Something interesting that I'm seeing lately is the new generation in these circles is using "The Fire Rises" as a way to talk in code about the actual real living people who were involved in AWD Sort of like the use of "in Minecraft" but much more direct

Sorry no one is allowed to protest unless everyone in the crowd reads my syllabus first

New, vital work from @maargentino.com for those dealing w/ NVE. For ppl wanting the definition, I pulled a few quotes. I really want to stress this part: “Ideology is not absent w/in the nihilistic violent extremist milieu. However, it typically functions as a secondary or even tertiary factor”

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!

Did a podcast about Nick Fuentes and his idiot groupies.

can confirm that @hereticmasked.bsky.social and @bluebilliejeans.bsky.social rock

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

icymi, yours truly has some quotes in here

Indebted to Alex for his expertise as well as the work of many other researchers who are combing through the most soul crushing spaces on the internet to help understand this darkness. Especially this exceptional piece by @hereticmasked.bsky.social and @bluebilliejeans.bsky.social

An excellent piece by @cwarzel.bsky.social about the Minneapolis attacker & the murder fandoms & NVE networks that act as a feedback reinforcement loop developing future atackers. Really important reading for everyone trying to make sense of where we’re at today & w/ gift link.

This is an important piece about the Annunciation Church attacker’s writings. If you’re a practitioner who needs to make sense of the attack, or other NVE attacks, I strongly recommend reading this piece. I think it’s some of Marc-André’s best work.

with the transcription now done, it is time to read the writings and the footprint of this attacker. T here is a lot to cover and I will have something on this incident next week. The case is more complex than what we can see on the surface, there are traps they want you to fall for.

New blog post with @theondrakguy.bsky.social, @bluebilliejeans.bsky.social, @petersmith.bsky.social , & @hereticmasked.bsky.social on Spawnism a growing nihilistic violent extremist movement, using similar tactics techniques and procedures to target & harm minors www.maargentino.com/spawnism-car...

While on holiday last week I listend to @socialistdogmom.bsky.social latest podcast ep and it was fantastic. It was great to see the work of @bluebilliejeans.bsky.social and @hereticmasked.bsky.social also referenced in the EP alongside my own! www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...

The only thing that's true about this obvious hit piece is that this is an opinion; a bad one. You're deliberately mischaracterising what happened. The exploitation here is coming from you, not Marc, trying to milk pity points. Whoever's willing to believe the worst in Marc, you're disappointing.

You can tell who is doing the work and who isn't doing the work based on who has to write hit pieces trying to tear down other people's work

There are people who do extremism research to try and educate people and make the world a better place and then there are people who are in this field to chase clout and obtain poster glory. Know the difference.

I just want to say that @maargentino.com is one of the kindest and most compassionate people that I've ever had the privilege to know, both personally and professionally. He does a stunning amount of work that's unpaid just for the opportunity to help kids who are being exploited.

My 2x convicted abuser who I have a protective order against posts on here freely&despite a history of stalking me&misusing research tools to gather intel on people in my life-posts doxxes. *I* got told by all y'all that *I* was creating drama for posting about my abuse Where y'all at on that?

🧵 I was a child when when David Gunn was murdered, but I remember when it happened, because we talked about it at church. In my Sunday school class for young children, the teacher told us what happened and said that murders like that actually saved lives, and he suggested that God might approve.

There is currently a lot of debate about whether Vance Boelter was an outlier for Christian extremism, and whether anti-abortion extremism is an outlier for Christianity. The reality is, the anti-abortion movement is inextricably linked to Replacement Theory and anyone who believes in it.

remember when the New York Times ditched its public editor on the grounds that editors and reporters would listen and respond to criticism and feedback on social media so the role was no longer necessary

I’m so happy to be blocked bc it means he saw what I said. I hope he thinks about how he’s negatively participating in the very systems he claims to report on but not to participate in. It’s not possible to report on politics without participating in it. That’s not how complex systems work.

It is a rare occasion that I publicly criticize a staffer at the paper I write for but: you blew it. Your subject flat-out lied about how he procured the vilest of CSAM, and it is a dereliction of journalistic duty not to at least fact-check what many users here, myself included, vividly recall.

It’s telling that the actual victims here—the children who were tortured and exploited—are never once mentioned by either man, the one being profiled or the one who wrote the profile & who has spent the day poasting glib insults rather than considering what people are so upset about

The extreme far right idolize & meme the convicted violent pedophile & murderer who made the video in question. They openly revel in the political sadism. A good journo would have asked q’s like: how & where did he find the story? And why/how did he even hear about it? And then followed that up.

I've spent years researching far right extremists. I got into this work bc I wanted to understand why institutions often tacitly support violence. Ive learned that sexual abuse is a huge part of political violence & it's so effective bc there's always influential ppl who act like it isn't a big deal

After a very long hiatus from media- I recorded a two-part series with Cults to Consciousness. The comment section on the videos is INCREDIBLE 😭😭❤️ Take a listen & pass it on. Part One youtu.be/SjlWNeLPKtA?... Part Two youtu.be/TyHXVSSgn5E?...

