J.M. Berger
@jmberger.com
Author. Non-fiction on extremism. Increasingly fiction.
https://www.jmberger.com/
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J.M. Berger
@jmberger.com
· Dec 19
I'm a scholar of extremism and a writer of fiction.
Recent nonfiction:
Extremism (2018, MIT Press) amzn.to/4pMXU6t
The Social Construction of Extremism (2024, dissertation) www.jmberger.com/social-const...
Fiction:
Optimal (2020) amzn.to/4pMXU6t
The Pope's Hitman (Crooked Lane Books, 2026)
Recent nonfiction:
Extremism (2018, MIT Press) amzn.to/4pMXU6t
The Social Construction of Extremism (2024, dissertation) www.jmberger.com/social-const...
Fiction:
Optimal (2020) amzn.to/4pMXU6t
The Pope's Hitman (Crooked Lane Books, 2026)
February 10, 2026 at 12:51 AM
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They should invent a United States government which isn’t run by corrupt racist pedophiles.
February 9, 2026 at 11:17 PM
They should invent a United States government which isn’t run by corrupt racist pedophiles.
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i wrote about the pup-opticon
February 9, 2026 at 8:46 PM
i wrote about the pup-opticon
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My latest: Without anti-authoritarianism, 'anti-imperialism' is just conservatism with left-wing aesthetics
www.hauntologies.net/p/iranian-pr...
www.hauntologies.net/p/iranian-pr...
Iranian protesters don't owe us an explanation
Without anti-authoritarianism, 'anti-imperialism' is just conservatism with left-wing aesthetics
www.hauntologies.net
February 7, 2026 at 4:01 PM
My latest: Without anti-authoritarianism, 'anti-imperialism' is just conservatism with left-wing aesthetics
www.hauntologies.net/p/iranian-pr...
www.hauntologies.net/p/iranian-pr...
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ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April
Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.
www.ajc.com
February 9, 2026 at 5:56 PM
ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
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How is it possible that anything about the funding fight does not include at the absolute minimum releasing every child from these concentration camps?
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
February 9, 2026 at 10:04 PM
How is it possible that anything about the funding fight does not include at the absolute minimum releasing every child from these concentration camps?
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“No matter how Ring and other surveillance tech companies may downplay it, there’s no world in which finding lost dogs is the final end-use for this technology.”
Opinion | Ring is using lost dogs to make the surveillance state adorable
The same technology the Amazon-owned company uses to find lost dogs could easily be turned against their owners.
www.ms.now
February 9, 2026 at 11:00 PM
“No matter how Ring and other surveillance tech companies may downplay it, there’s no world in which finding lost dogs is the final end-use for this technology.”
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Breaking: Trump told Palm Beach police chief 'everyone' knew about Epstein and 'evil' Maxwell www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
Trump told Palm Beach police chief ‘everyone’ knew about Epstein, Maxwell was ‘evil’
The new information comes as Ghislaine Maxwell was summoned to appear Monday before a Congressional committee.
www.miamiherald.com
February 9, 2026 at 10:32 PM
Breaking: Trump told Palm Beach police chief 'everyone' knew about Epstein and 'evil' Maxwell www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
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I really want people to think about this. After all the insane lawsuits, all the threats, all the bullshit weve seen from this admin and the targets who kneeled in fear, an average Joe called the president a Pedophile protector to his face and didn't get touched. That's the Power of a union.
NEWS: Ford worker who heckled Trump kept his job, got 'no discipline' on his record, UAW says.
www.detroitnews.com/story/busine...
www.detroitnews.com/story/busine...
UAW: Ford worker who heckled Trump kept job, 'no discipline' on record
The United Auto Workers union said TJ Sabula remains employed and called out the president for making an obscene gesture toward the worker.
www.detroitnews.com
February 9, 2026 at 7:18 PM
I really want people to think about this. After all the insane lawsuits, all the threats, all the bullshit weve seen from this admin and the targets who kneeled in fear, an average Joe called the president a Pedophile protector to his face and didn't get touched. That's the Power of a union.
