As @mikeblack114.bsky.social put it, the only interview question to become an extremism/counterterrorism researcher in a Reconstruction government will be "do you have stairs in your house?"

The White House is using AI-generated memes as official messaging, echoing far-right culture. “It’s absolutely shocking to see such images being deployed,” said @heidibeirich.bsky.social. “The idea appeals to racists & white supremacists who think only white people should be in positions of power.”

I went on Canadian television to talk about the racist shitposting that the *checks notes* Department of Homeland Security is doing. www.cbc.ca/news/ice-rec...

Obviously this isn't being done for principled reasons, but it speaks to just how far ICE's legitimacy has collapsed. Because for all their myriad faults, most Congressional Republicans have the political instincts to know when they're on a ship that is rapidly sinking and should find a lifeboat.

Here. I couldn't think of anything better to say. othermeans.io/p/on-being-a...

This is a good article and once again shows how these unregulated and mostly unmoderated online spaces serve as perfect platforms to push extremist content. Stuff like “Agartha” and laughing at “Yakub” memes have been apart of online culture for a hot minute now. Glad to see some reporting on this.

I’m losing my mind, man.

Sorry Birds fans, but few teams have deserved to lose more than this Eagles team deserved to lose. At least now you can rest assured that Patullo will be fired.

This is exactly the energy we need from elected leaders right now. No equivocation, no bullshit. Get the fuck out.

Great (terrible) news (predictions), everyone, I've updated my awful blog with a post designed to make you, personally, feel very bad. This is a relatively breezy overview of things to worry about in 2026 mostly related to the election, so check it out! nocellara.beehiiv.com/p/2026-threa...

Happy New Year Xbox

Respectfully, this topic has been intensely addressed from both a research and policy perspective. Indeed, a lot of the research on lone actor terrorism has stressed both the low material cost of such attacks, and the lack of any true 'predictive' personal or sociological characteristic.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone and never forget that society began its irreversible decline into terminally online brain rot when the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade did the Rick Roll meme. There was no going back after that, our fates were sealed…enjoy the turkey and stuffing today though!

This is some very good reporting about the Goyim Defense League (GDL) and how they are targeting kids online for recruitment. GDL hasn't gotten a lot of mainstream coverage like Fuentes and his Groyper buddies have but GDL is worse in basically every way. Thanks for this great reporting, Phil!

Pump it all straight into my veins.

The Dodgers would be nothing and nobody without immigrants. They won this game - and this entire series - because of immigrants. In that sense, they represent the absolute best that this country has to offer. I hope they remember all this when the White House invitation arrives.

Was a rough year in LA. But this felt pretty good.

For those who don't know, that is a runic depiction of Fenrir from Norse mythology. These kinds of tattoos have been a favorite in Nazi-adjacent circles for a long time. To be clear: I truly don't know if Platner is a crypto-Nazi, but he is most definitely a massive fucking idiot.

To the various laymen who are out here doing Dan Brown shit trying to piece together shooter motives: actual terrorists, even the terminally online ones, are never cryptic about why they kill people. It literally defeats the purpose, as the entire point of political violence is to SEND A MESSAGE.

As acts of political or social violence have become a form of content to be consumed by an audience, one of the standard failings of American media literacy has taken hold in that the audience who chooses their sainted killer is read as said actor being ascribed to that audience's stated ideology.

Here's a screenshot from the video I took of Paul Ingrassia, who is mentioned in this story, at the Nick Fuentes rally he claims he "accidentally" went to.

Wow, man. It’s like those of us who were saying that the memes on the shells didn’t speak to any ideological motive were right all along!

Spoke with @drewharwell.com over @washingtonpost.com about Internet culture, memes and how the rush to pin an ideology on Robinson was foolish. Happy to be quoted alongside other experts like @jaredlholt.bsky.social and @jmberger.com in this! They really know their stuff.

Open Measures found that far-right extremist groups were among the first to notice and circulate the “Expose Charlie’s Muderers” website, raising additional questions about the site’s origins openmeasures.io/far-right-ex...

