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Steven Hassan PhD @cultexpert.freedomofmind.com · 28/08/2026

I'm going LIVE today at 2pm EST with forensic psychologist @annespeckhard.bsky.social to discuss the Texas ICE protest convictions, Antifa, and her research on MAGA, ISIS, and terrorism. Join us here: www.youtube.com/live/CYhp01l...

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Anne Speckhard @annespeckhard.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

David Stephens from Australia speaking at the Behavioral analysis conference on deception research. He follows a former spy speaking on detecting deception in online dating!!

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Anne Speckhard @annespeckhard.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Enjoying meeting delegates to the Behavioral analysis conference in Krakow!

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Anne Speckhard @annespeckhard.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Maya yamout speaking on her work in Lebanon intervening with radicalized prisoners

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Anne Speckhard @annespeckhard.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Speaking today on the psychology of suicide terrorism today in lovely Krakow! It’s great to be back in a european crowd!

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Anne Speckhard @annespeckhard.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Prison vagabonds by Mike Pannek!

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Anne Speckhard @annespeckhard.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Had a good time talking with cult expert Steve Hassan about the sentencing in the Prairieland Detention Center yesterday www.youtube.com/live/CYhp01l...

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Can Protesters Be Prosecuted as Terrorists? The Texas Antifa Case

YouTube video by Cult Expert - Dr. Steven Hassan

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Anne Speckhard @annespeckhard.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

True story. I served expert witness on his case and then spent almost a year in-depth interviewing Blerim Skoro. He showed me fake passports, comms with his handlers and his story of infiltrating in Pakistan, Syria, Saudi, Kosovo etc www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-det...

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He spied for the U.S. in the war on terror. Now ICE wants to deport him.

The Trump administration is trying to deport a self-described CIA spy who won permission to live in the U.S. by helping convict terrorists.

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Anne Speckhard @annespeckhard.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

This is a good analysis of where the tech giants want to take the US alongside all the increasingly wealthy "oligarchs". Highly recommend listening and paying attention. www.thenation.com/podcast/soci...

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Tech Fascism Has Come for American Democracy—With Gil Durán

Paris Marx is joined by Gil Durán to discuss Silicon Valley’s embrace of far-right politics and the tech billionaires seeking to consolidate corporate and political power.

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Anne Speckhard @annespeckhard.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

"It was such an honor to interview Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. one of the world’s leading experts on terrorism, violent extremism & radicalization, who has interviewed more than 800 terrorists, extremists, ISIS defectors, and others" youtube.com/watch?si=LNyuid7_jmQnDceT&v=ITGwtiqKtUY&feature=youtu.be

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Your Child Could be Recruited Online

YouTube video by Not Silent Podcast

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Anne Speckhard @annespeckhard.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Lunch with Steve Hassan author of the cult and of Trump!

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Anne Speckhard @annespeckhard.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Our new ICSVE paper introduces the concept of Digital Malevolence, a behavioral framework for understanding how the maladaptive behaviors associated with socially malevolent personality traits manifest, spread, and are reinforced within digital environments. icsve.org/digital-male...

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Digital Malevolence: The Dark Psychology of Online Manipulation, Exploitation, and Violence - The International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism

Caroline Ewing and Anne Speckhard Introduction The rapid evolution of online extremist ecosystems has vastly shifted our understanding of radicalization and violence, particularly as contemporary move...

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Anne Speckhard @annespeckhard.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I had the pleasure of spending time with and being interviewed by Zoe Chase of This American Life in this thoughtful piece about the Prairieland Detention Center protestors recently accused by the federal government of being Antifa terrorists. I served as expert podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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The Test Case

Podcast Episode · This American Life · July 12 · 1h 11m

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Anne Speckhard @annespeckhard.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The dangers of online radicalization are real and span all the extremist ideologies and groups and being online and interacting with AI can amplify some mental health issues.Inside the Mind of an Online Extremist www.realclearworld.com/articles/202...

