Grant
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Reposting stuff on counterterrorism, melee, and shit/mess/mud/dirt from my brain.
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Obviously this isn't being done for principled reasons, but it speaks to just how far ICE's legitimacy has collapsed. Because for all their myriad faults, most Congressional Republicans have the political instincts to know when they're on a ship that is rapidly sinking and should find a lifeboat.
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GOP Homeland Security Chair Andrew Garbarino calls for an oversight hearing into ICE.
Further evidence that Republicans see this situation slipping away for them?
GOP Homeland Security Chair Andrew Garbarino calls for an oversight hearing into ICE.
Further evidence that Republicans see this situation slipping away for them?
January 25, 2026 at 12:40 AM
Obviously this isn't being done for principled reasons, but it speaks to just how far ICE's legitimacy has collapsed. Because for all their myriad faults, most Congressional Republicans have the political instincts to know when they're on a ship that is rapidly sinking and should find a lifeboat.
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This is a good article and once again shows how these unregulated and mostly unmoderated online spaces serve as perfect platforms to push extremist content. Stuff like “Agartha” and laughing at “Yakub” memes have been apart of online culture for a hot minute now. Glad to see some reporting on this.
Wrote about how the teens are sharing Nazi occult memes w/ @willgottsegen.com This isn’t an exaggeration. Lots of them are doing this www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Your Teenager May Be Spreading Himmler’s Favorite Myth
The Aryan utopia of “Agartha” is making a comeback.
www.theatlantic.com
January 24, 2026 at 5:38 PM
This is a good article and once again shows how these unregulated and mostly unmoderated online spaces serve as perfect platforms to push extremist content. Stuff like “Agartha” and laughing at “Yakub” memes have been apart of online culture for a hot minute now. Glad to see some reporting on this.
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I’m losing my mind, man.
January 13, 2026 at 11:43 PM
I’m losing my mind, man.
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Sorry Birds fans, but few teams have deserved to lose more than this Eagles team deserved to lose. At least now you can rest assured that Patullo will be fired.
January 12, 2026 at 12:46 AM
Sorry Birds fans, but few teams have deserved to lose more than this Eagles team deserved to lose. At least now you can rest assured that Patullo will be fired.
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This is exactly the energy we need from elected leaders right now. No equivocation, no bullshit. Get the fuck out.
January 7, 2026 at 7:33 PM
This is exactly the energy we need from elected leaders right now. No equivocation, no bullshit. Get the fuck out.
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Great (terrible) news (predictions), everyone, I've updated my awful blog with a post designed to make you, personally, feel very bad.
This is a relatively breezy overview of things to worry about in 2026 mostly related to the election, so check it out!
nocellara.beehiiv.com/p/2026-threa...
This is a relatively breezy overview of things to worry about in 2026 mostly related to the election, so check it out!
nocellara.beehiiv.com/p/2026-threa...
2026 Threat Roadmap
Elections, autocracy, memes, and AI loom over a long row to hoe.
nocellara.beehiiv.com
January 2, 2026 at 8:11 PM
Great (terrible) news (predictions), everyone, I've updated my awful blog with a post designed to make you, personally, feel very bad.
This is a relatively breezy overview of things to worry about in 2026 mostly related to the election, so check it out!
nocellara.beehiiv.com/p/2026-threa...
This is a relatively breezy overview of things to worry about in 2026 mostly related to the election, so check it out!
nocellara.beehiiv.com/p/2026-threa...
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Respectfully, this topic has been intensely addressed from both a research and policy perspective. Indeed, a lot of the research on lone actor terrorism has stressed both the low material cost of such attacks, and the lack of any true 'predictive' personal or sociological characteristic.
My hottest NS take is that, unlike organized crime, terrorism is rarely addressed by tackling terrorist financing.
Many terrorists are middle class or even wealthy, these attacks are usually self financed, and driving the a Christmas market or shooting up a beach costs almost nothing.
Many terrorists are middle class or even wealthy, these attacks are usually self financed, and driving the a Christmas market or shooting up a beach costs almost nothing.
Pack it up folks, we’re done, the worst take has been found
December 15, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Respectfully, this topic has been intensely addressed from both a research and policy perspective. Indeed, a lot of the research on lone actor terrorism has stressed both the low material cost of such attacks, and the lack of any true 'predictive' personal or sociological characteristic.
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Happy Thanksgiving everyone and never forget that society began its irreversible decline into terminally online brain rot when the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade did the Rick Roll meme. There was no going back after that, our fates were sealed…enjoy the turkey and stuffing today though!
November 27, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Happy Thanksgiving everyone and never forget that society began its irreversible decline into terminally online brain rot when the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade did the Rick Roll meme. There was no going back after that, our fates were sealed…enjoy the turkey and stuffing today though!
