Sign in

Prof. Amy Mack (she/her)

@acmack.bsky.social
815 followers 343 following 24 posts

PhD | Canada Research Chair in Digital Extremism and Assistant Professor | Co-director of Research at the Canadian Institute for Far Right Studies | Alienated Westerner

PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by Prof. Amy Mack (she/her)
The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Top analysts expect a flood of online propaganda and misinformation to begin even as the votes are counted. The purpose is to convince people the referendum was crooked.” #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...
calgaryherald.com
Braid: A social media bombardment will tell the world the referendum is rigged
The referendum will hand an easy victory to the federalists, but bad social media actors will try to convince the world it was rigged.
78667
Reposted by Prof. Amy Mack (she/her)
Daniel Robson @dancollen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The National Post published an article defending the white nationalist Dominion Society because, they propose, 8% of Canadians *could,* "for argument's sake" support ethnic cleansing—meaning it's more popular than the NDP. They Included a legal argument but did not disclose the author was disbarred.
Polls have shown that roughly half of Canadians believe immigration levels are too high. Let’s say for argument’s sake that only eight per cent of Canadians support remigration, and 92 per cent oppose it. Should having only eight per cent support for your opinion mean losing your right to rent government-owned facilities, and to use public spaces like parks and sidewalks?

If yes, then no government facilities should be available for rental by the NDP, which garnered only 6.3 per cent of the popular vote in Canada’s most recent federal election. Almost 94 per cent of Canadians rejected the NDP in 2025. Yet the NDP is not disqualified from being able to exercise its Charter freedoms of expression, association and peaceful assembly.
12718
Reposted by Prof. Amy Mack (she/her)
The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
🚨BREAKING!🚨 The UCP have officially voted to ditch the Electoral Boundaries Commission Report to appoint their own commission and draw their own maps! Gerrymandering is official UCP policy in Alberta! Contrary to her script, Smith didn't even show up for the vote.
19206117
Reposted by Prof. Amy Mack (she/her)
Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
“Antifa” is a sentiment and an organizing principle. There is no membership. He’d have better luck trying to find people who joined Paw Patrol.
51420110
Reposted by Prof. Amy Mack (she/her)
Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
CALL FOR CHAPTERS! Me and @grahammacklin.bsky.social are putting together an edited collection looking at the use of pseudoscientific ideas by extremist movements. If you are interested, please send us your abstracts at this link: forms.gle/mAUtpDGNEj9i...
26857
Reposted by Prof. Amy Mack (she/her)
Canadian Anti-Hate Network @antihate.ca · 15/12/2025
The apparent implosion of OneBC seems to centre largely around one staff member - Othman Mekhloufi, who OneBC staffer Wyatt Claypool said (on X) has "insane race 'blood and soil' politics." We have audio of Mekhloufi from August talking about political strategy. 🧵 👇 vancouversun.com/news/local-n...
vancouversun.com
Upstart political party OneBC splits in two after internal fight
On Sunday, MLA Tara Armstrong said the only other elected member of the party, Dallas Brodie had been ousted as leader
55841
Reposted by Prof. Amy Mack (she/her)
Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 08/12/2025
Don't be fooled. Bill 13 (the Jordan Peterson law) isn’t about free speech or even off-duty conduct of professionals. edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...
edmontonjournal.com
'Jordan Peterson law': Alberta seeks to protect professionals from discipline for off-duty conduct
The so-called Jordan Peterson law would restrict professional regulatory bodies from disciplining their members for off-duty conduct.
39234
Reposted by Prof. Amy Mack (she/her)
Rine Vieth @rinewithoutacat.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
If you think that part time faculty in Canada should be paid more than ~$26k/year teaching four courses, should get benefits, and should have a path to permanency, sign + share! We're on strike for what's already been settled at other universities. ❤️ @cupe3912.bsky.social forourfuture.ca
forourfuture.ca
Academic workers are fighting for Nova Scotia’s future - can you help?
CUPE 3912 academic workers at Mount Saint Vincent University and Saint Mary’s University are on strike. Students risk losing courses, mentors, and the quality of education they deserve.
