Tom Joscelyn
@tomjoscelyn.bsky.social
New role to be announced soon! Former J6 Committee Senior Professional Staffer & principal drafter of committee’s final report. Fan of Tom Paine.
“In recent months, ICE has deployed a round-the-clock digital dragnet to scour the public internet—from Facebook to Instagram to X—for speech that could endanger the agency’s mission.” Speech. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
How ICE Is Weaponizing Social Media Against its Critics
Agency says its surveillance program searches for threats to agents, but critics see free-speech infringements.
wsj.com
Oh, you’re a repeat offender who is headed for the gulag! In actual fact, the best person to follow on social media on such matters:
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2d agoI’m morbidly curious to FOIA myself sometime.
Oh, you’re a repeat offender who is headed for the gulag! In actual fact, the best person to follow on social media on such matters:
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2d agoI’m morbidly curious to FOIA myself sometime.
“In recent months, ICE has deployed a round-the-clock digital dragnet to scour the public internet—from Facebook to Instagram to X—for speech that could endanger the agency’s mission.” Speech. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
How ICE Is Weaponizing Social Media Against its Critics
Agency says its surveillance program searches for threats to agents, but critics see free-speech infringements.
wsj.com
Chuck Edwards recommended for censure by House Ethics Committee
Chuck Edwards recommended for censure by House Ethics Committee
The panel found evidence that the North Carolina Republican sexually harassed two of his staffers.
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"The Pentagon has treated the trans separation board hearings with levels of security and silence usually reserved for state secrets... In some cases, service members’ spouses and even the service members themselves are kept out." w/ Dave Philipps www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...
Inside the Secretive Boards Deciding Trans Troops’ Fate (Gift Article)
The Pentagon is relying on closed-door hearings to kick out transgender service members. An Army Reserve lawyer is one of the few who have seen how they really work.
nytimes.com
Bad news: Neo-Nazism continues to grow on the right, especially among the youth. Good news: Obsessively online neo-Nazi youth are incompetent policymakers and don’t do governance. Yet. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
GOP Staffers Say the Party Has a Groyper Problem
Party veterans are concerned that the pipeline of young Republican talent is veering off course — and into terminally online extremism.
politico.com
@tomjoscelyn.bsky.social: " Rubio cited this to build his case [on left-wing terrorism], 'Between 1971-1972, the FBI counted 2,500 bombings on American soil by left-wing actors'… I wasn't even born yet." @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social: "Those people are not organizing terrorist cells right now.
.@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social: " Authoritarians aren't always brilliant, and they often have a lot of missteps on their way to seizing power." @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social: " Intent plus power goes a long way, even if you're not that smart."
@tomjoscelyn.bsky.social: "Where's the political violence actually coming from today? It's not predominantly coming from opposition to the Trump regime and the government's policies — It's coming from the regime itself."
Bad news: Neo-Nazism continues to grow on the right, especially among the youth. Good news: Obsessively online neo-Nazi youth are incompetent policymakers and don’t do governance. Yet. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
GOP Staffers Say the Party Has a Groyper Problem
Party veterans are concerned that the pipeline of young Republican talent is veering off course — and into terminally online extremism.
politico.com
This week on It's Happening Here, @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social and @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social break down the Trump administration's push to brand its opponents as communists and much more! Out now on Apple, Spotify, and YouTube: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
“Intent Plus Power Goes a Long Way”
Podcast Episode · It’s Happening Here · August 1 · 35m
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To be making the argument in 2026 that immigration is a Republican leaning issue so Democrats shouldn’t campaign on it, and especially Trump’s overreach on deportations, is to be completely ignorant of the data and events of the last 18 months
Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 5d agoThis is the problem with the idea that Dems can't go on offense on immigration. It's not okay for Collins to have a clear field on TV to sell herself as a moderate on ICE. CNN has Trump 22 points underwater on this. Two other polls have Ds *tied with the GOP* on it! newrepublic.com/article/2138...
BREAKING: STATEMENT ON DOJ’S DISMISSAL OF CRIMINAL CASE AGAINST DAVEY HEARN
Trump has a fundraiser, Meredith O’Rourke, shake down companies for donations to his nonprofits, PACs and other entities. WSJ estimates he’s raised $800 million this way so far. (Note: This is on top of his billions in “crypto” and other corrupt ventures.) Unprecedented corruption.
