hampton.
@hampton.bsky.social
rhetoric PhD student @ UGA | senior researcher @ Princeton | founder @MilitiaWatch.bsky.social | staring into the abyss at: state violence & paramilitarism + radical memes & graphic media + paranormal realities & haunted presents
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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)
+ 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)
RIP Jesse Jackson.
He spoke at my South Carolina public school right before the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, speaking in direct contradiction to the way SC demanded the war's history be taught. It was something that deeply resonated at the time and also whose impacts I didn't yet understand.
He spoke at my South Carolina public school right before the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, speaking in direct contradiction to the way SC demanded the war's history be taught. It was something that deeply resonated at the time and also whose impacts I didn't yet understand.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, a child of Southern segregation who rose to national prominence as a powerful voice for Black economic and racial equality, has died. He was 84.
https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2026-02-17/jesse-jackson-dead-obituary?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky_
https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2026-02-17/jesse-jackson-dead-obituary?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky_
February 17, 2026 at 2:53 PM
RIP Jesse Jackson.
He spoke at my South Carolina public school right before the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, speaking in direct contradiction to the way SC demanded the war's history be taught. It was something that deeply resonated at the time and also whose impacts I didn't yet understand.
He spoke at my South Carolina public school right before the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, speaking in direct contradiction to the way SC demanded the war's history be taught. It was something that deeply resonated at the time and also whose impacts I didn't yet understand.
Black Mirror s2e01 (from 2013) aptly described the horrific inauthenticity of this idea. One of the more heartbreaking stories in Sequoia Nagamatsu's 2022 book, How High We Go in the Dark, also dealt with this (and the grief tech angle). Both really interesting fictional portrayals.
This is happening at a far faster pace than we anticipated in the episode. Extremely grim, very enraging
www.dexerto.com/entertainmen...
www.dexerto.com/entertainmen...
February 16, 2026 at 11:52 PM
Black Mirror s2e01 (from 2013) aptly described the horrific inauthenticity of this idea. One of the more heartbreaking stories in Sequoia Nagamatsu's 2022 book, How High We Go in the Dark, also dealt with this (and the grief tech angle). Both really interesting fictional portrayals.
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The huge success of "actually eating steak and butter every day is GOOD for me" is great evidence for the Everyone is 12 Now theory
Fun fact: half of the “experts” who wrote RFK Jr’s new food guidelines—which push people to eat more red meat, saturated fats, beef tallow, & full fat dairy—have financial ties to the livestock & dairy industries
Looks like RFK Jr & Makary CREATED a corrupt food pyramid
Looks like RFK Jr & Makary CREATED a corrupt food pyramid
Makary: "We ended what was a corrupt food pyramid"
February 16, 2026 at 3:37 PM
The huge success of "actually eating steak and butter every day is GOOD for me" is great evidence for the Everyone is 12 Now theory
Just finished @letsgomathias.bsky.social's book. It's a stellar read, and it would be a really accessible gift for friends, family, or coworkers who have little previous knowledge but want to understand the last decade of antifascist work in the US.
bookshop.org/p/books/to-c...
bookshop.org/p/books/to-c...
To Catch a Fascist: The Fight to Expose the Radical Right
The Fight to Expose the Radical Right
bookshop.org
February 16, 2026 at 1:46 PM
Just finished @letsgomathias.bsky.social's book. It's a stellar read, and it would be a really accessible gift for friends, family, or coworkers who have little previous knowledge but want to understand the last decade of antifascist work in the US.
bookshop.org/p/books/to-c...
bookshop.org/p/books/to-c...
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Choose your border violence:
Reps: we'll institute a racialized regime of mass murder right here in your neighborhood!
Dems: we'll institute a racialized regime of mass murder, but it'll happen safely elsewhere such that nice white ppl don't have to see the dead bodies everyday. Like Europe!
Reps: we'll institute a racialized regime of mass murder right here in your neighborhood!
Dems: we'll institute a racialized regime of mass murder, but it'll happen safely elsewhere such that nice white ppl don't have to see the dead bodies everyday. Like Europe!
Hillary Clinton: "More people were deported under my husband and Barack Obama without killing American citizens and without putting children into detention camps than were in the first Trump term or this first year of Trump's second term."
February 15, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Choose your border violence:
Reps: we'll institute a racialized regime of mass murder right here in your neighborhood!
Dems: we'll institute a racialized regime of mass murder, but it'll happen safely elsewhere such that nice white ppl don't have to see the dead bodies everyday. Like Europe!
Reps: we'll institute a racialized regime of mass murder right here in your neighborhood!
Dems: we'll institute a racialized regime of mass murder, but it'll happen safely elsewhere such that nice white ppl don't have to see the dead bodies everyday. Like Europe!
