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David Neiwert

@davidneiwert.bsky.social
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Journalist/author based in the Pacific Northwest. Enemy of fascists, friend of whales. Author of ‘The Age of Insurrection: The Radical Right’s War on American Democracy’ and nine other books. Subscribe to my work at davidneiwert.substack.com.

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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is just hair-raising. I am familiar with Alexandra Duggan’s work, and she is a first-tier reporter (who, after all, was breaking all the news about the arsonist). Rob Curley is a moron and the S-R luckily pulled back from the brink. www.rangemedia.co/rob-curley-s...
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How Rob Curley’s plan to make the Spokesman-Review ‘The People’s Paper’ ended in a newsroom revolt
Newsroom staffers tell InvestigateWest and RANGE that concerns about Curley’s leadership festered until his August suspension — weeks before the paper was set to transfer to his nonprofit
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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There’s a big chunk of his brain missing.
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Spencer Sunshine @transform6789.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My “A Short History of Nazi-Satanism,” the first comprehensive overview of Nazi-Satanism, is finally out! Runs from the 1970s alliances b/t the Church of Satan & neo-Nazi groups thru today’s Order of Nine Angles and NVE. Link for PDF download. (captcha req) escholarship.org/uc/item/1f57...
image of 6 pentagrams around the text "A Short History of Nazi-Satanism - see link above"
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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Aaaaaand of course Benny is now hiding from his humiliation.
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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
For some reason we never heard another word from Kirk, Johnson, or Posobiec about the findings from their so-called Nazi hunt.
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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Of course, we already knew at the time that the Nazis were identified as members of the Goyim Defense League. www.dailykos.com/stories/2022...
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Some Nazi hunters these guys are: Kirk tries to launder white nationalist problem with Posobiec
Jack Posobiec’s extremist links complicate TPUSA’s attempt to combat neo-Nazism. Discover the latest developments—read on today.
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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Benny Johnson probably played a role in queueing up Eric Schmitt’s hilarious faceplant today in the Senate. You can always count on Benny to be humiliatingly wrong about everything. Remember when he tried to claim that Nazis who harassed TPUSA were actually leftists and he was gonna unmask them?
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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
They were primarily foraging, it seemed to me. There was some play but mostly they were kelping because it removes the diatoms on their skin.
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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Bonus: Here are some still shots I managed to snag. I'm not certain, but I think that's the new calf, J63, and her mother J40 Suttles in a few of these shots (the yooungster was playing in the kelp). A few of these are video stills.
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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I managed to catch the close pass J pod made at Lime Kiln lighthouse today. Enjoy! #srkw #orcas #sanjuanisland #folks
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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I don't think people really understand how 9/11 brought us Trump. The one thing that authoritarians can do to increase the levels of authoritarianism in society generally is to drum up as much fear as possible. 9/11 was the opportunity, and they did not miss. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...
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The Fear-Anger-Authoritarianism Connection
The challenge to civilized persons is to acknowledge the worth of as many people as possible, even complete strangers or those who hold viewpoints quite different from their own.
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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Lmao! I am just excited to see that the truth persists.
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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I did a deep dive on this when the mural controversy erupted. www.dailykos.com/stories/2020...
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Bellevue College faces furor over attempt to whitewash a city father’s white supremacist legacy
After a VP altered a mural’s message at Bellevue College, debate erupted over confronting white supremacy. Find out what happened—explore the details today.
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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Can’t wait!
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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Hope you enjoyed it.
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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
There's a book about all this, fwiw. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/strawberry...
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Strawberry Days: The Rise and Fall of a Japanese-American Community
Barnes & Noble’s online bookstore for books, NOOK ebooks & magazines. Shop music, movies, toys & games, too. Receive free shipping with your Barnes & Noble Membership.
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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I obtained my original rights to 'Strawberry Days' and republished it recently. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/strawberry...
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Strawberry Days: The Rise and Fall of a Japanese-American Community
Barnes & Noble’s online bookstore for books, NOOK ebooks & magazines. Shop music, movies, toys & games, too. Receive free shipping with your Barnes & Noble Membership.
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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I first dug up this information in 2005, FWIW, and am currently working to make sure a new generation learns it. Thanks for your contribution! davidneiwert.substack.com/p/fighting-b...
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The War on History: Fighting Back in Bellevue
College's mural installation depicting city's history as an immigrant Japanese community is a long-overdue racial reckoning with our white-supremacist forebears.
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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
They’re always so shocked when the leopards eat their faces. x.com/nero/status/...
Milo tweet, 6/5/25: “ There is one concrete thing we must insist on this administration delivering. It matters a lot more than debts measured in imaginary money. We have got to deport millions and millions and millions of people. Without that, nothing else matters.”
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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
It was, of course broadcast widely by right wing fraudsters ranging from Donald Trump to Joe Rogan. www.dailykos.com/stories/2020...
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‘Antifa arsonists’ hoax gets a boost from Trump, Rogan, Fox and others into the mainstream
Law enforcement and the FBI refute antifa arson hoax spread by Trump, Rogan, and Fox. Discover what really happened now.
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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
We even had armed yahoos showing up in rural areas armed and ready to take out any suspected antifas. www.dailykos.com/stories/2020...
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Armed vigilantes set up rural checkpoints in Oregon as ‘antifa fires’ hoax inflames social media
Police urge an end to wildfire conspiracy theories as they strain emergency responses in rural Oregon. Read more for updates.
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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Well, in 2020, that was the far-right hoax du jour. Right-wing influencers like Katie Daviscourt—who to this day enjoys undeserved credibility with both media and law enforcement—had a heyday with it. www.dailykos.com/stories/2020...
