Alexander Reid Ross
@areidross.bsky.social
Charité envers les autres; Dignité envers soi-même; Sincérité devant Dieu.
- George Sand
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Lacerations, or Taking the Continuing Fascism Debate with a Grain of Salt
by Alexander Reid Ross The Debate With The Atlantic’s latest foray into the fascism debate, a whole deluge of discourse spilled out over the social medias about what to do with its changing c…
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I wrote some thoughts about the return of the fascism debate. Feedback appreciated.
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NEWS: The FBI interviewed an Epstein victim who credibly accused Trump of sexual assault, Epstein files show.
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FBI Interviewed Trump Accuser, Epstein Files Show
Trump was credibly accused of sexual assault in the Epstein files. It's unclear what became of the DOJ's investigation.
substack.com
February 15, 2026 at 8:28 PM
NEWS: The FBI interviewed an Epstein victim who credibly accused Trump of sexual assault, Epstein files show.
substack.com/@sollenberge...
substack.com/@sollenberge...
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Michelle Haas did not seek to bring her case to the Texas Supreme Court. That's the end of the road. We won.
In 2024, I wrote a story for Texas Monthly about Michelle Haas, whose complaints resulted in the removal of books about slavery from historic Texas slave plantations. Haas sued us, alleging defamation, and was represented by the preferred lawyer of billionaire J.P. Bryan. Today, we won on appeal.
February 15, 2026 at 11:57 PM
Michelle Haas did not seek to bring her case to the Texas Supreme Court. That's the end of the road. We won.
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Harper’s Letter signers are assembling their rapid response team, I’m sure
Chaya Raichik is trying to get an elementary-school teacher fired for reposting a single viral video with zero additional commentary
February 15, 2026 at 7:03 PM
Harper’s Letter signers are assembling their rapid response team, I’m sure
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Reading American history will break your heart a thousand times but it will also fill you with such admiration and awe for all the people who were excluded from the protection of America’s founding principles and fought to promote, protect and expand them anyways
February 16, 2026 at 12:19 AM
Reading American history will break your heart a thousand times but it will also fill you with such admiration and awe for all the people who were excluded from the protection of America’s founding principles and fought to promote, protect and expand them anyways
the amazing thing about the anti-Mellon shank job is its resistance to actually contending with any of the ideas being described. for instance, the author glides past something that I think is one of the coolest and most interesting projects on earth:
borderlandsshakespeare.org/the-bard-in-...
borderlandsshakespeare.org/the-bard-in-...
The Bard in the Borderlands - Borderlands Shakespeare Colectiva
The Bard in the Borderlands brings a wide range of Borderlands Shakespeare plays together for the first time scholarly edition.
borderlandsshakespeare.org
February 15, 2026 at 11:42 PM
the amazing thing about the anti-Mellon shank job is its resistance to actually contending with any of the ideas being described. for instance, the author glides past something that I think is one of the coolest and most interesting projects on earth:
borderlandsshakespeare.org/the-bard-in-...
borderlandsshakespeare.org/the-bard-in-...
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A strange find from the Epstein files:
A hacker named Vincenzo Iozzo shares with Epstein a rumor that Peter Thiel was "bankrolling" the neo-Nazi white supremacist hacker troll known as "weev."
Conversation is about financial strategies and "currencies."
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
A hacker named Vincenzo Iozzo shares with Epstein a rumor that Peter Thiel was "bankrolling" the neo-Nazi white supremacist hacker troll known as "weev."
Conversation is about financial strategies and "currencies."
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
February 15, 2026 at 10:36 PM
A strange find from the Epstein files:
A hacker named Vincenzo Iozzo shares with Epstein a rumor that Peter Thiel was "bankrolling" the neo-Nazi white supremacist hacker troll known as "weev."
Conversation is about financial strategies and "currencies."
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
A hacker named Vincenzo Iozzo shares with Epstein a rumor that Peter Thiel was "bankrolling" the neo-Nazi white supremacist hacker troll known as "weev."
Conversation is about financial strategies and "currencies."
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
holy crap, what a goal for Napoli!
February 15, 2026 at 9:27 PM
holy crap, what a goal for Napoli!
lol, Napoli fans throwing bottles at the Roma player during a corner kick, and the latter being too dignified to even notice
February 15, 2026 at 9:10 PM
lol, Napoli fans throwing bottles at the Roma player during a corner kick, and the latter being too dignified to even notice
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"Drawing on lessons from Ukraine, the leaders described a battlefield where waves of drones, missiles and artillery could generate targets faster than a traditional headquarters can process them."
www.militarytimes.com/news/your-mi...
www.militarytimes.com/news/your-mi...
US Army leaders say future European fight could mean 1,500 targets daily
The projection, informed by the Russia-Ukraine war, is shaping how the service thinks about automation and speed on the battlefield.
www.militarytimes.com
February 15, 2026 at 4:32 PM
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LATVIA WILL NOT BE DENIED
February 15, 2026 at 7:14 PM
LATVIA WILL NOT BE DENIED
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Flavor Flav is in the curling house.
February 15, 2026 at 7:11 PM
Flavor Flav is in the curling house.
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Minnesotans are making us proud at the Winter Olympics! ❄️ 🇺🇸
www.duluthnewstribune.com/opinion/edit...
www.duluthnewstribune.com/opinion/edit...
