Extremists Links: Interviews with military veterans that previous express support for extremist groups provided some insight into support for extremism including political violence: 'I have a line in the sand.' https://www.radicalreports.org/p/extremists-links-study-provides-insight

Why We Fail to Spot Our Own Conspiracy Beliefs https://neurosciencenews.com/conspiracy-belief-psychology-25887/

Christian nationalists embrace Trump as their savior – will they be his? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/07/christian-nationalists-embrace-trump-as-their-savior-will-they-be-his

For years, conspiracy theorists made wild claims about 'chemtrails,' 5G WIFI, and geoengineering. Now, GOP lawmakers in several states have introduced bills based on claims by conspiracy theorists. https://www.radicalreports.org/p/why-are-gop-state-lawmakers-introducing

Republican candidates for congress and state legislatures are campaigning by embracing January 6th conspiracy theories and promoting myth that Capitol Riot defendants are 'political prisoners.' https://www.radicalreports.org/p/capitol-riot-retcon-republican-candidates

Up to a Trillion Cicadas Could Emerge in the U.S. Later This Spring https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/two-broods-of-cicadas-will-emerge-in-the-us-later-this-spring-180984110/

Trumpism Is Emptying Churches: The former president’s embrace of White Christian militantism coincides with a precipitous decline in religious affiliation in the US. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-04-07/trump-s-brand-of-christian-conservatism-is-driving-people-from-church

Morning Briefing: Total Solar Eclipse Inspires Conspiracy Theorists https://radicalreports.substack.com/p/morning-briefing-total-solar-eclipse

Photo of astronomers observing the total solar eclipse in Fort Worth, Texas on July 29, 1878.

Will bats fly during the solar eclipse? We’re about to find out. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/solar-eclipse-2024-north-america-bats-photography

A solar eclipse helped prove Einstein’s theory of general relativity. https://historyfacts.com/science-industry/fact/solar-eclipse-einstein-theory-of-general-relativity/

How Ancient Humans Studied—And Predicted—Solar Eclipses https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-ancient-humans-studied-and-predicted-solar-eclipses/

Recommended Reading: Authoritarianism Feeds Off Despair https://radicalreports.substack.com/p/recommended-reading-authoritarianism

The Week in Extremism: As the FBI is attacked again, criminal threat cases continue to spike https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2024/04/05/fbi-attack-in-atlanta-criminal-threats-rise/73211163007/

Elon Musk's viral lie about the 2024 election uses bogus data https://popular.info/p/elon-musks-viral-lie-about-the-2024

Extremists Links: The Far Right Christian Nationalist Entrepreneurs Selling Fear https://radicalreports.substack.com/p/extremists-links-far-right-entrepreneurs

‘Anyone Who Dares Call Us Nazis Will Be Reported’: Inside a remote forest town where Germany’s new right roosts. https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/03/30/sonneberg-afd-elections-germany-far-right-sesselmann/

"The perception that sex work is intrinsically seedy or undesirable often lends itself to the idea that the people who do the work perhaps deserve that violence." https://macleans.ca/longforms/incel-terrorism/

"Trump endorsing the 'God Bless the USA' Bible sends a strong message that the 'real America' is Christian. But when you think about it, that’s no less true of a liberal journalist on a news bulletin spouting the 'true' meaning of Easter." https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/chrissy-stroop-donald-trump-transgender-day-visibility-easter-joe-biden/

“There’s the sense that the liberal order is so corrupt that elite Catholics have to find positions of influence and use them in a kind of noble and appropriate way." https://religionnews.com/2024/04/03/the-strange-world-of-catholic-christian-nationalism/