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ALI BRELAND @alibreland.bsky.social · 3h

thank you!

some like to use the NPS civil war registry, but others set the brightline in the 40s, and then some others go back to the american revolution.

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ALI BRELAND @alibreland.bsky.social · 20h

Wrote about the new attempt to reimagine America as a sort of ethnonationalist blood and soil state that's starting to catch traction www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Are You a ‘Heritage American’?

Why some on the right want to know if your ancestors were here during the Civil War

www.theatlantic.com

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Laura Bullard @laurabullard.bsky.social · 7d

Taking a brief break from sporadically posting photos of my pitbull to shout this into the void:

I’ve spent the last seven months thinking about the Antichrist, and now those thoughts are published over at @wired.com.

www.wired.com/story/the-re...

The Real Stakes, and Real Story, of Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Obsession

Thirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt. They’ve been a road map for the billionaire ever since.

www.wired.com

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ALI BRELAND @alibreland.bsky.social · 20d

Wrote about the right-wing reversal on "cancel culture," extremists attempting to capitalize on Kirk's death, and talked to the Proud Boys and Hasan Piker about the former's attempts to get the latter banned from Twitch. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Proud Boy Enrique Tarrio: MAGA Has Figured Out How to ‘Play Dirty’

Inside the far-right network that is working to get people fired for what they say about Charlie Kirk

www.theatlantic.com

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Damon Beres @damonberes.com · 20d

“Tarrio told me that he and other Proud Boys have teamed up in a group chat with other right-wingers who all want to get Piker kicked off Twitch by running a bigger and more sustained version of their other active mass-firing campaign”

We’re just at the beginning.

by @alibreland.bsky.social

Proud Boy Enrique Tarrio: MAGA Has Figured Out How to ‘Play Dirty’

Inside the far-right network that is working to get people fired for what they say about Charlie Kirk

www.theatlantic.com

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Adrienne LaFrance @adriennelaf.bsky.social · 20d

The Atlantic's @alibreland.bsky.social talked to Enrique Tarrio of the Proud Boys.

Tarrio told him that cancel culture “sucked for us. I always said I wouldn’t do it back to anybody... I’m in a different mindset right now. An eye for an eye right now.”

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Proud Boy Enrique Tarrio: MAGA Has Figured Out How to ‘Play Dirty’

Inside the far-right network that is working to get people fired for what they say about Charlie Kirk

www.theatlantic.com

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ALI BRELAND @alibreland.bsky.social · 25d

like this is more of a coincidence than it is suggestive of a link between groypers and the gopnik/squatting slave meme.

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ALI BRELAND @alibreland.bsky.social · 25d

ben is right. it’s still premature with the info we have to confidently assert that he was a groyper at this point. it’s possible, but the gopnik/squatting slav meme and all of the other memes robinson reffed are general deeply online memes that are not signature groyper tells

Ben Goggin @bengoggin.bsky.social · 25d

The speculation that the charlie kirk suspect is a groyper is based on very loose aesthetic observations and circumstantial evidence.

Definitely not out of the question… but people confidently asserting that he was a groyper are making the same jumps in logic as people asserting he was antifa imo

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 25d

"But he did a Groyper meme"
That's the "Slav squat," not groyper-specific www.economist.com/1843/2019/09...

"The song is on a groyper playlist"
It's just some random guy's playlist. The Spotify account has 5 followers

And none of these reference trans issues at all

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 26d

it’s early but it seems like maybe this is relevant again (wrote it last week fml)

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Natasha Lennard @natashalennard.bsky.social · 26d

Grateful to have spoken w brilliant colleagues on the immediate weaponization of Kirk's killing.
1. My excellent colleague @akelalacy.bsky.social hosted @alibreland.bsky.social and me on @theintercept.com podcast. including dangers of hagiographies like Ezra Klein's theintercept.com/2025/09/12/b...

The Real Charlie Kirk

Akela Lacy, Natasha Lennard, and Ali Breland on the weaponization of Charlie Kirk’s murder and increasing political violence.

theintercept.com

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Akela Lacy @akelalacy.bsky.social · 26d

NEW 🎧 POD: After the shooting of Charlie Kirk on Wednesday, many influential voices were falling over themselves to valorize his legacy. But who was the real Charlie Kirk? @natashalennard.bsky.social & @alibreland.bsky.social help me break it all down podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

The Real Charlie Kirk

Podcast Episode · The Intercept Briefing · 09/12/2025 · 26m

podcasts.apple.com

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Damon Beres @damonberes.com · 28d

I'm proud to share a new project that @alexreisner.bsky.social and I launched at @theatlantic.com today! It's called AI Watchdog, and it's our new home for all of the investigations into training data sets, such as LibGen, Books3, and OpenSubtitles. www.theatlantic.com/category/ai-...

