A scene with German immigrants in Missouri in the 2017 Budweiser commercial prompted MAGA trolls to call for boycotting Budweiser www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/f...
A scene with German immigrants in Missouri in the 2017 Budweiser commercial prompted MAGA trolls to call for boycotting Budweiser www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/f...
De pechuga, mezcalito, mezcalito de maguey, Pa todo mal, mezcalito, para todo bien también. youtu.be/GEpe_cYmgeE Mezcal originated from pre-Columbian indigenous fermentation traditions combined with Asian distillation techniques brought by Spanish colonizers from the Philippines.
A scene with German immigrants in Missouri in the 2017 Budweiser commercial prompted MAGA trolls to call for boycotting Budweiser www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/f...
"Since returning to power in 2010, Prime Minister Viktor Orban hasn’t stopped undermining media pluralism… Thanks to political and economic manoeuvres and the buyout of media outlets by oligarchs with close ties to Fidesz, the ruling party, the latter now controls 80% of the country’s media."
"Since returning to power in 2010, Prime Minister Viktor Orban hasn’t stopped undermining media pluralism… Thanks to political and economic manoeuvres and the buyout of media outlets by oligarchs with close ties to Fidesz, the ruling party, the latter now controls 80% of the country’s media."
Harlan Crow heavily invested in Bari Weiss’s fake university. CBS News promoted it in November 2024 www.cbsnews.com/news/uatx-co... Another notable sponsor: Len Blavatnik en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len_Bla...
A lot of familiar characters were at WCF in Verona in 2019.
In 2020, Mitchell hired John Eastman for her election theft operation. In 2019, Eastman participated in the Russian-run World Congress of Families in Italy. He shared the stage with Viktor Zubarev from the Russian Duma. 62-year-old Zubarev died mysteriously in 2023. www.wcfverona.org/wp-content/u...
As a self-employed blogger, she got a lengthy interview with Marco Rubio in February 2025. www.state.gov/secretary-ma...
Catherine Herridge, who had worked at Fox News since its inception, was brought to CBS News in 2019 and distinguished herself by spreading conspiracy theories and attacking Hunter Biden. She was laid off in 2024 during budget cuts.
The story of Norilsk Nickel, the world’s largest nickel producer, involved some of the top Russian oligarchs (Prokhorov, Potanin, Abramovich, Deripaska). Deripaska recruited Charles McGonigal, the head of the FBI counterintelligence in New York, to help him fight Potanin for control of Nornickel.
Rabbi Azman, born in Leningrad, helped Russian propaganda for many years by promoting stories about antisemitism in Ukraine. In October 2012, Hillary Clinton published an op-ed supporting Ukraine’s democracy. In response, Paul Manafort got Ben Shapiro to write an article about Ukrainian antisemitism
"They are the elites who rule everywhere but are not truly from anywhere." (Schmitt, 2025) "It is the people who are at home both nowhere and everywhere, who do not have anywhere a soil on which they have grown up… and who feel at home everywhere." (Somebody else, 1933) www.bbc.co.uk/history/worl...
When Schmitt referred to the Byzantine empire, he tapped into that. "Schmitt invokes the katechon in his famous essay Land and Sea, which will later have a profound effect on Alexander Dugin’s own geopolitical thought. In this essay, Schmitt argues that the Byzantine Empire served as a katechon…"
"They are the elites who rule everywhere but are not truly from anywhere." (Schmitt, 2025) "It is the people who are at home both nowhere and everywhere, who do not have anywhere a soil on which they have grown up… and who feel at home everywhere." (Somebody else, 1933) www.bbc.co.uk/history/worl...
Kim Jong Un promised Putin assistance in the war against Ukraine, calling it a "fraternal duty." During their visit to China, where both dictators attended Xi Jinping’s military parade, Putin and Kim Jong Un held a bilateral meeting that lasted more than 2.5 hours.
Facing a painful realization that Communism was a stupid experiment, which impoverished their country and killed tens of millions of their own citizens, Russians prefer to think of themselves as a Kathehon saving the West from itself. Alexander Dugin borrowed the Kathehon idea from Carl Schmitt.
Karyna Shuliak is in New York. She inherited a chunk of Epstein’s estate, which swelled to $170 million thanks to Peter Thiel and a tax refund. This year, she also completed a postdoctoral residency in general dentistry at Columbia. www.dental.columbia.edu/file/15813/d...
