Jacob Ware
@jacobware.bsky.social
Research fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations studying terrorism and extremism. Opinions are my own and RT ≠ endorsement.
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“What’s most striking [...] is not just the trollish and at times juvenile tone of official government communications. It’s also an explicitly nativist message.”
Intrepid, indispensable work by Grayson Logue for the conservative @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social. thedispatch.com/article/home...
Intrepid, indispensable work by Grayson Logue for the conservative @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social. thedispatch.com/article/home...
November 18, 2025 at 8:35 PM
“What’s most striking [...] is not just the trollish and at times juvenile tone of official government communications. It’s also an explicitly nativist message.”
Intrepid, indispensable work by Grayson Logue for the conservative @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social. thedispatch.com/article/home...
Intrepid, indispensable work by Grayson Logue for the conservative @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social. thedispatch.com/article/home...
Astonishing reporting by @rohitkachrooitv.bsky.social and Dan Howells for ITV News, finding that a leading white supremacist (or "ethnocentrist") had worked as a "warden" at Buckingham Palace. He had traveled to meet American neo-Nazis, seeking tactical guidance. www.itv.com/news/2025-11...
November 12, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Astonishing reporting by @rohitkachrooitv.bsky.social and Dan Howells for ITV News, finding that a leading white supremacist (or "ethnocentrist") had worked as a "warden" at Buckingham Palace. He had traveled to meet American neo-Nazis, seeking tactical guidance. www.itv.com/news/2025-11...
No better voice in this tumultuous moment for #Nigeria than my @cfr.org colleague Ebenezer Obadare. He warns #Trump against "going alone, guns blazing," telling @kimbrunhuber.bsky.social such moves will only alienate the US.
Measured and insightful analysis, as always.
Measured and insightful analysis, as always.
November 2, 2025 at 4:29 PM
No better voice in this tumultuous moment for #Nigeria than my @cfr.org colleague Ebenezer Obadare. He warns #Trump against "going alone, guns blazing," telling @kimbrunhuber.bsky.social such moves will only alienate the US.
Measured and insightful analysis, as always.
Measured and insightful analysis, as always.
A humble question: how many times are we going to enter “a new era/age of political violence” before editors and headline writers realize and accept that domestic terrorism was here all along?
October 14, 2025 at 12:38 PM
A humble question: how many times are we going to enter “a new era/age of political violence” before editors and headline writers realize and accept that domestic terrorism was here all along?
Re-read @timjacobwise.bsky.social's essay “The Face of American Terrorism is White,” available in the compilation Dispatches from the Race War (@citylightsbooks.bsky.social, 2020). Wise lists 90+ “far-right extremists” by name—quite a rebuke to Musk’s claim that “the left is the party of murder.”
October 10, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Re-read @timjacobwise.bsky.social's essay “The Face of American Terrorism is White,” available in the compilation Dispatches from the Race War (@citylightsbooks.bsky.social, 2020). Wise lists 90+ “far-right extremists” by name—quite a rebuke to Musk’s claim that “the left is the party of murder.”
"The White House has taken an action that is sweeping in its rhetoric yet almost certainly empty of formal legal effect."
Such great work on #antifa by Thomas Brzozowski, shedding light on a critically important (and thorny) question for @lawfaremedia.org. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/you-...
Such great work on #antifa by Thomas Brzozowski, shedding light on a critically important (and thorny) question for @lawfaremedia.org. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/you-...
October 3, 2025 at 2:24 PM
"The White House has taken an action that is sweeping in its rhetoric yet almost certainly empty of formal legal effect."
Such great work on #antifa by Thomas Brzozowski, shedding light on a critically important (and thorny) question for @lawfaremedia.org. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/you-...
Such great work on #antifa by Thomas Brzozowski, shedding light on a critically important (and thorny) question for @lawfaremedia.org. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/you-...
Tremendous research from Daniel Byman and Riley McCabe finds that "2025 marks the first time in more than 30 years that left-wing terrorist attacks outnumber those from the violent far right." But don't miss the broader picture — depicted in the below graph... www.csis.org/analysis/lef...
September 26, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Tremendous research from Daniel Byman and Riley McCabe finds that "2025 marks the first time in more than 30 years that left-wing terrorist attacks outnumber those from the violent far right." But don't miss the broader picture — depicted in the below graph... www.csis.org/analysis/lef...
AG Pam Bondi: “Our only priority is to continue working together with the FBI to make America safer by ensuring murderers and violent criminals face the most severe justice.”
Maybe the only priority should be *preventing* the murders and violent crime in the first place?
Maybe the only priority should be *preventing* the murders and violent crime in the first place?
September 25, 2025 at 8:05 PM
AG Pam Bondi: “Our only priority is to continue working together with the FBI to make America safer by ensuring murderers and violent criminals face the most severe justice.”
Maybe the only priority should be *preventing* the murders and violent crime in the first place?
Maybe the only priority should be *preventing* the murders and violent crime in the first place?
