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=thttps://bsky.app/profile/jacobware.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/jacobware.bsky.social/post/3mkpqnrf3ac25I'm SO excited to see that Women in Power, by the great @lrobinson.bsky.social, is out in June. I was fortunate to review some early chapter drafts, and I can confidently say this book will make a tremendous impact. A must-read from @columbiaup.bsky.social! https://cup.columbia.edu/book/women-in-power/9780231563888/30 Apr 2026 13:43 +0000at://did:plc:4m5lcbkzpf7n34obuajuvazd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkpqnrf3ac25https://bsky.app/profile/jacobware.bsky.social/post/3mkpqnrf3ac25I'm SO excited to see that Women in Power, by the great @lrobinson.bsky.social, is out in June. I was fortunate to review some early chapter drafts, and I can confidently say this book will make a tremendous impact. A must-read from @columbiaup.bsky.social! https://cup.columbia.edu/book/women-in-power/9780231563888/30 Apr 2026 13:43 +0000at://did:plc:4m5lcbkzpf7n34obuajuvazd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkpqnrf3ac25https://bsky.app/profile/jacobware.bsky.social/post/3mkn6vhj22s26Great work by Ahmet S. Yayla and @colinpclarke.bsky.social on the “accumulating strategic failure of American counterterrorism policy over the past quarter-century” and its implications for homegrown terrorism during (and beyond) the war in Iran. https://www.hstoday.us/featured/beyond-the-proxy-reassessing-the-terrorism-threat-to-the-u-s-homeland-in-the-war-with-iran/29 Apr 2026 13:20 +0000at://did:plc:4m5lcbkzpf7n34obuajuvazd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkn6vhj22s26https://bsky.app/profile/jacobware.bsky.social/post/3mklhxdobsc25"We are in a heightened threat environment, and public office today comes with a degree of danger and risk." Grateful to Indira Lakshmanan for having me on @wbur.org's Here and Now, discussing the assassination attempt on President Trump and trends in terrorism. https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2026/04/28/political-violence28 Apr 2026 20:57 +0000at://did:plc:4m5lcbkzpf7n34obuajuvazd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mklhxdobsc25https://bsky.app/profile/jacobware.bsky.social/post/3mklhxdobsc25"We are in a heightened threat environment, and public office today comes with a degree of danger and risk." Grateful to Indira Lakshmanan for having me on @wbur.org's Here and Now, discussing the assassination attempt on President Trump and trends in terrorism. https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2026/04/28/political-violence28 Apr 2026 20:57 +0000at://did:plc:4m5lcbkzpf7n34obuajuvazd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mklhxdobsc25https://bsky.app/profile/jacobware.bsky.social/post/3mkksvdpmwk2kFormer senior FBI agent: “It is a zero-sum situation. When people are being redirected away from their primary national security duties, some things are bound to be missed — especially in the area of proactive threat identification and mitigation.” https://nypost.com/2026/03/15/opinion/miranda-devine-fbi-gut-ter-ball-on-terror-threat/28 Apr 2026 14:40 +0000at://did:plc:4m5lcbkzpf7n34obuajuvazd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkksvdpmwk2khttps://bsky.app/profile/jacobware.bsky.social/post/3mkko7rccvc2h"There is a community of survivors available to you. When you're ready, we're here for you." 🧡 @templehiatt.bsky.social @thedailyiowan.bsky.social https://dailyiowan.com/2026/04/21/guest-opinion-to-all-who-have-experienced-gun-violence-i-see-you/?emci=acf6a9d6-3840-f111-8ef2-000d3a14b640&emdi=ecea1d28-3c40-f111-8ef2-000d3a14b640&ceid=188618728 Apr 2026 13:16 +0000at://did:plc:4m5lcbkzpf7n34obuajuvazd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkko7rccvc2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/jacobware.bsky.social/post/3mkiubms4ks2oRe-defining “material support” to a foreign terrorist organization. