Laura K Field
@lkatfield.bsky.social
Writer, political theorist in DC. My book, Furious Minds, about the MAGA New Right is now out. Bylines at The Bulwark, The New Republic, Politico.
www.lkfield.com
American University, Illiberalism Studies at GW, Brookings
www.lkfield.com
American University, Illiberalism Studies at GW, Brookings
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THIS. IS. SERVICE. JOURNALISM.
some Public Service Journalism: I took that Minnesota judge's pdf list of court orders that ICE violated, found all the cases on CourtListener and linked to the dockets reason.com/2026/01/30/j...
January 31, 2026 at 12:34 AM
THIS. IS. SERVICE. JOURNALISM.
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Chris Rufo is so upset about the Minneapolis protests that he is resorting to anti-Nordic racism christopherrufo.com/p/the-curse-...
January 30, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Chris Rufo is so upset about the Minneapolis protests that he is resorting to anti-Nordic racism christopherrufo.com/p/the-curse-...
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Positive and comprehensive review of Laura K. Field's: Furious Minds. The Making of the MAGA New Right in Dutch newspaper NRC.
"A bright and accessible 'tour d'horizon' of the thinkers of the right-wing revolution in the USA".
@lkatfield.bsky.social
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"A bright and accessible 'tour d'horizon' of the thinkers of the right-wing revolution in the USA".
@lkatfield.bsky.social
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...
Wie zijn de mega-breinen achter de MAGA-revolte?
Ideologie: Dom rechts? De Trumpiaanse omwenteling die zich momenteel in de VS ontvouwt, is aangejaagd door erudiete schrijftafelrevolutionairen. Een politieke journalist brengt het netwerk van de eggh...
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January 30, 2026 at 7:35 AM
Positive and comprehensive review of Laura K. Field's: Furious Minds. The Making of the MAGA New Right in Dutch newspaper NRC.
"A bright and accessible 'tour d'horizon' of the thinkers of the right-wing revolution in the USA".
@lkatfield.bsky.social
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...
"A bright and accessible 'tour d'horizon' of the thinkers of the right-wing revolution in the USA".
@lkatfield.bsky.social
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...
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Read the review online:
The Unraveling Right
The MAGA movement is fracturing between donors, intellectuals, influencers, and an increasingly radical base.
washingtonmonthly.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Read the review online:
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“It turns out that Charlie Kirk was the glue holding MAGA together,” historian @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social writes in his review of @lkatfield.bsky.social's book on the MAGA new right. Now, the movement is fracturing between donors, intellectuals, influencers, and an increasingly radical base.
January 29, 2026 at 3:05 PM
“It turns out that Charlie Kirk was the glue holding MAGA together,” historian @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social writes in his review of @lkatfield.bsky.social's book on the MAGA new right. Now, the movement is fracturing between donors, intellectuals, influencers, and an increasingly radical base.
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My latest in @washingtonmonthly.com: a review essay of @lkatfield.bsky.social's FURIOUS MINDS, which I thought was an excellent overview of the various strains of the MAGA Right even as they may (hopefully) be imploding in real time. washingtonmonthly.com/2026/01/29/t...
The Unraveling Right
The MAGA movement is fracturing between donors, intellectuals, influencers, and an increasingly radical base.
washingtonmonthly.com
January 29, 2026 at 4:00 PM
My latest in @washingtonmonthly.com: a review essay of @lkatfield.bsky.social's FURIOUS MINDS, which I thought was an excellent overview of the various strains of the MAGA Right even as they may (hopefully) be imploding in real time. washingtonmonthly.com/2026/01/29/t...
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I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio.
Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3.
Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.
Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3.
Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.
January 28, 2026 at 11:38 PM
I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio.
Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3.
Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.
Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3.
Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.
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I am absolutely loving press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... by
@lkatfield.bsky.social
Completely engrossing, terrifying, and so well-written.
@lkatfield.bsky.social
Completely engrossing, terrifying, and so well-written.
