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Annika Brockschmidt
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Author @Rowohlt, freelance journalist, senior correspondent Religion Dispatches, writes about Christian Nationalism & Right-Wing Extremism in the US & globally 1/2 of @femshelfcontrol.bsky.social
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Annika Brockschmidt @ardenthistorian.bsky.social · Feb 12
„Mit großer Sachkenntnis zeigt Annika Brockschmidt wie die Republikanische Partei im 21. Jahrhundert von jenem extremistischen Tiger gefressen wurde, den zu reiten sie 50 Jahre lang versucht hatte» - @adriandaub.bsky.social über #DieBrandstifter
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DER NIEDERGANG DER GRAND OLD PARTY Wie konnten die Republikaner, einst die Partei der Sklavenbefreiung, zu einer Partei werden, die eine autoritäre und rassistische Politik vertritt und eine Gefahr für alle darstellt, die keine Weißen, rechtskonservativen Christen sind? «Die Brandstifter» zeigt, wie rechte Akteure die Partei gezielt unterwandert und nach und nach die Grenzen des Sagbaren verschoben haben. Ein Prozess, der seinen Schatten auch auf Europa wirft. Die Grand Old Party ist zu einer Bedrohung für die amerikanische Demokratie geworden - mit potenziell dramatischen Folgen für den Rest der Welt. «Mit großer Sachkenntnis zeigt Annika Brockschmidt, wie die Republikanische Partei im 21. Jahrhundert von jenem extremistischen Tiger gefressen wurde, den zu reiten sie 50 Jahre lang versucht hatte.» Adrian Daub, Stanford University
ardenthistorian.bsky.social
Things are going well over on Truth Social, where Trump just reposted AI Slop of himself as what I can only describe as imperial Lannister cosplay, with prominent Democrats kneeling at his feet
Truth social post from Trump, in golden armour with crown on a throne, small democrats kneeling at his feet.
November 23, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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tommykrappweis.de
Beide Bücher beweisen nachdrücklich: Annika Brockschmidt hat es immer gesagt.

Empfehlung für alle, die wissen wollen, wie und warum sich die USA dem Faschismus zuwendete.
ardenthistorian.bsky.social Annika Brockschmidt @ardenthistorian.bsky.social · 3d
Meine Bücher „Die Brandstifter. Wie Extremisten die Republikanische Partei übernahmen“ und „Amerikas Gotteskrieger. Wie die Religiöse Rechte die Demokratie gefährdet“ (Rowohlt) sind laut Hoeres in der „Welt“ „radikale linke Kampfschriften“. Merch Idee?
November 23, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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augustjpollak.bsky.social
DOGE was not a failure. Its purpose was to use the completely fabricated claim of “efficiency” to irreparably annihilate vast amounts of federal government infrastructure, which it did instantly, violently, and in ways we will not see the full repair of in our lifetimes.
bbkogan.bsky.social Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 1d
Difficult to overstate how profound a failure DOGE was. Spending in FY2025 was not only than in FY2024 – but higher than it was projected to be when Trump first took office.*

The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
carlquintanilla.bsky.social Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d
Bye bye, “DOGE”.

It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.

@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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benlorber8.bsky.social
Oh my god
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d
Q: Are you affirming that you think President Trump is a fascist?

MAMDANI: I've spoken about--

TRUMP: That's okay. You can just say yes. I don't mind.
November 21, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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tinido.bsky.social
Wenn Ihr Leute habt, die ratlos vor der Entwicklung in den USA stehen & gerne lesen, sind das Top-Geschenke. (2mal bereits verschenkt, kam jeweils gut an.) 🎄
ardenthistorian.bsky.social Annika Brockschmidt @ardenthistorian.bsky.social · 3d
Meine Bücher „Die Brandstifter. Wie Extremisten die Republikanische Partei übernahmen“ und „Amerikas Gotteskrieger. Wie die Religiöse Rechte die Demokratie gefährdet“ (Rowohlt) sind laut Hoeres in der „Welt“ „radikale linke Kampfschriften“. Merch Idee?
November 23, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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misssammay.bsky.social
So, ich läute das Wochenende mit der neuen Folge vom #Bätchcast ein. 🥳

Hab nach 5 Minuten schon wieder einen Heidenspaß. Danke an @ardenthistorian.bsky.social und @anjaruetzel.bsky.social 🫶
Screenshot aus der Podcast-App von der Folge „Red Flags im Paradies (BiP Staffel 6, Ep. 3)“ vom Podcast „Der Bätchcast“
November 21, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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casmudde.bsky.social
After more than 10 years of “the Danish Model”, nativism is hegemonic in the country, the far right polls near level highs again, and the Social Democrats lost Copenhagen and poll at historic low.

