Historian @crexuio.bluesky.social University of Oslo. Interested in the far right, fascism & terrorism. I co-edit Routledge’s Fascism & the Far Right book series: https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Studies-in-Fascism-and-the-Far-Right/book-series/FFR
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The ever-more radcalised Elon Musk regularly shares content from Steve Laws. Laws leads breakaway faction quitting Homeland for its leader only supporting the voluntary, not forced repatriation of British-born minorities "I don't care if they were born here, every single one must go" i
This Open Access book “Vigilantism against Migrants and Minorities” edited by Tore Bjørgo and Miroslav Mareš which is part of the Fascism and For Right book series is worth reading if you want to know more about this topic:
‘Most of this is symbolic’: the new wave of anti-migrant vigilantes in Europe ‘Citizen patrols’ and self-styled protective forces are fuelling social fears and the far right, say experts
The Metropolitan Police say they arrested five people after a group of masked men attempted to enter a hotel in west London housing asylum seekers on Saturday.
‘Nazi’ teenager from Shropshire who amassed weapons and discussed school ‘shoot up’ locked up
Japan’s Sanseitō Party, which leapt from fringe to 14 parliamentary seats in July, is hosting Trump ally Charlie Kirk for a sold-out Tokyo event. The party’s anti-immigrant, anti-LGBTQ, agenda highlights growing ties between U.S. and Japanese far-right movements.
Reform UK councillor suspended from job at Home Office processing asylum claims. It is understood an investigation will look at whether Paul Bean of Durham council breached civil service code
Investigation after MP James McMurdock “apparently” facilitates “racial slur” against Sky News journalist
Reform are closing adult education centres in Derbyshire and plan to sell off the buildings. The decision was made behind closed doors with no public allowed in the meeting and without a public consultation. Some of the centres have as much as 60% of students from the most deprived demographics.
The Norfolk coast 🇬🇧 will host one of the biggest UK neo-Nazi concerts in years, with Blood & Honour/Combat 18-linked bands and hundreds of fans at a reported £72 a ticket. In January the UK Treasury sanctioned B&H/C18 under counter-terrorism legislation... hopenothate.org.uk/2025/08/28/g...
Great Yarmouth to Host Britain’s Biggest White Power Concert in Years
Your going to find Trump stuff, trans stuff, gaming, internet culture, guns, obsession with massive violence, and a host of other shit. No one thing is *the thing*.
A warning I often repeat for those working with attacker manifestos, like the one in Minnesota: resist the temptation to seize on one element that aligns with your own political or policy concern and elevate it as the only motive. Don't strip-mine manifestos to suit your current political project.
Air Force grants full military funeral honors to domestic terrorist Ashli Babbitt www.fox23.com/news/air-for...
Reform council’s Nottingham Post ban a ‘massive attack on local democracy’. Nottinghamshire council’s administration says it will no longer deal with local paper, in unprecedented move
New from me: The online swatting group Purgatory appears to be behind the false active-shooter reports that put Villanova, UT Chattanooga and other universities on lockdown, per @maargentino.com and @globalextremism.bsky.social (gift link) www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...
You can hear me speak about my book "QAnon: From Conspiracy Theory to New Religious Movement" on this weeks QAnon Anonymous Podcast. Big thank you to @travisview.bsky.social and @jakerockatansky.bsky.social for having me on. Discount code for my book in the Ep on.soundcloud.com/wb5ifyquFfq0...
Tommy Robinson will not be charged over St Pancras incident
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D): "These were Minneapolis families. These were American families ... Don't just say this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying. It was the first week of school. They were in a church."
Two children, aged eight and 10, killed in shooting during Minneapolis Catholic school Mass
My current favorite bit of right-wing Christian hypocrisy is Ken Paxton, a man whose wife is divorcing him for adultery, forcing Texas schools to unconstitutionally post "Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery." www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
Longest sentence of actual jail time from the riots last year. Man who torched school bus on arson spree is jailed far-rightcriminals.com/2025/08/19/m...
Child sex abuse victim begs Elon Musk to remove links to her images
Destroying the evidence and violating the Official Records Act. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
🚨 New edited volume "The Cambridge Handbook of the Psychology of Violent Extremism," edited by former C-REX postdoc Milan Obaidi & C-REX affiliate Jonas Kunst! Featuring contributions from our scholars like Tore Bjørgo, Katrine Fangen, and Inger Skjelsbæk. www.cambridge.org/us/universit...
New publication by former C-REX guest researcher, Martin Hamre👇
New from me: a podcaster who is a former pastor and current member of Pete Hegseth's church advocates for public executions, thinks abortion should be a capital crime, and thinks ICE raids are biblical. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
WESH-TV - Protesters in Orlando have repainted the Pulse Memorial crosswalk after Florida state-directed crews removed the rainbow stripes that honor the 49 lives lost during the 2016 massacre.
She lost the appeal because she signed a statement setting out that she understood something [the sentencing guidelines] she claims to have had no idea about until the sentencing remarks. www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...
