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Michael Feola
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Dad. Political Theorist. Writes on white nationalism, the far right, critical theory. Author: The Rage of Replacement (2024, UMN Press). Words at The Washington Post, Slate, The Guardian.
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In case you're wondering how higher ed is taking a stand against the planet-destroying plagiarism machine of gen AI -- my employer just launched Jesse, a "virtual engagement officer" -- an AI person-bot to "connect with our community in new and creative ways." You can't even make this up.
AI "woman" in foreground. Dark hair, white shirt, blue blazer. Looking at viewer. Academic quad and buildings in background.
November 15, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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More "restoring the American Dream!" And wow! Would you look at all those white faces? It's almost like the regime has a very specific, very clear about who counts as an American and who the dream should be reserved for. And they're pretty committed that you know it, too.
Tweet from Labor Dept. Image: white family looking happy. Background, blue sky, arm of Uncle Sam holding the American Flag. Text: "RESTORE THE AMERICAN DREAM! We’re continuing our work on Project Firewall—and restoring pathways to the American Dream by ensuring American Jobs go to American Workers 🇺🇸"
October 22, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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Interesting. Not just a white nuclear family -- but sitting in Church. "Every Sunday Morning". You know: the dream has to center Christianity, too. Just in case you thought it was only about whiteness. But hey, let's keep going....
Tweet from Labor Dept. Image: white family sitting in church pews, ostensibly watching speaker (except for mother, who is looking at daughter). Text: "Project Firewall is our commitment to ensure American Workers have a fair shot at the American Dream. It’s not going to be easy—but the American Dream is worth fighting for. ‘Every Sunday Morning’ —Harold Anderson"
October 22, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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2. Oh, hey look. A white family standing in front of the suburban home they were able to buy through racialized mortgage policies. THE AMERICAN DREAM. Something reminds me of the vision of "Americans" from the first picture, no? But let's keep scrolling.
Tweet from Labor Dept. Image: white family standing with backs to viewer, staring at a white, suburban home. Background, Church, school, factory. Text: "Our work on Project Firewall is critical in our mission to put Americans First and RESTORE THE AMERICAN DREAM. ‘These Are Fundamental’ —Fortune Magazine"
October 22, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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DHS has long been the most prominent propaganda wing of the regime. But you shouldn't miss what the Department of Labor has been up to.

AMERICANS FIRST (hmm. That vision of an "American" who should be "first" sure looks like they've got something specific in mind. Let's keep scrolling, though). 🧵
Tweet from official Labor Dept account. Image: strapping white man staring at viewer. American flag and cranes in background. Text. "Through Project Firewall, we’re rebuilding our workforce and ensuring American Jobs go to AMERICANS FIRST!"
October 22, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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I regret to inform you that DHS is fashposting again.

