Clay Risen
@risenc.bsky.social
Reporter, The New York Times; author of “Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism and the Making of Modern America”
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👀 Ex REPUBLICAN Tennessee Senator Lamar Alexander in the Tennessean: “Is being a one-party state good for the state? I doubt it.”
www.tennessean.com/story/news/p...
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February 15, 2026 at 4:02 PM
👀 Ex REPUBLICAN Tennessee Senator Lamar Alexander in the Tennessean: “Is being a one-party state good for the state? I doubt it.”
www.tennessean.com/story/news/p...
www.tennessean.com/story/news/p...
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It's 1964-5 and a right wing political organization called the National States Rights Party has appointed a Montanan named Mike Cameron to organize youth groups in schools around the country to fight back against the radical left's Communist assault on America's traditional, white culture. cont'd...
February 15, 2026 at 12:06 AM
It's 1964-5 and a right wing political organization called the National States Rights Party has appointed a Montanan named Mike Cameron to organize youth groups in schools around the country to fight back against the radical left's Communist assault on America's traditional, white culture. cont'd...
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According to Mike Cameron, 19 year old organizer for this "patriotic" anti-communist youth group in 1964-5, hundreds of white men have been murdered recently but the anti-white, leftist press won't report on it...also, the Holocaust is a "Hollywood hoax" peddled by the Jews who control the media.
February 15, 2026 at 12:10 AM
According to Mike Cameron, 19 year old organizer for this "patriotic" anti-communist youth group in 1964-5, hundreds of white men have been murdered recently but the anti-white, leftist press won't report on it...also, the Holocaust is a "Hollywood hoax" peddled by the Jews who control the media.
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White House stands by State Department nominee who complains that "white Americans are increasingly second-class citizens," warns of "white erasure" and says "the Jews love to see themselves as oppressed." @camcgrady.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/u...
Trump Nominates an Apostle of ‘White Erasure’ for the State Department
www.nytimes.com
February 14, 2026 at 4:13 PM
White House stands by State Department nominee who complains that "white Americans are increasingly second-class citizens," warns of "white erasure" and says "the Jews love to see themselves as oppressed." @camcgrady.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/u...
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I wrote about something I've been thinking about for a long time. A kind of post-ironic collapse in our politics and culture where nihilism has become the lingua franca of the internet and beyond. It links Kirk, Clavicular, Epstein, memestock/coin stuff, mass shooters. I hope you'll read it.
This Is What It Looks Like When Nothing Matters
Welcome to the internet’s nihilism crisis.
www.theatlantic.com
February 14, 2026 at 5:21 PM
I wrote about something I've been thinking about for a long time. A kind of post-ironic collapse in our politics and culture where nihilism has become the lingua franca of the internet and beyond. It links Kirk, Clavicular, Epstein, memestock/coin stuff, mass shooters. I hope you'll read it.
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Long-shot call to fellow aviators:
If you happen to be the Coast Guard pilot who got fired for forgetting Kristi Noem's blankie, or if you know more about this episode, feel free to be in touch on Signal.
(Unlike team MAGA, I know how to keep Signal chats private.)
Signal ID jf_signal70.26
If you happen to be the Coast Guard pilot who got fired for forgetting Kristi Noem's blankie, or if you know more about this episode, feel free to be in touch on Signal.
(Unlike team MAGA, I know how to keep Signal chats private.)
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February 14, 2026 at 1:45 PM
Long-shot call to fellow aviators:
If you happen to be the Coast Guard pilot who got fired for forgetting Kristi Noem's blankie, or if you know more about this episode, feel free to be in touch on Signal.
(Unlike team MAGA, I know how to keep Signal chats private.)
Signal ID jf_signal70.26
If you happen to be the Coast Guard pilot who got fired for forgetting Kristi Noem's blankie, or if you know more about this episode, feel free to be in touch on Signal.
(Unlike team MAGA, I know how to keep Signal chats private.)
