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Dave

@houseatlantic.bsky.social

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Grad student in political science. Researching right-wing extremism in Canada and North America. I guess I'm the marxist on campus that your racist uncle worries about. 🇨🇦

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Dave @houseatlantic.bsky.social · May 14

I can't wait for the equivalent of the "fake friends" posts that you used to see all the time on social media but instead it's people shit talking the AI chat bots they talk to instead of real people

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DAVE! (like "Them!" but Dave) @daveexmachina.bsky.social · 2d

normal person: i just want a place to hang out with my friends
tech weirdo: and shitheads
np: no just my friends
tw: but what about hearing alternative views on race and gender?
np: we just want to hang out and goof around
tw: so where do the shitheads fit in then
np: no shitheads
tw: not following

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Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · Nov 8

If you hold a crab up to your ear
You can hear what it's like to be attacked by a crab

Image of an impressive orange crab, the Sally Lightfoot crab, Grapsus grapsus, a shore crab that lives from the Gulf of California to the Galápagos Islands.

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Dave @houseatlantic.bsky.social · 2d

Well said. And behind the mainstream parties sowing division and creating what @antihate.ca and Dr. Barbara Perry might call a "permission to hate" marginalized groups are the thugs who will actually do the harming.
This knocks on all levels of society, and only for the worse for all of us.

Dave @houseatlantic.bsky.social · 2d

I should have said "mobilizes* them." One day I'll go back to typing on a computer rather than my goddamn phone.

Dave @houseatlantic.bsky.social · 2d

Grievance politics fuel far right extremism and work to instill a narrative in the target demographic (Christians, especially white ones in this case) that they are under attack and mobilized them. @charlieangus104.bsky.social makes it easy to understand. Very important work.

Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 2d

Don't be suckered in by Poilievre's campaign to launch a campaign over Canadian Christians suffering "persecution." He is running the same playbook as the AfD in Germany, Trump in the States and Farage in the UK.
My latest.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OesH...

POILIEVRE BRINGS THE MAGA HATE BOOK TO CANADA

YouTube video by Charlie Angus

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 4d

Being a columnist is so cool. You can have absolutely no experience whatsoever and still drop whatever takes you want. Serve in the military? No? Work in natsec? No? Have an academic background in defense? No? Have any government experience at all? No?

Who cares! Fire that column off anyways!

NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 4d

Good stuff

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Dave @houseatlantic.bsky.social · 8d

I just signed an email off with "Stressfully," instead of "sincerely" or some other sign off, so that's about where I'm at

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 12d

Quoted here sharing my reservations about a study that says right-wing terror attacks are down — the frameworks of terrorism aren’t well suited to size up the threat of political violence and can give people the wrong impression if they don’t understand how they work

www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

Right-wing terror attacks plunged in 2025, while left-wing attacks ticked up: study

From 2011 through 2024, an average of 20 right-wing terror incidents took place each year, compared to an average of nearly three left-wing incidents annually.

www.nbcnews.com

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 11d

Yeah they’re pivoting

Techmeme @techmeme.com · 11d

Andrew Bosworth says humanoid robots, internally called "Metabot", are Meta's next "AR size bet" and envisions licensing software to other robot makers (Alex Heath/The Verge)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Dave @houseatlantic.bsky.social · 11d

Notably, just from the blurb as I'm pretty new to being a research nerd, but the focus on "terror" overlooks more im-depth analysis of RWE violence against marginalized communities, unlike Ari Perliger's study for example.

Dave @houseatlantic.bsky.social · 11d

Excellent summary of your work. You're been an inspiration in my own writing for years and the reason I kick around the idea of a video essay channel myself channel now and again

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Dan Olson @foldablehuman.bsky.social · 11d

Tried to make a channel trailer with actual value
youtu.be/1AXQ36kG258

Let's Talk About Stories

YouTube video by Folding Ideas

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Kyle @kyleshivers.bsky.social · 15d

New Tim Allen sitcom is a recession indicator

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Alice Southey @alicesouthey.com · 15d

It really is unfair for Christianity to keep promising a day where God kidnaps all the worst people you know and then not delivering.

