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Michael Feola

@feolski.bsky.social
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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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Michael Feola @feolski.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is the US deportation state.
theguardian.com
Alligator Alcatraz held detainees in cages the size of phone booths, DHS watchdog says
Office of inspector general’s report says practice at Florida immigration jail is not aligned with ‘humane treatment’
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Michael Feola @feolski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
In news that will surprise absolutely no one.
nytimes.com
Fetterman Has a Surprise Cameo at Trump’s Convention
Senator John Fetterman, who has become alienated from his own party, appeared in a short video filmed in front of a steel mill, saying he is “always going to reject the extremes in socialism.”
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Michael Feola @feolski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
In news that will surprise absolutely no one.
nytimes.com
Fetterman Has a Surprise Cameo at Trump’s Convention
Senator John Fetterman, who has become alienated from his own party, appeared in a short video filmed in front of a steel mill, saying he is “always going to reject the extremes in socialism.”
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Michael Feola @feolski.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
FFS. “The new report, which was not published by a scientific journal and did not undergo peer review…links those who say they support trans individuals with supporting authoritarianism and political violence.” The corruption of public knowledge continues apace.
theguardian.com
‘Nakedly political’: US attempts to link trans support to authoritarianism in new health department report
HHS releases report linking ‘gender ideology’ to political violence – a study scientists say was poorly conducted
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Michael Feola @feolski.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
FFS. “The new report, which was not published by a scientific journal and did not undergo peer review…links those who say they support trans individuals with supporting authoritarianism and political violence.” The corruption of public knowledge continues apace.
theguardian.com
‘Nakedly political’: US attempts to link trans support to authoritarianism in new health department report
HHS releases report linking ‘gender ideology’ to political violence – a study scientists say was poorly conducted
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Michael Feola @feolski.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
The world’s richest man, at it again. Reminder: “remigration” is far right code for the forced expulsion of ethnic “undesirables” in order to “purify” the nation.
Tweet from Elon Musk: “Anyone who opposites remigration is a traitor”
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Michael Feola @feolski.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The White House comms division bullhorning one message all morning: election emergency demands executive control. Because the Reichstag fire doesn't always have to be a fire. Any emergency will do.
tweet from White House. Image: AI-smoothed/thinned/filtered close-up of Donald Trump's face. Superimposed text: "save our elections"
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Michael Feola @feolski.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
"IF YOU DON'T HAVE SECURE ELECTIONS, YOU DON'T HAVE A COUNTRY"
Tweet from White House. Text image: "IF YOU DON'T HAVE SECURE ELECTIONS, YOU DON'T HAVE A COUNTRY". Text of tweet: "PASS THE SAVE AMERICA ACT."
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Michael Feola @feolski.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
"The US election system is broken... enough is enough."
White House tweet. IMage: b/w image of Trump addressing press. Text of tweet: "🚨 The U.S. Election System is Broken. 

Here’s what the disclosures reveal:

- Hundreds of millions of American voter files in the hands of foreign govs
- Voting machines & ballot-counting systems exposed to hacking & manipulation
- China & other adversaries actively trying to meddle in elections
- Evidence of fraud being buried
- Hundreds of thousands of non-citizens & dead people still active on voter rolls
- No Voter ID, no Proof of Citizenship required
- Tens of millions of mail-in ballots floating unsecured

Enough is enough."
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Michael Feola @feolski.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The White House comms division bullhorning one message all morning: election emergency demands executive control. Because the Reichstag fire doesn't always have to be a fire. Any emergency will do.
tweet from White House. Image: AI-smoothed/thinned/filtered close-up of Donald Trump's face. Superimposed text: "save our elections"
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Michael Feola @feolski.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
How the official White House account chose to kick off July 4.
Tweet from official White House account: "You can be a communist or you can be a patriot. You cannot be both."
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Michael Feola @feolski.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
A recent (open-access) publication on the far right politics of masculinity. A deep dive into their obsession with hard, masculine-coded bodies -- their obsession with testosterone/nutritional conspiracies -- and their obsession with gender boundaries. Check it out (and pass along)! Link below.
Screenshot: "Sun, Steel, and Raw Eggs: The Far-right Politics of the Male Body"

