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Elizabeth
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Not a dog or a fawn. Sorry to have confused anyone.
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gregggonsalves.bsky.social
If you live in these states--call your governors NOW. No baby deserves to acquire #hepatitis B. 3/
Map of all 50 US states with photos of their governors superimposed on each state.
December 6, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
Over on Xitter, Kirill Dmitriev, whose country censors Xitter entirely, is on a 7-plus tweet rant about the EU enforcing transparency rules on Xitter.
Censorship is the EU bureaucrats’ key tool: by silencing critics of mass migration, rising crime and economic decay, they QUIETLY push Western civilization further down the suicide path. Quote Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio · 18h The European Commission’s $140 million fine isn’t just an attack on @X, it’s an attack on all American tech platforms and the American people by foreign governments. The days of censoring Americans online are over. Ursula “Pfizer” von der Leyen desperately needs EU censorship to hide corruption. Quote JD Vance @JDVance · Dec 4 Rumors swirling that the EU commission will fine X hundreds of millions of dollars for not engaging in censorship. The EU should be supporting free speech not attacking American companies over garbage. Kirill Dmitriev @kadmitriev · 12h Quote Kirill Dmitriev @kadmitriev · 18h Censorship is the EU bureaucrats’ key tool: by silencing critics of mass migration, rising crime and economic decay, they QUIETLY push Western civilization further down the suicide path. x.com/secrubio/statu… Kirill Dmitriev @kadmitriev · 12h EU bureaucrats have turned into enemies of free speech, enemies of Western civilization — and, ultimately, enemies of themselves. Quote Elon Musk @elonmusk · 12h The EU woke Stasi commissars are about to understand the full meaning of the “Streisand Effect” x.com/cb_doge/status… EU’s fatal mistake: choosing censorship over debate, ideology over reality, mass migration over security and green dogma over industry. Quote Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio · 18h The European Commission’s $140 million fine isn’t just an attack on @X, it’s an attack on all American tech platforms and the American people by foreign governments. The days of censoring Americans online are over.
December 6, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
This is a great list (and don't forget Marisa herself).
marisakabas.bsky.social Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 23h
NEW — I put together a list of independent journalism subscriptions that would make great holiday gifts. From music to politics, astronomy to alcohol, tech to social justice, there’s something for [almost] everyone. Support indie media *and* surprise and delight your loved ones!

My guide:
Giving the gift of independent journalism: a guide
The Handbasket has subscription suggestions for almost everyone on your list.
www.thehandbasket.co
December 6, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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andycraig.bsky.social
When I saw the story in passing I thought it was the same dumb bit as the army parade, the fig leaf of using Flag Day because it happens to also be his birthday. But no, Trump's birthday as such is now an official commemoration for NPS free admission days.

www.nps.gov/planyourvisi...
2026 Free Entrance Days in the National Parks Come experience the national parks! All National Park Service sites that charge an entrance fee will offer free admission to everyone (other fees, including timed entry or reservation fees, may apply). Mark your calendar for these entrance fee-free dates: February 16: Presidents Day (Washington's Birthday) May 25: Memorial Day June 14: Flag Day/President Trump's birthday July 3–5: Independence Day weekend August 25: 110th Birthday of the National Park Service September 17: Constitution Day October 27: Theodore Roosevelt's birthday November 11: Veterans Day Beginning in 2026, free entrance on these days will be for US citizens and residents only. Nonresidents will pay the regular entrance fee and any applicable nonresident fees.
December 6, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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brendannyhan.bsky.social
Could not be more contrary to American traditions. A gold-bedecked White House with a massive gilded ballroom and a government-created personality cult around the president complete with giant banners of his face on government buildings and official celebrations of his birthday.
andycraig.bsky.social Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 1d
When I saw the story in passing I thought it was the same dumb bit as the army parade, the fig leaf of using Flag Day because it happens to also be his birthday. But no, Trump's birthday as such is now an official commemoration for NPS free admission days.