Karyna Shuliak is in New York. She inherited a chunk of Epstein’s estate, which swelled to $170 million thanks to Peter Thiel and a tax refund. This year, she also completed a postdoctoral residency in general dentistry at Columbia. www.dental.columbia.edu/file/15813/d...
Roman’s first success was getting Bruce Marks declared the winner of a special election in Pennsylvania in 1993. "Marks, who has made his legal career representing wealthy Ukrainian and Russian clients… said Roman’s working-class background gave him an innate understanding of ballot-box politics."
Africain, j'aime, j'aime l'Afrique Africain, fantasmagorique Africain, de New York au Congo Africain, Dieu a la même peau youtu.be/PWKoPUi-YLQ Immigrant artists who embrace their insider-outsider status can discover new levels of creativity and humanity.
June 2018 mention of Maria Ryan: "Rudy Giuliani has been bragging to pals about having an affair with a married woman with ‘big boobs,’ sources tell The Post." pagesix.com/2018/06/13/r... At that time, Paul Manafort was heading to jail, and Rudy was busy keeping him silent.
In a 1988 letter to Soviet readers, Carl Sagan reminded them of the danger of a personality cult of a strongman leader. "Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term." alexpetrov.com/memes/hum/cm...
The same cover page of the New York Times that published the great news about Salk’s vaccine reported on the refusal of Southern states to comply with the Supreme Court ruling on school desegregation. Battles against ignorance and bigotry stay with us for a long time.
Ա'խ, Արարատ, ա'խ, Արարատ Հիմա հասկանում եմ քեզ Ի'նչ ես դու հայոց համար Մեր հոգուն հիմքը դուն ես youtu.be/3_JwkSBzZqM In the early 4th century, the Kingdom of Armenia became the first state in history to adopt Christianity as its official religion.
Sigal Mandelker worked under Mnuchin as Deputy Secretary and Under Secretary for Financial Intelligence, implementing sanctions against Russian oligarchs. In 2008, while working at the DOJ criminal division, she approved Alex Acosta’s sweetheart deal with Epstein. She and Acosta resigned in 2019.
Woke citizens of Prague removed the statue of Ivan Konev. "He led the Soviet troops that entered Prague after it had been liberated from the Nazis by resistance forces. But he also commanded the troops that crushed the 1956 anti-Soviet uprising in Hungary and helped build the Berlin Wall."
If you enjoy… Weekends Safe working conditions Retirement benefits Paid vacations Breaks at work Sick leave Paid holidays … then you’re part of the labor movement. Happy Labor Day.
Woke citizens of Prague removed the statue of Ivan Konev. "He led the Soviet troops that entered Prague after it had been liberated from the Nazis by resistance forces. But he also commanded the troops that crushed the 1956 anti-Soviet uprising in Hungary and helped build the Berlin Wall."
Azman owes his claim to the chief rabbi position (unrecognized by the World Jewish Congress) to Vadim Rabinovich, who also financed the restoration of the Brodsky synagogue where Azman serves. After the 2022 invasion, Rabinovich fled from the country and was stripped of his Ukrainian citizenship.
"After a few more exchanges, Borat asked to use the man’s bathroom, from which he shortly appeared wearing only a towel around his waist and socks, as well as holding a toothbrush."
People are crazy and times are strange I’m locked in tight, I’m out of range I used to care, but things have changed youtu.be/L9EKqQWPjyo Bob Dylan thanked the Academy for giving him Oscar "for this song which obviously is a song that doesn't pussyfoot around nor turn a blind eye to human nature."
The story of Norilsk Nickel, the world’s largest nickel producer, involved some of the top Russian oligarchs (Prokhorov, Potanin, Abramovich, Deripaska). Deripaska recruited Charles McGonigal, the head of the FBI counterintelligence in New York, to help him fight Potanin for control of Nornickel.
Rabbi Azman, born in Leningrad, helped Russian propaganda for many years by promoting stories about antisemitism in Ukraine. In October 2012, Hillary Clinton published an op-ed supporting Ukraine’s democracy. In response, Paul Manafort got Ben Shapiro to write an article about Ukrainian antisemitism
Bourdain is wrong to describe Putin as a businessman. Putin finds it easy to manipulate businesspeople and gain their trust, but as a KGB guy, he feels nothing but absolute contempt for them. That includes his dear friends Bush and Berlusconi. Trump is not an exception.