All Books
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January 29, 2026 at 12:22 AM
I am absolutely loving press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... by
@lkatfield.bsky.social
Completely engrossing, terrifying, and so well-written.
@lkatfield.bsky.social
Completely engrossing, terrifying, and so well-written.
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Speaker Announcement 🎙️
Excited to announce that former CIA Analyst and author of The Missionary Kids: Unmasking the Myths of White Evangelicalism, Holly Berkley Fletcher will be at The #PrinciplesFirst 2026 Summit: America 250
Get your tickets today!
www.principlesfirst.us/summit/the-2...
Excited to announce that former CIA Analyst and author of The Missionary Kids: Unmasking the Myths of White Evangelicalism, Holly Berkley Fletcher will be at The #PrinciplesFirst 2026 Summit: America 250
Get your tickets today!
www.principlesfirst.us/summit/the-2...
January 27, 2026 at 7:32 PM
Speaker Announcement 🎙️
Excited to announce that former CIA Analyst and author of The Missionary Kids: Unmasking the Myths of White Evangelicalism, Holly Berkley Fletcher will be at The #PrinciplesFirst 2026 Summit: America 250
Get your tickets today!
www.principlesfirst.us/summit/the-2...
Excited to announce that former CIA Analyst and author of The Missionary Kids: Unmasking the Myths of White Evangelicalism, Holly Berkley Fletcher will be at The #PrinciplesFirst 2026 Summit: America 250
Get your tickets today!
www.principlesfirst.us/summit/the-2...
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I’ve learned so much from “Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right” by Laura K. Field. 5 ⭐️ @lkatfield.bsky.social
January 27, 2026 at 3:58 AM
I’ve learned so much from “Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right” by Laura K. Field. 5 ⭐️ @lkatfield.bsky.social
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Speaker Announcement 🎙️
Dr. @lkatfield.bsky.social, expert on American far-right populist intellectualism & author of Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right, will be joining us for the #PrinciplesFirst 2026 Summit: America 250
Get your tickets today!
www.principlesfirst.us/summit/the-2...
Dr. @lkatfield.bsky.social, expert on American far-right populist intellectualism & author of Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right, will be joining us for the #PrinciplesFirst 2026 Summit: America 250
Get your tickets today!
www.principlesfirst.us/summit/the-2...
January 27, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Speaker Announcement 🎙️
Dr. @lkatfield.bsky.social, expert on American far-right populist intellectualism & author of Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right, will be joining us for the #PrinciplesFirst 2026 Summit: America 250
Get your tickets today!
www.principlesfirst.us/summit/the-2...
Dr. @lkatfield.bsky.social, expert on American far-right populist intellectualism & author of Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right, will be joining us for the #PrinciplesFirst 2026 Summit: America 250
Get your tickets today!
www.principlesfirst.us/summit/the-2...
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I'm digging into @lkatfield.bsky.social's Furious Minds and loving it - lots to chew on and engagingly written.
Furious Minds
“[An] excellent new book.”—Michelle Goldberg, New York TimesThe story of the radical conservative intellectual movement shaping Donald Trump’s agenda—and how it threatens American freedoms, values, an...
press.princeton.edu
January 28, 2026 at 10:39 AM
I'm digging into @lkatfield.bsky.social's Furious Minds and loving it - lots to chew on and engagingly written.
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The best book to track the reactionary legal community that Eastman was and is part of is @lkatfield.bsky.social
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Furious Minds
“[An] excellent new book.”—Michelle Goldberg, New York TimesThe story of the radical conservative intellectual movement shaping Donald Trump’s agenda—and how it threatens American freedoms, values, an...
press.princeton.edu
January 28, 2026 at 4:40 PM
The best book to track the reactionary legal community that Eastman was and is part of is @lkatfield.bsky.social
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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Hell of a time to be reading “Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right” by @lkatfield.bsky.social
January 27, 2026 at 12:39 AM
Hell of a time to be reading “Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right” by @lkatfield.bsky.social
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If you only read the opinion journalism in elite media over the last decade, you would have been convinced that wokeness, and not fascism, were the greatest threats to American society. Now some of those authors are retconning by trying to relabel fascism as "the woke right."