European Social Democrats should look at the facts, not the myths!

Me in @theguardian.com
The ‘Danish model’ is the darling of centre-left parties like Labour. The problem is, it doesn’t even work in Denmark | Cas Mudde
This week’s local elections are the latest reminder that when social democrats move rightwards, they’re making a mistake, says academic and author Cas Mudde
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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isteinanderer.bsky.social
Bachelor Nation und die gesamte Menschheit in einer Nussschale.
@ardenthistorian.bsky.social
»Aber die Geschmäcker sind seltsam. Werden wir noch mehrfach feststellen«. Annika Brockschmidt
November 22, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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nadiazaboura.bsky.social
Hoert, hoert, Springer macht schmunzeln - gute Bücher btw, die fundiert das belegt und ableitend vorausgesagt haben, was sich heute in den USA abspielt, inklusive globaler Implikationen.
ardenthistorian.bsky.social Annika Brockschmidt @ardenthistorian.bsky.social · 3d
Meine Bücher „Die Brandstifter. Wie Extremisten die Republikanische Partei übernahmen“ und „Amerikas Gotteskrieger. Wie die Religiöse Rechte die Demokratie gefährdet“ (Rowohlt) sind laut Hoeres in der „Welt“ „radikale linke Kampfschriften“. Merch Idee?
November 23, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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hajothelen.bsky.social
Die Weld empfiehlt nochmal ausdrücklich die Bücher von Annika Brockschmidt.

Wer sie noch nicht hat oder noch Weihnachtsgeschenke sucht,
ardenthistorian.bsky.social Annika Brockschmidt @ardenthistorian.bsky.social · 3d
Meine Bücher „Die Brandstifter. Wie Extremisten die Republikanische Partei übernahmen“ und „Amerikas Gotteskrieger. Wie die Religiöse Rechte die Demokratie gefährdet“ (Rowohlt) sind laut Hoeres in der „Welt“ „radikale linke Kampfschriften“. Merch Idee?
November 21, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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mamattnet.bsky.social
Radikale Empfehlung meinerseits.
ardenthistorian.bsky.social Annika Brockschmidt @ardenthistorian.bsky.social · 3d
Meine Bücher „Die Brandstifter. Wie Extremisten die Republikanische Partei übernahmen“ und „Amerikas Gotteskrieger. Wie die Religiöse Rechte die Demokratie gefährdet“ (Rowohlt) sind laut Hoeres in der „Welt“ „radikale linke Kampfschriften“. Merch Idee?
November 21, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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sieglindewelz.bsky.social
Wenn das so ist, dann wird damit eine direkte #Leseempfehlung gegeben.
ardenthistorian.bsky.social Annika Brockschmidt @ardenthistorian.bsky.social · 3d
Meine Bücher „Die Brandstifter. Wie Extremisten die Republikanische Partei übernahmen“ und „Amerikas Gotteskrieger. Wie die Religiöse Rechte die Demokratie gefährdet“ (Rowohlt) sind laut Hoeres in der „Welt“ „radikale linke Kampfschriften“. Merch Idee?
November 21, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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maikpoeggel.bsky.social
Kaufen Leute! Weihnachten braucht Bücher...
ardenthistorian.bsky.social Annika Brockschmidt @ardenthistorian.bsky.social · 3d
Meine Bücher „Die Brandstifter. Wie Extremisten die Republikanische Partei übernahmen“ und „Amerikas Gotteskrieger. Wie die Religiöse Rechte die Demokratie gefährdet“ (Rowohlt) sind laut Hoeres in der „Welt“ „radikale linke Kampfschriften“. Merch Idee?
November 22, 2025 at 3:01 PM
ardenthistorian.bsky.social
