Tom Kutsch
@tomkutsch.bsky.social
Editor and writer based in Paris.
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When he was arrested in early 2021, Ian Rogers — a white, conservative man in his 40s — had dozens of guns and a plan to ignite civil war. Rogers’ radicalization didn’t happen in a vacuum. His indoctrination can be traced back to his 21st birthday, when he bought his first gun.
White, Legally Armed, and Primed for Political Violence
Ian Rogers was convinced it was up to him to save America. The gun industry’s sales tactics may be creating a pipeline of extremists willing to open fire.
www.thetrace.org
July 2, 2025 at 12:17 AM
When he was arrested in early 2021, Ian Rogers — a white, conservative man in his 40s — had dozens of guns and a plan to ignite civil war. Rogers’ radicalization didn’t happen in a vacuum. His indoctrination can be traced back to his 21st birthday, when he bought his first gun.
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Trump’s Global Gulag Search Expands to 53 Nations
The Trump administration is seeking deals with more and more nations -- one third of the countries on the planet -- to hold deportees — now with the blessing of the Supreme Court.
theintercept.com/2025/06/25/t...
The Trump administration is seeking deals with more and more nations -- one third of the countries on the planet -- to hold deportees — now with the blessing of the Supreme Court.
theintercept.com/2025/06/25/t...
Trump’s Global Gulag Search Expands to 53 Nations
The Trump administration is seeking deals with more and more nations to hold deportees — now with the blessing of the Supreme Court.
theintercept.com
June 25, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Trump’s Global Gulag Search Expands to 53 Nations
The Trump administration is seeking deals with more and more nations -- one third of the countries on the planet -- to hold deportees — now with the blessing of the Supreme Court.
theintercept.com/2025/06/25/t...
The Trump administration is seeking deals with more and more nations -- one third of the countries on the planet -- to hold deportees — now with the blessing of the Supreme Court.
theintercept.com/2025/06/25/t...
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Seems like Trump’s most powerful advisor being a white nationalist should inspire greater alarm than the possible mayor of new york being pro palestinian rights
June 25, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Seems like Trump’s most powerful advisor being a white nationalist should inspire greater alarm than the possible mayor of new york being pro palestinian rights
Shout out to my brave wife and all around amazing person who wrote about her extremely difficult post-partum experience — and why women’s health should be taken far more seriously than it is www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Giving Birth Almost Killed Me. Pregnancy Shouldn’t Be So Dangerous.
Every year, tens of thousands of women bleed to death after having a baby. Cuts to aid and attacks on reproductive rights will make postpartum complications even more deadly.
www.thenation.com
June 23, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Shout out to my brave wife and all around amazing person who wrote about her extremely difficult post-partum experience — and why women’s health should be taken far more seriously than it is www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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RISING LION and MIDNIGHT HAMMER have not slowed the Iranian program nearly as much as the JCPOA. We hold diplomacy to much higher standards than bombing. The same people who endlessly complained about the JCPOA "sunsetting" are now happy to delay Iran's bomb by much less. 15/17
June 23, 2025 at 1:27 AM
RISING LION and MIDNIGHT HAMMER have not slowed the Iranian program nearly as much as the JCPOA. We hold diplomacy to much higher standards than bombing. The same people who endlessly complained about the JCPOA "sunsetting" are now happy to delay Iran's bomb by much less. 15/17
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A reporter from The City had overheard one agent say to another minutes before Lander’s arrest, “Do you want to arrest the Comptroller?”
www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/17/b...
www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/17/b...
Brad Lander Detained by Masked Federal Agents Inside Immigration Court
The arrest came in his latest visit to the courthouse to speak with migrants there.
www.thecity.nyc
June 17, 2025 at 5:20 PM
A reporter from The City had overheard one agent say to another minutes before Lander’s arrest, “Do you want to arrest the Comptroller?”
www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/17/b...
www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/17/b...
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With Trump essentially threatening military occupation in every major blue city, Democratic mayors, governors, legislators and councilmembers need a mutual defensive pact. publiccomment.blog/p/blue-citie...
Blue Cities Need a Mutual Defensive Pact
We'll hang together or we'll hang separately
publiccomment.blog
June 16, 2025 at 10:37 PM
With Trump essentially threatening military occupation in every major blue city, Democratic mayors, governors, legislators and councilmembers need a mutual defensive pact. publiccomment.blog/p/blue-citie...
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This is the slap back to Stephen Miller’s “arrest everyone” madness. And an admission that Trump is under pressure from multiple industries that rely on migrant workers.
This is huge and important. Keep amplifying the harm done by the Trump/Miller zealous, cruel overreach. Don’t bury this.
This is huge and important. Keep amplifying the harm done by the Trump/Miller zealous, cruel overreach. Don’t bury this.
BREAKING: The decision suggested that the scale of President Trump’s mass deportation campaign — an issue that is at the heart of his presidency — is hurting industries and constituencies that he does not want to lose.
