Today it is fifteen years since the worst terrorist attack on Norwegian soil, and fifteen years since I survived the massacre on Utøya. A whole generation has grown up in a less innocent Norway, a Norway where terror is a reality.

I was born and raised in Northern Ontario and I am absolutely boiling with rage at the ways in which people elsewhere are talking about the forest fires there as though this is a common occurrence. The air thick with smoke for kilometers, entire communities wiped out - this shit is not normal.

People are debating whether Platner belongs to the dirtbag left or the normie libs, and that's not the axis on which this revolves. He was backed by guys who thought "identity politics" was Mommy trying to make them take their diarrhea medicine, and that's a broad swath with members in both camps.

NEW: US Ambassador Pete Hoekstra hosted over a dozen far-right activists and right-wing media personalities at his ‘Fourth of July’ party in Ottawa this weekend The US Embassy says Freedom Convoy leader Tamara Lich, who was convicted on criminal charges last year, was accredited as a journalist

US Ambassador Pete Hoekstra Hosts Far-Right Activists and Right-Wing Media Personalities at ‘Fourth of July’ Party in Ottawa

US Embassy says Freedom Convoy leader Tamara Lich, who was convicted on criminal charges last year, was accredited as a journalist

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The SPLC has documented hate groups, antigovernment figures, conspiracy propagandists and various hard-right extremists in the United States. A new SPLC guide seeks to help researchers, journalists and other writers navigate this complex subject. Read the guide: https://bit.ly/3RhcqqT

Being a feminist means having infinite patience for the reality that time is a fucking flat circle and we'll be repeating ourselves until our last breath. Take. Violence. Against. Women. Seriously. And. You. Will. Save. So. Many. Lives.

Every child deserves to feel ownership and autonomy over their own body, and regardless of their gender, an issue some trans ppl run into as they grow older is a sense of tension between what they want and who it feels like their body "belongs" to - their family, their future spouse, society

A vital piece of trans allyship is actually in supporting children's rights to bodily autonomy from the out. Someone is complaining their child wants to cut their hair short or grow it long? Point out that it's the child's hair. Why shouldn't they have it how they want it? Why is that parent upset?

sexual violence can never be "just desserts." ever. not even more evil people.

Violent, misogynistic dudes love the idea that there is a group of REAL misogynists and rapists and abusers, whose acts are so INCREDIBLY depraved that they bear no resemblance to all the "normal" yelling and shoving and hitting and threatening they do themselves. The sliding scale theory of guilt.

A trial begins Monday at Umeå tingsrätt against an 18-year-old charged in connection with the online network 764. The indictment runs to 77 counts. We've published a short working guide for journalists, editors, and producers covering cases like this: revontulet.co/insights/vpx...

Reporting on M/NVE without amplifying it — Revontulet

There have now been enough M/NVE-linked prosecutions across enough jurisdictions that working journalists will encounter these cases regularly. The most consequential challenge in covering them is tha...

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In the field of extremism research, there is the same balance every field with data collection has with AI: It's a one of a kind power tool but it's not the magic people think it is. But one thing I see that people outside of the primary work find out quickly when they dip their toes in with AI is

Ry Terran @hereticmasked.bsky.social · 3mo ago

You absolutely cannot ask chatGPT what it means, because chatGPT will string together a series of words that sounds plausible, and deliver the answer with confidence, and it will be completely wrong.

I can't emphasize enough that if you're reporting on edgesphere kids, you *have* to understand that they delight in disinformation, and they want to be in the news, the more dramatic the story the better, even if it's not true. They'll literally kill and die for clout.

This is why we need gender based analysis in every conversation. A corporate data breach or the sharing of voter registry information is annoying for most people but downright lethal for those who must take extreme precaution with their address in order to keep themselves safe.

Melissa (she/her)@melibee44.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I am a domestic violence survivor and have had a stalker. I have been very careful to limit who knows my address. Now, thanks to David Parker, who knows who has my address or how many copies of the list of electors has been made. #ableg #abpoli

As a longtime advocate for victims of stalking, I receive an inordinate amount of emails from people in psychosis. They are convinced they're being gang stalked and often cite an AI chatbot conversation as proof. This stuff is becoming more common and resources like this are super important.

Sam Cole@samleecole.bsky.social · 5mo ago

What do you say to someone who believes their chatbot has unlocked the keys to the universe? I talked to mental health experts who are following the 'AI psychosis' issue closely to find out: www.404media.co/ai-psychosis...

