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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 21h

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 · 11h

Really looking forward to this one

Stanislav Vysotsky @professorstas.bsky.social · 11h

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 · 14h

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 · 17h

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 · 17h

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 · 18h

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 · 18h

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 4d

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 · 4d

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 · 6d

Today in forgotten grifters from the late 2010s:

Jen St. Denis @jenstden.bsky.social · 6d

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 · 14d

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 · 15d

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

d.z.shaw @dzshaw.bsky.social · 15d

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...

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d.z.shaw @dzshaw.bsky.social · 15d

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 · 15d

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...

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d.z.shaw @dzshaw.bsky.social · 15d

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...

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d.z.shaw @dzshaw.bsky.social · 15d

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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d.z.shaw @dzshaw.bsky.social · 15d

I appreciate the part about Rancière too, because I got more than a little feedback from people who didn't really get into that chapter.

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Academic Anarchy🏴 @johnbrownbread.bsky.social · 15d

I have read this book and its great. I recommend it to anyone who wants to know about anti-fascism, especially now with the “terrorist” designation.

Also, it’s a great way to understand the philosophy of Rancière.

d.z.shaw @dzshaw.bsky.social · 15d

This book offers a unique look at antifascism that interweaves Beauvoir, existentialism, Jacques Rancière, Du Bois, Robert F. Williams, and others: 'Philosophy of Antifascism: Punching nazis and fighting white supremacy': www.bloomsbury.com/us/philosoph...

Philosophy of Antifascism

On January 20th, 2017, during an interview on the streets of Washington D.C., white nationalist Richard Spencer was punched by an anonymous antifascist. The mom…

www.bloomsbury.com

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d.z.shaw @dzshaw.bsky.social · 15d

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 · 15d

I've also collected a series of commentaries on specific issues on antifascism along with a critique of Judith Butler's Force of Nonviolence in 'Genealogies of Antifascism': leftwingbooks.net/products/gen...

Genealogies of Antifascism: Militancy, Critique, and the Three Way Fig

Learning from the past to build a revolutionary antifascism for the present and future. Genealogies of Antifascism is a collection of essays written by D.Z. Shaw between January 2020 and the fall of 2...

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d.z.shaw @dzshaw.bsky.social · 15d

This book offers a unique look at antifascism that interweaves Beauvoir, existentialism, Jacques Rancière, Du Bois, Robert F. Williams, and others: 'Philosophy of Antifascism: Punching nazis and fighting white supremacy': www.bloomsbury.com/us/philosoph...

Philosophy of Antifascism

On January 20th, 2017, during an interview on the streets of Washington D.C., white nationalist Richard Spencer was punched by an anonymous antifascist. The mom…

www.bloomsbury.com

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Anarchy Cats 🐱🏴 @anarchycats.bsky.social · 20d

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Stanislav Vysotsky @professorstas.bsky.social · 17d

This should come as no surprise to anyone who knows anything about the left in the U.S. The insistence that this some kind of antifa plot is just a smokescreen to go after the right’s political enemies.

'No evidence' found yet of ties between Charlie Kirk's shooting and left-wing groups, officials say

Three people familiar with the federal probe into Kirk’s assassination told NBC News that investigators have yet to find a link between the alleged shooter and left-wing groups.

www.nbcnews.com

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d.z.shaw @dzshaw.bsky.social · 20d

Side note: If publishers get cold feet, some publishing contracts have clauses that say if a book goes out of print, and the publisher refuses to put it back in print at the request of the author (or rights holder), the rights revert to the author. If you write on antifascism, check those contracts.

d.z.shaw @dzshaw.bsky.social · 20d

This is a great book- and I look forward to the next one.

Stanislav Vysotsky @professorstas.bsky.social · 20d

If you want to understand what antifa activism really looks like, check out my book American Antifa.

My next book, Antifa: What Everyone Needs to Know will be out in the spring on Oxford University Press.

www.routledge.com/American-Ant...

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d.z.shaw @dzshaw.bsky.social · 20d

This is a great book- and I look forward to the next one.

Stanislav Vysotsky @professorstas.bsky.social · 20d

If you want to understand what antifa activism really looks like, check out my book American Antifa.

My next book, Antifa: What Everyone Needs to Know will be out in the spring on Oxford University Press.

www.routledge.com/American-Ant...

American Antifa: The Tactics, Culture, and Practice of Militant Antifascism

Since the election of President Trump and the rise in racist and white supremacist activity, the militant antifascist movement known as antifa has become increasingly active and high profile in the Un...

www.routledge.com

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