Seth Cotlar
@sethcotlar.bsky.social
Teaches US History at Willamette Univ. Working on a book about the long history of the US Right. https://rightlandia.ghost.io/
When Oregon sends its Republicans to Washington DC, we're not sending our best...they're sexual assaulters, sexual harassers, and some, I assume, are good people.
Not one but two sex scandals at Trump’s Labor Dept - one involving the Labor Secty herself AND a second one involving her husband. Wow.
February 19, 2026 at 11:29 PM
When Oregon sends its Republicans to Washington DC, we're not sending our best...they're sexual assaulters, sexual harassers, and some, I assume, are good people.
Governments telling professors and students what they’re not allowed to talk and think about. Nakedly authoritarian and also, should work great. There are few things young people respond to more obediently than having politicians tell them what they’re allowed to think about. s/
Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it.
Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:
Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:
February 19, 2026 at 10:36 PM
Governments telling professors and students what they’re not allowed to talk and think about. Nakedly authoritarian and also, should work great. There are few things young people respond to more obediently than having politicians tell them what they’re allowed to think about. s/
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A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right.
Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement.
This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.
Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement.
This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.
February 19, 2026 at 6:57 PM
A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right.
Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement.
This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.
Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement.
This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.
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UK: Prince Andrew arrested.
South Korea: Former President Yoon sentenced for life.
Brazil: Former President Bolsonaro serving a 27-year sentence.
USA: President Trump demands $10 billion payout from taxpayers.
South Korea: Former President Yoon sentenced for life.
Brazil: Former President Bolsonaro serving a 27-year sentence.
USA: President Trump demands $10 billion payout from taxpayers.
February 19, 2026 at 1:08 PM
UK: Prince Andrew arrested.
South Korea: Former President Yoon sentenced for life.
Brazil: Former President Bolsonaro serving a 27-year sentence.
USA: President Trump demands $10 billion payout from taxpayers.
South Korea: Former President Yoon sentenced for life.
Brazil: Former President Bolsonaro serving a 27-year sentence.
USA: President Trump demands $10 billion payout from taxpayers.
More like “Trump’s Bored of Peace,” amirite?
more than two hours into this "Board of Peace" meeting, we are now enduring random world leader open mic time and Trump's eyes are closed
February 19, 2026 at 4:20 PM
More like “Trump’s Bored of Peace,” amirite?
Always read David Neiwert. open.substack.com/pub/davidnei...
Nick Fuentes enjoys making the misogyny of neofascism explicit
The innate authoritarianism and unapologetic violence of Trump's MAGA army is unmistakable in smirking rants, even as his apologists cover his tracks.
open.substack.com
February 19, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Always read David Neiwert. open.substack.com/pub/davidnei...
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Harry Jaffa in 2010 told Sam Tanenhaus that "the origins of American conservatism is the ideology of the Old South in the 1860s. It never changed.” (Quoted in Buckley: The Life and The Revolution That Changed America, 376.)
From Doug Wilson’s 1996 book on the History of Slavery.
February 19, 2026 at 3:26 PM
Harry Jaffa in 2010 told Sam Tanenhaus that "the origins of American conservatism is the ideology of the Old South in the 1860s. It never changed.” (Quoted in Buckley: The Life and The Revolution That Changed America, 376.)
Remember Trump’s past talk about abolishing the income tax and replacing it with tariff income? It sounds outlandish, but it’s rooted in a longstanding effort on the US right to replace progressive taxation with regressive taxation, while starving the parts of the government that help the non-rich.
1. The president is burning up the American middle class with the largest tax increase since the early 1990s, which itself is snowballing the price of everything from coffee to clothes to carpets to car parts.
Yet this isn’t a major, ongoing, attention-grabbing story.
Yet this isn’t a major, ongoing, attention-grabbing story.
February 19, 2026 at 2:41 PM
Remember Trump’s past talk about abolishing the income tax and replacing it with tariff income? It sounds outlandish, but it’s rooted in a longstanding effort on the US right to replace progressive taxation with regressive taxation, while starving the parts of the government that help the non-rich.
George Soros’s son marrying the ex-wife of Anthony Weiner whose laptop escapes in 2016 touched off the Clinton/Comey email disaster is a plot turn that just seems too predictable. people.com/huma-abedin-...