January 25, 2026 at 3:24 PM
If you only read the opinion journalism in elite media over the last decade, you would have been convinced that wokeness, and not fascism, were the greatest threats to American society. Now some of those authors are retconning by trying to relabel fascism as "the woke right."
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i think this attitude — that all opposition is illegitimate and nothing we do can be questioned— is probably pervasive in the white house and helps explain why they keep making terrible political choices
Putin pioneered this. No opposition is legitimate. Regular, decent, “ordinary” people cannot possibly be against us because only we represent “the real people.”
Tell-tale sign of authoritarianism.
Tell-tale sign of authoritarianism.
January 25, 2026 at 3:02 PM
i think this attitude — that all opposition is illegitimate and nothing we do can be questioned— is probably pervasive in the white house and helps explain why they keep making terrible political choices
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Please note that NYT is leading with what the videos show, not the lies from the feds. This is what every news organization should be doing. This is how you cover a government that lies as it breathes. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/us/minneapolis-shooting-ice
Minneapolis Live Updates: Man Killed by Federal Agents Was Holding a Phone, Not a Gun
www.nytimes.com
January 25, 2026 at 2:27 AM
Please note that NYT is leading with what the videos show, not the lies from the feds. This is what every news organization should be doing. This is how you cover a government that lies as it breathes. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/us/minneapolis-shooting-ice
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These bootlicking fucks
January 24, 2026 at 6:24 PM
These bootlicking fucks
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To repeat: Abolish ICE.
January 24, 2026 at 4:09 PM
To repeat: Abolish ICE.
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I wish I hadn't watched that video. I never watched the killing of Renee Good and hope I never have to. I don't need to see it to fight it.
Today at least four federal agents were beating a man and then one of them (I think) shot him point blank while he was on the ground. More agents present.
Today at least four federal agents were beating a man and then one of them (I think) shot him point blank while he was on the ground. More agents present.
January 24, 2026 at 3:50 PM
I wish I hadn't watched that video. I never watched the killing of Renee Good and hope I never have to. I don't need to see it to fight it.
Today at least four federal agents were beating a man and then one of them (I think) shot him point blank while he was on the ground. More agents present.
Today at least four federal agents were beating a man and then one of them (I think) shot him point blank while he was on the ground. More agents present.
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I think it probably is important to know that this was many outnumbered 9:1 being beaten on the ground before he was shot. Not in a car. Not running. ICE will likely come up with some reason why they were afraid for their lives. But you don't need to watch.
January 24, 2026 at 3:52 PM
I think it probably is important to know that this was many outnumbered 9:1 being beaten on the ground before he was shot. Not in a car. Not running. ICE will likely come up with some reason why they were afraid for their lives. But you don't need to watch.
This is so lucid and helpful from @thomaszimmer.bsky.social. The situation is awful and could get a lot worse obviously but also: the country is vast, the authoritarianism is unpopular, and nothing will be settled anytime soon. So power on.
January 24, 2026 at 2:55 PM
This is so lucid and helpful from @thomaszimmer.bsky.social. The situation is awful and could get a lot worse obviously but also: the country is vast, the authoritarianism is unpopular, and nothing will be settled anytime soon. So power on.
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CNN put together a clip of JD Vance claiming ICE agents have "absolute immunity" followed by him two weeks later claiming "I didn't say that officers who engage in wrongdoing would enjoy immunity"
January 24, 2026 at 2:24 AM
CNN put together a clip of JD Vance claiming ICE agents have "absolute immunity" followed by him two weeks later claiming "I didn't say that officers who engage in wrongdoing would enjoy immunity"