The report completely neglects the way that much of the momentum in far right extremism has now become part of STATE VIOLENCE. It does not count ICE actions, militia actions, vigilantism clothed in state authority. THIS IS WHERE THAT VIOLENCE NOW RESIDES. (4)

Given the recent spate of violence by veterans, I want to take a moment to again recommend reading @kathleenbelew.bsky.social's book on veterans & extremism, Bring the War Home. www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Trump is building a personalist regime where every university must bend the knee or lose funding and every business must bend the knee or face tariffs, H-1B fees, and regulatory blackmail. You can't cover each domain in isolation; they are all the same story.

With this ringing endorsement, if you'd like to understand what deeply evil nonsense the literal President of the United States is promoting now please do listen! on.soundcloud.com/0SJT1Mcqx8ks...

🚨 New directive NSPM-7 targets "anti-capitalism," “anti-Christian,” and “anti-American" opinions as indicators of extremist violence, authorizing an army of 4,000 counter-terrorism officers to prevent crimes that haven't happened: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nsp...

Why Misinformation Must Not Be Ignored Quite proud of this paper, which just received the journal's APA Editor's Choice award 😊 Big thanks to my coauthors Li Qian Tay, Jon Roozenbeek, @profsanderlinden.bsky.social, John Cook, @naomioreskes.bsky.social, and @lewan.bsky.social

1/n A few days ago, an article appeared in The Atlantic with a bold headline “Left-wing terrorism is on the rise.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

If you're looking to do a PhD on a timely subject, I'm on the advisory board of a cool new project; "When Lies Take Root: Investigating the Impact of Misinformation on Those at Risk" at the top-ranked Amsterdam School of Communication Research/ Do share & apply: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Pratar om 764, NLM, Order of Nine Angles, "Tempel ov Blood" och Maniacs Murder Cult med @patrikhermansson.bsky.social och @erikglaad.bsky.social i veckans podd.

I hear the President has decreed that it is possibly a crime to refer to Americans as "fascists," but "fascism" is a word that has a relatively clear meaning that's worth understanding. Here's how an official publication of the US Army defined "fascism" in 1945.

I think the Tylenol thing might have more impact over here than people think. Trust for Trump is low here so we assume it won't but, a bit like with infant vaccines after COVID, the primary impact isn't people becoming hardcore refusers so much as internalising there's a potential risk and deferring

I've said it before, but I think the current spree of memekillings is the product of an ideological transition. It's hard to parse because it's rapidly evolving. It's clearly derived from far right precursors, but it hasn't progressed to coherence yet.

Thread. The new McCarthyism is, and has been, tearing through education for years. These are just a sampling, and they have been the rehearsals for purges in places like late-night TV.

Time to delete your academia,edu account 👇

Read 'The effects of social media criticism against public health institutions on trust, emotions, and social media engagement' at www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

My goodness, this article is bleak as hell. scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/08/26/g...

"Under the plan being discussed, the FBI would treat transgender suspects as a subset of the Bureau’s new threat category, “Nihilistic Violent Extremists” (NVEs)."

Norske mediers normalisering av ytre høyre de siste tre (!) dagene: Lørdag: TV2 rapporterer fra minnemarkering foran Stortinget i regi av høyreekstrem organisasjon uten å nevne ett ord om arrangørens ideologi.

Problemet er at ikke bare ender man opp med å servere folket løgn og propaganda i beste sendetid - det funker ikke heller. Jo mer man gir til ytre høyre, jo mer bøllete og aggressive blir de. Se til Sverige, som Wold gjør, eller se til Nederland, der Wilders og co. fortsatt angriper "MSM". (2/3)

NRK har tatt noen spektakulært dårlige beslutninger i det siste, både om Israel i Eurovision og i dekningen av Horst Wesselifiseringen av Charlie Kirk. Noe er alvorlig råttent på Marienlyst.

"Conspiracy theories always breed strange architectural imaginings. It starts with something like the rumors of illicit sex between priests and nuns, and from there the allegations of unwanted pregnancies. But there are no children around, so the infants must have been murdered.

Worth reading: "Esotericism, the New Right, and Academic Scholarship" by Julius Strube 👉 brill.com/view/journal... in Aries Special Issue: Far-Right Politics and the Study of Esotericism (2025) 👉 brill.com/view/journal...

