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Lemures @strepsirrhini.bsky.social · 4h

Aid goes here ↙️↙️↙️

This is a big deal and real, good work. Buy the merch, donate, amplify... Do whatever you can please. 🤍

big rock big river, ms ⧖ @bigrockbigriver.bsky.social · 1d

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QR card for LUSID Psychological care fundraising to help break the cycle of childhood sexual violence by helping them heal on camping adventures.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 6d

The director of the FBI glamorizing a vigilante (Punisher) who kills people bc the law isn’t ’strong enough.’ This is clearly fascist symbolism.

Sam @samd.bsky.social · 6d

reddit occupied government

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The challenge coins being handed out by @FBIDirectorKash. Seems someone put a lot of thought into this.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 6d

3c) Want to take the opportunity to share this great article from @truthout.org about racism/fascism and The Punisher character

Marvel’s “Punisher” Was a Hate Symbol Long Before Police Co-opted His Character

The Punisher has long been embraced as a classic superhero, but his comics spread reactionary ideology.

truthout.org

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 6d

3b) That tension in breaking the law in the name of the (new or real) law is central to fascism and evident in the popular Blue Lives Matter Punisher imagery. Also evident in much of what Trump has to say about the subject.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 6d

3a) Notable in the "Manifesto of Fascist Intellectuals:
- the desire to do politics as warfare (important given the legacy of WWI)
- the argument that what was needed at the start of fascism was a 'revolutionary' violation of the (perverted) law to restore 'order', i. e. the "new law."

Mussolini and other fascists marching in black shirts

It was the very faith that had ripened in the trenches and in intense reflection on the sacrifice accomplished in the course of battle, a sacrifice for the only worthy goal: the vigor and greatness of the fatherland. It was an energetic, violent faith, unwilling to respect anything opposed to the fatherland's vigor and greatness. This is how squadrism arose. Determined youths, armed, organized in military fashion, and dressed in black shirts, placed themselves outside the law in order to institute a new law. They fought the state in order to found a new state.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 6d

3) Next, some primary sources like "Manifesto of the Fascist Intellectuals" (1925) by the "philosopher of fascism," Giovanni Gentile.

Given fascism's renunciation of rational consistency, there is arguably something paradoxical in the notion of a "fascist intellectual." Anyway...

"Manifesto of the Fascist Intellectuals" (1925)

On 29-30 March 1925 the first Conference on Fascist Culture was held in Bologna under the leadership of Giovanni Gentile. Over four hundred profascist intellectuals lent their names to the event, though actual attendance was more modest. Its aim was to rally Italian intellectuals behind the regime in an effort to enhance the image of the newly declared dictatorship both at home and abroad. One of the congress's immediate results was the following manifesto, largely drafted by Gentile...

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 8d

2a) Apart from featuring his definition of fascism (which he offers reluctantly), Paxton observes how the fascist relation to ideas is merely tactical and not grounded in intellectual consistency.

Useful for today's world to remember how fascists dont feel the need to "justify" changes in position.

The fascist leaders themselves, as we observed in chapter 1, called
their movements ideologies, and many interpreters have taken them at
their word. It is commonplace to see fascism defined by extracting common threads from party programs, by analogy with the other “isms.” This works better for the other “isms,” founded in the era of educated elite politics. I tried earlier to suggest that fascism bears a different relation to ideas than the nineteenth-century “isms,” and that intellectual positions (not basic mobilizing passions like racial hatreds, of course) were likely to be dropped or added according to the tactical needs of the moment. All the “isms” did this, but only fascism had such contempt for reason and intellect that it never even bothered to justify its shifts.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 8d

2) For the same class we read Ch. 8 of Robert Paxton's classic The Anatomy of Fascism. I used his definition of fascism in my book Antifa.

I love his argument that a definition of fascism "encompasses its subject no better than a snapshot encompasses a person."

Cover of The Anatomy of Fascism by Robert O. Paxton. It shows a woman giving a fascist salute.

What Is Fascism?

The moment has come to give fascism a usable short handle, even though we know that it encompasses its subject no better than a snapshot encompasses a person.

Fascism may be defined as a form of political behavior marked by
obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 9d

1a) 1 takeaway is comparison between the "fascism-producing crisis[es]" of past + present characterized by the prevalence of the "nonintelligibility of power."

When a prominent historian of interwar Europe says we are living through a similar crisis amidst the rise of fascism, we need to listen.

A page of text from the essay with certain sections underlined.

With dynamics already apparent from the early 2000s, but sharply
worsening since2008-2010, the US polity has entered a steadily escalating version of the dual crisis outlined earlier, one suddenly magnifed and massively jolted by COVID-19: a crisis of cohesion, a crisis of legitimacy.

Not only is the polity broken, but very large masses of people have
stopped believing in its repair. On the one hand, we have the extreme
atrophy of democratic practices in the state, whether inside the legislature or in the relations of the presidency, Senate/Congress, and Supreme Court; or in the attack on voting rights, voting access, and the conduct of elections; or in the curtailment of civil liberties and the scale and character of the carceral state. On the other hand, there is now a default conviction among the citizenry that government consists only in burdensomeness, corruption, incompetence, and nonaccountability– a still-widening popular belief in what I would call the nonintelligibility of power, the belief that power is exercised in a distant place, behind closed doors and opaque glass, by conspiracies of elites who are beholden to no one and simply do not care.
crisis of consent; government paralysis, democratic impasse– the prospects can be severe indeed. If we add the fields of structural determation outlined briefly at the very start of this chapter, whose ruinous consequences are now immeasurably expanded and sharpened by the intervening calamity of the COVID-19 pandemic, the severity grows further again. The deeper structural setting will need to be fully proceeding from the huge transformations begun in the 1980s. Here, we need to talk about fundamental capitalist restructuring: deindustrialization and neoliberal globalization. We need to talk about drastic class recomposition, including the reorganization of work and labor circuits and the rewriting of the labor contract...etc

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 9d

1) To start, we read the essay "Liberalism in Crisis" by Geoff Eley from the book Fascism in America.

