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Amarnath Amarasingam

@amaramarasingam.bsky.social

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Prof @ Queen's University | Work: Extremist/social movements, religion and politics, diaspora politics, conspiracy theories, online communities, MENA, South Asia | Hip-Hop is Life 🎤

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Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · Aug 29

Mine and @surajlakhani.bsky.social's book is now officially out, and there's a discount code!

Available: academic.oup.com/book/60071

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 21h

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 21h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 22h

One of the craziest stories I've seen in a long time. If you think Trump and his administration are extreme and depraved, just wait until you learn about the young guns who are positioning themselves to take over the reigns in the next few decades

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 21h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 1d

Even Newsmax lol

Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 1d

US news outlets refuse to sign new Pentagon rules to report only official information www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

US news outlets refuse to sign new Pentagon rules to report only official information

Defense department policy requires outlets to vow not to obtain unauthorized files and restricts access to some areas

www.theguardian.com

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 1d

Right on

Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 16d

Monopoly and totalitarianism go hand in hand.

The only way to stop the growing censorship of Trump's critics is to fight the consolidation of media outlets into the hands of a few families that do not care about the best interests of the country.

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Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 1d

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1d

Probably unrelated. www.citizensforethics.org/reports-inve...

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely horrible news - Saleh was killed today

www.middleeasteye.net/news/saleh-a...

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J.M. Berger @jmberger.com · 2d

I'm mad because I have been wanting to do almost exactly this paper for something like a decade and could never manage to get it off the ground due to funding and whatever.

Nevertheless, you should read this. The methodology is important.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

ABSTRACT
Research indicates both similarities and differences in the rhetoric
employed by far-right and violent jihadi extremists. This article
employs natural language processing and linguistic analysis to investigate identity construction in selected far-right (FR) and jihadi
extremist (VJE) English material. We assess inter-group differences at
the level of the subject, e.g. “us,” “you,” and “them,” along linguistic
dimensions such as moral foundations, psychological processes, and
social processes. The findings reveal that the construction of the “us”
identity in both FR and VJEs demonstrates a strong presence of social
processes while showing a relative absence of cognitive and analytic
features compared to neutral data. Conversely, features associated
with cognitive processes and morality are more prevalent in the construction of audience identities and the “other.” Additionally, both the
FR and VJE corpora exhibit a stronger focus on the past compared to
the neutral baseline. We also discuss specific linguistic features critical
for identifying extremist subjects, namely “us,” “you” and “them.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 2d

Prince Andrew told Jeffrey Epstein ‘we’re in this together’ in 2011 email www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Prince Andrew told Jeffrey Epstein ‘we’re in this together’ in 2011 email

Royal sent email after Virginia Giuffre photo emerged but later claimed he had ceased contact with Epstein in 2010

www.theguardian.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4d

RIFs can’t be done without agency leadership so this is RFK Jr extending his purge of CDC scientists to help Vought’s shutdown agenda. Genuine public health risks created by aggrieved men.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 5d

Nobel committee: "we live in a world where democracy is in retreat...rule of law abused by those in control, free media silenced, critics imprisoned, and societies pushed towards authoritarian rule".

Trump supporters: UGH fine, we'll just make our own.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Rep. Buddy Carter: "Donald Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. That's why I'm introducing a resolution today that will honor him with the Nobel Peace Prize."

(It doesn't work like that lol)

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Ron Deibert @rondeibert.bsky.social · 5d

For over a decade, we @citizenlab.ca have documented extensive abuse of NSO Group's spyware, including being used to target political opposition, journalists, activists, human rights defenders and US govt officials.

*This sale should not be permitted*

techcrunch.com/2025/10/10/s...

Spyware maker NSO Group confirms acquisition by US investors | TechCrunch

NSO Group confirmed to TechCrunch that an unnamed group of American investors has taken “controlling ownership” of the surveillance tech maker.

techcrunch.com

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Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 5d

😂

"So she walked off the job, pretending she was being silenced. Then she used that notoriety to found the Free Press, which became a success because it’s been backed by the dollars of a billionaire class that is still livid that five years ago, for three months, America said 'Black lives matter'."

Lyz @lyz.bsky.social · 5d

I wrote about the Elizabeth Holmes of the media lyz.substack.com/p/let-the-al...

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Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 5d

She has bigger problems than Tylenol. Her baby is in her placenta!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 6d

It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 6d

Call me old school, but I don't think a person illegally blowing up boats and unleashing masked goons on his citizens would be a serious candidate for a peace prize.

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Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 6d

US anti-fascism expert, @mark-bray.bsky.social, tries to fly to Spain to keep his family safe after receiving death threats, and has his flight mysteriously cancelled. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport

Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was informed at boarding gate that his trip was cancelled

www.theguardian.com

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Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 7d

"In their minds these guys are all starring in an early 90s Steven Seagal movie but in reality they’re just starring in a 2020 Steven Seagal movie" 😂

Trae Crowder @thetraecrowder.bsky.social · 7d

On Trump Deploying Troops to More Cities to Protect ICE from Antifa (Or Whatever)

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Elizabeth Pearson @lizzypearson.bsky.social · 7d

Tomorrow 9 October @vox-pol.bsky.social launches this excellent new report by @antoniavaughan.bsky.social Researching the Far Right Safely in Academia.

I'm chairing, @audreygagnon.bsky.social is discussing. Do come along!

Sign up below. Webinar - 9 October - 6pm BST 🕸️

voxpol.eu/events/new-v...

New VOX-Pol Report Online Launch - VOX - Pol

09/10/2025 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm - VOX-Pol is publishing a new report titled Researching the Far Right Safely in Academia: Current Practices and Constraints by Dr Antonia Vaughan on Thursday 9 October 2...

voxpol.eu

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 8d

The NY Times continues to be the biggest sucker in the world for bad faith bullshit, just so the publisher can claim they're not too liberal and to pretend they'll somehow convince MAGA they're being fair to them.

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 8d

Despite appearances, this is not a @nytpitchbot.bsky.social joke, it's an actual @nytimes.com column by some Claremont hack who praises Hegseth for his "nuanced vision of the military’s purpose and its relationship to civilian society."

Opinion
Guest Essay

That Hegseth Speech Was Actually Pretty Good
Oct. 7, 2025, 5:01 a.m. ET

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 8d

It is a dumb question. The answer is yes

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

CNN: Is it the case that you are profiling brown people?

STEPHEN MILLER: What a dumb question

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 10d

Miller’s apparent elevation to shadow president and his seeming intent to declare an end to the constitutional order would, in any other administration, be treated as a executive branch meltdown that was immensely embarrassing for the president and requiring Miller’s immediate removal

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12d

Chris Rufo's disastrous takeover of New College in Florida shows what universities would become if they sign the Trump regime's extortionary "compact."

New College was supposed to model the anti-woke conservative higher-ed Americans crave. Instead, it showed the opposite, and serves as a warning.

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