I’m not a fan of Ferguson either. My academic background is history and political science and Ferguson represents the absolute worst of the historical field (broad ideological works written for pop audiences that erase complexity). He engages in cheap racist “the West is superior” pseudo-history from a prominent…

Yeah. Bannon and his pseudo-intellectual crowd have been fawning over Hazony’s “The Virtue of Nationalism” for awhile. It’s perfect for the far-right. It combines tendentious and factually incorrect history with an overly simplistic and cherry-political political narrative that miraculously absolves their preferred…

What does it matter when they know Trump is on their side? He’s refused to hold them accountable under the Magnitsky Act. They can dissemble all they want. 

Owens is parroting one of the new hot charlatans on the far-right, Yoram Hazony, who put out an entire book dedicated to whitewashing the horrific crimes of nationalists in history. You see, Hitler wasn’t a nationalist but an “imperialist” according to Hazony, and that’s what Owens incompetently tried to parrot to an…

This level of anti-Semitism, more so than the racism and homophobia, is generally frowned upon even in the current white nationalism-adjacent GOP. It’s not that I don’t think they’re fine with the bigotry. It’s that this is far more than they’ll usually let slide for pure image purposes.

There’s an almost comical number of cases like this associated with the Daily Caller, which is why I’m flabbergasted the entire GOP and much of the right-wing press continues to act like that site isn’t a racist cesspit tainted from the very beginning.

Hezbollah has engaged in some stuff outside Lebanon and nearby. They’ve got networks in Europe and have occasionally been implicated in criminal schemes there. They also do have recruitment channels in Latin America (there’s a much larger population of Arab immigrants there than most people know) though evidence of…

Center-right economic policies have objectively failed to promote any sort of morally coherent capitalism in the United States. They’ve failed at everything except creating wealth for a small elite and developing new rent-seeking opportunities. The litany of policy failures and mistakes means that dramatic status-quo…

The AUMF covers al-Qaeda and affiliated groups. It’s been stretched pretty broadly over the years but even so there’s no way to tie Hezbollah, a Shi’ite group, into the global AQ network. 

Virginia is cancelled. We’re just going to power cycle the whole state and do a fresh install. 

Generally the theories suggest they’re trying to build ties with local drug smuggling outfits and develop contacts that would let them smuggle things or people into the United States.

Multiple countries recognized the opposition leader. It was a coordinated diplomatic push. Slow the conspiracy roll. 

This is a conspiracy very popular among a few anti-Muslim hate groups that Pompeo has ties to, groups like the Security Studies Group and the Center for Security Policy. No one serious about the MENA or terrorism believes it. The fact that this conspiracy has been around for over a decade at this point without any…

The trick is people like him don’t ever go into Baltimore. They stay in the wealthy suburbs. A lot of people near Baltimore avoid Baltimore, mostly due to racism but with a solid helping of classism too. 

This is dumb in every phase. There’s no part of this that’s coherent outside the far-right outrage ecosystem. 

This is the Trump administration pattern.

I’m still clinging to that win by the Titans. 

In a world where I constantly see people continue to drink this stuff despite it being awful and even most dive bars having better beer, I think this is precisely the stupid online fight we deserve. 

The Democrats will haveto fund some sort of nonsense “smart wall”. It’ll happen. It’s mostly a waste of money, but political reality demands it. Most of the public knows little to nothing about border issues and wants security theater like that. The best we can hope for is that the Democrats can minimize harm that…

I won’t pretend I’m familiar with what a normal award in a case like this is, but that seems like an awful lot of money for a medium severity injury at worst.