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Important explainer from @kimwehle.bsky.social on how the disastrous Trump v. U.S. ruling has paved the way for Donald Trump's truly deranged application of his pardon powers.
She even lists things Congress—if it had a spine—could do to curb some of this stuff.
She even lists things Congress—if it had a spine—could do to curb some of this stuff.
Congress Can Toughen Existing Laws to Expose Trump’s Pardon-for-Sale Racket
The Supreme Court’s immunity ruling gave presidents a free pass for corruption, but Congress can still demand transparency
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November 24, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Important explainer from @kimwehle.bsky.social on how the disastrous Trump v. U.S. ruling has paved the way for Donald Trump's truly deranged application of his pardon powers.
She even lists things Congress—if it had a spine—could do to curb some of this stuff.
She even lists things Congress—if it had a spine—could do to curb some of this stuff.
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The alt-right to Heritage Foundation pipeline: a 10-year journey.
The Alt-Right to Heritage Foundation Pipeline: a 10-Year Journey
Extremist rot goes up and down on the right
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November 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
The alt-right to Heritage Foundation pipeline: a 10-year journey.
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The BBC was guilty of sloppy editing. That's undeniable. But to make the BBC’s error the most salient aspect of this story is to play into Trump’s hands and do his bidding.
Trump Goes After the BBC for Telling True Lies About His Insurrection
He and the U.K. right are making bad faith attacks on the broadcaster to extract a heavy price for a small editorial error
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November 24, 2025 at 3:28 PM
The BBC was guilty of sloppy editing. That's undeniable. But to make the BBC’s error the most salient aspect of this story is to play into Trump’s hands and do his bidding.
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Important explainer from @kimwehle.bsky.social on how the disastrous Trump v. U.S. ruling has paved the way for Donald Trump's truly deranged application of his pardon powers.
She even lists things Congress—if it had a spine—could do to curb some of this stuff.
She even lists things Congress—if it had a spine—could do to curb some of this stuff.
Congress Can Toughen Existing Laws to Expose Trump’s Pardon-for-Sale Racket
The Supreme Court’s immunity ruling gave presidents a free pass for corruption, but Congress can still demand transparency
www.theunpopulist.net
November 24, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Important explainer from @kimwehle.bsky.social on how the disastrous Trump v. U.S. ruling has paved the way for Donald Trump's truly deranged application of his pardon powers.
She even lists things Congress—if it had a spine—could do to curb some of this stuff.
She even lists things Congress—if it had a spine—could do to curb some of this stuff.
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This is a great piece that strikes exactly the right balance. It faults the BBC for a huge editorial error—but situates it within its proper context: Trump's coup.
To disregard either component, or to fail to properly assess their *relative* badness, is to fundamentally misunderstand the episode.
To disregard either component, or to fail to properly assess their *relative* badness, is to fundamentally misunderstand the episode.
The BBC was guilty of sloppy editing. That's undeniable. But to make the BBC’s error the most salient aspect of this story is to play into Trump’s hands and do his bidding.
Trump Goes After the BBC for Telling True Lies About His Insurrection
He and the U.K. right are making bad faith attacks on the broadcaster to extract a heavy price for a small editorial error
www.theunpopulist.net
November 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
This is a great piece that strikes exactly the right balance. It faults the BBC for a huge editorial error—but situates it within its proper context: Trump's coup.
To disregard either component, or to fail to properly assess their *relative* badness, is to fundamentally misunderstand the episode.
To disregard either component, or to fail to properly assess their *relative* badness, is to fundamentally misunderstand the episode.
The alt-right to Heritage Foundation pipeline: a 10-year journey.
The Alt-Right to Heritage Foundation Pipeline: a 10-Year Journey
Extremist rot goes up and down on the right
www.theunpopulist.net
November 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
The alt-right to Heritage Foundation pipeline: a 10-year journey.
The BBC was guilty of sloppy editing. That's undeniable. But to make the BBC’s error the most salient aspect of this story is to play into Trump’s hands and do his bidding.
Trump Goes After the BBC for Telling True Lies About His Insurrection
He and the U.K. right are making bad faith attacks on the broadcaster to extract a heavy price for a small editorial error
www.theunpopulist.net
November 24, 2025 at 3:28 PM
The BBC was guilty of sloppy editing. That's undeniable. But to make the BBC’s error the most salient aspect of this story is to play into Trump’s hands and do his bidding.
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'The result is something rare—intellectual history that is not just researched but also reported, a vivid narrative that sweeps the reader along'
👏 brillant review of @lkatfield.bsky.social's 'Furious Minds' by William Galston in @theunpopulist.net www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-neo-ri...
👏 brillant review of @lkatfield.bsky.social's 'Furious Minds' by William Galston in @theunpopulist.net www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-neo-ri...
The Neo-Right's Multi-Front Revolt Against America
A political theorist traces the intellectual history of the various strains of a movement gone rogue
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November 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
'The result is something rare—intellectual history that is not just researched but also reported, a vivid narrative that sweeps the reader along'
👏 brillant review of @lkatfield.bsky.social's 'Furious Minds' by William Galston in @theunpopulist.net www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-neo-ri...
