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How 'feminize your opponent' emerges in the Trump era
Gender Gap/Substack
June 7, 2026
Meredith Conroy (political science) wrote: "In the era of Trump, schoolyard taunts that implicate gender aren’t surprising. But behind them is a coherent political strategy with a much longer history than Trump, and the nicknames are only half of it. The other half? Making men feel that their masculinity threatened."
Retired CSUSB professor comments on report that shooting deaths of homeless are disproportionately high in Los Angeles
LAist
June 10, 2026
“Homeless people face, arguably, the highest victimization levels of virtually anyone in society,” said Brian Levin, founder of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino. An investigation by LAist and The LA Local found that at least 278 of the city’s unhoused residents have been shot and killed since 2015, according to an analysis of data from the Los Angeles Police Department. Once rare, gunfire is now the primary means by which killers take the lives of unhoused people in the city.
Retired CSUSB professor discusses how anti-immigrant violence in Northern Ireland can be countered
CNN
June 11, 2026
Brian Levin, founding director of CSUSB’s Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism and professor emeritus, criminal justice, was interviewed as part of a segment on anti-immigrant violence in Belfast, Northern Ireland, where two days of rioting targeted that city’s immigrant community. He discussed what people at the grassroots level can do to combat it, as well as the impact of rhetoric of leaders and high-profile personalities surrounding the violence.
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