Daithí Rooney

Blood, Soil, and Tofu: Diagonalism and the Rhetorical Constitution of Far-Right Veganism Far-right veganism is a small but burgeoning lifestyle movement that integrates vegan practices with white nationalist and eco-fascist ideologies. We examine the ideological and rhetorical foundati...

I started this article on far-right veganisms as a 1L and it is now published just weeks before graduation. Very proud of the work we did: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Appreciate that someone’s reading our work!

Officially a doctor ✅🤘

And shoutout to Randy Lynn, who apparently eats 3 burgers a day every day. (And 7 additional burgers per month). Tremendous effort

“They Want to Kill Our Cows. That Means You're Next:” White Masculine Victimhood and the Green New Deal’s War on Hamburgers This article examines the conspiratorial and unfounded belief – promoted by right-wing figures, including Donald Trump – that the 2019 Green New Deal resolution sought to criminalize hamburger cons...

www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Title page of an article in the journal Environmental Communication RESEARCH ARTICLE "They Want to Kill Our Cows. That Means You're Next:" White Masculine Victimhood and the Green New Deal's War on Hamburgers David Rooney Moody Department of Communication, University of Texas-Austin, Austin, TX, USA ABSTRACT This article examines the conspiratorial and unfounded belief - promoted by right-wing figures, including Donald Trump - that the 2019 Green New Deal resolution sought to criminalize hamburger consumption. While previous environmental communication scholarship has suggested a disconnect between media representations of meat consumption and environmental harm, I argue that this connection has, in fact, persisted through a hamburger-synecdoche where performances of hamburger consumption act as a stand in for white masculine domination over the environment. Incorporating Mbembe's necropolitics alongside Johnson and Kelly's accounts of white masculine victimhood, I show how the hamburger-synecdoche doesn't reject or deny the ecological costs of meat but reframes those critiques as existential threats to white masculinity itself. As a result, even unsound claims to injury like hamburger criminalization are articulated as a coherent response to broader environmental crisis - but one which draws upon a long history of rationalizing dominion over nature through gendered and raced terms. They want to take away your hamburgers. This is what Stalin dreamt about but never achieved. (Sebastian Gorka) i have eaten up to 97 burger's a month no for me, i will eat what and how much i want. (Randy Lynn, 2021, @RandyLy32921892, in reply to Donald Trump Jr.) At

Very happy this piece on the Green New Deal, Necropolitics and hamburgers is out at Environmental Communication!

Very thankful to excellent reviewers and editor who really improved this piece and allowed me put in my silly epigraphs

(Link in next post)

Revealed: the Operators Behind Four Major Neo-Nazi X Accounts Anonymity has long been a tactic used by extremists to spread their ideology while avoiding social consequences, from Klansmen hoods to online pseudonyms.

NEW: X has become a hotbed of neo-Nazi content under Elon Musk. We identified the operators of four anonymous accounts that share racist, antisemitic, and neo-Nazi content. Three live in Texas. Musk has replied to two of them. One works for the Navy.

www.texasobserver.org/revealed-ope...

Inside The Plan To Let Trump Track Millions of Immigrants The private prison lobby has been quietly pushing a drastic expansion of ICE’s surveillance apparatus. Trump’s reelection may be the final step.

Carceral immigration tech is on the rise - like ankle monitors, facial recognition apps, and surveillance watches. Now, investors "openly salivate[] over the potential profits they could see from a Trump immigration regime" -@katyaschwenk.bsky.social @levernews.com

www.levernews.com/inside-the-p...

For those confused about South Korea, an “opposition party” is a political party that actively opposes the one in power.

... equivalent to wartime or a similar crisis, necessitating the use of military forces to maintain order. Almost no one in our society believes we are in such a situation."

TS: Will Biden and Blinken support their close ally? Or wash their hands of him? That's the question I have right now.

Big news, friends. I loaned my beloved pet elephant Topsy to Thomas Edison, he’s going to make a movie about her! She’s going to be a star! 🤩

Books Not Bars 2024 Holiday Campaign BOOKS NOT BARS FOR THE HOLIDAYS Haymarket Books is committed to making our books available for free to people who are incarcerated. In an effort to support those inside who are dealing with the imm...

Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program

Map shows the location of wastewater sampling locations around the US. Most of the sites indicate low levels and are colored blue. However, there are a number of sites in CA with high levels and few other scattered sites around the US with medium/high levels and are colored in orange/red

1/ Influenza wastewater activity levels are currently low across the US, aside from conspicuous areas in CA where #H5N1 is spreading in dairy cows.

A deeper dive into the Wastewater Scan data paints a very concerning picture and should add to our sense of urgency.

None of that is relevant to, or contests what we are talking about! Enjoy your day!

Hey PT thanks for reading! To be clear we aren’t making a comment about bodybuilding or fitness broadly, just some influential figures for this diet. For what it’s worth, many more extreme people (like the raw egg nationalist) also think LK is a joke.

Thanks Diana!

Frontiers | Long live the Liver King: right-wing carnivorism and the digital dissemination of primal rhetoric In this study, we link pertinent concepts from rhetorical studies of the alt-right, animality studies, and conspiracism to explicate the production and disse...

Link to the article: www.frontiersin.org/journals/com...

Image of a plaque that reads “Christine L. Oravec Journal article award in environmental communication to S. marek Muller, David Rooney, and Cecilia Cerja for “Long Live the Liver King: Right-wing Carnivorism and the Digital Dissemination of Primal Rhetoric”

Very happy that our article won the 2024 #NCA Christine L. Oravec Research Award in Environmental Communication!

If you've seen an uptick in shirtless white guys eating raw meat on social media, check out our article on how deep the rabbit hole goes into white nationalism!

I was massively attacked when I last said this (including on instagram and linked in because some folks are batshit) so naturally I say it again: the word “terrorist” is a racialized slur that people of conscience should stop using all together.

Contributing factors ofc include overlap between significant housing crisis and influx of Ukrainian refugees, COVID popularizing conspiratorial sentiment across political lines, and general white supremacist sentiment— particular ire directed at Black and Brown migrants.

At least one major factor seems to be close ties to the American far-right, and importing but adapting their discourses for Irish cultural context. “Great Replacement” becomes “new Plantations”— migrants analogized to English Plantation/colonization practices to replace Irish inhabitants.

Increasingly think Ireland is a key place to understand the recent growth of the far-right. Traditional assumption in far-right studies was that Ireland was unique; no far right because nationalism is channeled into left-wing Republican parties (Sinn Féin). But the far-right is yet on the rise-Why?

Blue Sky desperately needs a “bookmark” feature, which is far and away one of the best things Twitter has!

I am so so excited for this panel (and that England’s weirdest slonker is getting attention!)