www.nps.gov/planyourvisi...
2026 Free Entrance Days in the National Parks Come experience the national parks! All National Park Service sites that charge an entrance fee will offer free admission to everyone (other fees, including timed entry or reservation fees, may apply). Mark your calendar for these entrance fee-free dates: February 16: Presidents Day (Washington's Birthday) May 25: Memorial Day June 14: Flag Day/President Trump's birthday July 3–5: Independence Day weekend August 25: 110th Birthday of the National Park Service September 17: Constitution Day October 27: Theodore Roosevelt's birthday November 11: Veterans Day Beginning in 2026, free entrance on these days will be for US citizens and residents only. Nonresidents will pay the regular entrance fee and any applicable nonresident fees.
December 6, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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sethcotlar.bsky.social
In 1999, "[Zeskind] predicted a mid-21st century conflict within the US as white people became a minority in a nation of minorities & were no longer able to preserve a system of white privilege through majority-rule winner-take-all democracy."
December 6, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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sethcotlar.bsky.social
Reading the opening of Leonard Zeskind's 2009 book Blood and Politics in the midst of Trump 2.0 is quite a gut punch. In 2000 he warned of a rising tide of violent white nationalism & Christian nationalism on the American right...few people took those warning seriously. And now here we are.
As the last century ended and the year 2000 began, my hometown newspaper, The Kansas City Star, asked me to write a short guest opinion piece predicting the course of the new century. It was part of a journalistic time capsule, an editor said, and would likely be read a hundred years hence. The same had been done by the newspaper's forebearers on January 1, 1901, when men considered "prominent" in Kansas City wrote short pieces about the future. A bit nervous about prognosticating in general, particularly in fewer than five hundred words, I asked the editor to send, as a guide, copies of the articles written one hundred years prior. Each had been penned by a religious, civic, political, or economic captain of the city. A great hopefulness pervaded their expectations of scientific and industrial advances. In this regard, these city fathers (and they were all fathers) reflected the optimistic spirit of the age. Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward was then immensely popular, for example, as one of almost fifty utopian novels published during that period. One of the most fascinating aspects of these turn-of-the-century opinion pieces is that several predicted a happy future in explicitly racist terms. Not that they didn't worry about challenges to white supremacy's permanence. The city's "leading lawyer" feared that "the yellow peril threatens the world with untold disaster." One preacher fretted that the Fourteenth Amendment, which constitutionally guaranteed the rights of citizenship to black people, had been a "capital blunder." But a more prominent Baptist minister prophesied a noble century to come, including the end of war and the uplift of the poor, all under "the growing supremacy of the Anglo-Saxon."2 In this regard also, the city's sires reflected the spirit of the nation's elites at that time. University deans then taught that humanity could be improved through eugenics, the supposed science of selective "up breeding."3 The Supreme Court had recently ruled that "separate" was equal, and newspapers uncritically published accounts steeped in these and related ideas. The twentieth century did not end as it had begun. Science and technology, as predicted, did reach new heights. They split the atom, took us to the moon, and created a global cyberspace communications system. They could have also provided food to every hungry soul on the planet— but they didn't. Instead, scientific advances fed an unending series of wars, genocides, and man-made disasters. And the ethic of Aryan supremacy, so prevalent a hundred years earlier, (temporarily) buried itself beneath the mountains of human ash produced by Hitler's crematories. After World War Two, Europeans ceded legal sovereignty over Africa, Asia, and Latin America to their noticeably more darkly hued (former) subjects, even as the strains of four centuries of colonial exploitation were not erased. And in Kansas City, the newspaper-for-the-future included opinions by four women and three persons of color, including the city's first black mayor. My contribution to that time capsule stemmed directly from the subject under consideration here. I predicted a mid-twenty-first century conflict within the United States as white people became a minority in a nation of minorities and were no longer able to preserve a system of white privilege through majority-rule winner-take-all democracy. As the century wore on, I wrote, white nationalists would push toward instituting new forms of racial apartheid and other antidemocratic measures. The outcome in the year 2100, I argued, would depend on what we learned today about white supremacy and white nationalism. 4 This book does not pretend to predict prospective events, but it is not simply an account of the past either. While it is a history focused on the last decades of the twentieth century and the first years of the twenty-first, it is my intention that it serve as part of a prolegomenon to the future discussion of racial egalitarianism and democracy. My hope is that it will provide the reader a view of the contemporary white nationalist movement that is both comprehensive and instructive. Though it takes into account organizations, individuals, and events such as the Ku Klux Klan, David Duke, and the Oklahoma City bombing-things ascribed more to memory at this point than daily life—the objective is to demonstrate that this movement, driven by a vision well within the mainsprings of American life, is already self-consciously pitching itself toward the future. Perhaps when white nationalism's next iteration emerges, our country will better understand it.
