A Comparative Look at ICE and the minneapolis police department

In October 2025, Tucker Carlson made headlines for what many considered to be a blatant endorsement of white supremacy: interviewing extremist streamer Nick Fuentes. Over the two-hour interview, the pair bonded over discussions of "organized Jewry" threatening the United States and praising authoritarian figures, such as Joseph Stalin.

The Ku Klux Klan briefly had a 3rd wave during the 1960s, bombing churches and violently fighting against the Civil Rights Movement, but their so-called “empire” had been in decline and shattered since the 1930s. Despite its short revival in the 1960s, it was clear that the group was  in deep decline, as hate crimes could and would be enforced, and the government that used to be supportive of the Klan now used COINTELPRO against them. It was clear that the old forms of organized hatred had been effectively defeated.

In George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Fire and Ice series, the Iron Bank is a quietly menacing figure that lingers in the background of Westeros’s civil war. The exact power wielded by the world’s most powerful financial institution is made clear when the Queen Regent Cersei Lannister informs the Iron Bank that she would delay repayment indefinitely. In response to Cersei’s default, her creditor throws its financial heft behind another rival, quadrupling his forces overnight and shifting the war’s balance in one fell swoop.