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Right-Wing Influencers Have Flooded Minneapolis (Makena Kelly/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/right-wing-influencers-have-flooded-minneapolis/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260113/p100#a260113p100

A handy chart into right wing ideology:
🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻 = normal society
🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏿 = slippery slope
🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏿🧑🏿 = white genocide

I think it is very important for all of you to know that there’s a trollish little group of right-wing evangelical fash who are staging a sad little “crusade” rally here in Minneapolis
and their last poster contained the word “immegration”
and the latest one bemoans “the erogion of our heritage”

Dan Bongino, who stepped down as the deputy director of the FBI this month, says he will restart his podcast on February 2, streaming daily on Rumble (Reggie Ugwu/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/arts/dan-bongino-fbi-podcast.html

Dan Bongino, No Longer at the F.B.I., Will Return to Podcasting
The former F.B.I. deputy director, who had hosted a right-wing, pro-Trump podcast, will restart the show after a rocky tenure at the law-enforcement agency.

In case history wonders, many people did see the irony in the right-wing UK press being broadly anti-immigrant, while also running puff stories about how people's lives have been improved by moving to low-tax locations like Dubai.

What do Germans find appealing about a party like the #AfD, which aligns itself with countries that want to harm Germany: Darth #Trump's USA and Darth #Putin's Russia?
This means that, beyond its right-wing extre…

For those who aren’t local / don’t have an encyclopedic memory of 2020:
Keith Ellison and the MN AG office are the folks who successfully prosecuted Derek Chauvin. They are a crack legal team who know how to win. I’m making no bets about the short or long term outcomes of this lawsuit — especially not with a radical right-wing SCOTUS completely off the rails — but I’m confident these are some of the very best people to be leading it.

Highly likely this is just right wing lawfare.
Bolivia arrests ex-President Luis Arce in corruption investigation | Corruption News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/11/bolivia-arrests-ex-p…

Bolivia arrests ex-President Luis Arce in corruption investigation
Arce is in custody as part of a probe into alleged financial misconduct while he was economy minister, government says.

Senators reaffirmed the 39% cap; this particular station locally is one of the stations that joined in a chorus of corporate-mandated, right-wing propaganda documented a couple of years ago...
a Lawmakers revisit broadcast ownership limits as industry pushes consolidation
https://komonews.com/news/nation-world/lawmakers-revisit-broadcast-ownership-limits-as-industry-pushes-consolidation

When you ask someone to respect your GPL free/open source license, sometimes they act offended and say you are threatening them with state violence. The thinking seems to be that copyright law comes down to threats to put people in prison. I've only seen this from privileged white men in tech. Where does this come from? It's it a right wing libertarian ideology? (genuine question, I'd like to know!)
Really, the GPL (and AGPL) is all about undermining copyright law, by creat…

Everybody Hates Candace (Will Sommer/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/candace-owens-conspiracy-theories-charlie-kirk-right-wing-media
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p70#a251211p70

Trump: Execute drug dealers, free kingpins
Longtime Trump associate and right-wing operative Roger Stone personally lobbied for Hernandez’s release of Juan Orlando Hernandez, who had just started serving a 45-year federal prison sentence for helping to traffic hundreds of tons of cocaine into the United States
— free of charge, Stone claims.
Meanwhile, former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale has been working for the campaign of Nasry Asfura, the right-wing candidate f…

Trump follows through on an especially ugly campaign promise
He's talked about executing drug dealers for a decade.

#silentSunday
Condor. August 2018

Right-wing influencers such as Benny Johnson, Laura Loomer, and Jack Posobiec campaign against Netflix's bid for WBD, casting Netflix as a Democratic stronghold (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/12/09/netflix-obama-…

MAGA influencers urge Trump to kill Netflix deal over streamer’s Obama ties
Laura Loomer and other right-wing media figures cast Netflix as a Democratic stronghold and want the government to block it from buying Warner Bros. Discovery.

Right-wing media villainize and blame Renee Good for her own death in Minneapolis ICE shooting (Gideon Taaffe/Media Matters for America)
https://www.mediamatters.org/newsmax/right-wing-media-villainize-and-blame-renee-good-her-own-death-minneapolis-ice-shooting
http://www.memeorandum.com/260109/p107#a260109p107

This is a really good analysis of how #Labour became a right wing party.
I was aware of their courting of rich donors, but I'd missed the revolving door between Labour governments and the defence and private healthcare industries, and the point about Labour directing anger towards immigrants in order to divert it from the

@… This photo of a UK politician came up on my screen and his clothing nearly triggered a migraine for me! (view with caution...) (he's right-wing, of course)

Watched a talk from #39c3 (the one about right wing dating sites). Was a good talk but it felt weird how casually 'and then I had an AI whip up some shit' was accepted there. I think that wouldn't have been the same a few years ago. Window has shifted.