"The fallout from even one successful attack could spark worsening polarization, legitimize government crackdowns, and bolster conspiracy theories."
Yep, sounds about right. @lawfaremedia.org www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
Yep, sounds about right. @lawfaremedia.org www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
September 18, 2025 at 7:19 PM
"The fallout from even one successful attack could spark worsening polarization, legitimize government crackdowns, and bolster conspiracy theories."
Yep, sounds about right. @lawfaremedia.org www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
Yep, sounds about right. @lawfaremedia.org www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
Perhaps relatedly, @usatoday.com and START UMD offer a grim data point illustrating the impacts of the Trump/DOGE cuts to domestic CT: "The first six months of 2025 saw an 85.5% increase in terrorist attacks within the US compared to ... last year." www.usatoday.com/story/graphi...
September 16, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Perhaps relatedly, @usatoday.com and START UMD offer a grim data point illustrating the impacts of the Trump/DOGE cuts to domestic CT: "The first six months of 2025 saw an 85.5% increase in terrorist attacks within the US compared to ... last year." www.usatoday.com/story/graphi...
"Americans are increasingly living in airtight partisan state and local political bubbles, while being governed nationally by a single individual openly hostile to the interests of half the population." 🎯 @bennsteil.bsky.social @cfr.org @thehill.com thehill.com/opinion/cong...
September 2, 2025 at 1:42 PM
"Americans are increasingly living in airtight partisan state and local political bubbles, while being governed nationally by a single individual openly hostile to the interests of half the population." 🎯 @bennsteil.bsky.social @cfr.org @thehill.com thehill.com/opinion/cong...
"American democracy is at present spiraling headlong in the wrong direction."
A particularly ominous warning from my @cfr.org colleague @bennsteil.bsky.social in @thehill.com. thehill.com/opinion/cong...
A particularly ominous warning from my @cfr.org colleague @bennsteil.bsky.social in @thehill.com. thehill.com/opinion/cong...
September 2, 2025 at 1:39 PM
"American democracy is at present spiraling headlong in the wrong direction."
A particularly ominous warning from my @cfr.org colleague @bennsteil.bsky.social in @thehill.com. thehill.com/opinion/cong...
A particularly ominous warning from my @cfr.org colleague @bennsteil.bsky.social in @thehill.com. thehill.com/opinion/cong...
God, Guns, and Sedition, now available in paperback!
"Nothing short of a new grand narrative of the contemporary far right." - @drewmckevitt.bsky.social
"An encyclopedic examination." - @anelsona.bsky.social
"A frighteningly easy read." - @joshuachuminski.bsky.social
"Nothing short of a new grand narrative of the contemporary far right." - @drewmckevitt.bsky.social
"An encyclopedic examination." - @anelsona.bsky.social
"A frighteningly easy read." - @joshuachuminski.bsky.social
August 12, 2025 at 1:47 PM
God, Guns, and Sedition, now available in paperback!
"Nothing short of a new grand narrative of the contemporary far right." - @drewmckevitt.bsky.social
"An encyclopedic examination." - @anelsona.bsky.social
"A frighteningly easy read." - @joshuachuminski.bsky.social
"Nothing short of a new grand narrative of the contemporary far right." - @drewmckevitt.bsky.social
"An encyclopedic examination." - @anelsona.bsky.social
"A frighteningly easy read." - @joshuachuminski.bsky.social
Also in 2023, Perspectives on Terrorism published "Is Far-Right Violence Actually Increasing in Australia?" Shandon finds that "no clear increase has actually occurred." 🇦🇺
Tremendous work filling key gaps in our understanding of global far-right violence. pt.icct.nl/article/far-...
Tremendous work filling key gaps in our understanding of global far-right violence. pt.icct.nl/article/far-...
July 30, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Also in 2023, Perspectives on Terrorism published "Is Far-Right Violence Actually Increasing in Australia?" Shandon finds that "no clear increase has actually occurred." 🇦🇺
Tremendous work filling key gaps in our understanding of global far-right violence. pt.icct.nl/article/far-...
Tremendous work filling key gaps in our understanding of global far-right violence. pt.icct.nl/article/far-...
"An almost cartographical depiction of the complex landscape of contemporary extremism in the United States."
Deeply honored by Razvan Ciobanu's exceedingly generous review of God, Guns, and Sedition in Babeș-Bolyai University's Philobiblon journal. www.proquest.com/docview/3224...
Deeply honored by Razvan Ciobanu's exceedingly generous review of God, Guns, and Sedition in Babeș-Bolyai University's Philobiblon journal. www.proquest.com/docview/3224...
July 17, 2025 at 12:26 PM
"An almost cartographical depiction of the complex landscape of contemporary extremism in the United States."
Deeply honored by Razvan Ciobanu's exceedingly generous review of God, Guns, and Sedition in Babeș-Bolyai University's Philobiblon journal. www.proquest.com/docview/3224...
