June + July BiMonthly is up on the blog now, covering some of the following: + DOJ letting J6 seditionists off the hook + Militia leaders getting pwned at the ballot box + Some notes on PF 250th event

BiMonthly: June+July 26 - MilitiaWatch

Two months of news updates on the US militia movement, including their election results and DOJ action.

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("the last decade" is being too kind to much longer trends that seem inherent to the GOP since at least 2009, if not 1964)

Nahal Toosi@nahaltoosi.bsky.social · 4d ago

Yeesh. Amazing quote in this story by Kathy Gilsinan: www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Moralists don't really *have* beliefs. Sometimes they stumble on one, like on a child's toy left on the carpet. The toy must be put away immediately. And the child reprimanded.

Some pretty bizarre (but on brand) admissions from Graham in footage captured since the start of America's war on Iran: edition.cnn.com/2026/07/26/p...

hampton.@hampton.bsky.social · 3w ago

I posted a blog reflection about that time I flunked out of an internship with America's most-recently-deceased war hawk. You can read it on my Ghost -- with a humble admission of teenage failure, notes on strange TV, and reflections on the frustrations of the early 2010s -- at the link below:

Donald Trump at the World Cup final, as called around the world (PART ONE):

we had a brief (unintentional) hiatus for a minute, but @oloonik.bsky.social and I have some new WXQT content coming your way, starting with my personal essay on consuming Squid Game slop content (and the psychic damage it did to me). You can read it on our blog here:

AI-Generated Lost Futures, Trainwreck Viewing, and Hallucinating Engagement

Warning: big spoilers for Squid Game (all seasons) and also for AI slop content purporting to be continuations of the show (just in case you’re bizarre and care about that!). Continue only if you are ...

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Our local journalism co-op, all working class trans people, faced intense harassment for a solid week for our reporting on Dem congressional candidate Jamie Ager's transphobic statements, and that he was openly allying with other anti-trans and pro-ICE Democrats. A very telling experience.

The Asheville Blade@avlblade.bsky.social · last mo.

We have updated our coverage of congressional candidate Jamie Ager's conservative turn to include directly transphobic remarks by Ager himself, including his support for a trans sports ban and referring to trans women as "men."

i'm running the gamut of many of my research interests on my blog this summer (RW politics, crumbling urbanism under neoliberalism, spectacles of absurd society, paramilitary violence, horror psychoanalysis, &c). if any of this is of interest to you, consider signing up: dead-air.ghost.io#/portal/

I posted a blog reflection about that time I flunked out of an internship with America's most-recently-deceased war hawk. You can read it on my Ghost -- with a humble admission of teenage failure, notes on strange TV, and reflections on the frustrations of the early 2010s -- at the link below:

My Time with Lindsey: Gunrunning, Doomsday, and the Iranian Bomb

Few people know this, but I was an unpaid intern in a local office for Lindsey Graham my first summer after starting college. I worked a few hours a week, filling time in the days while I ran the take...

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Writing for @openmeasures.io's blog, @jaredlholt.bsky.social discussed a surge in World Cup conspiracy theories, especially after Trump's intervention to get Balogun's suspension overturned. Interesting search graphic from the post here: openmeasures.io/world-cup-co... (short thread below)

has Leavitt been reading anarchist texts lmfaoooo

Decoding Fox News@decodingfoxnews.bsky.social · last mo.

Karoline Leavitt seems to think the United States was founded on the values of prison, police and private property. That sounds more like the police state of President Trump's dreams. Don't touch that liner in the reflecting pool!

This alone should be a decade-defining political scandal resulting in prison sentences.

NBC News@nbcnews.com · last mo.

Investment accounts owned by President Trump engaged in more than 300 previously undisclosed stock purchases on April 8, 2025, one day before his surprise announcement that he would pause a number of his “Liberation Day” tariffs, his financial disclosure report says.

the marvel heroes MTG set is (to put it lightly) controversial. i skipped prerelease and intend to engage with it as little as possible. but, man, have i been served a deluge of wizards-sponsored creator content across all socials that have video ads. a real ad blitz over this stuff, truly.

turned on Fox to watch some of the 250 coverage given the evacuation notice and they're just oscillating between talking heads sharing free association discourse that would make an INGSOC officer blush. I turned it off when the marquee was like "CAPITALISM IS THE AMERICAN WAY" or something similar 😂

Absolutely insane that Cape Verde — a country of 500,000 — played Spain, Uruguay and Argentina…and lost to none of them in regulation. Easily one of the greatest performances in World Cup history.

