Craig Franson
@craigfranson.bsky.social
English professor/democracy enthusiast--18/19th century, popular culture, critical theory, writing & rhetoric. Sometime podcaster & substacker at #AmericanId, former photojournalist & actor, Idaho expat.
#Politics #Romanticism #PopCulture #Tolkien #Buffy+
#Politics #Romanticism #PopCulture #Tolkien #Buffy+
Selfie with bloater. Happy Halloween, all!
November 1, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Selfie with bloater. Happy Halloween, all!
Not that I expect an actual moment of recognition to come from any of the oligarchs who helped lead us to this crisis.
#Andor #Resistance #NoKings
#Andor #Resistance #NoKings
September 19, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Not that I expect an actual moment of recognition to come from any of the oligarchs who helped lead us to this crisis.
#Andor #Resistance #NoKings
#Andor #Resistance #NoKings
The old alt-light sites frequently linked to harder, alt-right sites, building thousands of pathways inward. Social media algorithms that amplify anger & suggest interlinked sites, drove users inward for more than a decade, automatically pushing so-called "normies" toward neo-Nazi sites. 4/
September 13, 2025 at 2:07 AM
The old alt-light sites frequently linked to harder, alt-right sites, building thousands of pathways inward. Social media algorithms that amplify anger & suggest interlinked sites, drove users inward for more than a decade, automatically pushing so-called "normies" toward neo-Nazi sites. 4/
Finally, each of these 3 alt-right sectors had semi-autonomous "front movements" they referred to collectively as the "alt-light." They are Western chauvinists, the men's rights world, & Christian-nationalist culture warriors (some of whom studied the French New Right in the 1970s-80s). 3/
September 13, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Finally, each of these 3 alt-right sectors had semi-autonomous "front movements" they referred to collectively as the "alt-light." They are Western chauvinists, the men's rights world, & Christian-nationalist culture warriors (some of whom studied the French New Right in the 1970s-80s). 3/
These 3 fascistic drives underly the 3 semi-autonomous, online discourses that grew into the original alt right: white nationalism, the mano-sphere, & neoreaction (NRx). The big sites in these 3 sectors are interlinked, & many of the major figures cross-posted & did interviews on adjacent sites. 2/
September 13, 2025 at 2:07 AM
These 3 fascistic drives underly the 3 semi-autonomous, online discourses that grew into the original alt right: white nationalism, the mano-sphere, & neoreaction (NRx). The big sites in these 3 sectors are interlinked, & many of the major figures cross-posted & did interviews on adjacent sites. 2/
Groypers aren't exactly a "fringe" group. They grew out of the alt-right & sit at the terminus of three interrelated "drives," white supremacism, masculine supremacism, & the so-called "Authoritarian Complex" (essentialist antisemitism). All lead toward a neofascist synchrony. 1/
#AmericanId
#AmericanId
September 13, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Groypers aren't exactly a "fringe" group. They grew out of the alt-right & sit at the terminus of three interrelated "drives," white supremacism, masculine supremacism, & the so-called "Authoritarian Complex" (essentialist antisemitism). All lead toward a neofascist synchrony. 1/
#AmericanId
#AmericanId
I guess its a *good* thing when the Evola-enamored, neofascist, former, special advisor to your country's ruling regime announces the opening salvo of World War III to an all but empty room?
#NationalConservatism #NatCon #Fascism
#NationalConservatism #NatCon #Fascism
September 5, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I guess its a *good* thing when the Evola-enamored, neofascist, former, special advisor to your country's ruling regime announces the opening salvo of World War III to an all but empty room?
#NationalConservatism #NatCon #Fascism
#NationalConservatism #NatCon #Fascism
"Which Way, Western Man" is a notorious 1978, neo-Nazi classic by eugenicist William Gayley Simpson. It blames Jews for the racial destruction of the modern world and calls for a violent, global "revolution" modeled on Hitler's genocidal anti-Jewish campaign. /1
August 13, 2025 at 8:29 PM
"Which Way, Western Man" is a notorious 1978, neo-Nazi classic by eugenicist William Gayley Simpson. It blames Jews for the racial destruction of the modern world and calls for a violent, global "revolution" modeled on Hitler's genocidal anti-Jewish campaign. /1
15/1. That's the ratio between high profile X accounts on the right & left that are sounding off about #SydneySweeney.
The right is so desperate to make "fetch" happen.
@politifact.bsky.social #AmericanEagle #Sweeney
The right is so desperate to make "fetch" happen.
@politifact.bsky.social #AmericanEagle #Sweeney
![A snap image of two paragraphs from a PolitiFact study. It reads, "Collectively, 58 posts expressing support for the [ad] campaign or opposing the "Nazi" criticism [of Sweeney] gained more than 198,100 shares, 1.8 million likes and 87.1 million views. In the same time frame, we saw four X posts meeting the criteria that criticized the [ad] campaign, with 12,400 shares, 287,000 likes and 11 million views in total. That means there's nearly one post criticizing the ad for every 15 posts defending it."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:f3lw5jcw5ta6hlykeoktmndr/bafkreib7jee447azspgkzwfijed5n2xioh2j4wplcphqc7tto7b6rmoq5u@jpeg)
August 3, 2025 at 7:34 PM
15/1. That's the ratio between high profile X accounts on the right & left that are sounding off about #SydneySweeney.
The right is so desperate to make "fetch" happen.
@politifact.bsky.social #AmericanEagle #Sweeney
The right is so desperate to make "fetch" happen.
@politifact.bsky.social #AmericanEagle #Sweeney
Somehow simultaneously caught up in King's "Fairy Tale," Sayers's, "Unnatural Death," Tolkien's "Fellowship," & Stoppard's "Leopoldstadt." August's mood is radical, literary non-monogamy.
#SummerReads
#SummerReads
August 2, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Somehow simultaneously caught up in King's "Fairy Tale," Sayers's, "Unnatural Death," Tolkien's "Fellowship," & Stoppard's "Leopoldstadt." August's mood is radical, literary non-monogamy.
#SummerReads
#SummerReads