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Historian of the present, the white power movement, violence, & apocalypse | Associate Professor of History, | "Bring the War Home"
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"Those incidents did not occur in a vacuum," says the House Oversight Committee about Club Q and anti-queer and anti-trans violence.
This. This. This. You can't divorce violence from the context in which it occurs.
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If that's the first time Musk has heard the booing, I think he needs to get out more
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Say what you want about Truth Social, they know their audience.
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Lawyers repping Metropolitan A.M.E. Church in a lawsuit against the Proud Boys seek info on several PBs and allies who vandalized the historic Black church on Dec. 12, 2020, amid their violent march through DC prior to Jan. 6.
Are there IDs on these guys?
lawyerscommittee.org/proud-boys/
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theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/ Wrote up a little something more about the "crunchy to alt-right pipeline" moment
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In case anyone wonders why moms home with sick kids can’t get work done - he wouldn’t nap but needed one so he’s napping on me. Week 4 in a row (not total) with a sick day.
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Celebrate. Academia is a place of pain far too much of the time. I celebrate with you, and so do most of the rest of the people on here.
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Matt Taibbi and Elon Musk rummaged through millions of emails & Slack messages from pre-Musk Twitter & all they found was employees deliberating & consulting w/each other about how to fairly apply & enforce rules. But I get it..
To a rich white man, that seems very oppressive
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you guys I HAD this camera in fifth grade. I like the part where they explain what film is and how you need to get some urbanoutfitters.com/shop/kodak-m35
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Jury selection is scheduled to begin MONDAY in the Proud Boys seditious conspiracy case
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Check out these great courses offered by
, including my course, "The History of Latina and Latino People in the U.S." And K-12 teachers, in particular, I'd love to hear more about the Latino curriculum you want to teach! gilderlehrman.org/programs-and-e
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The UN's first report on countering far-right terrorism notes that there is "sporadic" evidence of the far right "becoming" transnational, so I guess we know who's been living under a rock for the past 20 years. un.org/securitycounci
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So this week we’ve learned (1) Rep. Gosar backs Trump’s call to “terminate” the Constitution to keep him in office, (2) Rep. Greene said if she’d led the 1/6 coup they “would’ve been armed” & won, and (3) Rep. Norman urged Trump to declare martial law to do so after 1/6 failed.
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Do not shrug this off. A member of the Congress of the United States wanted the outgoing president to invoke martial law, and use the arms of the United States military to prevent the new president from taking office. Sedition. twitter.com/TPM_dk/status/…
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'The Age of Insurrection' will be out in June from Melville House. I'm actually still in the middle of edits and documentation. But it seems like now should be a good time to get the word out, especially since it's unclear where this website is going.
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Do you cover politics, right-wing extremism, conservatism, or misinformation?
Have I got a prediction for you!
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There were others last month in the PNW, Clackmas county I think. I don’t know enough about the geography of Oregon to know if that is in the part of the state that is attractive to extremists.
might know though.
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"two dozen shell casings from a high-powered rifle"
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Historical name of the day: Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff.
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Save the date! Friday, Jan 6, 8:30am. conference in Philly. Presidential session. DEFUND THE POLICE? Historical Perspectives with , , , , and . Grand Ballroom Salon E.
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Read this whole threat on the Germany story and then follow
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There are lots of threads in this story. Let's pick them out:
-massive involvement of former soldiers & others w/ military training—Germany has a massive problem w/ white supremacist sympathies in its security forces w/ this being just the latest case. 1/ nytimes.com/2022/12/07/wor
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P.S. Sometimes I get questions in the vein of "shouldn't we be focusing on the most violent elements of the far right; isn't focus on these wider elements distracting; aren't we wasting limited resources on tangentially involved groups."
No.
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-the involvement of an AfD judge and former MP. The far-right AfD, despite waning in power nationally in recent years, maintains strongholds especially in the former East and enjoys concerning levels of support among young people in some regions. /5
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There are lots of threads in this story. Let's pick them out:
-massive involvement of former soldiers & others w/ military training—Germany has a massive problem w/ white supremacist sympathies in its security forces w/ this being just the latest case. 1/
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[drumroll please
] It's...here. That's right. Time for @ALA_Booklist's #EditorsChoice
Throughout the week we'll be revealing our top adult, youth, and audio books from 2022 (and don't forget those #TopoftheList titles
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] It's...here. That's right. Time for @ALA_Booklist's #EditorsChoiceThroughout the week we'll be revealing our top adult, youth, and audio books from 2022 (and don't forget those #TopoftheList titles). Let's begin
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OH MY GOD IS THIS REAL
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Thank goodness you don’t have to get your history from this dope. You can get it from me! Today at 4 pm, “How WW2 Changed America,” at One Day U.
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People to follow about the arrests of far-right activists attempting to overthrow Germany:
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Avoid Worry, Fear and Fatigue is gonna be a tough one
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Who among the seemingly most effective maskers + hygiene behavior practitioners during the 1918 Flu Pandemic? Nurses and Doctors.
Why? Because they knew just how horrific the deaths and suffering were from the flu.
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Today in history of the 1990s research: had to go back and remind myself that BBS used to stand for Bulletin Board System. Oh yeah!
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I've gotten a few "follow me on IG instead of here" messages from pals & that's interesting to me. I quit IG over a year ago because it was super unhealthy for me -- made me depressed and anxious - & also terrible for my shopping habits, lol. There's no good social media site.
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I think a lot of young mothers are stuck at home, seek community online vs in-person, and fall into the crunchy to crazy pipeline. A quick look at SM reveals the progression from health-conscious to holstered up.
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Also, in the '80s, if you lived in a white separatist compound, you had two sets of likely neighbors: farmers (we know a lot about white power and the farms crisis) and hippies (no book about this yet)
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introduced me to a German white power group that hosted a vegetarian or vegan cooking show on YouTube. Really eye opening.
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Great thread. I'd add that a key throughline from crunchy > white nationalism is purity — an obsession with it. It isn't that big of a leap, it turns out, from an interest in purity of the body, mind, soul, etc to becoming committed to purity of nation, community, and race.
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"Crunchy" like granola.
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PS if any aspiring historians want to write that dissertation/book, I would be really excited to read your application to
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It is brilliantly satirized and loved here: buzzfeednews.com/article/katien and if you're following this, she is definitely NOT alt-right, just a hilarious crunchy mom (12)
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