Glad to get the chance to present some of my ongoing research at IREX at the beautiful University of Tübingen last week. Very grateful to @leoniedejonge.bsky.social and @marcokrueger.bsky.social for the invitation and hospitality!

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My recap of the past week's momentous developments, with the government's offensive on SDF-held Deir Hafir taking it all the way to al-Ya'rubiyah. Brittle US-facilitated agreements threaten to break down, bringing Syria further into dangerous ethnic warfare. akmckeever.substack.com/p/this-week-...

New blog post! Joshua Farrell-Molloy explains how Irish #far-right groups use #masculinity and republican symbols to frame themselves as defenders of #Ireland. www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...

Few things absolutely throw me off more than the Irish far right co-opting symbols of Irish republicanism for their own anti-immigrant fanaticism — a good read

Check out my latest for the @crexuio.bsky.social blog. I look at how a politically maturing Irish far right is increasingly leveraging Irish republicanism through masculinity to build a home-grown ideology.

Check out my latest for the @crexuio.bsky.social blog. I look at how a politically maturing Irish far right is increasingly leveraging Irish republicanism through masculinity to build a home-grown ideology.

🚨NEW PAPER The Logic of Connective Faction: How Digitally Networked Elites and Hyper-Partisan Media Radicalize Politics w/ @yunkangyang.bsky.social & @mikecowburn.bsky.social Online radicalization doesn't just affect the public. It also reshapes how elites & parties behave. doi.org/10.1080/1058...

Kyiv’s GUR ‘faked Russian-ordered killing [of Denis Kapustin] and bagged $500k Kremlin reward’

Denis Kapustin, founder and commander of the Russian Volunteer Corps, was killed overnight on the Zaporizhzhia front. According to the unit, he died while carrying out a combat mission, preliminary reports point to an FPV drone strike.

Interesting article on the role of Groyper follower accounts in manufacturing the rise of Fuentes on X. Much of this is also quite visible on Instagram recently, with a noticeable push of Fuentes edits and clips from supporters. Article here: www.realityslaststand.com/p/the-manufa...

After the 7 November attack at SMAN 72 in Jakarta, I analyse the rise of memetic violence in Southeast Asia: our youth replicating notorious Western attackers encountered through digital platforms. gnet-research.org/2025/12/22/c...

“Espanola’s members, including Orlov, are far-right Russian soccer hooligans….broadcaster RTVI, citing anonymous sources, reported on Dec. 10 that Orlov had been killed by return fire during an arrest on arms trafficking charges the previous day.”

"Investigators said the soldiers beat and tortured him to death, then tried to hide the crime by blowing up his body in a car" ‘Donbas Cowboy’ – Russians jailed for killing US volunteer on their side www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

I see Elon Musk is personally suing (along with X Holdings Corp) the Irish media regulator Coimisiún na Meán, in High Court proceedings filed yesterday. Hearing is due January 23rd.

Suspected members of neo-Nazi terror group arrested in Spain. Three people are accused of belonging to the Base, an ‘accelerationist’ white power organisation founded in the US

Tommy Robinson supporters are turning to Christianity, leaving the Church in a dilemma www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I spoke with France 24 about the rise of far-right ‘Active Clubs,’ following the recent hate-crime convictions of four members in Sweden who brutally assaulted several immigrants in Stockholm this summer: f24.my/BZHW

New article on “The Relational Dynamics of Violence Escalation and Inhibition During Far-Right Protest Waves” by Joel Busher, Julia Ebner, Zsófia Hacsek, Gareth Harris and myself in the latest issue of “American Behavioral Scientist”:

Happy Halloween! @maargentino.com Available: www.routledge.com/Contemporary...

✨ I’m thrilled to be joining the Center for the Study of Organized Hate as their new Director of Research and Outreach. ✨ In this pivotal moment, advancing research and building partnerships across policy and civil society to combat hate, extremism & digital harms is vital. www.csohate.org

NEW: Revisiting Terrorist Motivation - A Critical Appraisal and New Directions for Research Our special issue launches shortly. Here's the primer: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Pleased to have had the opportunity to contribute to this research with Human Digital and @vox-pol.bsky.social. The ongoing proliferation of illegal content on gore sites is undermining broader efforts to counter terrorism and other harms online. Among the key findings of the research:

🧵 I spoke to FRANCE 24 for their piece on The Base, a transnational neo-Nazi terrorist organisation now being used as a tool in Russia’s war against Ukraine. Earlier this month, a cell affiliated with The Base claimed responsibility for an assassination in Kyiv. www.france24.com/fr/europe/20...

