116    🔁 26    💬 5    📌 2

European political scientists are blue in the face from constantly pointing out that accommodating the far right does not help centre-left parties win, and contributes to the rise of far-right parties. There's a mountain of data to support that.

But no, the galaxy-brained strategists must be right.

18.11.2025 11:58 — 👍 1358    🔁 326    💬 14    📌 12

Trump just called Mohammed bin Salman a "very good friend" and added, "we've always been on the same side of every issue."

This is the first time MBS has been on U.S. soil since Saudi agents murdered and dismembered Jamal Khashoggi.

Trump praised MBS's record on human rights.

18.11.2025 17:45 — 👍 1347    🔁 534    💬 103    📌 49
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CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination Audio recordings, intercepted phone calls and other intelligence link Mohammed bin Salman to killing that Saudis say was conducted by rogue elements.

A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.

www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...

18.11.2025 18:05 — 👍 29411    🔁 12374    💬 1128    📌 666

„Things happen“
Kashoggi was dismembered, murdered, at the Saudi consulate, at the orders of the man Trump is defending and sitting next to.

18.11.2025 18:33 — 👍 429    🔁 117    💬 19    📌 4

@ardenthistorian is following 19 prominent accounts