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WhiteRoseAFA @whiteroseafa.bsky.social · 38m

These costumes are driving the propagandists mad. They're struggling to demonize the protesters and their messaging garbage. They'll keep trying different angles though, because they need the propaganda content.

Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 1h

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

Andy ngo mad about muppets again — this time in Chicago

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2h

Because TikTok is an incredible place, every time we open the app now, we are shown that fake video of a reporter being arrested. Simultaneously, a bunch of commenters are convinced our video of state troopers in Broadview from yesterday evening is AI. Perfect, no notes

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Josep Goded (New Main Account) @josepgoded2.bsky.social · 4h

Palestinians mourn their colleague Saleh Al-Jaafarawi, killed today by Israeli-backed gangs in Gaza City.

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Potomac River Antifascists @potomacriverantifa.bsky.social · 7h

Boosting for a friend. Please give if you can

Murph @murphtracks.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 MUTUAL AID REQUEST 🚨
A good friend on the West Coast has been going through some health issues and needs rent assistance this upcoming month. If you can spare a few bucks, it would help out a whole lot. (I personally vouch for this fundraiser and would really appreciate a boost.)

Comrade Survival Fund

By SoCal Mutual Aid Network

givebutter.com

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Global Project Against Hate and Extremism @globalextremism.bsky.social · 9h

Nick Fuentes has long trafficked in racism and misogyny. Now, mainstream podcasters and platforms are helping him reinvent himself—muting his slurs while amplifying his reach. His sanitization shows how extremists are being normalized in U.S. politics and media.

Read more:

The Sanitization of Antisemite Nick Fuentes

Nick Fuentes, a 27-year-old Holocaust denier and white nationalist, has long trafficked in racism, misogyny, and antisemitism. Yet mainstream podcasters and platforms are now offering him space to rei...

globalextremism.org

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Ⓐnarchohoodism @161bklyn.bsky.social · 9h

Ngo ain’t no journalist. He is a propagandist and has even (at least once that I know of) been an active participant in far right violence along with Patriot Prayer in 2020 or 2019 or 18. I’ll find it.

www.wccsradio.com/rss/veteran-...

Veteran journalist flips script on media ‘running cover’ for Antifa violence: ‘Anarchist communism’

As liberal pundits and networks across the country downplay the rise of violence carried out by Antifa, a jour...

www.wccsradio.com

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Potomac River Antifascists @potomacriverantifa.bsky.social · 9h

Yeah, on one hand, the more the merrier.

On the other hand, what’s to say they won’t start scapegoating us again the moment there’s a Democrat in the White House?

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Bobby @bobbyspumoni.bsky.social · 23h

The alternate reframing by centrists of antifascism as a sort of safe, non-active position while simultaneously pointing fingers at “bad protesters” for optics reasons while coopting the ephemera of the movement has been abysmal to watch unfold for sure.

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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 23h

For decades lawmakers have funded and outfitted cops with military gear who are trained to unload on anyone for any reason they see fit, and now getting indiscriminately beaten and arrested by them is apparently the only defense from the actual military doing worse.

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 1d

Telling the federal court that IL police can handle Broadview was part of the state's legal strategy against national guard being deployed here.

But it's hard to square that as for the good of protestors or Illinoisans as a whole, when IL police are perfectly willing to drag and beat them anyway.

shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 1d

state police continue to push protesters down 25th street. at one point, cops swarmed a group of people and pushed them to the ground.

multiple people arrested.

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 1d

I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

www.theverge.com

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

Gonna be on msnbc in 10 min fwiw

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"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 22h

help keep talia on the beat and food in her baby's mouth

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Raindrop Works @raindrop.works · 19h

Hey, so people who share from Tiktok, there' a massive privacy stealing measure they have. Any links you share from t.tiktok.com or tiktok.com/t/ are actually shortlinks embedded with your user tracking data. Found out when sharing one from Discord to another app caused a friend to get DMd from

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Murph @murphtracks.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 MUTUAL AID REQUEST 🚨
A good friend on the West Coast has been going through some health issues and needs rent assistance this upcoming month. If you can spare a few bucks, it would help out a whole lot. (I personally vouch for this fundraiser and would really appreciate a boost.)

