Dr. Julie Chernov
@drjchernov.bsky.social
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Professor. #PSC #IR. Author. Becoming Jihadis: Radicalization & Commitment in Southeast Asia @ oxfordacademic. Why Terrorists Quit @Cornellpress. Terrorist Behavior. CVE. How Terror Cells are Constructed. Repatriation. SE Asia. Equality for all.
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Don't mess with Gen Z! They can't take it!
Congratulations!!! That is amazing!!!
We miss you too. Ruth does not miss Goodie, but we all miss you.
Goodie has been chasing Ruth around for 24 hours trying to slap her butt. Characterization is spot on.
If that cat were a human, he'd be a crypto bro.
We are in the midst of FAFO. Goodie has been here for less than 30min. He's already chased Ruth all over the house, trying to slap her butt & climbed into & clawed at her travel bag. There have been multiple standoffs. It's only a matter of time until she wacks him. @danielmkim.bsky.social
That's Miss Pretty Floofy Princess Kitty to you. FYI- Sent you a cute cat video on FB.
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The basic infrastructures that allow women to be participants in public life—birth control & abortion access, no fault divorce, childcare access & affordability, civil rights law in employment and public accommodations, the minimal efforts to mitigate sexual and domestic violence—are all crumbling.
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From the Desk of Ruth Bader Ginsmeow:

Mama's got a cold that she caught from the small human, so I curled around her head and administered purr therapy.

I am a good kitty.
From the Desk of Ruth Bader Ginsmeow:

Mama's got a cold that she caught from the small human, so I curled around her head and administered purr therapy.

I am a good kitty.
Oh, you loved every minute of it. Admit it.
Where NC chose to go into intelligence, rationalizing "I'm intelligent."
Fascism also has variants (eg: Hitler, Franco, Mussolini). As I tell my students, we need to have clear definitions and know what words mean so we can have conversations about the problem and devise solutions based on shared understandings.
Evergreen HS shooter, the Annunciation Catholic Church shooter, & the Antioch HS shooter fuse together elements of nihilism, anti-Semitism, accelerationism, inceldom, Gore, & white supremacy. This ideological sampling is increasingly characteristic of contemporary violent extremists.2/2
The media needs to keep in mind that increasingly, the ideologies of perpetrators of mass attacks, assassinations, & terrorism in the US don't fit neatly into boxes. Some are part of subcultures, like the man who murdered Charlie Kirk, who appears to have been a Groyper. Others, notably the 1/2
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The killer may turn out to be a confused, young, white man from a gun-friendly Republican home with no coherent set of political views or inspirations.

But that’s not the weirdest possible scenario here.

What follows is a 🧵 that considers a far more bizarre scenario…ready?

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If I'm going to go with food analogies, I'd prefer cafeteria but that's the term.
I've got you, babe. I've got you.
The trendline (if the last 2-3 attacks can be considered a trend) is these cafeteria/salad bar/nihilistic extremists carrying out attacks for status & lulz.
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