I helped establish the Office of Countering Violent Extremism in 2016. In July, Trump shut us down. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/09/18/world/trump-is-killing-programs-that-prevent-terrorism/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #donaldtrump #charliekirk #terrorism #defense
Benjamin Sonntag-King
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@span AnarchoNinaWrites
This website is one of Kirk's : https://www.professorwatchlist.org/
This would be accurately described as a #hitlist. Theres no overt 'kill them', but thats definitely why these exist.
And from my city, we had 8 professors from my city on there.
This 'discourse' aka #terrorism got so bad, that one of these people had to leave the country to flee the abuse.
Here's his writing about his experience: https://www.idsnews.com/article/2025/09/opinion-professor-abulkadersinno-leaving-whitten-trustees-gaza-iu-bloomington-indiana
@span AnarchoNinaWrites
This website is one of Kirk's : https://www.professorwatchlist.org/
This would be accurately described as a #hitlist. Theres no overt 'kill them', but thats definitely why these exist.
And from my city, we had 8 professors from my city on there.
This 'discourse' aka #terrorism got so bad, that one of these people had to leave the country to flee the abuse.
Here's his writing about his experience: https://www.idsnews.com/article/2025/09/opinion-professor-abulkadersinno-leaving-whitten-trustees-gaza-iu-bloomington-indiana
Jonathan Schofield
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Reflecting on useful piece in New York Times; criteria to define #genocide seem to me far tougher to meet than #terrorism
#Palestine #LiftTheBan
"The ban “marks a radical departure from what came before” because of its reliance on property destruction, said Alan Greene, a senior counterterrorism researcher at Birmingham Law School.
“There is nothing in this document that suggests that there is more to PAG than what is publicly known,” he added."
https://archive.is/PPsro
Reflecting on useful piece in New York Times; criteria to define #genocide seem to me far tougher to meet than #terrorism
#Palestine #LiftTheBan
"The ban “marks a radical departure from what came before” because of its reliance on property destruction, said Alan Greene, a senior counterterrorism researcher at Birmingham Law School.
“There is nothing in this document that suggests that there is more to PAG than what is publicly known,” he added."
https://archive.is/PPsro
Trump and his cult, including many Republican office-holders, have been egging on political violence -- aimed at the left -- for years. They are NOT opposed to political violence.
Our "mainstream" journalists seem mostly unwilling to provide that context in their coverage at the moment.
@dangillmor
Terror is a weapon most critical to any ‘revolution’. This was examplified during the French Revolution and is ongoing in Russia with the successive re-imaginings of Lenin’s Cheka. I suspect that the lessons were not missed by the #Project2025 authors and implementers in the #WH. Revolutions without terror do not last and give way to ‘re-normalisation’ of the regime (see post revolutionary French history for example).
Terror is a weapon most critical to any ‘revolution’. This was examplified during the French Revolution and is ongoing in Russia with the successive re-imaginings of Lenin’s Cheka. I suspect that the lessons were not missed by the #Project2025 authors and implementers in the #WH. Revolutions without terror do not last and give way to ‘re-normalisation’ of the regime (see post revolutionary French history for example).
The US is currently in the midst of an #OligarchicRevolution and the #Terror is just begining (because it has not ending in such regimes).
#RegimeChange#Revolution#Terrorism#USPol#Cheka#Lenin#FrenchRevolution
A new generation in Sept. 11 families, one with no memory of the attacks, is increasingly shouldering the responsibility to never forget. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/11/world/society/new-911-generation-us/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #society #us #911 #terrorism #children
Israel is a terrorist state.
A terrorist state that is committing genocide.
Anyone who does not understand this at this point does not want to understand it on purpose and is a genocide denier. (And thus complicit in genocide as genocide denial is the last and final stage of genocide.)
#israel #sumud #flotilla #genocide #terrorism#FreePalestinehttps://mastodon.social/@sheislaurence/115171737298048468
Gert V 🇵🇸
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#GreenPeace drove an electric truck around in London carrying a message while MET police were arresting Palestine Action and anti-genocide supporters in #London today.