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In "Social-Media-Forschung zu Rechtsextremismus und Demokratie: Bestandsaufnahme, Leitlinien und infrastrukturelle Bedarfe (2025)" sammelte Vincent Fröhlich im Rahmen der Eventreihe "Show & Tell – Social Media-Daten in der Forschungspraxis" Antworten von drei Projekten auf sieben Leitfragen des Arbeitskreises „Social Media-Daten“, welche systematisch ausgewertet wurden.

Keir Starmer appoints 25 [right wing, I assume] Labour peers to strengthen support in House of Lords | House of Lords | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/dec/10/keir-starmer-appoints-25-…

"essays from Quillette editor Claire Lehmann, British commentator Brendan O'Neill, and National Review writer Noah Rothman have dismissed the Epstein files as examples of disproportionate societal reaction rather than legitimate concern"
Right-wing pundits accused of coordinated campaign to excuse Epstein pals - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-epstein-revelations/

Europe’s populist worries will intensify today
when right-wing billionaire Andrej Babiš becomes Czech prime minister.
Combined with Hungary’s Viktor Orbšn and Slovakia’s Robert Fico,
Babiš has the potential to jam up the legislative machinery in Brussels as it works on key files.
Czech President Petr Pavel is set to appoint Babiš to the position
after resolvinglongstanding conflict-of-interest issues related to the PM-elect’s conglomerate, Agrofert.
Babiš…

New Czech PM Babiš is poised to aggravate Brussels’ populist headache
Andrej Babiš could find common cause with Hungary’s Viktor Orbán and Slovakia’s Robert Fico on several issues.

When you hear Right-wing Latinx immigrants talking about doing immigration “the legal way” take it with a grain of salt.
I questioned someone on that and found that his family benefitted from the 1986 “amnesty” passed under Reagan. So: illegal until made legal.
DHS is now engaged in a reverse process: arbitrarily terminating legal statuses so that people engaged in “the legal ways” are pushed outside of the law so that they can be deported ASAP.

They are doing everything they can to make it happen: the endless escalations, the recklessness, the shoddy training, the quotas, the sense of impunity, the masks, the bounty hunters, the right-wing camera crews following them like ducklings, the redoubling of provocations after ICE murdered Good: what does it point to except baiting, a total non-concern for the lives of ICE officers, a wish to get at least one of them shot on camera?

The new Pentagon press corps, comprising many right-wing influencers, had no scoops about the Venezuela raid, choosing to praise the event instead of probing it (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/01/07/pentagon-press-hegseth-ve…

Hegseth’s remade press corps covers Venezuela raid with praise, not probing
Newfound access hasn’t provided more information to the largely right-wing press corps that signed the Defense Department’s media rules.

Thousands of demonstrators gathered in the western German city of Giessen on Saturday
as the far-right Alternative for Germany’s new youth organization was set to kick off its founding convention.
Groups of protesters blocked or tried to block roads in and around the city of some 93,000 people in the early morning.
Police said they used pepper spray after stones were thrown at officers at one location.
The new youth organization of the anti-immigration Alternative for G…

Thousands protest as Germany’s far-right AfD to launch new youth wing
Party hopes to exert greater control over new group after the previous youth party was declared a proven right-wing extremist group by authorities and dissolved

Despite the destruction of evidence and the clear history of mental health challenges, Abdul-Latif and Mujahidh, the entrapped men, remain in prison.
And where's the FBI now? Oh, that's right, it's now headed by known right wing liar and Trump sycophant Kash Patel who's largely purged it of anyone who isn't loyal to the president.
I'm sure this is all apropos of nothing.

You may want to #fediblock this pro-russian propaganda outlet which also happens to deny that the German Fascist Party #AfD is right-wing extremist: @ voiceofeast.net@voiceofeast.net
🚫 web.archive.org/web/20260102113448/https://voiceofeast.net/2025/12/27/us-intelligence-exposed-the-myth-of-rus…

US Intelligence Exposed: The Myth Of Russia Seeking Total Conquest Of Ukraine Debunked
US Intelligence Exposed: The Myth Of Russia Seeking Total Conquest Of Ukraine Debunked By Uriel Araujo A recurring US assessment (now in the form of “new intel”) portrays Moscow as bent on total Uk…

BBC Now Calling Trans Women 'Biological Males Who Identify As Women'
These stories come in the aftermath of allegations that a small but mighty cabal of “LGBT reporters” had somehow seized control of the BBC and “censored” right-wing views.
by S. BAUM
https://open.subs…

BBC Now Calling Trans Women 'Biological Males Who Identify As Women'
These stories come in the aftermath of allegations that a small but mighty cabal of “LGBT reporters” had somehow seized control of the BBC and “censored” right-wing views.