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/nyregion/isis-bomb-attack-nyc-appeal.html27 Apr 2026 19:59 +0000at://did:plc:4m5lcbkzpf7n34obuajuvazd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkiubms4ks2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/jacobware.bsky.social/post/3mkibfhsowk23Seemingly a textbook case of nihilistic violent extremist (NVE) violence last summer in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho: “You did this to yourself, you live to suffer, your hell is here, you only have one choice, when will you jump.” https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2026/04/19/idaho-firefighter-ambush-shooting-canfield-details/89647881007/27 Apr 2026 14:22 +0000at://did:plc:4m5lcbkzpf7n34obuajuvazd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkibfhsowk23https://bsky.app/profile/jacobware.bsky.social/post/3mki7cx6fas22This has been on my mind, and I'm glad @shaneharris.bsky.social explained it so eloquently. The White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting was not a security failure. Like the attempt on Trump at his golf club, the security perimeter worked precisely as it should. https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/2026/04/whcd-security-trump-shooter/686955/27 Apr 2026 13:44 +0000at://did:plc:4m5lcbkzpf7n34obuajuvazd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mki7cx6fas22https://bsky.app/profile/jacobware.bsky.social/post/3mkasgwrsi22eDexter Ingram hits the nail on the head: the school shooting and True Crime Community (TCC) phenomenon "isn't an American problem anymore." @thecipherbrief.bsky.social https://www.thecipherbrief.com/the-most-dangerous-extremist-movement-in-america-has-no-ideology24 Apr 2026 15:05 +0000at://did:plc:4m5lcbkzpf7n34obuajuvazd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkasgwrsi22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/jacobware.bsky.social/post/3mk6feehca22b“The North Carolina man arrested late Wednesday for allegedly threatening a mass shooting at a New Orleans festival is a former law enforcement officer whose family reported he was seeking to harm ‘Black people.’” https://www.nola.com/news/crime_police/festival-shooting-plot-arrest/article_970e9f9d-6466-4094-a87c-f4002b07373f.html23 Apr 2026 16:06 +0000at://did:plc:4m5lcbkzpf7n34obuajuvazd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk6feehca22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/jacobware.bsky.social/post/3mk3tymjcyk2m"Violence becomes a symbolic language rather than an ideological act." Brilliant work by @petersmith.bsky.social, Cat Cadenhead, and Clara Broekaert setting a new benchmark for our understanding of the very dangerous True Crime Community (TCC). https://ctc.westpoint.edu/true-crime-community-understanding-the-depths-of-digital-fandom-and-performative-violence/22 Apr 2026 15:50 +0000at://did:plc:4m5lcbkzpf7n34obuajuvazd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk3tymjcyk2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/jacobware.bsky.social/post/3mk3o3yzs3c2o"Braylon, he's not here." A searing dispatch on our country's love affair with gun violence, from Shreveport, LA. https://apnews.com/article/shreveport-louisiana-victims-children-mass-shooting-248d58b5a78e7c5b255269100cfd683622 Apr 2026 14:04 +0000at://did:plc:4m5lcbkzpf7n34obuajuvazd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk3o3yzs3c2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/jacobware.bsky.social/post/3mjz5mjemf22b“This is the moment for the Trump administration to demonstrate that it recognizes the stakes. In counterterrorism, inattention can be deadly.” @hannahallam.bsky.social https://www.propublica.org/article/sebastian-gorka-trump-counterterrorism-czar-iran-terrorism21 Apr 2026 14:04 +0000at://did:plc:4m5lcbkzpf7n34obuajuvazd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjz5mjemf22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/jacobware.bsky.social/post/3mjz3jqzbgk2cAnother day, another youth radicalization case… https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/kenton-united-synagogue-harrow-arson-arrest-b2961660.html21 Apr 2026 13:27 +0000at://did:plc:4m5lcbkzpf7n34obuajuvazd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjz3jqzbgk2chttps://bsky.app/profile/jacobware.bsky.social/post/3mjxmnikfhk2wAs @tarapalmeri.bsky.social put it earlier this month after Pam Bondi was fired, "Trump is playing whack-a-mole with the women of his administration." [contains quote post or other embedded content]20 Apr 2026 23:28 +0000at://did:plc:4m5lcbkzpf7n34obuajuvazd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjxmnikfhk2whttps://bsky.app/profile/jacobware.bsky.social/post/3mjwlquuhpk2a"A sustained campaign of violence and intimidation against the Jewish community of the U.K. is gathering momentum ... This sustained attack on our community's ability to worship and live in safety is an attack on the values that bind us all together." https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/world/europe/arson-london-synagogue-antisemitism.html20 Apr 2026 13:39 +0000at://did:plc:4m5lcbkzpf7n34obuajuvazd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjwlquuhpk2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/jacobware.bsky.social/post/3mjwktupwps23"Iran's