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Philip Eil @phileil.bsky.social · 2d

We really need to retire "contrarian" as a descriptor for Weiss immediately.

The reason she is getting this job right now is because of her *non-contrarian* sensibilities.

She espouses views that the US's current power structure likes.

NPR @npr.org · 2d

CBS' parent company will buy The Free Press and install Bari Weiss, its contrarian founder, as editor in chief of CBS News. n.pr/4o634cr

CBS' next top editor to be Bari Weiss of The Free Press

CBS' parent company will buy The Free Press and install Bari Weiss, its contrarian founder, as editor in chief of CBS News.

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Federico Finchelstein @finchelsteinf.bsky.social · 2d

'Global corruption': Historian reveals why Trump may bail out one of his 'admirers' www.rawstory.com/javier-milei/ @rawstory.com

'Global corruption': Historian reveals why Trump may bail out one of his 'admirers'

President Donald Trump's announcement that he is contemplating spending $20 billion to bail out the Argentine soybean industry stunned some of his supporters at home, but a historian says the payment ...

www.rawstory.com

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 3d

Have you read Roger Griffin or Robert Paxton on fascism? Federico Finchelstein on the intersections with postwar populism? Any kind of analysis of fascism in anti colonial theory? It’s hard for me to understand how Trumpism doesn’t fit precisely into those schemas.

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Federico Finchelstein @finchelsteinf.bsky.social · 2d

It was such an honor to deliver the keynote for the Walter Benjamin 11th international conference at Port Bou, Spain. This is the town where Benjamin committed suicide after learning of his impending expulsion from Spain and delivery to the Nazis.
www.lavanguardia.com/vida/2025092...

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Federico Finchelstein @finchelsteinf.bsky.social · 8d

On why Trump Bails Out Argentina's Libertarian Paradise:
@majorityreport.bsky.social @samseder.bsky.social
& @emmavigeland.bsky.social
Welcome Dr. Finchelstein, professor of history at the New School— & world-renowned expert on fascism, populism & dictatorship— to discuss it t.co/9snfJZbuYJ

https://www.youtube.com/live/jMGaZvJNRmU?si=T8ZtUQvy7gVd9lxt

t.co

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 8d

Tell me with a straight face he's wrong here

Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 8d

Trump comments on the opposition: "I thought [I] would be met with fury on the left, but they're sort of giving up."

"I really thought that we were gonna have to sort of fight it through. There's been no fight."

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 8d

Another violent attack by an ICE officer on a civilian at 26 Federal Plaza—this time on a journalist, who had to be carried out on stretcher.

Another attack on the First Amendment, our neighbors, and our democracy.

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Federico Finchelstein @finchelsteinf.bsky.social · 8d

On why Trump Bails Out Argentina's Libertarian Paradise:
@majorityreport.bsky.social @samseder.bsky.social
& @emmavigeland.bsky.social
Welcome Dr. Finchelstein, professor of history at the New School— & world-renowned expert on fascism, populism & dictatorship— to discuss it t.co/9snfJZbuYJ

https://www.youtube.com/live/jMGaZvJNRmU?si=T8ZtUQvy7gVd9lxt

t.co

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 10d

The Governor Newsom Press Account is beyond good.

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Federico Finchelstein @finchelsteinf.bsky.social · 8d

Proud to say i was one of them

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 9d

SCOOP / UPDATE — Disney saw more than 1.7 million total paid streaming cancelations during the period 9/17-9/23, a Disney source confirms to me. The total includes Disney+, Hulu and ESPN.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15d

NEW — I wrote about my confirmed scoop from last night that Disney hastened Kimmel's return because of a planned Disney+ streaming price increase announcement coming on Tuesday:

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 8d

They don't look like they signed up for this.

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Federico Finchelstein @finchelsteinf.bsky.social · 8d

The idea of the internal enemy was intrinsically connected to a notion about the inferiority, impurity, and treasonous nature of those who were considered different from the majority. Fascists disputed the idea that citizenship defined the community. Wannabe Fascists, page 109

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Trump to generals: "America is under invasion from within. We're under invasion from within. No different than a foreign enemy, but more difficult in any ways because they don't wear uniforms. At least when they're wearing a uniform you can take them out."

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Marc Macià Farré @marcmaciafarre.bsky.social · 12d

🗣️ Escoltant al Frederico Finchelstein que ens parla de l’ascens de les ultradretes globals en el marc del XI Col•loqui Walter Benjamin a Portbou, un luxe!

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Federico Finchelstein @finchelsteinf.bsky.social · 18d

Editors Reindert Dhondt, Monica Jansen, Maria Urban state: "Building on this perspective, the volume explores Europe’s political & cultural legacy of fascism within the context of globalised mobilities, linking its totalitarian roots to Latin American genealogies of populism(s)."

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Federico Finchelstein @finchelsteinf.bsky.social · 18d

New Book on fascism & populism! "This volume brings together leading international experts. The starting point is Argentine historian Federico Finchelstein’s assertion that the dynamics of transnational fascism and populist movements become clearer when viewed from the margins."

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 18d

Excellent

AOC tweet directed at Tom Homan that reads "Who's the illegal now"

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Antonio Costa Pinto @acostapinto.bsky.social · Sep 3

A new title of the Cambridge University Press series, "The History and Politics of Fascism" Series Editors Federico Finchelstein and Antonio Costa Pinto

Intellectual Post-fascism?

Cambridge Core - Comparative Politics - Intellectual Post-fascism?

www.cambridge.org

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Federico Finchelstein @finchelsteinf.bsky.social · 20d

It is increasingly difficult to take a critical independent stance and it is clear that major corporations and universities are ignoring the peril of what their collaboration means...this has happened before our own time and it made fascism possible.

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Federico Finchelstein @finchelsteinf.bsky.social · 20d

Fascist regimes shut down the independent press and destroyed the rule of law and it is clear that Trumpism is wannabe fascism and it is trying to destroy what democracy is...

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Federico Finchelstein @finchelsteinf.bsky.social · 20d

We need to see the censorship of
@jimmykimmel.com
in context.
Fascists proposed a totalitarian state in which plurality & civil society would be silenced & there would be few distinctions between the public & the private, or between the wishes of the leader, the state & its citizens.

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Federico Finchelstein @finchelsteinf.bsky.social · 21d

Fascism is always on the extreme right. Example: Mussolini on Communists.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Jun 13

NEWSOM: "It's a vulgar display. It's the kind of thing you see with Kim Jong Un, Putin, dictators that are weak… How weak do you have to be to commandeer the military for your birthday?“

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Descubra Livros @livro.bsky.social · Jun 6

Aspirantes a Fascistas - Federico Finchelstein

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Federico Finchelstein @finchelsteinf.bsky.social · May 21

Trump does not understand irony in the same way that his sense of sarcasm only means the demonization of others. This performance is just one more proof of his step by step downgrading of democratic institutions, including the presidency and the free press

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · May 21

RAMAPHOSA: I am sorry I don't have a plane to give you

TRUMP: I wish you did. I'd take it. If your country offered the US Air Force a plane, I would take it

RAMAPHOSA: Okay

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Federico Finchelstein @finchelsteinf.bsky.social · May 16

Facts. Fascists, and wannabe fascists, denounce persecution while unleashing persecution. it. They imagine that all actions in defense of the law and democracy are part of a conspiracy against them. In short, they ascribe lies to their enemies while becoming masters of lies.

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