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Call me Sam! Antifascist file clerk, he/him, Boston MA local. https://bywayofplymouth.noblogs.org/ Mastodon: https://kolektiva.social/@bywayofplymouth Twitter: https://twitter.com/GoodOlStoneface Icon shamelessly lifted from https://www.theleftfist.com/

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By Way of Plymouth @bywayofplymouth.bsky.social · Nov 6

I challenge you to ask yourself this, free of snark and judgment: what are YOU going to do?

Do you think you can volunteer at a soup kitchen? Feed your unhoused neighbors? Organize tenants? Donate to a bail fund?

Choose to move forward. Find your people, if you haven't already, and get to work.

Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social · Nov 6

Mutual aid is a lot easier to get started with than people realize. I started by going to where the tents were and just walking around, getting to know people, handing out cigarettes, water, and asking what folks need

And then just keep coming back, every week, for 4 years. A group will form.

Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social · Nov 6

we need mutual aid, antifascism, and community defense REGARDLESS OF WHO WINS and frankly i'd feel a lot safer if more people understood that

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 19h

just gonna tap this sign occasionally

Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 17d

seeing a lot of liberal posts showing images of the troops storming the beach at Normandy etc... calling them "antifa."

understand the sentiment, but always grateful for @jamesstout.bsky.social addressing how that's not what we mean when we talk about antifa! www.smithsonianmag.com/history/brie...

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By Way of Plymouth @bywayofplymouth.bsky.social · 16h

Gotta work on your core & quad strength for holding proper Jojo poses without slipping a disc

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WhiteRoseAFA @whiteroseafa.bsky.social · 20h

This shit right here. Antifascism is at its core, community defense. It's about protecting the vulnerable, the marginalized, the minority, but most importantly, the community as a whole.

In the absence of fascist adversaries that are as concerned with free speech, the rule of law, or polite disagreement as their opponents are, a politics of mutual aid and community self-defense remains our most powerful choice.

Anti-fascism and anti-fascists have demonstrated how we might walk this path toward a politics of empowerment, in which we take direct responsibility for our own communities.

If we are going to foster a thriving, powerful movement equal to this dangerous moment, we must not surrender “antifa” to Trump’s whims and the worst fantasies of our opponents. The health and safety of our friends, family, and society may depend on it.

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Steve Watts @sporkyreeve.bsky.social · 23h

Dudes will be like “oh you believe in dressing up as frogs and holding dance parties? That pales in comparison to my strategy, bitching on social media”

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Buddy Stone @buddystone.bsky.social · 23h

"... it was kind of a brutal process to experience it, to have it be such a contentious issue, and for it to be across the country and be called things like a ‘pedophile’ or a ‘child groomer.’ Those things were all very hard to experience.”

$700,000 settlement

Spooky Scott Kelley Ernest, BSPH 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #mtpol @mxscottkernest.bsky.social · 1d

Librarian gets massive payday after firing for refusal to yank LGBTQ books off shelves

www.rawstory.com/wyoming-libr...

Librarian gets massive payday after firing for refusal to yank LGBTQ books off shelves

A librarian fired by county officials in Campbell County, Wyoming, for refusing to remove LGBTQ books from shelves got the last laugh with a $700,000 settlement. According to The New York Times, "Terr...

www.rawstory.com

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By Way of Plymouth @bywayofplymouth.bsky.social · 20h

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🎃 Sid Oozeley 🎃 @oozeley.bsky.social · 3d

ICE is on the lookout for antifa mastermind padmund pondhop

padmund pondhop, the gullywug wizard trying to invent a collectible card game

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 23h

“The truth is that antifa groups have been responsible for some of the most prescient & impactful organizing countering the far-right during the last decade”

Amazing corrective to liberal punditry abt antifa from Matthew Whitley (& basically the thesis of my book) theintercept.com/2025/09/27/t...

What Liberals Get Wrong About Trump’s Executive Order on Antifa

Liberals dismiss antifa as just an idea. That opens up the activists, researchers, and organizers to a real risk of persecution.

theintercept.com

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By Way of Plymouth @bywayofplymouth.bsky.social · 21h

Padmond Pondhop says "down with this sort of thing"

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Jason Wilson @jasonaw.bsky.social · 1d

The radical antifas are reclaiming frogs

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 21h

antifa bogeyman in nutshell: label whomever opposition is "antifa" — in this case Resistance 2.0 "No Kings" folks — creating pretext to target them w/ state/vigilante violence

also sews division, w/ moderates fretting abt appearing too extreme, making them punch left, undercutting solidarity

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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Shen Comix @shenanigansen.bsky.social · 23h

Panel 1: Shen is stoically holding up a sign with his right hand that says "W O R C E S T E R" on it.

Panel 2: A man clearly from Boston, in a black Red Sox cap and Bruins jersey and holding a Market Basket bag slung over his shoulder, says "WOOSTER!" Under the cap, he has messy brown hair, and is smiling innocently.

Panel 3: Shen, still stoic, now holds up a picture of a rooster with both hands.

Panel 4: The man from Boston smile lights up, sparkles in his eyes, and says "ROOCHESTER!!!"

