Spencer Sunshine

Spencer Sunshine

@transform6789.bsky.social

researching and writing about fascism and the far right for over 20 years. among other things, author of “Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism” (Routledge, 2024) www.patreon.com/spencersunshine

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NEW: We uncovered more deleted tweets from Darren Beattie, the White House aide fired in 2018 for speaking at a conference alongside white nationalists who Trump just appointed to a top level State Department job. In purged tweets, Beattie cheered on Jan 6th riot. www.cnn.com/2025/02/03/p...

cnn.comTrump appoints speechwriter fired for attending conference with White nationalists to top State Department role | CNN PoliticsDarren Beattie, a former Donald Trump speechwriter who was fired in 2018 after CNN revealed he spoke at a conference attended by White nationalists, has been elevated to a top job at the State Departm...

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Over 2,000 alumni from Vivek’s all-boys catholic high school in Cincinnati have signed and circulated a petition demanding that he pull the ad and issue a public apology for “ignoring the moral responsibilities” of his Jesuit education. I think he’s pretty cooked.

Micah@rincewind.run

chat I don’t think doubling down on this ad is working out real well for vivek

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CW: SA It's been a year since I've shared my story, so I suppose it's time to do so again. I was groomed into nazism starting at age 14 by an adult who was also sexually abusing me at the time.

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This week: The Trump administration weakens domestic counterterrorism as far-right violence escalates, ICE appoints a promoter of white nationalist rhetoric, Christian nationalists mobilize ahead of the midterms, a neo-Nazi targets a Hindu temple, and Elon Musk amplifies the global far right.

globalextremism.orgGPAHE Brings You the Latest News in Far-Right Hate and ExtremismThis week: The Trump administration weakens domestic counterterrorism as far-right violence escalates, ICE appoints a promoter of white nationalist rhetoric, Christian nationalists mobilize ahead of t...

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Germany / 764 / COM / NMK CN: Sexual Violence, Torture, Murder And another arrest was made last Thursday in Hamburg. Also related to "Nefarious Maniac Cult". The 18-year-old German was arrested in Hamburg on Thursday, accused of being the indirect perpetrator of murder and grievous bodily harm.

cbsnews.comGerman man arrested for allegedly driving American teen girl to die by suicide, prosecutors sayThe 18-year-old German was arrested in Hamburg on Thursday, accused of being the indirect perpetrator of murder and grievous bodily harm, prosecutors say.
affeu@affeu.eurosky.social

Germany / Baden-Württemberg / 764 / COM / Nefarious Maniac Cult CN: Sexual Violence, Torture, Terrorism A 17-year-old is alleged to have sexually abused minors online and coerced them into self-harm. 1/ www.n-tv.de/panorama/17-...

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Just catching up with this story. Turning Point UK came to my neighbourhood to “protect our kids” from drag queen storytellers at the Honor Oak pub. I don’t think people appreciate how much the English far right is tied up with Ulster Loyalism, and how dangerous this is in a time of polarisation.

"They can start cutting people's faces up. They can stab someone. They can shoot someone." EXCLUSIVE: Our hidden cameras capture the leader of Turning Point UK organising a fake rally for a foreign government and helping arrange a murder-for-hire with loyalist paramilitaries.

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This is literally the end of the rule of law. If a President can pardon people committing crimes on his behalf - and the Supreme Court says he himself can't be prosecuted for crimes committed as part of his job - then the government becomes a lawless entity able to violate our rights without limit.

The Washington Sun@washingtonsun.com

New: White House attorneys are evaluating whether to issue mass pardons to junior staffers. https://www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/white-house-weighing-mass-pardons-for-junior-staff

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Pro-ICE conservative blogger Samuel Sey, a prominent figure on the evangelical right, has himself been arrested and held for potential ICE deportation.

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Just loaded in the 59th premium episode of Posting Through It and titled it "Which Way Western Twink?" Seeing this show grown as Mike and I melt our brains into slush with everyone has been surreal and incredibly fun. Come on in, the water's kinda weird: patreon.com/PostingThrou...

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aren't there grants from non-profits to promote progressive politics among religious congregations? i wonder if i could get one to promote antifascist satanism... 🤔🤘😂

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Meta gave $1M to Trump's inauguration fund — and Mark Zuckerberg himsef has helped bankroll Trump's ballroom. Now Trump's DOJ has halted a years-long criminal investigation into allegedly enabling and profiting from illegal drug sales on its platforms. Funny how that works, huh?

commondreams.org'What Meta's Money Is Buying': DOJ Halts Probe of Facebook Owner That Has Given Trump Millions | Common DreamsBillionaire Mark Zuckerberg's company was facing a criminal investigation for allegedly enabling and profiting from the

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Man, if only if he had launched his political career in 2015 by calling Mexicans rapists and drug dealers we might have known in advance that Donald Trump was the most openly racist politician since the heyday of the Ku Klux Klan, a terrorist group his father notoriously ran with

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "You go up to Minnesota -- number one place in the entire country for the sale of Mercedes-Benz. And Somalians are buying them. They come here with low IQs and no money and they get rich. Do we feel stupid? Our fraud division is getting them all."

