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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 · 20h
“The only democracy in the Middle East”
theguardian.com
NAZA: Netanyahu orders identification and prosecution of film’s interviewees
Israeli PM calls for criminal investigation into soldiers and officers interviewed in Guardian-produced documentary
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Michael Feola @feolski.bsky.social · 20h
“The only democracy in the Middle East”
theguardian.com
NAZA: Netanyahu orders identification and prosecution of film’s interviewees
Israeli PM calls for criminal investigation into soldiers and officers interviewed in Guardian-produced documentary
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Michael Feola @feolski.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Your First Amendment rights under the Tech Surveillance State.
wired.com
ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a database run on Palantir software, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Michael Feola @feolski.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Your First Amendment rights under the Tech Surveillance State.
wired.com
ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a database run on Palantir software, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Michael Feola @feolski.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Sit down and be quiet, proles. Just be grateful for what we geniuses have done for you."
theguardian.com
Accept ‘bad things’ in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman
Boss of OpenAI calls for a regulatory light touch because of the ‘good stuff’ the technology can deliver
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Michael Feola @feolski.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Sit down and be quiet, proles. Just be grateful for what we geniuses have done for you."
theguardian.com
Accept ‘bad things’ in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman
Boss of OpenAI calls for a regulatory light touch because of the ‘good stuff’ the technology can deliver
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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 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
"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 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
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
Ugh. Ranks up there with Greg Johnson’s appeals for a “slow cleanse”.
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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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