Huma Abedin Marries Alex Soros in the Hamptons, Wearing 2 Custom Wedding Dresses for the Glamorous Occasion
Huma Abedin and Alex Soros got married in the Hamptons, per 'Vogue.' The couple, who announced their engagement in July 2024, had both a small wedding ceremony for close family and friends and a large...
people.com
February 19, 2026 at 6:23 AM
George Soros’s son marrying the ex-wife of Anthony Weiner whose laptop escapes in 2016 touched off the Clinton/Comey email disaster is a plot turn that just seems too predictable. people.com/huma-abedin-...
In 1976 there was a progressive organization (the Peoples Bicentennial Commission) that organized events across the country organized around exactly this theme. They curated a book of quotes from the founding generation advancing this exact idea.
i need to admit something. the more i think about how many of our problems are downstream of a very small number of ppl and organizations hoarding all the wealth and power, the less interested i am in discussions of american democracy that prefer to focus on anything else.
February 19, 2026 at 6:00 AM
In 1976 there was a progressive organization (the Peoples Bicentennial Commission) that organized events across the country organized around exactly this theme. They curated a book of quotes from the founding generation advancing this exact idea.
Trying to catch up with the youth lingo these days…getting Rees-Mogg maxxed a thing?
February 19, 2026 at 4:45 AM
Trying to catch up with the youth lingo these days…getting Rees-Mogg maxxed a thing?
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Revised National Parks Webpage Describes Harriet Tubman As Human Trafficker https://theonion.com/revised-national-parks-webpage-describes-harriet-tubman-as-human-trafficker/
February 18, 2026 at 10:00 PM
Revised National Parks Webpage Describes Harriet Tubman As Human Trafficker https://theonion.com/revised-national-parks-webpage-describes-harriet-tubman-as-human-trafficker/
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notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich
February 18, 2026 at 4:03 PM
notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich
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NEW: One year ago, we caught a peek of MAGA authoritarianism when men roughly dragged a woman named Teresa out of an Idaho town hall.
This is the story behind that viral video and the radicalization of the community where it happened.
My investigation:
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
This is the story behind that viral video and the radicalization of the community where it happened.
My investigation:
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
How extremists reconquered Idaho in the age of Trump—and how some locals are fighting back
“Who the fuck are these men?”
www.motherjones.com
February 18, 2026 at 8:09 PM
NEW: One year ago, we caught a peek of MAGA authoritarianism when men roughly dragged a woman named Teresa out of an Idaho town hall.
This is the story behind that viral video and the radicalization of the community where it happened.
My investigation:
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
This is the story behind that viral video and the radicalization of the community where it happened.
My investigation:
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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This is the kind of thing white supremacists have been doing to Emmett Till’s memorial for decades.
It’s wild to see them do this to a white woman who the entire world saw extrajudicially murdered.
It’s wild to see them do this to a white woman who the entire world saw extrajudicially murdered.
Someone doused Renee Good’s Minneapolis memorial and a nearby pile of wood with gasoline and started a fire at about 9 p.m. Tuesday.
Renee Good memorial site in south Minneapolis doused in gasoline
Damage was minimal but police are investigating.
bit.ly
February 18, 2026 at 5:19 PM
This is the kind of thing white supremacists have been doing to Emmett Till’s memorial for decades.
It’s wild to see them do this to a white woman who the entire world saw extrajudicially murdered.
It’s wild to see them do this to a white woman who the entire world saw extrajudicially murdered.
The thing all you wokesters won't understand is that Bret here is a man of SCIENCE and what he's saying here is just SCIENCE and if you don't understand it then that's a you problem, not a Bret problem because, again, he is a brave fighter manning the barricades of SCIENCE against the woke mob.
If you want to get rid of some incriminating documents you don't want anyone to see, the best course of action is to hide them on the top floors of the most famous twin towers in the world and hit them with two hijacked passenger planes.
February 18, 2026 at 9:15 PM
The thing all you wokesters won't understand is that Bret here is a man of SCIENCE and what he's saying here is just SCIENCE and if you don't understand it then that's a you problem, not a Bret problem because, again, he is a brave fighter manning the barricades of SCIENCE against the woke mob.
