steven monacelli
@stevanzetti
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Join me August 28th at Interabang Books in Dallas for a discussion of United States of Oligarchy, a new book by @cjcmichel.bsky.social. It explores the historical rise of American oligarchs, the international forces that enable them, and whether their efforts to monopolize democracy can be stopped.
If ICE can send subpoenas to deanonymize social media accounts, couldn't they have done it for the anonymous and overtly racist account we found is run by one of their own employees who is still working there?
Something I missed in this reporting... Brandon Herrera said in 2023: “Just because you let somebody creampie you doesn’t mean I have to give a shit about your political opinions. The fact that you kept your cum trophy doesn’t make you any less wrong about the dumb shit they say.” His response...
Hmm... (The Dallas Morning News is a newspaper. The Dallas Express is a right wing website with one reporter, and the outlet is deeply intertwined with right wing advocacy)
In 2022, I noted that Steven Crowder accepted an invitation from a woman in North Texas who has described herself as a Christian Fascist and wondered whether he aligned himself with her group's ideology. Now we don't have to wonder.
Dallas area friends: I'll be giving a lecture about QAnon, the notion of "conspiracy theories," and how they can operate as a sort of religious belief. Presented by The Hang Dallas. events.hangdallas.com
Checking in on the documents I received in response to a FOIA request I sent to ICE in May 2025 that sought a copy of a document that had been routinely shared with immigration lawyers until my reporting relied on it to identify an ICE prosecutor as the operator of a white supremacist X account
INBOX: Activists in Dallas have called a demonstration this evening to protest the killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo by an ICE agent in Houston.
While trying to have a difficult conversation with someone, they condescendingly asked me to stop closing my eyes while I spoke to them. It took less than one minute of full eye contact for them to stop looking into my eyes, at which point I asked them to look me in the eye while I spoke to them.
Folks in the Dallas/Fort Worth area: do you recognize the location of this trail marker? TL 160.
I've long considered Thomas Paine to be my favorite Founding Father. This finely illustrated edition of Paine's Rights of Man is one of prized possessions.
mfw my colleague told me people cheered for me at an annual journalism awards ceremony I couldn't attend
After interactions with people who are homeless, Chris Putnam, the CEO of the right-wing Dallas Express website, publicly fantasized about violence against them. "The very next time one of these zombies touches or threatens me I will be the headline story myself on Dallas Express after I cap them."
Kind of sounds like Apprentice Creative Space www.instagram.com/apprentice.o...
When the Texas Attorney General's Office rules in your favor on an open records determination, thereby triggering deadlines for the release of records
The inscription on this sculpture on display at Apprentice Creative Space in Dallas immediately brought me thirty years into the past
My limited series for @coolzonemedia.bsky.social, Anti-Vax America, won the Webby People's Voice Award in the limited series news and politics category. I am now officially an award-winning podcaster.
Chris Putnam, the Dallas Express CEO who did not respond to our request for comment, made a long post on X with his reaction to the story. As a part of his justification for admittedly publishing the article under a pseudonym is that Zero Hedge does it. He also compared DX to the Washington Post.