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Rand Paul, the Senate homeland security committee's chair has requested that multiple academic research centers focused on political extremism
hand over years worth of documentation on
federal watch list programs,
the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol,
vaccine mandates,
the 2020 election,
and Trump supporters,
according to information obtained by WIRED.

Senators Want Extremism Researchers to Surrender Documents Linked to Right-Wing Grudges
The Senate homeland security committee's chair has asked researchers to turn over troves of documents related to the January 6 attack, vaccines, and more, according to a letter reviewed by WIRED.

Senators Want Extremism Researchers to Surrender Documents Linked to Right-Wing Grudges (Ali Winston/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/senators-want-extremism-researchers-to-surrender-documents-linked-to-right-wing-grudges/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251122/p37#a251122p37

Guardian US EIC Betsy Reed says the outlet expects to bring in $50M this year, up from $43M last year, and plans to grow newsletters and launch a news podcast (Ivan L. Nagy/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/the-interview/betsy-re

Betsy Reed on covering Trump and the ‘normalization of extremism.’
The editor in chief of Guardian US says staying above the fray doesn’t cut it.

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice... moderation in the pursuit
of justice is no virtue.
-- Barry Goldwater

𝗗𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗱 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴. 
He posted on Twitter last night
begging MAGA to go vote in our TN-07 special election
-- because he knows what it would mean if we won the last House race of 2025:
Voters are rejecting MAGA extremism across the country.
We can rewrite the playbook for what’s possible for Democrats in the Deep South. 
We’ll be heading into 2026 one seat closer to retaking the House
and putting a check on this administration. 
No wonde…

Aftyn for Congress
FEED KIDS. FIX ROADS. FUND HOSPITALS.

Kelly Bill would allow Lawsuits over Social Media Algorithms that promote Violence, Extremism
https://www.juancole.com/2025/12/lawsuits-algorithms-extremism.html

Great writeup on how tech elites have given up (quite a few years ago).
From 2019, but could be written yesterday
https://www.boundary2.org/2019/08/sarah-t-roberts-and-mel-hogan-left-behind-futurist…

Sarah T. Roberts and Mél Hogan — Left Behind: Futurist Fetishists, Prepping and the Abandonment of Earth
Sarah T. Roberts and Mél Hogan This essay has been peer-reviewed by "The New Extremism" special issue editors (Adrienne Massanari and David Golumbia), and the b2o: An Online Journal editorial board. "You know, I hear all these rich guys, for some reason they love space. So they're rich. I said, 'let them send the rockets...

"Despite the generally strong support for democracy, there was an equally strong desire for radical change, with more people in most countries thinking the system was rigged in favour of the rich and powerful rather than working for everyone."
What? Do ordinary mortals think the neoliberal cosnsenus has failed us? How can this be? Look at all the wonderful things the billionaires have developed for us!

"Despite the generally strong support for democracy, there was an equally strong desire for radical change, with more people in most countries thinking the system was rigged in favour of the rich and powerful rather than working for everyone."
What? Do ordinary mortals think the neoliberal cosnsenus has failed us? How can this be? Look at all the wonderful things the billionaires have developed for us!

Prüf Prüf prüf

I think the word that David Frum should lead with the first 2 minutes in https://youtu.be/6zzK5K1ig-Y?si=2-J2Qlimh23VfPHS , " Facts vs. Clicks: How Algorithms Reward Extremism | The David Frum Show x Galaxy Brain " is fascism or dictatorship. Why doesn't he do this? Domin…

Trump administration prepares sweeping crackdown on leftist networks
Thursday marks a first deadline,
set this month in a memo from Attorney General Pam Bondi,
for all federal law enforcement agencies to “coordinate delivery”
to the FBI of their intelligence files
on “Antifa” and “Antifa-related” activities.
Bondi has tasked the FBI with using those files to draw up lists of Americans and foreigners to investigate
as part of a campaign directed by …

Trump administration prepares sweeping crackdown on leftist networks
The Justice Department’s program to root out violent “Antifa” extremism is raising First Amendment concerns.

@… I noted there’s no link to Apple Books. Just in case that was something that got missed, this is the right URL to open the book in Apple Books: https://

"Western man" is code for
"white man,"
and one of the most popular racist books in these subcultures is
"Which Way Western Man",
which has been featured in a [Department of Homeland Security] post celebrating manifest destiny.
The 1978 book is essential reading among the American far right
and was written by the late white nationalist #William

The Heritage Foundation,
an influential rightwing thinktank currently mired in controversy over its president’s apparent apology for extremism,
has appointed as a director the founder of a secretive all-male network of Christian nationalist fraternal lodges.
Scott Yenor, who was appointed as Heritage’s new director of the
"B Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies"
has recently offered ultra-conservative opinions on
women, marriage and LGBTQ ri…