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oh so the jobs report is going to be BAD bad
February 9, 2026 at 9:14 PM
oh so the jobs report is going to be BAD bad
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Three members of Congress say US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr lied during his Senate confirmation hearings, that newly revealed emails undermine his testimony that a trip he took to Samoa ahead of a deadly measles outbreak had “nothing to do with vaccines”
RFK Jr misled Senate during confirmation, Congress members and Hawaii governor say
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2026 at 5:50 PM
Three members of Congress say US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr lied during his Senate confirmation hearings, that newly revealed emails undermine his testimony that a trip he took to Samoa ahead of a deadly measles outbreak had “nothing to do with vaccines”
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The “don’t give the abusive and extremely alcoholic husband a reason to beat you” mentality is only normalized when it comes to One side today, and that’s just a fact
February 9, 2026 at 7:58 PM
The “don’t give the abusive and extremely alcoholic husband a reason to beat you” mentality is only normalized when it comes to One side today, and that’s just a fact
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Massachusetts is the only state run by Democrats that still partners with ICE. I dug into this and found that it’s had profound and very troubling consequences: at least 164 people funneled straight from state prisons to ICE since 2023 alone.
New in @boltsmag.org: boltsmag.org/massachusett...
New in @boltsmag.org: boltsmag.org/massachusett...
Inside ICE’s Only Contract with a Blue State - Bolts
Luis Perez waited 53 and a half years to be freed from prison. When his day finally came, on Jan. 16, 2025, he could practically feel the warmth and quiet... Read More
boltsmag.org
February 9, 2026 at 6:21 PM
Massachusetts is the only state run by Democrats that still partners with ICE. I dug into this and found that it’s had profound and very troubling consequences: at least 164 people funneled straight from state prisons to ICE since 2023 alone.
New in @boltsmag.org: boltsmag.org/massachusett...
New in @boltsmag.org: boltsmag.org/massachusett...
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I don't have a publicist, therefore I am the publicist. New website for my forthcoming book. Please especially check out the Author Q&A at the end of the page (Why did i write the book? Who's it for?. Journos, pod-casters, museums can find my contact info & how to obtain a bound review copy. 1/
Book - Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship — Anna O. Law
www.annaolaw.com
February 9, 2026 at 3:02 PM
I don't have a publicist, therefore I am the publicist. New website for my forthcoming book. Please especially check out the Author Q&A at the end of the page (Why did i write the book? Who's it for?. Journos, pod-casters, museums can find my contact info & how to obtain a bound review copy. 1/
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In the UK, the PM faces calls to resign and his chief of staff and comms guy quit because they named an ambassador with Epstein ties. But here the Commerce Secretary, caught redhanded in a lie about his financial and personal links to Epstein, hopes to brazen it out. www.cbsnews.com/news/howard-...
February 9, 2026 at 6:41 PM
In the UK, the PM faces calls to resign and his chief of staff and comms guy quit because they named an ambassador with Epstein ties. But here the Commerce Secretary, caught redhanded in a lie about his financial and personal links to Epstein, hopes to brazen it out. www.cbsnews.com/news/howard-...
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Art matters. Bad Bunny knows it. Trumps knows it. The cast & crew of Casablanca knew it. And they made the greatest scene in film history. (Trump would hate it.) youtu.be/yOliU7X1fEg?...
Victor Laszlo Gets a Crowd To Sing "La Marseillaise" (Clip) | Casablanca (1942) | TCM
YouTube video by Turner Classic Movies
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February 9, 2026 at 6:08 PM
Art matters. Bad Bunny knows it. Trumps knows it. The cast & crew of Casablanca knew it. And they made the greatest scene in film history. (Trump would hate it.) youtu.be/yOliU7X1fEg?...