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

New publication! Matthew Horsey, Kana Imuta and I integrate insights from social, cognitive, political, and developmental psychology and propose a lifespan model of conspiracy belief formation, from infancy, through childhood and adolescence, into adulthood. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

For those who want the tl;dr on my very long thread on the false "trans extremism" nattative spread by the far right recently, this post is it. It's worth checking out the whole thread, tho - because the data is there, demonstrating how far removed from reality the transphobic far right is.

Blei nysgjerrig på hva Charlie Kirk sa 14. juni, dagen da Melissa Hortman ble skutt og drept av en MAGA. Ikke så mye som en thoughts and prayers, kun projisering av skyld over på "the left". Jeg lurer litt på hvorfor ingen andre har undersøkt det der. Hva skal vi med en presse om ikke vil være det?

#Buchtipp: Rita Gsenger, »Die Finanzierung von #Desinformation. Ein Überblick über Akteure, Profiteure und deren Infrastruktur« #OpenAccess #FakeNews #SocialMedia #Influencer #Propaganda #Verschwörungsmythen

Nothing is inevitable. In either direction. Hope and work.

Thanks to @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social for bringing up this paper. Politicians gain power by reputation. Sometimes undeserved reputation

Dr Julia Ebner discusses how online trolling armies engage in intimidation tactics to threaten and silence academic researchers. (1/3) m.youtube.com/watch?featur...

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “What I find here in desperate villages in southwestern Uganda is that not only are aid cuts killing children every day, but that the death toll is accelerating,” our columnist @nickkristof.bsky.social writes.

“Controversial” For re-posting media headlines.

Biblioteklaurdag For ho (61). Det som held ho oppe når ho ligg nede, er å lesa bøker. Slikt som ikkje går fram av tala i statistikkane.

I finally got around to do the same today. Again for these reasons and more.

Tradwife culture is not just aiming to restore “traditional” gender roles, according to researchers of extremism. It is also a force in formulating a new model of womanhood: one that incorporates strong religious identity, a specific feminine aesthetic, and far-right ideas.

Look, if we're getting rid of the First Amendment, apparently we're getting rid of all of it... (the proper response from journalists here is "fuck no" and if you lose your press pass, so fucking be it, and start working on building up your sources inside the pentagon to continue your reporting)

I forrige uke fløy 20 russiske droner inn over Polen. Nå skal tre russiske jagerfly ha krenket luftrommet i Estland. Jeg vedder på at Russland forsøker å teste Nato, utvide sitt handlingsrom og å påvirke opinionen i informasjonsdomenet. #sammensattetrusler www.aftenposten.no/verden/i/wgw...

#MorningReads Trans women—especially Black trans women—face disproportionate police surveillance, harassment, and violence. Interviews with 21 trans women in Chicago illuminate how intersecting identities shape risk, underscoring urgent need for policy change. #Crim #LGBTResearch

i mean there’s a guy from a Dutch far-right group sitting in custody right now on terror and weapons offences and another foiled neo-Nazi attack on Eurovision 2020 where the guy planned on using chemicals like cyanide and ricin but ok tweede kamer nltimes.nl/2025/09/19/d...

Under-50s are now a minority of voters. Their turnout is falling, while older groups vote more. The gap is widest in faster-ageing countries, where younger workers disengage most www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Few American traditions are more deeply rooted, going back to before the national founding, than the perpetrators of systemic supremacist violence calling their victims dangerous. www.commondreams.org/news/trump-t...

MSNBC has zero moral authority to talk about cowardice of Disney, ABC, or Republicans for bending the knee to MAGA when they did exact thing in their termination of me and others. They are doing the exact thing they complain about others doing.

President Donald Trump has declined to approve a more than $400 million military aid package for Taiwan as he seeks a trade deal with China, according to the Washington Post

If you substitute "Schmittianism" or "Stuart Absolutism" for "Originalism," everything Josh Blackman says becomes a lot clearer. He's marinated in authoritarianism right to the bone marrow. reason.com/volokh/2025/...

Say "anti-vaxxers" when you mean anti-vaxxers. There is no fact-based scepticism about them or this www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

New: The Trump administration asks the Supreme Court to remove Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve Board while her case makes its way through the judiciary. The lower courts have kept Cook in her seat, finding that her attempted removal was unlawful. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Stop treating pretextual claims seriously

The Com by the numbers: Between 2020 and 2025, there have been 194 arrests linked to the Com Network in 29 different countries. Out of these 194 cases, 5,040 individuals or entities have been damaged, harmed, victimized, or killed in the last five years. 7/