I feel so deeply sick and disgusted seeing how many people on the left are celebrating Carlson's interview with Huckabee. The "enemy of my enemy is my friend" stuff is such a dark poison in our society, and it can easily destroy the solidarity we will need to have to get where we have to go.

I think people still underestimate the extent to which the panic over an increase in trans boys transitioning is about the belief that AFAB bodies are rightfully for breeding and should be preserved as property belonging to their future husbands.

moby dickgirl@eigenvectrix.myatproto.social · 5mo ago

Nothing like having your dragnet for "transgender" catch transphobes constantly posting pictures of young trans boys having just gotten top surgery to remind you that the anti-trans movement's connection to paedophiles isn't just that they take their money and marching orders

Make your organization confront their practice of using a CSAM generating website. Get off of Twitter/X.

Anil Dash@anildash.com · 6mo ago

If you are a person who works in social media, and your job requires you to manage an account on Twitter/X, please ask your boss, in writing, to verify that you are required as a responsibility of your position to be on a platform that knowingly creates and monetizes child sexual abuse material …

Prime example of why there is no safe level of exposure to X propaganda, no matter how immune you think you are. One day you're a highly intelligent, influential political leader. The next you're sharing content from an Infowars conspiracy theorist to your millions of followers. Get off that site.

Tara C. Smith@aetiology.bsky.social · 6mo ago

@aoc.bsky.social wtf please do not amplify this grifter!!! Broken clock maybe but he's the worst of the worst for health conspiracies. Someone on her team please talk sense into whoever tweeted this.

I've noticed that the Epstein files are becoming the new catch-all for every conspiracy theory in the way that Qanon was a few years ago.

OrbGazer@orbgazer.bsky.social · 6mo ago

“Epstein created covid” is my new favorite Jeff-related conspiracy.

This should be required reading for anyone working on Tumbler Ridge today.

Mel Woods@melwoods.me · 6mo ago

Hey Canadian media ... "born as a biological male" is not the move when you're reporting on what happened in Tumbler Ridge. Here's is the @transjournalists.org Style Guide if you are covering this story today styleguide.transjournalists.org

NEW from me today: Tumbler Ridge is mourning a horrific loss. But how the shooter's identity is being talked about online, and the dangerous links being made to trans people at large, will have resounding and dangerous impacts in the months and weeks to come. xtramagazine.com/power/tumble...

The Tumbler Ridge shooting is already fuelling anti-trans hate in Canada | Xtra Magazine

Bad actors on the right are leaping to connect the shooter’s trans identity to the violence

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It’s so fucked up that emergency services still use X. I just checked the 47 X accounts listed on the official RCMP social media page, and 10 have no gray check. It’s like an open invitation to impersonators.

Chip Berlet (1949-2026) When neo-fascists began to be followed and recorded, it was Chip that was the one who made the first moves. He gave us the blueprint that antifascist researchers go by today. Thank you, Chip, we will take it from here.

Chip Berlet (1949-2026)

When neo-fascists began to be followed and recorded, it was Chip that was the one who made the first moves. He gave us the blueprint that antifascist researchers go by today. Thank you, Chip, we will take it from here.

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In fact I think a lot of these conspiracies are driven by a desire for Epstein to have done “worse” things, because sexual abuse of girls and young women is so normalized and prevalent that people don’t view it as bad or strange enough to care. So they hope it’s secretly about eating babies

There is a lot about the right's attack on trans issues to be concerned about, but at a high level I think it's really important to double down on how entirely fabricated it is. That's the case with women's sports, it's the case with kids getting lower surgery ... it's all hypothetical, not reality

Mel Woods@melwoods.me · 8mo ago

I don't mean to amplify the garbage .... but also I really need to stress here once again that KIDS DON'T GET LOWER SURGERY. That doesn't happen!!! All of these government officials are obsessed with talking about HYPOTHETICAL CHILD GENITALS

in statement abt sentencing of Dallas Humber — neo-Nazi voice of Terrorgram who encouraged mass shootings — DOJ says case proves it "can & will find these criminals..." but it was antifascists/antifa — WHO THE DOJ IS ACTIVELY TARGETING — that found & exposed Humber www.justice.gov/opa/pr/leade...

Leader of Transnational Terrorist Group Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison for Soliciting Hate Crimes and Murder, and Conspiring to Provide Material Support to Terrorists

Dallas Humber, 35, of Elk Grove, California, — leader of the Terrorgram Collective, a transnational terrorist group — was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Dena Coggins to 360 months in prison fo...

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