Just a reminder that I’m giving a couple talks in the Bay Area starting tomorrow - one on Nazi-Satanism & the other Neo-Nazi terrorism and Industrial+Neofolk music. If anyone knows folks there and could pass this on, I’d greatly appreciate it. spencersunshine.com/2025/05/22/b...

My latest on the clean OPSEC saga: TeleMessage customers include DC Police, Andreesen Horowitz, JP Morgan, and hundreds more micahflee.com/telemessage-...

Following the arrest of Trippy and War as the current leaders of 764 I analyzed my chat archives and dug into their history and roles Trippy and War have played in 764 and No Lives Matter. www.maargentino.com/from-sexual-...

In March, Ed Martin spoke at a fundraiser with Timothy Hale-Cusanelli, who once dressed up like Hitler and, according to the DOJ, told a coworker that "Hitler should have finished the job."

A thread about Ed Martin, the interim US attorney for DC, who is beloved by the far-right. In early February, I wrote about his desire to pay reparations to January 6 defendants -- even those who were violent (I spent a whole weekend binging Martin's various podcasts).

Rupnow was 14 when she was "romantically" involved with Allen who was 21 at the time. Last i checked 14 is below the age of consent so you know the article fails to mention the illegal and exploitative nature of this "relationship".

Allen was 21 years old when he was in contact with the Abundant Life shooter, who was 14 years old while they were in contact, according to the dates in the court documents. It's a gross mischaracterization to call that a "love link." Adults do not have "romantic involvement" with 14yo children.

If you've been upset by the use of Nihilistic Violent Extremism (NVE) wrt the case of 17yo Nikita Casap, you can now read @maargentino.com's framework for it. NVE doesn't wash away the white supremacy of millitant accelerationist violence; NVE is a subset motiavted by "destruction for its own sake"

A trans teen in Green Bay had asked a judge for a confidential name change. He said he’d been bullied for years, called slurs and beaten up. The judge asserted publication of his name change wasn’t dangerous because his harassers already knew he was trans. 3/

Technically, the law allows judges to grant confidential processes if someone can prove that publication “could endanger” them. But in 2023, the WI Court of Appeals narrowed what that can mean. 2/ www.propublica.org/article/wisc...

THREAD: As trans people in Wisconsin rushed to update their IDs after Trump’s reelection, a 167-year-old name change law stopped them in their tracks. People must publish their old and new names in the local paper for 3 consecutive weeks, it said. 1/

Today my new @mitpress.bsky.social book with Mark Brockway publishes! It explores the historical forces that gave rise to a shapeshifting, amalgamated figure of the liberal devil mapped onto a very broad conceptualization of “the left” and the Democratic Party mitpress.mit.edu/978026255227...

you do not, in fact, ever have to give the soyteens credit.

This is just the latest conspiracy theory show Bx has appeared on. She's gone on similar podcasts, one of which was with a frequent guest host of the "Alex Jones Show". Please reconsider before using this self-proclaimed "expert" in what she calls "Satanic Accelerationism" as a source.

Recently unsealed legal documents in the case of the State of Wisconsin vs. Nikita Casap reveals that the teen instructed his would-be readers of his manifesto to read texts produced by Terrorgram. Also included on his reading list is the manifesto written by Juraj Krajcik- Terrorgram's 1st saint.

In the latest news, @maargentino.com, @bluebilliejeans.bsky.social and I cover the arrest of another person well-known in those online circles who is alleged to have exploited a minor victim. (Thread) bsky.app/profile/maar...

Today with @bluebilliejeans.bsky.social & @hereticmasked.bsky.social we examine the case of Aniruth Kuppusamy who was arrested on CSAM charges. His digital footprint suggests that he was well-known in the Soyjak Attacker Video Fandom (SAVF) & adjacent milieus. www.maargentino.com/digital-dyst...

Really incisive analysis here from @maargentino.com, @hereticmasked.bsky.social & @bluebilliejeans.bsky.social on the case of Aniruth Kuppusamy, an accused child-sex predator who is linked to Natalie Rupnow and Arda Küçükyetim www.maargentino.com/digital-dyst...

Monitoring is vital to resistance against the far-right and creeping fascism everywhere. Without knowledge, it is impossible to fight back and undermine the activities of those who seek to promote a fascist agenda. Read more on our monitoring efforts here: antifascisteurope.org/monitoring-a...

"Amy Cooter...said she’s worried the cuts to violence prevention efforts across the federal government will hamper the renewed fight against domestic terrorism. 'We’re seeing a real end of our ability to stay on top of extremist trends and threats from a governmental perspective,” Cooter said.'"

On how the UK is dealing w/ com & insight from @theondrakguy.bsky.social "What we are seeing now is...hero worship applied to people who are encouraging others to do depraved things & abusing people...When that behaviour is what is garnering hero worship & emulation, that's where the real risk is"

"'It was some of the most inflammatory propaganda that I had seen,' said Jennefer Harper, a researcher who has amassed a large archive of neo-Nazi materials from Telegram."