Asking for some help: i'm working on a project documenting ICE raids on music, arts, and other cultural venues in 2026. I know about the big Memphis raid, but please comment or DM if you know of others.

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I'm a bit late to the party here, but I just finished Spencer's article on Nazi-Satanism & I believe that it should be required reading for anyone interested in the subject. I hope that he expands this into a book to accompany his also excellent book Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism.

Spencer Sunshine@transform6789.bsky.social

My “A Short History of Nazi-Satanism,” the first comprehensive overview of Nazi-Satanism, is finally out! Runs from the 1970s alliances b/t the Church of Satan & neo-Nazi groups thru today’s Order of Nine Angles and NVE. Link for PDF download. (captcha req) escholarship.org/uc/item/1f57...

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Bovino got fired in March, attended a neo-Nazi rally in May, appeared on a white nat podcast in June and a podcast hosted by J6er and Proud Boys this week. Bovino is now working with another J6er who hosted a rally in Minneapolis named after a racial slur.

1312 Antifascists (Chicago)@1312antifascists.bsky.social

🚨ALERTA - DETROIT MICHIGAN! Saturday! Disgraced Bovino has organized a hate rally against Abdul El-Sayed, and is welcoming neonazi Jake Lang and his motley crew of racist crusaders. Lang Gang has been on a 2 week hate-tour across the country, w/ disruptive acts in MI, IL, NJ, FL, NY. #CrusaderWatch

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In early 2025, I assumed the Trump regime would delete the Department of Justice’s press releases and other statements related to more than 1,000 Jan. 6 cases. So I downloaded them. We’ve now made them available to the public with a search tool. They can’t erase history. jan6memoryproject.org

jan6memoryproject.orgThe January 6 Memory ProjectA public archive of Department of Justice news releases and related court filings concerning prosecutions from the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

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Many people (but me especially) have been saying this for awhile. If even Cruz can admit it you knows it’s really starting to get out of hand.

Tom Joscelyn@tomjoscelyn.bsky.social

You won’t see me quote Ted Cruz often. Not a fan. But the right does have a large neo-Nazi/white nationalist problem. “The Groyper problem is real,” Cruz told WSJ. “I’ve seen more antisemitism on the right in the last two years than at any point in my lifetime.”

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A series of attacks and plots in 2026 has put places of worship increasingly in the crosshairs of far-right extremists. GPAHE documents cases across the U.S., Canada, the U.K. and Poland, revealing a pattern of violence targeting religious communities across ideological and national borders.

globalextremism.orgIn 2026, Places of Worship Are Increasingly Being Targeted by Far-Right Extremists WorldwideIn 2026, places of worship around the world have increasingly become targets of far-right extremist threats and violence. GPAHE documents plots and attacks targeting synagogues, mosques, Sikh gurdwara...

i guess conspiracy theorists are starting to discover my book. there seem to be mixed opinions, sometimes seeing my network mapping of James Mason's collaborators equal to their conspiratorial speculation - but also defending conspiracy publisher Adam Parfrey for having aided violent neo-Nazis. 😆😆😆

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1. Trump’s new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia is a prolific user of Truth Social where she regularly promoted Pizzagate and QAnon conspiracies, accusing elites in the Democratic Party and Hollywood of running child sex rings and eating people.

it’s hard to imagine a world that’s getting better. I feel like our goals right now - as unlikely as they are to be achieved - largely have to do with slowing down the speed in which things are getting worse

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What a strange story. California woman finds a man, allegedly drunk, sleeping on her lawn early in the morning & sends her dad out to move him. The man wakes up & allegedly assaults the (elderly) dad, who shoots him Turns out the man is off-duty ICE agent David Gonzalez abc7.com/story/off-du...

abc7.comOff-duty ICE agent shot after assaulting 72-year-old man and his daughter at Fresno home, police sayAuthorities say a woman found the ICE agent sleeping on her front lawn.

Just a reminder that I am not funded by any universities, think tanks, deep pockets, the deep state, or security services. So if you'd to support my work on - and against - the Far Right, please consider signing up to my Patreon! www.patreon.com/spencersunshine

patreon.comGet more from Spencer Sunshine on PatreonGet more from Spencer Sunshine on Patreon. Join for free or become a member for just $5/month. I have been creating research and analysis about the Far…