Signal ID jf_signal70.26
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Drone with 20km fiber-optic cable, made in Ukraine, with primarily Ukrainian and European parts
February 14, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Drone with 20km fiber-optic cable, made in Ukraine, with primarily Ukrainian and European parts
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Aleksei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader who died in prison two years ago, was most likely poisoned by a toxin found in a South American frog, the Foreign Ministries of Britain, France, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands said on Saturday in a joint statement.
Navalny Was Poisoned With Frog Toxin, European Governments Say
Traces of the toxin were found in the body of the Russian dissident Aleksei A. Navalny, who died in prison two years ago, five governments said in a joint statement.
nyti.ms
February 14, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Aleksei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader who died in prison two years ago, was most likely poisoned by a toxin found in a South American frog, the Foreign Ministries of Britain, France, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands said on Saturday in a joint statement.
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INBOX: Rep. Thomas Massie, who has enraged Trump for his insistence on blocking tariffs and releasing the Epstein files according to the law, just issued what is widely known among Chinese dissidents as "a declaration of no suicidal intent" (不自殺聲明), a sign of extreme distress.
February 13, 2026 at 11:17 PM
INBOX: Rep. Thomas Massie, who has enraged Trump for his insistence on blocking tariffs and releasing the Epstein files according to the law, just issued what is widely known among Chinese dissidents as "a declaration of no suicidal intent" (不自殺聲明), a sign of extreme distress.
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Trump called the Olympian Hunter Hess "a real Loser" (complete with capital "L"). Is he? I have written a column, beginning with the subject of patriotism. Other subjects include (gulp) sedition and Valentine's Day. See what you think. www.jaynordlinger.com/p/winners-an...
Winners and Losers, &c.
On patriotism, sedition, music, Valentine’s Day, and more
www.jaynordlinger.com
February 13, 2026 at 2:40 PM
Trump called the Olympian Hunter Hess "a real Loser" (complete with capital "L"). Is he? I have written a column, beginning with the subject of patriotism. Other subjects include (gulp) sedition and Valentine's Day. See what you think. www.jaynordlinger.com/p/winners-an...
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Marcia Chatelain, FRANCHISE: THE GOLDEN ARCHES IN BLACK AMERICA
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WINNER • 2021 PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY<br /> Winner • 2022 James Beard Foundation Book Award [Writing]<br /><br /> The “stunning” (David W. Blight) untold history of how fast food became...
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February 12, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Marcia Chatelain, FRANCHISE: THE GOLDEN ARCHES IN BLACK AMERICA
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In 1862, General Ulysses Grant expelled Jews from his military district during the Civil War, a move reversed by President Lincoln. In 2026, Candace Owens praised Grant’s expulsion. And this week, a now ex-member of Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission wouldn’t tell me whether that was antisemitic.
Carrie Prejean Boller Is Not Going Quietly
The former beauty queen, dismissed from Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission, says that it’s “anti-Christian” to accuse her of anti-Semitism.
www.theatlantic.com
February 13, 2026 at 2:28 PM
In 1862, General Ulysses Grant expelled Jews from his military district during the Civil War, a move reversed by President Lincoln. In 2026, Candace Owens praised Grant’s expulsion. And this week, a now ex-member of Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission wouldn’t tell me whether that was antisemitic.
Damn that’s a deep cut
poor Martin Mull
This is hilarious. A defender of white identity and culture is asked to define it and comes up empty. Nothing in the tank.
February 13, 2026 at 1:22 AM
Damn that’s a deep cut
Of all the questions I have about this story, that remains my biggest. The company has no answer so far.
A whiskey company is in deep financial trouble. I find it astonishing that you can run a very visible business and not file taxes since 2018. How can you fly under the radar for so many years?
@risenc.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/d...
@risenc.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/d...
The Whiskey World Is Reeling, but This Company Has Bigger Troubles
www.nytimes.com
February 12, 2026 at 5:26 PM
Of all the questions I have about this story, that remains my biggest. The company has no answer so far.
