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d.z.shaw @dzshaw.bsky.social · 1d

This is a huge relief

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

Our plane to Spain is in the air!

🙌🙌

Thank you so much to the countless people supporting us in every way and in particular all of the Rutgers students and faculty who have supported us every step of the way.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

Friends and comrades made a crowdfunding page for my family.

It’s really hard to post this. I know that there are a lot of other important issues asking for money but things have gotten to the point where we need to open ourselves up to your support.

Thank you for your consideration.

"Help us leave safely" on FreeFunder

Click here to support "Help us leave safely" by Dara on FreeFunder!

www.freefunder.com

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RutgersAAUP-AFT @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social · 2d

This week, our colleague Dr. Mark Bray came under attack by Turning Point USA’s Rutgers chapter for his public scholarship. Rutgers AAUP-AFT and the Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union condemn this campaign and stand in solidarity with our colleagues. Read our full statement here: https://loom.ly/BDXasRY

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 2d

The International Anti-Fascist Defence Fund are also departing Trumpland, & 'exploring our options for re-establishing the Defence Fund’s infrastructure in a country not currently governed by fascists'.

intlantifadefence.wordpress.com/donate

'Donate & Support

In September 2025, United States president Donald Trump issued an edict declaring “antifa” a domestic terrorist organization. As a precaution, we have shut down the donation infrastructure for The International Anti-Fascist Defence Fund to protect our donors and recipients.

We are presently exploring our options for re-establishing the Defence Fund’s infrastructure in a country not currently governed by fascists and we hope to have good news about that shortly. Please stay tuned.'

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d.z.shaw @dzshaw.bsky.social · 2d

Every word of this:

KidzBoptotenlieder @theodramatist.com · 2d

Goose meme with text of “Who were the Antifascists fighting in Weimar Germany?”

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 2d

Solidarity!

RutgersAAUP-AFT @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social · 2d

This week, our colleague Dr. Mark Bray came under attack by Turning Point USA’s Rutgers chapter for his public scholarship. Rutgers AAUP-AFT and the Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union condemn this campaign and stand in solidarity with our colleagues. Read our full statement here: https://loom.ly/BDXasRY

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d.z.shaw @dzshaw.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve been telling my colleagues that I won’t be returning to the US anytime soon, and this only reinforces that feeling. I think a lot of even liberal antifascists don’t realize how much the ground has shifted under their feet.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 2d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Stanislav Vysotsky @professorstas.bsky.social · 2d

Solidarity with Mark Bray. The treatment he’s receiving is extremely disturbing.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 2d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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d.z.shaw @dzshaw.bsky.social · 2d

It's an awesome book that foregrounds Black resistance that, among other things, fills in the gaps of Du Bois's Black Reconstruction (that, annoyingly, can be distracting due to failures of the publisher's copyeditors).

Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 2d

For those who would have liked to play this game, check out this awesome book by Black Radical historian Kwando Kinshasa bookshop.org/p/books/blac...

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 3d

Solidarity with @mark-bray.bsky.social, a fantastic, thoughtful, and generous scholar whose work about antifa is so important in this moment.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations

Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

www.theguardian.com

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d.z.shaw @dzshaw.bsky.social · 3d

Really looking forward to this one

Stanislav Vysotsky @professorstas.bsky.social · 3d

I just submitted the draft of my next book Antifa: What Everyone Needs to Know to my editor at Oxford University Press. If all goes well, it should be available early next year.

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Stanislav Vysotsky @professorstas.bsky.social · 3d

Knowing that they have the full support of the federal government, the Proud Boys are going to try invading Portland again.

Since Portland residents won’t passively accept it, this attack will only serve to reinforce the fascist narrative that the city is a war zone.

Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 3d

On Friday, Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio announced on his podcast that because "it seems like [the] Portland Police Bureau is not doing their job," "the Proud Boys will be coming back to Portland" in "one capacity or another."

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Ingrid Robeyns @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social · 3d

This is why universities have to take the political changes very seriously - and not just in the US but also in various European countries: we will be one of the first to be attacked when fascism grows.
(if you think this cannot happen in the Netherlands, remember the Owl of Minerva Speech by TB)

d.z.shaw @dzshaw.bsky.social · 3d

I didn't realize that this threat was as current and urgent as it was. Here's a piece by the Guardian describing @mark-bray.bsky.social's situation: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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d.z.shaw @dzshaw.bsky.social · 3d

I didn't realize that this threat was as current and urgent as it was. Here's a piece by the Guardian describing @mark-bray.bsky.social's situation: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Stanislav Vysotsky @professorstas.bsky.social · 6d

Declaring antifa terrorists may not have many legal implications, but it gives license to all the non-state fascists to intimidate and attack antifascists everywhere.

