Graham Macklin
Historian @crexuio.bluesky.social University of Oslo. Interested in the far right, fascism & terrorism. I co-edit Routledge’s Fascism & the Far Right book series: routledge.com/Routledge-Studies-i…
- Reposted by Graham MacklinElon's efforts to alter the algorithm of his AI to suit his needs appears to have completely broken Grok, as it currently cannot stop talking about "white genocide" www.wired.com/story/grok-w...
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JFC - the people sending the pizzas are not just telling judges they know where they live. They are using the name of a a family member of a Judge who was murdered.- Can we get one fucking normal thing like a teeny tiny normal fucking thing www.cbsnews.com/news/pizza-d...
- Reposted by Graham MacklinNEW: Violent threats against judges in the US are up 300 percent. @davidgilbert.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/violen...
- Three far-right extremists who amassed hundreds of weapons and planned to carry out attacks on targets including a mosque have been convicted of terrorism offences. Brogan Stewart, 25, Christopher Ringrose, 34, and Marco Pitzettu, 25, were part of an online group who "idolised the Nazi regime".
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- Man arrested after fires at homes linked to PM Keir Starmer
- Reposted by Graham MacklinUkraine's security service arrested two ex-military personnel as part of what it said was a Hungarian spy ring gathering intel for a possible military incursion — the first time Kyiv is accusing an EU neighbor of plotting against its interests. www.ft.com/content/2735...
- Nine arrested after group celebrated Adolf Hitler’s birthday at Oldham pub
- Reposted by Graham MacklinBREAKING: Guilty! Texas neo-Nazi convicted for online threat against Nashville District Attorney Glenn Funk www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
- “Neo-Nazi sextortion ring that blackmails teens into making sick videos (764) has become so prevalent every FBI office in the US has open cases”
- Far right activist Scott Delaney jailed in UK for drugs haul after years on the run. Delaney had become one of Ireland’s most prominent far right influencers amassing thousands of followers on social media.
- Reposted by Graham Macklin"British counterterrorism officers arrested several Iranian men over an alleged plot to attack an unspecified target in London, the Metropolitan Police force said Sunday". apnews.com/article/uk-i...
- Woman dies when a bomb she is carrying explodes in the Greek city of Thessaloniki, police say
- Reposted by Graham MacklinI wrote a book about this, How to Talk to Your Son about Fascism -- the right-wing offers young men easy and evil answers to complex questions, and gives community. To fight it we need our own answers, and our own appealing communities. www.routledge.com/How-to-Talk-...
- Germany's Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party has been designated as right-wing extremist by the country's federal office for the protection of the constitution.
- Reposted by Graham MacklinAn actual Enemies List of journalists and academics is circulating around the State Department. It appears to target, in part, anybody said a bad word about Alex Jones or Glenn Greenwald.
- Scoop: Trump appointed snr state dept official sought stafff's internal comms w/ journalists, European officials, + critics of Trump for a “Twitter files”-style dump to try + prove that the State Dept's Global Engagement Center censored conservatives. www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/01/1...
- Elon Musk’s tweets (2/2): Raising the profile of Europe’s far right
- Elon Musk's tweets (1/2): A conduit for pro-Russian anti-Ukraine rhetoric
- Elon Musk ‘helping Tommy Robinson with £120k legal fees' according to this report
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- Reposted by Graham MacklinUnhappy to confirm that the entire Historical Advisory Committee at the State Department received termination notices this afternoon (myself included). The HAC, set up by Congress, oversees the office that produces the FRUS series. history.state.gov/about/hac/in... 1/
- Reposted by Graham MacklinHappy 80th anniversary of Hitler killing himself in his bunker to all who celebrate, which, as I now understand it, is not everybody
- Reposted by Graham Macklinunorthodox fascist James Porrazzo has died. the 2nd leader of the Nazi skinhead gang American Front he later b/c a Duginist & founded New Resistance. he's gotten attention b/c his early connex to Joshua Caleb Sutter (Tempel ov Blood). Here's my 2012 article on him. www.splcenter.org/resources/re...
- Leaders of 764 Arrested and Charged for Operating Global Child Exploitation Enterprise
- “Crossbow attack suspect put 'massacre' plans online” (this has been known for days but oddly just being reported on now)
- Far-right fight groups endorse ‘youth clubs’ targeting US young men and boys. Using fitness and sports as entry points into neo-Nazi ideologies, ‘youth club’ chapters are proliferating across US
- Neo-Nazis celebrate Hitler's birthday in an Oldham pub with racist flags and a swastika cake
- Owen Lawrence, the man suspected of misogynistic ‘massacre’ attempt in Leeds, dies
- Reposted by Graham MacklinScientists must push back against the threat of rising white nationalism and the dangerous and pseudoscientific ideas of eugenics go.nature.com/4jGqiUc
- Counter-terror police called in for Leeds incident that left two women seriously injured
- A man has been arrested and counter-terrorism police are investigating after two women were seriously injured in an attack involving a crossbow and a firearm in Leeds
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- Nigel Farage faces calls to axe a number of election candidates - “including one who appeared to claim Hitler would have been a "legend" if he had targeted Muslims.”