Even #Channel4News has fallen for the frothing right wing myth that Reeves "lied". She said taxes would need to be raised. And then did it. The only leader who hasn't fallen for it is Ed Davey. #CiaranJenkins you are usually better than this. Just stop it. It's pathetically po…

Some of us have been saything this for a long time, but there can no longer be any doubt: under the Trump administration, the US is an enemy of democracy. Since taking power, Trump and his minions have:
⁃ Threatened to annex Greenland. Several times.
⁃ Meddled in the affairs of NATO allies by calling for right-wing extremist parties to come to power.
⁃ Attacked nations on other continents (including Iran and Nigeria)
⁃ Launched a military raid on Venezuela, illegally kid…

On the one hand, the GOP is doomed if we actually make it to the midterms with real elections. On the other hand, are we going to make it all the way to the midterms with real elections? These people are going to prison, and they will do whatever it takes to ensure that doesn't happen.
https://

Taniel (@taniel.bsky.social)
JUST IN: Democrats flip a red seat in the Texas Senate. Taylor Rehmet wins against Leigh Wambsganss, a conservative activist who helped lead right-wing efforts to take over TX school boards. With all early vote, and 95% of precincts, in, Dem up 57/43. Trump won this seat by 17% in Tarrant County.

Posing as an ideological compatriot, John Williams had penetrated the top ranks of two of the most prominent right-wing militias in the country.
He’d slept in the home of the man who claims to be the new head of the Oath Keepers,
rifling through his files in the middle of the night.
He’d devised elaborate ruses to gather evidence of militias’ ties to high-ranking law enforcement officials.
He’d uncovered secret operations like the surveillance of a young journalist…

The Militia and the Mole
Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter.

Not to speak ill of the newly-deceased, but holy cow 😮

How right-wing creators bend reality to their will (Caitlin Dewey/Vox)
https://www.vox.com/today-explained-newsletter/474579/minnesota-nick-shirley-somali-daycare-scandal
http://www.memeorandum.com/260109/p33#a260109p33

For right-wing people a basic concept is we against “them”. They are not against healthcare, but against healthcare for “them”. Not against the subsidized bus their mum rides but against busses for “them”. Not against grants for their dad's payments but against giving “them” money.
They are the ones God loves as they are righteous, but not “them” who are wrong. Jesus? Ok, Jesus may pity “them”, but only with a grin.
So when MAGA announced all the cuts the voters' minds re…

Predictions: how is Trump going to react? Pooh-pooh all the criticism, pretend it's a storm in a teacup, or completely melt-down?
He doesn't normally get blowback from his own side.
https://www.rawstory.com/rob-reiner-2674400641/

Piers Morgan leads charge as massive right-wing backlash hits Trump over Rob Reiner
A number of influential right-wing figures are outraged after President Donald Trump issued a “disgusting” attack on Hollywood icon Rob Reiner just hours after the discovery of the director's and his wife’s deaths, which law enforcement is investigating as a homicide.“Disgusting statement,” wrote Ro...

Warning for folks in Minneapolis / St. Paul out there active in the community today:
Neighbors have flagged this person as a right-wing agitator, spouting racist and violent BS, out harassing people and cruising for conflict. Eyes out, be aware.
I don't have any further info on their identity, sorry.
#minneapolis #msp

How Right Wing Influencers Used AI Slop to Turn Renee Good Into a Meme https://www.404media.co/ai-renee-good-kirkification-george-floyd-memes/

Imagine a "Darwin Awards" for Texans - particularly the ultra-right wing & Elon Musk.
This may be the best article you read this week.
☑️ The 2026 Bum Steer Awards
https://www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/bum-steer-awards-2026/

Analysis: YouTube's top conservative podcasters drive a boom in host-read ads targeting right-wing audiences; nearly 91% of 876 episodes had political ads (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-conservative-youtube-stars-marketing-boom/

Living in a capitalist society makes me simultaneously hate and understand some things.
Back when the Sunday shopping ban was set in Poland by one of the right-wing parties (with some exceptions for petty capitalists, of course), I was outraged. Why are they forcing their religious customs on me?! But nowadays, I do realize that in a capitalist society, where employment laws are full of loopholes and employers explicitly punish employees for taking a day off, an obligatory no-business day is the only way.
On top of that, after living next to a supermarket for a few years… this is literally the only way to have a quiet day, without cars driving, and car doors slamming all the time. And of course night time deliveries, because you obviously can't lose day's business over such things.
And what I hate even more are these multi-day holidays and long weekends, where suddenly all my routine falls apart, and I can't really enjoy holidays while the train timetable is randomly punctuated. But then, I do realize that obligatory multi-day holidays are the only way for many people to simultaneously have a day off and be able to meet their families and friends.
I'm not really compatible with the world I'm living in.
#AntiCapitalism #ActuallyAutistic

