Annika Brockschmidt

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FWIW, 1924 is when the KKK-backed and eugenics-informed Immigration Act was passed. It was the reopening of immigration in 1965 that Nat Cons like Hazony point to as the moment that "real America" began to be undermined, and which they seek to restore.

Senator Josh Hawley tweeted a Christian Nationalist quote falsely attributed to Patrick Henry that was actually from a 1950s antisemitic and white supremacist magazine. Who cares? I do obviously...but it's worth being precise about why and how we should care and what this fake quote kerfuffle actually tells us about the American right.

I wrote about that Hawley quote last summer. It's indicative of how the genealogy of today's National Conservatives traces back to a distinctively American fascist tradition, of which Hazony seems to be blissfully unaware. open.substack.com/pub/sethcotl...

Well, you're right that America has a somewhat different history, despite the fact that all nations are internally diverse. The United States at its founding was able to come together mostly voluntarily because of the fact that, although the 13 colonies were very different from one another, they were still pretty similar. It was 95 percent or something Anglo-Protestant. And even though there are many different kinds of Protestants, that was sufficient to be able to make the argument that it was one nation, as John Jay writes in The Federalist Papers. Still the differences were sufficiently great that the United States fought this horrific civil war - 70 or 80 years, whatever it was, after the founding. After that, I agree that there have been many stresses, but I don't think anything has come close to the Civil War - except today, in which the move is to say the other side is not legitimate.

Hazony's argument is that the US was founded as an "Anglo-Protestant" country, but one that "eventually" was able to "incorporate" others. First off, 18% of Americans in 1790 were enslaved, so that 95% number is odd. 2nd the Federalists wrote the Alien Enemies act in 1798, aimed at Irish Catholics.

"National Conservatives" like Vance and Hazony can sell this as "not blood and soil nationalism" to segments of the US population because they think America has never been hospitable to that version of nationalism...it's just a European thing. This historical ignorance is a necessary piece of this.

Opinion | Behind Trump and Vance Is This Man’s Movement

My take away from this interview [gift link] is that Vance's "National Conservatism" is a form of blood and soil nationalism that is deeply invested in claiming (and possibly actually believing) that it is NOT a form of blood and soil nationalism.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/o...

Jawoll, ich werde in meinem Urlaub auch sehr viele Podcasts hören. Und mit dieser Episode @femshelfcontrol.bsky.social fange ich an.

Unbedingt anhören - ist, wie immer, höchst informativ. Die Folge hat bei mir was „zum Schwingen“ gebracht - hauptsächlich den Kopf von einer Seite zur anderen. Unterbrochen von einem energischen Nicken, immer wenn Annika „Ich kann nicht mehr!“ gerufen hat. Fürchte ich habe nun ein Schleudertrauma. 🥴

... und ich hab schon an mir selbst gezweifelt, weil ich den DLF-Podcast über Thiel so unerträglich fand, während ihn gefühlt alle anderen gehyped haben.

Unbedingt hier reinhören und staunen, wie die beiden mit liebenswerter Schärfe entlarven, was entlarvt werden muss.

Viel ♥️ für diese Episode.

Was mich an dieser medialen (Nicht)Auseinandersetzung mit Thiel et al auch besonders umtreibt ist dass bürgerliche Journos in D anscheinend irgendwann kollektiv beschlossen haben dass Apartheid gar nicht soo das große Thema war

JUST IN: Senate confirms Jeanine Pirro as US Atty for DC, 50-45

More on Trump’s nominee to lead the office investigating Jack Smith:

➡️ He said that the descendants of slaves should pay reparations to the descendants of slave owners

➡️ He urged Congress to make J6 a national holiday

➡️ He called for Trump’s birthday to be made a national holiday (“MAGA Day”)

Brian Burch confirmed as U.S. ambassador to the Holy See - OSV News In a rare Saturday session, the U.S. Senate voted to confirm Brian Burch, President Trump's nominee for U.S. ambassador to the Holy See, in a vote of 49-44 along party lines Aug. 2.

Beschämend...der US-Senat hat den rechtsradikalen Aktivisten und glühenden Franziskus-Kritiker Brian Burch als Botschafter der USA beim Heiligen Stuhl bestätigt.

(Weil dieser Thread jetzt auf X teils wortwörtlich, samt Bildern und ohne jede Quellenangabe kopiert wird: gebt doch einfach an, woher ihr die Infos habt.)

Nein, bisher nicht

Wolfram Weimer

Wolfram Weimer, der bevormundende Spracherziehung aus ideologischen Gründen ablehnt, erzieht seine Mitarbeiter:innen bevormundend aus ideologischen Gründen zur Verwendung einer bestimmten Sprache.

Politischer Diskurs in einer imaginierten Parallelwelt.

Falls man sich fragt wie die offizielle deutsche Sicht auf Polen 2025 ist, ist hier ein Post des @bundeskultur.bsky.social in dem zum Gedenken an den Warschauer Aufstand 1944 ohne Kontext ein NS-Propagandafoto aus dem Aufstand im Warschauer Ghetto 1943 verwendet wird. Bitter.

Volksseelenminister

As in: Ich darf euch vorschreiben wir ihr zu sprechen habt und zwar so, dass ich, weißer Mann, der Standard bin.

Ideologie haben nur die anderen!

Schon 2020 wies Niklas Weber auf die Verbindung von Frank-Lothar Kroll zu Benjamin Hasselhorn hin, der heute Saßenraths Kollege am Hoeres-Lehrstuhl ist. www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/benja...

Ja, ich war dort.

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Meloni spricht dem EuGH nach Urteil Zuständigkeit ab Für die italienische Regierung ist das EuGH-Urteil zu den sicheren Herkunftsstaaten ein herber Rückschlag. Ministerpräsidentin Meloni ging nach dem Urteil in die Offensive und attackierte das Gericht....

Das ist das, was Faschisten immer tun. Immer. Sie attackieren die Unabhängigkeit der Justiz. www.tagesschau.de/ausland/euro...

Hört auf, mir diese Leute in den Thread zu taggen, bitte.

White power propaganda and the implicit threat of overtly violent eugenics coming from official government channels is quickly becoming normalized as is the use of opaque language and “in group” jokes in a similar manner to non governmental far right propaganda efforts on social media in the past.

US BorderPatrol El Paso Sector FB post photo is ICE agents wearing a flak vest and a cowboy hat. Our horse patrol units have great jeans -- and horses.

No avoiding eugenics any more huh

Paul Ingrassia—a 30-year-old former right-wing blogger and newly minted lawyer who was admitted to the bar in 2024—is Trump’s pick to lead the Office of Special Counsel.

Ingrassia has called Jack Smith a “disgusting man,” accused him of “election interference,” and said he should be jailed.

Ja.