Cole Cloyd @ColeCloyd

Happy birthday, Lawton! The city was established in August 1901, making it 125 years old. The community was one of three townsites planned by the federal government ahead of the 1901 land lottery, which opened the Kiowa-Comanche-Apache lands to non-Indian settlement.

I'm in the Washington Post this morning. I introduce the term: "Vibes Revival" You know the term "vibecession"? Everyone thinks the economy is bad, when the underlying data is pretty good? In religion, it's the exact opposite. Everyone seems to think religion is surging, when the data tells the opposite story.

To add to this, Harvard laying off its writing center director and consolidating is a big deal. Universities are mimetic enterprises—lower ranked schools copy higher ranked ones. This sends a signal to every school in the country that you don’t need writing centers to be “elite.”

Tyler Austin Harper @Tyler_A_Harper

3 days ago

Harvard laid off its writing center director. Faculty and lower-level admins who believe the "AI is a tool" schtick are standing in their own graves with a shovel. This is not about "embracing the future" it's about replacing people with cheap clankers. thecrimson.com/article/2026/7…

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The ICE agent who is believed to have a shot a man in Maine is described by both of his ex-wives as dangerous and violent. “He has mental health issues, he’s short-tempered, he’s reactive,” one said. The other said he broke down her door, destroyed her belongings and spit in her face. Even the agent's best friend describes him as violent and "prone to start fights." nytimes.com/2026/07/18/us/… Was this a failure of ICE vetting? In one sense, yes, but remember that when ICE went on a hiring spree last year, it sought out macho, aggressive hires. And now one more man is dead at the hands of ICE.

White supremacist "active club" groups claim they organize under a leaderless, decentralized structure. But what if that's not entirely true? My latest unpacks some odd patterns I saw when looking at these groups' Telegram channels openmeasures.io/telegram-activ…

Jack Posobiec has been telling the same lie about his role in Pizzagate since at least 2018, despite the fact his tweets and livestreams have been archived. The guy is a stone-cold sociopathic liar, and the MAGA movement has rewarded him immensely for it. peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch…

Nathan Livingstone (MilkBarTV) @TheMilkBarTV

3 weeks ago

🚨EXPOSING @JackPosobiec FLAT-OUT LYING on @piersmorgan's show about his role in Pizzagate. This is one of the BIGGEST LIES I've ever seen on live television or in the media. @WajahatAli @briantylercohen

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Join us July 21-23 in Washington, D.C., for “Repression, Resilience and Renewal: Religious Freedom and the Art of Dr. Mohammed Yousof Asefi,” featuring an art exhibit and panel discussion, sponsored by @NEHgov. Details + register: csrc.asu.edu/events #ASUHumanities

While I was watching the Tyler Robinson hearing with other allowed media in the jury box, a local reporter turned to me after we heard testimony from a witness about the bullets. He asked, “how would you describe a smirk?” And I said — are you asking because of Tyler Robinson’s reaction to the testimony? We were maybe 15 feet away from Robinson during the preliminary hearing and naturally looked to Robinson to see how he would react to things. He mostly didn’t. To anything. He spoke to his lawyers, talking and sometimes smiling or even a few times laughing with them during breaks and scribbling on a legal notepad, but mostly he was stone faced. He didn’t look back at his parents or the Kirk family. He nodded at the judge when he was greeted in the morning. And that was it. But there was a … something … when the expert witness was reading the etchings on the bullets. Specifically “notices bulge OwO what’s this.” I thought I saw a … I don’t know. A smize? A flash of recognition? Just … something. The local reporter agreed but it wasn’t enough to call it a smirk. That was a loaded adjective. We talked about it for maybe 5 minutes and ultimately neither of us reported it because there wasn’t a word to fairly describe what we had both seen. I’m thinking about this only because the online conversation — and even on a cable opinion network that used to employ me — over the last 24 hours has been dominated by people who are not journalists but call themselves journalists. People who are deeply unserious, and careless, even reckless. Conspiracy theorists on the right and others without a political home. The local reporter and I watched carefully, taking a notebook worth of notes over 5 days, and agonizing over what we saw, to make sure it was correct and fair. The people getting attention on this website are by and large, not journalists. Maybe seek some out.

Some background on the white supremacist group Patriot Front.

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Also wild to be doing this while at the same time incessantly denying he would have ever made decisions that resulted in other people dying. He wants to have it both ways -- appearing "based" to online racists but "unfairly maligned" to mainstream audiences. You have to pick one.

Isaac Saul @Ike_Saul

a month ago

Musk is way, way worse than a lot of people (myself included) thought. And he's now using his unbelievably large platform to egg on clear threats of violence against "traitors" (political opponents) and "invaders" (immigrants)

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Wonder how the Federalist is reacting to the rul—

⚠️When VP (Candidate) Vance recirculated false rumors about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, OH eating stolen pets on nat'l TV there were more anti-Black & "other" hate crimes in September alone than the rest of the year & whole previous year combined, according to Ohio DPS.

EXCLUSIVE: Tucker Carlson has quietly swapped out the Amer flag in his barn studio & replaced it w/ an Appeal to Heaven flag. This isn't a coincidence. A post on what the flag means, who created its modern meaning, & what Tucker is signaling — & to whom. open.substack.com/pub/matthewdta…

Some of the businesses that Antelope Hill encouraged attendees to check out: a clothing store run by a violent felon; a racist hot sauce store; the National Alliance, which published the Turner Diaries; and a neo-Nazi podcast that tried and failed to be a political party.

“Islam wouldn’t be an issue if it wasn’t a growing population, and they’re a growing population because of the immigration policies,” Schoolcraft told me, adding that Muslims have a “very high” birth rate. “Sharia is sort of the easiest thing for people to understand.”

Evan @evan7257

2 months ago

"When I asked Schoolcraft to identify where sharia law—a wide-ranging set of moral, religious, and at times legal codes that are derived from the Quran—was being implemented in Texas, he couldn’t." texasmonthly.com/news-politics/…

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Eleven years ago today, nine Black worshippers were murdered during Bible study at Mother Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston. Rev. Clementa C. Pinckney. Cynthia Hurd. Susie Jackson. Ethel Lance. Rev. Depayne Middleton-Doctor. Tywanza Sanders. Rev. Daniel Simmons Sr. Rev. Sharonda Coleman-Singleton. Myra Thompson. We say their names and remember the sacredness of their lives. This was not only a mass shooting. It was a heinous act of white supremacy carried out in a house of worship. We must tell the truth about that hatred, grieve what it stole, and remain committed to dismantling the violence of racism in every form. #MotherEmanuel #SayTheirNames

I've seen quite a few people react to that recent Tribune piece by trying to make it about CAIR. It's nonsense. The Texas GOP convention was, from gavel to gavel, a stream of nativism and anti-Muslim bigotry. It was everywhere. It wasn't about CAIR. It was about Islam. #txlege

Robert Downen @RobertDownen_

2 months ago

A few quotes from the Texas GOP convention: -“Islam is a disease that spreads by immigration." -“True Christians and Americans will hold nothing but contempt and disdain for the toxic ideology of Islam.” -"We don't need them in any level of government." texasmonthly.com/news-politics/…

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This week on This Week in The West: Geronimo. Warrior. Spiritual leader. Symbol of Apache resistance. Learn how "One Who Yawns" became one of the most recognized figures in Western history and why his story still matters today. 🎧 Listen now: nationalcowboymuseum.org/blog/this-week…