June 14, 2025 at 2:56 AM
This is the slap back to Stephen Miller’s “arrest everyone” madness. And an admission that Trump is under pressure from multiple industries that rely on migrant workers.
This is huge and important. Keep amplifying the harm done by the Trump/Miller zealous, cruel overreach. Don’t bury this.
This is huge and important. Keep amplifying the harm done by the Trump/Miller zealous, cruel overreach. Don’t bury this.
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In over 99.5 percent of protest events in April and May, we recorded no injuries, arrests, or property damage — an unprecedentedly tiny fraction for a movement of this size and geographic dispersion.
June 13, 2025 at 2:25 AM
In over 99.5 percent of protest events in April and May, we recorded no injuries, arrests, or property damage — an unprecedentedly tiny fraction for a movement of this size and geographic dispersion.
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A Well Regulated Militia (2020)
June 10, 2025 at 1:12 PM
A Well Regulated Militia (2020)
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We feed you.
They hunt us.
They hunt us.
June 11, 2025 at 5:05 AM
We feed you.
They hunt us.
They hunt us.
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This is a map of Los Angeles. The arrow points to a red dot. That red dot (roughly) represents the protest area seen on TV.
To me, the gross mischaracterization of what’s happening in Los Angeles looks like an excuse to deploy the military—to protect government assets like ICE.
To me, the gross mischaracterization of what’s happening in Los Angeles looks like an excuse to deploy the military—to protect government assets like ICE.
June 11, 2025 at 7:53 AM
This is a map of Los Angeles. The arrow points to a red dot. That red dot (roughly) represents the protest area seen on TV.
To me, the gross mischaracterization of what’s happening in Los Angeles looks like an excuse to deploy the military—to protect government assets like ICE.
To me, the gross mischaracterization of what’s happening in Los Angeles looks like an excuse to deploy the military—to protect government assets like ICE.
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Trump has federalized at least 2,000 National Guard forces and reportedly plans to deploy troops to Los Angeles over Governor Newsom’s objections. If that happens, it will be the first time since 1965 that a president has sent troops into a state without a state request. 1/19
June 8, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Trump has federalized at least 2,000 National Guard forces and reportedly plans to deploy troops to Los Angeles over Governor Newsom’s objections. If that happens, it will be the first time since 1965 that a president has sent troops into a state without a state request. 1/19
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UPDATE: David Huerta was just released from custody!
June 9, 2025 at 9:50 PM
UPDATE: David Huerta was just released from custody!
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Arguably 300,000 wholly preventable, gratuitous deaths already from gutting USAID.
If this ends up basically banning vaccines, how many thousands more preventable gratuitous deaths?
And almost all of children.
Death of children, simply everywhere.
If this ends up basically banning vaccines, how many thousands more preventable gratuitous deaths?
And almost all of children.
Death of children, simply everywhere.
In an unprecedented move, US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. removed all 17 members of the CDC's expert panel of vaccine advisers, citing conflicts of interest. cnn.it/4mYohFy
June 9, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Arguably 300,000 wholly preventable, gratuitous deaths already from gutting USAID.
If this ends up basically banning vaccines, how many thousands more preventable gratuitous deaths?
And almost all of children.
Death of children, simply everywhere.
If this ends up basically banning vaccines, how many thousands more preventable gratuitous deaths?
And almost all of children.
Death of children, simply everywhere.
Such an important point that gets at the utter uselessness of political fatalism right now — and frankly any effort that uses the horrors of the American past to predetermine our collective fates
Note that Tom Homan has personally threatened both Gavin Newsom and AOC and then quickly backed down when they dared him to make good on his threats. These people only have brute intimidation, and if it fails then they don't know what to do.
what i see is a white house whose ambitions outstrip its resources, who did not count on facing mass resistance, and which is scrambling to escalate the situation in hopes that a display of force will make people shut up
June 9, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Such an important point that gets at the utter uselessness of political fatalism right now — and frankly any effort that uses the horrors of the American past to predetermine our collective fates
Prime example of utter mediocrity condescending to intelligence
HAWLEY: Let's see the Trump chart. You don't think it's a little bit anomalous that Trump has so many more nationwide injunctions against him?
KATE SHAW: A very plausible explanation you have to consider is that he's engaged in much more lawless activity than other presidents
KATE SHAW: A very plausible explanation you have to consider is that he's engaged in much more lawless activity than other presidents
June 4, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Prime example of utter mediocrity condescending to intelligence
Take note of what courage looks like, Democratic supporters of learned helplessness
“‘I am saying it clear and loud to President Trump and his cabinet: I am not afraid of you,’ Mahdawi said outside the Vermont courtroom.”
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Judge orders Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi to be released
Mohsen Mahdawi, a 34-year-old U.S. permanent resident who was raised in a refugee camp in the West Bank, was detained during his April 14 naturalization interview in Vermont.
www.nbcnews.com
April 30, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Take note of what courage looks like, Democratic supporters of learned helplessness
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“In international relations, trade, security and markets, the themes are the same: the rest of the world is seeking to diversify, decarbonize, defend, and dedollarize.”
