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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · Aug 3

Paul Ingrassia has called for reparations from the descendants of slaves to slave owners.
You read that correctly.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · Aug 2

The guy Trump picked to lead the office that’s now investigating Jack Smith:

— said Niki Haley is ineligible to be president
— has neo-Nazi ties
— was Andrew Tate’s lawyer
— 2x Claremont fellow
— wrote for Gateway Pundit
— called for Pence to be hanged
— called for secession after 2020 election

Paul Ingrassia (lawyer) - Wikipedia

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 19h

👀"Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.” - GOP Gov. Kevin Stitt, the current chairman of the National Governors Association.

Maybe @governor.ca.gov @govpritzker.illinois.gov's notices to the NGA are having impact?

Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago

www.nytimes.com

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 18h

Motion to refer to RFK as Rumpledforeskin from this point forward.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 21h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 19h

these people are actually out of their fucking minds and im so sick of being told we need to pretend otherwise

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 21h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 21h

This is "Gold standard" science in the same sense that the ubiquitous Fox/Newsmax/Blaze/Daily Wire/Tucker ads for "Buy Gold" are "Gold Standard" financial advice.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 23h

I complained earlier that WaPo's story on Trump inviting PizzaGate guy to the White House was insane. Not so this Independent story.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Not to be outdone, in came Jack Posobiec, one of the right’s weirdest hangers-on, who is perhaps most famous for the time he spread the “Pizzagate” theory and then got removed from the pizzeria in question by police for filming a child’s birthday party. Running with the major theme of the hour — that Antifa is definitely, certainly, really real despite all evidence to the contrary, and that everybody needs to stop saying it’s not real — Posobiec made a startling claim: Antifa is so clearly real that it “has been going on for almost 100 years ... going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany.”

And look, yes, it is absolutely true that there were anti-fascist protesters in the Weimar Republic. If you’ll remember, those were the people taking issue with the early versions of the Nazis. But it’s sort of difficult to position yourself as the good guys if you’re aligning yourself with the Nazis in your historical analogy. I’m just saying that, if I was Posobiec’s publicity guy, I might ask him to drop that soundbite from future public appearances.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 23h

I might end up talking about this graph all day.

I think one thing Dems need to realize is that "Americans" are not buying into the "cities on fire" lies of this admin.

It's JUST Republicans. So if you're a governor of a solidly blue state, or a blue-city mayor, the national story is NOT YOURS.

Gallup poll showing a wild divergence in "is crime rising" over the past two years, w GOP at 90, independents at 68, Dems at 29.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1d

I'm real fun at parties.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1d

One delightful wrinkle in the story of Portland's white supremacist former OR GOP chair is that at the same time he was acting like a racist troll, his daughter was falling in love with a Black preacher at her church, much to her father's chagrin. rightlandia.ghost.io/the-art-of-t...

The Art of the Racist Troll, ca. 1987

In 1987 Oregon Republicans upbraided a former party leader (Walter Huss) for acting like a shameless, racist troll. Those were the days, eh?

rightlandia.ghost.io

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1d

In 1989-90, while this movement to take MLK's name off of a Portland street was gaining traction, very few mainstream outlets or Democratic politicians were willing to call that movement "racist" for fear of being unfair. But the guy behind it was a stone cold white supremacist w/ neo-Nazi ties.

Where Portland's leaders in both the media and government hesitated to identify the anti-MLK Blvd movement as "racist," that relatively small group of antifascist activists had no such reservations. Now that Walter Huss's archive is open to the public, we now know, for example, that at the same time he was organizing to take MLK's name off of a street in Portland as a colorblind populist "fighting city hall," he was carefully reading and annotating David Duke's publication "The National Association for the Advancement of White People" and sending Duke donations and letters containing dating advice.
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The NAAWP is the National Association for the Advancement of White People. It maintains that there
preserve their civil rights, heritage, and basic interests, just as Blacks and other non-Whites do.
White people now face the most extensive racial discrimination in American history. It is true that some Blacks faced discrimination in the past, but the discrimination was limited as it was primarily practiced in the private sector. Today, the federal government is forcing an across-the-board racial discrimination in employment, promo-tions, scholarships, and in college and union admittance.
This racial bias is pervading all sectors of our national life, including civil service, military, education and business.
The U.S. Department of Labor boasts that over 175,000 major corporations have programs favoring Blacks over Whites in employment and promotions. "Affirmative action" is an euphemism for nothing more than blatant racial discrimination. And no one should harbor the illusion that it simply favors equally qualified Blacks, for it consistently favors less qualified Blacks over better qualified Whites. Good examples of this practice are the Bakke and Weber Supreme Court decision that sanctioned racial quotas. Bakke, who scored in the 90's on his tests for medical school, was denied entrance in deference to Blacks who scored in the 30s. This kind of discrim…

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1d

Partially in response to Seraw's murder, Portland changed the name of Union Avenue to MLK Blvd. In 1989, the white Christian Nationalist former chair of the OR GOP immediately organized a massive movement to *take MLK's name OFF of the street.* rightlandia.ghost.io/on-this-mlk-...

On this MLK Day, we should remember the people who in 1989 wanted to take MLK's name off a Portland street, but for totally not-racist reasons!

