Mike Ma

Michael Mahoney (born October 3, 1995), better known by his pseudonym Mike Ma, is an American far-right and ecofascist writer. He wrote for the far-right American news and opinion website Breitbart News in the mid-2010s. He was an associate of British political commentator Milo Yiannopoulos, then an editor of Breitbart, accompanying Yiannopoulos on several of his speaking tours.

After Breitbart, Mahoney established the Pine Tree Party ecofascist movement in late 2017, becoming an influential figure in ecofascist spaces online. Mahoney has authored and self-published two novellas: Harassment Architecture in 2019, and Gothic Violence in 2021, which both convey an ecofascist and militant accelerationist ideology. Both are popular among the online far right. Mahoney is also a proponent of raw foodism.

Early life Michael Mahoney was born October 3, 1995 to a middle-class family. He is from North Carolina. Mahoney wrote for Breitbart News, He was part of "Team Milo", which was a group of staffers closer to Yiannopoulos than Breitbart as a whole; Emails from Yiannopolous seen by BuzzFeed News revealed that Mahoney had to be "monitored" by Breitbart due to the extent of his antisemitism. founded in 2017, which brought him prominence among ecofascists. ProPublica described their goal as "environmental, broad and violent". With the Pine Tree Party Ma encouraged acts of mass violence.

The group was loose in identification and related to a broader, loosely connected online subculture, also known as the pine tree gang. Adherents usually use pine tree emojis to identify themselves. He spoke at Portland State University on behalf of the Pine Tree Party in 2019, maintaining a "consistent use of slurs throughout the speech"; two individuals threw soy milk at him and set off a noise machine.

Views Mahoney is an ecofascist ideologue, and an advocate of militant accelerationism. He previously described himself as "alt-right", and as a "nationalist cult leader". The Global Network on Extremism and Technology described him in 2022 as "an influencer within militant accelerationism and eco-fascist communities", while the Southern Poverty Law Center called him a major figure for some white power accelerationist communities. He is also against antibiotics, fluoridation of tap water, and consumption of seed oils. One analysis described its core message as "the concretized hatred for all that maintains society". Jenny Rice described it in the Quarterly Journal of Speech as "a fictional work of disconnected fragments that are filled with White nationalist imagery, brutal sexual violence, and gory fantasies of killing anyone who is not a straight White man". Gothic Violence (2021) In 2021, Ma published another novella, Gothic Violence; this book focuses on a group of terrorist surfers taking over Florida. The book is a follow-up to Harassment Architecture in terms of plot, though can be read independently. At the end of the novel there is a "nutrition addendum" where Mahoney gives diet advice.