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This is some very good reporting about the Goyim Defense League (GDL) and how they are targeting kids online for recruitment. GDL hasn't gotten a lot of mainstream coverage like Fuentes and his Groyper buddies have but GDL is worse in basically every way. Thanks for this great reporting, Phil!
MUST WATCH: Meet the neo-Nazi targeting kids online, teaching them to hate and to prepare to kill www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
Meet the neo-Nazi targeting kids online, teaching them to hate and to prepare to kill
A Phil Williams NC5 Investigates report on a neo-Nazi targeting kids online, telling them to prepare for a 'race war'
www.newschannel5.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:00 AM
This is some very good reporting about the Goyim Defense League (GDL) and how they are targeting kids online for recruitment. GDL hasn't gotten a lot of mainstream coverage like Fuentes and his Groyper buddies have but GDL is worse in basically every way. Thanks for this great reporting, Phil!
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Pump it all straight into my veins.
November 5, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Pump it all straight into my veins.
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The Dodgers would be nothing and nobody without immigrants. They won this game - and this entire series - because of immigrants. In that sense, they represent the absolute best that this country has to offer.
I hope they remember all this when the White House invitation arrives.
I hope they remember all this when the White House invitation arrives.
Los Angeles suffered tremendously because of the wildfires. The president of the United States has wanted to make the immigrants who make the city suffer and declared war on the city. But all throughout it, L.A. makes it work daily. It’s a place where people go to make it. LA deserves this.
November 2, 2025 at 5:07 AM
The Dodgers would be nothing and nobody without immigrants. They won this game - and this entire series - because of immigrants. In that sense, they represent the absolute best that this country has to offer.
I hope they remember all this when the White House invitation arrives.
I hope they remember all this when the White House invitation arrives.
Was a rough year in LA. But this felt pretty good.
November 2, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Was a rough year in LA. But this felt pretty good.
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For those who don't know, that is a runic depiction of Fenrir from Norse mythology. These kinds of tattoos have been a favorite in Nazi-adjacent circles for a long time.
To be clear: I truly don't know if Platner is a crypto-Nazi, but he is most definitely a massive fucking idiot.
To be clear: I truly don't know if Platner is a crypto-Nazi, but he is most definitely a massive fucking idiot.
October 22, 2025 at 8:41 PM
For those who don't know, that is a runic depiction of Fenrir from Norse mythology. These kinds of tattoos have been a favorite in Nazi-adjacent circles for a long time.
To be clear: I truly don't know if Platner is a crypto-Nazi, but he is most definitely a massive fucking idiot.
To be clear: I truly don't know if Platner is a crypto-Nazi, but he is most definitely a massive fucking idiot.
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To the various laymen who are out here doing Dan Brown shit trying to piece together shooter motives: actual terrorists, even the terminally online ones, are never cryptic about why they kill people. It literally defeats the purpose, as the entire point of political violence is to SEND A MESSAGE.
DUDE WAS A TERMINALLY ONLINE BRAIN ROTTED LOSER WHO SUNK OVER 6k HOURS INTO RUST? WHO COULD HAVE PREDICTED THIS?
September 25, 2025 at 3:30 AM
To the various laymen who are out here doing Dan Brown shit trying to piece together shooter motives: actual terrorists, even the terminally online ones, are never cryptic about why they kill people. It literally defeats the purpose, as the entire point of political violence is to SEND A MESSAGE.
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As acts of political or social violence have become a form of content to be consumed by an audience, one of the standard failings of American media literacy has taken hold in that the audience who chooses their sainted killer is read as said actor being ascribed to that audience's stated ideology.
Calling Mangione a leftist is still a huge citation needed.
The citation for the second Trump "attempt" offered *in this article* says "there is little public information about the most recent shooter." (Note: He did not shoot, nor seems to have even attempted a shot.)
The citation for the second Trump "attempt" offered *in this article* says "there is little public information about the most recent shooter." (Note: He did not shoot, nor seems to have even attempted a shot.)
September 25, 2025 at 3:21 AM
As acts of political or social violence have become a form of content to be consumed by an audience, one of the standard failings of American media literacy has taken hold in that the audience who chooses their sainted killer is read as said actor being ascribed to that audience's stated ideology.
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Here's a screenshot from the video I took of Paul Ingrassia, who is mentioned in this story, at the Nick Fuentes rally he claims he "accidentally" went to.
September 23, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Here's a screenshot from the video I took of Paul Ingrassia, who is mentioned in this story, at the Nick Fuentes rally he claims he "accidentally" went to.
