Christopher Mathias
@letsgomathias.bsky.social
Reporter covering the far right. Words in Guardian, Zeteo, MSNBC. Formerly HuffPost. Contact: letsgomathias@protonmail.com. Pre-order my book about antifa here: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/To-Catch-a-Fascist/Christopher-Mathias/9781668034767.
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To Catch a Fascist
A searing, provocative investigation into the rise of white nationalist and neo-Nazi movements in the United States, centered on the anti-fascist g...
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You can read more about what antifa actually is in my book To Catch a Fascist: The Fight to Expose the Radical Right, now available for preorder www.simonandschuster.com/books/To-Cat...
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Any, I think this is a opinion piece parading as reporting, a Free Press piece under a New York Times banner.
Lots more in my post:
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...
Lots more in my post:
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...
The NYT Recruiting Brochure for New College
A failing Ron DeSantis higher ed experiment gets a boost
donmoynihan.substack.com
December 28, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Any, I think this is a opinion piece parading as reporting, a Free Press piece under a New York Times banner.
Lots more in my post:
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...
Lots more in my post:
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...
DHS describing its threat to immigrants — to leave their homes in America now for $3000 or be forced to leave, ripped away from families by secret masked police, put in concentration camps — as a "Holiday Deal" is the kind of dystopian shit that would be too on the nose if you put it in a novel
December 28, 2025 at 3:26 PM
DHS describing its threat to immigrants — to leave their homes in America now for $3000 or be forced to leave, ripped away from families by secret masked police, put in concentration camps — as a "Holiday Deal" is the kind of dystopian shit that would be too on the nose if you put it in a novel
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It's annoying to see the hand-wringing over a small number of wealthy people making empty threats to move because of tax increases, when there are actually people leaving desirable places en masse because they can't find affordable places to live
Forever renters: For many in Greater Boston, the American dream of homeownership ‘no longer exists’ - The Boston Globe
Home prices in Greater Boston have surged far faster than incomes, pushing ownership out of reach for many.
www.bostonglobe.com
December 27, 2025 at 1:09 AM
It's annoying to see the hand-wringing over a small number of wealthy people making empty threats to move because of tax increases, when there are actually people leaving desirable places en masse because they can't find affordable places to live
Also insane she attributes outrage over her actions to “slow news week” … when in the last year has there been a fucking slow news week lol. Especially now? admin wants to invade Venezuela, the president is all over the Epstein files….
Bari Weiss just sent this Christmas Eve email to the CBS News staff about "building trust," which includes her tripling down on spiking the CECOT piece "to make sure it's comprehensive and fair."
One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."
One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."
December 24, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Also insane she attributes outrage over her actions to “slow news week” … when in the last year has there been a fucking slow news week lol. Especially now? admin wants to invade Venezuela, the president is all over the Epstein files….
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NEW: A variety of military and intelligence contractors have already signed on to help ICE's immigrant bounty hunter program. A review of procurement data shows 10 companies stand to make up to *ONE BILLION* dollars from the program by 2027. theintercept.com/2025/12/23/i...
10 Companies Have Already Made $1 Million as ICE Bounty Hunters. We Found Them.
And they stand to make millions more in cash bonuses for surveilling and tracking immigrants in service of ICE’s deportation machine.
theintercept.com
December 23, 2025 at 8:40 PM
NEW: A variety of military and intelligence contractors have already signed on to help ICE's immigrant bounty hunter program. A review of procurement data shows 10 companies stand to make up to *ONE BILLION* dollars from the program by 2027. theintercept.com/2025/12/23/i...
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Despite what you may hear, antifa supersoldiers are not running Portland. (Unfortunately.)
For @thebaffler.com, I wrote about Trump's war on the left, NSPM-7, and his administration's new attempts to mobilize the ressentiment of its supporters. thebaffler.com/latest/phant...
For @thebaffler.com, I wrote about Trump's war on the left, NSPM-7, and his administration's new attempts to mobilize the ressentiment of its supporters. thebaffler.com/latest/phant...
Phantom Threat | Hannah Gais
With enough conspiratorial flair, just about anyone can be a fire-breathing radical.
thebaffler.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Despite what you may hear, antifa supersoldiers are not running Portland. (Unfortunately.)
