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Dr. Eoin Lenihan Profile picture
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May 26, 2023 • 18 tweets • 9 min read • Read on X
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I actually thought this was a meme chart but it is real and used by Antifa and Anarchist researcher Michael Loadenthal who has now set his account to private. Here's a short thread about Loadenthal and the absurdity of him being part of a DHS sponsored research project.
Here is a good summary of how this individual was funded by the Biden weaponised DHS. foxnews.com/politics/unive…
In 2019 I wrote an article - based on my now peer-reviewed Antifa research (see pinned tweet) - that identified the leading Antifa academics on Twitter. Michael Loadenthal was one of those academics. open.substack.com/pub/dreoinleni…
Here are screenshots of that section of the article. ImageImage
Speaking at the 2016 international peace and justice studies conference, Loadenthal called for participants to embrace militancy, encouraged non-cooperation with any law enforcement or government bodies.
Michael Loadenthal speaking at University of Dayton "White Nationalism Workshop" where he talks about how he pressures corporations, employers, school officials, family, landlords to get targets "deplatformed".
Michael Loadenthal speaking at University of Dayton "White Nationalism Workshop" where he tells people to contribute to defence funds for anti-fascists because "a lot of the things we are doing are illegal." Also, he states that he's had "many conversations with the FBI".
As part of my peer-reviewed research into Antifa on Twitter - in which I was able to identify Loadenthal as one of the leading Antifa academics in the US, I downloaded all tweets belonging to members. I have all of Loadenthal's pre-2019 tweets & they show a pattern of militancy. Image
After Donald Trump was rushed off of the stage in Reno after a speech on Nov. 5th 2016 Loadenthal celebrated and seemed to call for his assassination tweeting ""Know your revolutionary history friends. 5 November 1605: Gunpowder [treason] Plot" with a series of bomb emojis &… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Image
While claiming he is no "proponent" of FARC - the Colombian Marxist-Leninist terrorist organisation - he goes on to recommend reading up on their world-view and states he uses their "propaganda" in the classroom. Image
Michael Loadenthal - a supposed academic and far-right extremism expert - was involved in the #disruptj20 riots and arrested. Here he details his "crew"'s involvement, his arrest and brags about having to go from jail to teaching in 20 hours time. @Heritage @TPUSA @theMRC Image
@Heritage @TPUSA @theMRC Hardly surprising Loadenthal has locked down his Twitter account. Is @DHSgov aware that it's grant money is being used by a literal violent domestic extremist who was arrested during the J20th inauguration day riots? Image
Adding some more clips from Loadenthal's two University of Dayton's conference appearances. At the White Nationalism talk he introduced himself as openly militant Antifa.
In the same talk Loadenthal talks to the audience about how to safely dox people. "if you're going to identify random people on the internet and expose them to their employers you need to do that in a secure way." He goes into the need for burner phones, sock accounts, etc.
Loadenthal speaks about how he explicitly uses 'antifascist' intelligence rather than OSINT and outlines the key steps he uses to dox individuals online and in real life. Why this is being shared in a university setting and acceptable grant submission material for a @DHSgov grant… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Once Antifa have gathered the doxes of people, how do they use them to get people deplatformed? Loadenthal explains.
In another talk at the University of Daytona Loadenthal uses a highly controversial taxonomy of far-right extremism which seems to imply a radicalisation pipeline leading from mainstream GOP and media outlets to violent extremist terror.
It's totally normal that an employee at the university of Cincinnati should be coordinating with the Cincinnati branch of Antifa rebuild the community and "meet together as allies"...Oh wait, it isn't normal. At all. Image

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Dec 10
Inside the Irish Times Hit-Piece - THREAD 🧵

Yesterday I went on the Inside Politics Podcast with Hugh Linehan, ostensibly to talk about my book Vandalising Ireland.

The first 30 minutes went largely fine. Talk about the book a little over and back, all good.

I had an inkling of the direction the podcast was taking when the host on 29 minutes seemed to insinuate that my credibility to speak about events in Ireland was undermined because I have lived in Germany for a long time. I pushed past that fine, after all facts are facts and data is data no matter where one sleeps, and the thousands of sales of the book obviously showed I have the pulse of the nation down.

The interview got spirited talking about migration which was great entertainment for the audience I'm sure. And on 38 minutes there was an awkward segue when the host started talking about not using honorifics, my use of my academic title on social media and my books, as a lead-in to ask "your doctorate doesn't relate to anything we talked about here?". It again felt forced and a dig at my credibility in writing the book. As it turns out, and as I explained, my doctorate was ideal grounding as I researched migrant interactions in high migration, low income areas of Ulm, Germany observing key points of conflict.

This is where the change in the show happened. Rather than digging into my academic background - which he brought up - and which makes me perfectly suited to write the book, he seemed surprised. He immediately changed topic instead of digging into what could have been a fascinating conversation about my real credentials and just how reliable they make me as a source for writing the book.

That of course showed me I was not only facing a conversation that was about playing the man and not the ball, but that there was zero good-faith behind the questioning.

My impression from being in the moment was that he was disappointed that I dodged his first two attempts to chip away at my credibility.