Abstract: This article explores an emerging strain of far-right politics that makes two major claims: (1) that cultural decline can be tracked to a feminized, egalitarian society; and (2) restoring culture (or the nation) hinges upon resurrecting “true” masculinity. What distinguishes this movement is not simply an abstract investment in masculinity, but an investment in the hardened, purified male body as the path to renewal. As the article details, the far-right investment in the masculine body goes beyond a preening bodily aestheticism. Instead, these anxieties over gender ultimately represent a desire to write illiberal commitments into the structure of nature."
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Michael Feola @feolski.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
And the link. Just requires you to check a box to verify you're not some AI ghoul-parasite trying to pillage actual human labor. muse.jhu.edu/article/986562
muse.jhu.edu
Project MUSE -- Verification required!
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Michael Feola @feolski.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
A recent (open-access) publication on the far right politics of masculinity. A deep dive into their obsession with hard, masculine-coded bodies -- their obsession with testosterone/nutritional conspiracies -- and their obsession with gender boundaries. Check it out (and pass along)! Link below.
Screenshot: "Sun, Steel, and Raw Eggs: The Far-right Politics of the Male Body"

Abstract: This article explores an emerging strain of far-right politics that makes two major claims: (1) that cultural decline can be tracked to a feminized, egalitarian society; and (2) restoring culture (or the nation) hinges upon resurrecting “true” masculinity. What distinguishes this movement is not simply an abstract investment in masculinity, but an investment in the hardened, purified male body as the path to renewal. As the article details, the far-right investment in the masculine body goes beyond a preening bodily aestheticism. Instead, these anxieties over gender ultimately represent a desire to write illiberal commitments into the structure of nature."
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Michael Feola @feolski.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Thanks to the journal for this book review: "Feola offers a crucial contribution to understanding the far-right mobilization of white supremacy and nostalgic nationalism...With extensive theoretical work and various sources, The Rage of Replacement is analytically rigorous and politically timely."
tandfonline.com
The white man’s burdens
Published in Patterns of Prejudice (Vol. 59, No. 4-5, 2025)
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Michael Feola @feolski.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
And a link to the book (available in print, ebook, audio, etc.). A deep dive into how the far right imagination has been shaped by the so-called "Great Replacement" narrative -- hardening its (many) resentments into the reactionary white rage that drives the right now.
upress.umn.edu
The Rage of Replacement
Tracing how the “Great Replacement” narrative has shaped far-right extremism and propelled its dangerous political projects and acts of violence The “G...
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Michael Feola @feolski.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Thanks to the journal for this book review: "Feola offers a crucial contribution to understanding the far-right mobilization of white supremacy and nostalgic nationalism...With extensive theoretical work and various sources, The Rage of Replacement is analytically rigorous and politically timely."
tandfonline.com
The white man’s burdens
Published in Patterns of Prejudice (Vol. 59, No. 4-5, 2025)
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Michael Feola @feolski.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Oh hey look at what Elon’s Super-PAC is posting these days. Totally normal and cool stuff from the guy cheerleading European race riots.
Tweet from America (PAC) account: “Immigration without assimilation is invasion.”
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Michael Feola @feolski.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Oh hey look at what Elon’s Super-PAC is posting these days. Totally normal and cool stuff from the guy cheerleading European race riots.
Tweet from America (PAC) account: “Immigration without assimilation is invasion.”
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Michael Feola @feolski.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Trump’s organization to transform/administer Gaza “is planning a sweeping grant of legal immunity for itself, according to a draft of the resolution….The draft language would also let the organization obtain public property in Gaza “free of charge”.”
theguardian.com
Trump’s Board of Peace plans to grant itself sweeping immunity, documents show
Draft resolution seeks to shield board members and security forces from potential prosecution for work in Gaza
