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HOGMANAY | Happy New Year!

Looking forward to getting the Birdwatcher report up and running. To contribute, DM us here.
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RADICAL RIGHT USA | Carroll has grabbed headlines in recent years for promoting Holocaust revisionism and has been widely accused of spreading anti-Semitic tropes, including claims like saying the Jews were behind 9/11.

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Tucker Carlson Defends Charlie Kirk Conspiracies to Far Right Influencer: Feds Need to 'Cough Up Facts' — Mediaite
“Charlie Kirk is months, months ago now, and to this day, I think most Americans still feel like we don't have an honest set of answers,
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January 3, 2026 at 12:59 AM
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RADICAL RIGHT UPSET | 45 per cent of women aged between 25 and 44 will be single by 2030, the largest share in history, much to the chagrin of right-wing “traditional values” commentators.

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Women don't need men anymore. And right-wing misogynists are fuming — The i Paper
Women are exhausted by heterosexual relationships, and who can blame them?
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January 2, 2026 at 11:49 PM
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USA | Sturdivant, a US citizen, had been planning the attack for about a year, after a search of his home on 29 December uncovered knives and hammers under his bed, as well as detailed notes on the planned massacre.

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FBI says it thwarted planned New Year’s Eve terrorist attack in North Carolina — The Guardian
FBI says teen was planning Islamic State-inspired hammer and knife attack on Jews, Christians and LGBTQ+ people
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January 2, 2026 at 11:41 PM
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January 2, 2026 at 9:32 PM
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REFORM | Mass deportations, slashing hundreds of billions of spending, tax cuts for the super-rich.

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10 Reform policies that would clobber Brits - from trade war to online safety and net zero — The Mirror
Whether it's mass deportations, slashing hundreds of billions of spending, or tax cuts for the super-rich, Reform UK and Nigel Farage have set out their pitch to voters
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January 2, 2026 at 10:22 AM
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CVE | Though terminology and political identity can be fluid in right-wing digital ecosystems, the term “groyper” can generally be applied to the edgy, misogynistic men who support the white nationalist influencer Nick Fuentes.

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You Love Him. He Just Fell for the Most Insidious Movement in America. Now What?
Too many young men are turning to Nick Fuentes’ neo-Nazi movement. Their loved ones are fighting to bring them back.
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January 2, 2026 at 9:41 AM
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CTE | The two Isis-inspired gunmen who opened fire at a Jewish Hanukkah festival on Bondi Beach travelled to the Philippines for "military-style training" in the month before the terror attack, it is claimed.

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Bondi 'gunmen' 'travelled to Philippines for military-style training' before attack — Daily Star
A senior counterterrorism official has told Australian media that Naveed and Sajid Akram underwent military-style training in the Philippines, a breeding ground for Islamist terror networks
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January 2, 2026 at 9:36 AM
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UK | TUC will be supporting Show Racism the red card in schools and working with Hope not Hate and stand up to Racism.

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Far right hate and 'poison is infecting British schools, hospitals and prisons' — The Mirror
In an exclusive interview with The Mirror, the new boss of the Trade Union Congress, which represents 5.5 million workers, warns of the rise of the 'poisonous' far right
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January 1, 2026 at 9:16 PM
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CTE | Phase two of the Southport Inquiry will examine if the UK can adequately address the risks posed by people obsessed with violence.

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Thousands of people obsessed with violence like Axel Rudakubana referred to counter terrorism programme — Liverpool Echo
Phase two of the Southport Inquiry will examine if the UK can adequately address the risks posed by people obsessed with violence
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January 1, 2026 at 4:55 PM
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PSYCHOLOGY | Personality trait change is more likely earlier in life. Half of adolescents switch their relative positions in any given personality trait for a few years—switching positions in at least one of the Big Five is guaranteed.

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Will Your Personality Change in the Next 6 Years?
Most people experience some personality trait change, regardless of their age.
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January 1, 2026 at 11:18 AM
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UK | Three men and a woman have been arrested in East Sussex as part of an investigation into extreme right-wing terrorism.

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Four arrested in Eastbourne and Brighton in right-wing terror investigation
Sussex Police say the arrests are part of a planned operation - with the four suspects being held under the Terrorism Act.
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January 1, 2026 at 11:10 AM
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US | Mamdani now begins one of the most unrelenting jobs in American politics as one of the country’s most-watched politicians.

