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Contributing writer, TPM: talkingpointsmemo.com/profile/sarah… Host, Reign of Error podcast: www.axismundi.us/podcasts/reign-of-… Author, Unholy More: www.sarahposner.com

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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It is ominous, but also remember that big promises of special things that are about to happen have been a cornerstone of the decade-long prosperity scam Trump has been running. It's how QAnon works. You promise big, deliver nothing, and keep the marks on the hook for the next promise.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 06/10/2026
The service members were left to seek their own medical treatment. trib.al/cLKQe1P
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Soldiers Wounded in Iran Say DOD Made Them Get Their Own Treatment
The service members were left to fend for themselves.
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Maryland--and especially Baltimore--knows what's up
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Sorry about your dead kid. Hey, you want to see my fancy party room? Look at that gold! Lotta gold. I got a new helicopter, too! Do you feel better now about sacrificing your child on my altar? Worth it, right? Look at that gold."
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It's a basic Christian right talking point, and so the news is not that he said this in the book, it's that a Supreme Court justice has adopted Christian right talking points instead of analyzing the law.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We're doing a special October-only, Youtube-only version of our podcast for the next four weeks where we answer all your questions about different races around the country, how polls work, whether they work and more. First ep from @kateriga.bsky.social and I will be out on YT this afternoon.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Very worthwhile to follow @zacheverson.com if you're trying to stay up to speed on the Trumps' crypto machinations.
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Reviewed by @anandwrites.bsky.social, who calls it a "richly empathetic, morally complex, many-windowed new book" 💯 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/b...
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Book Review: ‘The Inheritance,’ by Janet Reitman (Gift Article)
Following the lives of ordinary citizens, a new book by Janet Reitman fashions an intimate, morally complex portrait of an insecure America.
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 06/10/2026
We're launching a special limited-run version of the TPM Show With Josh and Kate ahead of the midterms. Introducing: the Polltober Show. Send us all your pressing questions about specific races, candidates, chamber control, the courts, the polls, whatever! talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/were-...
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We’re Launching a Special New YouTube Series Around the Midterms!
You have questions, we have answers. Since TPM readers are as obsessed...
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Background: bsky.app/profile/sara...
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
He also says that national conservatism is the only way forward for American conservatism.
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Rod Dreher has posted his remarks: "It is an honor to be here at the Natcon conference in Jerusalem, especially in a time when this country, Israel, is facing the contempt of much of the world, simply for defending itself against bloodthirsty barbarians." roddreher.substack.com/p/israel-is-...
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Israel Is Roscharta
Learning About The Crisis Of The West From Reading Julien Gracq
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Here's how NatCon Jerusalem is going www.jpost.com/israel-news/...
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Bezalel Smotrich calls for Muslim countries to absorb Gazan refugees | The Jerusalem Post
“Encouraging the voluntary migration of Muslims who seek to leave conflict zones specifically to Muslim countries is not racism,” Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said at NatCon.
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I haven't found video of that, but did find video of Jim and Rosemary Garlow praying for Clarence Thomas (towards end of linked video) subsplash.com/u/wellversed...
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Clarence Thomas Prayer at the 2026 National Consecration of Our Courts
Content from Clarence Thomas Prayer at the 2026 National Consecration of Our Courts
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Yesterday Christian nationalists held the third annual National Consecration of Our Courts at the Museum of the Bible, and Fifth Circuit judge/aspirant to SCOTUS James Ho was one of the keynote speakers jagf.org/event/third-...
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3rd Annual National Consecration of Our Courts (NCC) 2026 - Judicial Action Group Foundation
Join us as we consecrate the opening of the United States Supreme Court’s 2026-2027 term and ask for God’s mercy and justice to prevail in our Nation.   Dear Friends, … Continued
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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
So, an interest-free short term loan from the government to run your campaign ads? While your Super PAC earns interest on the $20 million you stole? No. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/u...
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Facing Backlash, Trump Says His Super PAC Will Pay for Taxpayer-Funded Ads
The president said that his PAC, MAGA, Inc., would pay for TV ads promoting him that had been paid for with taxpayer money.
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Prague used to have a massive monument to Stalin. This is what happened to it. prague-now.com/history/stal...
The Destruction of the Stalin Monument
The monument was unveiled on 1 May, 1955, two years after Stalin’s death. It was a bold demonstration of loyalty to Moscow. The new Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev was conspicuously absent at the ceremony, but this hint was not immediately recognized. During the twentieth party congress in 1956, Khrushchev accused his predecessor of mass murder. Stalin fell into disgrace for abuse of power and the statue became an eyesore to the Czechoslovak communist party. The monument was also embarrassing for Moscow and it was decided that it had to be removed. In 1962, the Stalin Monument was blown up with 800 kilos of explosives. Only the plinth remained where the metronome has been nodding back and forth since 1991. Next to the metronome are two large bowls, remnants of the Stalin monument, which give an impression of the huge size of the monument.