0106
Reposted by Prof. Amy Mack (she/her)
Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
They’ve started running Dick Cheney through the Charlie Kirk sanitation machine. The man pushed false WMD claims, justified torture, and expanded unchecked executive power after 9/11. He showed zero remorse for the hundreds of thousands who died in Iraq. Like… stop it.
930981
Prof. Amy Mack (she/her) @acmack.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
We're not becoming authoritarian, we already are. The question should now be: how do we survive?
010
Reposted by Prof. Amy Mack (she/her)
Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Don’t let anyone change the reality of who Fuentes is. Now that he is more mainstream, there will be an almost involuntary reaction on the part of many to see him as legitimate. He’ll use that to great effect, as he already did with Carlson. But never forget: this is who Fuentes actually is.
916255
Reposted by Prof. Amy Mack (she/her)
Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
It actually is mind blowing to check out X and see what is essentially 4chan which is also populated with politicians, media figures, "thought leaders" etc. A dystopian horror, really. Where neo-Nazis now have equal standing with mainstream leaders. There is a reason Fuentes is now so mainstreamed.
261791367
Reposted by Prof. Amy Mack (she/her)
Edmonton Journal @edmontonjournal.com · 04/11/2025
On Monday morning, the UCP voted to get rid of the guy who’s investigating the health contract scandal. edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...
edmontonjournal.com
Braid: UCP dumps auditor general as he races to finish health scandal report
A UCP committee votes to replace auditor general Doug Wylie, the key person investigating the health contract scandal, writes Don Braid.
21720
Prof. Amy Mack (she/her) @acmack.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Thank you!
000
Reposted by Prof. Amy Mack (she/her)
Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Was on @rachelgilmore.bsky.social's podcast, along with @acmack.bsky.social, talking all things extremism. Listen here: www.youtube.com/live/p-vRVaU...
youtube.com
Tradwives, memes, Nordic sh*t: a look at today's far right (with Amarnath Amarasingam and Amy Mack)
YouTube video by Rachel Gilmore
16019
Prof. Amy Mack (she/her) @acmack.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
This was such a blast! So grateful when folks in the media give academics the space to talk about our work in accessible and public-facing ways.
1308
Prof. Amy Mack (she/her) @acmack.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
It's new article day! So excited that this piece with @luccousineau.bsky.social and @iamryanhopkins.bsky.social is out in the world. In it we work through our experiences studying the far-right & propose some ways universities can better support students. journals.library.brocku.ca/index.php/SS...
journals.library.brocku.ca
Scholar and Student Wellness while Confronting Violence and Ignorance: Can we Trust our Institutions when we are Targeted? | Studies in Social Justice
11612
Reposted by Prof. Amy Mack (she/her)
J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Psych-ish 🧵: Honestly, I think this country has lost its collective mind. And once again, it seems like the poor will suffer most. 🔹️75% of babies in the US are formula fed by 6 mos. 🔹️Now, parents are losing it about ingredients like seed oils. (You... 1/8 www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
washingtonpost.com
RFK Jr. is reviewing baby formula rules for the first time in 30 years. What’s at stake.
The FDA is reviewing infant formula ingredients and nutrition as part of Operation Stork Speed, a move that could impact baby nutrition and safety.
56432
Reposted by Prof. Amy Mack (she/her)
Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
I teach a history of antifascism course @ruhistorydept.bsky.social and figured I'd start an ongoing thread this semester to share some insights from course readings and recommend some great works on antifascism. 🧵
482314702
Reposted by Prof. Amy Mack (she/her)
e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 06/10/2025
what if I told you that taking accountability for your actions was traditionally considered a load-bearing feature of masculinity?
16382591637
Reposted by Prof. Amy Mack (she/her)
Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
“The memos classify huge swaths of political advocacy and belief as potentially contributing to political violence and domestic terrorism, directing law enforcement and federal agencies to investigate and possibly charge advocacy groups and their funders.” talkingpointsmemo.com/news/the-tru...
talkingpointsmemo.com
The Trump Admin’s Mostly Unnoticed Move to Crack Down on the Opposition
Last month, the White House issued two executive orders that direct federal...