People can feel sympathy for Lucy Connolly over the scale of sentence she got after pleading guilty. But the appeal found her evidence demonstrably not credible on what she knew/did not know about the sentence before her guilty plea. Her media interviews repeat those false claims
Verdict here www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...
Human rights activists say female political prisoners in Belarus are often singled out for abuse and humiliation, threatened with losing their children, and having medical problems ignored.
“A bold departure from political norms”
4chan will refuse to pay daily online safety fines, lawyer tells BBC
Pulse Memorial's rainbow crosswalk removed overnight in Orlando
Read more about the HITS project, a collaborative effort between Iris Segers (University of Oslo), @audreygagnon.bsky.social (University of Ottawa), @sldelange.bsky.social (University of Amsterdam), and @arjupskas.bsky.social (University of Oslo), here: www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...
🚨 The first publication from the HITS project is now out: "Institutional Responses to Threats and Harassment of Academics: Evidence From a Survey Among Political Scientists in Norway" by @arjupskas.bsky.social, Iris B. Segers, & @audreygagnon.bsky.social. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Tommy Robinson charging £28 a minute as personal coach to far right. “The self-styled ‘anti-Islam activist’ is advising clients on issues including protesting, evading infiltration and ‘investigating’ local mosques”
🌍 What can a small country do in the face of authoritarianism and democratic setbacks? Join PM Jonas Gahr Støre at C-REX/UiO on Aug 25, 2025, to discuss how Norway can address these challenges amidst rising extremism. #DemocracyUnderPressure #Norway #Academia www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/aktuel...
DHS speechwriter linked to hateful social accounts while claiming American conservatives are ostracized like Jews in Nazi Germany
New— Nazis with giant swastika flags marched in downtown Indianapolis on Saturday with two police escorts. They shouted “white power” and said to the woman who took this video (reshared here with her permission) “fuck you, n***** bitch.” Police did not intervene. I cannot find local news coverage.
In a challenging field, supporting the next generation of scholars is essential! 🌱 Check out @mathiesonnicola.bsky.social and @audreygagnon.bsky.social's reflections on hosting the 2nd edition of the 2025 Summer School on Studying Online Far-Right Extremism. #Extremism www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...
📢 New article 🌟 👥 Audrey Gagnon @audreygagnon.bsky.social and Tamta Gelashvili @tamtagelashvili.bsky.social (ISV) 🔎 How can institutions better support researchers? The case of extremism and terrorism research 📗 Open access in Qualitative Research doi.org/10.1177/1468...
Farage advisor said U.K. would be better off if it had not fought in WW2
60 more people to be prosecuted for “showing support” for Palestine Action
Two people have been shot as they left Friday prayers at a mosque in the Swedish city of Örebro. This the same city where 10 were killed earlier this year in Sweden’s worst mass murder. www.expressen.se/nyheter/krim...
In the Netherlands, a 24-year-old man from Erp was arrested yesterday in Badhoevedorp, near Amsterdam, on suspicion of preparing a terrorist offense. The suspect is believed to be a member of Geuzenbond, a far-right group we wrote about last year @bellingcat.com www.rtl.nl/nieuws/binne...
“I woke up and she’d written on the wall with blood,” the girl’s mother recalls. Her daughter had cut herself on her chest & carved 764 symbols into her legs. She discovered disturbing, sexually exploitive pictures & conversation between her daughter & a member of 764 www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...
apparently PACER has been severely compromised for some time (🎁) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/u...
GB News cuts deal to stream on Donald Trump's own app alongside wild conspiracy shows
The number of arrests at Saturday's demonstration in London in support of banned group Palestine Action has risen to 532.
Congratulations Cynthia! I’m looking forward to reading this.
Nothing like laying my own hands on my own book for the first time. Literally hot off the press 🔥🔥🔥
Police arrest 474 at Palestine Action ban protest
Officials say gunman who attacked CDC may have had anti-Covid vaccine beliefs
At least 365 arrests at Palestine Action ban protest
BREAKING: London police arrested 150 demonstrators supporting the banned Palestine Action group.
Shooter appeared to target CDC headquarters in shooting that left police officer dead, sources say
A neo-Nazi group inspired by Donald Trump's rhetoric is expanding its reach and reshaping white extremism in America. At the helm is a Texas couple, both born to Ku Klux Klan leaders reut.rs/4ftv4ne
New blog post for the C-REX blog RightNow! by @mathiesonnicola.bsky.social and @audreygagnon.bsky.social 👇
New blog post with @theondrakguy.bsky.social, @bluebilliejeans.bsky.social, @petersmith.bsky.social , & @hereticmasked.bsky.social on Spawnism a growing nihilistic violent extremist movement, using similar tactics techniques and procedures to target & harm minors www.maargentino.com/spawnism-car...
PragerU is like creationism, but for all subjects. They start with an article of faith, then twist everything else to fit. Check it out for yourself: The Douglass video tries to convince kids that the Founders were the ones who *stopped* slavery. And that Douglass would have hated BLM.
