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EXTREMISMHollow‑Earth Myths and Nazi UFOs on TikTok Are Bringing White Supremacism into the Mainstream
By Marten Risius
Extremist content on social media does not exist in isolation. Instead, it lives in what researchers call “hybridized spaces”, where users move in and out of extremist discourse. In such spaces, borderline content, outright extremism, mundane trends and humor blend seamlessly – and participants may find their mainstream interests lead them to radical narratives.
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AI & POLITICAL VIOLENCEBeyond Misuse: Artificial Intelligence, Grievance, and the Future Landscape of Political Violence
By Yannick Veilleux-Lepage
If we posit that AI is a whole-of-society transformative technology, then we can develop a theoretical account of how AI generates the structural conditions historically associated with the onset of political violence: AI is reordering labor markets, institutional authority, and the relational worlds in which people live, generating preconditions for political violence independently of whether violent actors adopt the technology themselves.
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POLITICAL VIOLENCEHow Influencers Indirectly Mobilize Action and Legitimate Violence
By Darja Wischerath
Influencers are key mobilisers of collective action, shaping narratives that create urgency, define group norms, and can indirectly legitimate violence without issuing explicit calls to action.
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IMMIGRATIONHeightened ICE Enforcement Harms U.S.-Born Workers, Shrinks Workforce
By Lisa Marshall
Heightened immigration enforcement during the second Trump administration has not expanded job opportunities for U.S.-born workers and is associated with a reduction of employment for U.S.-born men with no more than a high school degree.
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IMMIGRATIONFear and Opportunity: Immigration Scams Surged as Trump’s Sweeps Lured Desperate People to Eager Defrauders
By Naisha Roy, Francesca D'Annunzio, and J. David McSwane
Con artists posing as ICE agents and immigration officers are using WhatsApp and fake court hearings to bilk vulnerable people out of their savings with empty promises to fix immigration problems. As mass deportations continue, scam complaints soar.
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POLITICAL VIOLENCELatest Attack Threatening President Trump Reflects Rising Political Violence in U.S.
By James Piazza
The events of April 25 underscore how dangerous this political moment is in the United States. For the past several years – certainly since Jan. 6, 2021 – the U.S. has been experiencing a period of increased political violence.
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IMMIGRATIONICE’s Heavy‑Handed Immigration Enforcement Was Tried Once Before – by Arizona’s Notorious Sheriff Joe Arpaio in the Early 2000s
By Jonathan van Harmelen
From 2006 to 2017, Joe Arpaio, the sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, implemented his own immigration detention program, instructing deputies to detain anyone who did not carry a valid identification and did not speak English. One U.S. Department of Justice attorney characterized Arpaio as overseeing “the worst pattern of racial profiling by a law enforcement agency in U.S. history.”
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GUNSThis Law May Help Prevent Mass Shootings, but GOP-Led States Are Trying to Ban It
By Chip Brownlee for The Trace
Red flag laws once enjoyed support from across the political spectrum. Now, six Republican-controlled states have prohibited enforcing the orders — and in some cases, prescribed fines or criminal charges for officials who try. Three other states are considering similar bans in 2026.
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POLITICIZING LAW-ENFORCEMENTBogus “Antifa” Designations and FBI Warrantless Access to Americans’ Communications
By Ryan Goodman
FISA Section 702’s “Back Door,” allowing access to Americans’ communications, is ripe for abuse especially in the context of the administration’s campaign to paint “antifa” as an international and domestic terrorist threat. Because it is amorphous and untethered to the facts, the “antifa” label creates a framework for bringing peaceful civil society organizations and everyday Americans exercising their right to protest into the Section 702 surveillance net.
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EXTREMISMStudy of Tommy Robinson's Social Media Reveals How Online Influencers Mobilize Supporters without Direct Calls to Action
Analysis shows how influencers shape public behavior and legitimize violence through narratives, not instructions. Far-right extremist Tommy Robinson “used emotional appeals and conspiracy narratives to set up a worldview where violence felt like a natural, even necessary response,” says one researcher.
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GUNSNew York City’s Spike in 3D-Printed Guns Prompts Push for Tougher Laws
By Chip Brownlee
Police in the nation’s biggest city are recovering a growing number of 3D-printed guns. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is advocating legislation that would make 3D-printing guns a crime.
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TERRORISMIran Will Retaliate in the U.S. We May Not See It in Time.
By Troy Edwards, Bruria Friedman-Feldman, Vishnu Kannan
Given Iran’s history of malicious operations outside of its soil, the concern about the Iranian threat is unsurprising. Long before this current conflict, Iran has engaged in terrorist attacks, targeted assassinations, cyberattacks, and information operations—and it uses a network of proxies and spies to amplify its reach, including within the United States. Historically, the U.S. has managed to thwart Iranian operations on its soil. Now, this administration may have us unprepared.
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TERRORISMFrom Earth Liberation to Accelerationism: A High-Level Review of Fifty Years of Domestic Infrastructure Terrorism
By Jesse Humpal
An examination of 50 years of domestic extremist attacks and plots against U.S. critical infrastructure and infrastructure-adjacent industrial and commercial targets, shows that critical-infrastructure sabotage has appeared across ideologically divergent milieus, with two dominant clusters: environmental and animal-rights extremism (peaking in the late 1990s and early 2000s) and a post-2015 rise in far-right extremist infrastructure plotting, including a subset of cases that explicitly reflect accelerationist intent.
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CRIMETrump’s Justice Department Dropped 23,000 Criminal Investigations in Shift to Immigration
By Ken B. Morales and David Armstrong
In the first days after Pam Bondi was appointed attorney general last year, the Department of Justice began shutting down pending criminal cases at a record pace. In total, the DOJ quietly closed more than 23,000 criminal cases in the first six months of President Donald Trump’s administration, abandoning hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime, drugs and other offenses as it shifted resources to pursue immigration cases.
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EXTREMISMHow Hatred of Jews Became a Common Ground for Islamic Terrorists and Left‑Wing Extremists, Fueling Domestic Terrorism
By Arie Perliger
Every major escalation in the Middle East sends shock waves far beyond the region. In the United States, those shock waves arrive not as distant tremors but as catalysts for domestic radicalization and violence, particularly against Jewish communities. The data is unambiguou.
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EXTREMISMHollow‑Earth Myths and Nazi UFOs on TikTok Are Bringing White Supremacism into the Mainstream