Nice to see a UK party leader demonstrate some actual compassion and care this Christmas. I'm so fed up with politicians pedaling hate and division trying to pander to terrible racism and xenophobia, trying to pick up the votes of the hateful.
This is what political leadership really is. Not following the right wing media hatred but countering it.
Zack Polanski's Christmas message is less than five minutes.
#green #christmas

Portugal's conservatives back left-wing candidate to avoid a far-right president (Aitor Hernšndez-Morales/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/portugals-conservatives-back-left-wing-candidate-to-avoid-a-far-right-president/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260202/p62#a260202p62

A look at the FOIA system, as right-wing media networks flood it with robo-requests, the number of FOIA agents stays flat, and states opt for higher fees (C.J. Robinson/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/too-many-foia-requests-too-lit…

Too many FOIA requests, too little transparency.
FOIA’s systemic problems meet partisan robo-requests.

The internet is currently awash in right-wing propaganda about alleged fraud in Minnesota’s social services programs.
Unsurprisingly, you can thank a mendacious right-wing influencer for kicking off this hysteria.
Also unsurprisingly, the Trump administration is making the most of this opportunity to kick a blue state in the teeth.
#Nick

The blame for alleged fraud in Minnesota belongs to conservatives
Privatization and a lack of oversight creates a vicious cycle.

Right-wing morons descended on the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood of Minneapolis today. Their plan was to shock and intimidate.
Fewer than a dozen showed up. Pathetic losers.

February 7, 2026 -- Yesterday two right-wing circuit judges signed off on the Trump administration's ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-7-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260208/p33#a260208p33

Sources: the Pentagon plans to host right-wing media outlets and influencers like Gateway Pundit and Laura Loomer at an in-person meet-and-greet on Monday (Scott Nover/Washington Post)

Pentagon’s right-wing, pared press corps gets a meet-and-greet
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s briefing at the Pentagon next week will welcome a new crop of media that no longer includes the mainstream press.

#Tesla lost its crown as the world’s bestselling electric vehicle maker on Friday
🔸as a customer revolt over Elon Musk’s right-wing politics,
🔸expiring U.S. tax breaks for buyers
🔸and stiff overseas competition
pushed sales down for a second year in a row.
🔥Tesla said that it delivered 1.64 million vehicles in 2025 -- down 9% from a year earlier.
Chinese rival

Tesla loses title of world's top EV maker to China rival amid customer revolt and stiff competition
Tesla lost its crown as the world’s bestselling electric vehicle maker on Friday as a customer revolt over Elon Musk’s right-wing politics, expiring U.S. tax breaks to buyers and stiff overseas competition pushed sales down for a second year in a row. Tesla said that it delivered 1.64 million vehicles in 2025, down 9% from a year ago. Chinese rival BYD, which sold 2.26 million vehicles last year, is now the biggest EV maker. For the fourth quarter, sales totaled 418,227, falling short of th…

'Sickening': Ammon Bundy slams ICE as major schism tears apart right-wing militants - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/ammon-bundy-2675068303/

Communist Party general secretary Alex Gordon told the Morning Star: “Peter Mandelson’s resignation from a Labour Party he reformed in his own image is like a man trying to resign from his own shadow. He leaves behind a party apparatus that served as a corporate career ladder dominated by vicious right-wing sectarians.
“The only resignation that matters now is that of Keir Starmer as the Prime Minister who recommended him as UK ambassador....”

Now some on the Right wing want to strip women of the right to #vote by calling for the repeal of the 19th amendment.
Why? Because #women swung last week’s elections for Democrats.
☑️ MAGA And Christian Nationalists Want To Repeal The 19th Amendment

A graduate student at the University of Oklahoma
is the latest in a growing list of college instructors to face disciplinary action
after being targeted by Turning Point USA,
the right-wing campus pressure group founded by the late Charlie Kirk.
Mel Curth, a trans psychology instructor who recently won the Department of Psychology’s Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award,
gave a zero to junior Samantha Fulnecky’s reaction paper for an assignment on “gender typicali…

State Universities Are Scrambling to Appease the Bigoted MAGA Regime
From Oklahoma to Indiana to Alabama, state schools are bending over backward—suspending student magazines and even disciplining instructors—to preemptively satisfy the Trump administration.