MP Rupert Lowe mistakes charity rowers for 'illegal migrants'
Is there any other sort?
Seth Bertrand, 22, of Windsor, has been convicted of participating in or contributing to the activity of a terrorist group. The charge stems from Bertrand applying to the Atomwaffen Division
The Woodlander Initiative - The far-right vision for whites only enclaves in Britain
Police in England brace for disorder as far right promote anti-migrant protests
Senior adviser in the office of the deputy attorney general:
New level of dystopia achieved: A state Supreme Court has announced a death sentence ruling via an AI spokesman
Fair point 🙂
During a raid in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 🇩🇪, police found firearms and explosives at, among other places, the home of an AfD district councillor who’s reported to “belong to the far-right camp of the AfD” (saying a lot there!) and is “apparently also controversial within the party”
It’s finally real. I have a publication date! The Conspiracists: Women, Extremism, and the Lure of Belonging comes out Jan 6, 2026. Five years inside conspiracy culture—what draws people in, what it costs to leave. Pre-orders are up: noellecook.com/book
Guessing Loomer hasn’t consulted a history book to see how that one worked out…
Former assistant to AfD politician Maximilian Krah goes to trial over Chinese spy charges
Stella Rimington, the first female director of MI5 and the first head of the domestic spy agency to be publicly named, has died aged 90.
Tommy Robinson arrested in connection to assault after returning to the U.K.
The Smithsonian said that it would restore information about President Trump’s two impeachments to an exhibit in the National Museum of American History within weeks. The Post previously reported that the museum reverted the exhibit to how it looked in 2008.
The memorial at Bologna Centrale.
Booth’s wife Meg is the elected Republican treasurer of Maple Valley Township in Michigan, but there is no indication that she shares his views and indeed, when I asked her for comment she explicitly repudiated them
New: I identified Johnathan Christopher (Chris) Booth as the man behind the openly neo-Nazi Shameless Sperg YouTube channel. He had gained 52,000 followers in just two months; YouTube shut the channel down after we contacted them for comment www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Ben Habib confirms to Laurence Fox that nobody is excluded from Reform UK, esp those banned by Reform as far right.(ie: BNP, Britain First, Patriotic Alternative, English Defence LeagueHomeland Party members + other far right advocates for the deportation of UK minorities are all welcome in Advance)
Tommy Robinson has joined the Advance UK party led by Ben Habib This seems to me a very implausible political project, pitching for the niche market which is OK with these three propositions at once - Reform + Farage are too woke - Ethnic minority leadership is OK - Tommy Robinson is not toxic
The Australian government denied a visa to the leader of the neo-Nazi Blood Tribe, Chris Pohlhaus, and he is spiraling out online. He had been scheduled to speak at a neo-Nazi rally in the country hosted by the National Socialist Network.
Under pressure from the White House, Smithsonian removes Trump from impeachment exhibit at the National Museum of American History
Tucker Carlson has called Darryl Cooper the “most important popular historian working in the United States today.” Cooper has the most popular history newsletter on Substack. His Nazi-obsessed background is far more extreme than previously reported.
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How a Nazi-obsessed amateur historian went from obscurity to the top of Substack
MMA fighter Conor McGregor loses appeal in civil rape case
Virginia city councilman doused in gasoline and lit on fire in attack at his office
Murder-obsessed teen jailed for plotting mass school shooting far-rightcriminals.com/2025/07/30/m...
US Treasury sanctions Brazilian judge Alexandre de Moraes under the Global Magnitsky Act- he is overseeing investigation into Trump ally and former President Jair Bolsonaro The act was created to punish Russian officials responsible for death of Sergei Magnitsky home.treasury.gov/news/press-r...
BREAKING: Judge sentences Canadian neo-Nazi Ryan McCann to three years, nine months in jail for his assaults on a young Jewish man and a Nashville bar employee during the Goyim Defense League’s visit to Nashville in July 2024. More on NC5 at 6pm.
Journalist Harry Shukman spent a year posing as a far-right activist. Now he tells Big Issue seven things he learned.
Also today: special PBS News Hour coverage of the manosphere, featuring an interview with me- very glad to have this chance to chat with @johnyangtv.bsky.social www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
Cynthia Miller-Idriss' Man Up: The New Misogyny and the Rise of Violent Extremism will be out in Sept: bit.ly/4oilqIc
Tommy Robinson arrives in Tenerife as UK police investigate alleged assault. Far-right activist flies to Spain after video emerges of him at scene of alleged assault at London St Pancras station
TikTok removes video by Huda Beauty boss over antisemitic conspiracy theories
Tulsi Gabbard’s “coup” claim and Trump’s AI video of Obama didn’t just go viral—they triggered a wave of racist death threats. Far-right users called for lynchings, firing squads, and hangings, highlighting how political conspiracy theories can escalate real-world violence. Read more: