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Christopher F. Rufo A @realchrisrufo • 2h We have successfully frozen their brand-"critical race theory"-into the public conversation and are steadily driving up negative perceptions. We will eventually turn it toxic, as we put all of the various cultural insanities under that brand category. 25 LY 56 ~ 498 ث Christopher F. Rufo X @realchrisrufo Replying to @realchrisrufo and @ConceptualJames The goal is to have the public read something crazy in the newspaper and immediately think "critical race theory." We have decodified the term and will recodify it to annex the entire range of cultural constructions that are unpopular with Americans. 3:17 PM • Mar 15, 2021 • Twitter Web App 20 Retweets 1 Quote Tweet 291 Likes

Chris Rufo famously laid out the plan in a pair of tweets in 2021, but it never would’ve succeeded without enthusiastic support from the centrist wing of the Opinionati, who sanitized and amplified the RW talking point that the Left™ had “gone too far.”

The problem with "culture war is a distraction from class war" is that "culture war" isn't an abstraction and the people harmed by institutional bigotry are every bit as real as the people harmed by wealth and income hoarding.

In fact, they're often the same people.

Culture war IS class war.

This whole thread.

It's all connected.

None of these struggles exist alone. Care about everyone. Work on every axis of oppression.

Oppression is intersectional, and so then the fight against it must also be.

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Still no censure of Tommy Tuberville, Randy Fine, or Andy Ogles, who are openly promoting hate against Muslims while the US is bombing Iran, killing the Ayatollah, and people like Lindsey Graham are calling it a "religious war" DURING RAMADAN.

How do you think this all ends, folks?

A striking feature of Trump and his team is: they somehow imagine a world in which they are the only actors, only ones with power, and whether it's Tehran or Minneapolis are surprised when it turns out others do. There are many kinds of power and many nations with power.

This admittedly humanities-ignorant CHILD was one of two tasked by DOGE to go through open #NEH grants and decide which could go on the chopping block. They have since left the government to start a technology company called Special. Don't know what that is, but let's ensure it fails. /2 #DOGE

When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities

Oh boy. A real doozy. If you haven't been following the @nehgov.bsky.social fiasco, this gift article will catch up up. If you have been following, prepare to have your rage stoked all over again. As one of the recipients of a cancelled grant, I have some thoughts /1
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...

Nathan Cavanaugh Deposition in ACLS-AHA-MLA Lawsuit About the NEH, Part 2 of 6 YouTube video by American Historical Association

The discussion to review the #NEH for #DOGE cuts lasted one minute, according to deposition with Nate Cavanaugh. It was not one of the agencies singled out by Executive Order but one "proactively" chosen as a potential "useless agency" and a place to make cuts.
youtu.be/6AprpPJ1Cmc?...

"Cars are the most absurd means of transport in a city. They are parked 95 per cent of the time. It takes two tonnes to move someone who weighs 70 kilogrammes. And the denser the city, the more absurd it is."

How Paris beat the car Though chaotic, the city’s transition has become a global role model

How Paris beat the car ft.trib.al/9wq8tu9 | opinion

Scott Bessent got called away to the Situation Room mid-interview.

When he got back, he was asked what was happening. Bessent said Trump was in "great spirits."

He then randomly volunteered that he had a teen "considering military service" and would trust his child's life with Trump and Hegseth.

U.S. Plan to Unblock Strait of Hormuz Collides With Realities of Global Insurance The U.S.-centric insurance idea runs counter to the realities of an international market, according to industry executives.

"U.S. officials called London insurers and brokers, trying to figure out how the market operates, industry insiders said."

When applied to the current administration, I urge caution in using terms like "plans," "strategy," "policy," or "doctrine."

www.wsj.com/finance/u-s-...

Again, leaders of other countries don’t talk this way. The glee with which our current leaders talk about killing people is not normal, and nor is their lack of concern for who exactly we’re killing. American bombs incinerated 100 kids in Minab. Were those the “right people”?

