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Angela Mitropoulos

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Contract & Contagion: From Biopolitics to Oikonomia (2012) Pandemonium: Proliferating Borders of Capital and the Pandemic Swerve (2020) More (open access) writings at https://s0metim3s.com/mitropoulos/

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Angela Mitropoulos @mitropoulos.bsky.social · Dec 17

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge

Day 1

Race, Nation, Class: Ambiguous Identities. Etienne Balibar and Immanuel Wallerstein

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Global Project Against Hate and Extremism @globalextremism.bsky.social · 11h

Trump’s executive order labeling “Antifa” a domestic terrorist group—despite having no legal basis—has inspired far-right leaders in Europe. Hungary, Poland, and the Netherlands are considering similar actions against antifascist movements.

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How the International Far Right is Getting on Board With Trump’s Antifa Terrorist Designation

Trump’s baseless “Antifa” terrorist designation has sparked a global echo, with Hungary, Poland, and the Netherlands moving to replicate it. The coordinated effort reframes dissent as terrorism—part o...

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 17h

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 1d

And who is the author of this op-ed? The billionaire CEO of an asset management firm who helped author the compact.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1d

Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous.

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Stephen Miller views the air strikes as an opportunity to paint immigrants as a dangerous menace, according to one of the White House officials.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 2d

Spoke with cnn while sitting on the floor of my hotel room hallway bc my family were asleep in the other room.

6a E Mark.mp4 - 6a E Mark - Frame.io

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Angela Mitropoulos @mitropoulos.bsky.social · 2d

Pragmatic theocrats

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d

Listening and learning

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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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Angela Mitropoulos @mitropoulos.bsky.social · 2d

" ... one of the founders of antifa"

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

a high armhole allows for freer and more comfortable movement

Joey Mannarino in a dark brown tailored jacket. The low armhole is causing his jacket to lift.

Someone in an inflatable frog costume. The high armhole allows them to raise their arm without disturbing the rest of the garment

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 2d

A book which JD Vance wrote the blurb for.

Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 2d

Just a reminder that Jack published a book last year called “unhumans” that makes the argument that all Democrats and anyone left of Francisco Franco should be rounded up and murdered en mass for the rest of the populations entertainment.
Jack is a Nazi and hell bent on the murder of his opponents

CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 2d

Jack Posobiec explicitly says that "Antifa" dates back to the Weimar Republic, explicitly acknowledging that this administration is opposed to those who resisted the arrival of Adolf Hitler in Power.

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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 2d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Lilith Goddess of Rebellion @elo-cin.bsky.social · 2d

Antifa, short for Antifaschistische Aktion, was founded in 1932. It arose in response to the rapid growth of Hitler’s Nazi Party.

Its goal was to defend the working class from fascist violence & oppose the rise of Nazism. They saw the fight vs. fascism as part of a broader struggle vs. capitalism.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 2d

Free healthcare to all residents of the US regardless of immigration status would rule, actually. Universal benefits for universal problems (having a body that can get sick or hurt)

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Angela Mitropoulos @mitropoulos.bsky.social · 3d

No. Unfortunately

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 3d

My piece - to be in this week's issue - on the South Shore raid and what it says about Donald Trump's America:

www.economist.com/united-state...

My view is this stuff is as much or more about creating content and fear than it is about actually catching immigrants, though that's a goal too

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Angela Mitropoulos @mitropoulos.bsky.social · 3d

The "gangster state" is the fascist state in formation.

Dana Siler @danasilerpgh.bsky.social · 4d

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Bari Weiss Signs Huge Deal To Usher CBS News Into Its Vichy Era | Defector

On Monday, newly appointed Paramount CEO David Ellison announced that his company had acquired the Free Press, the smirking blood-and-soil blog founded and run by former New York Times hall monitor Ba...

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Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org · 3d

We’re enraged and heartbroken by the rising deaths in ICE custody. Huabing Xie, from China, died Sept 29 after being held at Imperial Regional Detention Facility. At least 20 people have died since Trump took office as he moves to triple ICE detention by the end of this year. #CommunitiesNotCages

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Angela Mitropoulos @mitropoulos.bsky.social · 3d

How is ethnonationalist violence not regarded as far Right violence?

CSIS | Center for Strategic & International Studies @csis.org · 7d

New research from CSIS’s Warfare, Irregular Threats, and Terrorism Program finds left-wing violence has risen in the last decade but from very low levels and still well below historic levels of violence by right-wing and jihadist actors.

Daniel Byman breaks it down: www.youtube.com/shorts/nEv0d...

Political Violence in the United States: What the Data Tells Us

New research from CSIS’s Warfare, Irregular Threats, and Terrorism Program finds left-wing violence has risen in the last decade but from very low levels and...

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 3d

A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly

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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 4d

Ah yes let us not judge her based on the words that come out of her own mouth but rather whether or not she created shareholder value

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Angela Mitropoulos @mitropoulos.bsky.social · 4d

Well, now people in the US have both higher taxes (tariffs) and the impending reversal of Obergefell. Congratulations

Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 4d

I kind of can’t believe this Bari Weiss quote is even real, and yet www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

“I know that there are some people in this room who don’t believe that my marriage should have been legal … and that’s ok. Because we’re all Americans who want lower taxes.”

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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 5d

If the immigration enforcement apparatus of the US were its own national military, it would be the 13th most heavily funded in the world. This puts it higher than the national militaries of Poland, Italy, Australia, Turkey, Canada, and Spain — and just below Israel.

The 13th Largest Army in World Is Unleashing Violence in Chicago

As federal agents kill and use extreme force in Chicago, their budget surges.

inthesetimes.com

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 5d

Long Covid is the most common chronic illness among children now. Congratulations?

Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 5d

The Great Barrington Dec. aka the “let covid rip” policy, legitimated the death of over a million Americans, is disabling of tens of millions more, & failed to achieve its own instrumental goal, ending the pandemic. It did succeed hwvr in gutting public health & eroding public trust in science

Five years ago today, we authored the Great Barrington Declaration, arguing for focused protection instead of lockdowns. A wholehearted thank you to the almost one million co-signers. We were proven right.

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 5d

"The strength of a people lies in its purity, not in its diversity."
—Tom Metzger, a white supremacist, neo-Nazi and Klansman

"Real strength comes from homogeneity, from people who share the same blood and values."
—William Pierce, neo-Nazi, author of the Turner Diaries

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Hegseth to the Navy: "Your diversity is not your strength"

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Stacy Fahrenthold @sfahrenthold.bsky.social · 5d

"As anti-Zionist Jews, we experience antisemitism at the hands of Zionists; our members have been called “fake Jews,” “self-hating Jews” and “kapos"...our faith is disregarded and our perspectives are excluded from campus because we affirm Palestinian human rights."

www.dailycal.org/opinion/op-e...

UC Berkeley aligns with fascism, not Jewish safety

To stand against genocide and to stand in solidarity with Palestine is not just a human imperative — it is a core Jewish value. UC Berkeley’s actions are a weak

www.dailycal.org

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