Deeply honored by Razvan Ciobanu's exceedingly generous review of God, Guns, and Sedition in Babeș-Bolyai University's Philobiblon journal. www.proquest.com/docview/3224...
Great to be back on the terrific @secretsandspies.bsky.social podcast with my friend @mattfulton.net, discussing all things terrorism, but especially the FBI's new favorite term, "nihilistic violent extremism." www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNg2...
June 14, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Great to be back on the terrific @secretsandspies.bsky.social podcast with my friend @mattfulton.net, discussing all things terrorism, but especially the FBI's new favorite term, "nihilistic violent extremism." www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNg2...
The 15-year-old would-be #Uribe assassin offered heartbreaking evidence to the poisoned innocence that often accompanies youth radicalization: when arrested, he was wearing bloody Looney Tunes-themed trousers.
June 9, 2025 at 1:16 PM
The 15-year-old would-be #Uribe assassin offered heartbreaking evidence to the poisoned innocence that often accompanies youth radicalization: when arrested, he was wearing bloody Looney Tunes-themed trousers.
Luigi Mangione’s case has attracted a lot of attention, for a lot of (bad) reasons. In @lawfaremedia.org, my friend Ania Zolyniak and I argue that the terrorism charges against him are nevertheless a mistake, and could have dangerous unintended consequences. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/luig...
June 2, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Luigi Mangione’s case has attracted a lot of attention, for a lot of (bad) reasons. In @lawfaremedia.org, my friend Ania Zolyniak and I argue that the terrorism charges against him are nevertheless a mistake, and could have dangerous unintended consequences. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/luig...
Even the wild imagination of Sinclair Lewis, the author of It Can’t Happen Here, did not venture to predict that an American president would himself inspire a terrorist attack on his own country. @illsp.bsky.social www.illiberalism.org/fascism-in-t...
May 30, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Even the wild imagination of Sinclair Lewis, the author of It Can’t Happen Here, did not venture to predict that an American president would himself inspire a terrorist attack on his own country. @illsp.bsky.social www.illiberalism.org/fascism-in-t...
President Trump clearly has not read God, Guns, and Sedition, where we note that the Whitmer plotters wanted to assassinate him too. "True colors shining through, wanna hang this mf'er too," Barry Croft posted on May 14, 2020.
Now Trump is considering pardoning him.
Now Trump is considering pardoning him.
May 29, 2025 at 2:01 PM
President Trump clearly has not read God, Guns, and Sedition, where we note that the Whitmer plotters wanted to assassinate him too. "True colors shining through, wanna hang this mf'er too," Barry Croft posted on May 14, 2020.
Now Trump is considering pardoning him.
Now Trump is considering pardoning him.
With Ania Zolyniak in @lawfaremedia.org: "The terrorism charge against Mangione is legally dubious—and could have dangerous unintended consequences." www.lawfaremedia.org/article/luig...
May 28, 2025 at 11:42 AM
With Ania Zolyniak in @lawfaremedia.org: "The terrorism charge against Mangione is legally dubious—and could have dangerous unintended consequences." www.lawfaremedia.org/article/luig...
NEW: In @lawfaremedia.org, my friend and @hls.harvard.edu student Ania Zolyniak and I argue that the Manhattan DA's decision to charge Luigi Mangione with "terrorism" is a mistake, on both legal and counterterrorism grounds. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/luig...
May 27, 2025 at 2:58 PM
NEW: In @lawfaremedia.org, my friend and @hls.harvard.edu student Ania Zolyniak and I argue that the Manhattan DA's decision to charge Luigi Mangione with "terrorism" is a mistake, on both legal and counterterrorism grounds. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/luig...
Very cool to be profiled in @thehoya.bsky.social, alongside @hoffmanbruce.bsky.social, regarding the Airey Neave Book Prize.
If you have not read it: "Our book tells a story of forces within our country that seek to divide us, that seek to undermine our democracy." thehoya.com/news/gu-prof...
If you have not read it: "Our book tells a story of forces within our country that seek to divide us, that seek to undermine our democracy." thehoya.com/news/gu-prof...
April 14, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Very cool to be profiled in @thehoya.bsky.social, alongside @hoffmanbruce.bsky.social, regarding the Airey Neave Book Prize.
If you have not read it: "Our book tells a story of forces within our country that seek to divide us, that seek to undermine our democracy." thehoya.com/news/gu-prof...
If you have not read it: "Our book tells a story of forces within our country that seek to divide us, that seek to undermine our democracy." thehoya.com/news/gu-prof...
It's not just Trump: since the El Paso attack in August 2019, prominent media figures on the right (including Tucker Carlson and Elon Musk) have mimicked the terrorist's language in identical terms. Great replacement theory has now fully mainstreamed.
April 4, 2025 at 1:00 PM
It's not just Trump: since the El Paso attack in August 2019, prominent media figures on the right (including Tucker Carlson and Elon Musk) have mimicked the terrorist's language in identical terms. Great replacement theory has now fully mainstreamed.