Again, while I expect some attempt at illegal bullshit, the total lack of any legal infrastructure dealing with domestic extremism makes it very difficult for this to translate into anything real.

Thanks to @mjgault.bsky.social for letting me come on the Angry Planet pod and talk about the memes and stuff online culture in general. It was a great conversation and I got to talk about Gamergate too, which I always love to do. Go give it a listen if you’d like!

“ANTIFA” isn’t a real organization. Trump and co will now just attempt to label anyone they don’t like as “ANTIFA” as a way to try and coerce them into silence. It’s very bad but also incredibly stupid.

One of the reasons I keep dropping that "this isn't the American Years of Lead, but you can see it from here" is because we haven't seen a society-shattering rise in clear, coherent, organized, and communicative violence by disparate, clearly ideological actors.

Wild that something I wrote is right below something Ro Khanna wrote. With the indictment out and with Robinson admitting on Discord to his roommate that the memes on the shells were literally "just one big meme", I think you should go read my article where I said that was likely the case!

"It's all one big meme" is the explanation the shooter gave for the memes on the shells and that's exactly what I've been saying this whole time. I'd argue that he did because he knew big name shooters had memes on their bullets or guns so he was emulating that.

It's important to point out that this is openly fascist and authoritarian and thus extremely dangerous to the civil society of the country while also pointing out that the lack the manpower both at a law enforcement and legal level to carry this out at scale.

Trump is posthumously awarding Charlie Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Vance flew his casket on Air Force 2. A memorial is happening at The Kennedy Center. State Dept and Pentagon are taking steps to prevent criticism of Kirk. This is NOT normal treatment for an extremist. It’s a message.

Now that those crazy afternoon games are over, you all should read this article I wrote for MSNBC. It would make me happy and buoy my spirit before I have to watch the Falcons almost certainly disappoint on prime time television this evening.

Read @aselrod.bsky.social today

I wrote for @msnbc.com about what the engravings on the shell casings of Kirk’s shooter represent and where the references originated. Given what we know so far, they suggest a young man who had his brain fried by the irony poisoned, anti-social nature of certain aspects of online culture. /1

The “let me toss out this manifesto I have” joke is really, REALLY fucking telling. It was all performative. He KNEW someone would get his hands on these Discord logs. It’s all one big joke.

I want to remind everyone that the cops saying the dude with long hair wearing a kigurumi MUST be trans are the same people who thought "*notices bulge*, OwO what's this" was "trans ideology". These fuckers do not know what they are talking about and many have an agenda.

This came out a few years ago, and it's highly relevant - the reduction of Christianity to a merely far-right social symbol instead of a lived reality:

The politics of context collapse, digital shibboleths, and weaponized precarity/isolation driven by coordinated influence campaigns.

said it yesterday but the people who commit this violence increasingly show us that they deeply understand how our information ecosystems process it. It appears to be part of the appeal for them. And yet the response doesn't really change. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

all As are Bs, not all Bs are As, please try to be smarter than noted dumb asshole, aristotle

NEW: Far-right militias are banking on outrage around Charlie Kirk's death to mobilize members and bring in new recruits. @davidgilbert.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/extrem...

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The prospect of large scale violence committed, more or less, for the memes, is terrifying. And if we're not there already, we are rapidly speeding towards it.

New from @tinanguyen.bsky.social and me: Charlie Kirk's shooter left behind bullet casings with a furry sex meme and a bunch of Helldivers video game references. Subreddits for Helldivers immediately picked up on it. www.theverge.com/politics/777...

basically a generational cohort split here where certain younger people intuitively grasp the irony poisoned context, and if you aren't already up to speed, very hard to explain

it’s early but it seems like maybe this is relevant again (wrote it last week fml)

The “world we used to share no longer exists” is the important part here. “Consensus reality” is the best term I’ve heard for it and that just doesn’t exist anymore.

If this was really the reason I’m going to lose my fucking mind.

We don't yet have any idea what the ideology of the Kirk shooter was. But we do know that the Denver school shooter was a far-right white supremacist. www.denverpost.com/2025/09/11/e...