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He/him. Extremism researcher in Canada. Sometimes-journalist. Co-creator Hatepedia.ca. Affiliate cifrs.org. Words for gnet-research.org, antihate.ca, insightthreatintel.com, Vice.com, dancollen.medium.com, and elsewhere.
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Wow. Watch this from Zohran Mamdani. It looks like the exact "fight" and "conviction" people are hopelessly asking for from the people in charge of the Democratic party:

Twitter is apparently full of horrific gore footage of the Air India crash right now, per these Reddit comments. Dear op-ed writers: this is another key reason why so many of us use Bluesky now.

This is not journalism. This is stenography for power.

An MSNBC anchor just definitively claimed Padilla didn't identify himself when video clearly shows he did. So fucking irresponsible. This is how lies spread.

Senator Padilla’s office sends me this video of his take-down and detention at Sec. Noem’s press conference in L.A.

DHS is arguing members of the Secret Service don't know who a U.S. Senator is, that he didn't identify himself (he does in the tape), lunged towards the Noem (not evident on the tape), and somehow all this necessitated him being hauled away, thrown to the ground and cuffed. x.com/DHSgov/statu...

NY times: Spirited Kristi Noem Briefing Interrupted by Annoying Sound of Democrat Senator Padilla's Skull Hitting Floor

Another video of Senator Padilla’s violent arrest at DHS Sec Noem’s press conference in LA. You can see him thrown to the ground by FBI agents and handcuffed. (video shared by Padilla’s staff with Elex Michaelson of Fox LA and posted on X)

Florida debates lifting some child labor laws to fill jobs vacated by undocumented immigrants. Bill would allow 14-yr-olds to work overnight shifts, end guaranteed meal breaks for 16/17-yr-olds. (Legislature *already* passed law allowing home-schooled 16/17-yr-olds to work any hour of the day)

It’s completely insane that the media pretends every random protester or activist in America speaks for the Democratic Party, but Trump’s agencies can directly quote white supremacist accounts on Twitter and the same media won’t link these people to Trump

The cruelty in today's politics feels horribly corrosive. Bringing up that hard-working immigrant families — undocumented, yes, but not violent criminals — are being ripped apart based on immigration status doesn't bring compassion or even pause, but gleeful cheers.

Fucking unbelievable

something's happening

We’ve leapt over a lot of red lines in the last week. But one I find most worrying is Trump/MAGA/ICE have ceased even pretending to claim some criminal pretext for cracking down on protected speech. It’s just straight up “if you criticize us, you’re getting throttled/arrested/disappeared.”

RFK Jr’s ACIP pick, Martin Kulldorff, said one of the most disturbing images from the pandemic was a toddler crying about having to wear a mask. I see toddlers cry about everything all the time, and I found it far more disturbing to see refrigerator trucks full of body bags outside of the hospitals…

"There have been more than 30 incidents of police violence against journalists as of Tuesday, including 20 injuries, at least five of which required emergency room or urgent care visits..."

The new ACIP just announced by RFK Jr. I. Have. No. Words.

ROBERT MALONE HUH?

(Literal) White House social media propaganda source is a neo-Nazi Really running out of ways to say there's no (figurative) paper walls between these guys.

Real world: - Trump team trying to create a Reichstag moment. - Trump telling military audience that LA is hellhole full of "animals" - Officials in Calif trying both to calm things down, and stand up PUNDIT world: - Is it smart politics? - Is Gavin running? - Doesn't Trump look strong!

1/ Something I haven't seen reported on in the extremism beat yet: Last week, at least one US court began grossly mischaracterizating violent attack planners with no connection to abortion politics as "anti-pro-life," despite no targeting of the pro-life movement.

conservatives are beginning to publicly workshop their rehabilitation of jeffery epstein lol

We found the guy who is paying insurrectionists.

Unlike these guys, I think the Constitution is good. The American political system is preferable to whatever these guys have in mind.

Nothing but admiration for @dieworkwear.bsky.social posting through it after being targeted online for possible deportation by the VP and DHS:

Q: The president said that if he were Tom Homan he would arrest Gavin Newsom. Do you believe Newsom should face consequences in a legal way? MIKE JOHNSON: Um, that's not my lane. I'm not gonna give you legal analysis on whether Gavin Newsom should be arrested. But he ought to be tar and feathered.

I feel like when the guy third in line for the presidency says someone should be tarred and feathered, in response to a direct question about legal action, maybe we dig into that a little more? Yes, it’s a figure of speech, but you clearly want this person punished, what would be appropriate to you?

Masked agents making warrantless arrests with a “do what you need to do” mandate. "In Irvine, Calif., ICE agents drove a phalanx of military vehicles ... seeking a resident’s son who had allegedly posted fliers alerting neighbors to the presence of ICE agents" www.wsj.com/us-news/prot...

Every day the authoritarianism grows worse - Christopher Rufo calling for the Trump administration to "dispatch unmarked vans to follow key agitators and snatch them from the streets while the media are not looking" christopherrufo.com/p/trump-shou...

HARD TO OVERSTATE HOW IMPORTANT THIS IS

This was always clearly the objective and many in the media also insisted on treating anyone who said so clearly like they were some kind of lunatic bsky.app/profile/carn...