Jeff Sharlet
@JeffSharlet
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NYT Bestseller THE UNDERTOW: Scenes from a Slow Civil War. THE FAMILY (book & Netflix). THIS BRILLIANT DARKNESS. Words+pics @VanityFair. Teach @Dartmouth.
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Joined June 2008
Gorgeous prose from Brendilou Armstrong, latest in a series of stories by new writers reported for a @dartmouth course on documenting small corners of the Trumpocene. (Detail from photo by Matt Black, Armstrong's inspiration.) https://t.co/IpI82GScBp...
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Masked federal agent throws chemical irritants outside Logan Square grocery store: 'My eyes are burning' https://t.co/B0iWAvnHka via @MoSamra16
chicago.suntimes.com
Video taken by several witnesses captured the moments where the agent can be seen dropping a canister from a white SUV.
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Agents then moved into a residential block where Chicago police began forcing individuals back.
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Federal agents armed with pepper spray were seen giving warnings to individuals in Little Village Saturday. One agent appeared like he was going to toss a tear gas canister but ultimately didn’t.
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The big news--bigger than Comey, bigger than shutdown--is yesterday's Terror Memo, a blueprint for massive escalation. I gave it a close read. https://t.co/rac1oVKSp8
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Steuern die USA nach dem Mord an Charlie Kirk auf einen Bürgerkrieg zu? Der Autor Jeff Sharlet hat sich lange mit dem Szenario beschäftigt. Hier erklärt er seine Sicht.
zeit.de
Steuern die USA nach dem Mord an Charlie Kirk auf einen Bürgerkrieg zu? Der Autor Jeff Sharlet hat sich lange mit dem Szenario beschäftigt. Hier erklärt er seine Sicht.
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Charlie Kirk assassination metaphor from @JeffSharlet : a torch thrown into high grass already on fire. “The question is how high it’s gonna burn and how much destruction it’s gonna do…This is high wind on the flames, if not gasoline.”
thetrace.org
Jeff Sharlet, the author of ‘The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War,’ talked to The Trace about making sense of this tense moment.
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How do you know you’re actually in a cult? #ShinyHappyPeople is now streaming on @PrimeVideo.
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Thanks to Religion Dispatches for republishing my article on Vance Boelter's theological background. https://t.co/RajLEhrju7
religiondispatches.org
Above is a photograph I took in March 2024 of the lobby of Christ for the Nations Institute, a Bible college in Dallas that the Minnesota political murders suspect, Vance Boelter, appears online to...
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"Metaphors don’t just reflect reality, they shape it. Like actual war, spiritual war presupposes an enemy so dangerous and so unreasonable that violence is the only logical response." @JeffSharlet
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I realized I'd been to the Bible college to which the Minnesota assassin attributes his Christian education, so I wrote about its violent theology.
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I realized I'd been to the Bible college to which the Minnesota assassin attributes his Christian education, so I wrote about its violent theology.
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Don’t Take the Bait — Kristi Noem and Fascism’s Sadistic Eroticization of Power ( from @JeffSharlet) https://t.co/GIXISSSP13
religiondispatches.org
The image above is an altered detail from a video posted on X by Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, along with a series of still photographs from her tour of the El Salvador prison to which...
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Lee Hays was born on this day in 1914! As @jeffsharlet wrote for Issue 58, “Lee was a believer…But Lee’s god wasn’t God, it was ‘The People,’ that great abstract many-faced mass.” Read more: https://t.co/Uy5yUJICSa
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Venturing back here into the X Contaminated Zone to say I’m over at bsky, and you could cede every critique of it + acknowledge lingering usefulness of this place, & the new place is still better. See you there, I hope.
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"This is how Trumpism laughs," Sharlet said. "UFC — the melodrama of wrestling, the very real stakes of very real violence — is the embodiment of Trumpism's joking/not-joking rhetorical style. Can't you take a joke? Can't you take a punch? Let's find out."
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