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Inside the Mind of an Online Extremist

Since the advent of social media, guardrails have been in place to deal with extremist content and helping prevent users from becoming radicalized. The removal of many of these safety mechanisms recen

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Anne Speckhard @annespeckhard.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

There has to be accountability to the communities in which federal officers have shot and killed US citizens. Feds are claiming it's a federal manner and states have no jurisdiction Horrible. abc11.com/post/dhs-ice...

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Minnesota prosecutors obtain long withheld evidence in investigation into protest shooting deaths

Minnesota prosecutors have obtained key evidence in their investigations into the fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

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Anne Speckhard @annespeckhard.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Germany is one of the onlyl countries bringing justice to Yazidi victims by prosecuting crimes against humanity and genocide. I'm proud to say I helped a bit on an earlier one. This one is so disgusting. Bravo to the Germans! www.bbc.com/news/article...

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German court convicts Iraqi couple of enslaving Yazidi girls

The pair, named only as Twana H.S. and Asia R. A., left Germany for Iraq in 2015 and became members of the Islamic State group.

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Anne Speckhard @annespeckhard.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

nationalpost.com/news/canada/... Looks like another incel shooting, his manifesto directs hate to women who deny men like him romantic/sexual relations and extends to many others all based on terrible "science". Seems there are so many angry young men today.

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Who is Seth Hatfield? What we know about the 25-year-old Montreal shooting suspect

The suspect, said to be from Lethbridge, Alberta, allegedly left behind a 104-page manifesto.

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Anne Speckhard @annespeckhard.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Funny thing about this case is judge Pitman didn’t believe the government’s scaremongering antifa “expert” and quipped what does Antifa have to do with this case, it might have well been the Methodist women’s auxiliary, or some such comment. But the jury did believe www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/u...

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Protesters Accused of Antifa Ties Sentenced to Up to 100 Years in ICE Attack

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Anne Speckhard @annespeckhard.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Now there's a new indictment in Minnesota where people perhaps crossed a line in First Amendment speech but after Alex Pretti and Renee Good were shot in cold blood by ICE some hysterical, self defense speech should be expected no? www.twincities.com/2026/06/16/f...

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15 federally charged with conspiracy to impede or injure Metro Surge officers

U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen characterized the activist groups as “antifa,” an umbrella term for a diffuse movement of militant left-wing activists.

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Anne Speckhard @annespeckhard.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Alleged antifa members in Texas get maximum sentences for ICE protest wapo.st/4fX4q8x This is really chilling. I was expert witness for the defense of Zach Evetts who along with the other were convicted.

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Alleged antifa members in Texas are sentenced for ICE protest

Eight people got prison terms ranging from 30 to 100 years for their roles in a protest that turned violent outside an immigration detention center last summer.

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Anne Speckhard @annespeckhard.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Southern poverty law conference today “this is the first time in our history when the gov is the biggest enemy of the people.we need organized resistance to authoritarianism & to address capitulation to widespread fear. The power of the gov is unmatched no single individual or org can alone resist.

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Anne Speckhard @annespeckhard.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

this report about for hire killers who have to film themselves targeting synagogues and Americans in Toronto is very concerning and reminds me of the nihilist extremists we recently wrote about www.jpost.com/diaspora/ant... at ICSVE icsve.org/understandin...

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Toronto Police: Young people hired to carry out attacks on Jewish targets | The Jerusalem Post

"Through encrypted messaging apps, young people are hired to carry out attacks against various targets. And in order to get paid, they're required to film their attacks," said police chief Demkiw.

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Anne Speckhard @annespeckhard.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Trump whose name never belonged on the Kennedy CTR is gone, gone, hopefully forever!

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Anne Speckhard @annespeckhard.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

If you are against the Trumpian monument to self which will be hideous and dwarf existing historic monuments please comment on the National Park Services comment page. parkplanning.nps.gov/commentForm....

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National Park Service - PEPC - Triumphal Arch - Section 106 Assessment of Effect and Draft Programmatic Agreement -Submit Comments

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Anne Speckhard @annespeckhard.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Hollie McKay's new article on the Australian ISIS return of women and children and some quotes in it from me! "The consequences of inaction are fraught with risk, warns Anne Speckhard, Director of the International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism. www.nysun.com/article/over...