👏 brillant review of @lkatfield.bsky.social's 'Furious Minds' by William Galston in @theunpopulist.net www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-neo-ri...
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“The best researched and most comprehensive account of the New Right that has appeared—or is likely to.”
From William Galston’s reflections on @lkatfield.bsky.social’s superb new book.
From William Galston’s reflections on @lkatfield.bsky.social’s superb new book.
The Neo-Right's Multi-Front Revolt Against America
A political theorist traces the intellectual history of the various strains of a movement gone rogue
www.theunpopulist.net
November 23, 2025 at 3:41 PM
“The best researched and most comprehensive account of the New Right that has appeared—or is likely to.”
From William Galston’s reflections on @lkatfield.bsky.social’s superb new book.
From William Galston’s reflections on @lkatfield.bsky.social’s superb new book.
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Super knowledgeable discussion of Trump 2.0 and beyond by @aaronrosspowell.com @shikhadalmia.bsky.social and @andycraig.bsky.social
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America Will Need a Reconstruction Project After Trump: A Conversation with Shikha Dalmia and Andy Craig
Liberals will have to rebuild the institutions of governance and accountability that Trump is destroying and The UnPopulist plans to lead the way
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November 23, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Super knowledgeable discussion of Trump 2.0 and beyond by @aaronrosspowell.com @shikhadalmia.bsky.social and @andycraig.bsky.social
www.theunpopulist.net/p/america-wi...
www.theunpopulist.net/p/america-wi...
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“Laura K. Field’s ‘Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right’…is a deeply researched account of the rise of the MAGA New Right during the past two decades braided with the narrative of her break with it.”
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The Neo-Right's Multi-Front Revolt Against America
A political theorist traces the intellectual history of the various strains of a movement gone rogue
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:02 PM
“Laura K. Field’s ‘Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right’…is a deeply researched account of the rise of the MAGA New Right during the past two decades braided with the narrative of her break with it.”
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open.substack.com/pub/theunpop...
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Authoritarians destroy institutions, liberals build them. At @theunpopulist.net I am working with v. smart colleagues to do just that in a post-Trump, post-authoritarian world. @andycraig.bsky.social @aaronrosspowell.com and I discuss. www.theunpopulist.net/p/america-wi...
America Will Need a Reconstruction Project After Trump: A Conversation with Shikha Dalmia and Andy Craig
Liberals will have to rebuild the institutions of governance and accountability that Trump is destroying and The UnPopulist plans to lead the way
www.theunpopulist.net
November 23, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Authoritarians destroy institutions, liberals build them. At @theunpopulist.net I am working with v. smart colleagues to do just that in a post-Trump, post-authoritarian world. @andycraig.bsky.social @aaronrosspowell.com and I discuss. www.theunpopulist.net/p/america-wi...
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Two articles you really need to read. This one:
The Alt-Right to Heritage Foundation Pipeline: A 10-Year Journey
www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-alt-ri...
And, this one:
www.theunpopulist.net/p/your-compr...
The Alt-Right to Heritage Foundation Pipeline: A 10-Year Journey
www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-alt-ri...
And, this one:
www.theunpopulist.net/p/your-compr...
The Alt-Right to Heritage Foundation Pipeline: a 10-Year Journey
Extremist rot goes up and down on the right
www.theunpopulist.net
November 23, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Two articles you really need to read. This one:
The Alt-Right to Heritage Foundation Pipeline: A 10-Year Journey
www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-alt-ri...
And, this one:
www.theunpopulist.net/p/your-compr...
The Alt-Right to Heritage Foundation Pipeline: A 10-Year Journey
www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-alt-ri...
And, this one:
www.theunpopulist.net/p/your-compr...
“The best researched and most comprehensive account of the New Right that has appeared—or is likely to.”
From William Galston’s reflections on @lkatfield.bsky.social’s superb new book.
From William Galston’s reflections on @lkatfield.bsky.social’s superb new book.
The Neo-Right's Multi-Front Revolt Against America
A political theorist traces the intellectual history of the various strains of a movement gone rogue
www.theunpopulist.net
November 23, 2025 at 3:41 PM
“The best researched and most comprehensive account of the New Right that has appeared—or is likely to.”
From William Galston’s reflections on @lkatfield.bsky.social’s superb new book.
From William Galston’s reflections on @lkatfield.bsky.social’s superb new book.
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"Trump's deportation mania makes life in America less affordable and more dangerous."
Trump's Immigration Crackdown Is Making Americans Poorer and Less Safe: A Video Roundup
Our late-November collection of clips on how Trump's deportation mania makes life in America less affordable and more dangerous
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November 22, 2025 at 12:14 PM
"Trump's deportation mania makes life in America less affordable and more dangerous."
