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Joan Braune @joanbraune.bsky.social · 9h

A synagogue in Seattle was vandalized this week. You can donate here to help repair damage that was not covered by insurance.

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U District Minyan Emergency Clean-Up & Security

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 12h

I wrote about the Trump administration attempting to deport an anti-Zionist Hasidic Jew to Israel, and what it says about the conditions of Jewish identity imposed by the administration's "anti-antisemitism" campaign. religiondispatches.org/2026/10/01/t...

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Trump Admin Trying to Deport Anti-Zionist Hasidic Jew “Home” to Israel

The Trump administration is trying to deport Yehonatan Ovadia, a Satmar Hasidic religious teacher in Rockland County, New York. His alleged offense: taking part in a 2023 protest against an Israeli fl...

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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Imagine if they spent even a minuscule amount of effort doing humanizing profiles like this on lefties

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I like that in becoming a nazi, you get glowing coverage as a brave iconoclast, and then when you stop being a nazi, you’re get glowing coverage as a brave dissident. Money coming and going. Only way you lose is having normal opinions like “racism bad” bsky.app/profile/trac...

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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026

Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026

“Cofnas is often presented as someone doing research on race and IQ. This is incorrect. Cofnas has two academic papers related to the topic (here and here), but these are articles in the field of philosophy of science….In other words: Cofnas is not a scholar doing research on race and IQ.” 🧪

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Why it is reasonable to label Nathan Cofnas’ race realism as pseudoscientific - The Skeptic

"Race realist" Nathan Cofnas claims his "hereditarianist" viewpoint is scientifically accurate - by citing pseudoscientific research and misleading rhetoric.

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Joan Braune @joanbraune.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is seriously so good. Watch it and spam your friends and loved ones with the link

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Lauren Woolsey @cgsunit.com · 19/09/2026

Watched Ghost in the Machine this evening on PBS, and it's very much worth the time. The documentary gives a lot of useful historical context for the current moment and brings together a wide swath of trustworthy expert voices to weigh in. I recommend!

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Not a great trajectory.

Department of War
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Americanism, not effective altruism.
The United States will continue to be Al DOMINANT!
AI FIRST WAR DEPARTMENT

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Micheeel @micheeel.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

🆘 Mahmoud is slowly dying. My daughters are sick. We have no food, no medicine, and no safe place to stay. Every day I tell my daughters that tomorrow might be better. I don’t know how many tomorrows we have left. Please don’t scroll past us as if we don’t exist. 💔 🙏🏻😭 chuffed.org/project/omsh...

Three sad sisters sitting on a blanket. The youngest in the middle appears to be crying

A man sleeping in a hospital bed with both his legs completely bandaged and strapped

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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

We had a vote in my 4th grade class on whether we thought invading Iraq was right and I got sent to the principal's office for being the only person to vote against the invasion 🙃 The early aughts were *fucked*, y'all

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Sweet Science, Savage Art @sweetscisavart.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

We need more courtroom spectacles and shenanigans like this.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I am so fucking tired of having to learn about the beliefs of cooked subcultures to understand world events

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Joan Braune @joanbraune.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Haha Freudian slip: "I have every doubt that what he's conveying there is what he experienced"

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 09/09/2026

#OtD 9 Sep 1739 the Stono slave rebellion began in South Carolina, the largest uprising of enslaved people in the mainland British colonies. 23 people seized weapons, burned plantations and freed others until a militia repressed them stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1094...

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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

if you're the abc news editor who wrote that the nyc mayor attending the 9/11 ceremony is attracting "growing criticism" solely because he's a muslim then you are the criticism you're writing about

ABC:
Mayor Mamdani says he'll attend 9/11 ceremony despite growing criticism
Mayor Mamdani says he will attend New York City's annual remembrance ceremony.

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Joan Braune @joanbraune.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I'm in your medical office, refusing your AI

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LEFT COAST RIGHT WATCH @lcrw.news · 07/09/2026

NEW from LCRW: We got a former TPUSA employee to talk about how Turning Point employees had secret chats to share Nick Fuentes memes & how the company made employees & interns watch their videos to juice viewer counts. @azrww.bsky.social and our editor-in-chief report.