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Michael Feola @feolski.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Trump’s organization to transform/administer Gaza “is planning a sweeping grant of legal immunity for itself, according to a draft of the resolution….The draft language would also let the organization obtain public property in Gaza “free of charge”.”
theguardian.com
Trump’s Board of Peace plans to grant itself sweeping immunity, documents show
Draft resolution seeks to shield board members and security forces from potential prosecution for work in Gaza
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Michael Feola @feolski.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
It's amazing what you can do when you remember that schools have a primary responsibility to the children they teach and nurture -- not to the ed-tech industry or gen AI profit margins.
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Michael Feola @feolski.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Probably a bad thing that the World's Richest Man, who runs the world's largest right-wing incubator platform, is posting about immigration as an "ethnic cleansing" of white Europeans (in this case, "ethnic Germans").
Tweet from Elon Musk: "Ethnic cleansing of ethnic Germans in Germany has been taking place for a long time"
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Michael Feola @feolski.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Probably a bad thing that the World's Richest Man, who runs the world's largest right-wing incubator platform, is posting about immigration as an "ethnic cleansing" of white Europeans (in this case, "ethnic Germans").
Tweet from Elon Musk: "Ethnic cleansing of ethnic Germans in Germany has been taking place for a long time"
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Michael Feola @feolski.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
You'd think this was a still, ripped from a dystopian film, offering a heavy-handed caricature of the fascist future -- where all is reduced to a huckster's dream of garish, violent masculinity. Except that, of course, it is actually our world, peddled by the actual White House comms team.
Tweet from the official White House account. Image: black/white still from recent UFC event on South Lawn. The "octagon" in foreground. People milling around inside. Winning fighter doing backflip off top. Crowd thronging the octagon. White House in background.
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Michael Feola @feolski.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
You'd think this was a still, ripped from a dystopian film, offering a heavy-handed caricature of the fascist future -- where all is reduced to a huckster's dream of garish, violent masculinity. Except that, of course, it is actually our world, peddled by the actual White House comms team.
Tweet from the official White House account. Image: black/white still from recent UFC event on South Lawn. The "octagon" in foreground. People milling around inside. Winning fighter doing backflip off top. Crowd thronging the octagon. White House in background.
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Michael Feola @feolski.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Had a great time chatting with @annieknk.bsky.social about the great replacement narrative -- the dangerous fantasy that has metastasized through civil society and radicalized the right. Check it out!
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Michael Feola @feolski.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
What's happening over in Elon's radicalization chamber. Appeals to organized ethnic violence from major leaders of the European far right. "Remigration or civil war. Your choice."
Tweet from Martin Sellner. Image: aerial view of city block at night. Brick rowhouses, one of them ablaze, with smoke and flame issuing from windows and door. Text: "The mostly peaceful demonstrations in Belfast last night are just a trailer for what's going to happen if you don't stop this crazy social experiment right now.

Remigration is the only rational, humane and legal solution to prevent Western Europe from turning into a post-democratic gangland.  

Remigration or civil war. Your choice."
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
The global far right led by highly online white nationalists like Elon Musk has had its Kristallnacht moment, producing images that shock the conscience. How will the world respond?
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Michael Feola @feolski.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
What's happening over in Elon's radicalization chamber. Appeals to organized ethnic violence from major leaders of the European far right. "Remigration or civil war. Your choice."
Tweet from Martin Sellner. Image: aerial view of city block at night. Brick rowhouses, one of them ablaze, with smoke and flame issuing from windows and door. Text: "The mostly peaceful demonstrations in Belfast last night are just a trailer for what's going to happen if you don't stop this crazy social experiment right now.

Remigration is the only rational, humane and legal solution to prevent Western Europe from turning into a post-democratic gangland.  

