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This is the first tangible evidence I've seen of rising rates of extremist violence on the left (1)https://www.wsj.com/articles/far-right-groups-cited-in-domestic-terror-attacks-11603367633 Some notable takeaways from the historical per

Thread: I don't know where this is coming from, but there is a sudden pushback/confusion about the use of the word "militia." Here is some information on what this word

The finally published DHS Homeland Threat Assessment shows what we have known for a long time: white power movement violence and affiliated violence is, by far, the greatest terrorist threat

Re "stand back and standby," people who work in monitoring and de-radicalization and otherwise studying white power groups are sounding red alerts and sending emergency signals about increasing violence from

Mini-thread just real quick as a PSA for the news of the day: If you would like to read about the looooong history of conservatives trying to use classrooms to

The problem here is that we still have to explain "the Oklahoma City bombing (1995)". We're talking about the largest deliberate mass casualty on American soil between Pearl Harbor and

Definitions, a thread.1) Militia: a group that uses paramilitary weapons, training, and activism in articulation of local sovereignty and in opposition to the federal government. Not neutral. Sometimes, but not