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Julie Kohler

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Host of White Picket Fence podcast. Articles in CNN, Washington Post, The Hill, MSNBC. Senior Advisor, The New School’s Institute for Race, Power, and Political Economy. www.juliekkohler.com

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Washington Post in Uproar Over Jeff Bezos Reaction to FBI Raid Bezos doesn’t seem to care that the FBI raided the home of a reporter who covers President Trump.

Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos has stayed noticeably silent after one of the newspaper’s reporters, Hannah Natanson, had her home searched by federal agents Wednesday—and the Post’s staff isn’t happy. trib.al/Gjzxp8z

15.01.2026 17:45 👍 132 🔁 60 💬 27 📌 5
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Elon Musk’s Grokipedia cites Stormfront — a neo-Nazi forum — dozens of times, study finds An analysis by researchers at Cornell University is the first comprehensive look at Grokipedia since Musk launched his project last month.

Musk's Grokipedia is a cesspool of white supremacist and Neo Nazi garbage. Cornell researchers: xAI's Grokipedia cites neo-Nazi website Stormfront 42 times, Infowars 34 times, and white nationalist website VDare 107 times

20.11.2025 14:55 👍 324 🔁 114 💬 19 📌 12

The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.

05.11.2025 02:48 👍 10475 🔁 2363 💬 135 📌 166

There is no walking back the rampant disinformation that he has peddled or the unspeakable harm that he has caused to millions of Americans.

31.10.2025 02:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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America's Gender Whiplash America is facing a gender backlash—a backlash so swift and severe, it feels more like a whiplash. Right now, no group is more at risk than trans Americans. On his first day back in the White House, T...

So excited to listed to this! My podcast, White Picket Fence, also did a deep dive on the gender backlash this season - and its links to authoritarianism.

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29.10.2025 21:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

This is how we're making America healthy again?!

28.10.2025 19:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The establishment of a strict gender binary is foundational to the maintenance of a gender hierarchy.

The many faces of the current gender backlash - and its links to authoritarianism - is the focus of this season of my podcast, White Picker Fence.

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28.10.2025 11:02 👍 23 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
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America's Gender Whiplash America is facing a gender backlash—a backlash so swift and severe, it feels more like a whiplash. Right now, no group is more at risk than trans Americans. On his first day back in the White House, T...

Yes! This was the exact topic that we delve into on this season of my podcast, White Picket Fence!

Moreover, by defining gender as something that is established *at conception,* the right has laid the groundwork for exerting even more state control over women’s bodies.

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28.10.2025 10:58 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Once again, the main day of Tea Party protests had about 300,000 nationwide, but saw endless coverage.

The No Kings protests had about 7,000,000 nationwide, and many media outlets reacted with a yawn.

No Kings was nearly 25x as big as the Tea Party but the Tea Party got 25x the attention.

26.10.2025 20:08 👍 8980 🔁 2948 💬 199 📌 85
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Trump says he’s increasing tariffs on Canada by 10% after Ontario’s Reagan ad | CNN Business President Donald Trump said Saturday he is increasing the tariff on Canada by 10% over current levels, further escalating trade tensions over what he called a “fake” ad that featured parts of an anti-...

An embarrassingly obvious point, but...

This. Is. Illegal.

If anything like the rule of law were in force, Trump couldn't arbitrarily increase a tariff because he is annoyed.

In important and increasing ways, the rule of law in the US no longer exists.
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25.10.2025 21:38 👍 7784 🔁 2286 💬 331 📌 103

Not content with spreading disinformation through the media, MAGA now corrupts public education.

26.10.2025 15:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

dear US friends, when a sitting president (re)builds the seat of government, it almost always means the president has no intention of leaving at the end of term. your African friends with decades of experience

24.10.2025 13:39 👍 11886 🔁 3334 💬 6 📌 137

Imagine knowing, as Mike Johnson does, that the president thinks that you're his puppet, his lap dog, and being...cool with that.

25.10.2025 13:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Business of Masculinity We're starting this week's episode with a bit of a rewind, back to the 1970s in the U.S. As women gained new rights and visibility, a backlash took shape among men who felt left behind. What began as ...

These findings are shocking but not surprising. Billions have been invested in conservative media — much of it targeting young men, preying on their sense of alienation and loneliness, and selling them on retro and misogynistic ideals. We examined this on this season of my podcast:
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25.10.2025 13:21 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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The Business of Masculinity We're starting this week's episode with a bit of a rewind, back to the 1970s in the U.S. As women gained new rights and visibility, a backlash took shape among men who felt left behind. What began as ...

These findings are shocking but not surprising. Billions have been invested in conservative media — much of it targeting young men, preying on their sense of alienation and loneliness, and selling them on retro and misogynistic ideals. We examined this on this season of my podcast:
lnk.to/wpf-ep4

25.10.2025 13:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Business of Masculinity We're starting this week's episode with a bit of a rewind, back to the 1970s in the U.S. As women gained new rights and visibility, a backlash took shape among men who felt left behind. What began as ...