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Watch Zohran Mamdani be sworn in as mayor of New York City – video — The Guardian
The private ceremony took place after midnight in an abandoned beaux-arts subway station
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January 1, 2026 at 11:06 AM
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2026 IS HERE- Let’s Go! | Questioning doubts about achieving your goals, instead of remaining optimistic, could be better strategy for achieving them, psychologists say in new study.

Looking forward to launching The Birdwatcher Report. DM us if you are a CTE specialist!

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Psychologists reveal mind trick that could help you commit to your New Year’s goals — The Independent
Inducing doubts in one’s doubts can provide a formula for confidence, researchers say
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January 1, 2026 at 9:34 AM
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December 31, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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HOGMANAY | Happy New Year!

Looking forward to getting the Birdwatcher report up and running. To contribute, DM us here.
January 1, 2026 at 9:13 AM
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ONLINE | Thousands have engaged with chatbots modelled on real-life murderers, serial killers, and school shooters. A glimpse of this usage can be found on Character.ai. From John Wayne Gacy and Jeffrey Dahmer to ‘Dating Game Killer’ Rodney Alcala.

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You Talkin’ to Me? Algorithmic Mirrors and Chatbot Radicalisation - GNET
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December 31, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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US | Fuentes is an established Holocaust denier. In March 2023, he said outright: “I think the Holocaust is exaggerated. I don’t hate Hitler. I think there’s a Jewish conspiracy.”

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Mainstream Media Aids Neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes’ Growing Popularity
Piers Morgan’s interview with neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes became another boost for the Groyper movement, offering a committed Holocaust denier uncritical mainstream exposure. As Fuentes turns these appearan...
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December 31, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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CENTURY SO FAR | Did the 21st century begin on 1 January 2000? Or was it that blue sky day in September 2001 when the planes hit the twin towers? Images from the last 25 years.

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‘The sight of it is still shocking’: 46 photos that tell the story of the century so far — The Guardian
Did the 21st century begin on 1 January 2000? Or was it that blue sky day in September 2001 when the planes hit the twin towers? These images from the last 25 years chronicle modern history in the mak...
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December 31, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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MISINFORMATION | Election lies in the United States fed into the broader dynamics that culminated in the January 6 Capitol attack.

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Reframing misinformation as informational-systemic risk in the age of societal volatility | HKS Misinformation Review
When a bank run, a pandemic, or an election spirals out of control, the spark is often informational. In 2023, rumors online helped accelerate the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. During COVID-19, fal...
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December 31, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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RESEARCH | Analysis of covert networks by testing the usefulness of metrics such as betweenness, closeness, and eigenvector centrality in identifying terrorist roles and functions in the cells behind major terrorist attacks.

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Typology of Terrorist Profiling Using Centrality Metrics: Hinge Figures, Influential Operatives and Trusted Assets
The increase in terrorist activity worldwide has prompted the development of research tools and methodologies to study the phenomenon of terrorism. Among them, social network analysis (SNA) has fou...
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December 30, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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REFORM | The decrease in support for Reform UK coincides with recent controversies, including allegations against Nigel Farage, racism claims involving a mayoral candidate, and questions regarding the party's Russia links.

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December 30, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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CTE | Los Angeles has not cancelled its New Year's Eve celebrations despite a foiled terror attack plan that drone footage caught four suspects attempting to create a bomb.

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New Year's Even plans cancelled across major cities amid terror attack and stampede fears — Birmingham Live
Los Angeles has not cancelled its New Year's Eve celebrations despite a foiled terror attack plan that drone footage caught four suspects attempting to create a bomb
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December 30, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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UK & RUSSIA | The ‘non-strategic’ paradox

Most of Russia’s nuclear weapons, including those that would be used against Britain, are so-called non-strategic nuclear weapons.

This is an oxymoron.

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Britain is closer to nuclear war than you think. This is how it will unfold — The i Paper
The government has prepared plans in case of a nuclear conflict, even if you haven't. It's time to pay attention
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December 30, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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USA | The concern is that these guys actually believe they are defending the constitution.
December 30, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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UK | What do you do when the supposed defenders of national pride are the loudest voices talking Britain down? When those who rage most against immigration are emigrating themselves? When critics of Islam seek shelter in Islamic states?

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2025 was the year the far-right became a parody of itself — The London Economic
Never has a group of people so fervently loathed the country they are supposed to love.
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December 30, 2025 at 4:52 PM