Luckily, he cannot erase a congressional testimony. www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...
In December 2015, Biden visited Ukraine, which attracted considerable attention from Russian propaganda. Dmytro Firtash, a Putin-propped gas oligarch, was particularly angered by Biden’s anti-corruption speech in Rada. In 2019, Firtash financed Giuliani’s special operation against the Bidens.
As usual for Florida politics, Roger Stone played a role. Before the RFK Jr special operation, Stone helped the Centners get involved in January 6. www.floridabulldog.org/2023/01/two-...
Most consequentially, Obama was forced to issue executive orders on immigration because Republicans refused to put a comprehensive immigration reform bill to a vote. obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/issues/immig... Marco Rubio was among the authors of the bill. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_...
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"His tough questioning of Jeff Sessions, Trump’s nominee for Attorney General, had led Sessions to recuse himself from the investigation into Russian influence in the 2016 election, and prompted the appointment of Robert Mueller as special counsel."
Fruta linda como yo, como yo, como yo Fruta fresca como yo, como yo, como yo Fruta, caramelo y algodón Que está muy rico, goloso youtu.be/F59PRBnx40A According to the discipline of biopolitics, liberalism is "an evolutionary luxury" that emerges when fear of unusual experiences gives way to freedom.
Lauren Bis, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Media Relations, chuckles fascistically when she says "actual U.S. citizens." We cannot get numb to it.
Snyder: "The new word ‘рашизм’ is a useful conceptualization of Putin’s worldview. Far more than Western analysts, Ukrainians have noticed the Russian tilt toward fascism in the last decade. Undistracted by Putin’s operational deployment of genocide talk, they have seen fascist practices in Russia…"
RSL was a likely inspiration for DJT.
The RNC 2024 convention was objectively extremely boring. Trump’s rambling, low-energy speech set the record for length by going on for more than 92 minutes. The fascist propaganda was effective without them even trying to put together a good show.
Snyder: "The new word ‘рашизм’ is a useful conceptualization of Putin’s worldview. Far more than Western analysts, Ukrainians have noticed the Russian tilt toward fascism in the last decade. Undistracted by Putin’s operational deployment of genocide talk, they have seen fascist practices in Russia…"
In October 2016, Trump couldn’t help using an assist from Wikileaks (Russian military intelligence) in his "joke" at the Al Smith Dinner.
Trump’s first campaign rally in March 2023 sent a strong signal. In two years, the country slow-walked into fascism. "In an extraordinary display, Trump opened his rally by playing a song, ‘Justice for All,’ that features a choir of men imprisoned for their role in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection…"
The RNC 2024 convention was objectively extremely boring. Trump’s rambling, low-energy speech set the record for length by going on for more than 92 minutes. The fascist propaganda was effective without them even trying to put together a good show.
Trump’s first campaign rally in March 2023 sent a strong signal. In two years, the country slow-walked into fascism. "In an extraordinary display, Trump opened his rally by playing a song, ‘Justice for All,’ that features a choir of men imprisoned for their role in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection…"
Hillary Clinton, of all people, was right. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
In March 2011, during Trump’s short-lived run for president, he endured a Comedy Central roast. It was a painful experience for him. www.huffpost.com/entry/the-in...
Churchill on Stalin in November 1945: "Personally, I cannot feel anything but the most lively admiration for this truly great man, the father of his country, the ruler of its destinies in times of peace, and the victorious defender of its life in time of war."
"From the 70s through the 90s at least, the bosses of the Russian mafia in the U.S. literally ran their crime organization out of the El Caribe." The headquarters moved to Trump Tower in the 1990s with the arrival of Ivankov and other high-ranking mobsters. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/good-...
Trump performed in overalls on September 18, 2005. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/e... Two days earlier, the infamous Access Hollywood tape was recorded. "When you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/tru...
"From the 70s through the 90s at least, the bosses of the Russian mafia in the U.S. literally ran their crime organization out of the El Caribe." The headquarters moved to Trump Tower in the 1990s with the arrival of Ivankov and other high-ranking mobsters. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/good-...
Εβώ πάντα σε σένα πενσέω, γιατί σένα φσυχή μου 'γαπώ, τσαι που πάω, που σύρνω, που στέω στην καρδία, μου πάντα σένα βαστῶ. youtu.be/JNdc-mSKzHA The prevailing theory regarding the origin of Griko is that this dialect comes from Greek colonies established in southern Italy in the 8th century BC.
