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Senior researcher & journalist. @splcunion.bsky.social. Former internet person at @thebaffler.com. hannahgais@proton.me Signal: 334-315-8634 seedisclaimer.com. Newsletter: postsfromunderground.ghost.io

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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 9h
will you people shut the fuck up
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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is heartbreaking. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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A Reckoning in Springfield
A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.
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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
This one hits hard.
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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
What Jennica Pounds is leaving out of this sob story about her gig at the Pentagon coming to a close is: In August, she promoted hacked and stolen material, per @theintercept.com. And she appeared to have a longstanding relationship with the account that first posted about said hack.
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I have submitted my resignation from the Department of War.
It has been an honor to support the mission of the Department. I remain a strong supporter of our nation's military and Secretary Hegseth's leadership.
I'm stepping back to focus on my book tour and midterms analysis in the months ahead.
I do want to say I'm disappointed by how Special Government Employees, not just myself, have been treated in public discourse.
The SGE program exists so that talented private citizens can serve their country without leaving their lives behind. We as a nation can find a better way to welcome those who want to serve their country.
I'm grateful to have had the opportunity. I wish the Department and Secretary Hegseth continued success.
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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Michael Tracey published what he said was the ID of the "Jane Doe" in the Cornell case. Then he took it down, claiming he just wanted to make a point and didn't want to see harm to the person he named. What he hasn't admitted is that he mistook info on a sketchy site for official NY court records.
An archived copy of Michael Tracey's original Substack post includes a screenshot from "eCourt Records" and the commentary: "It's [name redacted]. Don't blame me -- the New York Court System just posted it. Seemingly inadvertently. Oh well."Screenshot of Michael Tracey's post on Substack titled "Note on Jane Doe." It reads: "After identifying Jane Doe earlier tonight, I have now removed the information I published. Why? Because the principle has been served: to underscore that permanently anonymizing litigants who make sensational, spectacular, reputation-destroying claims about others — so long as they can self-declare some form of victimization — cannot be countenanced.

It’s destructive, and an egregious abuse of the legal system by huckster plaintiff’s lawyers. This practice has to end. Lawyers who seek to monetize this sleazy tactic should have to think A LOT HARDER about the claims they’re willing to throw out into the public domain, using impressionable clients who may not even know what they’re getting themselves into.

So why have I now removed her information?

Because I don’t believe she’s the main “villain” here. I primarily blame the bottom-feeding, media-manipulating, sleazebag lawyers who’ve made a whole cash-grab industry out of this racket.

Thomas Giuffra in particular has a lot to answer for. He’s the central reason for the current debacle.