NEW by @katemac.bsky.social + @70sbachchan.bsky.social on the month since Liberation Day www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/apr...
NEW by @katemac.bsky.social + @70sbachchan.bsky.social on the month since Liberation Day www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/apr...
April is the Cruelest Month | The Polycrisis
Diversification and dedollarization in the world economy
www.phenomenalworld.org
April 28, 2025 at 8:23 PM
“In international relations, trade, security and markets, the themes are the same: the rest of the world is seeking to diversify, decarbonize, defend, and dedollarize.”
NEW by @katemac.bsky.social + @70sbachchan.bsky.social on the month since Liberation Day www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/apr...
NEW by @katemac.bsky.social + @70sbachchan.bsky.social on the month since Liberation Day www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/apr...
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PUBLISHED!
I initially hesitated to write this article because the reality of it is so frightening, but the evidence became impossible to ignore.
So here I argue that ICE is a secret police force in the making, which is not a claim I make lightly.
Free Access - theconversation.com/how-ice-is-b...
I initially hesitated to write this article because the reality of it is so frightening, but the evidence became impossible to ignore.
So here I argue that ICE is a secret police force in the making, which is not a claim I make lightly.
Free Access - theconversation.com/how-ice-is-b...
How ICE is becoming a secret police force under the Trump administration
The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement meets most criteria that have defined secret police forces in authoritarian regimes. And the worst may be yet to come.
theconversation.com
April 28, 2025 at 8:30 PM
PUBLISHED!
I initially hesitated to write this article because the reality of it is so frightening, but the evidence became impossible to ignore.
So here I argue that ICE is a secret police force in the making, which is not a claim I make lightly.
Free Access - theconversation.com/how-ice-is-b...
I initially hesitated to write this article because the reality of it is so frightening, but the evidence became impossible to ignore.
So here I argue that ICE is a secret police force in the making, which is not a claim I make lightly.
Free Access - theconversation.com/how-ice-is-b...
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#Vietnam's ecosystems still bear the scars of war 50 years after its end. Mangroves, forests, and soils remain degraded, with little restoration and lingering dioxin contamination. An environmental scientist explains: buff.ly/UivesMS
April 28, 2025 at 7:48 PM
#Vietnam's ecosystems still bear the scars of war 50 years after its end. Mangroves, forests, and soils remain degraded, with little restoration and lingering dioxin contamination. An environmental scientist explains: buff.ly/UivesMS
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The Trump admin is demanding universities institute anti-mask laws for student protesters, holding the schools’ funding as a ransom, while sending secret police in balaclavas to disappear immigrants
Men in plainclothes, one in a balaclava, raided the Charlottesville courthouse today. They abducted a local painter whose case (allegedly fighting with his roommate) was being dismissed, and another who was there paying fines. They took them away in unmarked vans.
dailyprogress.com/news/local/c...
dailyprogress.com/news/local/c...
ICE detains 2 men in Charlottesville courthouse raid
Three men who identified themselves as Homeland Security officers raided a courthouse in downtown Charlottesville Tuesday, detaining two men without explanation.
dailyprogress.com
April 23, 2025 at 2:54 AM
The Trump admin is demanding universities institute anti-mask laws for student protesters, holding the schools’ funding as a ransom, while sending secret police in balaclavas to disappear immigrants
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incredible scenes when you have a president who hasn't achieved object permanence
April 19, 2025 at 3:46 AM
incredible scenes when you have a president who hasn't achieved object permanence
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In addition to being a fascist and a snake oil salesman, Elon Musk is a certified super creep. Content warning, this story may make you lose your lunch. This is who you enrich if you buy a Tesla. #teslatakedown
This is profoundly, the most disturbing story I've ever read. Elon Musk believes his children are a legion and he needs to make as many babies as possible before the apocalypse.
He has a breeding fetish mixed with a messianic doomsday cult obsession.
archive.ph/H7U2a
He has a breeding fetish mixed with a messianic doomsday cult obsession.
archive.ph/H7U2a
April 16, 2025 at 7:47 PM
In addition to being a fascist and a snake oil salesman, Elon Musk is a certified super creep. Content warning, this story may make you lose your lunch. This is who you enrich if you buy a Tesla. #teslatakedown
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SCOOP --> The cop who initially attested to Abrego Garcia's alleged MS-13 membership was subsequently suspended and indicted for serious professional misconduct: Sharing case info with a sex worker. This undermines Trumpworld's smears.
New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1940...
New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1940...
Trump’s Case Against Man Deported in “Error” Just Took Another Big Hit
Trumpworld claims Kilmar Abrego Garcia was in MS-13. But new information concerning the local cop who attested to that charge at the time raises fresh questions about it.
newrepublic.com
April 15, 2025 at 5:41 PM
SCOOP --> The cop who initially attested to Abrego Garcia's alleged MS-13 membership was subsequently suspended and indicted for serious professional misconduct: Sharing case info with a sex worker. This undermines Trumpworld's smears.
New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1940...
New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1940...