No Hugs for Chuds, Part 1
The bear doesn’t care if the three-headed Hammer-baby tastes like chud.
The “No Hugs for Chuds” series begins with a deep dive on a newly exposed self-described Aryan “warrior” with a penchant for fisticuffs. Part 2 is a new Disinfomaniacs podcast with a discussion of the paradox of tolerance (or why we need to be intolerant of intolerance) along with practical strategies for defeating extremism during the 2024 election cycle. Part 3 is a look at how radical Nazi “influencers” from Florida have caused trouble in Maine via a weirdo surrogate. Part 4 (for paid subscribers only) is a fun tutorial about one of my favorite (and simple) OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) gathering techniques.
chud /chud/ noun (plural chuds): term used by American journalists and extremism researchers to describe domestic enemies of democracy. synonyms: chode, fascist, Christian-Identitarian, incel, jabroni, J6-er, Christian-Nationalist, Nazi, proud boi, MGTOWer, Trad-Cat
orgin C.H.U.D. is a 1984 documentary horror film directed by Douglas Cheek about the Cannibalistic Underground Humanoid Dwellers that lived in New York City sewers.
Blood Chuds
Nazi Drake Berentz spent the summer of 2023 deep in the woods of Maine, camping out at the now-defunct Blood Tribe compound in the Penobscot County town of Springfield. In the following EXCLUSIVE clip, you’ll see Berentz choking an unidentified Nashville resident during a sidewalk march last month in Tennessee.
Until recently, Berentz was known only by the pseudonym “Nate Higgers” and/or “Herzog Higgers.” After the Feb. 17 march in Nashville, though, anti-fascist researchers revealed Berentz’s legal identity and other factoids about the second-in-command of the Blood Tribe cult. While I didn’t know his real name, I’ve been monitoring Berentz’s activities since last summer, including him helping to lead a xenophobic rally of racists in front of the Maine statehouse. By combining the anti-fascist researchers’ findings with my own observations, we now have enough details to profile this 23-year-old far-right Wotan-worshiper from a small town in Ohio near the West Virginia border, including a brief explainer of his Nazi-finger tattoos.
If you’re not familiar with the Blood Tribe or their self-proclaimed “Blood King” aka the Blutkönig, aka Hammer, aka Chris Pohlhaus, check out my Disinfomaniacs podcast series: “Hammer, Part 1,” “Hammer, Part 2,” “Hammer, Part 3” and “Hammer, Part 4: The Curse of Boneface.”
During the podcast episodes you’ll hear about their failed attempt to build a tiny house compound for Nazis in the woods of Maine. Plus you’ll learn, genealogically, how Hammer’s great-great-great uncle was a gay German Jew imprisoned by Nazis in Dachau. We also discuss the Blood Tribe’s daft logic of their now-abandoned plans to kill Russian soldiers on behalf of Ukraine and their weird sartorial fixations on uniforms, swastikas and blood ritual.
In early March 2023, Berentz and Hammer met IRL for the first time, just days before the Blood Tribe’s inaugural public action, an armed protest and harassment of a “Drag Queen Story Hour” in northeast Ohio. (More on that in a second.)
According to Hammer, he temporarily left Maine in February 2023 because FBI agents had been visiting all his friends in Penobscot County and telling everybody he was a bad dude. So Hammer hit the road in his blood-truck with his tattoo machine. (He’s an unlicensed itinerant tattooist specializing in Nazi designs that legit ink artists wouldn’t touch with a 10-foot needle.) Eventually, he ended up in Ohio for a birthday party for a member of an 11-man Telegram chat that would soon become the real life Blood Tribe.
Berentz was part of that chat, although he insists he’s been a Hammer-stan for years, back to when Hammer was just a racist Instagram shit-poster. When Hammer showed up in the Buckeye State, Berentz was psyched his hero was willing to fix his shitty finger tats plus ink two new designs on his forearms. First, let’s talk about the finger tats. (Video from Telegram.)
Those symbols on his fingers are called “runes,” a sort of Norse hieroglyphic favored by modern pagans. Berentz’s particular finger runes translates to “Seig Heil” the Nazi slogan, or “Hail Victory.”
On Berentz’s right forearm, Hammer tattooed a “Bindrune” that spells out, in runes mirrored, the word “OPPRESS.” On the left forearm, is the “wolfsangel,” a supposed ancient runic symbol said to be key in warding off wolf attacks, popular with the Waffen-SS units loyal to Hitler.
