Had a great time talking to Lizzie on Slate’s TBD pod talking about how Trump got out Chadded online

The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden's Surveillance Machine Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more.

Using facial recognition tech, the Knicks surveilled a trans woman, tracking her every move out of fear she'd show up on MSG's tv broadcast

And they can do it to any "enemy" of Jim Dolan, who's built his own deep state. From @noahshachtman.bsky.social & me @wired.com www.wired.com/story/madiso...

MAJOR UPDATE: I found the best free restaurant bread in the United States www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

A Chad Virgin theory of Trump vs. Iran www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Rickipedia | Substack Occasional reflections, mostly personal. Click to read Rickipedia, by Rick Perlstein, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

I've finished "The Infernal Triangle: How America Got this Way." Farewell to the 5-book project that consumed some 30 years, over half my life! For the nonce, writing deadline-free on this Substack. First 50 subs get signed books or personal Zoom greetings. PAY ME!!!

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The Intellectual Right Is Mad at the Mess It’s Made Conservatives are criticizing influencers for going too far.

Wrote about the latest developing fracture on the right: how the conservative intellectual class is getting fed up with the growing antisemitic and conspiratorial tendencies of the right's masses, or what one source called "the retard right."
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Getting some some cool, normal ads on twitter

‘We Need to Do McCarthyism to the Tenth Power’ Conservative influencers are pushing for a return to the dark days of 1950s inquisitions.

Some powerful people have now decided that McCarthyism is good, actually, and that we should do it again on an even more profound scale: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Thanks, Clara!

The Atlantic's Ali Breland on why it's important to cover the online far right. An Atlantic reporter says far-right influencers such as Nick Fuentes offer clues to where US politics is going.

"It’s probably going to become even more of a thing as younger people who have been more deeply steeped in the internet get older. So it is here, and it will be here for a long time," @alibreland.bsky.social says of what CJR calls "the far-right media bubble."

www.cjr.org/the-intervie...

Many thanks to @quinnslobodian.com for speaking with me for this

The Epstein Emails Show How the Powerful Talk About Race The files reveal the disgraced financier’s interest in “race science.”

Peered into how Epstein’s interest in pseudoscientific racism prefaced the ideology’s ongoing renaissance amongst the powerful www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

The Epstein Emails Show How the Powerful Talk About Race The files reveal the disgraced financier’s interest in “race science.”

A great piece from @alibreland.bsky.social on Epstein's race science obsession—one he shares with much of the contemporary right wing elite www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Trump is clearly distancing himself from the bad pr of noem and miller, he’s not calling Alex Pretti a terrorist he’s calling him an insurrectionist who had it coming.

Big difference in style and substance here

The Trump Administration Is Publishing a Stream of Nazi Propaganda Government social-media managers have transformed official feeds.

Important story from @alibreland.bsky.social about how the us government now speaks in the voice of an incel groyper www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Your Teenager May Be Spreading Himmler’s Favorite Myth The Aryan utopia of “Agartha” is making a comeback.

Wrote about how the teens are sharing Nazi occult memes w/ @willgottsegen.com This isn’t an exaggeration. Lots of them are doing this www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

The Government’s Posts Just Took a Sharp Far-Right Turn Government social-media managers have turned official feeds into streams of xenophobia.

Some official U.S.-government social-media accounts have become a reliable stream of xenophobic messaging that aims to redefine what it means to be American, @alibreland.bsky.social reports:

This is the precise rationale that internet white supremacists use when they talk about immigration—especially when they talk about immigrants from African countries. Fully indistinguishable from something someone would say at an ethno-nationalist event

An entire economy of weird, atomized buy-my-course, infinite side hustle, grindset guys who are excised from the traditional job market is probably not good for society and is going to have a bunch of bad externalities.

It’s very noticeable the degree to which Fuentes and right wing division on Israel are coloring TPUSA’s America Fest. Attendees keep talking to me about Groypers. Shapiro and Tucker have both devoted chunks of their remarks to trashing each other about it

At my first turning point USA America fest. This is amazing. They brought Ben Shapiro out to club level pulsing bass, red white and blue laser lights and plumes of smoke (I don’t think they can do tpusa standard pyrotechnics in here)

Ready for War | Eamon Whalen Where Charlie Kirk sought to smooth the divisions within the conservative movement, Nick Fuentes wants to inflame them.

For the @thebaffler.com I wrote about how Nick Fuentes and "The Groyper Wars" changed Charlie Kirk
thebaffler.com/latest/ready...

“texas shouldn’t go to the playoffs because they have three losses,” is simply a broke hater mentality. be positive and virtuous. appreciate beauty and perseverance. believe in something.

ruining a&m’s best shot at an undefeated season since like 1939 feels so good

geese is a new kind of band that helps aging millennials deceive themselves into thinking their tastes haven’t calcified and that they’re into new stuff even though it’s just a slightly modified redux of the wilco, real estate, etc era

The Nick Fuentes Spiral The reckoning with the white-nationalist influencer’s rise is only getting messier.

There is no right wing civil war. The groypers are just winning. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Listen to November 13, 2025 on Hark A playlist of podcast moments

HARK DAILY - Today's best podcast moments in one playlist, featuring:
- Trump echoes Biden's biggest mistake on the economy @vox.com
- How neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes went mainstream @alibreland.bsky.social
- Creating a new company using only A.I. @evrat.bsky.social

Nick Fuentes and the mainstreaming of neo-Nazism | Front Burner | CBC Podcasts | CBC Listen Nick Fuentes and his followers - Groypers - are working to push American conservatism and the MAGA movement into even more dangerous and reactionary territory. He started to gain a following in 2017 a...

It was great to be on Canada’s @cbcnews.ca Front Burner podcast alongside @alibreland.bsky.social to discuss the mainstreaming of Nick Fuentes on the MAGA Right www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...

The Firewall Against Nick Fuentes Is Crumbling The white-supremacist influencer is entering the MAGA mainstream.

“The gap between Fuentes and the rest of the right is narrower than it has ever been,” @alibreland.bsky.social writes

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

Tucker Carlson Opens the Door for Nick Fuentes The white-supremacist influencer is entering the MAGA mainstream.

The gap between the white-supremacist influencer Nick Fuentes and the rest of the right is narrower than it has ever been, @alibreland.bsky.social argues.