On Walter Huss's lifelong hatred of MLK, the many "totally not racist" Oregonians who enabled it, and the small group of antifascist activists and researchers who told the truth about it

rightlandia.ghost.io

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1d

Since the topic of "antifascism in Portland" is currently in the news, it's worth remembering that an early moment in that history occurred in the late 1980s and early 1990s when the "white pride" murder of Seraw inspired the formation of the Coalition for Human Dignity. kboo.fm/media/99339-...

Episode Three - Building Community Defense

In this episode we learn about the initial formation of the Coalition for Human Dignity and its subsequent development into an effective organizing tool for self defense.

kboo.fm

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1d

It’s important to note that invoking the phrase “white pride” in Portland has particular meaning. In 1988 a group of neo-Nazi skinheads called “East Side White Pride” murdered an Ethiopian immigrant in SE Portland. www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/ser...

Mulugeta Seraw (1960–1988)

Near Laurelhurst Park in Portland, above the street signs at Southeast Thirty-First Street and Pine, is a two-sided topper featuring the smiling face of a youn…

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1d

This person also thinks Soros is “satanic,” author she’s a “pureblood” because she has not been vaccinated.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1d

Benny Johnson and Oregon MAGA activist (and convicted J6 felon) David Medina accompanied Kristi Noem during her visit to Portland. Here they are amplifying a local MAGA influencer with some, well, interesting ideas about race and religion.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

No clearer indication of the right’s moral rot than the swift evolution from angrily denying any association with buffoonish bigots like like Posobiec and Fuentes, to “there’s no harm in having a conversation,” to openly praising and promoting them.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

Not the least surprised by this. I’d hope it might finally wake up some mainstream libertarians to what Smith is really about. But it probably won’t.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

Or swear in a new member of Congress who was elected two weeks ago

Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 1d

The Speaker of the House has firm views that Bad Bunny is a terrible pick for singing at the Super Bowl, but hasn't had time to watch the President's speech to our military leadership or form an opinion whether furloughed federal workers should be paid or Illinois' governor should be thrown in jail.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1d

no idea

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1d

Some are true believers in the conspiracy theories, but the more politically experienced ones know it's bs.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1d

This thread from July is about AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT OR GOP activist who also took some meetings with Trump people in DC where the topic of conversation was nullifying Oregon's vote by mail system via federal action. bsky.app/profile/seth...

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · Jul 9

This is crucially important. Edtl is not just a local actor. He is coordinating with the Trump Administration to try to use federal power to dismantle Oregon's vote by mail system. This is based on no actual evidence of fraud. It's based on self-serving vibes, like most of Edtl's political positions

One of his two supporters on the transit board, Michaela Hammerson, is Edtl's co-petitioner on the 2026 statewide ballot initiative to end vote-by-mail.
Edti spoke to OJP from Washington, D.C., where he says he is meeting with national GOP groups interested in funding his anti-vote-by-mail initiative. "The Republican National Committee is on board, and the White House knows what we're doing out here in Oregon, Edtl says.
Oregon Secretary of State Tobias Read oversees state elections. He's watching the Douglas County situation with dismay. "In Oregon, we respect the will of the people, whether we agree with it or not. You don't get to deny the results of an election just because you don't like it," Read says. "Our founders fought for our sacred right to vote, and a few financially motivated election deniers don't get to disrespect Oregonians by refusing to accept their votes."

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1d

While it's some comfort that these people will believe any kooky conspiracy theory that confirms their priors, it's important to note that they are VERY well connected in the highest GOP circles. One was Oregon's rep on the RNC from 2000 to 2024. bsky.app/profile/seth...

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · Jun 11

The person who posted this cockamamie stuff has spent a good amount of time with Kristi Noem, Harmeet Dillon, JD Vance, and even Trump. This is a thread about the time she attended an exclusive fundraiser at David Sacks' house where she met RFK, Jr. bsky.app/profile/seth...

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · Sep 9

At a David Sacks fundraiser yesterday featuring JD Vance and RFK, Jr that raised $3.5 million for the Trump campaign, the party favors were little bottles of red pills. Pretty weird.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1d

The people who described this plan to disenfranchise the voters of OR and WA also believe that the OR GOP has been infiltrated by secret Democrats who have taken over rural precincts. They also believe Michelle Wu of Boston is a CCP plant. bsky.app/profile/seth...

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · Apr 22

Two of the people who believe there is a "sleeper cell" of secret Democrats taking over the OR GOP were interviewed by this very strange "Bigger Truth Media" guy. biggertruth.substack.com/p/oregon-gop...

Oregon GOP Disruptors with Kerry McQuisten and Joel Pawloski

Out from nowhere with a mission to take out RNC Committeeman Solomon Yue

biggertruth.substack.com

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1d

Indeed. And these folks know that. And they seem positively giddy about the prospect that OR and WA would have no representation in the Senate or House between 2026 and 2028.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1d

I would say that the contradiction here--we want to convince more Oregonians to vote red and also we want to pull a trick to nullify the results of Oregon's federal elections in 2026--is so crazy they can't possibly mean it. But these people think the OR GOP has been infiltrated by the CCP so....

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1d

These two OR MAGA activists are devoting tons of time to "turning Oregon red" via their organization that is running parallel to the OR GOP because they're on the outs with that institution. Nothing will make Oregon voters happier with you than nullifying their votes www.oregonconservativecaucus.com

Oregon Conservative Caucus

The Oregon Conservative Caucus is a 501(c)4). We empower citizens to become community leaders who protect constitutional principles and conservative values.

www.oregonconservativecaucus.com

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