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@mikeajensen.bsky.social

Extremism researcher at the START center, University of Maryland.

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Trump administration cuts national database tracking domestic terrorism The database, run out of the University of Maryland, was funded by a $3 million DHS cooperative agreement, went dark on Tuesday after the Trump administration made sweeping cuts to violence prevention...

Trump cuts programs to combat domestic terrorism, alarming experts
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

25.03.2025 19:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 21    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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Trump administration cuts national database tracking domestic terrorism The database, run out of the University of Maryland, was funded by a $3 million DHS cooperative agreement, went dark on Tuesday after the Trump administration made sweeping cuts to violence prevention...

More on the disastrous decision by DHS to stop funding terrorism and targeted violence research.
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

25.03.2025 18:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

As someone who has spent years collecting the data on these plots/attacks, I can confirm that all of this is true.

20.03.2025 18:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Killing Grants That Have Saved Lives: Trumpโ€™s Cuts Signal End to Government Work on Terrorism Prevention Tens of millions of dollars slated for violence prevention have been cut or are frozen as DOGE steamrolls the national security sector. โ€œThis is the government getting out of the terrorism business,โ€ ...

โ€œCurrent and former DHS officials say they donโ€™t expect the prevention mission to continue in any meaningful wayโ€ www.propublica.org/article/trum...

20.03.2025 17:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

DHS, a department that literally exists because a terrorist attack occurred on US soil, has decided, without Congressional input or approval, that it no longer has an obligation to stop terrorist attacks from occurring on US soil.

18.03.2025 21:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 33    ๐Ÿ” 22    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

NIJ, Minerva, and now DHS.

Terrorism research portfolios gone. Just wiped out.

Years of progress, years of partnerships, years of producing actionable knowledge to make communities safer just down the toilet.

18.03.2025 21:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 62    ๐Ÿ” 33    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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Happy to announce that our Terrorism and Targeted Violence (T2V) in the United States data portal is now live at www.start.umd.edu/t2v. We believe this is the first attempt to comprehensively track T2V events, including foiled plots and successful attacks, occurring in US cities.

10.02.2025 20:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
QAnon Crime Maps | START.umd.edu

As QAnon's influence on US politics appears poised to grow, a reminder that the movement's beliefs are not only bizarre, they are deadly: www.start.umd.edu/qanon-crime-...

02.12.2024 16:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The latest insights from CTECโ€™s leadership team are here. Dive in to our ongoing research and analysis into impacts of the 2024 elections on the landscape for terrorism and extremism and explore more of our recent work on our website.

๐Ÿ”— www.middlebury.edu/institute/te...

17.04.2024 18:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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For those of you interested in or studying neo-fascist accelerationism, my team partnered with @arcglobal.bsky.social to create a data dashboard of criminal activity linked to the movement. You can explore and download the data at dashboard.accresearch.org

10.04.2024 12:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 31    ๐Ÿ” 14    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Thanks, John. Glad to be here.

28.12.2023 20:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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