#UKpol#WarCrime#PalestineAction#Journalism#Genocide#Gaza#Israel#Terrorism#Politics#Europe
Greenpeace electric Truck showing the text
BOMBING HOSPITALS IS TERRORISM
in London
Greenpeace electric Truck showing the text
PROTESTING GENOCIDE IS NOT TERRORISM
in London
Greenpeace electric Truck showing the text
KILLING JOURNALUSTS IS TERRORISM
in London
#GreenPeace drove an electric truck around in London carrying a message while MET police were arresting Palestine Action and anti-genocide supporters in #London today.
#UKpol#WarCrime#PalestineAction#Journalism#Genocide#Gaza#Israel#Terrorism#Politics#Europe
Greenpeace electric Truck showing the text
BOMBING HOSPITALS IS TERRORISM
in London
Greenpeace electric Truck showing the text
PROTESTING GENOCIDE IS NOT TERRORISM
in London
Greenpeace electric Truck showing the text
KILLING JOURNALUSTS IS TERRORISM
in London
Japan's Public Security Examination Commission has extended restrictions on the activities of Aleph, a successor group of the now-defunct Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult, until March 2026. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/04/japan/crime-legal/aleph-restriction-activities/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #aleph #aumshinrikyo #shokoasahara #massmurder #terrorism
Cory Doctorow
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UK Government has lost the plot if it’s criminalising this T-shirt
If we criminalise a message that says, in essence, “stop genocide”, we have lost the plot. The proper response is not a charge sheet but a recommitment to the principle that in a democracy, words – however uncomfortable – are met with words, not handcuffs.
Aletter from Peter Macari that lays out the argument
#PalestineAction#Proscription#Terrorism#Cooper#Maladministration#Scottland#TheNational
UK Government has lost the plot if it’s criminalising this T-shirt
If we criminalise a message that says, in essence, “stop genocide”, we have lost the plot. The proper response is not a charge sheet but a recommitment to the principle that in a democracy, words – however uncomfortable – are met with words, not handcuffs.
Aletter from Peter Macari that lays out the argument
#PalestineAction#Proscription#Terrorism#Cooper#Maladministration#Scottland#TheNational
🇺🇦 #Ukrainian Resilience | Day 3
Before #volunteering today, I stopped by the world-famous Pryvoz Marketplace in Odesa. 🚨 Just weeks ago, this historic site was attacked by Russian drones—one of countless civilian targets hit across Ukraine. But Ukrainians don’t cower to #terrorism. Pryvoz is open, alive, and serving the community.
📞 To those in the U.S. and allied countries: keep contacting your representatives. Urge continued support for #Ukraine. Your voice matters.
joene 🏴🍉
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🧵1/3: You can always count on the #Irish to know how to #protest, bringing all generations together through #music, art and humour. By taking aim at one of them with trumped up #terrorism charged for a #chillingeffect, the UK government ended up lighting a 🔥🔥 instead!!
Crowd with signs and irish flags and baclava
Sign that says "defend kneecap, drop the charges, freedom for Palestine"
Sign that says "do chara, àr gcara, mo chara
Young man with glasses playing the harmonica in front of an Irish flag
🧵1/3: You can always count on the #Irish to know how to #protest, bringing all generations together through #music, art and humour. By taking aim at one of them with trumped up #terrorism charged for a #chillingeffect, the UK government ended up lighting a 🔥🔥 instead!!
Crowd with signs and irish flags and baclava
Sign that says "defend kneecap, drop the charges, freedom for Palestine"
Sign that says "do chara, àr gcara, mo chara
Young man with glasses playing the harmonica in front of an Irish flag
Hamas said it has agreed to a deal proposed by Qatar and Egypt to pause the militant group’s war with Israel in Gaza, fueling optimism that a long-awaited breakthrough in negotiations could be close. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/19/world/hamas-gaza-truce-egypt-qatar/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #middleeast #israel #israelhamaswar #hamas #terrorism #gaza #palestinians
Charlie Stross
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Absolutely disgusting and embarrassing that #London police are happy to arrest anti-genocide protesters by the hundreds while leaving the fucking fash alone, so long as they stay on one side of the road while they're intimidating people who've come here trying to find safety.
Fuck off, racists. We don't want you.
#CanaryWharf#IsleaOfDogs#rightToAsylum#fuckTheFash#ACAB #metropolitanpolice#centralLondon#racism #terrorism
