Earlier this week @pbaskar.bsky.social quoted me in this excellent piece about how extremists around the world use platforms like Roblox & Minecraft to recruit children. Please read & share—especially with parents of young children. Gift link! ⤵️

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I'm just going to start quietly blocking the insufferable people on here who really think that a perfect utopia will naturally emerge if we just burn everything to the ground

People are saying how this will traumatize you and how it’s extremely illegal. All true. But also. It makes you a participant. Having the images exposed retraumatizes the victims. If you seek this stuff out, you are taking part in that. You aren’t bearing witness. You’re participating. It’s evil.

It occurred to me that this could be an anti-fascist text in a roundabout way.

Thinking about how damaging the "all sins are equal" evangelical mentality is As kids we earnestly sang along with "What if I Stumble?" thinking like "what if I accidentally hurt someone's feelings" but Tait meant "What if it comes out that I sexually assaulted a lot of people?"

Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans

I have disinterested feelings about Valentine's Day weekend at best, but it's been about a year of basically everyone that's a part of my life right now being consistently kind to me, the vast majority of my life has NOT been like this and being cherished rather than berated changes everything.

The "white culture" people could go eat hot dish or casserole or whichever version you want at a potluck on a Sunday having come out of one of the many all white moderate Protestant denomination churches in my home town but that's not what they mean, they mean they want to kill people of color.

when your dog gets MK-Ultra'd

asking AI only seems easier because you forgot that you then have to fact check every single thing it tells you the true lazy option is only using reputable sources

This made me laugh.

Netflix please I can’t do this today

It’s not great that we live in a world where people attempt to fool researchers and law enforcement about what unhinged ideology a mass shooter might have so they can mount their “Gotcha” on their profile like it’s a major award.

Today is my book's second birthday! It's relevant for understanding how militias both function think about themselves, including why many have a disjoint between their complacency about ICE alongside longstanding concerns about govt tyranny. share.google/g5peK0KVaZRM...

CALL FOR CHAPTERS! Me and @grahammacklin.bsky.social are putting together an edited collection looking at the use of pseudoscientific ideas by extremist movements. If you are interested, please send us your abstracts at this link: forms.gle/mAUtpDGNEj9i...

Here's my analysis in The Diplomat on RU's exploitation of SEA labour migration networks, following news of Filipinos being sent to the frontline to die. I made the point to distinguish trafficked fighters from actual mercenaries and explored diplomatic constraints. thediplomat.com/2026/02/sout...

People on Reddit are getting Amazon to refund their Ring products because of their partnership with Flock and that creepy Super Bowl ad www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurve...

The right’s response to the Bad Bunny Super Bowl performance is pretty close to a straightforward demand for white pride worldwide.

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

Been seeing AI art in a lot of presentations lately that would honestly probably have been better with clip art or sketches

Oooo...so this is the piece ripped of from Munira

Washington Post really out here saying:

Got a chapter with @philofwrite.bsky.social and @aysed.bsky.social on the media and Jan 6 coverage in @imogenrichards.bsky.social’s new book. www.routledge.com/The-Far-Righ...

It's more of a fandom...

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Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

“We’ve fought so hard to protect our community, but they want to experiment on us. We are guinea pigs. When you are autistic, like me, and a mother to autistic children, I see this as a way to end us. That's what it is.” autism activist Fiona O'Leary www.wired.com/story/rfk-jr...

I read the “SAVE Act” (the GOP’s new voter suppression bill) so you don’t have to. This is my one page summary. Jesus it’s bad. 1/

Why don't they say anything? Well, because when it happens to YOU, if you say something, that's frequently the ballgame. You get driven out of your community; you get to see what the people you thought loved you look like with the masks off. And way, way too many of them are monsters.

The big tech founder whose 417-foot, $500 million superyacht needs a 256-foot, $75 million superyacht to "shadow" it -- because the bigger yacht lacks a helipad -- had to cut his paper's newsroom almost in half, for reasons

Inside the ICE Forum Where Agents Complain About Their Jobs Another excellent scoop from my @wired.com colleague @telliotter.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/inside...

Kind of obsessed with my 11-year-old's drawing of a black hole barfing out a rainbow and creating the earth.

Really nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."

The GOP’s new Voter Suppression bill, the so-called “SAVE Act,” would disenfranchise many of the 69 million women who took their husbands’ last names, as explained in my summary. It proposes *no penalties* for erroneous voter purges but potential *prison time* for erroneous registrations. WTF?! 1/

Genuinely this is the evangelical experience

It’s hard to put into perspective how truly massive the warehouse is that was recently sold by the Rockefeller Group to the Department of Homeland Security for $70 million to build a concentration camp in Surprise, AZ. Across the street is a huge neighborhood and a school. It’s 400,000-square-feet.

Pretty telling that Cathy Wilcox has become a more effective political commentator with her powerful sketchings than practically any of her non-cartoonist colleagues who expend literally thousands more words every week but somehow manage to say very little or gutlessly avoid the issues altogether.

This type of guy keeps trying to tradwife me (leftistly!) after like 2 conversations on the internet There are so many of them and none of them have remotely examined their views of Gender

ICE tear gassed a bunch of children on Saturday. This was a massive escalation of force. They were shooting tear gas at the back of the crowd, it took these unmasked people maybe 3-5 minutes in the cloud of tear gas to escape in without trampling. www.theverge.com/policy/87278...

These guys two months ago: ha ha I hope there's a civil war we'll make those LIBERAL BITCHES cry for mercy These guys now: waaaaaa they're using whistles it's not FAIR waaaaa (You can get free community safety whistles, quantity 100 to 1000, from here: linktr.ee/3Dwhistles )

What makes something a conspiracy theory isn’t that it is entirely false. A conspiracy theory can be based on one or even an entire set of factual claims, but something about the way those claims are assembled into an overarching argument, its framing, the misuse of evidence and logic, etc, is off.

Calling it now that the soyteens are gonna use this guy as an insult

Hi. I'm an OSINT researcher with experience targeting violent extremism, influence operations, and financial market threats. Most recently, I worked at Graphika turning complex data into actionable intelligence for clients, and before that worked at Spotify removing online harms.

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truly, every reporter should shutdown any biometrics now. do not tell yourself you will do it later!!!! just take 10 minutes and check all your devices. THANKS~!

I appreciate you, France www.bbc.com/news/article...

This absolutely tracks