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👻 hampton 👻

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rhetoric PhD student @ UGA | senior researcher @ Princeton | founder @MilitiaWatch.bsky.social | staring into the abyss at: state violence & paramilitarism + radical memes + comics & graphic media + the paranormal & cryptozoological

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👻 hampton 👻 @hampton.bsky.social · Oct 23

Hi new bsky folks. I'm pinning some quick facts that flavor my feed/interactions here:
+ I research the paramilitary, parasocial, and paranormal
+ I live in the South but work for a Northern university
+ I'm here to connect with colleagues, collaborators, and collectors (archivists, activists, etc)

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ACID HORIZON 👁️ @acidhorizon.bsky.social · 2d

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 2d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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👻 hampton 👻 @hampton.bsky.social · 2d

I would have 100 percented this game ngl

Aftermath @aftermath.site · 2d

Ubisoft could not have handled a Reconstruction Era Assassin's Creed:

aftermath.site/assassins-cree...

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 3d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 4d

Identifying public officials isn't "doxing." People have the right to know who is working for their government. Nor, for that matter, is it "radical left-wing terrorism." So it's frustrating to see platforms caving to these bad faith characterizations. www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/06/1...

Another effort to track ICE raids was just taken offline

People over Papers was removed by Padlet, the platform it was built on, yesterday.

www.technologyreview.com

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👻 hampton 👻 @hampton.bsky.social · 4d

Ooh I'll have to give that a try - any salsa of choice?

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👻 hampton 👻 @hampton.bsky.social · 4d

Flamin Hot Cheetos dipped in Nutella is such an exquisite treat

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Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 4d

Another good example from the season premiere: you can’t change Gosunkugi being Akane’s creepy stalker without fundamentally changing the character

You can, however, change it from “he takes sexy photos of Akane doing gymnastics” to “he tries to get photos of Akane but Ranma keeps posing for them”

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👻 hampton 👻 @hampton.bsky.social · 4d

We are told time and time again that there isn't enough revenue in journalism, and that's what's causing the crisis. The reality is that there is money, it's just ever more centralized thru the usual forces of late capitalism, giving us ideological travesty like this while good reporters lose work.

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 4d

Paramount buys the Free Press for $150 million and names its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of CBS News.

Paramount Buys Bari Weiss’s the Free Press for $150 Million

Weiss, who once said she was done with legacy media, is to take control of CBS News’s editorial vision, aiming for “news that reflects reality.”

on.wsj.com

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Paul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social · 6d

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags

Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

www.theguardian.com

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Ali Winston @awinston.bsky.social · 6d

It’s legal to insult cops in the US, fwiw

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 7d

Federal officer blasts chemical spray into vocal but nonviolent Portland protester, video shows

The interaction illustrates how federal law enforcement officers do use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and needle officers but don’t appear to present clear physical threats.

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 8d

Oh, man. After reading the article, what it actually says is that an historian did a lot of archival work and spatial research to determine the site of a killing and then the family of the likely perpetrator stepped forward with photographs to confirm identity.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Historian uses AI to help identify Nazi in notorious Holocaust murder image

Jürgen Matthäus has for years been investigating the killer – and is confident he has finally solved the mystery

www.theguardian.com

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 10d

Wild stuff — nuking a portion of your website because MAGA got mad at you for it.

jewishinsider.com/2025/09/adl-...

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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 11d

www.csis.org/analysis/lef... This report is framed irresponsibly and distorts the reality of extremist violence. The header is that left-wing terror is on the rise, and of course that will be the bite-sized takeaway. (1)

Left-Wing Terrorism and Political Violence in the United States: What the Data Tells Us

The Warfare, Irregular Threats, and Terrorism Program examines the state of political violence, finding left-wing violence has risen in the last decade but from very low levels and still well below hi...

www.csis.org

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 10d

The ADL thought it could fall in line with Musk and it would stop his attacks on them. Instead, it just made them complicit, legitimized Musk, and ultimately didn’t actually change him at all.

This is how fascists work. Greenblatt tried being transactional: for fascists, it only goes one way.

Elon Musk & X @elonmusk
X.com
The ADL hates Christians, therefore it is is a hate group
3:04 PM • 9/28/25 • 1.3M Views

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AAUP @aaup.org · 10d

BREAKING: WE WON!!!
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Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment.

Full ruling here:

Findings of Fact & Conclusions of Law – #261 in American Association of University Professors v. Rubio (D. Mass., 1:25-cv-10685) – CourtListener.com

Judge William G. Young: ORDER entered. FINDINGS OF FACT AND RULINGS OF LAW, PURSUANT TO FED. R. CIV. P. 52(A)(Sonnenberg, Elizabeth) (Additional attachment(s) added on 9/30/2025: # 1 Main Document) (J...

www.courtlistener.com

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👻 hampton 👻 @hampton.bsky.social · 15d

It's definitely A Moment in Time to start a rhetoric degree lol

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👻 hampton 👻 @hampton.bsky.social · 15d

To extend Stewart's metaphor, it truly is just the wrapping paper on an empty box right now, isn't it

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👻 hampton 👻 @hampton.bsky.social · 15d

I mean like yeah we can talk about how the GOP is essentially a fanbase now, but the Trump folks had a whole ass policy agenda of cretinous policies that projected exactly what cruel agenda they stand for (and now they're enacting them with haphazard and ineffective response from the Blue side)

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 15d

This also just seems like a statistical fluke? 2025 isn't even over yet. It's weird to publish an article about a "trend" that applies to 6 months out of the last three decades.

Right-wing terror attacks and plots exceed left-wing attacks and plots every single year since 1995

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👻 hampton 👻 @hampton.bsky.social · 15d

Even the approach to this clip is apparent: the goal is to walk through specific talking points, and the means is to continue to steer the conversation back to that point. It leaves the viewer seeing something (largely meaningless) being said, without having to really respond to the criticism

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👻 hampton 👻 @hampton.bsky.social · 15d

Extremely bleak clip.

Democratic leadership thinks of us as consumers to sell to, not citizens to serve.

A robust policy agenda (and a transparent, democratic candidate selection process) would go a lot further than paying droves of marketing consultants to hash out the same tired approaches.

Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 15d

Head of the DNC is convinced that the only issue they’re facing is their messaging.

Incredible stuff. We will only get to where we need to going when people learn to let these people go as holding any legitimacy. We need a revolution, and that includes from within.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 15d

things might be somewhat different right now if there had never been a DHS

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👻 hampton 👻 @hampton.bsky.social · 15d

I'm especially interested in these two in particular:
+ The start of the campaign against ISIS
+ The final push of the battle for Aleppo

But really anything that was a really important moment of his speeches during the war is of great interest.

(This is for a final project for a class.)