Josh Shapiro accuses JD Vance of giving 'comfort' to right-wing antisemitism (Allan Smith/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/josh-shapiro-accuses-jd-vance-giving-comfort-right-wing-antisemitism-rcna256261
http://www.memeorandum.com/260128/p130#a260128p130

One guess is that they got some region-based data on where the brown and Black people are, and are just going off that.
Another guess is that are targeting specific city council members. This I doubt — unless they’re getting that from local police depts, which I could totally believe.
My own theory is that they really, really, really don’t want white people to see what they’re doing, except through the eyes of the right-wing camera crews that follow them around.
Whatever it is, it’s pretty striking.
2/2

How right-wing forces struck a coordinated blow to the BBC using a single incautious Panorama edit, after years of attacks by UK conservatives on the BBC (Jem Bartholomew/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/the-plan-to-bring-down-a-giant.php…

The Plan to Bring Down a Giant: How right-wing forces struck a coordinated blow to the BBC.
How right-wing forces struck a coordinated blow to the BBC.

When Elon Musk’s social media platform X launched a contest to promote its “Articles” feature,
the guidelines were explicit: Submissions “must not contain political, or religious statements.”
But when the company announced the winners on Tuesday, the results appeared to contradict those rules.
While the stated criteria emphasized high-quality writing and nonpolitical content,
more than $2 million in prize money largely flowed to users ranging from popular right-wing …

X awards $1 million prize to creator with history of racist posts
X said it would give $1 million to a user who had previously shared racist posts, including one supporting Hitler.

Bad news from America.
In Honduras the left's candidate has been defeated, bringing an end to a progressive term.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/2/trump-cries-foul-over-technical-tie-in-honduras-pr…

Trump cries foul over ‘technical tie’ in Honduras presidential race
The latest vote count has Trump’s favoured right-wing candidate Nasry Asfura just 515 ballots ahead of his rival.

No, @…, emphasizing the safety of vaccines is not a strawman. For everlasting fuck’s sake.
Come back to planet Earth, where:
- scare-mongering about vaccines is running rampant,
- right-wing propaganda is intentionally fueling that fear for profiteering and political gain,
- parents are very clearly afraid of the vaccines themselves right now,
- diseases like measles are making a return because of that fear, and
- people are dying as a result.
Your post is a non-sequitur. Whatever stick you have up your butt about lockdowns or whatever this post was about, please keep that stick in your butt and out of vaccine safety discussions. https://mastodon.online/@dennmans/115631732594437886

German far-right party sets up its new youth wing as thousands protest (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/germany-far-right-afd-youth-organization-protests-53265d4217f54ad0b8669be549b9731a
http://www.memeorandum.com/251130/p2#a251130p2

Remarkable.
[for those who haven't followed this story, Linehan went from being a beloved comic writer to being a despised anti-trans activist]

JTN Networks, parent company of Just the News, acquires The Post Millennial and Human Events, which has been featuring columns and podcasts from Jack Posobiec (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/11/right-wing-media-brands-merge-j…

JTN Networks Acquires Post Millennial And Human Events In Union Of Brands On The Right
JTN Networks, the parent company of Just the News, has acquired the Human Events and The Post Millennial, uniting news brands on the right. Human Events, which was founded in 1944 and has more recently featured columns and podcasts from Jack Posobiec, the MAGA influencer, will end daily publication this month and will be transformed […]

This — exactly this! — and also note first and note repeatedly that the racist right-wing video about Somali daycare is a bunch of bullshit. They don’t appear to have even found any fraud at all. (They visited day cares before they open and cried “scandal!!” because there’s no kids there, stuff like that.)
It’s •exactly• what Needham says (via @…), and it doesn’t even matter what really happened. Create chaos, invent fraud, lie to justify more chaos, repeat. https://journa.host/@atrupar/115826096367870411

Tensions over right-wing antisemitism have burst to the forefront of Republican politics,
and show signs of becoming a fierce point of contention in the midterms and beyond.
For years, Jewish Republicans often denied that the right had a serious problem with antisemitism,
pointing instead to anti-Jewish bigotry on the left and celebrating President Trump’s support for Israel.
But now that problem is staring them directly in the face.
Tensions over antisemitism in…

Why Republicans Are Fighting About the Nazis
Tensions over right-wing antisemitism have burst to the forefront of Republican politics, and show signs of becoming a fierce point of contention in the midterms and beyond.

Senators Want Extremism Researchers to Surrender Documents Linked to Right-Wing Grudges (Ali Winston/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/senators-want-extremism-researchers-to-surrender-documents-linked-to-right-wing-grudges/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251122/p37#a251122p37

"Although the leftist alliance led by Jeannette Jara of the Communist Party, who served as Boric’s labor minister, is ahead in the opinion polls, she will not get an outright majority in the first round as Boric did.  And a collection of right-wing parties is likely to combine their vote and get Kast into the presidential office in the second round in December."