Exclusive | ‘The Boss Wants This Money’: Inside Trump’s Unprecedented Fundraising Operation
Meredith O’Rourke, nicknamed ‘princess of darkness,’ carries out the president’s desire to wring hundreds of millions from companies for his projects.
wsj.com
White nationalism & antisemitism are major forces on the right. Nick Fuentes, a rabid antisemite & white supremacist who helped incite the crowd outside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6th, has the largest audience on Rumble. (Others have larger audiences across platforms.) www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/u...
Trump has a fundraiser, Meredith O’Rourke, shake down companies for donations to his nonprofits, PACs and other entities. WSJ estimates he’s raised $800 million this way so far. (Note: This is on top of his billions in “crypto” and other corrupt ventures.) Unprecedented corruption.
Exclusive | ‘The Boss Wants This Money’: Inside Trump’s Unprecedented Fundraising Operation
Meredith O’Rourke, nicknamed ‘princess of darkness,’ carries out the president’s desire to wring hundreds of millions from companies for his projects.
wsj.com
White nationalism & antisemitism are major forces on the right. Nick Fuentes, a rabid antisemite & white supremacist who helped incite the crowd outside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6th, has the largest audience on Rumble. (Others have larger audiences across platforms.) www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/u...
There are so many examples of overt white nationalism on the American right.
CNN@cnn.com · 6d agoRepublican Senate candidate Mike Collins ended a press conference after repeatedly declining to answer questions about his relationship with a son-in-law who promoted White nationalist ideology and circulated antisemitic content online, as first revealed by CNN’s KFile. https://cnn.it/4pLm6qp
There are so many examples of overt white nationalism on the American right.
CNN@cnn.com · 6d agoRepublican Senate candidate Mike Collins ended a press conference after repeatedly declining to answer questions about his relationship with a son-in-law who promoted White nationalist ideology and circulated antisemitic content online, as first revealed by CNN’s KFile. https://cnn.it/4pLm6qp
The convergence of extreme wealth, extreme political power and extremist beliefs is a direct threat to democracy. There’s no good reason that Elon Musk should have so much disproportionate power in our democracy. Also, this is incredibly stupid:
The convergence of extreme wealth, extreme political power and extremist beliefs is a direct threat to democracy. There’s no good reason that Elon Musk should have so much disproportionate power in our democracy. Also, this is incredibly stupid:
Never forget.
Tom Joscelyn@tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · last wk.It’s striking that Douthat has been at the NYT all these years. The right has built a closed media ecosystem on the (false) belief that legacy media is a closed ecosystem. Meanwhile, a rightwing intellectual mediocrity like Douthat kept chugging along at the Times. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/b...
As I wrote last spring: "In short, the United States behaving as a predatory hegemon unconstrained by the UN Charter and threatening other states with territorial conquest...may spur more countries to acquire their own atomic insurance policies." www.justsecurity.org/109537/upend...
Upending the International Order
Through both word and deed, President Trump has been aggressively undermining the rule of law internationally.
justsecurity.org
Alex Jones, who has not paid a single cent to the Sandy Hook families despite owing them $1.4 billion, has been in a $3,000 per night suite in Hawaii for the last few weeks illegally using the InfoWars accounts to boost his traffic. Today he said there's going to be a national draft in three weeks.
Upwards of 200,00 people may have lost their jobs today; or will in the upcoming days. There is a palpable sense of fear among the Haitian community right now. They need your support.
Heba Gowayed هبة جويد@hebagowayed.bsky.social · last wk.My Haitian friend was just fired from his job. "They said I don't have a legal status now." This is likely happening to hundreds of thousands of people across this country today. Sick.
Never forget.
Tom Joscelyn@tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · last wk.It’s striking that Douthat has been at the NYT all these years. The right has built a closed media ecosystem on the (false) belief that legacy media is a closed ecosystem. Meanwhile, a rightwing intellectual mediocrity like Douthat kept chugging along at the Times. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/b...