This essay beautifully balances grounding our understanding of fascism in the interwar context with the need to conceptualize a more portable fascism that can apply to today.

Cover of the book Fascism in America: Past and Present showing the Statue of Liberty doing a fascist salute.

First page of the essay "Liberalism in Crisis" by Geoff Eley.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 9d

I teach a history of antifascism course @ruhistorydept.bsky.social and figured I'd start an ongoing thread this semester to share some insights from course readings and recommend some great works on antifascism.

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 1h

America First, baby.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 2h

The Trump administration confirmed that the U.S. bailed out Argentina.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he had directly bought Argentine pesos in global currency markets in a bid to relieve pressure on the nation’s embattled President Javier Milei, a supporter of President Trump.

The U.S. just bailed out Argentina, Treasury Secretary confirms

The US Treasury has finalized a $20 billion financial rescue of Argentina, including a currency swap arrangement with the country's central bank.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 4h

Our plane to Spain is in the air!

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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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Torch Antifa Network @torchantifa.bsky.social · 13d

Today's statement about "Fighting Back Against Antifa Violence" from the DHS contains a false conspiracy theory about our member crew Rose City Antifa.

RCA has not doxed any ICE agents, a fact confirmed by going to the URL DHS conveniently censored from their photo.

RCA did not put up this flyer.

Screenshot of a DHS report with the following text, followed by a censored photo of a flyer soliciting tips about ICE agents with Rose City Antifa's email listed.
"Rose City Antifa also illegally doxed ICE officers, publishing their private information and home address online and on public flyers. Individuals associated with Antifa also sent death threats to ICE agents and DHS personnel."

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Jason Wilson @jasonaw.bsky.social · 13d

Ezra Klein baldly called Luigi Mangione’s alleged crime left wing violence on The Bulwark podcast. That Atlantic story the other day talking about a rise in left wing violence did the same. I’m genuinely confused by this. Mangione’s politics seemed to me incoherent to say the least.

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 4h

The Onion had a post about NSPM-7 before The New York Times did lmao

THE ONION!
theonion.com/what-to-know...

What To Know About NSPM-7

On Sept. 25, President Trump issued a directive called National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 in which “anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity” were described as “common threads...

theonion.com

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 4h

Mark Bray is the Rutgers professor who wrote a book about antifascism and was targeted by right-wing operatives as being an “Antifa” leader. He and his family are being forced to flee the country due to death threats.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 10h

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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pdx law grrrl @pdxlawgrrrl.bsky.social · 11d

For the third year, California killed a bill to help incarcerated domestic violence survivors. “There are a ton of states that are far more conservative than California that passed more extensive legislation through Republican run legislatures."

For Third Year, California Kills Bill to Help Incarcerated Domestic Violence Survivors - Bolts

Advocates in California have pushed for relief for people convicted of harming their abuser, hoping to build on states across the political spectrum that have adopted such reforms.

boltsmag.org

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ohdaneit.bsky.social @ohdaneit.bsky.social · 4h

Love this!

Say No to ICE!

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 18h

No Kings, No Masters

A Call for Anti-Authoritarian Blocs at the October 18 “No Kings” Demonstrations

crimethinc.com/NoKings2025

This is a call for you—yes, you specifically—to organize an anti-authoritarian bloc in your community for the “No Kings” demonstrations on October 18.

No Kings, No Masters

A call for anti-authoritarian blocs at the October 18 "No Kings" demonstrations.

crimethinc.com

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Lemures @strepsirrhini.bsky.social · 4h

a cartoon of spider-man pointing at another spider-man with the words " no u " on the bottom

Alt: a cartoon of spider-man pointing at another spider-man with the words " no u " on the bottom

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Lemures @strepsirrhini.bsky.social · 4h

P sure antifa fucked me but it was a tinder hookup so all I have is their real name and phone number.

Best bang ever though.

Lemures @strepsirrhini.bsky.social · 4h

Aid goes here ↙️↙️↙️

This is a big deal and real, good work. Buy the merch, donate, amplify... Do whatever you can please. 🤍

big rock big river, ms ⧖ @bigrockbigriver.bsky.social · 1d

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big rock big river, ms ⧖ @bigrockbigriver.bsky.social · 1d

I have enough of a plan together and the proper supports to get this where it needs to go, so here it is!

lusidpsychcare.org

I need the community's help to make this network of healing centers for children who were sexually abused a reality. I know we can do this. Please help how you can 🧡🩷💙

LUSID

lusidpsychcare.org

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big rock big river, ms ⧖ @bigrockbigriver.bsky.social · 1d

If you would have benefitted from this as a child, PLEASE help spread the word that we are trying to build it! We need community support!

We can do this together 🧡🩷💙

LUSID Psychological Care @lusidpsychcare.bsky.social · 1d

Help us get started with a donation over $20 today to get your name on our Launch Donor's page!

Make sure you help spread the word!

lusidpsychcare.org

Thank you! 🧡🩷💙

LUSID

lusidpsychcare.org

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LUSID Psychological Care @lusidpsychcare.bsky.social · 1d

Help us get started with a donation over $20 today to get your name on our Launch Donor's page!

Make sure you help spread the word!

lusidpsychcare.org

Thank you! 🧡🩷💙

LUSID

lusidpsychcare.org

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