Chile: another turn to the right?
Chile has a general election today. Around 15m voters can take part in the first round to elect a new president, the lower house and half the seats of the senate. Incumbent President Gabriel Boric,…

Conservatives who once railed against federal agents now applaud them
Trump is deploying some of the government’s policing agencies as an armed presidential force
— sending Immigration and Customs Enforcement,
the Border Patrol,
the National Guard, and others
into areas he considers in need of pacification,
from Los Angeles
to Portland, Oregon,
to Minneapolis.
Many on the right are applauding the crackdown.

The turnabout highlight…

Conservatives who once railed against federal agents now applaud them
Since Ruby Ridge and Waco, some right-wing populists had excoriated federal law enforcement. Now those agents are being deployed by their allies.

"Trump told right-wing anchor Katie Pavlich on NewsNation, “I don’t think it is [time to invoke it] yet. It might be at some point. **It does make life a lot easier. You don’t go through the court system. It’s just a much easier thing to do.**”
Trump just let slip the real reason he wants to use the Insurrection Act: analyst - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-insurrection-act-2674975261/

As explicit right-wing antisemitism continues its rise to dominate mainstream conservative institutions,
the brief period where the Trump administration even pretends to care about "fighting antisemitism" is snapping shut
in favor of stepping up the xenophobic racism even further.
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Rats Flee Floating Ship
You might have heard the story break that the Heritage Foundation, America's leading right wing "think tank", has just been hit with a rush ...

The rise of the slopagandist ... The violent federal occupation of Minneapolis ... (Mia Sato/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/869824/right-wing-influencers-nick-shirley-slopaganda?view_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6Ik9ybzNhRTVkV3IiLCJwIjoiL25ld3MvODY5ODI0L3JpZ2h0LXdpbmctaW5mbHVlbmNlcnMtbmljay1zaGlybGV5LXNsb3BhZ2FuZGEiLCJleHAiOjE3NzAxMzQ3NzUsImlhdCI6MTc2OTcwMjc3NX0.pSvXmTL-Bp-zqeCeqOavGJFU-selnaL2kD0VNRJaH08&utm_medium=gift-link
http://www.memeorandum.com/260129/p71#a260129p71

Right-wing media is at war with itself as Tim Pool and others accuse Candace Owens of sabotaging MAGA with her conspiracy theories about Charlie Kirk's killing (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/12/16/candace-…

She was MAGA’s favorite conspiracist. Then she dug into Charlie Kirk’s killing.
The right-wing firebrand rose to prominence as a pro-Trump conspiracy theorist. Her latest claims have infuriated some of her former allies.

It is always disturbing when MAGA politicians go off halfcocked about socialism.
Here are some of the “radical left” socialist programs that Warner must be complaining about:
Medicare
Medicaid
The Affordable Care Act
Social Security
SNAP (food stamps)
Meals on Wheels and Office of Aging services
Every single one of these programs was once characterized by right-wing politicians as a
“socialist program.”

This MAGA politician's disturbing rant shows a party hellbent on hurting its own
“It is hard to watch other states and cities across our nation leap toward socialism… Let’s keep our state moving forward by always rejecting the falsehoods sold by the radical left.” — Secretary of State Kris Warner, Facebook post, November 5, 2025. Although I should be accustomed to it, it is alw...

Unnamed Source in Viral Minnesota Somali Fraud Video Is Right-Wing Lobbyist Who Called Muslims "Demons" (Jacqueline Sweet/The Intercept)
https://theintercept.com/2026/01/03/minnesota-fraud-video-somalis-nick-shirley-source/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260103/p20#a260103p20

Rand Paul, the Senate homeland security committee's chair has requested that multiple academic research centers focused on political extremism
hand over years worth of documentation on
federal watch list programs,
the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol,
vaccine mandates,
the 2020 election,
and Trump supporters,
according to information obtained by WIRED.

Senators Want Extremism Researchers to Surrender Documents Linked to Right-Wing Grudges
The Senate homeland security committee's chair has asked researchers to turn over troves of documents related to the January 6 attack, vaccines, and more, according to a letter reviewed by WIRED.

How right-wing influencers are bending reality in Minneapolis (Christian Paz/Vox)
https://www.vox.com/politics/475361/minneapolis-right-wing-influencers-journalist-ice-reality-immigration-social-media-internet
http://www.memeorandum.com/260115/p112#a260115p112

US right-wing media first ignored the new Epstein emails, then was unified in focusing on a redacted name, showing how aligned it is with elected Republicans (Ken Bensinger/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/business/media/epstei…

Conservative Media Picks an Epstein Story Line and Sticks to It
Right-wing outlets have focused on a single redacted name in the 23,000 pages of correspondence related to Jeffrey Epstein that were released on Wednesday.