SIXTY FIVE SCHOOLS
FOURTEEN HOSPITALS

okay but what about this thoughtful, persuasive response from our decaying president

(WTI crude oil is currently at $114.71, double what it was at the beginning of 2026)

Investors are not ready for a true shock The consensus view of the impact of the Iran war on equities and bonds may well prove too sanguine

Investors are not ready for a true shock ft.trib.al/tWMyNkv | opinion

Trump’s War now providing a massive influx of cash for Iran’s ally Russia so they can continue to bomb civilians in Ukraine while we ask Ukraine for help against Iranian drones. Trump’s foreign policy in a nutshell.

“War-a-Lago”

By Barry Blitt @newyorker.com

nyt website currently resembles one of those mock covers people made before 2016 election: economy floundering, war in the middle east, scandal-plagued cabinet sec, brazen corruption....

Putin's GRU-linked Election Fixers Are Already in Budapest to Help Orbán - VSquare.org Moscow has dispatched a team to Budapest to interfere in Hungary's April 2026 parliamentary elections, VSquare has learned from multiple European national security sources. The operation, overseen by ...

💥Moscow has sent a task team to interfere in Hungary's April 2026 elections, @vsquare.bsky.social has learned from multiple European national security sources. The US has also shared intelligence with allies on the GRU-linked task force overseen by Sergei Kiriyenko. vsquare.org/putins-gru-l...

Kristi Noem has done a stunning amount of damage and it’s good she’s gone.

But this doesn’t change the fact that we need a complete overhaul of DHS, impartial investigations into the killings of two American citizens, and information on children that were taken from Minnesota.

The House just defeated the Massie-Khanna War Powers Resolution on Iran.

Crosses, reportedly, were-
R's voting yes: Massie, Davidson (R-OH)
D's voting no: Golden, Landsman, Cuellar, Vargas

And now here we are.. Trump starts a war without congressional approval or approval from the majority of Americans, but now we have to pay the full bill for whatever he decides he wants to do because it would be unpatriotic not to let Trump do whatever he wants with our money.

In Defense of Effeminate Boys If anyone had suggested that I might really be a girl, I don’t know how I would have responded. By Ben Appel

If medical authorities have a rigorous way of distinguishing effeminate boys from transgender kids—or of distinguishing transgender kids from proto-gay kids—they aren’t saying. I have met a number of detransitioned gay men who tried to live as women for a time because they and their families were so averse to homosexuality. According to a 2019 report in The Times of London, staffers at Britain’s foremost gender-identity clinic joked darkly that, as a result of the facility’s work, “there would be no gay people left.” A statement last month by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons noted that there is no validated way to assess whether a child’s gender distress will persist over time or disappear without medical intervention. A lack of good research and recordkeeping means that we may never know how many patients who would have been considered effeminate gay boys not so long ago have undergone medical treatments for gender dysphoria.

Absolute trash. The author did not speak to a single medical professional and the article does not contain a shred of evidence that effeminate gay boys are being bamboozled into thinking they're trans.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The State Department literally published this hotline number on the "You Need To Get Out" post but apparently when you call it all you hear is "lol good luck suckers"

Paperback edition of There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America by Brian Goldstone

Today the paperback of THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US is out.

It's arriving in a country once again waging war—a country that can spend tens of billions on bombs without blinking, while millions of Americans are one missed paycheck, one rent hike away from homelessness.

Let's take stock of where we are.

Uh Marco...you already killed the leader and supposedly obliterated the nuclear capability months ago...what do you plan to take apart?

Murdering more civilians? That seems to be what Trump and Netanyahu like to do best.

2000lb bombs in built up areas results in lots of dead civilians. Don’t let anyone tell you any different folks!

This is terrifying. Gaza all over again.

Marco Rubio: "You're about to see -- we're gonna unleash on these people over the next few hours and days. You're gonna really begin to perceive a change in the scope and in the intensity of these attacks as the two most powerful air forces in the world take apart this terroristic regime."