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Overdue Reckoning for Western Nationals Who Abandoned Home for Caliphate | The New York Sun

Australia’s ISIS-linked families have returned home — with police waiting.

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Anne Speckhard @annespeckhard.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Speaking on Islam Channel today about the crazy unPresidential threats made by Trump this morning and sincerely hoping they don't occur.

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Anne Speckhard @annespeckhard.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Shooting a police officer is an obvious crime, but being present at a protest, even donning black bloc, or having planned one on an encrypted app with a person who becomes a shooter is not evidence of terrorism in my humble opinion - www.keranews.org/criminal-jus...

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The DOJ says it won its first terrorism trial against antifa. Legally, that's not the whole story

In the press, top DOJ officials touted guilty verdicts in the Prairieland ICE shooting trial as the first step to getting "antifa" off the streets. The term legally mattered less than they let on — bu...

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Anne Speckhard @annespeckhard.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

In the Praireland Trial it was brought up that our forebearers did property damage while wearing "blackbloc", i.e. disguised as American Indians and resisted the government tyranny by throwing tea overboard. Were they Antifa? www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

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The Trial of Anti-ICE Protesters Accused of Terrorism

When a demonstration at an ICE facility ended in a shooting, protesters were charged with attempted murder—then the government added terrorism charges. Rachel Monroe reports on the Trump Administratio...

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Anne Speckhard @annespeckhard.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

After a very disappointing guilty verdict in the Praireland trialfor the protestors who had simply shown up for a noise demonstration on the 4th of July and did not plot to shoot at police or deface government property this was fun to read! x.com/Sycamost/sta...

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Anne Speckhard @annespeckhard.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

I'm getting some critical press from far right press on listing all the ways the government's "expert" on Antifa lacked the proper scientific credentials to give courtroom testimony (Daubert). In addition to the SPLC attack, www.dailysignal.com/2026/03/15/l...

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Lawyers for Texas Anti-ICE Agitators Try to Discredit Anti-Antifa Witness by Citing Group That Carries Water for Antifa

Lawyers representing alleged Antifa members tried to discredit an anti-Antifa witness by citing the SPLC, which carries water for Antifa.

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Anne Speckhard @annespeckhard.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Wishing all our Muslim friends a blessed Lailat al Qadr. May all your prayers be answered - especially for peace in these troubled times.

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Anne Speckhard @annespeckhard.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Texas jury convicts protesters charged Feeling sick over this verdict and wonder what portends for those who oppose this government and ICE brutality. And I agree that up to now “In America, we don’t prosecute people for their political beliefs,” said Batten’s attorney, Chris Tolbert.

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Anne Speckhard @annespeckhard.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Both sides rest in Prairieland trial after prosecution's final witnesses and no defense witnesses www.keranews.org/criminal-jus... with the judge questioning if it should be about Antifa at all.

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Both sides rest in Prairieland trial after prosecution's final witnesses and no defense witnesses

The jury is expected to begin deliberating after hearing closing arguments and being read the jury charge Wednesday.

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Anne Speckhard @annespeckhard.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Islamophobic Think Tank Helped Write Indictment Against ICE Protesters theintercept.com/2026/03/09/p... I missed this one while in Texas... Mr. Shideler is not from a think tank, but a policy center, labeled a hate group by the SPLC, and scaremongers about Black Lives Matter, Muslims and now

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Islamophobic Think Tank Helped Write Indictment Against ICE Protesters

The far-right Center for Security Policy, led by anti-Muslim activist Frank Gaffney, is best known for peddling conspiracy theories.

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Anne Speckhard @annespeckhard.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Wearing All Black at Protests Makes You Guilty of Terrorism, Prosecutors Tell Jury theintercept.com/2026/03/12/a... Jurors still debating on the Praireland trial in which I was an expert.

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Wearing All Black at Protests Makes You Guilty of Terrorism, Prosecutors Tell Jury

The case is a major test of the Trump administration's push to label "antifa" protesters as terrorists.

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Anne Speckhard @annespeckhard.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

ICSVE research quoted in the Daily Telegraph regarding the crowdfunding of ISIS women as thousands escaped from Camp al Hol in Syria recently www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

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