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Seth Cotlar

@sethcotlar.bsky.social wrld.org
Teaches US History at Willamette Univ. Working on a book about the long history of the US Right. https://rightlandia.ghost.io/
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Seth Cotlar Just Now

Gosh, I wonder if Rufo's endorsement of DeSantis has anything to do with the fact that DeSantis appointed Rufo in 2023 to be the head arsonist in charge of destroying New College in Florida?

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Seth Cotlar 2d

Matt Gaetz, Trump’s first pick for AG remember, has been on a bigoted and authoritarian posting spree since the election. Just a reminder that the GOP is now the ideological kin of far right, fascist-descended parties like the AfD, LePen’s RN in France, or Meloni’s party in Italy.

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Seth Cotlar 3d

Leave it to MAGA pastor Eric Metaxas to suss out the vast conspiracy on the part of Republican-controlled Texas to fabricate 3 million fraudulent votes so as to enable Democrats to win the state.

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Seth Cotlar 3d

Over on X, MAGA influencers have started making long lists of prominent people who supposedly betrayed the movement and are responsible for what happened on Tuesday. Seems like a sign of a totally healthy and normal movement.

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Seth Cotlar 1w

Ninety five Theses. That’s a lot of theses, more than anyone had ever seen before. Anyway, Martin Luther was a great man. I think Martin Luther King was named for him, but I’m not sure. Is Tim Scott here? He’d know. But anyway, he nailed the hell outa those theses. www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-st...

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Presidential Message on Reformation Day
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Seth Cotlar 2w

Elon’s PAC has the Twitter handle of “America,” which means it appears that “America” wants you to vote for Republicans. That PAC also runs a website called VoteSafe which, ironically, shares the personal information you submit there with third parties.

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Seth Cotlar 2w

RFK just doubled down on this racist argument with a ridiculously long and clearly AI-generated history lesson on X, illustrated by this chart comparing the number of Jewish Nobel winners to Muslims. JFC dude, leave us out of your bigoted bullshit.

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Seth Cotlar 2w

In the mind of an American Christian Nationalist, there is nothing contradictory or hypocritical about this post. To someone who understands what religious pluralism is, this post by the US State Department is obviously self-undermining.

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Seth Cotlar 2w

Just a US Senator retweeting a self-proclaimed “expert” on the left who openly refers to herself as a “fascist.”

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Seth Cotlar 2w

In the 1920s the DAR had a blacklist that included organizations like the National Catholic Welfare Council, the League of Jewish Women, and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

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Seth Cotlar 2w

This is an interesting take on the burning of Hitler’s Eagles Nest by the leader of the right wing street fighting group that the current president told to “stand back and stand by” a few months before January 6 and then pardoned after he was reelected in 2024.

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I’m currently in Strasbourg so I went into town to check out the protests today. This summary from a local outlet squares with what I saw. www.instagram.com/p/De4onJJDk8...

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Seth Cotlar 3w

This description undersells the racism of this video Trump posted. It’s David Duke/Klan level racism.

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Seth Cotlar 3w

For saying the same things Donald Trump and the White House have said today, a French white nationalist influencer was demonetized on virtually every major platform. That is how extreme this president is. Say the same thing as a private citizen, and adult society deems you to be an outlying freak.

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Seth Cotlar 3w

So it appears that a far right Oregon street thug with a penchant for the German far right (past and present) is now a de facto assignment editor for Bari’s CBS. He’s the MAGA maniac who cooked up that bogus mental health “evidence” re. Talarico.

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Seth Cotlar 3w

Great write up about this Oregon far right extremist. FWIW, he seems to have contacts high enough up at X to get a disabled person he dislikes banned.

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You’d think a picture of Kristi Noem, a dog, and a gun would elicit a big response. Instead, it’s mostly Crickets.

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Seth Cotlar 4w

The Oregon far right activist who cooked up the fake “Talarico was in a mental health facility in Ohio” story has now moved on to fantasizing about “hunting down” Ilhan Omar.

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Seth Cotlar 4w

I’d say that dissertations will be written about this AI video of Marsha Blackburn appropriating Kendrick Lamar’s “They not like us” for her gubernatorial campaign, but it’s so pathetically obvious what’s happening here that cultural analysis is almost unnecessary.

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Seth Cotlar 4w

Seems like a good time to recall that in 2019 Laura Loomer traveled to Ilhan Omar's district with fellow "journalists" Ali Alexander (of Stop the Steal fame) and Jacob Wohl (of "hipster coffee shop" fame) to create a range of false stories meant to discredit Rep. Omar www.indy100.com/news/ilhan-o...

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