THE ENEMIES ARE AT THE GATES. DEFEND YOUR HEARTH AND HOME.
Tweet from official DHS account. Image: aerial view, lots of fog, knights in armor, brandishing swords. Superimposed text: "THE ENEMIES ARE AT THE GATES". Tweet text: "Defend your hearth and home".
October 22, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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5. "They’ve given up on the idea that they need to persuade anybody,” Bagenstos, the former general counsel at the OMB, said of Vought and Paoletta. They’re “just going to use brute force and dominance.”
Screenshot: "Vought’s actions could provoke a challenge to the Impoundment Control Act in the Supreme Court. In the meantime, a number of current and former government employees told me that they worried about the long-term consequences of what he has already done: the terminating of vital research projects that could have led to lifesaving breakthroughs, the nation’s lost standing as an international leader, the uncertainty cast over the fundamental workings of government. “They’ve given up on the idea that they need to persuade anybody,” Bagenstos, the former general counsel at the OMB, said of Vought and Paoletta. They’re “just going to use brute force and dominance.” As the former OMB analyst told me, “They’ve dropped a grenade into the system.”
October 17, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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4. "Vought explained, “I don’t want President Trump having to lose a moment of time having fights in the Oval Office about whether something is legal or doable or moral.”
Screenshot: "The Center for Renewing America’s ideas included how the president could invoke the Insurrection Act to deploy military troops to American cities to put down protests, how the White House could freeze billions in federal funding without waiting for a vote in Congress, and how agency leaders could defy government unions and fire workers en masse. The think tank also set out to create shadow versions of the OMB and of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel to anticipate legal challenges and counter internal pushback. In his 2024 address, Vought explained, “I don’t want President Trump having to lose a moment of time having fights in the Oval Office about whether something is legal or doable or moral.”
October 17, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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3. "In Vought’s vision for the U.S. government, an all-powerful executive branch would be able to fire workers, cancel programs, shutter agencies, and undo regulations that govern air and water quality, financial markets, workplace protections and civil rights."
Screenshot: "In Vought’s vision for the U.S. government, an all-powerful executive branch would be able to fire workers, cancel programs, shutter agencies, and undo regulations that govern air and water quality, financial markets, workplace protections and civil rights. The Department of Justice, meanwhile, would shed its historical independence and operate at the direction of the White House. All of this puts Vought at the center of what Steve Vladeck, a law professor at Georgetown, described to me as the Trump administration’s “complete disregard” for the law. “The president has no authority to not spend money Congress has appropriated — that’s not a debate,” he told me. “The president has no authority to fire civil servants who are protected by statute — that’s not a debate.” He added, “We are seeing exertions of executive power the likes of which we have never seen in this country.”
October 17, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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2. "I’m a Christian. I am a nationalist. We were meant to be a Christian nation.”
Screenshot: "Vought is a stated opponent of the status quo. One of the few prominent conservatives to embrace the label of “Christian nationalist,” he once told an audience that “the phrasing is too accurate to run away from the term. ... I’m a Christian. I am a nationalist. We were meant to be a Christian nation.” American democracy, he has said, has been hijacked by rogue judges who make law from the bench and by a permanent class of government bureaucrats who want to advance “woke” policies designed to divide Americans and silence political opponents. “The stark reality in America is that we are in the late stages of a complete Marxist takeover of the country, in which our adversaries already hold the weapons of the government apparatus,” Vought said in 2024, during a conference hosted by the Center for Renewing America, a nonprofit think tank that he also founded. “And they have aimed it at us.”
October 17, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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I regret to inform you that DHS is whitenationalist posting again. "Remigration" -- ethnonationalist code for "purifying" the nation by expelling ethnic and cultural "undesirables".
Tweet from official DHS account: "Remigrate"
October 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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This is what it looks like. Human cargo.
Image: three men surrounding man lying on floor, in full-body restraint. Hood over head.
October 15, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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Behind the paywall, 3. Financial oversight on the megawealthy is apparently *also* a portent of the ANTICHRIST!!
Screenshot from article: " Thiel, whose net worth is around $27 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, also used his private talks to criticize financial regulations. He said such rules were a sign that a singular world government has begun to emerge that could be taken over by an Antichrist figure who could then use it to exert control over people. “​​It’s become quite difficult to hide one’s money,” Thiel said, according to the recordings. “An incredible machinery of tax treaties, financial surveillance, and sanctions architecture has been constructed.” Wealth gives the “illusion of power and autonomy,” Thiel added, according to the recordings, “but you have this sense it could be taken away at any moment.” "
October 10, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Behind the paywall, 2. Sure, this stuff might be bad, but stopping it is way worse!
Screenshot from article: " He acknowledged that technology could have negative effects on people and society, but argued that constraining its development would be more harmful. “Maybe these things are good or bad — stopping them seems far, far worse,” he said, according to the recordings. “If the internet or the AI deranges some people but we have to shut it down altogether, that feels like out of the frying pan into the fire — a cure that’s far worse than the disease.” A threadbare patchwork of state laws imposes limits on AI development, requiring California companies to safety-test products and preventing Texas companies from discriminating against protected classes. Despite a flurry of activity in Washington in recent years, no federal law has passed. Thiel argued that critiques of technology and calls for stricter regulation by Thunberg and others appear to echo biblical interpretations of an Antichrist who will win power by offering the world “peace and safety” from apocalyptic destruction, according to the recordings. He previously cited Thunberg in a June interview with the New York Times "
October 10, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Behind the paywall, 1. Regulation is basically global totalitarianism!
Screenshot from artice: " In the four, roughly two-hour lectures, which began last month and culminated Monday at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Thiel laid out his religious views to a sold-out audience told to keep the contents “off-the-record,” according to an event listing. He argued that those who propose limits on technology development not only hinder business but threaten to usher in the destruction of the United States and an era of global totalitarian rule, according to the recordings. “In the 17th, 18th century, the Antichrist would have been a Dr. Strangelove, a scientist who did all this sort of evil crazy science,” Thiel said in his Sept. 15 opening talk, according to the recordings. “In the 21st century, the Antichrist is a Luddite who wants to stop all science. It’s someone like Greta or Eliezer,” he said, referring to Thunberg and Eliezer Yudkowsky, a prominent critic of the tech industry’s approach to AI. "
October 10, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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A fine example of how quickly *anything* can be recuperated as grist for the far right idea mill. Here, a minister pepper-sprayed in the face by masked ICE agents. The take: "When Christianity in America became so compromised that God had to use the state to put the communist clergy in their place."
Tweet from Joel Webbon. Image, Presbyterian Minister pepper sprayed in the face by masked ICE agents. Text: "This photo will indeed go down in history… As a powerful reminder of one of the darkest times in our country: When Christianity in America became so compromised that God had to use the state to put the communist clergy in their place."
October 8, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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"The compact asks universities...to bar employees from expressing political views on behalf of their employer... It seeks to create a more welcoming environment for conservatives, asking colleges to make governance changes and abolish departments [viewed as hostile to conservative ideas]"
Screenshot from article: "Much of the document focuses on the campus political climate. The compact asks universities to ensure a "vibrant marketplace of ideas on campus" and to bar employees from expressing political views on behalf of their employer, unless the matter affects the school. It seeks to create a more welcoming environment for conservatives, asking colleges to make governance changes and abolish departments that "purposefully punish, belittle, and even spark violence against conservative ideas." "Institutions of higher education are free to develop models and values other than those" in the memo, if the institution elects to forgo federal benefits, the document says."
October 2, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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"Our hope is that a lot of schools see that this is highly reasonable."
Screenshot from article: "The expansive 10-point memo, dubbed the "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education," puts forth a wide-ranging set of terms the administration says are intended to elevate university standards and performance. Universities that sign on will get "multiple positive benefits," including "substantial and meaningful federal grants," says a letter addressed to university leaders. "Our hope is that a lot of schools see that this is highly reasonable," said May Mailman, senior adviser for special projects at the White House. The memo demands that schools ban the use of race or sex in hiring and admissions, freeze tuition for five years, cap international undergrad enrollment at 15%, require that applicants take the SAT or similar test and quell grade inflation."
October 2, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Screenshot from the article in question:

"We need action. Disproportionate. Violent. Action. Pain and suffering. We need to raise the cost of obviating the social contract. Measure it in blood if necessary."
Screenshot from DailyCaller article: "Force corrupt police to intervene. I want blood in the streets. Speaking of costs, such a posture is indeed costly. It’ll cost money, firstly. Security isn’t cheap. It’d likely cost about $1,000 a day for just two guys. It’ll also come at a social cost, and a legal cost. Bragg might not prosecute militant liberals, but he’ll certainly take a conservative organization to court if his street brutes are harmed. But you know what else isn’t cheap? The social compact in America. It comes at a cost. If patriots aren’t willing to step up and bear the burden, our people will continue to be harassed, assaulted, even killed with impunity. What’s clear to me in these two examples is that liberals believe they have a monopoly on both legal and extra-legal acts of violence. They don’t. We need to show them they don’t. We must stop clutching our principles and shouting “stop.” They own the legal system. That will achieve nothing. We need action. Disproportionate. Violent. Action. Pain and suffering. We need to raise the cost of obviating the social contract. Measure it in blood if necessary. Change requires pain, and you’re either taking it or inflicting it."
September 27, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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"inherently violent... this is a massive problem"
Retweet from Elon Musk. Original tweet by Matt Walsh: "Anyone who's been in the trenches fighting these trans militants knows that they are inherently violent. On a level far beyond any other political or ideological faction. Deranged, deeply hateful, angry at themselves and the world. Suicidal. The threat they pose is very serious." Musk: "This is a massive problem"
September 14, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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"Terrorist Cell"
Elon Musk retweet. Original tweet from End Wokeness account: "Multiple trans people in the area posted on September 9th that 'something big will be happening to Charlie Kirk tomorrow'. Musk: "Terrorist cell"
September 14, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Over the past 24 hours, the world's richest man has turned his account into an absolute firehose of virulent transphobia. Every conspiracy theory about the Kirk shooter (plot by "radical transgender terror cells"), broadcast to hundreds of millions of followers. This will end badly.🧵

"Seems likely"
Elon Musk retweet. Original tweet by Aesthetica account: "I am now 100% confident that Charlie's assassination was carried out by a radical left wing transgender terror cell." Elon: "Seems likely"
September 14, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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The world's (maybe) richest man, with the world's largest megaphone, doing his part to "turn down the temperature" at the Unite the Kingdom rally. Healthy.

"The Left is the party of murder... That violence is going to come to you. You will have no choice.... You either fight back, or you die (x2)"
Tweet from Twitter account "Gadget". Image: splitscreen of Tommy Robinson and Elon Musk at "Unite the Kingdom" rally. Text: "🚨 Elon Musk just spoke at Tommy Robinson’s rally: “The left is the party of murder. The violence is going to come to you. You either fight back, or you die.” Do you think Elon will be on the frontlines of this fight?"
September 13, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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And now the White House is doubling down. With images of helicopters. If you know anything about groyper meme culture, you'll know their love for the "helicopter rides" notorious from the Pinochet regime, where dissidents were thrown to their deaths. Absolute, unrepentant exterminationist rhetoric.
Retweet from official White House account. Original post: Donald Trump's post, picturing himself as Col Kurtz from Apocalypse Now, with flames and helicopters in background. Text in foreground: "Chipocalypse Now". Text: 'I love the smell of deportations in the morning...' Chicago about to find out why it's called the Department of WAR." Retweet text: three helicopter emojis.
September 6, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Spotted on the National Mall. White nationalists running the town. Fascist trash all around.
Sticker on lamppost. Image: plane flying away from bald eagle. Text: “Deport invaders. Keep America American”
September 1, 2025 at 12:33 AM