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Joey P @joeypeters.bsky.social · 22h

The Nobel Peace Prize is bad actually, and is given out for doing imperialism in a method that won't draw negative attention from whiney liberals while still being brutal.

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Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 1d

A federal judge ordered the immediate release of a man “who went to [an] ICE office … for ‘a routine check-in’ on Aug. 22 and instead found himself bound and transported to the Plymouth County jail, where ICE planned to keep him locked up until they could figure out which country to send him to.”

Judge orders immediate release of Brazilian immigrant grabbed by ICE when he showed up for a scheduled appointment

For at least the third time in a week, a federal judge in Boston has ordered the release of an immigrant shoved into prison by ICE because the regime illegally decided to ignore the section of immigr...

universalhub.com

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 1d

Matthew Althorpe, 29, of Niagara Region, pleaded guilty to facilitating terrorist activity, instructing others to carry out terrorist activity and committing an offence for a terrorist group

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Ontario man pleads guilty in Toronto to 3 terrorism charges | CBC News

An Ontario man pleaded guilty in Toronto on Thursday to three terrorism charges for his participation in an international neo-Nazi terrorist group.

www.cbc.ca

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Bulldog @harpua.bsky.social · 1d

Portland City Council member Angelita Morillo humorously criticizes Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, leading to laughter from CNN's Boris Sanchez.

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Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 1d

The Suffolk District Attorney's Office has charged 13 anti-genocide protesters with violating a law banning the "promotion of anarchy."

A prosecutor told a judge that one protester started a riot by kicking a moving police vehicle.

#Boston #Massachusetts

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/09/m...

Suffolk District Attorney Kevin R. Hayden’s office formally accused all 13 people with violating the state law prohibiting “promotion of anarchy,” records show.

“Further investigation revealed violent imagery and rhetoric used in promotional media for the October 7 incident,” Hayden spokesman James Borghesani wrote in an e-mail. “This organizing material promoted violence against police and presented an immediate threat to public safety which, combined with the actions of the individuals arrested, provided clear justification for the enhanced charges.”

In court, Suffolk Assistant District Attorney Olivia R. Izzi said police had reviewed police body worn cameras and videos posted to the internet about the incident and developed new information about one of the protestors, Emerson College senior Hayley A. Macintyre.

As the cruiser tried to move past, Izzi said, Macintyre allegedly kicked the cruiser, prompting an officer to move to stop her from vandalizing the cruiser and blocking the street, Izzi said.

Izzi’s summary sparked a question from the judge.

“Is it your allegation that Hayley Macintyre set this riot off?” Treseler asked from the bench.

Izzi replied, saying “it seems she was one of the first protestors to attempt to block” police responding to the emergency call.

“It’s believed at this time, the rioter who kicked the cruiser door and initiated the violent incident is suspect, Haley Macintyre. That’s the defendant before you,” Izzi told Treseler.

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Late Night Anti-Fascists @latenightafa.bsky.social · 1d

Some anons threw together manuals for organizing and protesting, and they are pretty good actually. Read them:

Anonymous Manuals — Free Downloads

Two field‑tested handbooks: Protest Manual & Organizing Guide. Free to download, mirror, and share.

youranon.news

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

With SCOTUS set to legalize conversion therapy, I think it's important for states to get around this decision by implementing new legislation applying private rights of action to practitioners of conversion therapy by their victims with large damages and long statutes of limitations.

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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 2d

Attorney says video shows 'CBP agent taunting her—“Do something, bitch” before "steering unmarked vehicle into hers and opening fire."

"“La Maggie” Martinez survived a federal shooting in #Chicago, [h]er attorney says body-cam footage shows agents provoked it." migrantinsider.com/p/chicago-la...

Chicago Latina Shot by Border Patrol Survives, Lawyers Up

“La Maggie” Martinez survived a federal shooting in Chicago. Now her attorney says body-cam footage shows the agents provoked it. The public deserves to see the tape.

migrantinsider.com

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Drunk On Mystery @drunkonmystery.bsky.social · 2d

The video of a bunch of heavily armed and geared up ICE agents backing away from a dancing inflatable frog is ridiculously embarrassing for ICE.

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 2d

yes this timeline is a rough route. yes there are waves of strife. but behind it all lies the inertia of all things which prompted fish to trot out of the ocean and humans to gather in commune. we are driven to fill the nothing with ourselves, with LOVE. its the unconquerable wind behind our sails

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d

Despite getting whatever anti-trans narrative they wanted out of the Charlie Kirk shooting, the American right is now blaming the Jews instead, because content must be created. It is almost like the "first they came for" thing is not hypothetical!

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d

It's the golden rule of grievance politics: you will never be happy. You are a permanent captive to the infinity goalpost.

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Arizona fRight Watch 🎃 @azrww.bsky.social · 3d

Mailed out the last of Jake Kelly’s clothes back to his mom. Jan always told me how small he was but it really hits you when folding his clothes. The Phoenix PD should never know peace about his murder, unfortunately most have moved on and the media barely gave his story the time of day as is, sigh

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talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 3d

doomspiral -> annoyance/anger -> spite/vengeance -> organizing

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