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Dave @houseatlantic.bsky.social · 15d

For my money, the Blowback podcast has the best opener of any audio project I've ever listened to. World Destruction whips as a song.

Dave @houseatlantic.bsky.social · 15d

You will buy our slop and you will like it

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Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 15d

Comedian reinstated; dismantling of US democracy and the rule of law continues apace.

“It is increasingly difficult to avoid the conclusion that the Supreme Court is dismantling every guardrail that separates democracy from dictatorship.”

slate.com/news-and-pol...

The Supreme Court Just Knocked Down One of the Final Guardrails Against Dictatorship

The Supreme Court knocked down one of the final barriers to Donald Trump’s unprecedented consolidation of power on Monday.

slate.com

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Dave @houseatlantic.bsky.social · 15d

That inherently means that they don't just want the leader of the opposition to say some buzzwords: they want to mainstream hating marginalized people, and they dream and prepare for the day they can carry out violence against the people they hate.

Dave @houseatlantic.bsky.social · 15d

They've always been here—they're good at hiding and blending in. They're very good organizers and communicators.
And in many cases, they're accelerationists.

Dave @houseatlantic.bsky.social · 15d

This article, in addition to the CBC article discussing "active clubs" are important to understanding a truth many people might find uncomfortable:

These groups are in your towns and cities. This isn't something that is confined to the rural areas out in the sticks.

Dave @houseatlantic.bsky.social · 15d

Kudos to Pelham Today as well as Dr. Lupien for his commentary.

Brock University | FOSS @brockufoss.bsky.social · 16d

#BrockU Associate Professor of Political Science Pascal Lupien spoke to Pelham Today about the rise of far-right movements. #CdnPoli

Read more ➡️ www.pelhamtoday.ca/local-news/b...

Broad condemnation of 'hate rally'

White nationalist extremist group Second Sons gathering at a historic monument sparks widespread reaction

www.pelhamtoday.ca

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 16d

At the Nuremberg trials, Karl Dönitz was convicted of war crimes for the sinking of civilian vessels. This is not a complicated question, it's been illegal for centuries.

Joshua Collins @murosinvisibles.bsky.social · 16d

A fourth boat bombed in international waters. Total death toll now 19

What I dont get is, if these boats are "carrying fentanyl" as Trump says (they absolutely arent. Even the DEA says VZ doesnt produce fentanyl), then why not seize one and show us?
www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

U.S. naval forces have sunk a fourth suspected drug boat in the Caribbean, Trump says

U.S. naval forces have conducted another lethal strike on a vessel President Donald Trump said was tied to a designated terrorist organization involved in drug trafficking in the Caribbean.

www.miamiherald.com

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Christopher Owen @oysta.au · 17d

Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X

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Dave @houseatlantic.bsky.social · 16d

Nation-building, as a concept, should be about building things that will benefit the nation as a whole, rather than corps.

And "the nation" means the every day people who live in it, not just the ultra-wealthy.

#LewisForLeader

Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 16d

"If Canada is going to war, let's go to war against the everyday emergency of just getting by in Canada."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sSM...

"If we're going to war, let's go to war against the everyday emergency of just getting by in Canada"

YouTube video by Avi Lewis

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Dave @houseatlantic.bsky.social · 16d

The first video was inspiring, the stump speech in my hometown even more so.

In the face of decades of the same kind of policies, it's time for someone to make the case for a truly Left vision in this country.

Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 19d

Canada's true crisis is the everyday emergency of just trying to get by in an impossible economy.

I’m running for NDP leader so we can transform a system rigged for the rich—together.

We need a government that serves the many, not the money.

Join in. lewisforleader.ca/

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Why I’m running for NDP leader

YouTube video by Avi Lewis

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