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Good.
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steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
lol
With Talarico now the slight favorite in the race, national Republicans have flooded Texas' airwaves with commercials to save Paxton's flagging campaign. That makes sense. Any Texan who has turned on the TV in the past few weeks already knows that Talarico is "for they/them" and seen the ad where a Latino boy gets hit with a Transgenderification Beam and turns into a beautiful woman. But much of the nation was confused about why they, non-Texans, were seeing this stuff while trying to watch the Philadelphia Eagles-Los Angeles Rams game on Sunday.
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 06/10/2026
NEW: Olympic canoeist who went through "nightmare" Reflecting Pool case is pushing two government watchdogs to probe "incompetence and wrongdoing."
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Former Olympic canoeist asks government watchdogs to probe ‘nightmare’ Reflecting Pool case
The Trump administration’s “sprint” to charge Olympic canoeist David “Davey” Hearn, his attorneys wrote, “mirrored the rushed renovation itself.”
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Has Amb. Huckabee weighed in on NatCon Jerusalem?
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026
Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.
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David DeWitt @daviddewitt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
In an attack ad against U.S. Senate candidate Sherrod Brown, a woman accuses the Democrat of pushing transgender surgeries on minors "like her." As it turns out, she isn't from Ohio and didn't have surgery until she was an adult. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/10/06/w...
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Woman accusing Sherrod Brown of forcing trans surgeries not Ohioan, didn’t have procedure as minor • Ohio Capital Journal
In an attack ad against U.S. Senate candidate Sherrod Brown, a woman accuses the Democrat of pushing transgender surgeries on minors "like her." As it turns out, she isn't from Ohio and didn't have…
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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Curtis Yarvin, a major influence on Vice President JD Vance, is openly fantasizing about Hitler again. Extremism isn’t fringe on the right.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 06/10/2026
people keep saying "when trump campaigns, he gets the base out" but trump keeps campaigning and GOP poll numbers just keep going down
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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A new Reuters poll makes pretty clear that Republicans aren't willing to follow President Trump on some of his vanity projects. 80% of Republicans don't like his taxpayer-funded political ads. Only a quarter approved of Trump adding his name to the Kennedy Center. www.reuters.com/world/americ...
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Trump, master strategist, makes GOP House candidate scramble to condemn his suggestion that he'd be okay with said House candidate's constituents being wiped out: www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
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Republican candidate for San Diego House district criticizes Trump comments on Iran – US politics live
President claims commercials were ‘positive promotion for our Great USA’ but says he will now cover their cost
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
(might be why Gorka is no longer attending Nat Con Jerusalem although the fact that he was once slated to...)
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
and also remember this about Gorka (2017) forward.com/news/366181/...
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EXCLUSIVE: Nazi-Allied Group Claims Top Trump Aide Sebastian Gorka As Sworn Member
Sebastian Gorka, President Trump's aide, is reportedly a member of a Nazi-allied group.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Hans-Georg Maaßen's panel in Israel is entitled "Why Elites Embrace Mass Migration as a Tool of Cultural, Racial, and Political Transformation,” which is a direct shout-out to the classically antisemitic Great Replacement conspiracy, which directly inspired the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting.
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"The American contingent includes William Wolfe, a self-described Christian nationalist who has called for “mass deportations, denaturalizations, and remigration” to preserve a white Christian majority" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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US, Israeli and European far-right figures to gather for conference in Israel
Trump’s counter-terrorism ‘czar’, Sebastian Gorka, was scheduled to speak at conference but White House says he will no longer attend
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Cartoon of Trump Vance and Hegseth
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The TV companies that took our tax money should send it back to the Treasury. It's stolen money. They have no credibility opposing gov't propaganda if they keep it. They should eat their mistake. But the end result here is that Trump still got free-to-him, taxpayer-funded ads.
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I also wrote about this in Unholy:
From Unholy: Why White Evangelicals Worship at the Altar of Donald Trump (in part): Bakker may seem like an aging relic of the 1980s televangelist scandals, consigned to a remote outpost after his spectacular fall from grace three decades ago. But his rehabilitation is a cautionary tale that suggests why Trump's white evangelical supporters continue to rally around him.
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Link (2019): www.huffpost.com/entry/white-...
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The Army Of Prayer Warriors Fighting Trump's Impeachment
As the Senate takes up his impeachment trial, white Christian evangelicals remain firmly in the president's corner.
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Bakker would broadcast his television show from this weird little studio in this compound that made it look like he was sitting on a lavish stage. It seemed like it was made of cardboard. Anyway, my first morning there, he gave a little talk to the studio audience before the cameras started rolling:
That morning, news had broken of the unexpected death of Democratic Congressman and House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings, who aggressively investigated Trump and who would have played a key role in impeachment proceedings. But there would be no prayers or condolences for the civil rights advocate from Bakker, who would only call Cummings “that man.” Instead, Bakker concluded with satisfaction, “one of the number-one enemies of our president fell dead last night. A man who insists on impeaching the president of the United States, he fell dead.”
