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"After a decade of livestreaming hate-filled diatribes in which he has said certain types of rape are “not a big deal,” denied the Holocaust, and compared himself to Hitler, Nick Fuentes believes he, and the white nationalist movement generally, have very little to show for it..." but that is increasingly changing, something that responses to the death of Charlie Kirk have made increasingly clear.
A good read.
"The first model, often framed as ‘patriotic capitalism’, treats companies or sectors as national champions and instruments of state power...much like its Chinese counterpart...The second model, which is currently dominant, is more transactional and opportunistic – targeting companies such as Nvidia or Apple because they are too large or too profitable not to chip in. This resembles Russia’s system of state capitalism..."
#politics #economics #oligarchy
https://www.iiss.org/online-analysis/online-analysis/2025/09/americas-quiet-turn-towards-state-capitalism/
A friendly reminder that authoritarian regimes always comes for the artists and poets sooner rather than later...
An interesting post on FIRE and their shifting position in the tides of the latest US culture war.
Today, walking along the kalderimia (rather than driving around them) allows visitors to better grasp the unique culture and history of these villages. "All activities, from farming to trade, began by walking on these footpaths," Moudopoulos-Athanasiou said. "Merchants reached distant parts of the empire on the kalderimia and women walked on these trails each day to go out to the fields."
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20250812-a-hiking-trail-linking-forty-six-ancient-greek-villages
"Israel denies it deliberately targets journalists. But the evidence shows otherwise...al-Sharif was killed alongside his colleagues in an attack that Israel has openly admitted was aimed at killing the journalist. Al-Sharif is the 184th Palestinian journalist to have been killed by Israel since the start of the war and one of at least 26 journalists...deliberately targeted for their work as journalists."
#Palestine #Israel #warcrimes #journalism #politics
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/13/israel-killing-gaza-journalists-anas-al-sharif
A very interesting piece on the links between education and Christian nationalists today and in the past...and how things like homeschooling and "parental rights" fit into this story.
https://religiondispatches.org/why-the-christian-right-wants-to-destroy-the-department-of-education/
It's truly fascinating to watch the MAGA machine slowly self-implode from its own internal contradictions and conspiracies. This is an excellent piece looking at what's been happening over the past few weeks through the lens of Charlie Kirk's recent Student Action Summit in Florida.
#MAGA #Epstein #Trump #politics
https://globalextremism.org/post/charlie-kirks-federation-fractures-over-epstein/
Charlie Kirk’s Student Action Summit was meant to showcase Project 2025’s rise — but instead, it exposed deep fractures in the MAGA movement. Fueled by Epstein conspiracies, antisemitic rhetoric, and distrust of Trump allies, the crowd turned on its own. Kirk struggled to contain the backlash, revealing a movement increasingly unwilling to govern within the system it now controls.
"The wealthiest households would see a $12,000 increase from the legislation, and the bill would cost the poorest people $1,600 a year, mainly due to reductions in Medicaid & food aid."
Welcome to the next phase of the suicidal class war....steal from the poor to give to the 1%, deport hard working immigrants, destroy public education & community preparedness, threaten our friends, and pretend everything is just fine...cause MAGA!
#Trump #Congress #classwar #politics
https://apnews.com/article/what-is-republican-trump-tax-bill-f65be44e1050431a601320197322551b
Republicans in Congress have muscled President Donald Trump’s tax and spending bill to passage. At nearly 900 pages, the legislation is a sprawling collection of tax breaks, spending cuts and other Republican priorities, including new money for national defense and deportations. The House approved the bill on Thursday, the final step necessary to get the bill to Trump's desk by the GOP’s self-imposed deadline of July 4th. The bill would make permanent many of the tax breaks passed in Trump's first term while also adding new ones, such as new tax deductions for tips, overtime, seniors and interest payments on auto loans.
A good piece in the Intercept on why authoritarian thugs posing as ICE agents don't deserve an ounce of privacy.
"Armed gangs of officers, often masked and anonymous, are openly engaged in a white nationalist mission to kidnap many thousands of people...What the Trump administration doesn’t want, however, is for anyone to hold ICE agents accountable [and] has shown its readiness to take extreme measures against efforts to share information about ICE’s troops."