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Much of my youth revolved around the website ZineLibrary. It went down around Occupy in a massive loss for a movement whose ideas and knowledge mostly doesn't circulate online but in person.
Anyway I've put it back online with a *thousand* anarchist zines:
zinelibrary.org
Anyway I've put it back online with a *thousand* anarchist zines:
zinelibrary.org
ZineLibrary
zinelibrary.org
February 14, 2026 at 12:53 AM
Much of my youth revolved around the website ZineLibrary. It went down around Occupy in a massive loss for a movement whose ideas and knowledge mostly doesn't circulate online but in person.
Anyway I've put it back online with a *thousand* anarchist zines:
zinelibrary.org
Anyway I've put it back online with a *thousand* anarchist zines:
zinelibrary.org
Just got my copy in the mail, can't wait to dive into @augustacaesar.bsky.social's book!
You can order here:
bookshop.org/p/books/savi...
You can order here:
bookshop.org/p/books/savi...
February 13, 2026 at 12:57 PM
Just got my copy in the mail, can't wait to dive into @augustacaesar.bsky.social's book!
You can order here:
bookshop.org/p/books/savi...
You can order here:
bookshop.org/p/books/savi...
something from the Epstein Files I cannot help but see printed so clearly: Byung-Chul Han couldn't have been more right
February 12, 2026 at 1:49 PM
something from the Epstein Files I cannot help but see printed so clearly: Byung-Chul Han couldn't have been more right
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"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.
February 10, 2026 at 10:09 AM
"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.
This skeet probably has an audience of like three (maybe), but what a weird time to have both read the newest Christie Golden WoW novel (Blood Ties) and be wrapping up a seminar section on how the Greeks thought of rhetoric, specifically as opposed to philosophy.
February 10, 2026 at 3:23 PM
This skeet probably has an audience of like three (maybe), but what a weird time to have both read the newest Christie Golden WoW novel (Blood Ties) and be wrapping up a seminar section on how the Greeks thought of rhetoric, specifically as opposed to philosophy.
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Please take the time to read what the children detained in Dilley wrote me in their own words: www.propublica.org/article/ice-... 10/
“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...
www.propublica.org
February 9, 2026 at 11:21 AM
Please take the time to read what the children detained in Dilley wrote me in their own words: www.propublica.org/article/ice-... 10/
rip fredric jameson tbh 🥀
This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.
February 7, 2026 at 12:10 AM
rip fredric jameson tbh 🥀
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Good evening -- here's a MW Monthly covering January 2026. Key stories:
+ VCDL Lobby Day + Boogaloo in Hawaiian shirts again
+ Rhodes's attempt to reboot Oath Keepers flops
+ Green Bay police chief defends III% recruit
You can read all this (+ commentary on ICE/'tyranny') at the linked blog post:
+ VCDL Lobby Day + Boogaloo in Hawaiian shirts again
+ Rhodes's attempt to reboot Oath Keepers flops
+ Green Bay police chief defends III% recruit
You can read all this (+ commentary on ICE/'tyranny') at the linked blog post:
MW Monthly: Jan 26 - MilitiaWatch
Militia news roundup for January 2026, including on Virginia Lobby Day.
militia.watch
February 6, 2026 at 11:39 PM
Good evening -- here's a MW Monthly covering January 2026. Key stories:
+ VCDL Lobby Day + Boogaloo in Hawaiian shirts again
+ Rhodes's attempt to reboot Oath Keepers flops
+ Green Bay police chief defends III% recruit
You can read all this (+ commentary on ICE/'tyranny') at the linked blog post:
+ VCDL Lobby Day + Boogaloo in Hawaiian shirts again
+ Rhodes's attempt to reboot Oath Keepers flops
+ Green Bay police chief defends III% recruit
You can read all this (+ commentary on ICE/'tyranny') at the linked blog post:
Rest in peace, Chip.
Truly, I am so indebted to his work and the work of those he mentored and collaborated with.
Truly, I am so indebted to his work and the work of those he mentored and collaborated with.
Chip Berlet (1949-2026)
When neo-fascists began to be followed and recorded, it was Chip that was the one who made the first moves. He gave us the blueprint that antifascist researchers go by today. Thank you, Chip, we will take it from here.
When neo-fascists began to be followed and recorded, it was Chip that was the one who made the first moves. He gave us the blueprint that antifascist researchers go by today. Thank you, Chip, we will take it from here.
Chip Berlet (1949-2026)
When neo-fascists began to be followed and recorded, it was Chip that was the one who made the first moves. He gave us the blueprint that antifascist researchers go by today. Thank you, Chip, we will take it from here.
idavox.com
February 6, 2026 at 4:23 PM
Rest in peace, Chip.
Truly, I am so indebted to his work and the work of those he mentored and collaborated with.
Truly, I am so indebted to his work and the work of those he mentored and collaborated with.