The state and mainstream institutions won’t protect us. We keep each other safe.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 6d

I’ve received multiple death threats + doxing (including my home address) directly following harassment from Turning Point USA, Jack Posobiec, Andy NGO, + Fox News which called me an antifa ‘financier.’

I have been forced to move my classes online.

If journalists want to talk, DM me or reply here.

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d.z.shaw @dzshaw.bsky.social · 5d

I actually needed to do the work of remembering that this is a thing.

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 6d

If the idea that antifascism requires a diversity of tactics (especially when the state expands its weaponization of law) makes you even remotely uncomfortable, I would encourage you to read Mark’s book and other antifascist literature.

We need everybody, w/all antagonism directed towards fascists.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 6d

It’s true that sometimes the law holds back Trump and affords us some semblance of safety.

But the more we lean into the law as our shield, the more powerful it will become as a sword when Trump changes it in his favor and wields it against us.

Only mass antifascism, legal or not, can save us.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 6d

It’s true that sometimes the law holds back Trump and affords us some semblance of safety.

But the more we lean into the law as our shield, the more powerful it will become as a sword when Trump changes it in his favor and wields it against us.

Only mass antifascism, legal or not, can save us.

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d.z.shaw @dzshaw.bsky.social · 9d

Today in forgotten grifters from the late 2010s:

Jen St. Denis @jenstden.bsky.social · 9d

Update: Lindsay Shepherd says the B.C. Conservatives have fired her.

An X post that reads: Today, BC Conservative Leader John Rustad fired me from my position as Comms Officer with the Conservative Party of BC Caucus. It was because of this tweet.

I am a mother of two young children, and I am 32 weeks pregnant -- I was about to go on maternity leave.

More to come.

d.z.shaw @dzshaw.bsky.social · 17d

Everyone should thank JMP for keeping the other writers on track. I tend to revise things over and over, which didn't work for that format...

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Jonathan Kennedy @getradified.net · 18d

This is probably the best thing I’ve read about the lockdown era.

d.z.shaw @dzshaw.bsky.social · 18d

As a treat, you can also check out the collectively authored volume (including others such as @mlmmayhem.bsky.social) On Necrocapitalism: A Plague Journal, also published by @kersplebedeb.bsky.social: leftwingbooks.net/products/on-...

On Necrocapitalism: A Plague Journal Ebook (Mobi and Epub)

“A virus is haunting the globe, one of pandemic proportions, whose threat has necessitated unprecedented measures to forestall death and violence worse than the present crisis. But the cruelty, violen...

leftwingbooks.net

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d.z.shaw @dzshaw.bsky.social · 18d

Thank you! I still look back it wondering how the authors managed to keep up with it all.

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d.z.shaw @dzshaw.bsky.social · 18d

And an earlier version, "From German Communist Antifascism to a Contemporary United Front" appears in T. Derbent's German Communist Resistance 1933–1945 (PDF is free online). Derbent's whole body of work is incredibly important. foreignlanguages.press/product/the-...

The German Communist Resistance - T. Derbent - Foreign Languages Press

According to most historians, “until 1938, there was no organized resistance in Germany.” Its birth in 1939 is often attributed to aristocrats and the big bourgeoisie. As for the workers, according to...

foreignlanguages.press

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d.z.shaw @dzshaw.bsky.social · 18d

My essay "Seven Theses on the Three Way Fight" appears in this essential volume (on account of the other entries) edited by @threewayfight.bsky.social (from @kersplebedeb.bsky.social): leftwingbooks.net/products/thr...

Three Way Fight: Revolutionary Politics and Antifascism

What’s the relationship between combating the far right and working for systemic change? What does it mean when fascists intensify racial oppression and patriarchy but also call for the downfall of ec...

leftwingbooks.net

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d.z.shaw @dzshaw.bsky.social · 18d

That’s funny because that is the oldest part of the book, from an attempt to understand Rancière on violence. It kind of stalled and then life took things in a different direction.

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