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"…the Confederacy was not a legitimate government, that it was a criminal conspiracy writ large. And that’s relevant to how we think about what’s going on now and the inevitable aftermath of it that is coming."
w/ @aaronrosspowell.com @shikhadalmia.bsky.social re: Reconstruction @theunpopulist.net
w/ @aaronrosspowell.com @shikhadalmia.bsky.social re: Reconstruction @theunpopulist.net
America Will Need a Reconstruction Project After Trump: A Conversation with Shikha Dalmia and Andy Craig
Liberals will have to rebuild the institutions of governance and accountability that Trump is destroying and The UnPopulist plans to lead the way
www.theunpopulist.net
November 21, 2025 at 6:51 PM
"…the Confederacy was not a legitimate government, that it was a criminal conspiracy writ large. And that’s relevant to how we think about what’s going on now and the inevitable aftermath of it that is coming."
w/ @aaronrosspowell.com @shikhadalmia.bsky.social re: Reconstruction @theunpopulist.net
w/ @aaronrosspowell.com @shikhadalmia.bsky.social re: Reconstruction @theunpopulist.net
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"Surely the fact that the U.S. president is an insurrectionist carries more weight than a bad editorial decision that, furthermore, did not directionally misrepresent the underlying facts of Jan. 6?"
Trump Goes After the BBC for Telling True Lies About His Insurrection
He and the U.K. right are making bad faith attacks on the broadcaster to extract a heavy price for a small editorial error
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November 20, 2025 at 6:50 PM
"Surely the fact that the U.S. president is an insurrectionist carries more weight than a bad editorial decision that, furthermore, did not directionally misrepresent the underlying facts of Jan. 6?"
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"What the BBC did was sloppy and misleading, yes, and there is no justification for it—but its conclusion is unmistakably true: Trump incited an insurrection against the government of the United States."
Trump Goes After the BBC for Telling True Lies About His Insurrection
He and the U.K. right are making bad faith attacks on the broadcaster to extract a heavy price for a small editorial error
www.theunpopulist.net
November 20, 2025 at 6:48 PM
"What the BBC did was sloppy and misleading, yes, and there is no justification for it—but its conclusion is unmistakably true: Trump incited an insurrection against the government of the United States."
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Trump Goes After the BBC for Telling True Lies About His Insurrection
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Trump Goes After the BBC for Telling True Lies About His Insurrection
He and the U.K. right are making bad faith attacks on the broadcaster to extract a heavy price for a small editorial error
www.theunpopulist.net
November 20, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Trump Goes After the BBC for Telling True Lies About His Insurrection
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MSM ain't perfect. But the right's bad faith attacks for the sake of peddling bogus narratives (Trump did not try to steal an election) means that people of good will must rise to set the record straight. @daliborrohac.bsky.social at @theunpopulist.net
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Trump Goes After the BBC for Telling True Lies About His Insurrection
He and the U.K. right are making bad faith attacks on the broadcaster to extract a heavy price for a small editorial error
www.theunpopulist.net
November 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
MSM ain't perfect. But the right's bad faith attacks for the sake of peddling bogus narratives (Trump did not try to steal an election) means that people of good will must rise to set the record straight. @daliborrohac.bsky.social at @theunpopulist.net
www.theunpopulist.net/p/trump-goes...
www.theunpopulist.net/p/trump-goes...
We could have been living under a normal Democratic president who, whatever her flaws, would not be throwing the country into constitutional crisis, lighting our cultural capital on fire, and attempting an essentially fascist consolidation of executive power.
Facing Down ICE in Portland as an Inflatable Dachshund
I barked at the agency led by a puppy killer and survived to tell the tale
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November 19, 2025 at 8:00 PM
We could have been living under a normal Democratic president who, whatever her flaws, would not be throwing the country into constitutional crisis, lighting our cultural capital on fire, and attempting an essentially fascist consolidation of executive power.
Trump illegally shifted around funds to pay salaries in the military, while refusing to spend a contingency fund specifically set aside by law to pay SNAP food subsidies.
Trump's Pardon Power Abuse Reaches New Heights as He Moves from Pardoning Individuals Engaged in Election Theft to Preemptive Mass Pardons: An Executive Watch Roundup
Our mid-November selection of the president's latest and greatest assaults on the rule of law
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November 19, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Trump illegally shifted around funds to pay salaries in the military, while refusing to spend a contingency fund specifically set aside by law to pay SNAP food subsidies.
Some of the most vocal right-wing critics of the groyperfication of the right don’t themselves have clean hands. Ben Shapiro, for instance, has never taken responsibility for elevating far-right kook Candace Owens, who wasn’t fired from The Daily Wire until she became an open Jew-hater.
The Alt-Right to Heritage Foundation Pipeline: a 10-Year Journey
Extremist rot goes up and down on the right
www.theunpopulist.net
November 19, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Some of the most vocal right-wing critics of the groyperfication of the right don’t themselves have clean hands. Ben Shapiro, for instance, has never taken responsibility for elevating far-right kook Candace Owens, who wasn’t fired from The Daily Wire until she became an open Jew-hater.
America’s Founders would be horrified by Congress’ shameless surrender of its power of the purse to the president.
@mollyereynolds.bsky.social
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Founders Would Be Horrified by Congress's Surrender of its Power of the Purse to POTUS
The shutdown is testimony to how a subservient legislature makes governance dysfunctional
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November 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
America’s Founders would be horrified by Congress’ shameless surrender of its power of the purse to the president.
@mollyereynolds.bsky.social
@mollyereynolds.bsky.social