AI & POLITICAL VIOLENCEBeyond Misuse: Artificial Intelligence, Grievance, and the Future Landscape of Political Violence

POLITICAL VIOLENCEHow Influencers Indirectly Mobilize Action and Legitimate Violence

IMMIGRATIONHeightened ICE Enforcement Harms U.S.-Born Workers, Shrinks Workforce

IMMIGRATIONFear and Opportunity: Immigration Scams Surged as Trump’s Sweeps Lured Desperate People to Eager Defrauders

POLITICAL VIOLENCELatest Attack Threatening President Trump Reflects Rising Political Violence in U.S.

IMMIGRATIONICE’s Heavy‑Handed Immigration Enforcement Was Tried Once Before – by Arizona’s Notorious Sheriff Joe Arpaio in the Early 2000s

GUNSThis Law May Help Prevent Mass Shootings, but GOP-Led States Are Trying to Ban It

POLITICIZING LAW-ENFORCEMENTBogus “Antifa” Designations and FBI Warrantless Access to Americans’ Communications

EXTREMISMStudy of Tommy Robinson's Social Media Reveals How Online Influencers Mobilize Supporters without Direct Calls to Action

GUNSNew York City’s Spike in 3D-Printed Guns Prompts Push for Tougher Laws

TERRORISMIran Will Retaliate in the U.S. We May Not See It in Time.

TERRORISMFrom Earth Liberation to Accelerationism: A High-Level Review of Fifty Years of Domestic Infrastructure Terrorism

CRIMETrump’s Justice Department Dropped 23,000 Criminal Investigations in Shift to Immigration

EXTREMISMHow Hatred of Jews Became a Common Ground for Islamic Terrorists and Left‑Wing Extremists, Fueling Domestic Terrorism

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