Trump hat lange versucht zu verhindern, dass der Kongress für die Veröffentlichung der Epstein-Akten stimmt- sein Einfluss auf GOP Abweichler greift (zumindest bei diesem Thema) nicht mehr. Teile der MAGA Koalition richten ihren Blick auf die Zeit nach 2028, die Zeit nach Trump.
USA Update 250: Die Epstein-Akten & Risse in der MAGA Koalition | Annika Brockschmidt
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November 23, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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The details in this story are enraging
November 23, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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sethcotlar.bsky.social
It’s almost as if America’s oligarchs think democracy poses a major threat to their power and hence needs to be acquired like one buys a business competitor, so as to neutralize them.
November 21, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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eliothiggins.bsky.social
Elon Musk's Grokipedia cites a neo-Nazi website 42 times, researchers say www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...
Elon Musk’s Grokipedia cites Stormfront — a neo-Nazi forum — dozens of times, study finds
An analysis by researchers at Cornell University is the first comprehensive look at Grokipedia since Musk launched his project last month.
www.nbcnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:05 PM
ardenthistorian.bsky.social
Meine Bücher „Die Brandstifter. Wie Extremisten die Republikanische Partei übernahmen“ und „Amerikas Gotteskrieger. Wie die Religiöse Rechte die Demokratie gefährdet“ (Rowohlt) sind laut Hoeres in der „Welt“ „radikale linke Kampfschriften“. Merch Idee?
November 21, 2025 at 11:21 AM
ardenthistorian.bsky.social
Hoeres schreibt in der Welt Hoeres Sachen (ob ich Verfasserin „radikaler linker Kampfschriften“ in meine Vita aufnehmen soll?)
claasgefroi.bsky.social Claas Gefroi @claasgefroi.bsky.social · 3d
Wo gräbt WELT nur immer diese Leute aus: Ein Peter Hoeres, Professor für Neueste Geschichte an der Uni Würzburg, schreibt irres Zeug über den scheidenden Chef der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, Thomas Krüger. Den Nachfolger Sönke Rix (SPD) hält er auch für einen "linken Chefideologen".
Nachdem die dem Bundesinnenministerium nachgeordnete Bundesbehörde über Jahre für Ausgewogenheit und nüchterne Bildung stand, wurde sie von Präsident Thomas Krüger (SPD) in seiner 25-jährigen Amtszeit (2000 bis 2025) zu einer identitätspolitischen Agentur in einem undifferenzierten Kampf gegen rechts umgebaut. Es gab zwar weiterhin traditionelle politische Information, aber im Kern war die BPB kaum mehr von einer rotgrünen Vorfeldorganisation zu unterscheiden. So bot sie radikale linke Kampfschriften von Annika Brockschmidt, Ibram X. Kendi oder Andreas Speit an, balancierte dies aber nicht mit kritischen Beiträgen aus. Als Kooperationspartner werden Linksaußen-Einrichtungen wie die Amadeu-Antonio-Stiftung mit Steuermitteln bedacht. Als „Faktenchecker“ konnte man den Youtuber Rezo gewinnen. Das Instagram-Angebot „Say my name“ gibt einseitig die Perspektive sich diskriminiert fühlender Migranten und Moslems wieder, und die BPB stellt immer wieder klar, dass die deutsche Gesellschaft natürlich rassistisch sei.
November 21, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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erinmayequade.bsky.social
A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d
Insanity
SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!
November 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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sarahposner.bsky.social
On the left side, Yoram Hazony to Ross Douthat in the NYT, today. (www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/o...)

