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@arelephanteau @arelephanteau.bsky.social · 1d

It also says a lot about who they’re trying to recruit.

The Provost / سيدة الفتنة @msentropy.bsky.social · 1d

Please amplify, those with a bigger platform than me.

It’s horrifying that the person running the US Homeland Security Twitter uses — and clearly knows — the exact same aesthetics, memes, and propaganda from fashwave, accelerationist, and Nazi Telegram.

It says everything about where we are.

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The Provost / سيدة الفتنة @msentropy.bsky.social · 1d

Please amplify, those with a bigger platform than me.

It’s horrifying that the person running the US Homeland Security Twitter uses — and clearly knows — the exact same aesthetics, memes, and propaganda from fashwave, accelerationist, and Nazi Telegram.

It says everything about where we are.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 3d

This young person has gotten multiple warnings from state cops for defiantly moving into the street while most of the crowd has been pushed into “first amendment zones” on the sidewalk. Someone is playing “Springtime for Hitler” through a loudspeaker.

A protester holds a wooden shield in the street with the word “resist” spray painted on it.

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Uzza @uzzamodea.bsky.social · 3d

Alex Stein-wannabe provocateur Matthew Adams (jerkinyourchain) was at PDX ICE last night trying to get a rise out of protestors again.

Adams is a very aggressive instigator who appears to have committed an assault in Seattle on 8/30. In July, he destroyed a protest medic tent in PDX.

A white guy with a neckbeard and goggles shouting at an umbrella

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Anita zx @omi684.bsky.social · 3d

Insane Nazi scenes from Chicago’s Brighton Park neighborhood right now

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Kevin Foster @kevinhfoster.bsky.social · 3d

Massive escalation at the ICE facility. Federal agents made multiple arrests (at least 4), threw out gas, and shot tons of pepper balls.

Heard one of the people arrested screaming minutes later. Not possible to get a visual.

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@arelephanteau @arelephanteau.bsky.social · 3d

Some Dem must’ve did the math and projected that Trump’s popularity is now low enough that they can can safely shit on his—BUT ONLY HIS—thin blue line and still maintain political power for themselves.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 3d

If you like yelling about misuse of the passive voice, THIS IS IT.

CNN @cnn.com · 4d

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken. https://cnn.it/4pPCXIt

37 people arrested and American kids separated from parents after ICE raid at Chicago apartments | CNN

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken.

www.cnn.com

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 3d

Stop lying. Your state cops attacked protesters alongside ICE yesterday. I was there. I and others were violently attacked by ICE agents. Your state cops acted in concert with them during the attack.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 3d

State, county, and local law enforcement have been working together and coordinating to ensure public safety around the Broadview ICE facility, and to protect people’s ability to peacefully exercise their constitutional rights.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 4d

ICE reportedly opened fire on rapid responders on the southwest side this afternoon.

There are *very few* details on this available at this time. Treat all rumors with caution until verified.

This Sun-Times article cites a DHS statement that should be treated, as always, with extreme skepticism:

Shooting involving federal agents in Brighton Park under investigation

According to the Department of Homeland Security, a woman allegedly "boxed in" federal authorities, who opened fire.

chicago.suntimes.com

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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 5d

Attempts to link a professor with a history of anti-racist activism to these seemingly fake flyers at another university have failed, following protests.

"...[A]n investigation found “no basis” to support that he had advocated political violence." www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/e...

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 4d

CALL PRITZKER TO DEMAND HE REMOVE ILLINOIS STATE POLICE FROM BROADVIEW:
(Chicago) 312-814-2121 or 312-814-2122
(Springfield) 217-782-6830 or 217-782-6831
Hearing impaired (TTY): 888-261-3336

I called and talked about how the state cops joined ICE in brutalizing protesters today.

Illinois State Police are protecting ICE as they move their vehicles out of the Broadview Detention Center. Call Governor Pritzker now to demand that he remove the ISP from Broadview. No state resources to protect kidnappers. Pritzker: Call off the IL state police 312-814-2121

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d

"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Jean-Claude Van Justice {bird cult aficionado} @justsomefucker.bsky.social · 8d

We need to talk about last night at ICE in Portland.

So much of last night was bait, but not in a way I've seen before.

I specifically want to talk about the removal of Joey Gibson.

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Jeff Tischauser @jtischauser.bsky.social · 8d

regardless if it's about manufacturing a crisis or not, it's revealing that 200ish people outside Broadview effectively caused DHS/ICE/CBP to panic and call for reinforcements. What are they going to do when it's 500 people? 1,000? Imagine if 5% of the people going to No Kings in Oct showed up.

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Jeff Tischauser @jtischauser.bsky.social · 14d

NEW, from @cassiemiller.bsky.social and me.