Comrade Survival Fund

By SoCal Mutual Aid Network

givebutter.com

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Potomac River Antifascists @potomacriverantifa.bsky.social · 1d

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 1d

i read a lot of stuff, but i don't own every bit of info i get. i can't prove everything I hear. but if you're using any kind of "ICE tracking" app & you're not really, really smart, you're really putting yourself out there. i don't care myself. but i don't have anything to lose. but you outta know.

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 1d

if you ran any of these for instance, a random assortment of websites i found, i might call a lawyer right now

stopice.net
redadalertas.com
deportationtracker.live/report-raid
staysafe.la
icelistcd.com
fucklapd.com
icespy.org
watchthewatchers.net
filmthepolicela.com
mrcheckpoint.com

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Potomac River Antifascists @potomacriverantifa.bsky.social · 1d

You don’t have to be a tech person to understand that a lack of context during moderation makes it a lot easier for motivated trolls to mass report accounts for posts that look bad out of context

Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 5d

we don't talk about this enough but ozone (the primary moderation tool) being as bad as it is likely is a significant contributing factor to how inconsistent moderation is on here because the whole design strips context. no account context, no thread context, no post context, etc. it's appalling.

Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 5d

i know back in my reddit mod days i was spoiled by RES and toolbox but when i took a look at ozone just for curiosity's sake i recoiled in fear and horror

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Potomac River Antifascists @potomacriverantifa.bsky.social · 1d

You don’t have to be a tech person to understand that a lack of context during moderation makes it a lot easier for motivated trolls to mass report accounts for posts that look bad out of context

Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 5d

we don't talk about this enough but ozone (the primary moderation tool) being as bad as it is likely is a significant contributing factor to how inconsistent moderation is on here because the whole design strips context. no account context, no thread context, no post context, etc. it's appalling.

Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 5d

i know back in my reddit mod days i was spoiled by RES and toolbox but when i took a look at ozone just for curiosity's sake i recoiled in fear and horror

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Pride Was A Riot, Sacramento @pridewasariot.bsky.social · 2d

Now with #AltText

A black background has white text at the top that says “amphifa.” Two flags over each other, common antifa flags, have a black flag and a green one. An image of a green frog facing left with a blue ascot sits on the black flag. Circling the flags is the text, “amphibians against fascism.”

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 2d

in case you want some non bullshit about antifa here is something i wrote

buttondown.com/theswordandt...

We Keep Us Safe: On Antifa

This past Saturday, Donald Trump announced that his administration would be deploying federal troops to Portland, OR, authorizing the military to use “full...

buttondown.com

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Potomac River Antifascists @potomacriverantifa.bsky.social · 2d

www.wired.com/story/mark-b...

He Wrote a Book About Antifa. Death Threats Are Driving Him Out of the US

Rutgers historian Mark Bray is trying to flee to Spain after after an online campaign from far-right influencers was followed by death threats. He was turned back at the airport on his first attempt.

www.wired.com

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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 3d

“I’ll kill you in front of your students.”

This is just one of the death threats that has driven @mark-bray.bsky.social to try and flee the US.

But at the airport last night, after checking in and clearing security, his booking mysteriously disappeared

www.wired.com/story/mark-b...

He Wrote a Book About Antifa. Death Threats Are Driving Him Out of the US

Rutgers historian Mark Bray is trying to flee to Spain after after an online campaign from far-right influencers was followed by death threats. He was turned back at the airport on his first attempt.

www.wired.com

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Murph @murphtracks.bsky.social · 2d

The Mark Bray situation is so completely fucked right now and if you're a journalist you need to start saying how it's fucked because you're fucking next. They won't stop at academics.

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The Final Straw Radio @thefinalstrawradio.bsky.social · 7d

Members of @signalsrising.org collective discuss various radio technologies for communication such as meshtastic as low power alternatives when disaster strikes or infrastructure is scarce

thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2025/10...

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Late Night Anti-Fascists @latenightafa.bsky.social · 7d

This post makes a lot of bold assumptions about what people have and have not been doing since at least November of last year. The worst is not here yet.

Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 7d

If we were living under fascism, none of you would be here daring to post things. You'd be erasing your social media accounts and keeping your head down; you'd know that peacocking your faux-bravery on a network would expose you to being disappeared.
You have no idea what "fascism" really means.

shane @mouthfulofcavities.bsky.social · 7d

the regime is zip tying toddlers and ripping them away from their mothers unclothed... calling it fascism upsets this neo-con.

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