For @thebaffler.com, I wrote about Trump's war on the left, NSPM-7, and his administration's new attempts to mobilize the ressentiment of its supporters. thebaffler.com/latest/phant...
For @thebaffler.com, I wrote about Trump's war on the left, NSPM-7, and his administration's new attempts to mobilize the ressentiment of its supporters. thebaffler.com/latest/phant...
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🚨🚨 SCOOP @ms.now : The Department of Veteran Affairs has quietly implemented its abortion ban following a DOJ memo issued last week.
This will affect 9 million veterans and their dependents, and has been a long time coming: It was outlined in Project 2025.
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This will affect 9 million veterans and their dependents, and has been a long time coming: It was outlined in Project 2025.
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Department of Veterans Affairs quietly implements abortion ban
A VA spokesperson confirmed to MS NOW that the ban was in place following a Department of Justice memo issued last week.
www.ms.now
December 23, 2025 at 4:37 PM
🚨🚨 SCOOP @ms.now : The Department of Veteran Affairs has quietly implemented its abortion ban following a DOJ memo issued last week.
This will affect 9 million veterans and their dependents, and has been a long time coming: It was outlined in Project 2025.
Read/share 👇
This will affect 9 million veterans and their dependents, and has been a long time coming: It was outlined in Project 2025.
Read/share 👇
Also! the 1924 bill was called the Johnson-Reed Act…. named for Klansman Albert Johnson in the House of Representatives!!!
The Second Klan often tried to take credit for the bill and its racial quotas, and for good reason: a lot of its members were in office!
The Second Klan often tried to take credit for the bill and its racial quotas, and for good reason: a lot of its members were in office!
In our deep dive into Stephen Miller, we report that Miller praised Coolidge's 1924 restrictions even though an unpublished history of Miller's ancestry authored by his grandmother explicitly talked about how it closed the door on people like Miller's relatives:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
December 23, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Also! the 1924 bill was called the Johnson-Reed Act…. named for Klansman Albert Johnson in the House of Representatives!!!
The Second Klan often tried to take credit for the bill and its racial quotas, and for good reason: a lot of its members were in office!
The Second Klan often tried to take credit for the bill and its racial quotas, and for good reason: a lot of its members were in office!
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Of historic proportions:
December 23, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Of historic proportions:
Exactly this: the administration’s concentration camps should be a howling, daily outrage, a scandal of historic proportions.
Bari’s complaint was “there’s nothing new here” and while that’s untrue it’s also irrelevant
“we intentionally sent people to be tortured in a hellhole and bragged about it and The Hague is too good for everyone involved” is a story that simply cannot be told enough
“we intentionally sent people to be tortured in a hellhole and bragged about it and The Hague is too good for everyone involved” is a story that simply cannot be told enough
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Exactly this: the administration’s concentration camps should be a howling, daily outrage, a scandal of historic proportions.
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wow sounds like a great book!!
December 23, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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In my book I tell story of grad student who was training as therapist at Oklahoma State University Psychological Resources Center, giving bargain-rate therapy to working-class locals.
Antifa exposed him as influential neo-Nazi who went to Charlottesville rally.
The school then let him graduate.
Antifa exposed him as influential neo-Nazi who went to Charlottesville rally.
The school then let him graduate.
A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university
Graduate instructor who gave failing grade to Samantha Fulnecky no longer teaching at OU
A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university.
www.koco.com
December 23, 2025 at 2:45 AM
In my book I tell story of grad student who was training as therapist at Oklahoma State University Psychological Resources Center, giving bargain-rate therapy to working-class locals.
Antifa exposed him as influential neo-Nazi who went to Charlottesville rally.
The school then let him graduate.
Antifa exposed him as influential neo-Nazi who went to Charlottesville rally.
The school then let him graduate.
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The CBS 60 Minutes Doc confirms what we knew: The U.S. is currently using our tax dollars to imprison brown people with no criminal record in torture camps overseas.
It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...
It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...
CANCELLED 60 MINUTES CECOT DOC
YouTube video by eoin higgins
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December 22, 2025 at 11:39 PM
The CBS 60 Minutes Doc confirms what we knew: The U.S. is currently using our tax dollars to imprison brown people with no criminal record in torture camps overseas.
