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Canadian Anti-Hate Network @antihate.ca · 8d

Last week, Trump declared “Antifa” a domestic terrorist organization.

This is why the far-right in the US & Canada see it as an obstacle that has to be cleared in order to carry out their smash-and-grab of the political establishment. 👇

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Trump is Lying About Antifascism

As an antifascist organization ourselves, we can help explain antifascism and why the far-right in the United States and Canada see us as an obstacle that has to be cleared in order to carry out their...

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Newfoundland Antifascist @newfoundlandantifa.bsky.social · 8d

Fascists and their propagandists are using the increasingly deranged "antifa" panic to fundraise enough money to make Jesus weep. They are also using the moral panic to incite further hostile actions by the US regime towards Canada. No surprise then who is supporting this effort.

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Late Night Anti-Fascists @latenightafa.bsky.social · 9d

Both this and the Did Nothing Wrong podcast (@grza.bsky.social) released today are great. They fill in the gaps around the origins of the antifa panic and talk about the work that antifa does that rarely gets talked about in mainstream media.

Lots of good stuff to listen to.

Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 10d

had an amazing in-depth conversation w/ @jaredlholt.bsky.social & @michaelehayden.bsky.social about the history of the antifa bogeyman in America, what antifa is in the MAGA imagination, and what Trump's executive order declaring antifa "domestic terrorists" means

open.spotify.com/episode/7xlC...

040: What the Hell is Antifa? feat. Christopher Mathias

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Late Night Anti-Fascists @latenightafa.bsky.social · 12d

DHS website posted the debunked & false claim that Rose City Antifa doxed ICE. It wasn't even the right email address on the flyers.

This is the state of the US government.

DHS website with the claim "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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Newfoundland Antifascist @newfoundlandantifa.bsky.social · 13d

"I walked up on a mountain in the middle of the sky

Could see every farm and every town

I could see all the people in this whole wide world

That's the union that'll tear the fascists down, down, down

That's the union that'll tear the fascists down"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKVn...

Tear the fascists down - Woody Guthrie

YouTube video by Mshrms

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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 21d

“I wonder how long this article about #Antifa, that positively portrays the movement, will be allowed to remain on the Smithsonian magazine's website.” ~ Franklin López

a classic piece by @jamesstout.bsky.social

A Brief History of Anti-Fascism

As long as the ideology has threatened marginalized communities, groups on the left have pushed back with force

www.smithsonianmag.com

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WhiteRoseAFA @whiteroseafa.bsky.social · 21d

Antifascists, journalists, and any mouths that speak accurately what eyes see and ears hear.

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

A government doesn't announce that they have become fascist, they announced anti-fascists are enemies of the state

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Newfoundland Antifascist @newfoundlandantifa.bsky.social · 26d

11.Dana has never recovered from being protested for her anti-human rights agenda. This led her to make alliances with some very deranged characters who call for violence, militancy, and paranoid delusions of government gun confiscation triggering imminent civil war.

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Newfoundland Antifascist @newfoundlandantifa.bsky.social · 26d

10.Dana Metcalfe has spent the last four years of her life wasting away in hatred for trans people, who out organized her and Nazi Shane Leonard Sweeney, leading to embarrassing, heavily outnumbered counter-protests that dispelled much of the anti-human rights movement on the ground during that time

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Newfoundland Antifascist @newfoundlandantifa.bsky.social · 26d

9. Is it just a coincidence that Dana's defamation lawsuit involves the principal of a K-12 school? Probably not. Previous protest actions by Dana and local Neo-nazi Shane Sweeney were focused on storming schools and harassing a high-school principal who is now suing her.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Teachers' union, education minister worry far-right targeting N.L. schools | CBC News

Both the province's education minister and the teachers' union are worried about far-right ideologues targeting schools, and attacking teachers both in person and online, after a series of incidents a...