While the tattoos earned Hammer a couple bucks and cemented their friendship, the tats also make Berentz easy to identify. And confirms, beyond a doubt, that he is afraid of wolves.
A week after the tattoo party, the Blood Tribe got their first taste of national attention with a loud protest at the Drag Queen Story Hour in the Ohio town of Wadsworth. Hammer was unmasked and armed, as you can see in my colleague Ford Fischer’s boots-on-the-ground coverage of the yelling and screaming. Berentz was there too, as one of the long-sleeved red-shirters, wearing mask and gloves, chanting hate slogans.
By late May, Hammer and his new buddy Berentz were in Maine, living together on the land and shitting in the woods.
Their days were spent working out at the gym, drinking beer and appearing on chud podcasts to hype their various schemes, like assembling a small squad of heavily armed American-Nazi-super-blood-soldiers to head over to Ukraine and fight Russians. (More on their Ukrainian plans later.)
Both Hammer and Berentz, btw, are ex-Marines. Hammer claims to receive a pension, despite serving just four years and never seeing action, which means he’s either lying or somehow became disabled during non-combat. Berentz lasted less than three years as a Devil Dog before being discharged early, he says, due to his refusal to get the covid vaccine.
Mostly, though, the pair devoted the early summer of 2023 to pumping iron and networking with other racists to promote a “huge” Nazi parade planned for Florida in September. Occasionally, they’d have guests on the land, some of whom took the blood oath, swearing allegiance to “the bros of the past and the bros of the future.”
CONTENT WARNING: the following video from Telegram shows an unidentified Blood Tribe member taking the blood oath in Springfield, which involved him cutting himself on the dull Blood Tribe spear blade, then rubbing his blood into the spear shaft.
Then, in early August, Hammer and Berentz headed south to a New Hampshire motel room for a circle jerk and live-stream interview with fascist influencer Chris Cantwell, aka the Crying Nazi. In this clip, Hammer and Cantwell discuss the Nazi situation in Maine. Berentz, off camera, sitting on the motel bed, occasionally contributing grunts, laughs and other affirmations of Hammer’s wit.
A medium-length aside:
Cantwell’s conversation with Hammer was Cantwell’s first, in-person interview since getting out of prison in Dec. 2022. He served a little less than two years, after a federal jury convicted him of charges connected to extortion and rape threats he made to an on-line enemy and his enemy’s wife.
Ironically, Cantwell’s last in-person interview, before Hammer, was in January 2020, in his Keene N.H. apartment, with Maine’s other wanna-be neo-Nazi “King,” Tom Kawczynski, who was mentioned in the above clip. In 2018, my pal Andy O’Brien and I exposed then-Jackman town manager Kawczynski as a white supremacist with plans to create an all-white enthostate in Maine.
He called his dreamland “New Albion” and planned to crown himself “King of New Albion.” (Turns out that a percentage of chuds are monarchists with strongmen fetishes. Also, while currently a self-annointed Christian “pastor,” Kawczynski admits to a sordid past, filled with sorcery and blood magic, which possibly explains his hiring by Jackman town officials. )
During their interview, Kawczynski presented Cantwell with the flag of New Albion. Three days later, during the early hours of January 23, 2020, federal agents kicked in Cantwell’s door and found the Crying Nazi, clad in his tightie whities, playing Pokemon on his Nintendo. The cops grabbed him, seized his guns and multiple computers and took ‘em all into custody.
Unfortunately, we don’t have footage from the raid, but here’s a short film I made at the time of the New Albion (aka Blood Flag) flag ceremony.
With Cantwell behind bars (and his computers in police hands), Kawczynski immediately ditched his ethnostate plans, pivoting to becoming a COVID-expert, then pivoting again to COVID-skeptic.
Kawczynski currently lives in the Aroostook County town of Eagle Lake where he half heartedly runs the on-line “Sons of Dust Ministry” for a very small audience while working a shitty remote job and preparing for his next move, literally, to Argentina.
On his Youtube channel, Kawczynski claims to be heading south this spring for an Argentinean exploratory mission followed by, he hopes and prays, emigration ASAP. He intends to fill a shipping container with books and prepper gear to bring to the New World along with his disabled wife. No word if his New Albion turtles are joining the expedition to the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata.