We looked into the history of white supremacist compound building in the U.S. to put Return to the Land's efforts in Arkansas into perspective.

www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...

Inside Return to the Land ‘whites-only’ community in Arkansas

A group of white nationalists attempt to build a white separatist neighborhood on 160 acres — an outright attack on the Fair Housing Act.

www.splcenter.org

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Arizona fRight Watch 🎃 @azrww.bsky.social · 25d

For those just learning more about Turning Point USA and Kirk, here's a thread of some of the stuff I've covered over the years, mostly for @lcrw.bsky.social, which has also covered TPUSA over the years and the real (negative) impact they've had on various communities throughout the county.

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Bjørn Ihler @bjornih.bsky.social · 17d

Today, due to the recent spread of (false) narratives about trans perpetrators of mass shootings, I decided to look up search stats for the term “trans shooter.” The term was hardly used at all before May 2022, when the shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde happened.

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Jordan Green @byjordangreen.bsky.social · 20d

BREAKING: Kai Nix, an ex-soldier linked to Patriot Front, has pleaded guilty to selling a stolen firearm to an FBI informant.

Government is dropping a charge for lying on a security clearance application that he had never been a member of an insurrectionary group.
www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...

Ex-soldier linked to far-right groups pleads guilty to gun charge

NEW BERN, NC — A former member of the white nationalist group Patriot Front who was arrested while enlisted as a soldier at Fort Bragg has pleaded guilty to a firearms charge.Kai Nix, 21, entered a gu...

www.rawstory.com

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Jeff Tischauser @jtischauser.bsky.social · 21d

A flyer posted to Telegram today claims that if Kai Liam Nix wasn't arrested he would have saved Charlie Kirk from "ANTIFA."

Nix, a former-U.S. soldier, serial doxer and recruiter for Patriot Front, was charged last yr with illicit weapons sales and lying on his background check. 1/4

Flyer posted to Telegram that includes a photo of Kai Liam Nix with a black bar over his eyes and text that states "I tried." Text under this photo states "This is Kai Liam Nix, Kai infiltrated antifa Discord servers and later ran a telegram channel where he doxxed radical leftists anti-Americans. Kai was shortly after thrown into custody for serving his people. Meanwhile, antifa was allowed to grow and entrench themselves on discord where they were able to brainwash and radicalize impressionable youth into carrying out terrorist attacks. For example, the public execution of Charlie Kirk.

The flyer also includes screenshots of news headlines related to people he doxed and Charlie Kirk's murder.

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 20d

Is it bad? Yah. Are we going to outlive and even overthrow them? We're gonna get a damn good shot at it 😘✌️

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 20d

The Jimmy Kimmel firing, Colbert's show, what's happening at WaPo, CBS... legacy journalism is slowly but surely coming under state control.

It is more important now than ever before that we support the independent journalists out there doing the work not beholden to a fascist's bidding.

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Late Night Anti-Fascists @latenightafa.bsky.social · 21d

We've uploaded about 2600 images that had disappeared from @unicornriot.bsky.social's DiscordLeaks for researchers to access. Check out our DiscordLeaks Image Archive:
latenightafa.noblogs.org/discordleaks...

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@arelephanteau @arelephanteau.bsky.social · 21d

Today’s needed fuck-this-nonsense thread:

talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 21d

it kills me knowing what’s needed is for people to double down on bucking any demands for “civility” because they understand these demands are training people to surveil & snitch on their neighbors and an exploit to intensify authoritarian control over our thoughts.

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By Way of Plymouth @bywayofplymouth.bsky.social · 22d

It's with exceedingly high confidence that I can confirm that lineman Brandon Brooks, currently of Vinalhaven ME and previously of West Deptford NJ, is dead certainly a member of Patriot Front, and occupies several neo-Nazi and neo-fascist spaces on Telegram.

A triptych of images from various points in the life of Brandon Brooks, a white man with brown hair and a muscular build, of Vinalhaven ME. The first is a photo of Brooks atop a utility pole circa 2023. He is dressed in jeans a long-sleeve shirt, as well as climbing harness and climbing spikes on his boots. His arm is extended in what is conceivably a Roman salute. The second is the photo of Brooks posted by the Fox Islands Electric Cooperative circa January 2024. Brooks wears an F.I.E.C.-branded hoodie and a white hardhat, and has tucked his hands into his jeans' pockets. He smiles blankly. The third is a photo of Brooks taken by an antifascist activist in Bangor ME. Brooks, wearing khakis, a gray t-shit, and sunglasses, is walking away while turned slightly toward the cameraperson. He is grinning, holding his phone with his right hand, and flexing his left bicep.

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