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The bit about the $600 survival food buckets stood out to me, because when I was there in 2019, he was having a fire sale on them.
Photo from 2019 at Jim Bakker's Morningside Church complex in Blue Eye, Missouri, selling buckets of Joseph's Storehouse survival food, 344 servings, for $29.
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I visited this remote compound in Missouri (the obit says it is in Branson, Missouri; it is not, it is in Blue Eye, Missouri, which is a speck on the map about as small as an eye) on a reporting trip in 2019. It was one of the wildest (out of many, many, many) wild reporting sojourns of my career.
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This detail from the NYT obit of disgraced and resurrected televangelist Jim Bakker, and his oldest pivot in the book www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/u...
The new ministry was low-key compared with that of the Bakkers’ high-flying PTL days. Its focus was different, too. The end of days was nigh, Mr. Bakker now preached, and he offered viewers what he said they would need to ride out the Apocalypse: long-lasting food, 10 buckets of it for $600 plus shipping costs. His message had a bluntly conservative political cast. “God has called” Donald J. Trump, he said. Barack Obama “sounded like the representative for Antichrist,” he said in 2016, and Hillary Clinton was “a bride of Satan.”
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Happy pub day to the inimitable @janetreitman.bsky.social, whose new book The Inheritance is a riveting, engrossing, and necessary read. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/604725...
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The Inheritance by Janet Reitman: 9781984854728 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A stunning work of narrative nonfiction that traces the lives of nine Americans over three decades, offering a vivid account of a nation in crisis—from award-winning New York Times Magazine writer...
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
GOP ads right now are all about attacking trans people. Over, and over, and over. I was a gay teen in 2004 watching the Bush campaign try to win on attacking gay marriage, but the resort to this hate drive in campaign ads feels so dialed up now. I can’t imagine being an lgbt kid watching tv today.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I'm reading Adam Becker's book and getting an expanded course on the absurd things people believe in Silicon Valley. There are really good reasons why traversing space through solid rock isn't an optimal kind of weapons delivery.
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
2 Illinois residents say they were detained at Broadview, released without charges, then branded domestic terrorists to millions by Johnson. It appears to be the first such suit against one of the admin's corps of MAGA creators who make propaganda in exchange for access. www.ms.now/news/benny-j...
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MAGA podcaster Benny Johnson sued for defamation over ICE ride-along videos calling protesters ‘terrorists’
Johnson accompanied top DHS officials last year to an ICE protest, where he pointed out “left-wing terrorists” for his millions of followers across social media.
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Scoop: Podcaster Benny Johnson is being sued for defamation over his ICE ride-along videos calling protesters "terrorists." www.ms.now/news/benny-j...
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MAGA podcaster Benny Johnson sued for defamation over ICE ride-along videos calling protesters ‘terrorists’
Johnson accompanied top DHS officials last year to an ICE protest, where he pointed out “left-wing terrorists” for his millions of followers across social media.
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
“This is entirely indicative of the decay and oligarchy that has taken over our government and, in many cases, directly through purchasing influence and power and authority, blatantly right in front of us,” said Wes Bryant, a retired Air Force master sergeant who until last year led the Pentagon’s civilian harm assessments. “They’re not even trying to hide it anymore.”
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Grift grift grift Hegseth puts the future of warfare in the hands of major Maga donors www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
The 34-year-old Palmer, whose company is backed by Joshua Kushner’s equity fund, has acquired manufacturers of underwater drones, UAVs, and space technology, has been already been voluble about his philosophy on warfare. Earlier this year, for example, he said he thought warfare in the second half of this century would involve “subterranean” conflict, with vehicles that can “move through he crust of the earth the same way that submarines move through the water”.

He has claimed that his company has “working prototypes of subterranean systems”.
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Politico @politico.com · 02/10/2026
Musk-led war commission triggers alarms in Pentagon politi.co/4yswarP
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Musk-led war commission triggers alarms in Pentagon politi.co/4yswarP
Musk-led war commission triggers alarms in Pentagon politi.co/4yswarP
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Rufo gets to position himself as "respectable." Polite sit-down interview w/ Ezra Klein. Celebrated by Substack as one of platform's "best" writers. Senior fellow at Manhattan Institute. His "Indian Question" podcast is pretty explicitly white nationalist talkingpointsmemo.com/news/chris-r...
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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing
To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
New: Chris Rufo & his co-host devoted a podcast to "The Indian Question," framing Desi people as a problem to be solved. Their "solution?" Mass expulsion. For those allowed to remain: an “assimilation hazing process” w/ instances of “vulgar, defamatory racism" talkingpointsmemo.com/news/chris-r...
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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing
To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...
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