It’s sort of ironic that Kawczynski now plans on fleeing the country. Just five years ago, the once wannabe king launched a bid to challenge Donald Trump for the 2020 GOP nomination for U.S. President. He quit, though, after losing an on-line debate with fellow presidential hopeful Augustus Sol Invictus on Jean-François Gariépy’s Youtube channel. If that last sentence makes sense to you, then may I gently suggest you need to spend more time outside, communing with nature.
Back to the circle jerk
Let’s return to the New Hampshire motel room with Hammer, Cantwell and Berentz. During a piss-break, Cantwell left the camera rolling, meaning Berentz briefly appears on screen after he joined Hammer in the motel room’s tiny bathroom, apparently to co-urinate.
Afterwards, Hammer was energized by his conversation with Cantwell, who despite being an idiot, a crybaby and a felon, is a still a big name in American Nazi circles. Hammer bragged of hanging out with Cantwell and posted multiple clips of the interview all over his various Telegram channels.
Also inspiring to Hammer, around this time in early August, was a misleading story published by the Maine Wire (the faux news-site run by the Maine Policy Institute) that was amplified to all the dark corners of the chudosphere. The story deceptively claimed Gov. Janet Mills was planning to “resettle 75,000 foreign migrants in Maine by 2029.”
First of all, great news if true. It would be awesome if more people of different ethnicities moved to Maine. Over the centuries, refugees, immigrants and colonizers have all survived and thrived here in the unceded Wabanaki homeland. Secondly, why should these chuds care? All of them are from away.
A week later, Hammer and Berentz, along with a couple dozen thugs from the New England neo-Nazi NSC-131 gang, staged a protest in front of the Statehouse in Augusta, harassing passersby-of-color while chanting “Seig Heil” and “Refugees Go Home.”
Here’s Hammer leading the NSC-131 chuds in yelling. Berentz’s hand and arm keep appearing over his Blood King’s right shoulder when they “roman salute.”
The Augusta rally was officially a NSC-131 event, though, not a Blood Tribe gathering because the tribe only has an estimated four full-blooded chuds actually living in Maine. (With probably no more that 60 members nationwide.) NSC-131 claims to have associates in all New England states and it appears that a handful of chuds are possibly members of both groups.
Soon after the Augusta event, the pair left Maine, never to return.
(Spoiler alert: Due to the negative publicity about Hammer living in Penobscot County, most folks in Springfield strived to make the chuds feel unwelcome. Some old timers, according to one local, were plotting to kill Hammer and bury his corpse in the woods, so he’d never be seen or heard from again.)
The King of the blood chuds literally dodged a bullet, says local sources.
The Curse of Boneface
Next stop: Orlando, Florida for the much hyped “March of the Red Shirts.” Here’s some footage of that event by Ford Fischer.
Again, Hammer was bare-faced and Berentz was masked, though Berentz gave a brief interview to Freedom News.
The real star of the Orlando parade was Boneface, a heavily head-inked Florida Nazi who claimed to have fought with Azov Brigade during the siege at Mariupol. Boneface inspired Hammer and Berentz’s Ukrainian dreams and coached the pair on their plans to head overseas to kill Russians.
Here’s more footage from Ford Fischer. First, Boneface giving the finger to driversby, then marching like a comic book soldier.
Hours after the march, Boneface swore a blood oath to the Blood Tribe, thus binding him forever to Hammer, Berentz and the other blood-bros. I know this sounds strange, but these dudes are totally obsessed with oath-taking. Here’s my EXCLUSIVE footage of Boneface’s blood ceremony.
CONTENT WARNING: The following short film includes Boneface repeatedly sawing his hand with the dull Blood Tribe spear in order to bleed and rub his red stuff all over the spear shaft.
Anyways, if you haven’t yet guessed, Boneface was a bloody fraud. The chud had never been to Ukraine. Never killed Russians. And definitely never served with the Azov Brigade. Hammer, Berentz and the rest of the blood dummies fell for a series of poorly photoshopped documents and pics, resulting in lots of laughs for tribal observers.
After a two-night, live-streamed investigative hearing and trial, Hammer-the-judge declared Boneface guilty of lying. Hammer-the-Blutkönig revoked the aforementioned blood oath, replacing it with a blood curse and then blood-banished Boneface from the Blood Tribe. Soon after, Hammer abandoned his plans for fighting on behalf of Ukraine.
We cover this drama extensively in Disinfomaniac # 8, “the Curse of Boneface,” including how right-wing influencers like Alex Jones, Roger Stone and Laura Loomer used the Boneface saga as “proof” that Joe Biden was somehow supporting Nazis fighting in Ukraine.