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- Son of CIA deputy director was killed while fighting for Russia, report says
- Trump pardons Nevada politician who paid for cosmetic surgery with funds to honor a slain police officer
- Reposted by Graham MacklinNew chapter for the book series Routledge Studies in Extremism and Democracy! Very happy to welcome @leoniedejonge.bsky.social as fellow co-editor. 👯 Since its establishment in 1999, the series has tackled extremism, radicalism, populism, fundamentalism, and democracy from different perspectives.
- Robert Crimo III, the Highland Park killer, sentenced to life in prison
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- Reposted by Graham MacklinNEW: Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves has declared April 2025 as Confederate Heritage Month. He did so at the behest of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, a neo-Confederate organization that espouses “Lost Cause” ideology, which whitewashes the role of slavery in the Civil War. 🧵
- Reposted by Graham MacklinThey had lawyers, trials, most were given pretrial release, allowed to testify in their own defense, got discovery, could call witnesses, could cross-examine witnesses, could present mitigation at sentencing, and had a right to appeal.
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- FSU shooting suspect used stepmom's service weapon and had far-right views, police and classmates say
- Reposted by Graham MacklinNEW: Court documents reveal that Nikita Casap’s alleged manifesto calling for Trump’s assassination cited multiple Terrorgram publications and urged people to read the writings of a network member who murdered two people outside an LGTBQ+ bar in 2022. With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social
- Suspect in Florida State University shooting that left two dead is deputy's son. One of the guns found at the scene is a former service weapon purchased by the gunman's mother, a school resource office on the force for 18 years
- This is worth your time reading
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- Reposted by Graham Macklin📣 Call for Papers 📣 The Conflict, Violence & Terrorism Research Centre is pleased to announce a one day Symposium on: 'Popular Culture and World Politics: Portraying War, Conflict, & Political Violence' 📅 24/07/25 at Stewart House, London ⏳ Submission deadline: 23/06/25. Full Call for Proposals 👇
- “The swastika penis tattoo demographic tends to heavily overlap with the homemade pipe bomb demographic.”
- Tommy Robinson has lost his appeal against his jail sentence for repeating lies about a Huddersfield schoolboy.
- The Oklahoma City bombing was 30 years ago. Some survivors worry America didn’t learn the lesson
- Man in court accused of threats to kill Reform leader Nigel Farage
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- Librarians in UK increasingly asked to remove books, as influence of US pressure groups spreads
- Reposted by Graham MacklinHungary poised to adopt constitutional amendment to ban LGBTQ+ gatherings
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- Son of the far right activist and anti-abortion campaigner Jim Dowson facing jail for drunken attack on partner
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- Wisconsin teenager Nikita Casap allegedly killed his parents as part of a plot to assassinate Trump: “The sheriff's department issued a search warrant and say they found material on the teen's phone related to ‘The Order of Nine Angles.’”
- Prescient thread 🤣
- Tate 'pointed gun at woman', court documents claim
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- The Saint George Educational Trust, a charity linked to far right, dissolved after inquiry found “significant” financial mismanagement.
- The Trump administration is ignoring far-right terrorism. That only makes it more dangerous
- Bradford terror Ondrej Sidelka suspect “holds neo-Nazi views,” court told
- Man arrested following ITV news investigation into Active Club England
- Reform leader Nigel Farage gets his 10th job as he becomes Sky News Australia commentator.
- Reposted by Graham MacklinFBI Director Kash Patel has reportedly been quietly removed as the acting ATF director after he stopped showing up to work.
- Reposted by Graham MacklinWho better to lead a counterterrorism center than someone who has aided and supported the right-wing paramilitary movement?
- Norwegian teen arrested in UK hotel over national security case. Johannes Kongsnes Natland, 18, was arrested by firearms officers in Huddersfield on 19 March
- US neo-Nazi group with Russia-based leader calls for targeted Ukraine attacks. The Base, terrorist group founded in 2018, free to export violence abroad as Trump pulls FBI from pursuing far right
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- Over 60 Reform UK candidates in local elections are Tory defectors, study finds
- Reposted by Graham MacklinThis feels like the defining image from this year’s Midwest Political Science Association annual meeting. The National Science Foundatipn paid for a booth in the exhibit hall. But the booth sits empty, because NSF has been DOGE’d, and there is no one left to send.
- A Reform UK candidate has been suspended from the party after posts on social media revealed his support for serial sex abuser Jimmy Savile.
- Reposted by Graham MacklinMy @nehgov.bsky.social grant “In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union” was canceled by “DOGE.” The project doesn’t support "the furtherance of the President's agenda.” Jews surviving genocide: out of step w/ the agenda of using Jews to destroy higher ed.
- Reposted by Graham MacklinIn Spain a fall in support for feminism has coincided with the rise of the far right and revived interest in the Franco dictatorship among young men - @swajones.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
- Reposted by Graham Macklin“Er, my question is really in two parts…” From the new Private Eye, out now.
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- MP tells Sky News she was targeted online by Tate brothers after Commons contribution
- Reposted by Graham MacklinThe ERC have given me 5 years to figure out what Europeans really think about democracy. If you would like to come and join me in the endeavour, then I am currently hiring a postdoc @sotonpolitics.bsky.social. Deadline: 30 April | Details here: jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... #polisky
- Reposted by Graham MacklinSCOOP: YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy. "YouTube quietly removing ‘gender identity and expression’ from its list of protected groups is a major radical shift away from best practices in the field of trust and safety."
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