So he reached for the nuclear option that derailed the podcast.

This is the background. The next tweets will explain why his next steps were, in my view, personal, deeply misleading and designed to cause personal as well as reputational harm.Image
He turned to a niche that his own listenership, nevermind anyone else has any notion about - a comedy character I ran called Progressive Dad. It was a bizarre shoehorning that had nothing to do with the book.

I explained that it was a comedy character in the style of Andrew Doyle before Andrew Doyle, and I joked he stole my schtick. That was it really and I explained openly. I answered but it was clear he was not asking with good intentions.

He went on to say he found a fragment of an interview with Paul Nehlen, a former American political candidate, where I did a joke interview in character.

Linehan said that Nehlen "was even known then as a virulent anti-semite and more so now." This is false and a disgusting characterisation. I interviewed Nehlen before he veered into extreme anti-semitism to show him up as a joke character. I was instrumental in outing him and I lost my Progressive Dad account for making fun of one of his close friends and defenders at that time. Linehan inverted reality and in my view insinuated that I was an anti-semite.

They key point here is that the only fragments where Linehan's video can be found is from Antifa blogs or articles aimed at attacking me. Why would Linehan present it as fact when it comes from such a dubious source?

Linehan could have gone to my Medium account where I wrote all about my exploits as Progressive Dad, its evolution and how it brought me to extremism studies - left and right. It is all very clearly laid out.

I don't want to put my now friendly acquaintance @Glinner on blast but as Progressive Dad, I made fun of him just as I made fun of right wing figures like Paul Joseph Watson. I don't think Graham would consider Progressive Dad an extreme character looking back and would see the humour in our interactions now. The point of Progressive Dad was to bait left and right with the intention of making people who were very loud on social media realise how easy it was to get caught up in narratives with the ultimate aim of bringing down the temperature.

As for me being an anti-semite, @RonColeman, who was actually there at the time and knew me as Progressive Dad and since, will, I think, attest to the fact that I am not anti-semitic and that I take the insinuation very seriously.

Why didn't Linehan, looking back at those years from afar and with no first-hand experience, find and read my own account of Progressive Dad before presenting Antifa fragments he found online as holding any weight? It would be far easier to find my article than the video he did mention. The attached article explains in detail how what started as a funny account gave me a unique vehicle to access marginalised communities for extremism studies, an area I had explored in my role as a Dozent of education and which later allowed me to present at a conference in Berlin.

Being uninformed of the scene but willing to wade in anyway, Linehan seemed to not understand that the 'groyper nation' of 2017 is a very different movement from Nick Fuentes' groypers. Again an unkind insinuation against my character much like the the anti-semite insinuation. This is laundering the Antifa take on who I am. Dirty stuff.

So why did Antifa desperately look to snip old Progressive Dad clips and present anything they could that might reflect poorly on my reputation?

Next tweet.

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As explained in the above linked Progressive Dad article, my experience being attacked by Antifa showed me that there was a relationship between certain Antifa accounts in the US and members of the media.

I stopped trying to have a fun time online as Progressive Dad, that was not being allowed, and I transitioned into extremism studies full time (writing on left and right extremism). I used my research skills to interrogate if there was a link between Antifa and US national level journalists beyond what I had personally experienced. I set up the largest empirical academic study of Antifa's social organisation on social media to date.

With my data and article submitted to an academic journal for peer review, I showed my research to Quillette and wrote an article for them that identified the journalists in the US that were most integrated into the Antifa social network. Having identified them I conducted manual reviews of their entire bodies of work to confirm pro-Antifa bias and further explicit connections to the group.

The article went viral. It led to the firing of numerous Antifa journalists and it is no exaggeration to say it helped to reshape numerous newsrooms around the US for the better. The irrefutable nature of the research brought an incredible amount of abuse and violence from Antifa and from the journalists themselves...

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Feb 16
What's equally disturbing is that if you zoom out and explore at the entire map of Ireland, you find that every city, market town and large village in Ireland is now heading towards minority Irish populations at speed.
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Dec 27, 2024
Top 20 NGOs funded by the Irish State according to Grok.
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The National Women's Council of Ireland for example obtain the overwhelming balance of their funding from the government and have acted as a pressure group for government interests in recent years. They are not an NGO, they are a GO. The council was able to raise €50k from private donations for meddling in various referenda - again an obvious clash of interests when they're being kept in business by government handouts. That aside, surely it would make sense that if an NGO is to receive state funding, the amount given by the state should be, at maximum, a match for whatever private donations an NGO can gather. That's one of the few ways a government can justify spending taxpayer money - by being able to point to usefulness and demand for the service.Image
Irish Aid is Ireland's number one international aid programme. It is not an NGO in and of itself but funds allocated to that body are further distributed to NGOs among other bodies on the ground in areas of need.
2023: €1.467 billion budget
2022: €2.6 billion
2021: €2.3 billionImage
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Jan 7, 2024
Nuremberg Diary

Nuremberg and the Holy Roman Empire

The Imperial Castle sits prominently upon a red sandstone outcrop above the city of Nuremberg. Behind its formidable walls, walls that were never breached during the Thirty Years War that laid waste to many of her neighbouring cities, some of the most important business of the Holy Roman Empire was conducted.