The Bone-related fallout was comical and immediate. In the far-right on-line ecosphere (4chan, Gab, Rumble, Bitchute and Odysee) Hammer and his boys quickly became the punchline of many jokes. Plus, Boneface’s own sketchy history as an informant (ratting on other rats to avoid arrest) added more fuel to the ever-present rumors that the Blood Tribers are federal agents in disguise.
Blood Larpers
In October, without returning to Maine, Hammer listed his Springfield property on Zillow. In a matter of days, it sold for $39,900. That’s almost 15 grand more than Hammer and his then-biz partner Fred Ramey paid for it back in 2022. According to notarized documents filed with the Penobscot County Registry of Deeds, Hammer was in Montana at the time of the land sale. Also, at the time of the sale, the chuds owed the town $171 for not paying their $115 property tax bill.
Meanwhile, Berentz was apparently hanging out in Ohio. The duo re-united in late November, when the Blood Tribe marched again, this time in chilly Madison, Wisconsin. This was the first occasion Berentz appeared unmasked and wearing a suit coat instead of Blood Tribe sweatshirt like the rest of the gang. He’d later tell a Nazi podcaster that he ditched his skull-mask because he thought the suit-and-mask combo with his Mjolnir (aka Thor’s Hammer necklace) looked “weird.”
Up until his Wisconsin appearance and speech, Berentz was known as Nate Higgers. From then onward, though, he was called Herzog Higgers. The sudden name change represented a promotion. According to the Blood Tribe constitution, Herzog (German for Duke) is the second-in-command to the Blutkönig, so Berentz should probably be referred to as the Blutherzog. (The Nazis, though, use the term ZOG, short for “Zionist Occupied Government,” so perhaps “Blutherzog” isn’t used for fear of causing confusion among the non-Germanophiles in the group.)
Berentz seems slightly embarrassed by this larping. He recently told a Nazi podcaster that he was the equivalent to “vice president” of the cult without acknowledging he was actually the Blood Duke. Also, he neglected to mention how his executive status within the Blood Tribe granted him the constitutional privilege to challenge Hammer to a duel in order to legally take the crown from the Blutkönig. The duel, according to their constitution, is a fight to the death with a weapon chosen from the following: fists, knives or hammers. According to King Hammer, all blood-duels should take place in international waters to avoid murder charges being filed against the victor.
During a blood duel with the Blutkönig, btw, a knife is probably the weapon to select. Punching a steroid-bloated-chud to death, on a ship underway in international waters, would take way too much time. And hammer-fighting seems a little bit chancy. What if your blood-bro-foe is able to grab your hammer and toss it overboard? Your weapon would sink in the deep blue sea, meaning you’d likely experience death-by-hammering. Unless, of course, it’s one of those magical Thor hammers that boomerangs automatically back into your hand. For the record, though, I do not advocate anti-chud violence of ANY SORT, preferring to let their constant infighting, back-stabbing and steroid abuse do the actual dirty work.
Which gets me wondering if Berentz’s promotion to Blood Duke has anything to do Hammer’s recent health scare? Hammer has made it clear he wants his blood-bros to continue his work after he kicks the blood bucket. And for that to happen, he needed to appoint a successor to the blood throne, meaning Berentz.
Hammer’s health and death worries are legit. According to a video and blood test results he posted on Telegram last year, Hammer has concerns about his low testosterone and other issues. Fifteen years of steroid abuse, coupled with booze and weed, had taken its toll. Feeling lousy, he obsessed over his low white blood cell, platelet and sperm counts. He was also probably freaking out about his shrunken testes and diminished sex drive while worrying over his increased likelihood of an early heart attack or stroke. Or liver tumors. Or kidney failure. Not to mention his anger, anxiety, depression and other psychiatric problems that plagued him. All this because of his illegal steroid use, just so he could grow his muscles cartoonishly big in order to lift heavy things in the gym.
His blood test results, Hammer told his livestream viewers last February, were enough to trigger a period of “staring into the abyss” which convinced him to quit the ‘roids, the booze and the weed. Sobriety, though, lasted less than a couple months before he returned to the juice, of both the anabolic steroid and fermented varieties. Apparently, though, he’s been able to stay away from the devil’s lettuce.
Let’s go back to that sunny Saturday afternoon in mid-February in Nashville. Hammer and Berentz had been promoting the march since Wisconsin. (The cult intends to stage at least one surprise march per quarter per fiscal year.)
