Daithí Rooney
automotricity.bsky.social
Daithí Rooney
@automotricity.bsky.social
Rhetoric PhD @UTAustin. Race, Environment, Animals.

Derrida-stan. Gaeilgeoir. Omuyizi.

My website: daithirooney.github.io
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I started this article on far-right veganisms as a 1L and it is now published just weeks before graduation. Very proud of the work we did: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Blood, Soil, and Tofu: Diagonalism and the Rhetorical Constitution of Far-Right Veganism
Far-right veganism is a small but burgeoning lifestyle movement that integrates vegan practices with white nationalist and eco-fascist ideologies. We examine the ideological and rhetorical foundati...
www.tandfonline.com
April 29, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Officially a doctor ✅🤘
April 12, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Very happy this piece on the Green New Deal, Necropolitics and hamburgers is out at Environmental Communication!

Very thankful to excellent reviewers and editor who really improved this piece and allowed me put in my silly epigraphs

(Link in next post)
February 28, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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NEW: X has become a hotbed of neo-Nazi content under Elon Musk. We identified the operators of four anonymous accounts that share racist, antisemitic, and neo-Nazi content. Three live in Texas. Musk has replied to two of them. One works for the Navy.

www.texasobserver.org/revealed-ope...
Revealed: the Operators Behind Four Major Neo-Nazi X Accounts
Anonymity has long been a tactic used by extremists to spread their ideology while avoiding social consequences, from Klansmen hoods to online pseudonyms.
www.texasobserver.org
December 4, 2024 at 2:13 PM
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Carceral immigration tech is on the rise - like ankle monitors, facial recognition apps, and surveillance watches. Now, investors "openly salivate[] over the potential profits they could see from a Trump immigration regime" -@katyaschwenk.bsky.social @levernews.com

www.levernews.com/inside-the-p...
Inside The Plan To Let Trump Track Millions of Immigrants
The private prison lobby has been quietly pushing a drastic expansion of ICE’s surveillance apparatus. Trump’s reelection may be the final step.
www.levernews.com
December 3, 2024 at 11:25 PM
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For those confused about South Korea, an “opposition party” is a political party that actively opposes the one in power.
December 3, 2024 at 10:25 PM
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... equivalent to wartime or a similar crisis, necessitating the use of military forces to maintain order. Almost no one in our society believes we are in such a situation."

TS: Will Biden and Blinken support their close ally? Or wash their hands of him? That's the question I have right now.
December 3, 2024 at 7:06 PM
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Big news, friends. I loaned my beloved pet elephant Topsy to Thomas Edison, he’s going to make a movie about her! She’s going to be a star! 🤩
November 28, 2024 at 10:33 PM
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Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program
Books Not Bars 2024 Holiday Campaign
BOOKS NOT BARS FOR THE HOLIDAYS Haymarket Books is committed to making our books available for free to people who are incarcerated. In an effort to support those inside who are dealing with the imm...
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November 26, 2024 at 11:01 PM
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1/ Influenza wastewater activity levels are currently low across the US, aside from conspicuous areas in CA where #H5N1 is spreading in dairy cows.

A deeper dive into the Wastewater Scan data paints a very concerning picture and should add to our sense of urgency.
November 26, 2024 at 10:06 PM
Very happy that our article won the 2024 #NCA Christine L. Oravec Research Award in Environmental Communication!

If you've seen an uptick in shirtless white guys eating raw meat on social media, check out our article on how deep the rabbit hole goes into white nationalism!
November 24, 2024 at 7:54 PM
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I was massively attacked when I last said this (including on instagram and linked in because some folks are batshit) so naturally I say it again: the word “terrorist” is a racialized slur that people of conscience should stop using all together.
November 19, 2024 at 4:37 PM
Increasingly think Ireland is a key place to understand the recent growth of the far-right. Traditional assumption in far-right studies was that Ireland was unique; no far right because nationalism is channeled into left-wing Republican parties (Sinn Féin). But the far-right is yet on the rise-Why?
November 20, 2024 at 5:29 PM
Blue Sky desperately needs a “bookmark” feature, which is far and away one of the best things Twitter has!
November 20, 2024 at 3:08 AM