‘You have 24 hours’: Dem lawmaker puts right-wing commentator on notice - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/eric-swalwell-2674904927/

The Trump regime is part of a long project,
funded by an ever-changing group of filthy rich right-wing White people.
One of their first overt steps was taking control of SCOTUS.
https://mastoreader.io/?url=https:%2F/c.im/@cdarwin/115828…

Right-wing media are describing pro-immigrant Minnesota activists using the language of war (Media Matters for America)
https://www.mediamatters.org/immigration/right-wing-media-are-describing-pro-immigrant-minnesota-activists-using-language-war
http://www.memeorandum.com/260116/p114#a260116p114

Donald Trump said that his party should seize control of elections in ‘at least 15 places’
and brazenly repeated a number of blatant lies about his electoral history in Minnesota and Georgia
during a Monday phone interview with a right-wing podcaster who briefly served in a top FBI role last year.
Trump, who continues to falsely insist that he won the 2020 election despite having lost to successor-turned-predecessor Joe Biden by wide margins in both the popular and electora…

Trump calls in to Dan Bongino’s first show and insists Republicans must ‘take over voting’ in 15 places
Trump has never won Minnesota’s electoral votes and lost Georgia’s electoral votes in 2020

Conservatives who once railed against federal agents now applaud them (Naftali Bendavid/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/01/23/right-wing-federal-agents-ice-immigrants/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260123/p17#a260123p17

These stories are relentless, and even when we aren’t seeing ICE with our own eyes, we’re carrying the weight of hearing these stories — carrying each other’s burden of witness. The story-sharing is both a part of the weight we carry and a part of the healing we do together.
It’s hard. But I do feel like I repaired something in myself over the weekend, first watching the right-wing hate march get humiliated and then making time with friends.
Ready to continue.
/end

Stephen Miller is descended from Russian Jews
—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable.
Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and unassimilable.
In a series of tweets, interviews in right-wing media, and statements made elsewhere,
Miller has outlined an elaborate worldview that has escaped notice in the mainstream media.
It casts immigrants as a threat to “civilization” in terms …

Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State
He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and unassimilable. How far will Miller’s sadistic designs go?

As the nation staggers toward the 2026 round of midterm elections,
the threats to the integrity of U.S. democracy
— already a veritable hailstorm of partisan contention
— have escalated dramatically under the second Trump administration,
attaining something like hurricane force.
Owing to the fevered narratives proliferating across right-wing media,
many have come to believe that the nation faces a scourge of “illegal” voting and wide-scale fraud.
Bu…

Trump DOJ Sues to Force States to Share Confidential Voter Data
Trump’s Department of Justice is suing over 20 states in a bid to open voter rolls to purges via federal challenges.

A look at DHS and ICE's social media efforts, which are propelled by the White House's demands to "flood the airwaves" and make use of right-wing influencers (Washington Post)

Inside ICE’s social media machine creating viral arrest videos
Thousands of internal ICE messages show how its public affairs team has coordinated with the White House to satisfy Trump administration demands for viral arrest videos

Trump is unpopular in Europe -- even among right-wing populist supporters, POLITICO Poll shows (Hanne Cokelaere/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/politico-poll-international-populism-donald-trump/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251230/p26#a251230p26

Tim Walz here.
𝗘𝗹𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗸 𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗴𝗼 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝙖𝙜𝙖𝙞𝙣. 
Just this week, both Mike Lindell and Elon Musk have called for my imprisonment.
But while they’re focusing on fueling Twitter battles and unleashing right-wing bots,
I’m focused on securing a better future for every Minnesotan.
That’s my priority, and it always will be.
Our end-of-year deadline is coming up tonight at midnight,
and folks like Elon and Mike are going to be watching …

The Liberty Justice Center
is the litigation arm of the
right-wing Illinois Policy Institute.
It has aggressively backed legal attacks on labor unions
(including the landmark Janus v. AFSCME Supreme Court case),
attacked gun safety measures,
and promoted policies that undermine public schools, such as taxpayer-funded vouchers.

The Liberty Justice Center received $1 million in 2021 from the Marcus Foundation,
a charitable giving nonprofit run b…

Liberty Justice Center | Supreme Transparency
The Liberty Justice Center is the litigation arm of the right-wing Illinois Policy Institute. It has aggressively backed legal attacks on labor unions (including the landmark Janus v. AFSCME Supreme Court case), attacked gun safety measures, and promoted policies that undermine public schools, such as taxpayer-funded vouchers.

