#SPLC, local journalist expose, derail plan for #NeoNazi enclave in #Maine

[CW - full article contains graphic language]

Esther Schrader
January 5, 2024

"It takes a lot to surprise #JeffTischauser.

"A research analyst for the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project who works to expose the growing normalization of far-right extremism in the United States, Tischauser is used to hardening himself against the activities of the purveyors of hate he tracks.

"But when known #NeoNazi #ChristopherPohlhaus took his penchant for online harassment live, the cruelty particularly stood out for Tischauser.

"The pivot point came in March, when Pohlhaus marshaled members of the violent '#BloodTribe' he founded to hound children and families attending a #DragBrunch fundraiser for the #LGBTQ+ community in small-town Ohio, screaming obscenities and pursuing a call to 'give them PTSD.' "

Read more:
https://www.splcenter.org/resources/stories/neo-nazi-enclave-maine-plan/

#SouthernPovertyLawProject #NoPlaceForHate #TheBase #MAGADeathCult #WhiteEthnostate #WhiteSupremacy #NeoNazis
#WhiteSupremacists #USPol #MainePol

https://www.splcenter.org/presscenter/new-splc-report-illustrates-predatory-policing-practice-impacting-black-alabamians/

#SPLcenter

New #SPLC Report Illustrates Predatory Policing Practice Impacting 'Black' #Alabamians

Accepter la soumission à l'extraterritorialité du droit américain en plus du contexte géopolitique actuel relève désormais de l'automutilation !
La commune de Saint-Paul-la-Coste (Gard 30 / Cévennes / Alès Agglomération) entamme sa migration vers les réseaux sociaux non inféodés aux GAFAM. Téléchargez massivement "Mastodon" #Mastodon #helloquitx #HelloquiteX #helloquittex #helloquitmeta #AlèsAgglomeration #splc #SPLC
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Il nous reste encore quelques jours pour souhaiter une bonne année à nos nouveaux amis sur #mastodon #splc

La commune de Saint-Paul-la-Coste (Gard 30 / Cévennes / Alès Agglomération) entamme sa migration vers les réseaux sociaux non inféodés aux GAFAM. Téléchargez massivement "Mastodon" #Mastodon #helloquitx #HelloquiteX #helloquittex #helloquitmeta #AlèsAgglomeration #splc #SPLC

https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hate-watch/hard-right-response-jan-6-trump-pardons/

#SouthernPovertyLawCenter #SPLC #Hatewatch

The #HardRight Responds to #Jan6Pardons

I don't mean to keep boosting Bluesky accounts today (I seldom actually use it), but this is kind of important in the world of monitoring far-right activity in the US: the Southern Poverty Law Center has apparently completed the process of gutting the investigative journalism part of its own operation.

There's been a lot to criticize about the SPLC for a long time. They've sometimes done good, useful work in the world (perhaps most famously by suing the Aryan Nations compound in Idaho out of existence), but at this point their management also has a long history of treating their staff like complete shit, up to and including sexual harassment and racial and gender discrimination, not to mention union busting and a big round of layoffs several months ago. And this is all apart from their sometimes dubious categorization of hate groups, whereby they have historically regarded, for instance, Black nationalist organizations as equivalent to white nationalist organizations, which, if you've ever been to the United States, doesn't actually make a lot of sense on the ground (I believe they've revised some of this over the past few years, but I haven't really kept up all that closely).

So now they've done away with their longstanding 'Hatewatch' reporting unit, which was one of their more useful outward-facing elements. They also shut down their legal aid program for immigrants last spring, all while sitting on a fund of nearly $1 billion. In the absence of those two rather important projects, it's hard not to wonder just what that money is there for.

The SPLC has always operated on a liberal NGO model, which is extremely limiting and inevitably prioritizes profit-making over responding directly to people's needs. Until relatively recently, I was under the impression they were at least cleaning house and addressing some old problems after their implosion a few years ago. I seem to have been wrong about that.

https://bsky.app/profile/michaelehayden.bsky.social/post/3lf67sr4xc224

The movie Wicked is the subject of a conservative Christian boycott for “pushing the LGBTQ agenda on families” while also portraying “a tremendous amount of witchcraft and sorcery.”

https://wildhunt.org/2024/12/lgbtq-content-and-witchcraft-conservative-group-pushes-for-wicked-boycott.html

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2024/12/05/neo-nazi-order-member-released-prison-after-radicalizing-terrorist-group

#SPLC #SouthernPovertyLawCenter #HateWatch

#NeoNazi Order Member Released from Prison After Radicalising Terrorist Group 5 Dec 2024

by #JeffTischauser and #HannahGais

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_organizations_designated_by_the_Southern_Poverty_Law_Center_as_anti-LGBTQ_hate_groups

#splc #SouthernPovertyLawCenter #LGBTQIAplus

It’s a good time to support organizations and technologies that support anti-censorship and expressive freedom. It’s likely to be worse than you expect. #eff #aclu #splc #ipfs #freespeech

SPLC has uncovered the legal names of various pseudonymous authors for the right-wing "satirical" news website The Babylon Bee and the closely related site Not the Bee, as well as info about former owner Seth Dillon's other business ventures, all uniformly shady.

One of those authors is an English professor at Master's University, a Christian school in Santa Clarita, CA. Another is a high school teacher in Greentown, IN. Yet another is a fitness instructor in Arlington, VA.

The common threads here are, unsurprisingly, transphobia and anti-immigrant sentiment, with a shot of "great replacement" conspiracy theorizing for good measure -- all in the name of Christian goodness. Go figure...

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2024/11/19/inside-beehive

#Swastika Flags Flown During #Trump Boat Parade

…advocacy group #StopAntisemitism wrote the person at the front of the boat is "known antisemite Jon Minadeo II" & "his cronies from the GDL (Goyim Defense League),” a neo-Nazi group classified as a hate group by the #SPLC.

…Another X user…posted a video…filmed on the boat w/the #swastikas. It…showed people on the boat…combining #Nazi & #Trump slogans including "Make America white again" & "Heil Trump."

#HarrisWalz2024
https://www.newsweek.com/swastika-flags-flown-donald-trump-boat-parade-florida-us-presidential-2042-election-1968426