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Senior Researcher, US Hate & Extremism @ Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) • [Views expressed here are my own] 🎙️Find “Posting Through It” on your favorite podcast player and here: https://postthroughit.substack.com/
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We cover what happened to the pardoned J6’ers here 👇🏽 With: @reportbywilson.bsky.social

We’re now 90 days into the second Trump admin. With everything that’s happened since, it’s easy to forget Trump started it by letting all the Capitol riot participants out of jail. On the pod this week, we look back on that with @reportbywilson.bsky.social postthroughit.substack.com/p/015-pardon...

Out tomorrow morning!

Jake Lang, a Jan. 6er who tried to organize a militia while in prison on charges related to the riot, is the guy talking in this video. A few hours later on X, he wrote of a grieving father who called out his grift that “he’ll hand over his daughter to be raped.”

Spent some time touching grass this morning and saw this guy.

I was wrong. Some people have managed to get pings off the server here and there but 4chan is still down by any standard measure. I’m still not quite ready to write a eulogy for it, but it’s hard to imagine how it rebounds after this. Surely the user base is moving on to new pastures at this point.

Next up on Posting Through It: a chat with @reportbywilson.bsky.social reflecting on Trump's pardoning of Capitol riot participants, which feels like it happened a century ago. Teddy shares his key takeaways on what has -- and hasn't -- changed on the far-right since then. Out Monday morning!

I think the White House has *really* lost the thread about how to handle this ongoing fuck fest they are currently sitting in

Next up on Posting Through It: a chat with @reportbywilson.bsky.social reflecting on Trump's pardoning of Capitol riot participants, which feels like it happened a century ago. Teddy shares his key takeaways on what has -- and hasn't -- changed on the far-right since then. Out Monday morning!

Politicians are politicians -- I'm not going to fanboy over any one of them -- but this deserves some real credit. Direct pressure from leaders can work. Hope this is the start of returning him home to his family.

UPDATE: Authorities are investigating a shooting at Florida State University that killed two people and wounded six others. The suspect is hospitalized and is the son of a Leon County sheriff's deputy.

Good god www.404media.co/this-college...

A lot of explainers on the Proud Boys out in the world are sort of dated, so I wrote an updated one for ISD, which runs the clock up to the current day and reflects how the group has really lost its circa-2019 mojo www.isdglobal.org/explainers/p...

I know they love selling books for @attackerman.bsky.social but they've now defined "saying not to buy Tesla" and "being a foreigner" as terrorism

As one last note: 4chan has been hacked multiple (arguably many) times since its inception and it has never stayed down because "they leaked the source code" means nothing. This isn't news, this isn't some big win, 4chan isn't even that important. Please consult the graphs.

The source for this claim was not legit but fuck it why not regurgitate kiwifarms shit like it's real

One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind. An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one." The other said, "Take him anyway." So they did.

The idea that the U.S., a global superpower with the biggest military on Earth, could not make El Salvador give him back is a laughable level of intellectual dishonesty. The Trump admin is not only vicious with these policies, they’re also complete cowards when called on them.

The Trump admin has just detained Mohsen Mahdawi, who: –has green card –was Columbia Buddhist club president –saw his best friend shot & killed by Israeli soldier –said "we are against antisemitism because antisemitism is a form of injustice, and injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere"

For whatever reason this part of the 'kid who killed his parents and wanted to assassinate Trump story' doesn't seem to be getting as much play. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Sorry/not-sorry to keep plugging our podcast episode today but it's important to understand that this Salvadoran prison system is a way to "disappear" people inside an inhumane and corrupt system instead of letting them defend themselves in US courts. postthroughit.substack.com/p/014-judici...

No better time to listen to our pod with Nikki postthroughit.substack.com/p/014-judici...

"The European Commission is issuing burner phones and basic laptops to some US-bound staff to avoid the risk of espionage, a measure traditionally reserved for trips to China." www.ft.com/content/20d0...

Extremely honored to join @jaredlholt.bsky.social and @michaelehayden.bsky.social on Posting Through It Listen to our discussion of Trump's hellish prison partnership with El Salvador's Nayib Bukele here ⬇️ postthroughit.substack.com/p/014-judici...

Stephen Miller went from doing Better Call Saul ads with America First Legal to human rights abuses in 80 days. Unconscionable that we let him back in power. @jaredlholt.bsky.social and I talk El Salvador with the brilliant @nikkimcr.bsky.social here: postthroughit.substack.com/p/014-judici...

Out now! @nikkimcr.bsky.social joins the pod to talk about the Salvadoran prison system that the Trump administration is disappearing people into. @michaelehayden.bsky.social and I also reflect on Stephen Miller, whose fingerprints are all over this project postthroughit.substack.com/p/014-judici...

its the car you buy when there is something wrong with you

It’s moments like these when we might consider it relevant that the current FBI director who might be charged with investigating this crime appeared eight times on the podcast of Stew Peters, a Christian Nationalist who recently called for a “final solution” to America’s “Jewish problem.”

“Police say they evacuated Gov. Josh Shapiro and his family from the official governor’s residence after someone set fire to the building.”

With the president of El Salvador visiting Trump at the White House tomorrow, there’s sadly no better time to drop this episode. Listen tomorrow morning to get the critical context you need for Nayib Bukele’s visit, explained to us by @nikkimcr.bsky.social

Hours ago, @politico.com revealed that DOGE is working with DHS on automating mass deportation efforts — likely explaining why many US citizens, green card holders, and even a Canadian (in Canada) got threatening emails last night terminating “your parole” and telling them to leave the US in 7 days.

A pal did some Real Live Electronic Music and I grabbed a few pics

I’ve done many profiles in my time and there are two kinds of validation I cared about from subjects: that they don’t have valid accuracy disputes and that they felt it was overall fair, even if unflattering. If I was praised, I felt like I did my job poorly and hadn’t actually landed good scrutiny

Next on deck: @nikkimcr.bsky.social joined @michaelehayden.bsky.social and I to talk about the inhumane conditions at the El Salvadoran prison that the Trump administration is defending itself sending migrants to without due process. Out Monday morning, everywhere podcasts are found

Yesterday, the DNI endorsed a conspiracy theory about voting machines and stolen elections, and the HHS Secretary announced a probe into the “causes of autism” that is all but certain to blame vaccines. We can’t call this stuff fringe any more when it’s literally coming from the halls of power