iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

A few weeks ago when Chris Rufo devoted a podcast episode to "The Indian Question," Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi denounced the racist "question" as dangerous. On Sunday, Krishnamoorthi was inside a Hindu temple when a white supremacist attempted to mass murder Indian Americans inside

424696 0

Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Good example of the utility of conspiracy theories on the right: even tho it was the stupidest, easiest-to-debunk of stories, Fox News still gets to step in and insinuate that Talarico must be hiding *something*

1717834 0

Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Jonathan Keeperman — little over a week after recording podcast with Chris Rufo about "The Indian Question" — is speaking at the NatCon conference in Jerusalem

1162 0

Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

As for prominent Indian-Americans in the MAGA movement? talkingpointsmemo.com/news/chris-r...

424527 0

Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Here is tortured tautology Keeperman offers for why Desi college kids — wearing cowboy hats, throwing up the "Hook 'em Horns" hand sign, cheering the Longhorns — are not "assimilated": because he said so talkingpointsmemo.com/news/chris-r...

2651275 0

Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The genesis of "The Indian Question" episode? Bo French's viral, racist tweet about Desi college students cheering on the University of Texas football team Rufo & Keeperman basically defend the tweet for over an hour

534048 0

Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Rufo has hosted 86 episodes with Keeperman — the latest being "The Indian Question" — undoubtedly a reference to the "Jewish Question" talkingpointsmemo.com/news/chris-r...

335158 0

Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

During George Floyd uprisings, Keeperman was excited about Kyle Rittenhouse killing two protesters. “May a million Kyle Rittenhouses bloom,” he wrote. He once listed some policy proposals that included "lamppost the journos" — a seeming call for journalists to be hanged

334359 0

Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Rufo's co-host is Jonathan Keeperman, who @jasonaw.bsky.social unmasked as "Lomez," a “key player and influential tastemaker in a burgeoning proto-fascist movement," who heads up Passage Press, which reprints out-of-print works by fascist authors talkingpointsmemo.com/news/chris-r...

340682 0

Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This morning, Rawson posted a photo of himself w/ members of the University of Florida College Republicans. The group was reinstated by university only few days ago. It was disbanded in March... after two members were photographed performing Nazi salutes. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/marshal...

1017057 0

Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In response to my @talkingpointsmemo.com story, the Florida Democratic Party issues statement calling on Florida GOP leaders — Ron DeSantis, Byron Donalds, and Ashley Moody — to take a stand against Marshall Rawson. "We don't need to send a Nazi to Tallahassee." floridadems.org/2026/09/flor...

10330115 0

Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Washington Post picks up on the story, asks the former congressmen who endorsed Rawson for comment www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

05320 0

Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Re: our reporting he received $15k in donations from well-known white supremacists, Rawson accuses me of playing "gotcha games with background checks" on his contributors "Many of our contributors I know personally. Many I do not." Here's an out-of-state contributor he personally solicited:

1466 0

Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

His only apparent statement about the deadly Charlottesville rally: "I'll continue to defend historical monuments" As I mention in story, "defending" the Lee statue in Charlottesville was a ruse/pretext for the "alt-right" to congregate/commit violence.

1445 0

Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Rawson has responded to my @talkingpointsmemo.com story. He neither denies or apologizes for: -condoning slavery -calling for gay people to be executed -advocating lynching -marching w/ Nazis in Charlottesville -his involvement w/ League of the South, a neo-Confederate/southern secessionist group

14326138 0

Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Update: Rawson’s Democratic opponent, Merrillee Malwitz-Jipson, responds to @talkingpointsmemo.com investigation:

1309 0

Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

From "very fine people" to "stand back and stand by" to Jan.6 "will be wild".... @davidkurtz.bsky.social writes about an America where someone like Marshall Rawson can win public office: talkingpointsmemo.com/news/florida...