Given the intense nationwide and global interest in this case, I don’t want to bring any further negative attention to this woman. I don’t believe she ought to be punished or subjected to any retribution or humiliation. I believe a RATIONAL solution is necessary here. Not more character assassination — of her, the seven young men, or anyone else. Truly, that is my genuine view."
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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I've helpfully outlined the Pentagon's choice of experts to write a new report on the future of the U.S. military. The Future of War Is These Four Jerks, Apparently: gizmodo.com/the-future-o...
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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It's weird how the federal government is constantly being hacked after DOGE gutted the government's cybersecurity agencies.
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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 30/09/2026
The Pentagon is notifying millions of current and former U.S. military servicemembers and staff that hackers stole their *unencrypted* personal information during a months-long data breach. The agency that had the breach also handles ID and login/credential access to U.S. military systems and bases.
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Hackers stole millions of US military personnel records during months-long data breach | TechCrunch
The Department of Defense notified millions of current and former U.S. military personnel that their personal information had been stolen in a months-long breach.
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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
After years of refusing to watch it—part out of disliking Lena Dunham, part I couldn’t get into it—I have started watching “Girls” and get what the hype was all about.
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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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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 28/09/2026
The Golden Age is going so well, Americans are nostalgic for 2008.
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Idavox @idavox.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A Familiar NJ Fascist Tries to Cause Conflict in Pennsylvania When flyers started showing up around York, PA proclaiming "White Power," folks there wanted to who was responsible. We can help with that!
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A Familiar NJ Fascist Tries to Cause Conflict in Pennsylvania
When flyers started showing up around York, PA proclaiming "White Power," folks there wanted to who was responsible. We can help with that!
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 27/09/2026
‘I’m not JD Vance’: the Appalachia memoir author running for Congress
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‘I’m not JD Vance’: the Appalachia memoir author running for Congress
Beth Macy, author of Dopesick, is drawing on her reporting experience to win Virginia voters in a longtime Republican district
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Once again, the Supreme Court prioritizes imaginary harms done to Trump by not allowing him to indulge in his conspiracy theories, as opposed to the very real harm done to citizens who may lose the ability to vote in this case.
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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
starvation is fundamentally english in nature
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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
You think that Boston Globe article about the KN95 lesbian bar is plumbing the depths of western Massachusetts? That's just the beginning. I've seen things you'll never believe. Black bears doing break ins to eat ice cream. Land acknowledgements by revolutionary war monuments. You ain't seen shit.
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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I do feel obligated to note that as someone from western Massachusetts, we're not all like that viral Boston Globe article.
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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
heard you all love stories about western Massachusetts, so here’s another story about western Massachusetts
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Anti-Fascism and Far Right @ffrafaction.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Four men who pepper-sprayed & clubbed anti-fascist patrons at Cider Riot in Portland in May 2019 must pay the cider maker’s owner $760,007 in damages for trespass, intentional infliction of emotional distress, & intentional interference with economic relations. www.wweek.com/news/2026/02...
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Cider Riot Attackers Must Pay $760,007 in Damages to Tasting Room’s Owner
The four men sowed violence at the left-wing cidery in 2019, knocking one patron unconscious.
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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Taylor Lorenz @TaylorLorenz
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You gotta just not care. I think so many people allow a small and vocal audience to shape what they say and do bc being intellectually honest and consistent in your beliefs is costly. But at the end of the day why have a platform if you won't stick to your guns
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Sarah Jones @sarahjones.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Taylor Lorenz will do or say anything for attention. She will make things up. She’ll whine. She wants desperately to be cool and interesting and right and she’ll gravitate toward anyone who makes her feel important. Many such cases!
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I think I'm in love with Kevin 😻 #Caturday
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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
taylor lorenz adjusting the thermostat at the wuhan lab in 2019 to 87 degrees and breaking something b/c the interface is simplified chinese
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026
lmao
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WhiteRoseAFA @whiteroseafa.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
These look like dwarves from a Florida man reimagining of The Hobbit.
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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
gas is gonna be $20 by the end of the month if Forgiato Blow is posting this
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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
the right’s so stupid right now that they can’t even ratio me with antisemitic slurs on X anymore
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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
FBI warns ICE agents not to trust any women willing to date them gizmodo.com/fbi-warns-ic...
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muscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
it's amazing how much collective sacrifice these people are capable of faking for the common good of one dumb asshole
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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
from me at @gizmodo.com: FBI Warns ICE Agents Not to Trust Any Woman Willing to Date Them gizmodo.com/fbi-warns-ic...