Gardaí fear drug gangs in Ireland have made connections with a gun supplier who's providing criminals with lethal 'throw away' 3D-printed plastic guns, The Journal has learned. Read more here: http://jrnl.ie/6745392t

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“White House has recommended terminating U.S. funding for nearly two dozen programs that conduct war crimes and accountability work globally, including in Myanmar, Syria and on alleged Russian atrocities in Ukraine” www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Happy to join the European Commission's EU Knowledge Hub on Prevention of Radicalisation's Thematic Panel "Management of Foreign Terrorist Fighter, Volunteers and their Families". Earlier this week, we met in Berlin, to discuss varying approaches to returnees across EU and priority third countries.

Diary entries written by Luigi Mangione reveal the now 27-year-old’s detailed thinking ahead of the alleged killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson last year, a new court filing shows.

New article by former @crexuio.bsky.social PhD fellow, @evianeleidig.com and former C-REX guest researcher @joshuafmolloy.bsky.social 👇

📢 Our new article in the Nordic Journal of Media Studies is out, co-written with @evianeleidig.com We look at community-building around 'right-wing bodybuilder' masculinist influencers. You can check it out here: sciendo.com/article/10.2...

🚨 New article with the brilliant @joshuafmolloy.bsky.social We dive into the online community of right-wing body builders (RWBB) 🥚🥩🥛 open access: sciendo.com/article/10.2...

Guy Edward Bartkus, a 25-year-old man from Twentynine Palms committed the car bomb attack the fertility clinic in Palm Springs. Bartkus was a follower of Efilism, or a radical version of antinatalism that holds that it’s ethical to end life because life is suffering. bnonews.com/index.php/20...

UPDATE: One person was killed and four were injured in the weekend blast, said Akil Davis, assistant director in charge of the FBI's Los Angeles Field Office.

Statement from the PKK on the end of its armed struggle: “The PKK's 12th Congress decided to dissolve the PKK's organizational structure and end the armed struggle method.” firatnews.com/kurdIstan/pk...

BREAKING: Polish Prime Minister Tusk announced full certainty that the massive fire at Marywilska 44, a major wholesale center in Warsaw, was arson ordered by Russian intelligence.

As it's such a lovely evening here in Clonmel, I took a short walk down to our local holy well at Tober na hAoine. Both delighted and a little relieved to see the fallen hawthorn tree bursting into bloom.

The PKK could disband within the coming days. In a statement published by ANF the group says it held its 12th Congress earlier this month and will release results "within the near future" after Ocalan called on it to lay down arms anfenglishmobile.com/kurdistan/pk...

I know being baffled by all this is getting old, but wow

FBI has opened 250 investigations tied to 764. Every single one of the FBIs 55 field offices across the country are handling a 764-related case. Some victims as young as nine & authorities indicate there could be 1000s of victims globally abcnews.go.com/US/fbi-opene...

Far right activist Scott Delaney jailed in UK for drugs haul after years on the run. Delaney had become one of Ireland’s most prominent far right influencers amassing thousands of followers on social media.

Dublin criminal gang attempts to drop pipe bomb from drone in a failed attack against rivals. The first non-conflict related drone bomb in Europe, surely? www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...

Looks like 764 members in Brazil were plotting to bomb a concert??? www.bbc.com/news/article...

Woman dies when a bomb she is carrying explodes in the Greek city of Thessaloniki, police say

Greek police investigating previously unknown group Revolutionary Class Struggle that claimed responsibility for a recent bomb blast targeting the offices of Greece's railway company www.dw.com/en/greece-ex...

UK: Counter-terrorism police are leading the investigation into an attack on three prison officers by Hashem Abedi, the jihadist jailed for life for helping his brother carry out the Manchester Arena bombing in 2017. The officers sustained life-threatening injuries www.bbc.com/news/article...

Russia just killed dozens of Ukrainians in a missile strike on Palm Sunday, a day after Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff met Putin, shook hands and posed for cameras. Witkoff visited an Orthodox Christian cathedral. Today church-goers were targeted. Report w/ @maxseddon.bsky.social on.ft.com/42k2tuc

Just arrived. Looking forward to diving into this by Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc, a timely and urgently needed book!

🚨 Happy to share my latest open-access research which examines the use of Twitter’s live-audio conversational feature, Spaces, with far-right communities I argue that the Elon Musk backed Spaces has emerged as a powerful communicative tool for the far-right www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...