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ALI BRELAND @alibreland.bsky.social · 28d

notable tidbit from a chris rufo column today

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ALI BRELAND @alibreland.bsky.social · Aug 28

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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ALI BRELAND @alibreland.bsky.social · Aug 28

jason whitlock agrees

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ALI BRELAND @alibreland.bsky.social · Aug 28

cracker barrel is not the rural south. it is a corporate simulacra that commodifies nostalgia (that makes solid food, tim duncan of chain restaurants, etc.)

David A. Graham @dgraham.bsky.social · Aug 28

It’s neither old nor a country store, no matter what the signs say. Instead, it’s of a type with Walmart, another native southern chain founded in the 1960s that drives out actual mom and pops. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Cracker Barrel’s Logo Was Never the Problem

No one should confuse a bland interstate chain with a real slice of Americana.

www.theatlantic.com

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ALI BRELAND @alibreland.bsky.social · Aug 27

Wrote about how, against the odds, Nick Fuentes has continued to endure as a figure on the right www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

America’s Next Top Racist

No matter how far Nick Fuentes pushes his bigotry, his influence continues to rise.

www.theatlantic.com

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ALI BRELAND @alibreland.bsky.social · Aug 15

i love checking in every few months to see what jason whitlock is up to

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ALI BRELAND @alibreland.bsky.social · Aug 6

Reported out and wrote about the current state of the Proud Boys, militias, and similarly styled far-right groups. They were the bleeding edge of the right in Trump I, but in Trump II, they’ve been superseded. The federal government is the vanguard now. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Where Have the Proud Boys Gone?

The Trump administration has left them with little to do.

www.theatlantic.com

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Bobby Allyn @bobbyallyn.bsky.social · Aug 6

"The bigger reason that [The Proud Boys] remain underground is that the Trump administration’s aggressive agenda has left them with little to do" @alibreland.bsky.social

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Where Have the Proud Boys Gone?

Trump’s aggressive immigration crackdown has left the extremist group with little to do.

www.theatlantic.com

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ALI BRELAND @alibreland.bsky.social · Aug 5

it's true, they did.

Saahil Desai @saahildesai.bsky.social · Aug 5

In which the East Tennessee chapter of the Proud Boys asks @alibreland.bsky.social to send nudes www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Where Have the Proud Boys Gone?

Trump’s aggressive immigration crackdown has left the extremist group with little to do.

www.theatlantic.com

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ALI BRELAND @alibreland.bsky.social · Jul 26

(certain types of) australians cannot keep getting away with this. "brekkie" and "sando" should have been the first clues of the cultural damage they would bring www.vice.com/en/article/m...

Meet the Normans: The Defining Person-Type of 2025

Mullets, mustaches, Matty Matheson, and a massive sandwich fetish. The Normans are the style tribe coming to a town near you.

www.vice.com

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ALI BRELAND @alibreland.bsky.social · Jul 24

saw a german woman on the plane yesterday taking bites out of a cucumber as though it were an apple. honestly makes sense. true innovation is often simple and elegant

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Noah Lanard @nlanard.bsky.social · Jul 17

NEW: Jordan Lasker recently made news by leaking hacked admissions data about Zohran Mamdani.

Our investigation shows a Reddit user who posted highly specific details that fit with his offline life once wrote: “I actually am a Jewish White Supremacist Nazi.”

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The shocking rise of one of the tech right’s favorite posters

After he leaked Zohran Mamdani’s Columbia application data to the New York Times, critics called Jordan Lasker a “eugenicist.” A Mother Jones report shows there’s much more to his backstory.

www.motherjones.com

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ALI BRELAND @alibreland.bsky.social · Jul 17

had a great time speaking with jonathan about the current epstein moment and laura loomer

Jonathan Freedland @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social · Jul 17

A little early, the latest Politics Weekly America is a conversation with @alibreland.bsky.social of @theatlantic.com about the civil war within MAGA that's pitting Donald Trump against his own supporters -- and it's all about Jeffrey Epstein open.spotify.com/episode/39bI...

Trump goes to war with Maga over Epstein files

Politics Weekly America · Episode

open.spotify.com

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