Here’s footage from inside a rented UHaul taken just prior to the blood gang marching through Nashville’s bar and shopping district and the Blood Duke choking a passerby. (UHaul didn’t return requests for comment on the illegality and/or danger of driving one of their 20-foot rental trucks with a loose load of chuds in the back.)
Now that you “know” Berentz, here’s the incident, again, on the 300 block on Lower Broadway in Nashville when Berentz tried to strangle a passerby. After the Blood Duke got back on his feet and rejoined his Blood King, the blood goons continued to mess with the victim, until Hammer commanded them to leave the fella alone.
According to Nashville police, there were no reports of the attack or any arrests connected to the Nazi march through the shopping and tourist district.
After the sidewalk scuffle, the Blood Tribe “marched” onward, ending up at the Tennessee State Capitol. It being Saturday, the government building was closed and the courtyard empty, except for a lone heckler who happened upon the scene of a bunch of Nazis gathered on the steps. The absence of a real life audience didn’t matter to Berentz and Hammer. Their speeches were delivered for their camera man and cam-drone hovering overhead, to be edited into something snazzy for their digital blood army to enjoy. Here’s a taste of their drivel.
Afterwards, the chuds partied at their airbnb. The next day, they left Nashville, returning to their home turfs. No word on where Hammer or Berentz headed to next or if they were even still together. Also no word on what Hammer thought about the Blood Duke’s street brawling skills.
This is one of those situations that can be both laughable and potentially dangerous simultaneously. Dangerous because these blood chuds want to fight. And Berentz’s assault of the Nashvillian pedestrian shows he is willing to set an example and get physical. Especially when surrounded by his mask-wearing blood bois.
This tribe of blood fighters, fueled by blood lust, are not alone. According to an October 2023 survey by the Public Religion Research Institute and the Brookings Institution, about 23 percent of Americans agree “true American patriots may have to resort to violence in order to save our country."
That’s why our anti-chud communities need to be constantly vigilant, keeping a watchful eye on these enemies of democracy and multiculturalism. Those of us blessed with the power of privilege have to protect our society’s most vulnerable. We need to stand in solidarity and defend our friends, neighbors and fellow humans against the chuds who want to see our comrades deported, detained or dead.
However, we don’t need to be afraid of Hammer and Berentz. When normies react with fear, anger or violence, the chuds view it as a victory. After all, their main goal is to trigger the libs while trying to frighten the disenfranchised with their quarterly marches and scream-a-thons. Instead of recoiling or ignoring, we need to point and laugh. Mockery and ridicule neuters the chud and de-powers their message. Live music, for instance, especially multiple tubas, trombones, drums and/or harmonicas, playing humorous tunes in a teasing manner has been shown to be a very successful technique in chud-quieting.
Exposing them, by name, is also important. Chuds who cowardly hide their identities with masks or pseudonyms while acting publicly are petrified because they know most people will shun them. That fear of exposure has been cited by Hammer and other chud leaders as the primary obstacle to growing their membership lists. Most chudly types understand that society doesn’t agree with them. And they know exposure could mean losing their jobs and, in many cases, families and spouses. Ostracization for shouting hate slogans and marching under the swastika is the reality. That’s what happened to Hammer. On many occasions, he’s complained to his culties about his wife’s rejection of him and her keeping him away from his young daughter.
I’ve been in contact with a relative of Berentz. I don’t want to go into detail because the Blood Duke’s exposure has been tough on the family. They’re shocked, sad and disappointed with his life choices. They feel he’s been brainwashed by Hammer. And, according to my source, relationships are being severed. Which is another way of saying, no hugs for chuds.
Nazi enters Strongman Competition, gets face punched and ass kicked
As part of my research for this Crash Report, unfortunately, I’ve had to listen to all the Blood Duke’s speeches and podcast appearances. The good news is that he’s an uncharismatic bore. The bad news is that he envisions himself as both a warrior and scholar. Berentz claims to be a big reader and a devotee of Nietzsche. He enjoys the ancient Roman and Greek philosophers and insists he’s well-versed in the stoic tradition. Most importantly, in terms of influences, he’s a big-time fan-boi of the 1930 book The Myth of the Twentieth Century written by Nazi ideologue Alfred Rosenberg. The book (privately mocked by Hitler and his cronies) is, as far as I can tell, some sort of history alleging that the OG citizens of the lost continent of Atlantis were a mystical Aryan-Nazi race who went on to create modern civilization.
Okay.
