>>25601 Just located another DHS article, dated two days ago.
Excerpt: The first step is recognizing the threat: resurgent groups becoming more emboldened, copycats fueled by the shootings before them and whipped-up fervor on online messaging boards, and greater sophistication in attack plots as they seek means of inflicting the greatest harm. Far-right extremists in the United States “have pursued chemical and biological weapons more frequently” than homegrown extremists driven by loyalty to an international terrorist group, William Braniff, director of the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Response to Terrorism (START) at the University of Maryland, recently told the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
Attackers have also left postings or manifestos that cite their predecessors or spout similar white supremacist, anti-Semitic or anti-immigrant talking points, and often have been connected to a targeted violence subculture in online haunts like 4chan, 8chan, Reddit or the dark web. “There’s connectivity in ideology, linkage in tactical strategy in how they execute the attacks,” Masters said, noting the livestreaming of the March shootings at mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, and this month’s attempt by a gunman in Halle, Germany, to attack a synagogue on Yom Kippur....
