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swords jew. journalist. author of award winning book CULTURE WARLORDS. Host of . say hi talialavinwrites @ gmail dot com

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    Jul 16

    A bit of Friday news: I am writing a second book!!!! It is also about the far right, but it is going to be more expansive, more historical, and more sweeping (and longer). Very excited to write Lone Wolves Come In Packs!!

    PublishersMarketplace Deal Report Non-fiction: History/Politics/Current Affairs July 16, 2021 Author of CULTURE WARLORDS Talia Lavin's LONE WOLVES COME IN PACKS, refuting the false "lone wolf" narrative of white supremacist violence, and takes an expansive view of the social factors -- including religion, geography, and politics -- that give rise to hate, to Krishan Trotman at Legacy Lit, by Dan Mandel at Sanford J. Greenburger Associates (world).
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    28 Oct 2015

    god: i have made Mankind angels: you fucked up a perfectly good monkey is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety

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    5 hours ago

    So this will be another night where I can’t sleep b/c I’m cycling thru all the trauma & grief & fear all over again, trying not to spiral to a place where I can’t function b/c I can’t afford to not function. None of this stuff is w/o harm & I want to be transparent about that.

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    Sep 14

    man what the hell

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    17 hours ago

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    15 hours ago

    As long as FB is a surveillance-reliant adtech leviathan, there will always be "more work to do" to account for its social and political damage. The crisis is, or should be, existential.

    We know we have more work to do, which is exactly why we hire specialists in key fields to help us do research and understand the problems so that we can improve our technology, staffing and policies to address them.
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    15 hours ago

    Understanding always comes after disaster strikes, after the many negative externalities are discovered and too late to mitigate. Take Stone's "after Myanmar" tweet: after we uhhhh accidentally helped facilitate genocide, we hired more staff to understand the problem!

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    15 hours ago

    Seems like an unsolvable contradiction: FB must keep pouring resources into understanding the problems it creates, but the drive for scale means it's never enough. Facebook is the problem.

    As the Wall Street Journal itself makes clear, we have a team of experts who help us uncover patterns of harmful behavior so we can disrupt it. We've got arguably more experts and resources dedicated to this work than any other consumer technology company in the world.
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    Sep 4
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    said it before, will say it again: Christianity is about being subservient to God, Judaism is about getting into a fistfight with Hashem at 3am outside a Denny's

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    24 hours ago

    Liberal pundits push a suspicion of trans advocacy by disguising it as a concern for kids, mainstreaming talking points that share the same fascist impulse as QAnon. from

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    20 hours ago

    . on the “emotional attachment to liberalism” in anti-trans discourses and how the cast of anti-trans pundits’ roles in “laundering extremism” puts them in lockstep with dangerous right-wing state & movement elements in the name of protecting children

    Liberal pundits push a suspicion of trans advocacy by disguising it as a concern for kids, mainstreaming talking points that share the same fascist impulse as QAnon. from
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  12. 9 hours ago

    my ~fitness journey~ is just me stumbling fatly into strength and i enjoy it.

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  13. 9 hours ago

    something else i discovered today is that 20 pushups is harder than 10 pushups even if you do one set in the morning and one at night

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    10 hours ago

    The notorious neo-Nazi hacker Weev is now in the live video chat with Epik CEO Rob Monster showing off his swastika tattoo.

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    11 hours ago

    Another devastating story about Facebook. You think you know the worst of it, but there’s always more.

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    11 hours ago

    again, randy ireland only just a few weeks ago flew to portland and, dressed in proud boy gear, addressed a crowd full of proud boys, encouraging them to make the trip to DC for his event.

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    The messaging here is that those being persecuted for the January 6th insurrection are political prisoners. Randy Ireland says “free out political prisoners” Ireland tells the proud boys to show up to next months “Justice for J6” rally in DC
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    11 hours ago

    while the proud boys are publicly disavowing this weekend's event as a false flag and a trap, it is still being sponsored & promoted by CAPP, an organization founded by a proud boy & whose events proud boys attended & promoted all summer

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    Aug 22

    Randy Ireland, NYC Proud Boy, is pictured on the right and he is LARPing his American Taliban dreams out in Portland, Oregon today. In NYC, Randy generally only brings expandable batons and knives to Proud Boy rallies.

    Pic of Randy Ireland in full LARP gear--helmet, goggles, tactical pants, airsoft gun, etc. in the back of a pickup truck with Tiny in Portland leaving the Kmart rally.
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    11 hours ago

    much of the press about this weekend's rally focuses on braynard as the head of LAA & cara castronuova as the head of CAPP, but leaves out cara's CAPP co-founder, NYC proud boy randy ireland, who recently traveled to portland to engage in street violence.

    Pic of Randy Ireland in full LARP gear--helmet, goggles, tactical pants, airsoft gun, etc. in the back of a pickup truck with Tiny in Portland leaving the Kmart rally.
    Randy Ireland, NYC Proud Boy, is pictured on the right and he is LARPing his American Taliban dreams out in Portland, Oregon today. In NYC, Randy generally only brings expandable batons and knives to Proud Boy rallies.
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    11 hours ago

    the kent campaign has not disclosed any payments for anything that could be interpreted as an office space rental, but they have made payments directly to matt braynard, braynard's other company (external affairs), and 9seven consulting, datwyler's consulting company.

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    11 hours ago

    which is so weird because thomas datwyler, the treasurer for both look ahead american AND the joe kent campaign, has personal experience with the problems that can be caused by a congressional candidate using an office that isn't being paid for

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