Berny Belvedere
@bernybelvedere.bsky.social
Senior Editor @TheUnPopulist.net. Executive Director @ismapolicy.bsky.social. Philosophy lecturer. Soccer knower. 🇺🇸 🇦🇷
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“Laura K. Field’s ‘Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right’…is a deeply researched account of the rise of the MAGA New Right during the past two decades braided with the narrative of her break with it.”
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The Neo-Right's Multi-Front Revolt Against America
A political theorist traces the intellectual history of the various strains of a movement gone rogue
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November 23, 2025 at 2:02 PM
“Laura K. Field’s ‘Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right’…is a deeply researched account of the rise of the MAGA New Right during the past two decades braided with the narrative of her break with it.”
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This is a great piece that strikes exactly the right balance. It faults the BBC for a huge editorial error—but situates it within its proper context: Trump's coup.
To disregard either component, or to fail to properly assess their *relative* badness, is to fundamentally misunderstand the episode.
To disregard either component, or to fail to properly assess their *relative* badness, is to fundamentally misunderstand the episode.
The BBC was guilty of sloppy editing. That's undeniable. But to make the BBC’s error the most salient aspect of this story is to play into Trump’s hands and do his bidding.
Trump Goes After the BBC for Telling True Lies About His Insurrection
He and the U.K. right are making bad faith attacks on the broadcaster to extract a heavy price for a small editorial error
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November 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
This is a great piece that strikes exactly the right balance. It faults the BBC for a huge editorial error—but situates it within its proper context: Trump's coup.
To disregard either component, or to fail to properly assess their *relative* badness, is to fundamentally misunderstand the episode.
To disregard either component, or to fail to properly assess their *relative* badness, is to fundamentally misunderstand the episode.
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The alt-right to Heritage Foundation pipeline: a 10-year journey.
The Alt-Right to Heritage Foundation Pipeline: a 10-Year Journey
Extremist rot goes up and down on the right
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November 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
The alt-right to Heritage Foundation pipeline: a 10-year journey.
"What the BBC did was sloppy and misleading, yes, and there is no justification for it—but its conclusion is unmistakably true: Trump incited an insurrection against the government of the United States."
Trump Goes After the BBC for Telling True Lies About His Insurrection
He and the U.K. right are making bad faith attacks on the broadcaster to extract a heavy price for a small editorial error
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November 20, 2025 at 6:48 PM
"What the BBC did was sloppy and misleading, yes, and there is no justification for it—but its conclusion is unmistakably true: Trump incited an insurrection against the government of the United States."
One of the White House’s most egregious lies yet. Messi is obviously the 🐐.
November 19, 2025 at 2:34 PM
One of the White House’s most egregious lies yet. Messi is obviously the 🐐.
The Trump movement in a nutshell: an insurrection against the government of the United States, child sex abuse, bribery and corruption, illicit pardoning of wrongdoing, a perversion of the legal system, and Florida as a backdrop.
November 19, 2025 at 1:48 PM
The Trump movement in a nutshell: an insurrection against the government of the United States, child sex abuse, bribery and corruption, illicit pardoning of wrongdoing, a perversion of the legal system, and Florida as a backdrop.
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Remembering this absolute gem
November 10, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Remembering this absolute gem
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Never forget what these people did
November 10, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Never forget what these people did
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It's always a delight to write for @theunpopulist.net, which consistently publishes some of the smartest public intellectuals around, as well as articles by me like "Superman is cool" and "I dressed up in an inflatable dog costume."
More people need to know the name @jacobgrier.bsky.social. This, in @theunpopulist.net, is absolute gold.
Facing Down ICE in Portland as an Inflatable Dachshund
I barked at the agency led by a puppy killer and survived to tell the tale
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November 16, 2025 at 9:11 PM
It's always a delight to write for @theunpopulist.net, which consistently publishes some of the smartest public intellectuals around, as well as articles by me like "Superman is cool" and "I dressed up in an inflatable dog costume."
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Two weeks after Tucker's scandalous interview with white supremacist, Jew-hating, misogynist “influencer” Nick Fuentes, the MAGA right is still grappling with the fallout—particularly after Heritage President Kevin Roberts defended Tucker and took a swipe at his “globalist” critics.
The Alt-Right to Heritage Foundation Pipeline: a 10-Year Journey
Extremist rot goes up and down on the right
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November 18, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Two weeks after Tucker's scandalous interview with white supremacist, Jew-hating, misogynist “influencer” Nick Fuentes, the MAGA right is still grappling with the fallout—particularly after Heritage President Kevin Roberts defended Tucker and took a swipe at his “globalist” critics.