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Wow, man. It’s like those of us who were saying that the memes on the shells didn’t speak to any ideological motive were right all along!
New: The federal probe of Charlie Kirk’s killing has yet to find a link between Tyler Robinson & LW groups, per 3 sources familiar
“Every indication so far is that this was one guy who did one really bad thing because he found Kirk’s ideology personally offensive”
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
“Every indication so far is that this was one guy who did one really bad thing because he found Kirk’s ideology personally offensive”
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
'No evidence' found yet of ties between Charlie Kirk's shooting and left-wing groups, officials say
Three people familiar with the federal probe into Kirk’s assassination told NBC News that investigators have yet to find a link between the alleged shooter and left-wing groups.
www.nbcnews.com
September 20, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Wow, man. It’s like those of us who were saying that the memes on the shells didn’t speak to any ideological motive were right all along!
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Spoke with @drewharwell.com over @washingtonpost.com about Internet culture, memes and how the rush to pin an ideology on Robinson was foolish. Happy to be quoted alongside other experts like @jaredlholt.bsky.social and @jmberger.com in this! They really know their stuff.
The internet culture behind the Kirk shooting suspect’s ‘big meme’
The Charlie Kirk shooter’s engravings have been mined for clues of a motive. For those steeped in meme culture, they show only that he was “terminally online.”
www.washingtonpost.com
September 19, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Spoke with @drewharwell.com over @washingtonpost.com about Internet culture, memes and how the rush to pin an ideology on Robinson was foolish. Happy to be quoted alongside other experts like @jaredlholt.bsky.social and @jmberger.com in this! They really know their stuff.
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Open Measures found that far-right extremist groups were among the first to notice and circulate the “Expose Charlie’s Muderers” website, raising additional questions about the site’s origins
openmeasures.io/far-right-ex...
openmeasures.io/far-right-ex...
Far-Right Extremists Were Among Earliest Promoters of Website Targeting Charlie Kirk Critics for Harassment - Open Measures
Open Measures builds accessible and transparent products to contextualize the spread of harmful online information that impacts public discourse and global events.
openmeasures.io
September 19, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Open Measures found that far-right extremist groups were among the first to notice and circulate the “Expose Charlie’s Muderers” website, raising additional questions about the site’s origins
openmeasures.io/far-right-ex...
openmeasures.io/far-right-ex...
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Again, while I expect some attempt at illegal bullshit, the total lack of any legal infrastructure dealing with domestic extremism makes it very difficult for this to translate into anything real.
September 18, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Again, while I expect some attempt at illegal bullshit, the total lack of any legal infrastructure dealing with domestic extremism makes it very difficult for this to translate into anything real.
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Thanks to @mjgault.bsky.social for letting me come on the Angry Planet pod and talk about the memes and stuff online culture in general. It was a great conversation and I got to talk about Gamergate too, which I always love to do. Go give it a listen if you’d like!
thank you to @mikesenters.bsky.social for coming onto Angry Planet and painstakingly explaining memes for 90 minutes
Assassinations Are Shitposts Now
Political assassins often have incoherent politics and Tyler Robinson is no different.
angryplanetpod.com
September 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Thanks to @mjgault.bsky.social for letting me come on the Angry Planet pod and talk about the memes and stuff online culture in general. It was a great conversation and I got to talk about Gamergate too, which I always love to do. Go give it a listen if you’d like!
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“ANTIFA” isn’t a real organization. Trump and co will now just attempt to label anyone they don’t like as “ANTIFA” as a way to try and coerce them into silence. It’s very bad but also incredibly stupid.
BREAKING: Trump says he is designating “Antifa” as a “major terrorist organization.”
Such a step being taken this way would be concerning enough, given what it actually is, but, given that Trump sees “Antifa” hiding in every corner of opposition, this could be an extremely alarming escalation.
Such a step being taken this way would be concerning enough, given what it actually is, but, given that Trump sees “Antifa” hiding in every corner of opposition, this could be an extremely alarming escalation.
September 18, 2025 at 1:07 AM
“ANTIFA” isn’t a real organization. Trump and co will now just attempt to label anyone they don’t like as “ANTIFA” as a way to try and coerce them into silence. It’s very bad but also incredibly stupid.
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One of the reasons I keep dropping that "this isn't the American Years of Lead, but you can see it from here" is because we haven't seen a society-shattering rise in clear, coherent, organized, and communicative violence by disparate, clearly ideological actors.
September 16, 2025 at 8:42 PM
One of the reasons I keep dropping that "this isn't the American Years of Lead, but you can see it from here" is because we haven't seen a society-shattering rise in clear, coherent, organized, and communicative violence by disparate, clearly ideological actors.