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Commies in Coeur d’Alene! [1]

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Date: 2026-07-13  

This is a quickie diary I’m throwing together for aceoclubs. I don’t know that I’ve ever been through Coeur d’Alene. It looks like it could be gorgeous. On March 1st, 2025 I put together a diary about Teresa Borrenpohl getting man handled at a town hall.

What Happened at the Coeur d’Alene Town hall?

As a result, I got familiar with the work of Coeur d’Alene Press. It’s good, the kind of news source we should all visit. My (new) friend eeff pit this up on April 19th, 2025

Remember the Idaho Townhall the woman was dragged out of?

This is from aceoclubs, as posted in a comment in the Evening shade tonight. It’s interesting.

CDAPress

Idaho labor economist ran anonymous accounts promoting pro-Russian, far-right views

Standing alongside the rectangular glow of a PowerPoint presentation, Sam Wolkenhauer plays up a nerdy persona. In May 2025, he led a group of North Idaho realtors through a slide deck on labor market trends, slipping in self-deprecating references to the Lord of the Rings, actuarial statistics and spreadsheets. Wolkenhauer clicked to a chart on unemployment claims. “One of the first things you have to understand about economists,” he told the group, “is we’re very petty and we’re very, very fixated on the aesthetic quality of our graphs.” Wolkenhauer, an economist and research analyst supervisor at the Idaho Department of Labor, has often served as the face of the state’s agency for worker welfare. He regularly delivers presentations to local civic groups, hosts webinars on workforce statistics and gives media interviews to regional news outlets. But online researchers recently identified Wolkenhauer as the anonymous poster behind large Substack and X.com accounts that drive thousands of dollars in subscriptions each month with pro-Russian commentary that often traffics in Nazi imagery and amplifies far-right organizations. Wolkenhauer’s Big Serge account on X, formerly known as Twitter, has more than 196,000 followers and his Big Serge Thought account on Substack ranks as the 20th most popular history newsletter on the site. He has used the accounts to post political and cultural opinions that attack Ukrainian perspectives as well as LGBTQ individuals and others. In one recent post, he called for mass executions in response to a UK grooming investigation. “I am an Orthodox Christian with religious/familial affinity with the Russian people,” Wolkenhauer wrote on X in 2024, “and I hate America’s Atlanticist regime of gay race communism which loots the American people to propagate a great ugliness and spiritual sterility upon the world.” ✂️

I hope I’m not being presumptuous in putting this up, but I thought it was worthy of more than a random comment in the Evening Shade.

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