Nisan Chavkin
@chavkin17.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 1:00 PM
"it isn’t just Trump. His second term has made clear that there was no shortage of people waiting to put his ugliest impulses into action not despite what they themselves believe, but because of it....They were just waiting for the chance to join."
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This is what a white supremacist administration looks like
Also: Can Democrats pull off a huge upset tonight in deep red Tennessee?
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December 2, 2025 at 2:55 PM
"it isn’t just Trump. His second term has made clear that there was no shortage of people waiting to put his ugliest impulses into action not despite what they themselves believe, but because of it....They were just waiting for the chance to join."
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Move along, nothing to see here: "The US military has amassed more than a dozen warships and 15,000 troops in the region as part of what the Pentagon has branded 'Operation Southern Spear.'"
Congressional war powers, anyone?
www.cnn.com/2025/11/27/p...
Congressional war powers, anyone?
www.cnn.com/2025/11/27/p...
Trump says US land action against alleged drug trafficking networks in Venezuela will start ‘very soon’ | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump suggested Thursday that the United States is preparing to take new action against alleged drug trafficking networks in Venezuela, telling service members during a Thanksgiving c...
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November 28, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Move along, nothing to see here: "The US military has amassed more than a dozen warships and 15,000 troops in the region as part of what the Pentagon has branded 'Operation Southern Spear.'"
Congressional war powers, anyone?
www.cnn.com/2025/11/27/p...
Congressional war powers, anyone?
www.cnn.com/2025/11/27/p...
November 27, 2025 at 1:50 AM
"What Mamdani and Khan are exploring... is the application of existing law to a market whose structure the public has already shaped & whose monopoly behavior the public has every right to restrict... legal powers that New York has chosen not to use until now."
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The Freakout Over Cheaper Beer at Yankee Stadium
Mamdani and Khan consider using long-standing powers to end monopolistic pricing at NYC stadiums. Cue the neoliberal freakout.
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November 24, 2025 at 12:21 PM
"What Mamdani and Khan are exploring... is the application of existing law to a market whose structure the public has already shaped & whose monopoly behavior the public has every right to restrict... legal powers that New York has chosen not to use until now."
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/24/m...
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/24/m...
Fascists not united in their hatreds? Shocking. "'The Groyper thing is real,' Dreher later wrote in his post describing the meeting. 'It is not a fringe movement, in that it really has infiltrated young conservative Washington networks to a significant degree.'” talkingpointsmemo.com/news/jd-vanc...
JD Vance Received a Dire Warning About the Groyper Takeover of the GOP From a Strange Source
The call warning of a dangerous tide of extremism in Donald Trump’s...
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November 14, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Fascists not united in their hatreds? Shocking. "'The Groyper thing is real,' Dreher later wrote in his post describing the meeting. 'It is not a fringe movement, in that it really has infiltrated young conservative Washington networks to a significant degree.'” talkingpointsmemo.com/news/jd-vanc...
November 7, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Putting it mildly: "The idea that coded antisemitism was fine so long as it came with strong support for Israel was always misguided."
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forward.com/opinion/7820...
The fundamental miscalculation behind the GOP's antisemitism crisis
Tucker Carlson hosted Nick Fuentes, a white supremacist and Holocaust denier, on his show; now Republicans are in chaos over antisemitism.
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November 6, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Putting it mildly: "The idea that coded antisemitism was fine so long as it came with strong support for Israel was always misguided."
forward.com/opinion/7820...
forward.com/opinion/7820...
"Carlson and Heritage seem to recognize that the wind is at Fuentes’ back, and are responding accordingly."
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Why Tucker Carlson actually sat down with Nick Fuentes
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November 6, 2025 at 12:22 AM
"Carlson and Heritage seem to recognize that the wind is at Fuentes’ back, and are responding accordingly."
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November 5, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Jewish Rightists may be surprised, but the rest of us aren’t.
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November 3, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Jewish Rightists may be surprised, but the rest of us aren’t.
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thehill.com/opinion/whit...
November 2, 2025 at 1:21 PM
"I will state the plain facts: A man pardoned by the sitting president after engaging in a riot on his behalf was apprehended a second time, for allegedly threatening to kill a leading Democrat — and this, according to the Speaker of the House, is the fault of leftists."
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nymag.com/intelligence...
The Fantasy of Assassination Culture
In political violence, Americans see a future of order and control.
nymag.com
November 2, 2025 at 1:07 PM
"I will state the plain facts: A man pardoned by the sitting president after engaging in a riot on his behalf was apprehended a second time, for allegedly threatening to kill a leading Democrat — and this, according to the Speaker of the House, is the fault of leftists."
