David Neiwert

Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important.

We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."

Everything—I repeat, everything—with these clowns is projection.

People Are Underestimating America’s Groyper Problem Rising American anti-Semitism isn’t a foreign influence operation.

No, America's rising anti-Semitism is not an online illusion created by foreign-run social media accounts on X. I wrote about how this comforting fiction is contradicted by real world events and survey data. Foreigners can fan the flames, but they didn't start the fire. We did. Gift link:

DOGE was not a money-saving effort. It was an effort to chase down and prove right-wing conspiracy theories. They went after USAID to prove conspiracy theories about foreign aid. Then they went after SSA to, again, pursue conspiracy theories about Dems paying "illegals" to vote. 1/2

The Trump administration announced that starting Jan. 1, the cost of an annual national park pass for non-U.S. residents will jump from $80 to $250 more than triple the current price.

Bullies. I have had a compulsion to bully them reciprocally since I was a kid. Later I channeled that impulse into simply reporting on them and exposing them.

It’s the only exception I make to defending people from bullying.

This is SOP for Fox: If it makes Republicans look bad, pretend it didn’t happen. They did the same thing with Jan. 6.

Thanks. I seem to be unable to correct that.

Not an exaggeration.

Ku Klux Klan in Oregon - Wikipedia

Also worth recalling that the Klan controlled Oregon state government in roughly the same period as Indiana—i.e., the early 1920s.

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Just another reminder that the primary problem with Seattle law enforcement is that the officers they hire (usually not residents) have a deep and abiding contempt for the city’s residents fed by a steady Fox News diet. And their union chief embodies that.

Alt text: A tweet from the Seattle Police Officers Guild featuring a statement from President Mike Solan. It comments on the lengthy vote count for Seattle's mayoral election, suggests election process reform, thanks outgoing Mayor Harrell, and looks forward to working with Mayor-Elect Wilson. Tone is formal and anticipatory.

Mike Solan, SPD guild president, issued a statement openly questioning the validity of the votes for Katie Wilson.

Solan's embrace of the far right & SPD's history of aggression could make a dangerous situation if the national guard is sent to #Seattle.

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Not a Communist or a Socialist or a Maoist. Just a Narcissist.

I had a run in with ICE snatching a man out of his car while walking my children to school this morning in NW DC

I asked a neighbor to continue walking my kids to school and I turned back to document and confront the ICE agents.

I am in contact with @dcmigrantmutualaid.org with the full video.

This is the Homunculus President.

Exclusive | Heritage Foundation in revolt over Tucker Carlson defense after controversial Nick Fuentes interview: ‘Footsie with literal Nazis’ “I’m disgusted by this,” said one Heritage staffer.

My assumption is that the New York Post has better sources inside Heritage than most other press outlets. One tidbit of note: Princeton's Robert P. George, a Heritage trustee, is said to be pushing fellow board members to oust its president Kevin Roberts. Hope he succeeds.

What It’s Like to Meet an Orca The most profound experiences of our lives are unphotographable, untiktokable, irreducible to representation in image or gesture, for they summon the totality of our being: sensation and perception…

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DOJ Caught Deleting Court Record for Pardoned Jan. 6 Rioter Who Targeted Obama’s Home with a Gun Something deeply unsettling is unfolding inside the Department of Justice, and even veteran reporters are stunned. NBC News investigative correspondent Ken Dilanian didn’t mince words after discoverin...

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Every Trans Suicide Is A Murder By Those In Power News came this week that transgender athlete and student Lia Smith took her life at just 21 years of age.

1. This week, news emerged that former trans athlete, student at Middlebury, and advocate for trans rights, Lia Smith, was found dead.

Her death was ruled a suicide.

But I argue that it's not only a suicide. Every trans suicide is a murder by those in power.

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Trump getting away with, and the Supreme Court signing off on, designating "ANTIFA" as a "foreign terrorist group" is as likely as the administration getting away with, and the Supreme Court signing off on, Trump making war against a country that doesn't export fentanyl, for exporting fentanyl. So.

Trump talks of designating antifa a foreign terrorist group That would have real legal consequences.

So, thoughts on the dictatorship's next steps... 1/x

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Trump's ongoing push to create an American police state once again hinges on the 'Antifa' chimera His first attempt to overthrow democracy on Jan. 6 depended on a bogeyman who never showed, and his drive to push a police state on Democratic cities is following suit

As it happens, I have given this some thought as well.

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Coulda played Runcorn.

Yeah, that’s some tiger and elephant and giraffe.

Worth a read!

Neiwert observes: none of the text messages et al. produced as evidence of Robinson's motive were written *before* the shooting. The whole transgender storyline may be a false flag concocted by Robinson and his roommate.

Charlie Kirk perfected the ‘blame political violence on the left’ schtick, even when the perpetrators were undeniably right-wing. So naturally, his followers are using the same script in the wake of his murder.

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Donald Trump renovating the White House.

Merkley: "What we've seen is that democracies no longer die bc men w/guns go in and take it over. Instead, it's electeds who erode the separation of power. If you have a rubber-stamp Congress & courts that deliver more power to the executive, suddenly you have an authoritarian state. It's here now."

There’s always the inevitable realization.

MAGA World is wrestling with the smoky demons of their own conjuring when they try to sell the idea of a dire existential threat in the hazy shape of “Antifa,” just as it did on Jan. 6.

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