819380
Reposted by Prof. Amy Mack (she/her)
Yale of Gilead North (Alberta) @ydbelanger.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
@charlesrusnell.bsky.social spoke to my class yesterday—great session! I asked him @ Al Beeber running campaign ads while still writing for the #Lethbridge Herald.👇 “You can’t be a politician AND a journalist,” and he said a leave of absence should have been mandatory. Call 403-328-4411 to complain.
24224
Reposted by Prof. Amy Mack (she/her)
John Horgan @johnhorgan.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
1/n A few days ago, an article appeared in The Atlantic with a bold headline “Left-wing terrorism is on the rise.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
theatlantic.com
Left-Wing Terrorism Is on the Rise
For the first time in more than 30 years, attacks by the far left outnumber those by the far right.
29479223
Reposted by Prof. Amy Mack (she/her)
Dr. Marc-André Argentino @maargentino.com · 29/08/2025
Since the Annunciation shooting in Minneapolis, I have bee transcribing the attackers diary, I have transcribed 231 of 291 pages. The diary is handwritten with (mostly) Cyrillic letters to look “Russian” but are English words spelled phonetically.
815046
Prof. Amy Mack (she/her) @acmack.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
My emerging theory of the world is that we should have never abandoned pigeons in favour of tele-communication world. In a multi-species communication world, we'd only publish once a year, but read much more deeply.
060
Reposted by Prof. Amy Mack (she/her)
John Horgan @johnhorgan.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Damn right.
3135
Prof. Amy Mack (she/her) @acmack.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Group chats, public printers, what's next?
020
Reposted by Prof. Amy Mack (she/her)
Center for Countering Digital Hate @counterhate.com · 16/08/2025
ChatGPT is betraying vulnerable teenagers. We tested OpenAI’s platform & found it generated harmful answers to over half of 1.2K prompts. AI companies must take safety seriously. CCDH's new research in @washingtonpost.com ⤵️ buff.ly/GvRdXVB
077
Reposted by Prof. Amy Mack (she/her)
Thomas Juneau @thomasjuneau.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
I will be on CBC with Ian Hanomansing at 19h05 tonight to talk about Canada announcing that it will recognize Palestinian statehood.
0266
Reposted by Prof. Amy Mack (she/her)
Christy Somos @christysomos.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
ICYMI: The @cajournalists.bsky.social has launched their peer-to-peer support program tackling burnout, stress and industry-related mental health challenges I urge everyone - from interns to veteran correspondents to producers to reach out. You are not alone. caj.ca/peersupport/
0155
Reposted by Prof. Amy Mack (she/her)
Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
SIGN THE PETITION FROM @antihate.ca HERE: www.antihate.ca/demand_actio...
antihate.ca
Demand Action on Male Supremacy in Schools
Sign the petition against male supremacy violence and harassment in Canadian schools.
16427
Reposted by Prof. Amy Mack (she/her)
Bill Comeau 🇨🇦 @bill-comeau.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
The sexual assault trial of 5 hockey players is over, they were found not guilty. But many of us will never be confident that justice was served. The judge mishandled the trial, dismissed the jury and the alleged victim was subjected to day after day of interrogation by 5 different legal teams.
69625212
Reposted by Prof. Amy Mack (she/her)
Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 24/07/2025
Harvard has officially closed its office for LGBTQ life. They folded it into the office of culture and community. There are affinity support offices for veterans and religious students but not for LGBTQ students, students of color, or women. Absolute cowards. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
thecrimson.com
Harvard College Closes Diversity Offices, Reassigns Staff to New ‘Harvard Foundation’ | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard College will close its offices for minority students, LGBTQ students, and women and fold their staff under a new Office of Culture and Community, according to a Wednesday message from College ...
421569463
Reposted by Prof. Amy Mack (she/her)
Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
It’s worth naming that the reason people already have these “neutral” alternative phrases in their back pocket is because this is the language white supremacist scholars use to hide their hateful work. And now they’re asking all of us to use it to legitimize them.