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FBI Warns ICE Agents Not to Trust Any Woman Willing to Date Them
ICE officers on dating apps should be wary of tradwives, an FBI memo suggested, as well as any woman whose profile would "appeal" to them.
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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Greg Bovino on counterprotesters at an NYYRC event he did this week: "There was a prime example of cannon fodder."
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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It’s very funny how scared of the world ICE agents in particular are. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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FBI warned ICE agents could be targeted by fake ‘tradwife’ dating profiles, memo reveals
Exclusive: Internal FBI memo, reviewed by the Guardian, said women wanted to dox and ‘embarrass’ agents, but provided few details
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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
oh hell no www.wsj.com/business/air...
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Exclusive | The FAA’s $875 Million Plan to Use AI to Ease Air-Traffic Woes
The air-traffic tool is expected to debut in the Washington, D.C., area as soon as Monday.
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
New for @talkingpointsmemo.com: Marshall Rawson, GOP nominee for Florida legislature, marched w/ Nazis in Charlottesville, condoned slavery, & called for execution of gay people. Does GOP even care? Is there a limit to MAGA's "never punch right" ethos? talkingpointsmemo.com?p=1558029&pr...
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We Asked 28 GOP Officials If They’d Denounce the GOP Nominee Who Marched With Nazis in Charlottesville
This week I asked 28 current and former Republican Party officials in...
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is Sakariye. He’s a 22 year old asylum seeker who had work authorization. He was driving a truck for work when he was arrested in Alabama last year.
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“The worst place ever I’ve been in my life," Sakariye Abdi Mohamed, a Somali asylum seeker, told me over the phone from Guantanamo Bay last week. Sakariye is one of 7 or 8 Somalis who are being held at Gitmo. They say guards tell them the order to keep Somalis at the facility comes from DC.
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The Trump administration is imprisoning Somali immigrants in Gitmo
“Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantanamo Bay.”
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dave wagner @davewagner.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
a brooklyn bodega cat was stolen on Sep 10. residents promptly built a tip network and organized people to check leads day and night. he was successfully recovered today. democrats have spent billions trying to figure out how to make people care this much about anything. should've tried cats.
White cat with gray-black patches on its head, back, and tail lounging on a small cardboard scratcher shaped like a couch.
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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Blaze's pseudonymous borderline white nationalist host is tired of you all being meanies to Bo French.
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It's my official first day as a reporter at @talkingpointsmemo.com! Hit me up with tips/ideas: chrism@talkingpointsmemo.com. & join me and @jragazzo.bsky.social at 2pm to hear us discuss my story abt the Charlottesville marcher poised to take office in Florida talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/youtu...
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YouTube Live at 2 PM ET: Chris Mathias on the Charlottesville Marcher Poised to Take Office in Florida
ICYMI, TPM’s new reporter Chris Mathias just published a new investigation revealing...
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Google is killing journalism: "At Truthout, we anticipate a loss of roughly $500,000 in online revenue as a result of this massive traffic plunge in the next year alone."
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We’re Already Living Through Journalism’s Dystopian Future
AI is devouring our industry and undermining access to factual information. We all have a duty to fight back.
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Jordan Green @byjordangreen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Exclusive: Pentagon employee Jennica Pounds aka @datarepublican.bsky.social put antifascist websites under a bright light, calling them an "elaborate doxxing scheme." Some of the sites exposed violent extremists before they were prosecuted by the USG for terrorism. www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...
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Pentagon insider smears antifascists who unmasked Nazi terrorists later convicted by DOJ
Days after the State Department designated an Italian tech group as a terrorist entity, thousands of antifascist sites on its web hosting service wound up on a searchable online research tool describe...
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WhiteRoseAFA @whiteroseafa.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Antifascist researchers get the goods, even beyond the grave. RIP Laura.
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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
There’s some weird idea that the alt-right disappeared after Charlottesville, but if that was the case, why do guys like this keep running for office?
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW: @talkingpointsmemo.com can reveal GOP nominee for Florida legislature: -marched at deadly Charlottesville Nazi rally w/ white supremacist group's flag -has *many* white supremacist donors -appears to advocate lynching He is expected to win Nov. election talkingpointsmemo.com/news/florida...
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Exclusive: He Marched With Nazis in Charlottesville. Now He’s Expected to Join the Florida Legislature.
The Republican nominee for a seat in the Florida House of Representatives...
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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
dunno if it can get more on the nose than "condemning racism makes you a cuckold"
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“There’s no AI exemption for laws already on the books.” - Lina Khan, GOAT
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Dominic Gwinn @dominicgwinn.com · 13/09/2026
UPDATE: @wonkette.bsky.social has added an editor's note to my feature after one of the actual Nazis reached out in the comments to specify his bigotry.
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Wrote about documenting ICE arrests during a surge in southwest Florida -- and how no one wanted any of the footage.
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ICE is Still Surging
Dispatch from an immigration surge in southwest Florida
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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
dying lmao
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Christopher Owen @oysta.au · 12/09/2026
fuck, now this is some content
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