Brian Antifa Ragle
@ragle.vagabondvisions.studio
#Photographer and #writer
#gamer, #technology enthusiast
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🚨 1️⃣New long-form essay is live on Medium: “They’re Eating the Dogs: A Thousand Years of Fascist Lies.”
From medieval monks inventing blood libel to Trump raving about migrants eating pets, it’s the same smear recycled for a thousand years.
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From medieval monks inventing blood libel to Trump raving about migrants eating pets, it’s the same smear recycled for a thousand years.
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They’re Eating the Dogs: How the Far Right Turned Disgust Into a Thousand-Year Weapon
Why Fascists Keep Telling You Outsiders Eat Children and Pets
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September 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
🚨 1️⃣New long-form essay is live on Medium: “They’re Eating the Dogs: A Thousand Years of Fascist Lies.”
From medieval monks inventing blood libel to Trump raving about migrants eating pets, it’s the same smear recycled for a thousand years.
medium.com/@brian.ragle...
From medieval monks inventing blood libel to Trump raving about migrants eating pets, it’s the same smear recycled for a thousand years.
medium.com/@brian.ragle...
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1️⃣ The Dallas shooting at an ICE facility is once again raising more questions than are being answered, especially by the law enforcement dribbling out information. They released this photo of ammo recovered at the scene and it's....odd.
September 24, 2025 at 6:58 PM
1️⃣ The Dallas shooting at an ICE facility is once again raising more questions than are being answered, especially by the law enforcement dribbling out information. They released this photo of ammo recovered at the scene and it's....odd.
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I mean, it looks like a hand signal. He's either greenlighting the shot or telling someone to steal third base. No question those guys are signaling someone or something.
It’s really starting to look like a professional hit by the right TBH.
Watch this.
All the hand gestures starting with him touching his cap are signals.
Kirk is shot immediately after that final hand signal. Not a coincidence.
This is the kind of thing you’d see in the movies.
Watch this.
All the hand gestures starting with him touching his cap are signals.
Kirk is shot immediately after that final hand signal. Not a coincidence.
This is the kind of thing you’d see in the movies.
September 11, 2025 at 9:51 PM
I mean, it looks like a hand signal. He's either greenlighting the shot or telling someone to steal third base. No question those guys are signaling someone or something.
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5. ...among black communities as protection against white nationalist/supremacist violence. In that very real and karmic sense, Charlie Kirk lost the gun debate.
September 11, 2025 at 10:09 AM
5. ...among black communities as protection against white nationalist/supremacist violence. In that very real and karmic sense, Charlie Kirk lost the gun debate.
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4. Charlie Kirk died as part of the price *he* believed was necessary for the white Christian nationalist veneration of gun ownership, a peculiar ideological strain of conservatism that became more pronounced in the 1960s and 70s, following the encouragement of gun ownership...
September 11, 2025 at 10:09 AM
4. Charlie Kirk died as part of the price *he* believed was necessary for the white Christian nationalist veneration of gun ownership, a peculiar ideological strain of conservatism that became more pronounced in the 1960s and 70s, following the encouragement of gun ownership...
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3. Conservatism bends toward fascism because fascism is an extreme albeit natural conclusion to what conservatism preaches and holds, especially in the US and Europe, which are dominated by white Christians for centuries.
September 11, 2025 at 10:09 AM
3. Conservatism bends toward fascism because fascism is an extreme albeit natural conclusion to what conservatism preaches and holds, especially in the US and Europe, which are dominated by white Christians for centuries.
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2. ...becomes more overt and open about the fascism that has influenced their policy positions since the 1950s. Conservatism in the US has always been rooted in white Christian nationalism and the "fascism" name for an ideology constructed around that came in the 1930s.
September 11, 2025 at 10:09 AM
2. ...becomes more overt and open about the fascism that has influenced their policy positions since the 1950s. Conservatism in the US has always been rooted in white Christian nationalism and the "fascism" name for an ideology constructed around that came in the 1930s.
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1. Let's be clear here, #CharlieKirk was a white Christian nationalist. That's a key component of the kind of #fascism that political conservatism has held for 200+ years in the US. To call this out isn't unfair or "demonization". It's accurate and it's timely as the #Republican party...
September 11, 2025 at 10:09 AM
1. Let's be clear here, #CharlieKirk was a white Christian nationalist. That's a key component of the kind of #fascism that political conservatism has held for 200+ years in the US. To call this out isn't unfair or "demonization". It's accurate and it's timely as the #Republican party...
