Tales of #radicalization are complicated if you are #writing them or trying to understand them IRL. There are a lot of underlying processes, but the role of #respect, #honor (including conflicting perspectives of it), and #humiliation seems rather key. One's perspective of self and importance are good #story beats because they reflect real processes people go through. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/pops.12163

#DOJ tries to broaden its view of #Trump’s #Jan6 #pardons.

A Trump-appointed judge grilled a #Justice Dept prosecutor on DOJ’s change in position.

#criminal #law #insurrection #extremism #radicalization #DomesticTerrorism #StateSponsoredTerrorism #felon47 #PoliticalViolence #sturmabteilung #USpol
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/26/trump-january-6-pardon-judge-00206301

Are you an aspiring #Nazi domestic #terrorist who wants to learn how to make #explosives to, y’know, “take care of” Dr. #Fauci? #YouTube has you covered! Not only do they have all the #videos, they’ll helpfully suggest them all right down the sidebar at the same time.

Time for that #introduction, I suppose.
He/him. Born 1969.
#Oslo, #Norway.

#Folklorist by education.
#Humanist by profession.
#Photographer by vocation.

Know way more than is healthy about #extremism, #radicalization and #Conspiracism.

Lover of #GothicHorror, trashy #CrimeFiction, and #psychogeography, both #rural and #urban.

#Music lover, including, but not restricted to, #psyfolk, #darkfolk, #neofolk, #CountryMusic, #jazz, #AtmosphericBlackMetal, #ArtPop, #ChamberMusic and #techno

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Pics of my #chihuahua #dog MrMaxi & pics from walks in #Sydney #Australia (it’s kind of a puppy spam account, but he’s adorbs)

stuff about #disinformation #terrorism #radicalization & modern #warfare #drones #uavs #history

Topics I’m interested in: #legal #privacy #data #analytics #ethics #technology #feminism #ADHD #cybersecurity #informationsecurity #security #cyber #infosec #digitaltransformation #ai #ml #digitalfutures