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. 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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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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https://twitter.com/jimbobfrazzled/status/1890959419485110643

Tralee.

Top 20 NGOs funded by the Irish State according to Grok.
👇👇👇 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.

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.


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.

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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rdcu.be/cCi4s 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. 👇👇👇

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. 👇👇👇

Another terrorism supporter at San Francisco University. Images and research by @realDougStewart 👇👇👇

In the trial of @MrAndyNgo Vs Rose City Antifa etc. the defence brought in Alexander Reid Ross for expert testimony. It is absolutely par for the course with Antifa - present an actual anarchist extremist as a credible expert. A thread on Ross' activism and extremism. 🧵
👇👇👇 1. In Chapter 4 (Rose City Antifa) of his 2022 book 'Unmasked', Andy Ngo recounted a 2017 Rose City An training & radicalisation camp in which Alexander Reid Ross was a key speaker. Ngo outed Ross as a Rose City Antifa organiser. To present him as an 'expert' against Ngo is ludic

Amazing when someone goes full Krassenstein and pulls facts out their ass to try and cover up child sex abuse. In case anyone needed to know - For every adult-on-child sexual assault, there were seven such assaults by students, according to an Associated Press (AP) analysis of… https://t.co/odjjEauSzYtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…

https://twitter.com/Dorkypony1/status/1673824514059419648

I was a middle and high school teacher for several years. The most devastating and increasingly common stories were elementary age kids who were introduced to porn on the phones of their older siblings or their friends at sleepovers. This is now the most common gateway to S/A.

I am putting together a short thread on NAFO - the pro-Ukrainian harassment group that has made destroying Twitter a no.1 priority. I will be closing comments because the NATO people will harass you and stalk you on their timeline if you comment. This is an info thread. NAFO - or North Atlantic Fellas Organisation - is a social media collective formed at the outset of the war in Ukraine with for the ostensible purpose of fundraising for Ukrainian defence and to combat Russian propaganda primarily on Twitter. nafo-ofan.org/pages/we-are-n…

Who knew lettuce could be so beautiful in all its different forms. This 4m x 4m square is new this year and has roughly 90 heads of cabbage, broccoli and kohlrabi coming through.

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.

https://twitter.com/clairlemon/status/1661867015370608641

Here is a good summary of how this individual was funded by the Biden weaponised DHS. foxnews.com/politics/unive…

twitter.com/i/spaces/1djGX… Live here if you're still having trouble finding it and getting in. Right now: @JennaEllisEsq introduced as a DeSantis supporter but quickly points out that she hasn't endorsed anyone yet. Says she's a big fan of both front runners on policy.

Right now there is a court case against Christian Exoo, the individual who ran the AntiFashGordon Antifa doxing account on Twitter. During that it has been discovered that Daryl Lamont Jenkins owned the urls for Torch Antifa.

via: Reliable Sources with Oliver Darcy on Telegram In a video explaining the situation Jenkins stated that the International Anti-fascist Defence Fund is helping him to pay his legal costs. So the question is...who funds the ADF?

It's sadly predictable that the activist papers are smearing @TuckerCarlson as a racist for his 'Not how white people fight' text. It's disappointing that many conservative outlets aren't rebutting this nonsense for fear of being called a racist also. A brief thread. Carlson said 'It's not how white men fight' relating to an incident where three Trump supporters beat up an Antifa member. The full context shows a deeply human moment of reflection wherein Carlson rejects the all-too-common impulse to dehumanise political opponents.

In the past month I published two deep dives into how Craigslist's Craig Newmark is pouring hundreds of millions of $$$ into the disinformation industry & America's leading journalism schools. He is quietly buying up the future of journalism & swinging elections for the DNC.🧵 In this piece I recount how Newmark, unable to deal with the election of Trump in 2016, went down the Russian collusion conspiracy theory rabbit hole and decided to spend $200million in the run-up to 2020 to swing the election for Biden. thefederalist.com/2023/02/13/cra…

🚨Massive and disgraceful breaking news in the @DougMakey case. 🚨

Disgraced Antifa journalist Luke O'Brien has just interfered with an expert witness in the case which has led to a request for a delay from Makey's team.

A short thread....🧵 Luke O'Brien who was fired from HuffPo last year has harassed the defence's leading expert witness causing him to withdraw as a witness.

Highly significant! An SPLC attorney arrested in Atlanta last night for terrorism. The SPLC is currently the biggest ally of Antifa relying on their hacked materials & doxes of individuals for their “hate watch” list. The SPLC actively hires Antifa “researchers” & “journalists”…

https://twitter.com/antifawatch2/status/1632785571859820544

Michael Hayden is one of the most prominent Antifa journalists. He featured in my now peer-reviewed research into Antifa on Twitter. The SPLC also recently hired his close friend - Antifa journalist - Jason Wilson. Both were outed in this article - quillette.com/2019/05/29/its…

A boring thread about how I got my garden beds ready for planting. Last year was my first year #gardening. I just built natural earthen beds. I didn't know much about amending soil etc. & the garden had been dormant for about 15 years. Here's how it looked prepped last spring. Despite being a novice there were some real successes. Like 45kg of spuds, 15kg of onions - which we still use! Peas, tomatoes, beans were all winners. Carrots, parsnips and cabbage, not so much. Still, I learned a lot. #gardening

Important. @craignewmark financed Donovan’s work at Harvard & has pledged to continue funding her in the future. He is literally the largest funder of disinformation in the US. He has spent millions of dollars making sure journalism departments are activist breeding grounds.

https://twitter.com/semaforben/status/1621225736479674369

@craignewmark In 2021 the Harvard Shorenstein Centre announced that Craig Newmark would fund Joan Donovan's Technology and Social Change project. shorensteincenter.org/newmark-suppor…

I feel vindicated by the courageous steps taken by @Harvard Dean Douglas Elmendorf who is reportedly firing Shorenstein Centre 'misinformation expert' @BostonJoan. I have been covering how Donovan has packed the centre with Twitter activists. open.substack.com/pub/dreoinleni… In a statement on the Harvard Crimson website it was reported that Dean Douglas Elmendorf was winding down Donovan's multi-million dollar project - "The Technology and Social Change" thecrimson.com/article/2023/2…

We now have definitive proof that Vitamin D was a powerful defence against COVID. Peer reviewed research from Italy shows that Vit D reduces need for hospitalisation by 72% and reduces risk of death by 51%. I walked with thousands of anti-mandate protesters in Germany last winter. Time & again I heard people say that Vitamin C, D and Zinc were a powerful means of combatting COVID and offered a more natural means of fighting it. They were called *far-right* and *conspiracy theorists*