December 6, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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sethcotlar.bsky.social
In January 1954, Joe McCarthy’s favorable/unfavorables amongst Republicans was 62/19, amongst Democrats they were 39/38. Independents were 53/28. content.time.com/time/magazin...
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December 6, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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sethcotlar.bsky.social
A 2011 poll found that only 28% of Republicans believed Obama was born in the US. This was BEFORE Trump began promoting birtherism . www.politico.com/story/2011/0...
December 6, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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sethcotlar.bsky.social
This DHS post in a fashy font features the sizzle reel of the raid on the Chicago apartment building, set to a cover of “Jesus Walks,” a song by Ye…an artist originally from Chicago who is now best known for his “Christian,” pro-Hitler stance. Very subtle.
Department of Homel... & • Follow Nov 22 • ( "Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness". - Isaiah 41:10 For God & Country Department of Homel….. & • Follow Nov 22 • 0 "Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness". - Isaiah 41:10 DEPARTMEN OF 27.1K join.ice.gov careers.cbp.gov • 9.2K 4.2K
December 6, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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sethcotlar.bsky.social
This 1961 piece about race & Western Civilization from the neo-nazi National Renaissance Party is virtually indistinguishable from the way the White House is currently talking about immigration and "Western Civilization." Substitute "woke professors" for "Jews" and it could be a WH press briefing.
NATIONAL RENAISSANCE BULLETIN Official organ of the NATIONAL RENAISSANCE PARTY devoted to a restoration of the American Re-public, the preservation of American sovereignty, and the establishment of an American regime based on the principles of racial nationalism and social justice. Published in New York, N.Y. $2.00 per 12 issues June-July, 1961 Volume 12, Nos. 6 & 7 THE RACIAL DETERIORATION OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION James H. Madole American children are no longer being taught the racial aspects of world history and human PUT NOT THE BLAME ON WOMEN, BUT PUT IT ON civilization. Our public schools and THE WHITE MEN'S STUPIDITY AND TOLERATION colleges totally ignore the historic fact that Western civilization was transplanted from Europe to the North American continent exclusively by people of Nordic and Anglo- CORRUPTION AND POLLUTION Saxon racial ancestry. Whereas the French and Spaniards sent only soldiers to the New World in search of gold and pillage, the British and Dutch sent colonists with their. wives and children in order to cultivate the land, build cities, promote commerce, and explore the wild frontiers of Canada and the American West. At a later date in the history of our American Republic immigrants fleeing from religious persecution and famine began to disembark upon our shores from Italy, the Slavic nations, and Ireland. These refugees from hunger and oppression repaid America's kindness by easily blending into the mainstream of life in the New World and becoming farmers, mer-chants, coal miners, and hard working artisans thus enriching the nation by their presence. Many of these immigrants arrived both hungry and illiterate but they had the natural drive and competitive spirit inherent in the White race and soon established their rightful place in American society without the dubious benefits of "Civil Rights" legislation or forced integration by means of the bayonet. The Jews and such non-assimilable racial groups as the Negroes and Puerto Ricans were absolutely incapable of becoming assimilated into American society without bringing about the cultural and moral decline of civilization on the North American continent. The Jews have never been successfully assimilated by any nation due to their warped Messianic religious concepts which exalt the Jewish race as a "CHOSEN PEOPLE" having a direct covenant with God which destines their race to rule over mankind when the "MESSIAH" is born. This is part of Talmudic prophecy which also demands that the Jews must stay apart from their Gentile neighbors and never intermarry with other races or religions. Although the Jew chooses to remain a separate "state within a state" in all Gentile nations, he uses his wits to gain control of the economic, cultural, and political life of the nations in which his people reside. His dominance in these fields brings graft, corruption, and immorality into every aspect of our national life AND THIS IS THE MAIN CAUSE OF ANTI-SEMITISM IN THE MODERN WORLD. The Jew can only dominate Gentile nations by making the Gentiles over in his own image. While avoiding the disastrous pitfall of racial integration for his own people,…
December 6, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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maxberger.bsky.social
The top priority listed in this document is “Ending Mass Migration.”