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Spent the evening photographing tiny people with large cows. Yes, really.
More a little later.
More a little later.
a woman talking on a cell phone with the words i gotta go julia above her
ALT: a woman talking on a cell phone with the words i gotta go julia above her
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September 10, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Spent the evening photographing tiny people with large cows. Yes, really.
More a little later.
More a little later.
Nice Me does the same things as Rude Me, but nicer.
September 9, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Nice Me does the same things as Rude Me, but nicer.
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🚨 New longform drop 🚨
America’s labor shortages are colliding with the Constitution’s ugliest loophole: “except as punishment for crime.” Trump’s farm crisis “solution” is prison labor...slavery with patriotic branding.
🧵 A thread:
America’s labor shortages are colliding with the Constitution’s ugliest loophole: “except as punishment for crime.” Trump’s farm crisis “solution” is prison labor...slavery with patriotic branding.
🧵 A thread:
When "Except" Becomes the Rule: Prison Labor, Food Security, and the 13th Amendment's Shadow
How Trump’s labor crisis, ICE raids, and a 19th-century loophole could put prisoners back in America’s fields—and maybe your living room
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September 8, 2025 at 10:26 AM
🚨 New longform drop 🚨
America’s labor shortages are colliding with the Constitution’s ugliest loophole: “except as punishment for crime.” Trump’s farm crisis “solution” is prison labor...slavery with patriotic branding.
🧵 A thread:
America’s labor shortages are colliding with the Constitution’s ugliest loophole: “except as punishment for crime.” Trump’s farm crisis “solution” is prison labor...slavery with patriotic branding.
🧵 A thread:
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America’s crops are rotting, construction sites are stalling, and Trump’s (likely) answer is #slavery via loopholes and Executive Order fiat. My new piece digs into the 13th Amendment loophole fueling the prison labor “solution.” Read it before your strawberries come with chains.
Tomorrow!
Tomorrow!
September 7, 2025 at 10:52 PM
America’s crops are rotting, construction sites are stalling, and Trump’s (likely) answer is #slavery via loopholes and Executive Order fiat. My new piece digs into the 13th Amendment loophole fueling the prison labor “solution.” Read it before your strawberries come with chains.
Tomorrow!
Tomorrow!
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RFK Jr. probably thinks food safety regulations are just another government plot to keep us from enjoying that delicious old-timey chalk milk experience.
September 7, 2025 at 2:41 PM
RFK Jr. probably thinks food safety regulations are just another government plot to keep us from enjoying that delicious old-timey chalk milk experience.
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And I meant what I said: Trump has never had an original idea in his life. It's ALL drawn from his own little swiss-cheese memory of pop culture he has been exposed to.
September 6, 2025 at 4:47 PM
And I meant what I said: Trump has never had an original idea in his life. It's ALL drawn from his own little swiss-cheese memory of pop culture he has been exposed to.
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I have said it before and I will say it again, if we had hanged all the Confederates, there would likely not even be a Donald Trump, let alone a section of America that constitutes his mouth-breather cult of followers.
September 6, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I have said it before and I will say it again, if we had hanged all the Confederates, there would likely not even be a Donald Trump, let alone a section of America that constitutes his mouth-breather cult of followers.
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📊 New essay: Nate Silver thinks he’s discovered a new disorder called #Blueskyism.
Spoiler: it’s not real. It’s just what happens when nobody here likes Nate very much.
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Spoiler: it’s not real. It’s just what happens when nobody here likes Nate very much.
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What Nate Silver Gets Wrong About "Blueskyism"
A response essay in 1,600 words of exasperated clarity
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September 6, 2025 at 10:06 AM
📊 New essay: Nate Silver thinks he’s discovered a new disorder called #Blueskyism.
Spoiler: it’s not real. It’s just what happens when nobody here likes Nate very much.
vagabondvisions.beehiiv.com/p/what-nate-...
Spoiler: it’s not real. It’s just what happens when nobody here likes Nate very much.
vagabondvisions.beehiiv.com/p/what-nate-...
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1️⃣ On Sunday, I am publishing what I personally consider the most densely researched article I have ever done. Certainly among the longest. It's about #Hungary, a small European country most Americans couldn't find on a map without Google's help.