15517
Reposted by Prof. Amy Mack (she/her)
Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
“the United States would be guaranteed first right of refusal on Canadian resources” Omg no
People briefed on the negotiations say the United States would be guaranteed first right of refusal on Canadian resources. That is quite a prize at a time when countries around the world are scrambling to line up their supplies.
69236
Reposted by Prof. Amy Mack (she/her)
Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
The French have a first right of refusal on French African resources. That’s how France strips their wealth
37730
Reposted by Prof. Amy Mack (she/her)
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Yes every conservative social media site becomes a tropical rainforest of school shooters and Ponzi schemes but did you know that there is a left-wing social media site where people are rude to the nation’s center-right political pundits
7164591117
Reposted by Prof. Amy Mack (she/her)
Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
There is no bigger story right now than the White House asserting that California residents are in a state "of rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States."
whitehouse.gov
Department of Defense Security for the Protection of Department of Homeland Security Functions
MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE                THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
753158585993
Reposted by Prof. Amy Mack (she/her)
Dr. Karen Carr @quatrus.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Wondering how enthusiastic the CA National Guard is about going into Compton?
In Compton, a city south of Los Angeles that sits across a freeway from Paramount, some demonstrators are zipping through the dark in off-road vehicles, blasting music, while others chant near a police line. Most are standing around chatting or filming on their phones. There’s no indication that this crowd plans on leaving anytime soon.
1347275
Reposted by Prof. Amy Mack (she/her)
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
This book is *psychotic*. Revisionist, fact-free propaganda from the very first page. I know I shouldn’t be at this point, but it’s shocking that the authors were featured on The Daily
In COVID’s wake
1072287262
Reposted by Prof. Amy Mack (she/her)
Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
It’s important that we name that sociologists (including Jess) have been raising the alarm about these trends toward misogyny in young men and boys for a decade. This isn’t something that sprung up out of nowhere. It has been brewing for their whole adult lives.
15341111
Reposted by Prof. Amy Mack (she/her)
Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Safe from what?
107221
Reposted by Prof. Amy Mack (she/her)
The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 04/06/2025
“Jordan Peterson is a bad and lazy thinker, and an even worse writer,” writes Luke Savage. “But he is also symptomatic of a more generalized decline in the quality of public intellectuals.” thewalrus.ca/is-jordan-peters...
107520
Reposted by Prof. Amy Mack (she/her)
Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Here’s the thing, if they are picking up folks working in the country illegally, I’m going to need to see some white guys also being arrested for employing people working illegally in the country. Otherwise, it’s just racism.
935240295760
Reposted by Prof. Amy Mack (she/her)
Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
What’d I tell y’all? The man is a Conservative
54510
Reposted by Prof. Amy Mack (she/her)
Dr William Allchorn @willallchorn.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
“According to this new updated [State Dept style] guide, the term “racially or ethnically motivated violent extremism”– “REMVE” or “RMVE” – was now banned, except in situations where they were legally compelled to use it.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
theguardian.com
Trump administration is minimizing white supremacist threat, officials warn
Coming changes at the state department follow pattern of moving resources away from programs that focus on preventing far-right violence
0147
Reposted by Prof. Amy Mack (she/her)
Rebekah Jones @georebekah.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
At least 27 are dead in Missouri in Kentucky after severe weather alerts were delayed overnight because of DOGE cuts. www.mesoscalenews.com/p/tornado-wa...
mesoscalenews.com
Tornado warnings delayed because of DOGE cuts
At least 27 are dead in Missouri in Kentucky after severe weather alerts were delayed overnight because of DOGE cuts.
27067273484
Reposted by Prof. Amy Mack (she/her)
Audrey Gagnon @audreygagnon.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Excited to share this new article co-authored with the amazing @tamtagelashvili.bsky.social on how institutions can foster safe organizational cultures and support researchers working on extremism & terrorism through safety tools and protocols doi.org/10.1177/1468...
doi.org
How can institutions better support researchers? The case of extremism and terrorism research - Audrey Gagnon, Tamta Gelashvili, 2025
Research in certain fields of study may carry emotional and safety-related risks. For example, scholars in the field of extremism and terrorism often navigate p...
13313