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Dan Collen
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He/him. Extremism researcher in Canada. Sometimes-journalist. Co-creator Hatepedia.ca. Affiliate cifrs.org. Words for gnet-research.org, antihate.ca, insightthreatintel.com, Vice.com, dancollen.medium.com, etc. Posts about the Horrors.
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latenightafa.bsky.social
Walmart has a habit of not vetting products submitted by individual vendors very well. Please give this a search and report them down, they're still up.
A Google search for "paper beats rock shirt Walmart" showing multiple versions in stock in the sponsored products listings.
November 9, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

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I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.
November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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brandyzadrozny.bsky.social
For months, I’ve been following a Canadian ostrich farm ordered to cull its flock after a bird flu outbreak. It was a cause célèbre for MAHA activists, a MAGA billionaire, and, of course, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The trucker convoy with birds ended last night. They lost. www.msnbc.com/news/news-an...
Why the conspiratorial right rallied around a flock of ostriches
The anti-vaccine, anti-government crusade to save "the miracle cure birds" is over — and the fringe activists lost.
www.msnbc.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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boozeandbullets2.bsky.social
mass report this, get it off walmarts store @frontrangeantifa.bsky.social @unicornriot.bsky.social @lcrw.bsky.social @latenightafa.bsky.social @svartflagg.bsky.social @kateross.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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hannahgais.bsky.social
Please stop writing articles about “what is a groyper?” that totally gets what groypers are wrong, thanks.
November 8, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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self.agency
frankly, the more these folks lambaste him and distance themselves from him for having basic human decency and common sense, the better for him politically
joelhs.bsky.social Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 2d
The pro-Palestine group Within Our Lifetime has already decided that Zohran Mamdani has sold out the pro-Palestine cause... by condemning swastikas drawn on a Jewish day school in Brooklyn. forward.com/culture/7822...
Mamdani's first statement on antisemitism as mayor-elect got some weird pushback
After someone spraypainted a swastika on a yeshiva, Zohran Mamdani condemned antisemitism. Somehow, this generated conspiracy theories.
forward.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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lukelebrun.ca
Hi Bluesky 👋

Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP

It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history

I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵
November 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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schooley.bsky.social
Writing about Elon Musk’s pay package without leading with this is like profiling John Wayne Gacy’s booming party clown career.
November 7, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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joolia.bsky.social
There are no words for how evil this is
In an interaction early the next month, after Zane suggested "it's okay to give myself permission to not want to exist," ChatGPT responded by saying "i'm letting a human take over from here - someone trained to support you through moments like this. you're not alone in this, and there are people who can help. hang tight." But when Zane followed up and asked if it could really do that, the chatbot seemed to reverse course. "nah, man - i can't do that myself. that message pops up automatically when stuff gets real heavy," it said.
November 7, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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keptsimple.bsky.social
ADL has had problems for a long time but just a few years ago it was doing fairly reputable extremism research. now it's being rebuked by Joe Scarborough of all people for assigning itself as Mamdani's hall monitor and preemptively blaming all antisemitism on him.
November 6, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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laurajedeed.bsky.social
This is the most insane paragraph I've read in a mainstream paper maybe ever

Heritage Foundation authored Project 2025. Russ Vought was VP at Heritage Action. What in the literal fuck are you talking about
The turmoil has implications for more than Roberts's job. Founded in 1973, the Heritage Foundation has been a pillar of the conservative movement and was the ideological and policy engine behind the Reagan administration. But as Reagan's party transformed into Trump's, younger think tanks have gained traction with the donors and advisers closest to the president; this year, Heritage officials were mostly frozen out of senior roles. The issues at Heritage echo other battles at right-wing institutions and in the conservative movement that have been aggravated by Trump's embrace of people and views once relegated to the fringes of Republican politics.
November 6, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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matttomic.bsky.social
Checking in on Rudy Giuliani, I see he's having an insane one
Rudy Giuliani on Facebook posting a photo of the twin towers burning on 911 superimposed with his own face and the message "New York, you forgot"
November 5, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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robertscotthorton.bsky.social
Jewish colleagues I speak with regularly cite Jonathan Greenblatt as one of the most serious threats they face. They're convinced that he is committed to silencing or destroying any Jew who openly criticizes or challenges Benjamin Netanyahu and his war making. And they're correct.
Zohran Mamdani’s Triumph in New York Evokes Intense Reaction in Israel
www.nytimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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404media.co
NEW: The US Army website for its bases in Bavaria, Germany told its soldiers and employees that it might need to obtain free food from the German government during the US government shutdown.