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nymag.com/intelligence...
"I do care about the political trade-offs we will ask people to make in the name of pragmatism. If the Democratic future requires us to exchange our discomfort with casual Nazism to advance a political agenda, I am not interested."
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...
Opinion | A Nazi Tattoo Exposes Democrats’ Greatest Weakness
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October 30, 2025 at 1:34 PM
"I do care about the political trade-offs we will ask people to make in the name of pragmatism. If the Democratic future requires us to exchange our discomfort with casual Nazism to advance a political agenda, I am not interested."
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...
Meet the Fascists: Greg Bovino
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Meet the Fascists: First Up, Greg Bovino
A sector chief of the CPB just got hauled in before a federal judge in Chicago to answer for his actions.
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October 30, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Meet the Fascists: Greg Bovino
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Look For The Helpers: How Chicagoans Are Supporting Their Neighbors Amid ICE Raids blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/16/l...
October 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Look For The Helpers: How Chicagoans Are Supporting Their Neighbors Amid ICE Raids blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/16/l...
Zichrono Livrachah: Arthur Waskow, pioneering social justice rabbi, dies religionnews.com/2025/10/21/a...
Arthur Waskow, pioneering social justice rabbi, dies
(RNS) — He earned a reputation as a radical on the forefront of movements for equality and justice. Many thought of him as a prophet.
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October 22, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Zichrono Livrachah: Arthur Waskow, pioneering social justice rabbi, dies religionnews.com/2025/10/21/a...
Zichrono Livrachah: Arthur Waskow, pioneering social justice rabbi, dies religionnews.com/2025/10/21/a...
Arthur Waskow, pioneering social justice rabbi, dies
(RNS) — He earned a reputation as a radical on the forefront of movements for equality and justice. Many thought of him as a prophet.
religionnews.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Zichrono Livrachah: Arthur Waskow, pioneering social justice rabbi, dies religionnews.com/2025/10/21/a...
Here is a very specific thing you can do right now that will meet the moment quite nicely
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Here is a very specific thing you can do right now that will meet the moment quite nicely
Maybe do it five or six times, actually
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October 22, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Here is a very specific thing you can do right now that will meet the moment quite nicely
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"It’s worth emphasizing that the MAGA movement doesn’t want freedom of speech. They want the freedom to say whatever they like and harm whoever they like without consequence. They also believe it’s their right to punish any and all dissent." open.substack.com/pub/ctrlaltr...
Pride Before the Fall
A closer look at what influence groups like the Proud Boys hold in the Trump Regime
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October 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
"It’s worth emphasizing that the MAGA movement doesn’t want freedom of speech. They want the freedom to say whatever they like and harm whoever they like without consequence. They also believe it’s their right to punish any and all dissent." open.substack.com/pub/ctrlaltr...
"there’s a very plausible case to be made that if we had allowed people to decide how the technology they used worked, that — given there’s a bunch of people who are not very happy with how the technology they’re using today works — maybe some of them would’ve changed it."
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nymag.com/intelligence...
The Internet Doesn’t Have to Suck
Enshittification author Cory Doctorow says specific policy choices led to today’s broken web — and could lead us out.
nymag.com
October 20, 2025 at 6:02 PM
"there’s a very plausible case to be made that if we had allowed people to decide how the technology they used worked, that — given there’s a bunch of people who are not very happy with how the technology they’re using today works — maybe some of them would’ve changed it."
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nymag.com/intelligence...
"Do we really want to live in a personalist/authoritarian regime or one in which only billionaires can become heads of state? Do we want a political system (where) presidents have to engage in systematic personal corruption as lubricant of deals between states?"
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/niall...
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/niall...
Niall Ferguson, the Gulf Princes and Their Man, Donald Trump
I first encountered Niall Ferguson in a real way when I was...
talkingpointsmemo.com
October 20, 2025 at 3:41 PM
"Do we really want to live in a personalist/authoritarian regime or one in which only billionaires can become heads of state? Do we want a political system (where) presidents have to engage in systematic personal corruption as lubricant of deals between states?"
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/niall...
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/niall...
"The real questions... are not about the federal government’s (broad) legal authorities; they’re about the facts." open.substack.com/pub/stevevla...
184. The Massive Stakes of Trump v. Illinois
The Trump administration's 29th emergency application—to let it deploy federalized National Guard troops in Chicago on a profoundly dubious factual predicate—is a make-or-break moment for the Court.
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October 20, 2025 at 12:41 PM
"The real questions... are not about the federal government’s (broad) legal authorities; they’re about the facts." open.substack.com/pub/stevevla...