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A whiskey company is in deep financial trouble. I find it astonishing that you can run a very visible business and not file taxes since 2018. How can you fly under the radar for so many years?
@risenc.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/d...
@risenc.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/d...
The Whiskey World Is Reeling, but This Company Has Bigger Troubles
www.nytimes.com
February 12, 2026 at 1:27 PM
A whiskey company is in deep financial trouble. I find it astonishing that you can run a very visible business and not file taxes since 2018. How can you fly under the radar for so many years?
@risenc.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/d...
@risenc.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/d...
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This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC News
About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.
apple.news
February 12, 2026 at 2:26 AM
This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
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Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
February 11, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
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No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor
February 11, 2026 at 1:46 AM
No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor
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Thanks to @risenc.bsky.social for this obituary of Civil War historian Gabor Boritt in The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/b...
Gabor Boritt, Refugee Who Became Expert on Lincoln, Dies at 86
www.nytimes.com
February 11, 2026 at 12:01 AM
Thanks to @risenc.bsky.social for this obituary of Civil War historian Gabor Boritt in The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/b...
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The end of an era: Boeing is retiring its final 787-8 test aircraft, ZA004, after 16 years as a propulsion and development workhorse. Now, one last flight for the flamingo. 🦩https://theaircurrent.com/aircraft-development/boeing-retires-final-787-test-aircraft-after-16-years/
February 11, 2026 at 2:33 AM
The end of an era: Boeing is retiring its final 787-8 test aircraft, ZA004, after 16 years as a propulsion and development workhorse. Now, one last flight for the flamingo. 🦩https://theaircurrent.com/aircraft-development/boeing-retires-final-787-test-aircraft-after-16-years/
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Some cosmic journalistic symmetry here. @risenc.bsky.social broke the Nearest Green story for the NYT back in 2016. A decade later, he's reporting on the maybe-existential court fight unfolding between the founders of a distillery created in Nearest's name and their lender.
The Whiskey World Is Reeling, but This Company Has Bigger Troubles
www.nytimes.com
February 10, 2026 at 8:40 PM
Some cosmic journalistic symmetry here. @risenc.bsky.social broke the Nearest Green story for the NYT back in 2016. A decade later, he's reporting on the maybe-existential court fight unfolding between the founders of a distillery created in Nearest's name and their lender.
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A line from Kant that’s been ricocheting around my head a lot for the past year: “Whoever wills the end wills also the necessary means.” We’re going to get a lot of doe-eyed protestations from folks who “just wanted immigration laws enforced” & couldn’t be bothered to contempate what that entailed.
ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April
Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.
www.ajc.com
February 10, 2026 at 7:52 PM
A line from Kant that’s been ricocheting around my head a lot for the past year: “Whoever wills the end wills also the necessary means.” We’re going to get a lot of doe-eyed protestations from folks who “just wanted immigration laws enforced” & couldn’t be bothered to contempate what that entailed.
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a presença de intelectuais (inclusive de esquerda) e gestores de universidades nos arquivos simplesmente não me surpreende
Botstein invited a known pedophile to a high school he oversaw. How can he possibly survive this?
New Email Shows Bard’s President Thanked Epstein for Caribbean Trip
www.nytimes.com
February 10, 2026 at 7:36 PM
a presença de intelectuais (inclusive de esquerda) e gestores de universidades nos arquivos simplesmente não me surpreende
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This is the first time someone I genuinely admire and have a lot of respect for has been revealed to have associated with Epstein. I have to say: it doesn’t feel great!
Botstein invited a known pedophile to a high school he oversaw. How can he possibly survive this?
New Email Shows Bard’s President Thanked Epstein for Caribbean Trip
www.nytimes.com
February 10, 2026 at 4:55 PM
This is the first time someone I genuinely admire and have a lot of respect for has been revealed to have associated with Epstein. I have to say: it doesn’t feel great!
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Everybody knows that Pupper just won Downhill Gold
February 10, 2026 at 1:27 PM
Everybody knows that Pupper just won Downhill Gold