Nick Mortensen
@nickmortensen.com
Trying to meet the moment.
Also, author of a book called "Resist Autocratic Despair".
alt account @autocraticdespair.com
Also, author of a book called "Resist Autocratic Despair".
alt account @autocraticdespair.com
Feels like it’s not a great statement to be making on account of the… well, you know. …FUCKING CONCENTRATION CAMPS!!
Glad Mack Hollins is dressing fancy for his big recital & everything. Terrible misread of the room.
Glad Mack Hollins is dressing fancy for his big recital & everything. Terrible misread of the room.
February 8, 2026 at 11:01 PM
Feels like it’s not a great statement to be making on account of the… well, you know. …FUCKING CONCENTRATION CAMPS!!
Glad Mack Hollins is dressing fancy for his big recital & everything. Terrible misread of the room.
Glad Mack Hollins is dressing fancy for his big recital & everything. Terrible misread of the room.
Worth considering what happens if and when ICE is defunded.
A large number of unemployed and unemployable young men with weapons training are going to have to become some oligarch’s personal army.
How do we prevent that from happening?
A large number of unemployed and unemployable young men with weapons training are going to have to become some oligarch’s personal army.
How do we prevent that from happening?
February 8, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Worth considering what happens if and when ICE is defunded.
A large number of unemployed and unemployable young men with weapons training are going to have to become some oligarch’s personal army.
How do we prevent that from happening?
A large number of unemployed and unemployable young men with weapons training are going to have to become some oligarch’s personal army.
How do we prevent that from happening?
Are we going to do anything about Evangelicals? Feel like we ought to be aware that Christian Nationalism is pushing us toward a racial holy war, knows it’s doing so, & would really like to see it happen ASAP.
February 7, 2026 at 11:22 PM
Are we going to do anything about Evangelicals? Feel like we ought to be aware that Christian Nationalism is pushing us toward a racial holy war, knows it’s doing so, & would really like to see it happen ASAP.
Little disappointed that the “Quad God” doesn’t have gigantic quads like AJ Dillon or Saquon Barkley.
February 7, 2026 at 8:04 PM
Little disappointed that the “Quad God” doesn’t have gigantic quads like AJ Dillon or Saquon Barkley.
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Concentration camps are the defining issue in public health right now. Measles and TB outbreaks, healthcare being withheld as punishment for your race. It is not enough simply to turn the grants tap back on. To do so would make us the same as the Nazi scientists who discovered smoking causes cancer
February 7, 2026 at 12:51 AM
Concentration camps are the defining issue in public health right now. Measles and TB outbreaks, healthcare being withheld as punishment for your race. It is not enough simply to turn the grants tap back on. To do so would make us the same as the Nazi scientists who discovered smoking causes cancer
Would love to be wrong on this, but I just know the MAGA Enthusiasts will all go out of their way to be circumspect for half a second and then start saying : “It absolutely is offensive…to APES!”
Last night, Trump posted a video to his social media platform that contained a racist clip showing Barack and Michelle Obama as monkeys. It's still up:
February 6, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Would love to be wrong on this, but I just know the MAGA Enthusiasts will all go out of their way to be circumspect for half a second and then start saying : “It absolutely is offensive…to APES!”
Always hoped Bezos' interest in the Washington Post was purely altruistic.
Would have been some real Andrew Carnegie "Gospel of Wealth" stuff.
Would have throw down a pretty solid gauntlet for all the billionaires to measure one another's dicks with.
Would have been some real Andrew Carnegie "Gospel of Wealth" stuff.
Would have throw down a pretty solid gauntlet for all the billionaires to measure one another's dicks with.
February 5, 2026 at 4:28 PM
Always hoped Bezos' interest in the Washington Post was purely altruistic.
Would have been some real Andrew Carnegie "Gospel of Wealth" stuff.
Would have throw down a pretty solid gauntlet for all the billionaires to measure one another's dicks with.
Would have been some real Andrew Carnegie "Gospel of Wealth" stuff.
Would have throw down a pretty solid gauntlet for all the billionaires to measure one another's dicks with.
We understand what this is, right? This is Active Measures reassuring us that some real big hitters are on the case and we ought to leave it to them.
The people that are trying to legitimize this kind of thing are not on our side- no matter how much they insist that they are on our side.
The people that are trying to legitimize this kind of thing are not on our side- no matter how much they insist that they are on our side.
February 5, 2026 at 2:38 PM
We understand what this is, right? This is Active Measures reassuring us that some real big hitters are on the case and we ought to leave it to them.
The people that are trying to legitimize this kind of thing are not on our side- no matter how much they insist that they are on our side.