It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...
It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...
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You can very clearly see why someone whose job it is to protect war criminals would need this pulled from the airwaves: It’s visible proof the Trump administration is operating concentration camps.
I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:
WATCH: Segment CBS News Pulled From "60 Minutes"
YouTube video by Phil Lewis
www.youtube.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:22 PM
You can very clearly see why someone whose job it is to protect war criminals would need this pulled from the airwaves: It’s visible proof the Trump administration is operating concentration camps.
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New from my newsletter: I pile through the responses to the recent antisemitic attack in Australia, all of which repeated the same policies that have failed to keep Jews safe and have been used to attack movements for justice. We need solidarity not police.
maiseh-review.ghost.io/islamophobia...
maiseh-review.ghost.io/islamophobia...
Islamophobia and State Repression Don't Keep Jews Safe
We have heard a lot in the wake of the antisemitic violence in Australia. Just nothing that will make us safer.
maiseh-review.ghost.io
December 21, 2025 at 9:47 PM
New from my newsletter: I pile through the responses to the recent antisemitic attack in Australia, all of which repeated the same policies that have failed to keep Jews safe and have been used to attack movements for justice. We need solidarity not police.
maiseh-review.ghost.io/islamophobia...
maiseh-review.ghost.io/islamophobia...
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AmericaFest revealed a lot about the state of MAGA in the wake of Charlie Kirk's death.
The movement is tearing itself apart in a silent war over Kirk's legacy.
Go read this incredible (and incredibly bleak) feature by @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social right now:
www.ms.now/news/america...
The movement is tearing itself apart in a silent war over Kirk's legacy.
Go read this incredible (and incredibly bleak) feature by @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social right now:
www.ms.now/news/america...
December 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
AmericaFest revealed a lot about the state of MAGA in the wake of Charlie Kirk's death.
The movement is tearing itself apart in a silent war over Kirk's legacy.
Go read this incredible (and incredibly bleak) feature by @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social right now:
www.ms.now/news/america...
The movement is tearing itself apart in a silent war over Kirk's legacy.
Go read this incredible (and incredibly bleak) feature by @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social right now:
www.ms.now/news/america...
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For the second time in as many days, the vice president has declared some iteration of "it's ok to be white."
www.ms.now/news/jd-vanc...
www.ms.now/news/jd-vanc...
December 22, 2025 at 3:31 PM
For the second time in as many days, the vice president has declared some iteration of "it's ok to be white."
www.ms.now/news/jd-vanc...
www.ms.now/news/jd-vanc...
Bari Weiss saw that famous Malcolm X quote - “If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing” - and saw a business model
Her whole thing is “No, it is the executives who are actually oppressed.”
Once you view any decision she makes through that lens, everything makes sense, including how she’s gotten to where she is.
Once you view any decision she makes through that lens, everything makes sense, including how she’s gotten to where she is.
In 2022, Bari Weiss ran this viral first-person piece by a top Levi’s executive. She claimed she was hounded out of the company because of her vocal stance on COVID restrictions.
There are no quotes from the company. Or her colleagues.
Not even a “no comment.”
www.thefp.com/p/yesterday-...
There are no quotes from the company. Or her colleagues.
Not even a “no comment.”
www.thefp.com/p/yesterday-...
December 22, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Bari Weiss saw that famous Malcolm X quote - “If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing” - and saw a business model
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In 2022, Bari Weiss ran this viral first-person piece by a top Levi’s executive. She claimed she was hounded out of the company because of her vocal stance on COVID restrictions.
There are no quotes from the company. Or her colleagues.
Not even a “no comment.”
www.thefp.com/p/yesterday-...
There are no quotes from the company. Or her colleagues.
Not even a “no comment.”
www.thefp.com/p/yesterday-...
Yesterday I Was Levi’s Brand President. I Quit So I Could Be Free.
I turned down $1 million severance in exchange for my voice.
www.thefp.com
December 22, 2025 at 8:30 PM
In 2022, Bari Weiss ran this viral first-person piece by a top Levi’s executive. She claimed she was hounded out of the company because of her vocal stance on COVID restrictions.
There are no quotes from the company. Or her colleagues.
Not even a “no comment.”
www.thefp.com/p/yesterday-...