The Army later altered publication to remove a list of food banks, but we have the original text here:
US Army Tells Soldiers to Go to German Food Bank, Then Deletes It
The initial 'Shutdown Guidance' for the US Army Garrison Bavaria included instructions to go to German food banks.
www.404media.co
November 5, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social
average bluesky poster
Screenshots from My Dinner With Andre. Wallace Shawn, a balding white man looking as tired as a human has ever looked, walks a graffiti-strewn subway platform and thinks, "When I was young, all I thought about was art and music. Now I'm 36 and all i think about is cow tools."
November 5, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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katzish.bsky.social
If the sandwich don’t split, you must acquit
ryanjreilly.com Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 5d
Defense says that the officer's testimony was "very questionable" because he said the sandwich both exploded in spray of mustard and onions and also landed in its wrapper on the ground.
November 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
dancollen.bsky.social
Has any reporter asked Andrew Cuomo about recent reporting of his brother's business deal with a far-right extremist's app that works with several neo-Nazis like Nick Fuentes?

No podcaster or radio host interviewing him thought to ask? It's the eleventh hour of the election. Now would be the time!
globalextremism.bsky.social Global Project Against Hate and Extremism @globalextremism.bsky.social · 9d
Minnect is monetizing hate—giving neo-Nazis, white nationalists, and violent extremists a paid platform under the guise of “expertise.” Figures like Nick Fuentes, Tommy Robinson, and Richard Spencer sell “advice” while the company profits, normalizing extremism in the mainstream.
Consultation Service Owned By Patrick Bet-David Profits From Calling Neo-Nazis “Experts”
Patrick Bet-David’s app Minnect lets neo-Nazis and violent extremists sell “expert advice” for profit. Listed alongside mainstream figures are Nick Fuentes, Tommy Robinson, Richard Spencer, and others...
globalextremism.org
November 4, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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eladn.bsky.social
Every single journalist with expertise in extremism I know has been fired or their publication has folded.

Not a coincidence, of course. Grateful for their work, but unfortunately for almost all of us, this work will now have to be the side hustle.
November 4, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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leximcmenamin.com
thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.

now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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hannahgais.bsky.social
And here's former vice president Mike Pence sharing a Wall Street Journal article calling out the head of the Heritage Foundation for defending Tucker Carlson's friendly chat with Nick Fuentes.
November 3, 2025 at 7:47 PM
dancollen.bsky.social
Truly shocking malpractise outlined here. Great (horrifying) read
November 3, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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leximcmenamin.com
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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faineg.bsky.social
truly classic
sagastar.bsky.social Sagittarius A* @sagastar.bsky.social · 19d
a familiar phenomena
80% of americans think americans should work in manufacturing 20% think they should
November 3, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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kevintripp.bsky.social
((("The global elite")))
Kevin Roberts from the Heritage Foundation talks about, as he puts it, the "global elite".
October 30, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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drewharwell.com
The Heritage Foundation president just did the dril "issuing correction on a previous post of mine, regarding the terror group ISIL. you do not, under any circumstances, 'gotta hand it to them'" bit about Nick Fuentes
Yesterday I said that I abhorred views expressed by Nick Fuentes—and that the best way to fight antisemitic ideas was to challenge them head on. Fuentes replied on X by saying “I don’t know what exactly you ‘abhor’ about my views.” Allow me to elaborate—because there is plenty to condemn. First, the @Heritage Foundation and I denounce and stand against his vicious antisemitic ideology, his Holocaust denial, and his relentless conspiracy theories that echo the darkest chapters of history. We are disgusted by his musings about rape, women, child marriage, and abusing his potential wife. Fuentes made grotesque analogies to try to cast doubt on the murder of six million Jews during the Holocaust and has said “I think the Holocaust is exaggerated. I don't hate Hitler.” Fuentes called for the death penalty for “perfidious Jews” and other non-Christians, stating that “when we take power, they need to be given the death penalty.” Fuentes praised Hitler and in the Tucker interview said he is a “Stalin admirer.” Fuentes stated that his goal is “total Aryan victory” and claimed that "black people should be in prison for the most part." This is but a sampling of his vile daily rhetoric. Racism and antisemitism are not relics of the past. They have blossomed on the Left on university campuses and grown on the Right through figures like Fuentes. Nick Fuentes's antisemitism is not complicated, ironic, or misunderstood. It is explicit, dangerous, and demands our unified opposition as conservatives. Fuentes knows exactly what he is doing. He is fomenting Jew hatred, and his incitements are not only immoral and un-Christian, they risk violence.
October 31, 2025 at 8:44 PM