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The danger of “we already knew who/what Trump is, so we don’t need to keep up with the latest outrage,” is that it can obscure the ratcheting steps by which he drops even faintest veneer of democratic practice. In general, each rhetorical escalation marks an IRL increase in state violence. “
February 6, 2026 at 1:05 PM
The danger of “we already knew who/what Trump is, so we don’t need to keep up with the latest outrage,” is that it can obscure the ratcheting steps by which he drops even faintest veneer of democratic practice. In general, each rhetorical escalation marks an IRL increase in state violence. “
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A note from investigators in the files said some images Epstein had were "POSSIBLE CSAM." @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
Full story by @samleecole.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/doj-released...
Full story by @samleecole.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/doj-released...
February 2, 2026 at 5:10 PM
A note from investigators in the files said some images Epstein had were "POSSIBLE CSAM." @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
Full story by @samleecole.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/doj-released...
Full story by @samleecole.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/doj-released...
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University of Illinois college republicans advocate for executing protesters as “traitors” with art that takes a disturbing killing and makes it even more extreme.
dailyillini.com/news-stories...
dailyillini.com/news-stories...
‘Fell the enemies:’ Illini Republicans support ICE amid killings - The Daily Illini
In a post that included a graphic of a presumed officer holding a gun to someone's head, Illini Republicans stated that they “stand with ICE."
dailyillini.com
February 2, 2026 at 4:40 AM
University of Illinois college republicans advocate for executing protesters as “traitors” with art that takes a disturbing killing and makes it even more extreme.
dailyillini.com/news-stories...
dailyillini.com/news-stories...
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Infinite money glitch
President Trump has filed a lawsuit against the IRS, in which he demands that the IRS, which he as president controls, pay him $10 billion.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
January 30, 2026 at 1:23 AM
Infinite money glitch
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BREAKING: The Tribune confirmed on Instagram that the man shot has died, according to two sources with knowledge of the incident.
ICE attempted to order local police from the scene, but Chief Brian O'Hara refused, sources also told the Tribune. O'Hara instructed his officers to preserve the scene.
ICE attempted to order local police from the scene, but Chief Brian O'Hara refused, sources also told the Tribune. O'Hara instructed his officers to preserve the scene.
Man shot by federal agent in south Minneapolis www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
January 24, 2026 at 4:36 PM
BREAKING: The Tribune confirmed on Instagram that the man shot has died, according to two sources with knowledge of the incident.
ICE attempted to order local police from the scene, but Chief Brian O'Hara refused, sources also told the Tribune. O'Hara instructed his officers to preserve the scene.
ICE attempted to order local police from the scene, but Chief Brian O'Hara refused, sources also told the Tribune. O'Hara instructed his officers to preserve the scene.
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Three years ago today, Georgia state police murdered Tortuguita as part of their drive to destroy the Weelaunee Forest and build a deadly police militarization center.
Tort fought for a world without police and capitalism, and so should we. Viva, viva Tortuguita.
Tort fought for a world without police and capitalism, and so should we. Viva, viva Tortuguita.
January 18, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Three years ago today, Georgia state police murdered Tortuguita as part of their drive to destroy the Weelaunee Forest and build a deadly police militarization center.
Tort fought for a world without police and capitalism, and so should we. Viva, viva Tortuguita.
Tort fought for a world without police and capitalism, and so should we. Viva, viva Tortuguita.
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lmao it's giving "unite the right 2," the 2018 follow up to unite the right that turned out to just be jason kessler trying to ride the metro with 12 losers and a police escort
Counterprotesters vastly outnumber influencer Jake Lang's anti-Islam group in downtown Minneapolis. bit.ly/4qlze56
📷️: Alex Kormann
📷️: Alex Kormann
Live: Protesters square off in Minneapolis amid police presence
Confrontations started around noon as large and visible presence of city police officers and Hennepin County sheriff’s deputies monitored downtown Saturday.
bit.ly
January 17, 2026 at 7:21 PM
lmao it's giving "unite the right 2," the 2018 follow up to unite the right that turned out to just be jason kessler trying to ride the metro with 12 losers and a police escort
Wrote a lil thing about that weird ICE post with a weirder song attached. Many thanks to all the people who helped move this along. This blog post is the tip of the iceberg, but hopefully helps to provide a really brief overview of why ICE/DHS posting a fashy song is worrying.
ICE the Mannerbund: Music, Authoritarianism, Hate
Trump’s federal agencies love putting catchy songs alongside their content on social media. While they usually post pop songs, phonk edits, or whatever viral sound is hitting on TikTok six months prio...
dead-air.ghost.io
January 16, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Wrote a lil thing about that weird ICE post with a weirder song attached. Many thanks to all the people who helped move this along. This blog post is the tip of the iceberg, but hopefully helps to provide a really brief overview of why ICE/DHS posting a fashy song is worrying.