There are no quotes from the company. Or her colleagues.
Not even a “no comment.”
www.thefp.com/p/yesterday-...
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The full Weiss memo is dogshit
-who cares if administration figures “regret” sending people to CECOT
-who cares about the criminal histories of the people we sent to CECOT, we sent them to a torture prison
—who cares about the “debate” over the legality of sending people to a torture prison
-who cares if administration figures “regret” sending people to CECOT
-who cares about the criminal histories of the people we sent to CECOT, we sent them to a torture prison
—who cares about the “debate” over the legality of sending people to a torture prison
December 22, 2025 at 7:28 PM
The full Weiss memo is dogshit
-who cares if administration figures “regret” sending people to CECOT
-who cares about the criminal histories of the people we sent to CECOT, we sent them to a torture prison
—who cares about the “debate” over the legality of sending people to a torture prison
-who cares if administration figures “regret” sending people to CECOT
-who cares about the criminal histories of the people we sent to CECOT, we sent them to a torture prison
—who cares about the “debate” over the legality of sending people to a torture prison
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If you’ve seen posts about our show, these “Who the Hell?” episodes are a great place to start.
They’re hours-long deep dives on MAGA era stars that involve a ton of original research and reporting. We had the very funny and wicked smart @oldmanweldon.bsky.social with us on this one.
They’re hours-long deep dives on MAGA era stars that involve a ton of original research and reporting. We had the very funny and wicked smart @oldmanweldon.bsky.social with us on this one.
Our latest installment in our listener-favorite “Who the Hell?” series is out. @oldmanweldon.bsky.social helped us retrace the life and career of Bill Maher, one of corporate media’s favorite “centrist” types.
People really hate this guy. We tried to explain why.
www.patreon.com/posts/145713...
People really hate this guy. We tried to explain why.
www.patreon.com/posts/145713...
064: Who the Hell is Bill Maher? feat. Will Weldon | Posting Through It
Get more from Posting Through It on Patreon
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December 22, 2025 at 7:35 PM
If you’ve seen posts about our show, these “Who the Hell?” episodes are a great place to start.
They’re hours-long deep dives on MAGA era stars that involve a ton of original research and reporting. We had the very funny and wicked smart @oldmanweldon.bsky.social with us on this one.
They’re hours-long deep dives on MAGA era stars that involve a ton of original research and reporting. We had the very funny and wicked smart @oldmanweldon.bsky.social with us on this one.
pointed use of “Venezuelans” without indicating that they are migrants sent there without due process against a court order
Also: she argues segment didn’t advance reporting already done by NYT … but that’s the point of TV news sometimes? More powerful to have footage of interviews than quotes
Also: she argues segment didn’t advance reporting already done by NYT … but that’s the point of TV news sometimes? More powerful to have footage of interviews than quotes
NEW: Bari Weiss addresses her decision to hold last night's CECOT story on the CBS News morning editorial call: "Our viewers come first, not a listing schedule or anything else..."
December 22, 2025 at 3:09 PM
pointed use of “Venezuelans” without indicating that they are migrants sent there without due process against a court order
Also: she argues segment didn’t advance reporting already done by NYT … but that’s the point of TV news sometimes? More powerful to have footage of interviews than quotes
Also: she argues segment didn’t advance reporting already done by NYT … but that’s the point of TV news sometimes? More powerful to have footage of interviews than quotes
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Read my dispatch from AmericaFest and maybe I’ll get to go to more weird things.
www.ms.now/news/america...
www.ms.now/news/america...
Inside AmericaFest: Infighting, lies, and the desperate search for Charlie Kirk's heir
Turning Point USA's flagship event, once a star-spangled show of strength for the right, revealed a MAGA movement in crisis following Kirk's killing.
www.ms.now
December 22, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Read my dispatch from AmericaFest and maybe I’ll get to go to more weird things.
www.ms.now/news/america...
www.ms.now/news/america...
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bari is the standard bearer for the media types who think any journalism that leads the consumer toward a left-wing position must be tempered and balanced until it doesn’t.
December 22, 2025 at 5:49 AM
bari is the standard bearer for the media types who think any journalism that leads the consumer toward a left-wing position must be tempered and balanced until it doesn’t.