Every hair on my body is standing straight up after reading this...it has not sunk in for many of you what it will be like if these groups--a few of which legit resemble Islamist terror cells--put out a call for what is their version of jihad right now. propublica.org/article/severa…
For some context: the neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen holds military-style training camps they call “Doomsday Hatecamps.” Members are organized in cells scattered across the country, and they are said to be actively seeking military and law enforcement recruits. splcenter.org/fighting-hate/…
In just a few years, Atomwaffen members were arrested for five murders as well as a plot to blow up a nuclear facility. Before it was taken down, the group’s website boasted of hosting "hand-to-hand, arms training and various other forms of training." tampabay.com/news/courts/cr…
Last October, violent neo-Nazi group The Base was secretly recorded trying to recruit ex-military to take part in planned operations. The Base advocates the violent overthrow of governments via terrorism. It also hosts "hate camps" to train members. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/s…
The Base are also big AQ fans. If that confuses you, it shouldn't. At its core, this is not about ideology. Terror is terror. adl.org/resources/back…
I'm not saying all the Capitol building rioters were in groups like this. But we know that among the sea of idiots, there were men with military training, who brought firearms, explosives and planned to take hostages. They practically strolled in, and we're lucky it wasn't worse.
But they made it so far! They were so close! How exciting for them. And now they have a martyr, and more QAnon cultists willing to die for them.

If we get through the next couple of weeks without disaster, I will gladly be called hysterical by you all. But I have a bad feeling.
For another layer of horrifying, the occult neo-Nazi group Order of the Nine Angles is known for inciting a U.S. soldier in June to plan an attack on his own unit. The OAN are enthusiastic proselytizers for ritual child sex abuse, as well as terrorism. bbc.com/news/world-531…
It’s easy to miss the darkest, most dangerous elements of this movement, because they’re disguised by a sea of clowns and kooks. But they are there, and they have been organizing in earnest for years now. I don’t think they’re taking the prospect of a Biden administration well.

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8 Jan
This debate over whether to call an attempt to take hostages and blow people up terrorism is confusing me. I’m not a lawyer, so I’m not arguing the legal angle (though @hoffman_bruce makes a good case for it here). I think white terrorism should be taken as seriously as Islamist.
We know white supremacist terrorism is the greater threat now. So why do we talk about it differently than Islamist terrorism? Why is it covered differently in the news, as was on full display at the capitol? Why are we so unprepared to deal with it? csis.org/analysis/escal…
I agree the word “terrorism” is a shitty label that has adversely impacted people of color. But it’s not going away, and I think it’s past time to apply it to white supremacists the same way we would Islamists. Because this is what happens when we don’t: nytimes.com/2018/11/03/mag…
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7 Jan
I feel like people think I'm just idly tweeting about using the word "terrorist" to describe some of the men who stormed the capitol--the ones with weapons, zip-ties for hostages and explosives. I've interviewed dozens of designated terrorists. For my job. sulomeanderson.com/stories/
I insist on this point because A) that's what we would call them if they were Arab and B) because if we don't use the right wording, if we continue to downplay this kind of violence and intimidation by white extremists, they will continue to exploit that, and people will die.
The men we saw at the capitol yesterday were not the worst of these kinds of domestic terrorists, who behave in ways barely distinguishable from Islamist terrorists. For a little primer, here's a @washingtonpost piece of mine about online radicalization. washingtonpost.com/news/postevery…
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6 Jan
Well kudos to everyone who has been downplaying or dismissing the threat of White ISIS for years.
Seriously, congrats to the Very Serious People who thought it was “hysterical” to be worried about ARMED WHITE SUPREMACIST MILITIAS IN THE STREETS ffs. At least you weren’t hysterical.
A toast is also due to the DC and NYC journalists who smugly ignored what their foreign correspondent and conflict reporter colleagues have been pointing at for many months now as evidence the political environment in the U.S. is spiraling out of control. Maybe listen next time.
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19 Dec 20
At some point, all reporters miss things they should have caught. This is one of mine. I wrote this @TheAtlantic story in 2014 about abuse at wilderness programs for troubled teens. I visited a program called Redcliff Ascent in Utah, here @TroubledKidHelp. theatlantic.com/health/archive…
The situation at Redcliff was not one I would have wanted to end up in as a teenager, but the landscape was stunningly beautiful, and I was being shown around by a very nice and sincere man, who truly seemed to mean well. His sincerity made me miss what I should not have.
I had heard horrific stories of abuse at other camps, but staff at Redcliff introduced me to kids who seemed healthy and, if not happy, at least not being tortured. I opened with an anecdote about a red-faced, heavy-set girl I never spoke with, who was crying to go home.
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21 Nov 20
Glenn Greenwald has the nicest fans
This is a thread about how dangerous idiots can be. I will be attaching screenshots of all the tweets I just received in response to the below tweet. There are hundreds of them, most calling me a spy. Please allow me to explain why this is a problem.
I am morally opposed to journalists working as intelligence agents. Why? Because after my father, a journalist, was kidnapped by terrorists, they tortured him again and again for years, calling him CIA. "I am not a spy!" he would scream. "I am a reporter!" It never stopped them.
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7 Nov 20
My mom likes to tell the story of how, as a toddler born in the U.S. who left a week later, I grew up overseas and knew very few Americans; but even when I could barely speak, I would become very upset when people said I was Cypriot.

“NO,” I would yell at them. “I AM AMEWICAN.”
I was always quite a moral child, and I somehow knew we were supposed to be a place where people didn’t hurt each other for no reason, like they did in wars, which was most of what I had been exposed to at that point. Bad men didn’t take fathers there, like mine had been taken.
My dad was kidnapped for being American in a place where that made you valuable, for the wrong reasons. My mother still brought me in and out of Lebanon during the war. “Don’t tell anyone you’re American,” she would hiss at me there. “Don’t speak any English at all. Only Arabic.”
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