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Network Contagion Research Institute: helping the state fight political infection left and right In the opening scene of Costa-Gavras’s classic film Z, about the lead-up to the 1967 military coup in Greece, the chief of police (referred to as the General) addresses a gathering of senior government officials on the “ideological disease” he sees threatening their nation. “It is caused by harmful germs and various parasites,” such as socialism, anarchism, beatniks, and pacifist tendencies. “Infection from ideological mildew” must be “fought preventively” by “the spraying of h...

Common confessions and commitments Andrew said his church (@neartownchurch) participated with these other amazing churches. Keelan Cook (@keelancook) at UBA is also a resource there. Southeastern Alabama. John Thomas (@cyberjohn) reported on the Southeastern Alabama Baptist Association on several conversations they've had as an association. The first one was with Fred Luter, the only African American to serve as president of the Southern Baptist Convention and our local ministers. Another racial reconciliation zoom meeting can be seen here. Also, Dhati Lewis, founding pastor of Blueprint Chur...

ABSTRACT: In the past decade, people associated with what is known as the alt-right have employed a strategy similar to that of progressive, antiracist satirists to advance a decidedly white supremacist, anti-Semitic, misogynist, and deadly serious agenda. As this article documents, the alt-right weaponizes irony to attract and radicalize potential supporters, challenge progressive ideologies and institutions, redpill normies, and create a toxic counterpublic. Discussing examples of satiric irony generated by the extreme right alongside those produced by the (often mainstream) left, this arti...

BILL BARLOW For The Press WEST WILDWOOD — For the first time since 2012, Chris Fox is not the mayor of West Wildwood. On Friday, a new three-member Board of Commissioners unanimously approved Matthew Ksiazek as mayor. “I really want to thank everyone in this community. This is really an honor for me, probably the greatest honor I’ve ever had,” he said. He added the new governing body is open to hearing any suggestions from the public. Ksiazek, John Banning and Joseph Segrest swept aside the three incumbents seeking reelection: Fox, Scott Golden and Amy Korobell...

LAKELAND — The only neighbors Billy Friend has dwelling behind his house either have four legs or wings. And that’s how Friend would prefer it to stay. He and other residents of the Medulla Road area of southwest Lakeland live on lots averaging about five acres. They now see their bucolic lifestyle threatened by the proposed English Creek subdivision, which would place 85 houses on about 45 acres. The proposed development, with a planned entrance near Medulla Road and Hamilton Road, would worsen existing problems of flooding and inadequate roads, Friend and other residents say. At its me...