On the right side, a headline in the Washington Post, also today. (wapo.st/3Mbd9a6)
Now, that wasn’t a question for a number of years. People have accused Trump of antisemitism, but it turns out that that was pretty much hot air. Donald Trump gave a very, very clear answer to this. He likes having Jews in his coalition. Trump turns out to have probably the most pro-Jewish administration that there’s ever been. A U.S. Coast Guard vessel sails past the Statue of Liberty in New York earlier this year. (Getty Images) BREAKING NEWS U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
November 20, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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rickperlstein.bsky.social
1. UBuffalo student overheard threatening to "shoot up the school" with AR-15 in his backpack.

2. He is president of the campud chapter of the marquee conservativeb group Young Americans for Freedom.

3. This should be in the New York Times.

www.wgrz.com/article/news...
Student's alleged threat sparks concern at UB
Authorities search UB student's home amid alleged shooting threat. Multiple firearms confiscated; no ongoing campus threat, says UB Police.
www.wgrz.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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sethcotlar.bsky.social
It was impossible to be on "the right" in DC from the 1960s into the 1980s & not be aware of The Liberty Lobby. Most self-described "conservatives" dismissed Carto and the LL as "fringe kooks" who had little influence and weren't worth paying attention to. Unfair to tar the whole "right" with them.
R. Emmett Tyrell, Jr., editor-in-chief of The American Spectator, and a well-known conservative columnist, wrote at the time specte Werren Richardson nomination: "Liberty Lobby was founded in the mid-1950's by Willis Carto. Carto remains to this day its mainspring and its devoted treasurer. It has always had a colorful collection of bigots and simpletons around it practicing the solitary vice of political extremism -- namely, applying conspiracy theories to every vexatious public problem." Finally, the conservative weekly, Human Events, described Liberty Lobby, in its May 2, 1981 issue, as: "An organization which most responsible conservatives have long believed exploits racist and antiSemitic sentiments and which is headed by Wills [sic] Carto, who has long been sympathetic to Hitler's Germany."
November 20, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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sethcotlar.bsky.social
By 1974 the Liberty Lobby is raising money for 33 people running for Congress, 29 of whom won. Carto is one of the main ring leaders of a resurgence of neo-Nazism around the globe, and he's in regular friendly contact with a surprisingly large number of US "conservative" politicians and media types.
Page 6 DAILY WORLD Tuesday, July 16, 1974 Politics By MIKE ZAGARELL (1) To most Americans, nazism and antiSemitism are something foreign. Almost daily, politicians, some supported by antiSemitic organizations. make speeches trying to convince the people of our coun try that the fight against anti-Semitism is the fight for the right of Soviet Jews to go live in Israel. In today's context, this includes newly occupied Arab land. While these politicians keep pointing somewhere else. the fact is that within our country an anti-Semitic and racist web is growing. Where is the headquarters of the world nazi movement? West Germany? South Africa? Spain? Greece? All of these are good guesses. but the answer can not be found abroad. It can be found in Arlington. Virginia. four miles from Washington. D.C.. fifteen minutes from the Capitol building. The headquarters of the World Alliance of National Socialists was set up in the mid-Sixties at the world meeting of This article begins a consecutive six-part series by Mike Zagarell dealing with anti-Semitism in the U.S, and its relevance to current electoral politics. You may order copies through your newsdealer or, for extra copies, phone 924-2523. nazi groups in Gotswald. England. At- tending the conference were nazis from 25 countries. It is not accidental that the nazis of the world chose to make the United States their world headquarters. The United States is probably the world's largest producer of anti-Semitic literature. While government officials travel the world over, speaking of supposed Soviet anti-Semitism. a vast web of anti-Semitic and racist organizations spew out their hate message daily aeross the United States. A key part of the anti-Semitic web is the Liberty Lobby. Based in Washington. D.C.. it was formed in the mid-Fifties. It now boasts it has more than 2.500 members on its board of policy. It employs more than 40 staff members. and its newsletter goes to an estimated 200,000 readers monthly. Among its litera…
November 20, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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sethcotlar.bsky.social
A significant number of Congressmen and their staffs have been identified as having friendly relations with a straight up neo-Nazi outfit called the Liberty Lobby, run by a man named Willis Carto who has busts of Hitler in his office. Strangely, it seems few are all that concerned. The year is 1967.
The WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Aq Drew Pearson Washington -While the world press has sounded the alarm over the rise of Neo-Nazism in Germany, the extremist Liberty Lobby held a convention last weekend right in the capital of the United States. The featured speaker was Rep. Watson, R.-S.C., who previously has let the organization use his name to promote its propaganda. Also listed on the program was Congressman-elect John Rarick, D-La The Liberty Lobby is supported on Capitol Hill by a number of other right-lane fellow travelers, including Congressmen E. Y Berry, R-S.D., W. J. Bryan Dorn, D-S.C., John Dowdy, D-Tex., Otto Passman, D-La., Joe Waggoner Jr., D. La., and John Bell Williams, D-Miss. The concern over the resurgence of Neo-Nazism in Germany is such that 29 distinguished Americans, including former Under- State Robert Murphy Charles Saltzman, have conducted an investigation of the German situation. But little public concern has been expressed over the way the same philosophy is gaining converts in the ruling circles of America. No one is investigating the Liberty Lobby whose founder and leader, lis Carto, is an outspoken admirer of Adolf Carto not only has called Hitler's defeat a historical tragedy, but has inspired propaganda in this country against both Jews and Negroes. He has gone so far as to start a campaign to exile to Africa all American citizens whose skin happens to be black. In his letters to fellow extremists, at least those seen by this column, he hasn't said how he would solve the "Jewish problem." Roll Call of Lobbyists Carto has surrounded himself on Liberty Lobby's policy board with such extremists as the following Tyler Kent—He was convicted by a British court in 1940 for delivering secret information to the Axis. The Liberty Lobby describes Kent as "an authentic American hero who was illegally sent to a British jail to expose Roosevelt's criminal war plans." Ed Delaney-As a broadcaster on Berlin radio, he worked for the Nazi foreign office…
November 20, 2025 at 7:15 PM