The people that are trying to legitimize this kind of thing are not on our side- no matter how much they insist that they are on our side.
Don’t hesitate to reach out if you’d like to spread a couple of these around your city. I will send them to you for free as long as you promise to send photos of them in the wild.
(This is what I am doing to Resist Autocratic Despair & I’m happy to let you in on it. It does make me feel better)
(This is what I am doing to Resist Autocratic Despair & I’m happy to let you in on it. It does make me feel better)
Beginning to spread the message in Chicago, thanks to the creativity and generosity of @nickmortensen.com
February 4, 2026 at 11:21 PM
Don’t hesitate to reach out if you’d like to spread a couple of these around your city. I will send them to you for free as long as you promise to send photos of them in the wild.
(This is what I am doing to Resist Autocratic Despair & I’m happy to let you in on it. It does make me feel better)
(This is what I am doing to Resist Autocratic Despair & I’m happy to let you in on it. It does make me feel better)
It’s OK for me to dismiss this premise because my personal experience is that I have never had food that wasn’t pizza delivered to my house, right?
I know it’s not good to do that as a rule of thumb, but you can once in a while I am pretty sure.
I know it’s not good to do that as a rule of thumb, but you can once in a while I am pretty sure.
Food delivery was a convenience, until it became a lifestyle. Now America is a nation of order-inners—and it’s destroying restaurants as we once knew them, Ellen Cushing argued in October:
The Innovation That’s Killing Restaurant Culture
Delivery has turned America into a nation of order-inners.
bit.ly
February 4, 2026 at 1:53 AM
It’s OK for me to dismiss this premise because my personal experience is that I have never had food that wasn’t pizza delivered to my house, right?
I know it’s not good to do that as a rule of thumb, but you can once in a while I am pretty sure.
I know it’s not good to do that as a rule of thumb, but you can once in a while I am pretty sure.
People are being called to greatness in Chicago.
And they are answering that call.
And they are answering that call.
This post is blowing up, so for all the big name journos sharing it, some context:
This was a rally in Chicago explicitly calling for ICE to be abolished, and for a mass general strike to counter the Trump admin's continous attacks on our communities and civil liberties.
This was a rally in Chicago explicitly calling for ICE to be abolished, and for a mass general strike to counter the Trump admin's continous attacks on our communities and civil liberties.
It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti-ICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall.
But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"
But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"
January 31, 2026 at 3:16 AM
People are being called to greatness in Chicago.
And they are answering that call.
And they are answering that call.
People are being called to greatness in Minneapolis.
And they are answering that call.
And they are answering that call.
January 31, 2026 at 2:52 AM
People are being called to greatness in Minneapolis.
And they are answering that call.
And they are answering that call.
I’m not a fan of the ADL with Jonathan Greenblatt heading things up. ADL smear of @jim-stewartson.bsky.social was an affront & a wake up call.
https://www.jta.org/2026/01/29/united-states/senior-adl-antisemitism-researcher-leaves-to-lead-competing-effort-at-watchdog-nexus
https://www.jta.org/2026/01/29/united-states/senior-adl-antisemitism-researcher-leaves-to-lead-competing-effort-at-watchdog-nexus
January 30, 2026 at 8:22 PM
I’m not a fan of the ADL with Jonathan Greenblatt heading things up. ADL smear of @jim-stewartson.bsky.social was an affront & a wake up call.
https://www.jta.org/2026/01/29/united-states/senior-adl-antisemitism-researcher-leaves-to-lead-competing-effort-at-watchdog-nexus
https://www.jta.org/2026/01/29/united-states/senior-adl-antisemitism-researcher-leaves-to-lead-competing-effort-at-watchdog-nexus
You guys know all that stuff about 3% or 3.5% of the population protesting or striking is not true?
January 28, 2026 at 9:47 PM
You guys know all that stuff about 3% or 3.5% of the population protesting or striking is not true?
Masked paramilitary executed a man in the streets.
Shot him in the back.
Fully sanctioned by the President. Encouraged even.
Executed.
Just let that all sink in…
Shot him in the back.
Fully sanctioned by the President. Encouraged even.
Executed.
Just let that all sink in…
January 28, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Masked paramilitary executed a man in the streets.
Shot him in the back.
Fully sanctioned by the President. Encouraged even.
Executed.
Just let that all sink in…
Shot him in the back.
Fully sanctioned by the President. Encouraged even.
Executed.
Just let that all sink in…
Masked law enforcement murdering law-abiding citizens in the streets.
Fully sanctioned and encouraged by the US Government.
Fully sanctioned and encouraged by the US Government.
January 27, 2026 at 6:05 AM
Masked law enforcement murdering law-abiding citizens in the streets.