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September 5, 2025 at 11:04 PM
1️⃣ On Sunday, I am publishing what I personally consider the most densely researched article I have ever done. Certainly among the longest. It's about #Hungary, a small European country most Americans couldn't find on a map without Google's help.
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📊 Nate Silver thinks he’s diagnosed a new disease: #Blueskyism.
Tomorrow I’ll explain why what really bothers him isn’t the platform’s “pessimism”… it’s that nobody here likes him very much.
Stay tuned.
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Tomorrow I’ll explain why what really bothers him isn’t the platform’s “pessimism”… it’s that nobody here likes him very much.
Stay tuned.
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September 5, 2025 at 6:15 PM
📊 Nate Silver thinks he’s diagnosed a new disease: #Blueskyism.
Tomorrow I’ll explain why what really bothers him isn’t the platform’s “pessimism”… it’s that nobody here likes him very much.
Stay tuned.
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Tomorrow I’ll explain why what really bothers him isn’t the platform’s “pessimism”… it’s that nobody here likes him very much.
Stay tuned.
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Checking in from #Tennessee where I just got my 71 year old mother her #COVID, #RSV, #flu, and first round #Shingles #vaccines. I'm 50 and got a free flu vaccine but they wanted $190 for the COVID vax (writers/photographers don't have great #insurance ...or any insurance).
Not today, RFK!!
Not today, RFK!!
September 5, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Checking in from #Tennessee where I just got my 71 year old mother her #COVID, #RSV, #flu, and first round #Shingles #vaccines. I'm 50 and got a free flu vaccine but they wanted $190 for the COVID vax (writers/photographers don't have great #insurance ...or any insurance).
Not today, RFK!!
Not today, RFK!!
The right wing helpfully provide me with a LOT of fodder to dismantle with a fact-blender.
🎪 Step right up, folks! Dinesh D’Souza and #PragerU are hawking The Lost Cause of #Fascism: a shiny "new" con where #Nazis were “socialists” and the right are forever the good guys. Spoiler: it’s all snake oil.
Full takedown here->
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Full takedown here->
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The Lost Cause of Fascism: D’Souza’s Comfort Lies for the Right
The latest in an ongoing series where I dismantle PragerU disinformation
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September 5, 2025 at 10:31 AM
The right wing helpfully provide me with a LOT of fodder to dismantle with a fact-blender.
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How far back in US history do you want to go? We didn't hang all the Confederates would be a good starting point for how we got here. But more recently, we imported a bunch of fascists who took over the GOP, Hydra-style and have been working toward this for half a century:
When We Said “Never Again,” the GOP Heard “Not Yet”
How the Republican Party Became a Safe Space for Nazis, Fascist Collaborators, and Their Apologists
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September 4, 2025 at 12:56 PM
How far back in US history do you want to go? We didn't hang all the Confederates would be a good starting point for how we got here. But more recently, we imported a bunch of fascists who took over the GOP, Hydra-style and have been working toward this for half a century:
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1/6 The war on abortion was just the beginning. The war on contraception is the real prize: controlling the very conditions of women’s independence.
#BirthControl #Politics
New deep dive: The War on Birth Control: White Replacement, Musk’s Pseudoscience, and the GOP’s Obsession with Women’s Wombs.
#BirthControl #Politics
New deep dive: The War on Birth Control: White Replacement, Musk’s Pseudoscience, and the GOP’s Obsession with Women’s Wombs.
The War on Birth Control: White Replacement, Musk's Pseudoscience, and the GOP's Obsession with Women's Wombs
How the right wing’s white fertility panic turned birth control into enemy number one
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September 4, 2025 at 10:15 AM
1/6 The war on abortion was just the beginning. The war on contraception is the real prize: controlling the very conditions of women’s independence.
#BirthControl #Politics
New deep dive: The War on Birth Control: White Replacement, Musk’s Pseudoscience, and the GOP’s Obsession with Women’s Wombs.
#BirthControl #Politics
New deep dive: The War on Birth Control: White Replacement, Musk’s Pseudoscience, and the GOP’s Obsession with Women’s Wombs.
Seriously, this was cool as hell for me.
1/7 Look, I'm not a #programmer. I understand some very basic things and can kinda sorta see what some low level code is trying or intended to do, but I can't just sit down and start writing code the way I do my journalism or fiction writing. It just doesn't come naturally to me.
#AI #LLM #Coding
#AI #LLM #Coding
September 3, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Seriously, this was cool as hell for me.