These findings are shocking but not surprising. Billions have been invested in conservative media — much of it targeting young men, preying on their sense of alienation and loneliness, and selling them on retro and misogynistic ideals. We examined this on this season of my podcast:
lnk.to/wpf-ep4

25.10.2025 13:20 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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The Business of Masculinity We're starting this week's episode with a bit of a rewind, back to the 1970s in the U.S. As women gained new rights and visibility, a backlash took shape among men who felt left behind. What began as ...

These findings are shocking but not surprising. Billions have been invested in conservative media — much of it targeting young men, preying on their sense of alienation and loneliness, and selling them on retro and misogynistic ideals. We examined this on this season of my podcast:
lnk.to/wpf-ep4

25.10.2025 13:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Business of Masculinity We're starting this week's episode with a bit of a rewind, back to the 1970s in the U.S. As women gained new rights and visibility, a backlash took shape among men who felt left behind. What began as ...

These findings are shocking but not surprising. Billions have been invested in conservative media — much of it targeting young men, preying on their sense of alienation and loneliness, and selling them on retro and misogynistic ideals. We examined this on this season of my podcast:
lnk.to/wpf-ep4

25.10.2025 13:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Business of Masculinity We're starting this week's episode with a bit of a rewind, back to the 1970s in the U.S. As women gained new rights and visibility, a backlash took shape among men who felt left behind. What began as ...

These findings are shocking but not surprising. Billions have been invested in conservative media — much of it targeting young men, preying on their sense of alienation and loneliness, and selling them on retro and misogynistic ideals. We examined this on this season of my podcast:
lnk.to/wpf-ep4

25.10.2025 13:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Business of Masculinity We're starting this week's episode with a bit of a rewind, back to the 1970s in the U.S. As women gained new rights and visibility, a backlash took shape among men who felt left behind. What began as ...

These findings are shocking but not surprising. Billions have been invested in conservative media — much of it targeting young men, preying on their sense of alienation and loneliness, and selling them on retro and misogynistic ideals. We examined this on this season of my podcast:
lnk.to/wpf-ep4

25.10.2025 13:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Business of Masculinity We're starting this week's episode with a bit of a rewind, back to the 1970s in the U.S. As women gained new rights and visibility, a backlash took shape among men who felt left behind. What began as ...

These findings are shocking but not surprising. Billions have been invested in conservative media — much of it targeting young men, preying on their sense of alienation and loneliness, and selling them on retro and misogynistic ideals. 🎧 here:
lnk.to/wpf-ep4

25.10.2025 13:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Seizing the Means of Reproduction Lately, our government has seemed a little...baby crazy. President Trump declared he will be the "fertilization president." Vice President JD Vance announced he wants to see "more babies in the United...

Great piece! On this season of my podcast, White Picket Fence, we also examined pronatalism: who's behind it, what it stands for, and the troubling historical linkages to racist pseudoscience.

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25.10.2025 13:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Seizing the Means of Reproduction Lately, our government has seemed a little...baby crazy. President Trump declared he will be the "fertilization president." Vice President JD Vance announced he wants to see "more babies in the United...

Great piece! On this season of my podcast, White Picket Fence, we also examined pronatalism: who's behind it, what it stands for, and the troubling historical linkages to racist pseudoscience.

lnk.to/wpf-ep3

25.10.2025 12:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1

A friendly reminder from the World Health Organization (WHO): “Before the introduction of measles vaccine in 1963 and widespread vaccination, major epidemics occurred approximately every two to three years and caused an estimated 2.6 million deaths each year.” #vaccines

25.10.2025 12:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I know it all feels horrific, grotesque, and bleak at the moment, but just think of how amazing it will be to bulldoze this McMansion monstrosity of a ballroom in the not-so-distant future. #WhiteHouse #EastWing

24.10.2025 20:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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So you should really watch this. Just 2 minutes. But a window into the truly radical nature of the people Trump is nominating.

When pressed today, the nominee to be Ambassador to South Africa refuses to oppose reinstituting laws to prevent black people from voting in America.

24.10.2025 18:05 👍 5638 🔁 2283 💬 384 📌 296
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America's Gender Whiplash America is facing a gender backlash—a backlash so swift and severe, it feels more like a whiplash. Right now, no group is more at risk than trans Americans. On his first day back in the White House, T...

Their attacks know no bounds. In this season of my podcast, White Picket Fence, we do a deep dive on the current gender backlash and its links to authoritarianism.

lnk.to/wpfep1

24.10.2025 15:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Every day, the Trump Administration uses new tactics to broaden its attack on women and LGBTQ+ people. Interested in learning why? Listen to this season of my podcast, White Picket Fence.

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24.10.2025 15:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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America's Gender Whiplash America is facing a gender backlash—a backlash so swift and severe, it feels more like a whiplash. Right now, no group is more at risk than trans Americans. On his first day back in the White House, T...

Excited to listen! The gender backlash — and its links to authoritarianism — is also the focus of this season of my podcast, White Picket Fence.

lnk.to/wpfep1

24.10.2025 15:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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America's Gender Whiplash America is facing a gender backlash—a backlash so swift and severe, it feels more like a whiplash. Right now, no group is more at risk than trans Americans. On his first day back in the White House, T...

Excited to listen! The attacks on women/LGBTQ+ people — and their links to authoritarianism — are the focus of this season of my podcast, White Picket Fence.

lnk.to/wpfep1

24.10.2025 15:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0