Fully sanctioned and encouraged by the US Government.
Fully sanctioned and encouraged by the US Government.
When ICE is defunded all the participants become unemployed AND unemployable.
They will become the new recruits for Evangelical/Billionaire mercenary armies that are looking to get the crusades going again.
American Taliban.
They will become the new recruits for Evangelical/Billionaire mercenary armies that are looking to get the crusades going again.
American Taliban.
January 25, 2026 at 5:40 PM
When ICE is defunded all the participants become unemployed AND unemployable.
They will become the new recruits for Evangelical/Billionaire mercenary armies that are looking to get the crusades going again.
American Taliban.
They will become the new recruits for Evangelical/Billionaire mercenary armies that are looking to get the crusades going again.
American Taliban.
Alex Pretti was a local guy if you are from Green Bay. I don’t think I ever met him, but he went to Green Bay Preble for high school.
January 24, 2026 at 8:52 PM
Alex Pretti was a local guy if you are from Green Bay. I don’t think I ever met him, but he went to Green Bay Preble for high school.
We should have a discussion about how Authoritarianism cannot fully entrench itself without a robust Controlled Opposition movement & then look at these curious decisions in that context.
January 24, 2026 at 6:59 PM
We should have a discussion about how Authoritarianism cannot fully entrench itself without a robust Controlled Opposition movement & then look at these curious decisions in that context.
If you are in Green Bay, come on out to this month’s “Autocratic Despair Dialogues”. It’s a group discussion I moderate where we talk about how to navigate under Authoritarianism.
If you aren’t, re-skeet anyway. Might be good for people to know such a thing exists & maybe create their own.
If you aren’t, re-skeet anyway. Might be good for people to know such a thing exists & maybe create their own.
January 24, 2026 at 6:50 PM
If you are in Green Bay, come on out to this month’s “Autocratic Despair Dialogues”. It’s a group discussion I moderate where we talk about how to navigate under Authoritarianism.
If you aren’t, re-skeet anyway. Might be good for people to know such a thing exists & maybe create their own.
If you aren’t, re-skeet anyway. Might be good for people to know such a thing exists & maybe create their own.
Seahawks, Rams, Broncos, & Patriots have an opportunity here to change US History. Any members refusing to play stand to lose plenty, but they could also change the world for the better.
This ends when enough of us say it ends. We’ve reached a critical moment.
This ends when enough of us say it ends. We’ve reached a critical moment.
January 24, 2026 at 6:23 PM
Seahawks, Rams, Broncos, & Patriots have an opportunity here to change US History. Any members refusing to play stand to lose plenty, but they could also change the world for the better.
This ends when enough of us say it ends. We’ve reached a critical moment.
This ends when enough of us say it ends. We’ve reached a critical moment.
Really seems like the right moment for an “Amazing Grace & Chuck” situation.
NFL & NBA players should absolutely refuse to play. These people have enormous reach.
NFL & NBA players should absolutely refuse to play. These people have enormous reach.
January 24, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Really seems like the right moment for an “Amazing Grace & Chuck” situation.
NFL & NBA players should absolutely refuse to play. These people have enormous reach.
NFL & NBA players should absolutely refuse to play. These people have enormous reach.
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🧵 1/3 A key tactic of the Official Digital Authoritarian Aesthetic is plausible deniability: using coded language or irony so extremism can be dismissed if called out.
But what if the signal is this blatant? The reference here is undeniable. 👇
But what if the signal is this blatant? The reference here is undeniable. 👇
DHS is recruiting using a not-so-subtle reference to a 1978 book from white nationalist William Gayley Simpson, Which Way Western Man?
Simpson's book was released under an imprint associated with the National Alliance, founded by Turner Diaries author William Luther Pierce.
Simpson's book was released under an imprint associated with the National Alliance, founded by Turner Diaries author William Luther Pierce.
October 20, 2025 at 5:58 PM
🧵 1/3 A key tactic of the Official Digital Authoritarian Aesthetic is plausible deniability: using coded language or irony so extremism can be dismissed if called out.
But what if the signal is this blatant? The reference here is undeniable. 👇
But what if the signal is this blatant? The reference here is undeniable. 👇
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General strike on the coldest day of the year feels like cheating a bit, but I am participating. Want to see it succeed because it will help us get a better understanding of the stakes right now.
Minneapolis never fails to impress me.
Minneapolis never fails to impress me.
January 23, 2026 at 5:01 PM
General strike on the coldest day of the year feels like cheating a bit, but I am participating. Want to see it succeed because it will help us get a better understanding of the stakes right now.
Minneapolis never fails to impress me.
Minneapolis never fails to impress me.