McCarthy taught the conservative movement the power of politics as entertainment. "National Review was founded as a vehicle in support of Joe McCarthy… And it was understood to be that; it was not a secret, it was not hidden from anyone. It was McCarthyite intellectuals who founded National Review."
In 1951, RFK named McCarthy, a friend of his father’s, godfather to his first child, Kathleen. In 1953, he worked for McCarthy for six months as an assistant counsel and left after clashing with the chief counsel, Roy Cohn. JFK was the only Democratic senator who didn’t vote for McCarthy’s censure.
Sachs and his Harvard colleagues were instrumental in birthing the Russian oligarchy. Larry Summers sacrificed his Harvard presidency to save his protege, Andrei Shleifer, who was directly caught in a corruption scandal (investing in companies he helped privatize). Russia must have a lot on Sachs.
Teddy Roosevelt did a big favor for Russia by helping negotiate the Treaty of Portsmouth, which ended the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905 and won him the Nobel Peace Prize. In return, he asked the czar to ease the discrimination against Jews. Russia’s refusal to do so had significant consequences.
Immortalized by Bob Dylan in 1962. Now Eisenhower, he’s a Russian spy Lincoln, Jefferson and that Roosevelt guy To my knowledge there’s just one man That’s really a true American: George Lincoln Rockwell I know for a fact he hates Commies cus he picketed the movie Exodus
As @statman-stu.bsky.social reminds me, THIS is probably the single most important graph I’ve ever created. If you don’t mind my saying so, in one image it crystallizes everything wrong with America today.
This is not a distant danger; it is very close, as National Guard troops from distant, unfamiliar, red-state towns arrive in blue-state cities. Journalists need to ask, over and over, what guidelines they carry. Former military officers need to be on TV, every day. Now is the time to speak up. 3/
Sociopathic frauds exploit the gullibility of the press.
In the summer of 2006, while Bush pushed for a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage, he had a friendly meeting with Putin in Russia. Putin passed his own amendment of this sort in 2020, along with the one for a life-long dictatorship. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_am...
In the summer of 2006, while Bush pushed for a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage, he had a friendly meeting with Putin in Russia. Putin passed his own amendment of this sort in 2020, along with the one for a life-long dictatorship. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_am...
Ivanka’s role in the Trump Organization was relentless fraud. RNC 2016: "As President, my father will change the labor laws that were put into place at a time when women were not a significant portion of the workforce. And he will focus on making quality childcare affordable and accessible for all."
On AI: "People are inclined to take technology to be the thing itself, as an end in itself, a force of its own, and they forget that it is an extension of human dexterity. The means are fetishized, because the ends—a life of human dignity—are concealed and removed from the consciousness of people."
In February 2016, Christie’s endorsement was easy to mock. “Everyone loves me, I even got this fat piece of crap behind me now. Isn't that right, Chris?" "Yes, sir. Thank you, sir. Please, sir, may I have another?" www.nbcwashington.com/news/nationa... All forgotten now.
In February 2016, Christie’s endorsement was easy to mock. “Everyone loves me, I even got this fat piece of crap behind me now. Isn't that right, Chris?" "Yes, sir. Thank you, sir. Please, sir, may I have another?" www.nbcwashington.com/news/nationa... All forgotten now.
In February 2016, Christie surprised everyone by dropping out of the presidential race early and endorsing Trump. He was promised a VP slot, but Trump followed Paul Manafort’s advice and broke his promise.
The original top Nazis were weirdos. But not people like Himmler, who actually carried out the Holocaust. "Himmler was himself ‘more normal,’ that is, more of a philistine, than any of the original leaders of the Nazi movement. He was not a bohemian like Goebbels, or a sex criminal like Streicher…"
Still waiting for someone of prominence to admit it was not about eggs.
"Himmler… proved his supreme ability for organizing the masses into total domination by assuming that most people are neither bohemians, fanatics, adventurers, sex maniacs, crackpots, nor social failures, but first and foremost job holders and good family men." (Hannah Arendt)
A right-wing panic is triggered when a new equality threatens to upend a traditional hierarchy. In the 1970s, signing a treaty with Panama, thus treating Panama as an equal partner, was such a trigger. The New Right turned it into a litmus test. When Reagan passed the test, they rallied behind him.