Analysis: YouTube's top conservative podcasters are driving a boom in host-read ads targeting right-wing audiences; nearly 91% of 876 episodes had political ads (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-conservative-youtube-stars-marketing-boo…

Brother labels suspect who attacked Ilhan Omar a 'right-wing extremist' who has hated Somalis for decades (Justin Rohrlich/The Independent)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/ilhan-omar-attack-anthony-kazmierczak-brother-b2909613.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260128/p94#a260128p94

RE Mike Lee’s execrable proposal for "Pirates of the Caribbean "
a few days ago
—it’s bad, but
sadly in line with the right-wing movement to expand private actors’ privilege to use violence.
Darrell Miller wrote about this in what we called
“the new outlawry”
https://www.

THE NEW OUTLAWRY - Columbia Law Review
Introduction From subtle shifts in the procedural mechanics of self-defense doctrine to substantive expansions of justified lethal force, many red-state legislatures across the country are delegating larger amounts of “violence work” to the private sphere. In the wake of antiracism protests in summer 2020, Republican-dominated legislatures proposed a slew of such measures. The measures provide […]

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni remains confident, despite legal setbacks,
that the deportation facilities in Albania, promoted by her right-wing government, will function as planned.
Meloni pointed to an agreement within the EU on a tougher stance on migration.
The EU states recently agreed in Brussels to increase pressure on rejected asylum seekers and deport them more efficiently.
Return centres in countries outside the EU should also be possible in the future…

Meloni says Italian deportation camps in Albania will work - EUROPE SAYS
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni remains confident, despite legal setbacks, that the deportation facilities in Albania, promoted by her right-wing

TV Republika, the largest right-wing broadcaster in Poland, plans an English-language channel, seeking to fill a market gap in Europe for MAGA-aligned outlets (Raphael Minder/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/fec67146-0654-4104-a2cc-d354feb0e6c1

New York City housing advocate
Patrick Markee’s new book,
"Placeless: Homelessness in the New Gilded Age,"
looks at homelessness through the lens of housing affordability.
Homelessness, which affects millions across the United States,
“has roots in structural economic changes, right-wing economic policies and systemic racism,”
explains Markee.
“There’s a reason that other advanced capitalist countries in this world … don’t have the levels…

Homelessness Is About Affordability: Author Patrick Markee on the Housing Crisis in “New Gilded Age”
New York City housing advocate Patrick Markee’s new book, Placeless: Homelessness in the New Gilded Age, looks at homelessness through the lens of housing affordability. Homelessness, which affects millions across the United States, “has roots in structural economic changes, right-wing economic policies and systemic racism,” explains Markee. “There’s a reason that other advanced capitalist countries in this world … don’t have the levels of homelessness that we have, and that’s b…

She helped him flee a rally, then learned he was a right-wing provocateur (Praveena Somasundaram/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/01/19/jake-lang-minneapolis-march/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260119/p105#a260119p105

Websites including YouTube and TikTok this week
removed posts of a CBS News
“60 Minutes” segment on a notorious prison in El Salvador,
where Trump the administration has been illegally deporting Venezuelan immigrants,
after being notified that publishing the clip violated parent company’s copyright.
The segment on the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT)
—which was intended to air on Sunday’s episode of “60 Minutes”
—was pulled by right-wing CBS News ed…

YouTube, TikTok Deleted ‘60 Minutes’ CECOT Clips Amid Paramount Takedown Push | Common Dreams
The segment on the notorious torture prison—where the Trump administration has been unlawfully deporting Venezuelans—went viral on social media after being inadvertently aired in Canada.

Tech journalist Gil Duran outlines a disturbing theory
that a growing number of Silicon Valley elites are pursuing a vision of power
not rooted in the common good,
but in profit, feudal hierarchy, and total control of the platforms that define daily life for hundreds of millions of people.
Duran dubs this emerging ideology the “Nerd Reich”
— a slurry of right-wing ideas championed by ruthless tech overlords like
Palantir founder Peter Thiel,
Tesla an…

Why tech billionaires want a ‘corporate dictatorship’
Guest host Jon Fortt and The Nerd Reich author Gil Duran discuss why Silicon Valley wants a king so badly.

Christian nationalist pastor says that wives must submit to their husbands
with "a sense of fear, and trembling, and awe ...
not only in things she agrees with, but in everything":
"She belongs to him. He owns her."
https://bsky.app/profile/rightwingwatc…

Right Wing Watch (@rightwingwatch.bsky.social)
Christian nationalist pastor says that wives must submit to their husbands with "a sense of fear, and trembling, and awe ... not only in things she agrees with, but in everything": "She belongs to him. He owns her."