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‘Antifa arson’ hoax rumors spread faster than wildfires in besieged West Coast rural areas
Right-wing conspiracists spread false claims of coordinated antifa arson during West Coast fires. Check reliable sources and help stop misinformation!
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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
No, it’s not “split.” The “radical left” has only a tiny handful of violent incidents on its ledger, unlike the radical right. revealnews.org/article/dome...
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Domestic Terror in the Age of Trump
A new database of domestic terror incidents shows attacks by far-right extremists have become far more lethal since Donald Trump became president.
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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
The dead eyes of a psychopath.
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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
The AI crap is inescapable. I give up. There is no Beartooth Range in Idaho. They’re in Montana. And they look nothing like this.
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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
It was 20 years ago this month that I posted my first video to YouTube. I was an early adopter; at the time it was still a somewhat obscure website. youtu.be/s5ZSvTfYYJQ
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Orca Song
YouTube video by David Neiwert
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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I have been enjoying my big garden this summer.
Anna’s hummingbird feeding from a lobelia tupa flower.
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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I remember first encountering the Society of St. Pius X when writing about Mel Gibson’s absurdly antisemitic The Passion two decades ago. The hate generated by the bastions of white supremacy never dies out. dneiwert.blogspot.com/2004/02/mel-...
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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Well, we always warned that the right would use AI to completely distort reality. x.com/rpsagainsttr...
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Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) on X
Trump’s question to AI Teddy Roosevelt while visiting the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in North Dakota: “Do you consider the Panama Canal your greatest achievement?” https://t.co/Gjz5tJscK...
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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Talk about a war on history and memory.
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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
FAFO. fortune.com/2026/06/26/i...
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In deep‑red Idaho, even Republicans break with Trump on farm labor | Fortune
A Boise State poll of 1,000 Idaho adults finds 85% support a legal working status pathway for long-term dairy workers — with Republican support at 79%
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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
More about the recent rededication here: www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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Bellevue mural gets rededicated 6 years after controversy
A college vice president’s decision to alter the piece led to leadership resignations and a reckoning over how to acknowledge Bellevue’s painful history.
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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I made some tweaks to the new edition of 'Strawberry Days' to honor the permanent installation of the 'Never Again Is Now' mural on the Bellevue College campus. Hoping to have some events around its republication soon, after being out of print for 15 years. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/strawberry...
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Strawberry Days: The Rise and Fall of a Japanese-American Community
Barnes & Noble’s online bookstore for books, NOOK ebooks & magazines. Shop music, movies, toys & games, too. Receive free shipping with your Barnes & Noble Membership.
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Ghostly Anarchic Squid @leahanelson.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
“A poor Black man with intellectual limitations was forced to rely on a defense attorney who openly aligned himself with a terrorist organization best known for murderous violence against people who looked like his client.” amsterdamnews.com/news/2026/06...
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OP-ED: Imprisoned Black man, his KKK-linked attorney, and what justice really looks like
A poor Black man with intellectual limitations was forced to rely on a defense attorney who openly aligned himself with a terrorist organization.
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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
It’s increasingly unlikely that we will survive this presidency.
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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that the ”centrist” pundits telling Democrats to compromise on abortion are the same former progressives (see, besides Jilani, Greenwald and Lee Fang) who regularly criticize antifascists and soft pedal white nationalists.
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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
This is just brilliant. There’s probably no greater single threat to democracy posed by the MAGA phenomenon than the epistemological crisis inherent in the completely groundless claims of election fraud. In no small part because it provides them cover for engaging in such fraud themselves.
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Lynn: Let's storm the Bastille @auberon.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Oh look, Elon's name coming up in a another story about his involvement with nazis, but his heil hitler (x3) was totally misconstrued
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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind, mothafucka.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Trump wouldn't need immunity from his SCOTUS for criminal behavior it he weren't engaging in criminal behavior. Trump wouldn't need immunity from his DOJ for tax fraud it he weren't engaging in fraud. Trump wouldn't need Florida's AG Pam Bondi to ignore consumer fraud if he hadn't engaged in it.
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
the trump official — who led the siege & occupation of Minneapolis — admitting to having an ongoing dialogue/rapport with Martin Sellner, a straight-up Nazi who influenced the Christchurch shooter, while speaking at a conference about remigration (read: ethnic cleansing) is a pretty big deal!
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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
None of it will matter if we don’t reel in the plague of extreme wealth: outlaw corporate media ownership, outlaw billionaires, and outlaw interference in elections by the wealthy.
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Bad Hand Books @badhandbooks.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
They didn't die while serving in the military, but they died protecting our freedoms from those who would destroy them, nonetheless. Remembering these heroes on this Memorial Day.
Alex Pretti and Renee Good
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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
In Jaxson’s world, black people only matter if they are keeping him from getting sacked. Lotsa luck with that, dude.
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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Just the ones who matter, Jaxson.
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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
It’s also unquestionably eliminationist. Rhetoric intended as a predicate for permission.
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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
So very sad today: My friend and former colleague Anthony Bolante passed away from complications due to a stroke. He was a prince among men: kind, generous, unbelievably talented. He radiated positive energy. www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news...
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Award-winning Business Journal photographer Anthony Bolante dies at 58 - Puget Sound Business Journal
Anthony Bolante, an award-winning photojournalist who became one of the most recognizable members of the Seattle-area media, died Thursday due to complications following a stroke. He was 58.
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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
💯
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Lazlo Toth @popeye2.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
I encourage those who are able to contribute to @bhennrich.bsky.social , who is opposing Gluesenkampf in the primary.
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