@jacobware.bsky.social
Studying terrorism and extremism. Opinions are my own and RT ≠ endorsement. https://bookshop.org/p/books/god-guns-and-sedition-far-right-terrorism-in-america/20097522?ean=9780231211222&next=t
"The array of U.S. programs engaged in what can be understood broadly as democracy work played a long game [...]. The administration has spent the past year dismantling the lion’s share of that effort." @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social
29.01.2026 02:35 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
"If we continue to show disdain for our allies, if we fail to appreciate their contribution to our national security and greater global stability, we may find ourselves fighting alone someday." @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
29.01.2026 00:41 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
'Dios, armas y sedición',
Bruce Hoffman y Jacob Ware
“The events on the streets of #Minneapolis — and the broader assault by CBP and ICE on cities across the country — is best understood in far-right ideology as a step toward the ‘Day of the Rope,’ the blood-soaked denouement of the Turner Diaries.” @vermontgmg.bsky.social
28.01.2026 14:24 — 👍 14 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 2
“What happened to the whole ‘Don’t Tread on Me’ crowd?”
Really good piece by @vermontgmg.bsky.social on #Minneapolis and how #ICE and #CBP raids help redefine anti-government extremism and might supplant non-state far-right terrorism.
For what it's worth, here's how Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh viewed law enforcement before his 1995 attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building: "For all intents and purposes, federal agents had become 'soldiers.'" (McVeigh's Apr. 26 Letter to Fox News, 2001)
28.01.2026 13:27 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“Trump’s federal deployment in #Minneapolis, like the others before it, was not only about immigration; it was also a kind of ritual disciplining of unruly liberals.” @chashomans.bsky.social
27.01.2026 20:20 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
“Bauer has been a teacher for 25 years, a period that has included a rise of school shootings and the drills that have become common to protect against them. ‘But I never thought it would be our own government we had to protect the kids from.’”
27.01.2026 15:59 — 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
“Before, it was more subtle, more nuanced, but now it’s pretty plain. He wants to see more immigration from the Nordic countries, and not so much from the Third World countries. It’s just a clear break from the huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”
23.01.2026 20:58 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Well, this is a new one: a terrorist plot in Australia designed to “promote a new phase of civilisation powered by artificial intelligence.”
23.01.2026 20:02 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 1
Now #Cuba prepares for irregular warfare. “Cubans practiced for a ‘war of all the people’ to repel invaders. Television broadcasts showed elderly people firing worn AK-47 rifles, and portly matrons planting mines.” 🇨🇺
23.01.2026 14:38 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
"Turning away from multilateral counterterrorism cooperation would cede this space to adversaries," the @washinstitute.bsky.social's Michael Jacobson and @mattlevitt.bsky.social warn after the U.S.'s withdrawal from three international organizations with CT missions.
22.01.2026 14:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
More terrific analysis from @gnetresearch.bsky.social on the U.S. exporting far-right violence—this time to Moscow. The attacker's manifesto opened with quotes from Columbine. Interestingly, the "Columbine movement" is designated as a "terrorist group" in #Russia.
21.01.2026 13:55 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“An ally that insists on the transfer of territory, by force or blackmail, is not a terribly reliable one, if it can be called an ‘ally’ at all.”
Good analysis of Europe’s dwindling options on #Greenland by @daliborrohac.bsky.social in the @thebulwark.com.
Fighting words from former NATO SG Anders Fogh Rasmussen: "Mr Trump, like Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, believes in power and power only. Europe must prepare to play by those same rules. [...] We must draw an impassable line in the snow of #Greenland." 🇬🇱
21.01.2026 01:39 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
An outstanding batch of new nonresident fellows at the Irregular Warfare Initiative — as always! irregularwarfare.org/iwi-fellows/
20.01.2026 20:44 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"Among all the internet’s darkest corners [...] 764 is the vilest for the innocence it devastates."
Essential reporting from @seamushughes.bsky.social and @courtwatch.bsky.social on nihilistic violent extremism and 764, a movement whose "common denominator is cruelty."
A quick question: wouldn’t Greenland becoming American actually make us (much) more vulnerable to Russian missiles? Or are we already openly admitting that the lives and security of “Greenlandic-Americans” matter less? (image credit: @wsj.com)
20.01.2026 16:04 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
And yet it may still get worse. In @projectsyndicate.bsky.social, @bennsteil.bsky.social warns that a restoration of the Monroe Doctrine's "spatial dominance" might portend "NATO’s disintegration, the expansion of armed East-West conflict in Europe, and Chinese revanchist militarism."
20.01.2026 14:05 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
European leaders seem to have finally learned a key lesson from #Trump: “painstaking efforts to appease the US president and protect the transatlantic relationship have failed.”
@nathalietocci.bsky.social adds: “it’s high time to straighten our backs and retaliate.” www.ft.com/content/d13b...
“An ally that insists on the transfer of territory, by force or blackmail, is not a terribly reliable one, if it can be called an ‘ally’ at all.”
Good analysis of Europe’s dwindling options on #Greenland by @daliborrohac.bsky.social in the @thebulwark.com.
"History is written by the victors. I reflect on that often in the context of #January6, wondering what history books will write, given that the movement emerged triumphant."
Sober reflections alongside @amymcgrath.bsky.social and @hoffmanbruce.bsky.social on the @truthinthebarrel.bsky.social pod.
So cool to see Nora Neus's #January6 oral history 24 Hours at the Capitol (@beaconpress.bsky.social, 2025) in the wild. President #Trump may disagree, but I still firmly believe “it’s going to require a national reckoning to find our way out of this situation.” @leannschneiderwebb.com
15.01.2026 14:30 — 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
"What begins as an American, largely online phenomenon, thus becomes a portable script for violence that can be adopted by teenagers in any country with the same platforms and subcultures."
Tremendous work by @valdemarballe.bsky.social for @gnetresearch.bsky.social.
"History is written by the victors. I reflect on that often in the context of #January6, wondering what history books will write, given that the movement emerged triumphant."
Sober reflections alongside @amymcgrath.bsky.social and @hoffmanbruce.bsky.social on the @truthinthebarrel.bsky.social pod.
So cool to see Nora Neus's #January6 oral history 24 Hours at the Capitol (@beaconpress.bsky.social, 2025) in the wild. President #Trump may disagree, but I still firmly believe “it’s going to require a national reckoning to find our way out of this situation.” @leannschneiderwebb.com
15.01.2026 14:30 — 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Quick reminder: I'll be sharing some recent research on youth radicalization alongside terrific co-panelists today at 10am with @gwupoe.bsky.social.
Register here! 👇
FWIW: my biggest terrorism concern for 2026 is the continued proliferation of nihilistic violent extremism (NVE), a youth-driven blend of neo-Nazism, school shooterism, inceldom, and sexual predation that has already inspired extensive violence. @lawfaremedia.org
13.01.2026 14:30 — 👍 16 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 1
