Jeff Sharlet

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Author, NYT bestsellers THE UNDERTOW: Scenes from a Slow Civil War & THE FAMILY, also a Netflix series. + other books. My fave is THIS BRILLIANT DARKNESS. Words & pics Vanity Fair. Professsing, Dartmouth. He/Him.

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I wrote about Biden, Bannon and Joan Didion, plus World War Z, in order to figure out what I think Is to Be Done.

The Great Denialopen.substack.com Didion, Biden, Bannon, and that scary ticking sound

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i talked to the great @jeffsharlet.bsky.social, author of "the undertow: scenes from a slow civil war," about the state of america 2024, how our media continues to fail us, and his thoughts on alex garland's "civil war" and why the people who don't like it are wrong (ok that last bit may be me)

‎The New Abnormal: Who’s on Top as Trump’s Veepstakes Reaches Its Zenith? on Apple Podcastspodcasts.apple.com ‎Show The New Abnormal, Ep Who’s on Top as Trump’s Veepstakes Reaches Its Zenith? - Jul 1, 2024

My bet is tonight Trump's going to try a variation on what I've been thinking of his urban campaign--pretending he has broad BIPOC support to reassure white voters elsewhere. I just wrote about this racist tactic as applied in Philadelphia: open.substack.com/pub/jeffshar...

Dark Heart of the Blue Cityopen.substack.com The white supremacist strategy behind Trump's urban campaign

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Today's #MustReads: ‘Hello, Trump Warriors!’ Little-Known Preachers and Rabble Rousers are the Unregulated Id of the Felon’s First Rally religiondispatches.org/hello-trump-... by @jeffsharlet.bsky.social

'Hello, Trump Warriors!' Little-Known Preachers and Rabble Rousers are the Unregulated Id of the Felon's First Rallyreligiondispatches.org “I don’t care about you, I just want your vote.” That’s the clip from Trump’s Sunday rally in Vegas that went viral: ex-president, navy blazer; open-necked white shirt, the sagging orange lizard hide...

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What?!? "American has previously issued new flight attendants a 'courtesy' letter..In it, the company says that flight attendants only earn $27,315, and asks the reader to provide courtesy where they can. Having dealt with landlords, I’m sure they’ll all accept this piece of paper in lieu of rent."

I knew flight attendants get screwed with pay per “flight hour” but I really did not know just how little they take home. These are below poverty wages for what is a stressful, full time job

American Airlines Flight Attendants Can't Afford Food, Shelterjalopnik.com Flight attendants earn just $27,315 a year, and are ready to strike about it

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When you’re so eternally online that you become an arbiter of all things left while fascism is marching through town, maybe go outside for a while.

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Gadz this is awful. Must read. by Jeff Sharlet.

"'It’ll break out in violence,' he says matter-of-factly, as if bloodshed were just tomorrow’s weather."

Hello, Trump Warriors!jeffsharlet.substack.com Dreaming of war and bullshit at the felon's first rally

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First heard of Jeff through Sam Seder and The Majority Report. As always, great (yet absolutely terrifying) insights, as well as a great point we all gotta remember: Don't take them literally because it's easy to dunk on the nonsense, but take it seriously because the silliness hides violent intent.

I was going to go to Vegas to report Trump's first rally as a felon--not for "news" but to listen for tone, for the mood of fascism as it mutates. But I decided it was too hot, so I stayed in VT & watched 5 hrs of it from an obscure rightwing network. And I made pictures... 1/

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Jeff Sharlet can take the darkest subject and alchemize it into some of the most beautiful prose you'll ever read

I read the room at Trump's Las Vegas shit show. That's literally what it was: the word of the day was "bullshit." My latest: "Hello, Trump Warriors": Dreaming of War and Bullshit at The Felon's First Rally open.substack.com/pub/jeffshar...

Hello, Trump Warriors!open.substack.com Dreaming of war and bullshit at the felon's first rally

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The topic is horrific, but god, reading the words is such a pleasure. Always read Jeff Sharlet when you have the chance.

Hello, Trump Warriors!open.substack.com Dreaming of war and bullshit at the felon's first rally

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New in my (newish) newsletter: The Armageddon Club, feat. the end-times, Trump, demons, flags, and some reporting from @jeffsharlet.bsky.social. the-looking-glass-1.ghost.io/the-armagedd...

The Armageddon Clubthe-looking-glass-1.ghost.io I've written for many years about Christian Zionism, the turbocharged force in American evangelicalism that has one foot firmly in US foreign policy and the other enmeshed in apocalyptic fantasies abo...