Somewhat tangential, but Jean Leon Gerome Ferris is probably known simply bc of his decision to sell the reproduction rights to his paintings rather than sell them. His works, like "Let Us Have Peace" (pictured), are literally the commercialized history of the US.

Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · last mo.

Subtle

Interesting to see a Call of Duty patch among Totenkopf and Sonnenrad ones. The bottom left patch from the insta stories is for the Konni Group from the MW reboot. It's the ultranationalist terror group run by antagonist Makarov in the game.

Seamus Hughes@seamushughes.bsky.social · last mo.

Authorities arrested a Puerto Rican man who created a “tactical map” of a local gay bar and was an admirer of the Pulse Night club shooter. www.courtwatch.news/p/181-an-exe...

blogged some thoughts on urban ruins on the screen: dead-air.ghost.io/living-ruins/

Living in the Ruins: Killer of Sheep, Still Life, and Urban Development

This blog post discusses the work of two very different directors, American filmmaker Charles Burnett and Chinese director Jia Zhangke. It includes light spoilers for Killer of Sheep and Still Life, s...

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This poll, article, and the responses to it indicate how degraded the term "culture war' has become. It was initially used to describe the struggle over the role of the church and state in society. Now it is used as a naughty word to describe literal human rights vs those who want to take them away.

CNN@cnn.com · 2mo ago

A new CNN poll conducted by SSRS suggests the public is sharply divided over the broad contours of the so-called culture war. https://cnn.it/4efypaA

We are 91 years on from the 1935 Belfast pogroms. Brutality that echoes throughout our history. [1/7]

We all hate FIFA but I gotta say I'm loving my weeks being full of watching these WC games and reading as many books about the world's favorite game between them. If y'all got any relevant favorite reads, hit me up!

Thousands have marched in anti-racist demonstrations in Belfast to condemns anti-immigrant race riots.

“This Is the Real Belfast”: Major Antiracist Rally Condemns Anti-Immigrant Riots

Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman is in Belfast, where several days of racist riots have targeted immigrants and ethnic minorities with violence, threats and property destruction. It is the third consec...

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Reasons for hope from Belfast! A huge turnout today at Belfast City Hall to stand again hate and against fascism!

Ahead of Trump's birthday bash -- I mean Flag Day celebration -- I offer a blog post reflecting on the "Idiocracy" critique, The Hunger Games, and whether or not the current administration is following the lessons of the Roman Empire as we head into the 250th. You can read it here:

UFC on the Lawn: Bread and Circuses without the Bread During Trump 2

“Shit. I know shit’s bad right now with all that starving bullshit, and the dust storms, and we’re running out of French fries and burrito coverings, but I got a solution” - Dwayne Elizondo Mountain D...

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maybe it's bc they're accustomed to shorter content, but the youtubers' horror movie lengths (under 110 mins) may have had some impact on the movies feeling more lean (good) i saw Disclosure Day yest (2.5 hrs) and it still felt like so much of the story was missing (probs bc of how unfocused it is)

I've been collecting data on loyalist bonfires for a decade now and have done a handful of stints of fieldwork in Belfast and the Irish North, so I wanted to collect some thoughts about likely loyalist coordination and participation in the pogroms this week. You can read it on the blog here:

More Trouble with the Belfast Pogroms: Examining Loyalist Bonfire Sites as Marching Season Kicks Off

Prior to the violence in Belfast this week, a flyer circulated all across Northern Irish social media and in group chats, which identified 26 “road closures.” The flyer, which appears AI-generated du...

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BiMonthly for April and May is up on the blog now, covering the following: + DOJ et al working in support of the far-right + Oath Keepers-associated sheriff up to ballot hijinx + Investigations into hate groups net info on 2026 plans

BiMonthly: Apr+May 26 - MilitiaWatch

News updates about militia groups, including new DOJ activity and Riverside County Sheriff Bianco.

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police use tech to avoid doing work. they say they are "generating leads" but they are really just trying to google the answer. when forced to do work, see nancy guthrie, oops.

Matthew Guariglia@mguariglia.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I am begging people to realize that police do not use this technology is not a "jumping off point" or an "investigative lead"--the computer spits out a name and police arrest that person without follow up. How many people have to spend months in jail "by accident" before we consider the danger?

It’s sure not great that fascism (grounded in masculinist supremacism) is a political-spectrum-wide organizing cultural force in America now

Michael "Fallen Coffee Pot of Shadows" Senters the Sigillite:ABD@mikesenters.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I mean, some of them are straight up using the "screaming/crying feminist" to belittle their critics in the same way Gamergaters and early MAGA adopters did. We are literally watching history repeat itself.