Mine and @surajlakhani.bsky.social's book is now officially out, and there's a discount code! Available: academic.oup.com/book/60071

Missed Wednesday's seminar, with Arthur Bradley, UNICRI's Ottavia Galuzzi, and @surajlakhani.bsky.social, on right- and left-wing violent extremist abuse of digital technologies in South America, Africa, and Asia? Check out the recording at youtu.be/kOArdasVDqY?...

You can now catch the recording of our fantastic event with Joe Mulhall, discussing his work at HOPE not HATE, with Suraj Lakhani. Do your ears a favour and go take a listen now! Links in comments... @joemulhall.bsky.social @hopenothate.org.uk @surajlakhani.bsky.social

Now out online: The Sociology of Violent Extremism @oxfordunipress.bsky.social edited by @surajlakhani.bsky.social @amaramarasingam.bsky.social Includes my ch. 'Far-Right Extremism & the Sociology of Race & Racism', which my recent @britsoci.bsky.social drew on, & more academic.oup.com/book/60071

🚨NEW🚨 @surajlakhani.bsky.social and my new edited collection is out! Hard copy available in a few months. academic.oup.com/book/60071

Well, I didn't have this headline on my bingo card

Final chance to register! ⏳ Join us in Dublin for two VOX-Pol Institute events on 7–8 May: tackling online extremism, platform and regulation challenges, plus a hands-on tabletop exercise. Registration closes 2pm Friday (Irish time)! 👉 www.voxpolinstitute.org/events-1

"Counterterrorism Czar" lol

This is one of my fav conferences. Alongside the cutting edge research on show, there's a really supportive community at the heart of it. This year is hosted by the amazing @akilnawan.bsky.social and @lizzypearson.bsky.social so even more reason to register!

🚨 Final Call 🚨 Last hours to submit your abstract for the 17th Annual International Conference of the Society for Terrorism Research, to be hosted by the School of Law & Social Sciences and the @CVTRC.bsky.social at @RoyalHolloway.bsky.social. 🧵 1/2

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BREAKING—The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) office was just on lockdown for close to an hour while members of the DOGE team tried to enter the building, multiple people have told me. Security has now escorted out remaining staffers who’ve been told to telework until further notice.

Meet Gracie Himes, age 20. Her goal: Fight cancer by developing new medicines. On March 3, her dreams were shattered when Trump admin cuts hit West Virginia University, which rescinded her PhD program offer. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

BUZZING for This Bad Boy to Be in the Wild Soon 🎉🎊💃 @craigwebber.bsky.social and I Apply The #HerosJourney to al-Qaeda and ISIS Propaganda. Coming Soon in @surajlakhani.bsky.social and @amaramarasingam.bsky.social The Sociology of Violent Extremism 😍😍

Elon spends nearly $300 million on getting Trump elected, and now Trump is using White House resources to promote his cars to help Elon boost his stock prices. Not even a speck of ethics left in the Trump White House.

New to VOX-Pol? Check out our fully searchable Online Library, now with links to 2,200+ articles, chapters, theses, Blog posts, etc. focused on all aspects of online extremism and terrorism.

Pleased to see this one published #openaccess at journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10..... CC @joewhittaker.bsky.social @lizzypearson.bsky.social @draamattheis.bsky.social 1/3

If this doesn't sum it up perfectly, I don't know what does.

Heartbreaking

Again, the richest man in human history personally individually directed this

Since the links were broken, here are my latest starter packs for all your national security, terrorism and violent extremism informational needs. List 1 bsky.app/starter-pack... List 2 bsky.app/starter-pack...

Ukraine is Europe! We stand by Ukraine. We will step up our support to Ukraine so that they can continue to fight back the agressor. Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader. It’s up to us, Europeans, to take this challenge.

apparently CISA analysts have also been told not to follow or report Russian cyber threats, according to the @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

“Trump just presided over one of the greatest diplomatic disasters in modern history. Tempers flared, voices were raised & protocol was shredded…As Trump got into a shouting match with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a horrified Europe watched the post-second world war order crumble before its eyes.”

MAGA are mad at Zelenskyy for not wearing a suit for an official White House meeting. Meanwhile:

Freedom and democracy are always worth fighting for. Slava Ukraini.

Numerous European countries publicly supporting Zelensky and Ukraine 🇺🇦 A thread 🧵

Sweden, Lithuania, and Sweden all reiterate their support for Ukraine. It would be nice to see the same from the UK and France in this moment.

Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.

Residents of Lincoln Heights, Ohio, a Black-majority town in the suburbs of Cincinnati, have formed armed watches after neo-Nazis recently marched close by and after fliers from the Ku Klux Klan began appearing in town.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk responds, something we hopefully see a lot more of that from other European leaders. It's never been clearer than in this moment that Trump is Putin's ally, not Europe's.

President Trump’s simpering fealty to Vladimir Putin and Russia is embarrassing and dangerous. Illinois stands with Ukraine, and so should the White House.

Spain joins in with its support of Ukraine. Hopefully, Trump's tantrum will lead to significant action from Europe on Ukraine.

The comments on this post provide some insight, people are either protesting with their wallets or, terrified they'll lose their jobs and saving as much as they can, or are terrified the economy will crash due to various issues including ongoing tariff wars.

Couldn't agree more. He is hugely influential for young boys around the world. What kind of message does this send to them?

We don’t just live in a world where rapists and misogynists are tolerated. We now live in a world where rapists and misogynists have all the political power and will confidently protect and amplify one another in defiance of the law. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c7...

The bravery of the women who spoke up about what Andrew Tate did them was incredible. I cannot image what they must be thinking today seeing Trump embrace him and his brother in the US www.vice.com/en/article/a...

This point raises such a good comparison. In previous years, Andrew Tate moved to Romania so he could avoid the law in the UK and the US. Then Romania began prosecuting him, and he fled to the US. What does that say about the degradation of the threat of law in the US under Trump?

I HOPE this will be seen as an egregious attack on the rule of law and human dignity...let's see how Starmer reacts (if at all) during his impending US visit.

But you're missing an important detail...the new plan involves a filthy rich person getting richer.

This is atrocious. @ofcom.bsky.social why are these outdated views being allowed to be shared on a national news channel? There's misogyny, then there is this. #sortitout

Internet celebrity? Let me fix that for you: "Men accused of human trafficking, sexual misconduct, money laundering, and rape, as well as starting an organised crime group, leave Romania on a private flight for the US..."

"There was clearly enormous pressure on us from the US government to allow the Tate brothers to leave Romanian territory," sources close to the investigation told the BBC. bsky.app/profile/mirc...

Trump used (trashed) US diplomatic resources to get two men being investigated for trafficking, sexual misconduct, and rape in three countries (the UK, US, and Romania) out of Romania. We will not hear one peep from supposed Christian moralists or govt waste experts about this.