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Written by Weltschmerz à Gogo on 2025-01-13 at 23:00

The US State Department has just designated Terrorgram and three of its leaders as "Global Terrorists". It seems unlikely to change much, but it may complicate the lives of those leaders a little bit.

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Today, the Department of State is designating The Terrorgram Collective (Terrorgram) and three of its leaders as Specially Designated Global Terrorists pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 13224, as amended.

• Terrorgram is a transnational terrorist group that primarily operates on the social media and digital messaging platform Telegram. The group promotes violent white supremacism, solicits attacks on perceived adversaries, and provides guidance and instructional materials on tactics, methods, and targets for attacks, including on critical infrastructure and government officials. The group also glorifies those who have conducted such attacks.

• Attacks or attempted attacks by Terrorgram users motivated and facilitated by the group include an October 2022 shooting outside an LGBTQI+ bar in Slovakia; a July 2024 planned attack on energy facilities in New Jersey; and an August 2024 knife attack at a mosque in Türkiye. In September 2024, DOJ charged two U.S. Terrorgram leaders with a 15-count indictment for soliciting hate crimes, soliciting the murder of federal officials, and conspiring to provide material support to terrorists.

https://www.state.gov/office-of-the-spokesperson/releases/2025/01/terrorist-designations-of-the-terrorgram-collective-and-three-leaders

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Written by Weltschmerz à Gogo on 2025-01-14 at 11:56

Here's a good, short analysis of what the State Dept. designation of Terrorgram and its leaders as global terrorists actually means and what it doesn't:

Writing in July 2020, academic Anna Meier noted that the impact of these designations are not always direct.

“Designation may combat political violence in some circumstances, but its largest effects lie elsewhere,” Meier wrote in Lawfare. “In particular, designation signals what kinds of political contention are unacceptable to the U.S. government—and preserves this categorization as much as possible as public sentiment shifts.”

The same, I think, could be said of types of extremism. Under Trump’s prior administration, his Department of Justice officials went after groups like Atomwaffen Division, The Base, Feuerkreig Division, and other violent white supremacists. Yet he ended his term with a spectacular display of political violence that the mainstream right has come to embrace. And he promises to start [t]his one with a round of pardons for at least some individuals convicted of charges related to the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection.

https://postsfromunderground.ghost.io/the-choice-is-yours-white-man-th/

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