0218 0

Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

TPM can reveal indications that Rawson used pseudonymous social media account on X — @RockOfDixie — to express even more extreme sentiments “Multiculturalism kills and public lynchings worked" — the GOP nominee for a seat in Florida's legislature talkingpointsmemo.com/news/florida...

223171 0

Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Rawson has neither renounced League of the South or apologized for his participation in its events. In recent years Rawson — again, the GOP nominee for a seat in the Florida legislature — condoned slavery and called for the execution of queer people talkingpointsmemo.com/news/florida...

123160 0

Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Rawson won the primary anyway. A new TPM analysis of his campaign donors reveals he received a big boost from members of the very white supremacist groups that invaded Charlottesville Dozens of donations adding up to over $15,000 talkingpointsmemo.com/news/florida...

120841 0

Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

About a week before last month's primary election, Florida Politics published story — based off old anti-fascist research —detailing parts of Rawson's involvement with League of the South. This is how extreme League of the South is: talkingpointsmemo.com/news/florida...

224758 0

Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Rawson, GOP nominee for Florida legislature, can also be seen in a photo from Charlottesville (left side in sunglasses) standing near James Alex Fields Jr. Not long after this photo was taken, Fields drove car into counter-protesters, killing Heather Heyer & injuring dozens of others

3371128 0

Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Last month Marshall Rawson won upset victory in GOP primary for seat in Florida House of Representatives. Here he is nine years ago arriving at the infamous Unite the Right rally. He's greeted, by name, by members of League of the South, a white nationalist/southern secessionist group

9401136 0

Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

since my piece for @marisakabas.bsky.social abt Hanania still being a eugenicist creep who should not be treated to Atlantic profiles/podcasts w/ Abundance bros, he's posted pro-race science article & continued to attack Jason Arday after his death, saying suicide "increased" his respect for him

720845 0

Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

What’s also frustrating about Hanania is that I’ve talked to a lot of *actual* former white nationalists - witnessing the painful process of accountability they undertake It requires a deep humility, which Hanania does not and has never possessed www.thehandbasket.co/p/christophe...

636956 0

Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

On Richard Hanania www.thehandbasket.co/p/christophe...

467597 0

Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

very fitting that on the day i publish this article, Hanania publishes this!

27972119 0

Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Stories from just the last week. As always, these are just the horrifying cruelties we *know about* and the scope/reality is even worse Every single story deserves widespread outrage & condemnation & mobilization, but their very ubiquity often leads to each story’s news cycle lasting a few days

310142 0

Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

While even some libertarians were giving Mamdani props, @jwmason.bsky.social told me these kind of reforms to cut red tape are actually “completely consistent with a democratic socialist government” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

0576 0

Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Which lined up kinda perfectly with observation by @jwmason.bsky.social, who told me all the fear-mongering about socialism won’t resonate when people see concrete material improvements from a democratic socialist government www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

27413 0

Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Talked to a business owner in Queens who was a longtime supporter of Eric Adams. Now she loves Mamdani. “If that’s what socialism is, I’m all for it!” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

113129 0

Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

quote I got in 2017 going viral again - it happens like three times a year (most people don’t realize the Nazi who said it to me was arrested few hours later after he and two other Nazis opened fire on counter-protesters) www.huffpost.com/entry/attemp...

282881658 0

Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

It’s a crazy story more people should know - the spy ended up getting in a shootout with a Klansman and they both died

0182 0

Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

It rules! museum staff helped me with my book! They have membership list of local 20s Klan - which opponents, with help of undercover spy, stole & displayed downtown, doxing entire organization, IDing clergy, cops etc as members, leading to Klan’s collapse! Museum let me use the photos

1283 0

Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

DHS recently called for “Remigration” in a post featuring a video of immigrants being put in chains & escorted aboard a “removal flight” The video - set to Fleetwood Mac’s “The Chain” - included a glamor shot of a tangled mass of shackles stored in a milk crate talkingpointsmemo.com/news/when-yo...