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MEET THE FORMER TPUSA VIDEOGRAPHER SELLING NAZI MEME SHIRTS | Left Coast Right Watch

As the opening seconds of September trickled into minutes, LCRW’s editor sat cross-legged against a granite pillar in the 62-degree Provo night. Across from them was a 27-year-old in a chocolate-chip ...

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Joan Braune @joanbraune.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It's 10pm. Do you know where your cat is?

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DivestSPD @divestspd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

1 877 Uvalde Foundation 4 Kids We’ve got an exclusive in this week’s digest. It’s only an exclusive because nobody else bothered to google this “national non-profit” and discover that it’s run by a serial scammer. A musician & fake preacher who was “held by Elvis as a baby” and “was at Columbine.”

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A gem at the county fair art show. 🎨

Acrylic painting of an angry looking white cat staring at the viewer with one paw on a blue vase, about to push it off a mantle.

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Jim Brunner @jimbrunner.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Checking in on former state Rep. Matt Shea …

Screenshot of Matt Shea podcast titled “What happens when you say Jesus’ name during alien abduction.”

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 03/09/2026

Someone finally wrote a bad review of my book! Its argument: The tech bros are not fascists and we need not worry about them. Its author: a fellow at the Foundation for American Innovation (FAI). FAI's ideological godfather and treasured idol: Peter Thiel. 🫠

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 31/08/2026

Maicy was 16 when she died. She’d suffered from many ailments: stomach irritation, severe anemia, a blocked artery, thinning hair and more. All of it was treatable. But her parents believed in faith healing, not medicine.

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These Children’s Deaths Were Preventable. Their Parents Prayed Instead of Seeking Medical Care.

For decades, Idaho laws have allowed parents who belong to the Followers of Christ and other faith-healing sects to pray rather than seek medical care. Since 2015, at least 15 children have died of tr...

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Joan Braune @joanbraune.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Andrea Brower and I wrote about the conspiracy theories following the Spokane Complex fires, and how conspiracies distract us from root causes... climate change and capitalism

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Andrea Brower and Joan Braune: The 'particularly dangerous situation' extends to conspiracy theories

By Andrea Brower and Joan Braune

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Intrigued by the concept of “disaster nationalism.”

Foregrounding the role of emotions in politics, Richard Seymour argues that for those who are miserable, insecure and humiliated, the far-right offers a specific remedy in what he terms disaster nationalism: "It offers the balm, not just of vengeance, but of a sort of violent reset which restores the traditional consolations of family, race, religion and nationhood, including the chance to humiliate others." For Seymour, the endgame is to channel the resentments of a population into a "revolt against liberal civilization." He describes it as "a thin, networked civil society base whose energies are wrapped around culture wars that occasionally explode into the meatspace violence of lone-wolf murderers, vigilantes, riots, pogroms, and pseudo-insurrections." Its elected leaders direct their aggression not at electoral democracy, but at the liberal state, and their aim "is to effect a constitutional rupture that tilts the balance of rule toward authoritarian democracy rather than outright dictatorship."

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This is appalling. These Haitians were here legally under the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program. The Trump regime spread racist lies, ended the program, declared them illegal and rounded them up in chains for deportation. Now DHS is proudly posting videos of Black Haitians in chains.

Trump’s Department of Homeland Security posted a video of Black Haitians in chains after ending the TPS program

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Mike MacFerrin @icesheetmike.myatproto.social · 28/08/2026

Honestly if you’re an academic who supervises people in any capacity and you argue that labor unions would only “hurt the academy and the bespoke mentor/mentee relationship”, I will automatically assume you’re an exploitative creep.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This...just isn't what terrorism is?

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Joan Braune @joanbraune.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Categories like "salad bar extremism" play a depoliticizing function, sometimes turning our attention away from the very clear ideological commitments of far-right perpetrators of mass violence. Thoughtful analysis here of the June 22 Montreal shooting, which was miscategorized by many.