Our View: Duluth and Minnesota pumping out Olympic pride
From the editorial: "(Team USA's) victories are our victories, and their efforts are a reflection of our nation’s hardworking resilience."
www.duluthnewstribune.com
February 15, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Minnesotans are making us proud at the Winter Olympics! ❄️ 🇺🇸
www.duluthnewstribune.com/opinion/edit...
www.duluthnewstribune.com/opinion/edit...
I actually don't disagree with this more than I disagree with the reactionary claim that 1787 was a "conservative revolution." in the context of their time, etc., etc.
The founding fathers were leftists. Thank God.
if someone was to say "where is the left complicated re: US history," I would say that u can look at a lot of debates over, for example, (1) the validity of the constitution as a document, debated even by abolitionists; (2) utility and form of labor unions as opposed to cooperativism from the 1820s;
February 15, 2026 at 7:12 PM
I actually don't disagree with this more than I disagree with the reactionary claim that 1787 was a "conservative revolution." in the context of their time, etc., etc.
so cool that the richest guy is trying to create a violent fascist memory culture from whole cloth
Out driving just now and saw this giant mural of Iryna Zarutska, the Ukrainian refugee who got stabbed on a bus.
Despite the fact that her family has asked them not to use her death for political reasons, Elon Musk has been funding these murals all over the country.
Despite the fact that her family has asked them not to use her death for political reasons, Elon Musk has been funding these murals all over the country.
February 15, 2026 at 7:01 PM
so cool that the richest guy is trying to create a violent fascist memory culture from whole cloth
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About Epstein, Edge, eugenics, and finding my name in the Epstein files.
www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...
www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...
The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science
Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...
www.thenerve.news
February 15, 2026 at 3:32 PM
About Epstein, Edge, eugenics, and finding my name in the Epstein files.
www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...
www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...
guy who can't let go of the "uniparty" discourse ("the globalist bankers are really the ones in charge")
February 15, 2026 at 6:23 PM
guy who can't let go of the "uniparty" discourse ("the globalist bankers are really the ones in charge")
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There is a Kinda Guy that is absolutely gaga for Gruff-Aesthetic White Guy Who Says Kinda Lefty Things. Their love for this is *not* strategic or instrumental to some end, such a person is an object of intrinsic attraction to them, and a strong one at that. They will rationalise anything for this.
I also am baffled that people are assuming this super checkered barely known guy will be super progressive as though we're not living in a post Fetterman universe.
It's nuts that these are the two candidates the respective wings of the Maine Dems have coughed up. I am positive there are, somewhere in the state, a moderate who's not 97 years old and a progressive who doesn't have nazi tattoos.
February 15, 2026 at 3:25 PM
There is a Kinda Guy that is absolutely gaga for Gruff-Aesthetic White Guy Who Says Kinda Lefty Things. Their love for this is *not* strategic or instrumental to some end, such a person is an object of intrinsic attraction to them, and a strong one at that. They will rationalise anything for this.
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"Coming from a country that is number 2 in the Press Freedom Index, hearing criticism regarding press freedom from a country (United States) that is 58th on this list is..... interesting" @kajakallas.bsky.social
February 15, 2026 at 3:41 PM
"Coming from a country that is number 2 in the Press Freedom Index, hearing criticism regarding press freedom from a country (United States) that is 58th on this list is..... interesting" @kajakallas.bsky.social
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I am ABSOLUTELY reading this as HARD PROOF that Romans farmed ichthyosaurs.
It is fact now. Sorry.
It is fact now. Sorry.
Ichthyosaur snout and Roman farm found in bypass dig. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Ichthyosaur snout and Roman farm found in Melton bypass digs
Archaeological digs unearth a rich seam of discoveries dating back to prehistory.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 15, 2026 at 11:52 AM
I am ABSOLUTELY reading this as HARD PROOF that Romans farmed ichthyosaurs.
It is fact now. Sorry.
It is fact now. Sorry.
if the radical left doesn't defend the honor of men in the US military, whomstsoever shall?
Platner's dismissive comments about sexual assault in the military were so disgusting that a candidate who had experienced assault in the service dropped out to endorse Mills rather than risk Platner getting into the senate. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/progressiv...
Progressive Candidate Has Dropped Out Of ME Senate Race
Not Platner. Daira Smith-Rodriguez
www.everythingishorrible.net
February 15, 2026 at 3:42 PM
if the radical left doesn't defend the honor of men in the US military, whomstsoever shall?
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This man had Nazism inked on his body. The New Republic ignored and erased the work of credible Jewish publications and Graham Platner's own words to pretend this was "innocent." It is not.
February 15, 2026 at 3:24 PM
This man had Nazism inked on his body. The New Republic ignored and erased the work of credible Jewish publications and Graham Platner's own words to pretend this was "innocent." It is not.
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Can you imagine writing or editing this sentence with a straight face: "If one can get a Nazi tattoo innocently, then Platner almost certainly did."
It would be bad even if **there wasn't reporting indicating this just isn't true** - which there is.
It would be bad even if **there wasn't reporting indicating this just isn't true** - which there is.
February 15, 2026 at 6:00 AM
Can you imagine writing or editing this sentence with a straight face: "If one can get a Nazi tattoo innocently, then Platner almost certainly did."
It would be bad even if **there wasn't reporting indicating this just isn't true** - which there is.
It would be bad even if **there wasn't reporting indicating this just isn't true** - which there is.
reminds me of La Fontaine: "distrust's the parent of security"
CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.
February 15, 2026 at 1:47 AM
reminds me of La Fontaine: "distrust's the parent of security"