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NORTHCOM CONPLAN 3900: A Prelude to Insurrection Act Invocation?
The episodic call-up of National Guard units to respond to high-profile domestic events over the last 60+ years (enforcing civil rights laws, assisting with natural disaster recovery, etc.) is nothing new. What is new and decidedly ominous is the creation of specific, permanent military units designed and equipped to directly confront citizens engaged in unspecified, currently nonexistent “civil disturbances.”
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New Research Reveals Mass Shootings and Suicide Deaths Share Summer Peaks
A new study has found that mass shootings and deaths by suicide in the United States share seasonal patterns, reaching their highest levels during summer months.
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Immigrants, DHS agents and traffic stops: Violent outcomes repeat across the U.S.
ICE agents used live rounds to shoot at 22 people since January 2025 – 19 of them involved DHS officers shooting on people in their vehicles during traffic stops. Since January 2025, federal immigration officers have killed six people, three of them U.S. citizens. Four deaths came during traffic stops.
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Religious Motivation Needs to Stay in Our Terrorism Laws
Australia’s Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke is right to reject the proposal to remove religious motivation from Australia’s terrorism laws. The proposal rests on a fundamental misunderstanding of what those laws are designed to do. Australia’s counterterrorism laws do not regulate extremism. They regulate the progression from extremist belief to politically motivated violence.
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Remotely Coerced Violence: 764, The Com Network, and the Hybridization of Threats
Nihilistic violent extremism is best understood as a victim-driven, youth-centered online ecosystem in which status, belonging, and identity are earned through the production, circulation, and escalation of harm. It combine sadistic online exploitation, cybercrime, self-directed violence, animal abuse, school-violence threats, and terrorist or violent-extremist conduct.
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The Trump Administration’s Global Campaign Against “Radical Left Terrorism’ Is Built on a National Security Memo without Congressional Approval
NSPM-7, a little-noticed presidential national security directive is now the legal engine behind a wave of terrorism prosecutions against left-wing protesters. Although left-wing violence has risen in the past decade, empirical evidence shows it remains far below historical levels of right-wing or jihadist violence. Yet NSPM-7 focuses disproportionately on left-wing ideologies.
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Researchers: No Guarantee Against Another Terrorist Attack, Despite Increased Surveillance
77 people were killed on 22 July 2011 in Norway. ‘Never again’ became a national promise. 15 years later, terrorism researchers cannot rule out that a similar attack could happen again. “A society that would be able to guarantee against terrorist attacks is, unfortunately, probably a society we would not want,” says one expert.
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The U.S. Murder Rate Fell to Historic Lows in 2025 – Here’s Why
The murder rate in 2025 was the lowest in modern American history. Homicide rates have closely followed three trends over the past decade: alcohol consumption, drug abuse and firearm purchases. Now that the drug and alcohol crises are waning and gun purchases are falling, so too is the murder rate.
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Can Mass Shootings Be Prevented? Researchers Believe It’s Possible
New research examining more than 150,000 pages of police records, court transcripts, and after-action reports found that mass shootings are quite predictable, if you know what to look for.
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Study Analyzes Crime Rates by Nationality and Debunks Its Link to Immigration
A detailed data analysis demonstrates that the apparent crime gap between the foreign and native populations is primarily due to the fact that the immigrant profile tends to concentrate more young men—the demographic sector with the highest crime rates in any society.
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From San Diego to Montreal: Antisemitism Serves as a Throughline in Recent Extremist Shootings
A 22 June shooting at Montreal’s Côte-des-Neiges neighborhood follows a disturbing pattern: Mass shooters are often motivated by a range of extremist beliefs, and antisemitism is often part of their apparent worldview.
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Skyscraper Mystery: What Beijing Doesn't Want You to Know
On Friday, a small single-engine aircraft slammed into the upper floors of the CITIC Tower — Beijing’s tallest skyscraper and one of the tallest buildings in the world. Within hours of impact, China’s vast censorship apparatus went to work. All references to the incident — videos, posts, eyewitness photos — were purged from Weibo, WeChat, and other Chinese social media platforms. The question everyone is asking — was this a 9/11-style attack or a tragic accident? — remains officially unanswered.
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Most Mass Shooters Show Warning Signs Before Attacks: Study
Nearly 86% of mass public shooting perpetrators communicated violent intentions before an attack, but those signals are frequently fragmented across friends, family members, coworkers and institutions, making them difficult to piece together.
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More States Restrict 3D-Printed Firearms
For decades, making an untraceable firearm required specialized tools, technical expertise and hours of work. Today, it can start with a downloaded file and a consumer-grade 3D printer. At least six states this year have outlawed or imposed regulations on such guns.
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National Security, Terrorism Concerns as FIFA World Cup 2026 Matches Begin in U.S.
As the FIFA World Cup 2026 tournament begins in roughly a dozen U.S. cities this week, law enforcement officials have been implementing national security measures.
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The long view
Remotely Coerced Violence: 764, The Com Network, and the Hybridization of Threats
Nihilistic violent extremism is best understood as a victim-driven, youth-centered online ecosystem in which status, belonging, and identity are earned through the production, circulation, and escalation of harm. It combine sadistic online exploitation, cybercrime, self-directed violence, animal abuse, school-violence threats, and terrorist or violent-extremist conduct.
The U.S. Murder Rate Fell to Historic Lows in 2025 – Here’s Why
The murder rate in 2025 was the lowest in modern American history. Homicide rates have closely followed three trends over the past decade: alcohol consumption, drug abuse and firearm purchases. Now that the drug and alcohol crises are waning and gun purchases are falling, so too is the murder rate.