ability to frustrate a superior military underscores that determined defenders, armed with the right mix of asymmetric capabilities and resilient command structures, can deny even the most powerful adversaries a quick or decisive victory." https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/opinion/iran-america-taiwan-china.html20 Apr 2026 13:23 +0000at://did:plc:4m5lcbkzpf7n34obuajuvazd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjwktupwps23https://bsky.app/profile/jacobware.bsky.social/post/3mjjx752l3k2cIn our book, @hoffmanbruce.bsky.social and I wrote that the J6 seditious conspiracy convictions ensured that those “bent on violence and revolution would be held accountable for their subversive plans.” Final steps now underway to undo that opprobrium. @kyledcheney.bsky.social https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/14/jan-6-oath-keepers-proud-boys-cases-0087216415 Apr 2026 12:59 +0000at://did:plc:4m5lcbkzpf7n34obuajuvazd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjjx752l3k2chttps://bsky.app/profile/jacobware.bsky.social/post/3mjhgnni27s2n"I receive countless letters from children in areas of conflict. In reading them, one perceives, through the lens of innocence, all the horror and inhumanity of actions that some adults boast of with pride. Let us listen to the voices of children!" https://www.americamagazine.org/vatican-dispatch/2026/04/11/enough-of-war-full-text-of-pope-leos-prayer-for-peace/14 Apr 2026 12:58 +0000at://did:plc:4m5lcbkzpf7n34obuajuvazd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjhgnni27s2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/jacobware.bsky.social/post/3mjf2ojit4k2o“OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s home appears to have been the target of a second attack Sunday morning.” Unfortunately, nobody is safe from our country’s onslaught of assassinations. @jonahowenlamb.bsky.social https://sfstandard.com/2026/04/12/sam-altman-s-home-targeted-second-attack/13 Apr 2026 14:18 +0000at://did:plc:4m5lcbkzpf7n34obuajuvazd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjf2ojit4k2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/jacobware.bsky.social/post/3mj5agf4v2c2aAmerican soft power: “The one thing the Europeans have understood is that we are dealing with a bully. You can give him everything he wants […] but he will keep trying to bully us, and so at a certain point we must stop him.” @yarotrof.bsky.social https://www.wsj.com/world/allies-fear-they-are-tied-to-an-erratic-u-s-and-now-have-nowhere-to-turn-23c042e110 Apr 2026 11:40 +0000at://did:plc:4m5lcbkzpf7n34obuajuvazd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj5agf4v2c2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/jacobware.bsky.social/post/3mivtpc7xsk2j#Trump now promising ethnic cleansing in #Iran.07 Apr 2026 13:03 +0000at://did:plc:4m5lcbkzpf7n34obuajuvazd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mivtpc7xsk2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/jacobware.bsky.social/post/3milouxnsps2mWhy would Americans emigrate? "You don't face [...] your 5-year-old going into a kindergarten and doing an active shooter drill." Another interviewee "moved with his two children after the second active shooter scare at his 8-year-old son's LA school." https://www.wsj.com/us-news/americans-leaving-the-us-migration-a5795bfa?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=AWEtsqeRoYNkLiYYdnZvY6t4QStJpkBhevZ-zR0M1xkqsQHTrYL4oHsCdxayd0tWl3k%3D&gaa_ts=69cfaf7b&gaa_sig=TMOOw2YPUQ9B056gjk2jcK6QP2M09tZ-nb6_tIiClObnY160zGa9VJGCU7qEn8-5708UBH-nRSRNLmXByrqwqQ%3D%3D03 Apr 2026 12:11 +0000at://did:plc:4m5lcbkzpf7n34obuajuvazd/app.bsky.feed.post/3milouxnsps2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/jacobware.bsky.social/post/3migqva2x7k2m"As a former senior national security official put it, 'They might as well be looking for Santa Claus.'" @juliaioffe.bsky.social https://puck.news/trump-moves-to-elevate-antifa-as-a-top-terror-threat/01 Apr 2026 13:03 +0000at://did:plc:4m5lcbkzpf7n34obuajuvazd/app.bsky.feed.post/3migqva2x7k2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/jacobware.bsky.social/post/3miecp3o3bc26"Your writing should be your own. The strain required to craft a clear memo or report is the mental equivalent of a gym workout by an athlete; it's not an annoyance to be eliminated but a key element of your craft." https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/opinion/technology-mental-fitness-cognitive.html31 Mar 2026 13:44 +0000at://did:plc:4m5lcbkzpf7n34obuajuvazd/app.bsky.feed.post/3miecp3o3bc26