Hello, Trump Warriors!open.substack.com Dreaming of war and bullshit at the felon's first rally

Scenes from a Slow Civil War is a new thing I started to draw on my 20 years experience reporting on the Right in a quick-turnaround way this terrifying election year. Three posts, much more TK. If my reporting's been useful to you, please give it a look. jeffsharlet.substack.com

Scenes from a Slow Civil War | Jeff Sharlet | Substackjeffsharlet.substack.com I reported Trump '16 and '20 for magazines & in my book THE UNDERTOW: Scenes from a Slow Civil War. I was going to sit '24 out, but the slow civil war is speeding up. Click to read Scenes from a Slow ...

I've just posted the first entry of a new column I'll write occasionally, "Enemies of the People," rounding up good journalism about Trumpism & other threats to democracy. jeffsharlet.substack.com/p/enemies-of...

"Enemies of the People"jeffsharlet.substack.com The best of the press on threats to democracy

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Don't worry kids, it's just an awkward coincidence that major news outlets like @washingtonpost.com and @thedailybeast.bsky.social are replacing their top editors with right-wing propagandists before the most fraught election in American history.

NEW: Daily Beast editor in chief Tracy Connor is stepping down, according to a staff memo from CEO Ben Sherwood. Hugh Dougherty, formerly of NYPost, Daily Mail, Telegraph, will be the new executive editor. (via Max Tani, Semafor)

Agree. It's not that Trump is going to stop the war--he's going to "end" it by supporting even greater Israeli violence, as he and his proxies have said. But a lot of low-info voters will fall for this, as they did when Nixon promised to end the war in Vietnam.

Caught this on WSHH and its almost a perfect intersection of a dynamic I think a lot of people are missing.

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Louise Bourgeois on the difference between French and American aesthetics

Is there a job board for people looking for jobs in audio documentary, podcasting, etc? Like The Chronicle of Higher Ed for conventional academic jobs, or AWP for creative writing jobs?

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Reading this is like watching a beautifully filmed horror movie.

I wrote about Trump's post-conviction weekend and the stories Trumpers tell themselves in order to ruin everything. jeffsharlet.substack.com/p/saturday-n...

Saturday Night & Sunday Morningjeffsharlet.substack.com Trump Goes to the Fights and Promises a War

I updated my writing on Trump's violent Saturday night/Sunday morning with his latest fundraiser, "warpath" (via @petemont.bsky.social): jeffsharlet.substack.com/p/saturday-n...

Saturday Night & Sunday Morningjeffsharlet.substack.com Trump Goes to the Fights and Promises a War

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A good read

I wrote about Trump's post-conviction weekend and the stories Trumpers tell themselves in order to ruin everything. jeffsharlet.substack.com/p/saturday-n...

Saturday Night & Sunday Morningjeffsharlet.substack.com Trump Goes to the Fights and Promises a War

I wrote about Trump's post-conviction weekend and the stories Trumpers tell themselves in order to ruin everything. jeffsharlet.substack.com/p/saturday-n...

Saturday Night & Sunday Morningjeffsharlet.substack.com Trump Goes to the Fights and Promises a War

Trump returns to Fox today. Strongman rhetoric from get-go, in response to q on how best to seek "revenge": "Lotta people said, 'We have no choice but to elect Trump, because he's only one who can withstand this." Basic fascist trope: Great Leader can do what mortals can't. 1/

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If you haven't read it, The Undertow by @jeffsharlet.bsky.social spends a significant amount of time looking at Trump and the Evangelicals. I found it really eye opening and educational.

My first real post on Scenes from a Slow Civil War, my new substack, a close read of Trump's post-conviction speech in view of his mutation in his own mind from Rambo to Scarface and now into horror movies. jeffsharlet.substack.com/p/escalator-...

Escalator Reduxjeffsharlet.substack.com Jury says "guilty," Trump says the horror, the horror

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200! A compilation using our archive to create a crash course on Trump & the fascist threat. Feat @brynntannehill.bsky.social @wajali.bsky.social @jeffsharlet.bsky.social @jysexton.bsky.social @antheabutler.bsky.social @thomaszimmer.bsky.social + more open.spotify.com/episode/1QN8...

This American Fascism: A Retrospectiveopen.spotify.com Listen to this episode from Refuse Fascism on Spotify. We're sharing a round-up of excerpts from interviews over the past four years with 20 experts on fascism. If you want to know "what is US fascism...

God help me, my first substack post. More of an announcement than anything real. A link to my conversation about THE UNDERTOW with Marc Maron for WTF pod, by way of an introduction to some notes on our slow civil war I'll be keeping here: open.substack.com/pub/jeffshar...

It's nine months since I recorded this. And the slow civil war is speeding up.open.substack.com A conversation with Marc Maron for WTF on how things fall apart.

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26 loans per ebook cost libraries $55 per book. The actual physical book costs $15 and can be loaned forever as many times as they want. It doesn't make any sense. www.nhregister.com/politics/art...

Books can cost CT libraries $15. E-books are three times costlierwww.nhregister.com Connectict lawmakers this week were sympathetic with state libraries in their quest to change contracts with e-book publishers.