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Ho-lee Shit. This is phenomenally good news. Department of Education rolls back— for now— its attempts to destroy Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility initiatives. Keep an eye on them, of course, and watch for the hidden knife, always, but for now: Fantastic news.
February 18, 2026 at 6:56 PM
Ho-lee Shit. This is phenomenally good news. Department of Education rolls back— for now— its attempts to destroy Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility initiatives. Keep an eye on them, of course, and watch for the hidden knife, always, but for now: Fantastic news.
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"Donald Trump is the president of the United States of America. His cabinet secretaries are the heads of some of the largest and most powerful bureaucracies on the planet. They cannot ever “do a little trolling.” This is real life. They (. . .) may treat it like it’s a game but it is real."
Killing for Content
The Trump Administration cares more about clicks and content than human life.
www.liberalcurrents.com
February 18, 2026 at 7:06 PM
"Donald Trump is the president of the United States of America. His cabinet secretaries are the heads of some of the largest and most powerful bureaucracies on the planet. They cannot ever “do a little trolling.” This is real life. They (. . .) may treat it like it’s a game but it is real."
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2026 basically
February 18, 2026 at 4:23 PM
2026 basically
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and i think the example of washington — whose peer, in this regard, is frederick douglass — is a reminder that artifice and performance are important parts of democratic society, and that the contempt for virtue signaling is corrosive. virtue is meant to be signaled!
February 18, 2026 at 4:29 PM
and i think the example of washington — whose peer, in this regard, is frederick douglass — is a reminder that artifice and performance are important parts of democratic society, and that the contempt for virtue signaling is corrosive. virtue is meant to be signaled!
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I’m from Kentucky and this is a terrible take. Beshear has been consistently winning as a Dem in statewide office in a traditionally incredibly red state WHILE refusing to throw trans people under the bus. This is an enormous win!
Do we want Southern Dems or no??
Do we want Southern Dems or no??
February 18, 2026 at 4:36 PM
I’m from Kentucky and this is a terrible take. Beshear has been consistently winning as a Dem in statewide office in a traditionally incredibly red state WHILE refusing to throw trans people under the bus. This is an enormous win!
Do we want Southern Dems or no??
Do we want Southern Dems or no??
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That we would end up following the fate of Athens and Rome was the single most obsessive fear of America's founders.
February 18, 2026 at 3:56 AM
That we would end up following the fate of Athens and Rome was the single most obsessive fear of America's founders.
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I am so excited for this event. If you've followed either @letsgomathias.bsky.social or @leahsottile.bsky.social, you'll know you're in for an insightful discussion about antifascist action. As always, grateful to @cstpdx.bsky.social for hosting great community events.
To Catch a Fascist by Chris Mathias takes readers inside the underground fight against rising fascism in the U.S. where anti-fascists infiltrate far-right groups to expose white supremacists hiding in plain sight. Hear more at our event Feb 26 at Clinton Street Theater.
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February 12, 2026 at 10:46 PM
I am so excited for this event. If you've followed either @letsgomathias.bsky.social or @leahsottile.bsky.social, you'll know you're in for an insightful discussion about antifascist action. As always, grateful to @cstpdx.bsky.social for hosting great community events.
The first assistant Chris Rufo hired in 2021 was a Pepe the frog loving fan of “groyper mom” Michelle Malkin. That guy worked for him for 3+ years before going to work for Russell Vought in the Trump administration last year. So Rufo can miss me with the “I’m shocked by Fuentes’s popularity.”
February 17, 2026 at 11:07 PM
The first assistant Chris Rufo hired in 2021 was a Pepe the frog loving fan of “groyper mom” Michelle Malkin. That guy worked for him for 3+ years before going to work for Russell Vought in the Trump administration last year. So Rufo can miss me with the “I’m shocked by Fuentes’s popularity.”
The mendacity of these right wing “originalists” knows no bounds. Washington was talking about equipping the US military to provide for the common defense, not the arming of individual citizens so they could shoot each other down in the streets.
February 17, 2026 at 10:54 PM
The mendacity of these right wing “originalists” knows no bounds. Washington was talking about equipping the US military to provide for the common defense, not the arming of individual citizens so they could shoot each other down in the streets.