What this report says is the GRU is associated with the name Cybercaliphate, which isn't quite the same thing as the Russians being behind it. That they aided and amplified it, I have no doubt, but there's substantial evidence that most CC activity was ISIS linked. 1/x

https://twitter.com/rob_barry/status/1047860002197839874

CC activity was clearly linked to social networks on Twitter linked to Junaid Hussein, a verifiable ISIS hacker. But those social networks were different from most ISIS social networks in that they followed other hackers, rather than following mainly ISIS adherents. 2/x

OH MY GOD "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."

"Fourscore and seven years ago..."

"They weren't laughing at me, they were laughing with me."

So if people laughing at Trump during the correspondent's dinner goaded him into running for president, getting laughed out of the UN should be good for... Rod Rosenstein rn

Does... Does Trump have an imaginary schoolteacher following him around everywhere, grading everything he does? This master theory of Trumpism is actually highly explanatory.

This quote from 1984 is really speaking to me today. Apropos of nothing

https://twitter.com/LauraWalkerKC/status/1035468917509111810?s=19

Extremism, my new book with @mitpress, is out today on Kindle and other ebook formats. Print coming this month. A few words on what it covers. First and foremost, the purpose of the book is to offer a framework for understanding and analyzing extremist movements, including most importantly the question of definition.

Welcome to a thread of beautiful watches you could buy for $21,000 or less, if you were not Paul Manafort and you had better taste than Paulie Walnuts. The IWC Portugueser Perpetual Calendar

Just (belatedly) finished @Julie_C_Hwang's terrific, deeply researched book "Why Terrorists Quit." If you're working on CVE, radicalization and/or deradicalization, you're not up to speed without it. amzn.to/2uZ2k0z The book makes a number of key points with respect to how and why people from extremist networks, including the importance of multiple factors such as disillusionment and cost-benefit analysis.

Whoa

https://twitter.com/Hatewatch/status/1022132430784876544

Covington was also the author of a franchise of white nationalist dystopian novels pushing this idea in the spirit of The Turner Diaries

https://twitter.com/cjcmichel/status/1022133186275536896?s=19

My year-in-review thread: This year I've been working a fairly unified theme, developing a framework for studying extremism and radicalization. The most important piece of this was Extremist Construction of Identity, a paper published by the Counter Terrorism Strategic Communications program at @ICCT_TheHague icct.nl/publication/ex…

I've been holding my fire and contemplating the NYT Nazi-in-the-Heartland story before commenting. But here goes. First, I generally agree with critiques that the story is woefully inadequate in its presentation and contextualizing of the issue.

If' you're wondering how we got here, it's a story that goes like this: White nationalists looked at Republican Party demographics in 2012 and said "we have an opening here" foreignpolicy.com/2012/11/13/the…