Spencer Sunshine
@transform6789
independent scholar & political analyst. Author of “Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism” (Routledge, 2024)
My book does pretty good on Goodreads, but it’s still funny that ratings by people who make comments like this count against me
Somehow even more pathetic than the Fuentes interview. When will Tucker start openly ranting about “the Jews”?!
Although the number of people going is much smaller than I thought
Randomly ended up waiting for a car in front of the FBI building in Boston
a blast from the past: Jason Reza Jorjani, former collaborator of Richard Spencer, says he now rejects Trump and the Iranian anti-regime movements he supported. (source: the other place)
the today is the 7th anniversary of the Christchurch massacre, when a white supremacist killed 51 Muslims in NZ. How he did it - live-streaming it, putting slogans on his guns & a writing a manifesto - has been copied in many other attacks Let us remember the dead & fight like hell for the living.
white supremacist fever dream. this is so far above the head of the average MAGA voter that it’s just a pitch to some “special interests” in the Republican base
my notes from Chip Berlet & Matthew N. Lyons’s “Right-Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort,” about why we need to analyze what they call right-wing populism (RWP in my notes) the same way that we look at other social and political movements
From 2002. For a while anarchists achieved a kind of almost-mainstream-acceptability in more liberal areas, which ran through Occupy - tho it’s kinda hard to imagine that now.
going thru the archives & I kept a few newspapers. Here’s a few. #1. anarchists and the 1999 protests against the WTO in Seattle
Well, today I learned that Molly Jong-Fast is the granddaughter of famous Stalinist novelist Howard Fast (and daughter of novelist Erica Jong). Hardcore red diaper nepo baby!
21,000 boot-licking punks on this FB page alone. And it’s a much bigger problem.