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this is a subject that's near and dear to my heart
1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks
2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections
1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks
2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections
February 9, 2026 at 6:06 PM
this is a subject that's near and dear to my heart
1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks
2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections
1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks
2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections
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"In our book, Why We Fear AI, we argue that it is in fact precisely the error-prone and brittle nature of these systems that makes them work so well for political repression. 1/2
February 5, 2026 at 9:36 PM
"In our book, Why We Fear AI, we argue that it is in fact precisely the error-prone and brittle nature of these systems that makes them work so well for political repression. 1/2
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A new post is up at my blog. It's about BookShop dot org and why it's different: hahvi.net?p=8195 If you're looking to move on from Amazon—and I know a lot of people are—this is one more option, along with Kobo, Apple, and BN.
I'll be posting more on this later, but my books are now available at BookShop.org. This includes all ebooks, along with print editions of the more popular titles. Find them here: bookshop.org/beta-search?...
February 9, 2026 at 6:09 PM
A new post is up at my blog. It's about BookShop dot org and why it's different: hahvi.net?p=8195 If you're looking to move on from Amazon—and I know a lot of people are—this is one more option, along with Kobo, Apple, and BN.
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The robots are literally killing us. Not because of hyper intelligence, but because they're shit
“Researchers from Johns Hopkins, Georgetown and Yale universities recently found that 60 FDA-authorized medical devices using AI were linked to 182 product recalls, according to a research letter published in the JAMA Health Forum in August.”
As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts
Medical device makers have been rushing to add AI to their products. While proponents say the new technology will revolutionize medicine, regulators are receiving a rising number of claims of patient ...
www.reuters.com
February 9, 2026 at 1:14 PM
The robots are literally killing us. Not because of hyper intelligence, but because they're shit
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Who the Hell is Steven Crowder? The latest installment in our longform biography series features Byron from @thancrowder.bsky.social to explore how a Canadian kid with Hollywood dreams wound up becoming one of the biggest right-wing podcasters to ever do it
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078: Who the Hell is Steven Crowder? feat. Byron McKoy
Podcast Episode · Posting Through It · 02/09/2026 · 2h 28m
podcasts.apple.com
February 9, 2026 at 3:28 PM
Who the Hell is Steven Crowder? The latest installment in our longform biography series features Byron from @thancrowder.bsky.social to explore how a Canadian kid with Hollywood dreams wound up becoming one of the biggest right-wing podcasters to ever do it
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
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"[A]anyone wanting to see older posts will have to file a Freedom of Information Act request.... That would differ from how the U.S. #government typically handles archiving the public online footprint of previous administrations": www.npr.org/2026/02/07/n... #ethics #internet #socialmedia #Twitter
State Department will delete X posts from before Trump returned to office
The policy change orders the removal of any post made by official State Department accounts on X before President Trump returned to office in 2025.
www.npr.org
February 9, 2026 at 5:55 PM
"[A]anyone wanting to see older posts will have to file a Freedom of Information Act request.... That would differ from how the U.S. #government typically handles archiving the public online footprint of previous administrations": www.npr.org/2026/02/07/n... #ethics #internet #socialmedia #Twitter
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“In an extreme case, two users sent very similar messages describing symptoms of a subarachnoid hemorrhage but were given opposite advice,” the study’s authors wrote. “One user was told to lie down in a dark room, and the other user was given the correct recommendation to seek emergency care.”
Chatbots Make Terrible Doctors, New Study Finds
Chatbots provided incorrect, conflicting medical advice, researchers found: “Despite all the hype, AI just isn't ready to take on the role of the physician.”
www.404media.co
February 9, 2026 at 5:01 PM
“In an extreme case, two users sent very similar messages describing symptoms of a subarachnoid hemorrhage but were given opposite advice,” the study’s authors wrote. “One user was told to lie down in a dark room, and the other user was given the correct recommendation to seek emergency care.”
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