More people need to know the name @jacobgrier.bsky.social. This, in @theunpopulist.net, is absolute gold.
Facing Down ICE in Portland as an Inflatable Dachshund
I barked at the agency led by a puppy killer and survived to tell the tale
www.theunpopulist.net
November 16, 2025 at 6:20 PM
More people need to know the name @jacobgrier.bsky.social. This, in @theunpopulist.net, is absolute gold.
Never forget what these people did
November 10, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Never forget what these people did
Remembering this absolute gem
November 10, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Remembering this absolute gem
Leftist media turning to hospitality services to meet financial obligations in Trump’s America
November 9, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Leftist media turning to hospitality services to meet financial obligations in Trump’s America
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On the whole I haven’t been much surprised or disappointed by who went Rhinoceros during the Trump era, but I had sort of thought Mike Lee was at least a little smarter, more principled, and/or more decent than he’s proven himself to be.
This guy slowly transformed from con law egghead to catturd3 before our eyes. The whole subculture is a conveyor belt to lobotomyville.
November 9, 2025 at 1:58 AM
On the whole I haven’t been much surprised or disappointed by who went Rhinoceros during the Trump era, but I had sort of thought Mike Lee was at least a little smarter, more principled, and/or more decent than he’s proven himself to be.
Every time I listen to it I am blown away. It never fails.
November 8, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Every time I listen to it I am blown away. It never fails.
LFG Pritzker
JB Pritzker Might Become the Face of America’s Resistance by Taking on Trump’s Authoritarianism
By targeting Illinois, the president might have created his nemesis even as the national Democratic Party flails around for an effective message
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November 7, 2025 at 11:30 PM
LFG Pritzker
Imagine being in a political movement where these are the two options
November 7, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Imagine being in a political movement where these are the two options
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This guy slowly transformed from con law egghead to catturd3 before our eyes. The whole subculture is a conveyor belt to lobotomyville.
November 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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A simple logo featuring his name? Or a HIDDEN CODE INDICATING HIS TRUE ALLEGIANCE?
November 7, 2025 at 10:41 PM
A simple logo featuring his name? Or a HIDDEN CODE INDICATING HIS TRUE ALLEGIANCE?
This guy slowly transformed from con law egghead to catturd3 before our eyes. The whole subculture is a conveyor belt to lobotomyville.
November 7, 2025 at 10:33 PM
This guy slowly transformed from con law egghead to catturd3 before our eyes. The whole subculture is a conveyor belt to lobotomyville.
As @tracinski.bsky.social and others noted a while back, it's not that Trump's appointments are unqualified—it's that they're *anti*-qualified. They're the antithesis of what their respective offices are about.
Like this is someone to appoint if you wanted the *opposite* of a fraud watcher.
Like this is someone to appoint if you wanted the *opposite* of a fraud watcher.
November 7, 2025 at 10:26 PM
As @tracinski.bsky.social and others noted a while back, it's not that Trump's appointments are unqualified—it's that they're *anti*-qualified. They're the antithesis of what their respective offices are about.
Like this is someone to appoint if you wanted the *opposite* of a fraud watcher.
Like this is someone to appoint if you wanted the *opposite* of a fraud watcher.
By "affordable housing" Mamdani clearly meant "establish a caliphate." You may hate it, but this is top tier analysis from the ol' ball coach.
Tuberville: “We just saw what happened in NY. We lost NY. It will be completely Muslim in 3-4 years. That’s what they want. And it’s going to spread throughout the country.”
November 7, 2025 at 9:52 PM
By "affordable housing" Mamdani clearly meant "establish a caliphate." You may hate it, but this is top tier analysis from the ol' ball coach.
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Ahead of New York City's mayoral election, Tibita Kaneene, the political director of @cnliberalism.org's NYC chapter, lauds Zohran Mamdani as a champion of multiracial and multiethnic democracy, and suggests market-friendly liberals can be cautiously optimistic about a Mamdani victory.
Will Mamdani Govern More as a Democratic Socialist or as an Abundance Liberal?
His policy evolution and the team he’s assembling suggest that he could be moving in a market-friendly direction
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November 3, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Ahead of New York City's mayoral election, Tibita Kaneene, the political director of @cnliberalism.org's NYC chapter, lauds Zohran Mamdani as a champion of multiracial and multiethnic democracy, and suggests market-friendly liberals can be cautiously optimistic about a Mamdani victory.