Hard to highlight a single passage here—this entire page is a pretty explicit defense of using the state as a means of enforcing white supremacy.
December 5, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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maxberger.bsky.social
The new national security strategy of the U.S. says Trump’s war on DEI is “re-instilling a culture of competence.”

Tell that to the Ssectretary.
December 5, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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sethcotlar.bsky.social
Interesting to see National Review taking a forceful “anti-local control” and “pro-masked agents of the state” position in regards to this issue that they totally misrepresent. youtube.com/shorts/mrpjI...
Salem Oregon Declares A State of Emergency due to ICE Agents
YouTube video by National Review
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December 7, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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sethcotlar.bsky.social
What an interesting coincidence.
THE amp OF THe Saints 109120-2/81 55 "THE CAMP OF THE SAINTS is one of the most chilling books of this generation." James J. Kilpatrick, Washington Star JEAN RASPAIL TRANSLATED BY NORMAN SHAPIRO Trump's stupid FIFA peace participation trophy
December 6, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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gilduran.com
A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.

“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.

This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:

www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
www.thenerdreich.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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jamellebouie.net
what follows immediately after the birthright clause? the privileges and immunities and due process clauses? and what follows them? the equal protection clause. all of this is explicitly to say, "the declaration is the constitutional law of the land"
December 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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jamellebouie.net
the birthright clause was not just written to wipe dred scott off of the books, it was written to repudiate the *idea* behind dred scott, you might say the larger *ideological project* of dred scott. and the whole of section 1 of the 14th amendment is a constitutional statement of political equality
December 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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jamellebouie.net
dred scott, in their minds, established the united states as a place of tiered citizenship and permanent inequality among americans. it was a ruling that said, in effect, that all men *were not* created equal and would *never* be treated as such.
December 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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jamellebouie.net
i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.
December 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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jamellebouie.net
i made a video about the president's gutter racism against somali-americans and how a scandal became a smear became a call for de facto ethnic cleansing
Donald Trump’s racist attack on Somali Americans
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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December 4, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
The constitution is colorblind unless you want to discriminate against nonwhites. Then it’s fine apnews.com/article/supr...
Supreme Court allows Texas to use a congressional map favorable to Republicans in 2026
The Supreme Court is allowing the challenged Texas congressional redistricting plan to be used in next year’s election, despite a lower-court ruling that the map likely discriminates on the basis of r...
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December 4, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
This position is fundamentally segregationist—civilization is "erased" by the presence of people who do not share the ethnic background of the present majority—something ironically at odds with the history of Europe, which has been profoundly shaped by migration bsky.app/profile/matt...
mattdpearce.com Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 1d
All this hate for migrants when nothing transforms a culture more than capital. No amount of immigrants will ever change America, the capitol of capital, more than America transforms immigrants into American businesspeople, citizens of money.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/w...
Trump Administration Says Europe Faces ‘Civilizational Erasure’
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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ariberman.bsky.social
“The Justice Department ordinarily would prevent attacks on voting rights. Now it’s carrying them out”
ariberman.bsky.social Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 1d
So many scandals now but pay attention to this: DOJ has sued 14 states-12 led by Dems-to demand full unredacted voter files in order to turbocharge Trump voter suppression plans

@abbyvesoulis.bsky.social & I detail threat this poses to voting rights ahead of 2026 www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Trump’s DOJ is building a voter purge machine—powered by your private data
The federal agency ordinarily would prevent attacks on voting rights. Now it’s carrying them out.
www.motherjones.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
They’ve nullified the 14th amendment once already, they don’t care what the constitution says, only what their political allies want it to say
December 5, 2025 at 7:43 PM