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Not Just an Incel Attack

The manifesto of the June 22nd Montréal incel shooter has been widely dismissed as “salad-bar extremism,” a confused hodgepodge that is “neither left nor right.” It’s actually a carefully constructed…

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Death @insatiableone.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

🚨🚨Urgent A desperate plea Verge of death my baby suffers severe pneumonia,bronchitis,chronic anemia,losing consciousness. His condition is deteriorating. Urgently need £350 for emergency treatment. IV fluids,nebulizer treatments,injections. Please help!💔 ✅Molly Shah chuffed.org/project/1315...

Small child sleeping with iv and oxygen mask

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Micheeel @micheeel.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Heartbreaking update: Ahmed is in hospital, his condition is worsening. Painful spots cover his body. He has high fever, pain, unbearable itching. No medical care is available. He urgently needs help to fight this virus before it’s too late. Even $5 can save his life. 🙏💔😭 chuffed.org/project/1905...

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

“This is Evergreen State all over again!” I wail at the news that a white supremacist has been suspended, from my office on a campus where you can’t screen a documentary or host a talk about the history of Palestine

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Jason Wilson @jasonaw.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I have listened to a lot of Alex Jones and while there’s no way to be certain I am pretty confident he’s not sincerely religious and most likely an atheist who has no incentive to say so. He does need money however

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Notable how a not-insignificant number of the signatories on the letters supporting a racist signed on to letters supporting anti-trans extremists in 2018 or are high-profile anti-trans extremists themselves, almost as if there’s a connection between ‘everything is gender’ and ‘everything is race’

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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

If you cannot see the game being played and merely think it is an intellectual exercise you are truly blind to not just history, but the present and the future potentials at play. We’ve already allowed the fascists so much space and power to play in, why would we want to give them even more?

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Joan Braune @joanbraune.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Disgusted to see so many people in my field defending Nathan Cofnas.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

My genuinely non controversial take is that if you're signing an open letter of support for Cofnas you're either a racist or want to be admired in racist spaces.

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The Final Straw Radio @thefinalstrawradio.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Join our Patreon and get early access to our interview with Hadley of #Spokane3 Defendant Support, facing prison terms for refusing to admit wrongdoing in trying to stop ICE kidnapping of their neighbors on June 11, 2025 in Washington state www.patreon.com/tfsr/posts/c...

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The Case of the Spokane 3 + Ontological Exhaustion | The Final Straw Radio

The Case of the Spokane 3 + Ontological Exhaustion by The Final Straw Radio on Patreon. Join The Final Straw Radio's community for exclusive content and updates.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Ghent was warned about what Nathan Cofnas' "work" was about before he was hired; many people begged the university not to take him on and give academic and institutional sanction to those beliefs. They didn't listen, obviously.

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kate b. @katebitz.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

not “everyone in my field” but: polarization is not what’s weakening democracy

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Michael DeMoor @michaeldemoor.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Besides a few remarks in journalistic sources, I can find surprisingly little on Alberta Separatism and nationalism; whether by way of contrasts to nationalist separation movements or analyses of how it is trying to adopt the trappings/rhetoric of nationalism. Have i just been missing things?

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Esther @mahoniaaquifolium.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

There's certainly major conspiracy theory elements to opposition to Flock cameras, automated license plate readers, and data centers. And we should be very concerned about that! But to describe legitimate fears of a surveillance state as inherently a conspiracy theory is dangerous. 1/3

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Spookie Shields 🎃 @j3zz-g.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

"I could have been murdered if I was there!", says murderer about a vigil for his murder victim.

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Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 18/08/2026

Most parents assume online hate or political extremism will show up in obvious ways—loud slogans, violent images, or clear hate symbols. But today’s worst digital threats start much more quietly, often disguised as memes, games, and casual “friendships.” www.confrontthehate.com/p/the-online...

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The Online Threat Parents Miss: How Extremists Groom Our Kids

A parent’s guide to identifying online radicalization, recognizing subtle red flags, and keeping kids safe

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Friday's synagogue attacker was a Republican Zionist antisemite (yes, extremely redundant) who disdained Reform Jews for being "fake." forward.com/news/845474/...

If anything, Montes may have believed that the Reform congregation was too progressive. After his arrest, Montes called the congregants “fake Jews” in statements to the police, according to the assistant district attorney on the case, Ali Fazal.

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