Remigration or civil war. Your choice."
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Michael Feola @feolski.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
It should really be a bigger deal that the World's Richest Man, who also holds high-level US Government security clearances, is a human firehose of white supremacist talking points.
Tweet reply from Elon Musk: "The system is severely biased against Whites"
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Michael Feola @feolski.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Once again:
Meme image with Spongebob characters. Patrick Star ("modern companies") shoving a pumpkin ("unnecessary AI") into Spongebob's mouth ("everything they can"), via funnel.
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Michael Feola @feolski.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Had a great time chatting with @annieknk.bsky.social about the great replacement narrative -- the dangerous fantasy that has metastasized through civil society and radicalized the right. Check it out!
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Annie Kelly @annieknk.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
The Great Replacement conspiracy theory, once relegated to mass shooter manifestos, has become increasingly central to global right-wing politics. My latest ep for the QAA Podcast premium feed explores how a murderous idea mutated to go mainstream. Featuring contributions from @feolski.bsky.social
Photo from anti-migrant protest in the UK. A woman holds a sign saying "Stop the Silent Invasion"
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Michael Feola @feolski.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Actual tweet from the vice-president of the United States. Using a tragic death to bullhorn the talking points of the far right international -- their xenophobic gospel of "civilizational death" ("mass invasion of migrants"!).
Quote tweet by JD Vance. Original tweet by Visegrad24 -- a video from the arrest and death of Henry Nowak. Vance's commentary: "Henry Nowak died the same way a civilization dies: abandoned, handcuffed by authorities who neither trusted nor cared for him, and accused of hate crimes he did not commit. His murder is as tragic as it is enraging. He should still be alive today, and he would be if the last few generations of European elites had stood their ground against the politics of self-hatred and the mass invasion of migrants, many of whom despise the West and the people who love it. 

Henry was far from the first to so needlessly lose his life, and I fear he won’t be the last. Each time a life like his is lost, the proper response—the only response—is righteous anger. One of the most important things the Trump administration has proven to the world is that stopping the flow of mass migration and defending national sovereignty is a matter of political will and leadership. Anything else is an excuse. 

It is because we love the West that we want to preserve it. We love our civilization. We love our country. We love our children. And nobody—nobody—should ever die the way that Henry Nowak died. May God comfort those who loved him, and may God rest his soul."
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Michael Feola @feolski.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Actual tweet from the vice-president of the United States. Using a tragic death to bullhorn the talking points of the far right international -- their xenophobic gospel of "civilizational death" ("mass invasion of migrants"!).
Quote tweet by JD Vance. Original tweet by Visegrad24 -- a video from the arrest and death of Henry Nowak. Vance's commentary: "Henry Nowak died the same way a civilization dies: abandoned, handcuffed by authorities who neither trusted nor cared for him, and accused of hate crimes he did not commit. His murder is as tragic as it is enraging. He should still be alive today, and he would be if the last few generations of European elites had stood their ground against the politics of self-hatred and the mass invasion of migrants, many of whom despise the West and the people who love it. 

Henry was far from the first to so needlessly lose his life, and I fear he won’t be the last. Each time a life like his is lost, the proper response—the only response—is righteous anger. One of the most important things the Trump administration has proven to the world is that stopping the flow of mass migration and defending national sovereignty is a matter of political will and leadership. Anything else is an excuse. 

It is because we love the West that we want to preserve it. We love our civilization. We love our country. We love our children. And nobody—nobody—should ever die the way that Henry Nowak died. May God comfort those who loved him, and may God rest his soul."
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Carmen Celestini @philofwrite.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Just a little reminder about the discount on God's Angry Men for American book lovers
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Michael Feola @feolski.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
The GOP, y'all. An actual tweet from an elected official in the nation's highest legislative body.
Tweet from Rep. Andy Ogles: "Homosexuality has no place in America. Happy Nuclear Family Month."
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Michael Feola @feolski.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
In case you're wondering, this was his other tweet today: "Mass deportations and tear gas for all rioters." Xenophobia, homophobia, disdain for the first amendment, worship of the police state -- it's all there.
Tweet from Rep. Andy Ogles: "Mass deportations and tear gas for all rioters. America First."
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Michael Feola @feolski.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
The GOP, y'all. An actual tweet from an elected official in the nation's highest legislative body.
Tweet from Rep. Andy Ogles: "Homosexuality has no place in America. Happy Nuclear Family Month."
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