The castle is first mentioned in documents in 1050 when Emperor Henry III held ‘Court Days’ there. It would become one of the most important bases for successive German Kings and The Holy Roman Empire (HRE). The HRE was an elected monarchy and its leaders constantly moved so they needed a network of bases from which official business could be conducted. In 1356 Emperor Karl IV proclaimed the Golden Bull during court days. This document, drafted in part at the castle, became the single most important document of the HRE. It regulated the elections of Kings giving the power of election to seven prominent princes. Rules of inheritance of the Empire and administrative procedure were laid out in the document. The Golden Bull placed Nuremberg, alongside Frankfurt and Aachen, as the most important royal seats of the Empire. The Bull stipulated that Nuremberg would be where each new King would hold the first court days of his reign.

Frederick Barbarossa - crowned Holy Roman Emperor in 1155 - was one of the most distinguished early Kings to stay at the castle. He stayed there 12 times and conducted official business there on five occasions. The castle was used dozens of times for Imperial Diets and Court Days giving the city unrivalled prestige and with it, wealth. The free imperial city and the town below the great castle thrived until the late Medieval period, hitting a peak in the early 16th century when it was a thriving hub of artisans, chief among them the Reformation artist Albrecht Dürer who was born and lived there. This period of sustained wealth continued into the 17th century. In 1806 the HRE was dissolved and Nuremberg was absorbed into the kingdom of Bavaria where it played the role of little brother to Munich, its glory days now a memory.Image
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The Imperial Chapel at Nuremberg

Of the buildings remaining on the interior of the Imperial Castle in Nuremberg, the Imperial Chapel is the most important. It was constructed in the 13th century. Its columns are made of marble most likely imported from the nearby Alps. The Chapel is a ‘double chapel’. There are two chapels built one on top of the other. There is a hole in the roof of the chapel below so that those below can hear the mass taking place above and vice-versa. The lower chapel has an opening to the yard to allow for more participants in events. Above the upper chapel is the Emperor’s gallery which allowed for the Emperor to stay apart from the rest of the court.

The design incorporates an intentional class stratification. The lower classes attended on the ground floor, the more noble on the upper and the Emperor himself above all, set apart from the crowd looking down on all proceedings.Image
The Albrecht Dürer House

Albrecht Dürer was born in Nuremberg in 1471 as the imperial city entered its financial and artisan peak. His father, Albrecht Sr. was a respected goldsmith in the town. Young Albrecht went to study under his father before switching his apprenticeship to the highly respected painter and woodcut pioneer Michael Wolgemut in 1486. In 1490 he finished his apprenticeship and began his time as a journeyman - a common practice for German artists - so as to gain exposure to different techniques and ideas. In 1495 he returned to Nuremberg and so began a period of extraordinary output that included his iconic Self-Portrait (1500) as well as his Self-Portrait at 26 (1498), his Lamentation for Christ (1500-1503) and his Young Hare (1502). A woodcut master, he also produced Adam and Eve (1504).

In 1505 he journeyed to Venice before returning to Nuremberg in 1507 to produce his Adam and Eve (painting, 1507) his Praying Hands (1508), his Portrait of Emperor Maximilian (1519) as well as pushing the boundaries of woodcutting. St. Jerome in his Study (1514) and The Rhinoceros (1515) are the pinnacle of European woodcutting.

Dürer and his wife had no children. So, despite the importance of the Dürer House to art history, the house and, with it, most of its possessions were scattered upon his death and the house was remodelled many times over. Similarly, his paintings are now scattered across the world and the museum has no original paintings. However, in 1928, when many of Dürer’s masterworks were loaned to the city for a major exhibition, the city commissioned local artists to produce copies of the pieces. These are now housed in the museum and while not originals, they bring together the most important of his works and give the visitor an impression of his immense talent and output in the place where the originals were created.Image
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Dec 7, 2023
Some people are interested in my work on Antifa. So here's a short thread with some highlights. In 2022 I published the largest peer reviewed academic study to date of how Antifa use social media to organise real world violence. You can read it without paywall here.
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Here is a presentation on my peer reviewed research which shows that Antifa is not simply 'an idea' but a highly organised violent extremist groups guided by anarchist principles. I gave this presentation at the IAPSS World Congress in 2021. 👇👇👇
I wrote this article for Quillette in 2019 based on my data. It identified the leading Antifa journalists in the USA. It went viral & led to a vicious & sustained campaign by Antifa & said journalists to slander me because they couldn't discredit the work.quillette.com/2019/05/29/its…
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Oct 11, 2023
Yale Prof & self proclaimed “radical Muslim” believes Hamas didn’t commit terrorism because “settlers are not civilians”. The hard left is imploding. Root them all out. 👇👇👇
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Another terrorism supporter at San Francisco University. Images and research by @realDougStewart 👇👇👇
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Barnaby Raine, a member of faculty at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research mocking and wishing death upon every Israeli on the day of the terror attack. 👇👇👇
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