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The MilitiaWatch Monthly update for April 2023 is out and available here:
https://militia.watch/updates/202304/
It covers some of the major events of the last month within the #militia/unlawful #paramilitary space that MW keeps an eye on. Some of these events, like Bundy's fun "BBQ Standoff" are ongoing and will potentially drive the news cycle this next month, too.
Y’all I really don’t think you understand how dire this year is for #trans people. We are now at 134 anti-LGBTQ proposed state bills in 18 days. We have had 4 passed to floor votes with one of those already passing a floor vote.
- 51 banning gender affirming care
- 21 banning trans people from sports
- 21 Don't Say Gay/Forced Outing
- 15 Banning Drag
- 7 Eliminating legal recognition of trans people
As we wrap up 2023, I tweeted 3 outputs from 2022 I am proud of, which I will paraphrase here with links:
> A coauthored piece in TPV on memes by Rittenhouse fans online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09546553.2022.2074293?journalCode=ftpv20
> A new desk method on unexploded ordnance detection that utilizes Carter Center data back to 2012: https://www.jmu.edu/news/cisr/2022/10/261-2/10-261-stall.shtml
> A GNET piece on Dark MAGA, a flash in the pan of a metapolitical aesthetic moment among the online far-right: https://gnet-research.org/2022/04/05/from-orange-to-red-an-assessment-of-the-dark-maga-trend-in-far-right-online-spaces/
🐦: https://twitter.com/HamptonStall/status/1608458250936098821
This paper analyzes the meaning of iconography that constitute memes by reviewing a collection of memes propagated on social media related to the Kyle Rittenhouse shooting of protestors in Wisconsi...
Denver, CO – Thursday’s weather is expected to be one of the coldest on record in the city of Denver due to an arctic cold front, bringing temperatures to well below zero degrees with the wind chill. In the weeks leading up to this potentially record breaking cold, medical health professionals with Denver Health and […]
Stating the obvious but corporate files are public and so are flight data. This is not doxxing; it's not even particularly advanced OSINV. It's also not sharing "exact location in real-time". It's federal (FAA) law. [See images for quick workflow on finding corporate jets, Musk as an ex.]
I feel like some of this is a Streisand effect. None of these methods are new. You can literally even tune into live Air Traffic Control comms.
One could always elect to avoid flying by private jet, though!
Public Service Warning
Mastodon has a very big surge of new users right now. There's no way to tell if it will be sustained, but at this early point it looks similar to Nov 18 when Musk pulled the employee purge.
It is very challenging for system administration to accommodate so many new users. If your server starts to struggle, it is not broken and will get sorted out.
We're all in this together. It's our social network. Be patient. What we are building is amazing.
Our latest for @lcrw:
We cover a neo-Nazi cult that's actively recruiting radicalized racists, antisemites and accelerationists to be indoctrinated into The Order and trained to become soldiers for RAHOWA— a racial holy war the cult believes has already started.
The Church of Aryanity may be new, but the sources of inspiration for this apocalyptic, racist religion are not— and neither are its founders, both of whom are former members of well-known hate groups.
https://leftcoastrightwatch.org/articles/a-new-church-for-racists-inside-the-church-of-aryanity/
A neo-Nazi cult recently emerged and already has tendrils in some of the most influential white nationalist groups in the country. Headquartered in Madisonville, Kentucky, the Church of Aryanity has recruited a small but dedicated base of racists, antisemites and accelerationists across the U.S. and Canada. They’re indoctrinating young men into “The Order” and training […]
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