You don’t need to know the difference between Eros and Thanatos to perceive Trumpism as a death cult beyond its current rendition as a personality cult.
One doesn’t even need to watch the still unreleased Hegseth kill shot of the two persons waving at the camera standing on their overturned boat before they are killed on 2 September.
The Trump America steps not only against basic humanity but locates what’s left in the 1950s or even the 1850s, reviving the Lost Cause of the Confederacy by erasing Black history among others while promoting versions of the Great Replacement theory. The next three years may push civil liberties over the edge while legitimating behaviors that while paraphilic also become normal for those in power.
The history of slavery in America, like other RWNJ practices will get further erased in the service of a constellation of hatred operating in a climate of fear celebrated parasitically by a Rightwing celebrating corruption.
Seeking a safe place in America should not be contingent on your beliefs, but the greater divisions only return the nation to a place where genocide was a feature not a bug and practiced openly in some states masked as it was with Jim Crow laws.
For months, President Trump and the highest levels of his administration have been trying to sell the public and his MAGA supporters on their conclusion that Epstein, the notorious sex offender and former Trump pal, did not run a secret sexual-blackmail operation targeting wealthy, powerful elites.
On Wednesday morning, the New York Post published parts of its podcast sit-down with Howard Lutnick, who was once Epstein’s neighbor. The Trump Cabinet member told the Post about his tour of Epstein’s townhouse, where Epstein showed him his “massage room.” Lutnick said he was quickly “disgusted,” before asserting that Epstein’s rich and famous associates not only knew about his bad behavior but “participated.” He called Epstein a “blackmailer,” something the Trump administration strenuously denies.
Several senior Trump officials, some of whom were responsible for carefully curating the messaging regarding the administration’s decision to end its Epstein investigation, were apoplectic on Wednesday, bemoaning to one another about why Lutnick is still employed by the president and why the commerce secretary is allowed to do media appearances, four senior Trump administration appointees tell Zeteo.
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National Security Presidential Memoranda 7: NSPM-7 Uses Already Vague, Overbroad, and Abused Federal "Domestic Terrorism" Powers To understand the fundamentals of these existing authorities—and how they are abused
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Pre-apocalyptic?
https://www.booksns.com/168206/
I’m looking for something that’s pre-apocalyptic if that’s a word. Something that takes place before the actual end of the world and shows the struggles of coming to terms with it. Like existential dread awaiting the end. Like we know a meteor, …
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— BOOKSNS (@booksns.bsky.social) Oct 18, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Let us move from prose to facts: Wisconsin Death Trip is a 1973 historical nonfiction book by Michael Lesy which “charts numerous sordid, tragic, and bizarre incidents that took place in and around Jackson County, Wisconsin between 1885 and 1900, primarily in the town of Black River Falls. The events are outlined through actual written historical documents—primarily articles published in the town newspaper—with additional narration by Lesy, as well as excerpts from works by Hamlin Garland, Sinclair Lewis, and Glenway Wescott, which thematically parallel the incidents depicted….Thematically, the book emphasizes the harsh aspects of Midwestern rural life under the pressures of crime, pestilence, mental illness, and urbanization.”
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In the 1890s, Black River Falls, WI unraveled: arson, madness, mass institutionalization.
They called it “The Wisconsin Death Trip.”
You’ve never heard of a town losing its mind like this.
🕯️ Full story: www.ryanjhite.com/2025/05/24/t...
#DarkHistory #WisconsinDeathTrip #TrueCrime
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— Ryan Hite (@religiousryan.bsky.social) May 24, 2025 at 7:15 PM