Y que si me muero sea de amor Y si me enamoro sea de vos Y que de tu voz sea este corazón Todos los días a Dios le pido youtu.be/kMIaYXxLnUA Peace and happiness are fundamentally simple but also fragile.
Celebrating construction work was a special genre of Soviet posters. papik.pro/plakat/31394...
"Even under absolute monarchy art was based on idealization, but not on falsification, whereas in the Soviet Union official art – and none other exists there – is sharing in the fate of official justice; its purpose is to glorify the ‘Leader’ and to manufacture officially a heroic myth..." (Trotsky)
Just like anti-vaxxers don’t need real doctors when they can find charlatans, the right doesn’t need real historians when they find self-proclaimed ones, like David Barton. "Barton has been praised by American conservatives, including Mike Huckabee, Newt Gingrich, Michele Bachmann, Sam Brownback…"
Russian authors of "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" skillfully manufactured a panic about an imaginary conspiracy of an oppressed minority to upend the natural hierarchy. The trope has been circulating ever since, with the secret conspiracy projected into the Trilateral Commission, among others.
Vance is talking about Yalta-2.0
Vance is talking about Yalta-2.0
One needs to be versed in Russian propaganda to understand what he is talking about.
Just like anti-vaxxers don’t need real doctors when they can find charlatans, the right doesn’t need real historians when they find self-proclaimed ones, like David Barton. "Barton has been praised by American conservatives, including Mike Huckabee, Newt Gingrich, Michele Bachmann, Sam Brownback…"
Russian authors of "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" skillfully manufactured a panic about an imaginary conspiracy of an oppressed minority to upend the natural hierarchy. The trope has been circulating ever since, with the secret conspiracy projected into the Trilateral Commission, among others.
Stalin’s aggression in Finland (the Winter War of 1939-1940) was supposed to move the border away from Leningrad. It boomeranged during WW2. In July 1941, a Finnish soldier threw an axe into Stalin’s statue in Harlu, a Finnish town annexed by Stalin.
Instead of "birthing person", Putin used a similarly made-up panic about "parent number one" and "parent number two" to justify his aggression in Ukraine en.kremlin.ru/events/presi... Fascist propaganda doesn’t need a lot of material to manufacture an imaginary threat and justify oppression.
"Nothing proved easier to destroy than the privacy and private morality of people who thought of nothing but safeguarding their private lives. After a few years of power… the Nazis could rightly announce: ‘The only person who is still a private individual in Germany is somebody who is asleep.’"
Vance is not stupid. He is talking about Yalta and repeating Putin’s talking points. In Putin-speak, Zelensky is Hitler, and he and Trump should negotiate Yalta 2.0, forcing Ukraine to capitulate and giving Russia control over Eastern Europe.
Yalta 2.0, with Trump surrendering Eastern Europe to Russia’s control, has been Putin’s obsession all along. en.kremlin.ru/events/presi...
It’s not a bug but a feature. "Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty." (Hannah Arendt)
"Nothing proved easier to destroy than the privacy and private morality of people who thought of nothing but safeguarding their private lives. After a few years of power… the Nazis could rightly announce: ‘The only person who is still a private individual in Germany is somebody who is asleep.’"
A right-wing panic is triggered when a new equality threatens to upend a traditional hierarchy. In the 1970s, signing a treaty with Panama, thus treating Panama as an equal partner, was such a trigger. The New Right turned it into a litmus test. When Reagan passed the test, they rallied behind him.
"Wherever totalitarian movements seized power, this whole group of sympathizers was shaken off even before the regimes proceeded toward their greatest crimes. Intellectual, spiritual, and artistic initiative is as dangerous to totalitarianism as the gangster initiative of the mob…" (Hannah Arendt)
The State of Illinois at this time has received no requests or outreach from the federal government asking if we need assistance, and we have made no requests for federal intervention.
In 1998, when GRU through Sater shared information on Bin Laden, Russia desperately needed American help. "The Russians drove on to Mr. Summers' house in the Maryland suburbs… Over bagels, muffins and orange juice, Mr. Chubais made his appeal: Washington had a historic opportunity to help Russia."
Felix Sater used his contacts at GRU to give the CIA "five of the personal satellite telephone numbers for Osama bin Laden before 9/11." Using the same contacts (general Evgeny Shmykov), he arranged for Michael Cohen to meet Putin in St. Petersburg in June 2016. Cohen bailed out at the last minute.