During pod-interviews, Berentz also disclosed clues that point to allegiances to other fringe misogynistic subcultures. He’s probably an incel, or at least, a MGTOWer. However, since he doesn’t seem to have a job, it’s unlikely he’s part of the yet un-reported on NPNW movement. If you know what the hell I’m talking about, again, please take some time to smell the conifers.
(Incel = involuntary celibate, MGTOW = Men Go Their Own Way, NPNW = No Pussy No Work)
In other words, it appears Berentz is currently single. The dating scene for chuds, after all, must be bleak. Most females who share Berentz’s views are usually already married trad-wives, thus there are not many eligible Nazi bachelorettes out there. Besides, being the Blood Duke doesn’t leave much time for romance. And Berentz, devoted to the Blutkönig, would have to follow Hammer’s strict standards for any gal pals hanging out with his cult. Females, Hammer decreed, have to be racist-unvaccinated-virginal-pagans in order to qualify. The exception, Hammer has said on several occasions, is post-apocalypse and/or post-race war when liberal white women can be taken as war brides, regardless of their vaccine status or religious belief.
Yikes.
Before we critique the Blood Duke’s pugilistic stylings, as a veteran of the U.S. Coast Guard and boot camp graduate, I gotta say the Blood Tribe’s marching, formation and drilling skills are atrocious and lack military bearing. Which, actually, is a good sign. That means not many of these masked men are veterans. Also, while some of the blood-bros are buff, many of them are not. We’re talking a majority of Gravy, not Navy, SEALS. In their chats, however, they portray themselves as ferocious blood-soldiers.
Hammer also views himself as a mighty warrior, but the thought of him actually brawling (or leading troops into battle) is laughable. Sure he can lift almost 500 pounds in the gym, but that muscle mass (not to mention his constant fear of heart attack) makes it tough for a lug like him to throw a punch or move quickly. Due to his steroid abuse, he’s bulky and slow, making his tiny head perched atop his broad shoulders an easy target. My guess: the Blutkönig can’t take a punch.
The Blood Duke, though, can take a punch. Sort of. And I’m not talking about the Nashville incident. Two months before joining the Blood Tribe, Berentz entered a Toughman boxing tournament taking place in a high school in Parkersburg High School in Parkersburg, West Virginia. According to official box scores, he got knocked out, losing his only-Toughman sanctioned fight in the first round. Before giving up, though, he ably took a couple dozen solid blows to the head.
Thanks to anti-fascist researcher Kate Ross, we can watch the entire 47-second fight, including the moment when the dazed Berentz concedes. In mid-February, Ross (with help from pals) was the first to disclose Berentz’s real identity. While investigating his background, she also discovered (and purchased) this pure comedy gold in the form of footage of Berentz getting clobbered in his debut bout.
I’m NOT at all recommending anyone challenge the Blood Duke to a boxing match or any sort of duel. Punching Nazis is NOT worth the time or energy or ethical or legal hassles because these crybabies would love to press charges, furthering their white male victimhood narrative. And, to be blunt, considering all the pathogens Berentz must absorb in his role as aide-de-catamite to a tattoo-ink-slinging-juice shooting-bloody-spear-handling-sovereign, it’s probably best to stay away from his blood, sweat and other bodily fluids.
The good news is that, in this election year, we CAN fight fascists without fisticuffs or violence. Voting, and encouraging other non-chuds to vote, is an important first step. Registering new voters is great. So is keeping an eye on your local polling place on election day. Maybe even sticking around after the polls close to watch the vote counting — and democracy — in action. Hopefully, though, you’ll want to do more, before votes are cast, to ensure your candidates for the Legislature, school board and other municipal offices aren’t chuds, chud-adjacent or chud-sympathetic.
That’s why in No Hugs for Chuds, Part 2, aka Disinfomaniacs podcast # 14, (published March 13) we discuss ways to help preserve democracy, including tips from the aforementioned Kate Ross on fighting the fash and other whackjobs from the safety of your own home. Plus my pal, the author Mira Ptacin, explains how tolerating intolerance can destroy a tolerant society. And I have a long conversation with my Floridian colleague, the investigative journalist Claire Goforth, about her criss-crossing the nation to look at the local impact of chuds for her four-part “Nazi-land” series for the DailyDot.com.
And be sure to subscribe to get No Hugs for Chuds Part 3 delivered to your mailbox. That’s slated for March 18 and entitled “Portland Chud defends Hitler, Throws Roman Salute at So Po City Council.”
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What a bunch of fuckups.