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Newfoundland Antifascist @newfoundlandantifa.bsky.social · 26d

8. Several mentions by local "accountability" activist Adam Rose, who feels like it's time to connect his online crusade for civil war with "trantifa" to K-12 schools and known public figures at the College of the North Atlantic.

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Newfoundland Antifascist @newfoundlandantifa.bsky.social · 26d

7. "Even before today, there was a note of concern in local RW chatter. Warnings that Something, “is coming”, … “ things are gonna change”, etc, but today the tone is quickly changing to “it’s time.” Words like “hunt”, and threats of “see you soon”.

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Newfoundland Antifascist @newfoundlandantifa.bsky.social · 26d

6. No facebook group dedicated to hate is complete without even more blatant Neo-Nazi references. The Dominion society of Canada loves Hitler memes and the idea of cleansing Canada of undesirables, including Jews and all LGBTQ+ peoples. canadianinfluencewatchdog.blogspot.com/2025/09/remi...

Antisemitism, Genocide, and the Dominion Society: How neo-Nazis Want To Cleanse Canada

Following my previous article on the Dominion Society , it has become increasingly clear that my assessment of the organisation has proven ...

canadianinfluencewatchdog.blogspot.com

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Newfoundland Antifascist @newfoundlandantifa.bsky.social · 26d

5. Nevermind then, that the "accountability" project has been reposting updates straight from an aging, washed-up accelerationist who literally lives for doing Nazi salutes while organizing boring picture contests for masked, emotionally stunted incels.

"Don't call me a fascist!".

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Newfoundland Antifascist @newfoundlandantifa.bsky.social · 26d

4. They regularly repost profiles of women and trans folks dehumanizing random targets they identify as non-humans worthy of execution. Violent rhetoric, death threats and dehumanizing language crystallizing into calls to action and militant fervor for civil war. Sounds a little fascist to me.

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Newfoundland Antifascist @newfoundlandantifa.bsky.social · 26d

3. This sort of deranged message about imminent civil war is all too common in far-right echo chambers online in response to a recent Groyper accelerationist shooting, but linking her grievances to schools is a disturbing concept most actively advocated for by openly accelerationist groups in Canada

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Newfoundland Antifascist @newfoundlandantifa.bsky.social · 26d

2. Hot off the wheels of having charges stayed for harassing the former Premier and while dealing with an active lawsuit for defamation/libel, Dana Metcalfe has decided that anyone who supports anti-fascism or human rights for trans people could be a target for violence.

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Newfoundland Antifascist @newfoundlandantifa.bsky.social · 26d

1. So the "Newfoundland Labrador Accountability Project", a group formed to stalk and harass marginalized peoples in NL, targets schools, constantly regurgitates accelerationist propaganda and calls for civil war, has plenty of public faces but lacks 1 important thing: Accountability
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windward antifascist @windward-afa.bsky.social · Jul 18

1/ CBC posted a fantastic report this morning, covering some of the members of far-right active club networks as well as Second Sons Canada, a active club derivative from Diagolon.

While they didn't cover BC groups, this is an important read.
www.cbc.ca/newsinteract...

Tracking Canada’s fascist fight clubs

CBC’s visual investigations team reveals where some of Canada’s white nationalist 'active clubs' gather to prepare for violence.

www.cbc.ca

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Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social · May 30

Democrats remain vulnerable to the right's framing on an endless series of ginned-up moral panics.

Dems' instinct is always to meet the right halfway on whatever bullshit they've cooked up.

This is a result of not have their own policy platform beyond diet fascism and slightly less corruption.

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Newfoundland Antifascist @newfoundlandantifa.bsky.social · Apr 17

The Emperor shivered, for he suspected they were right. But he thought, "This procession has got to go on." So he walked more proudly than ever, as his noblemen held high the train that wasn't there at all.

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Newfoundland Antifascist @newfoundlandantifa.bsky.social · Apr 17

"Did you ever hear such innocent prattle?" said the father. And one person whispered to another what the child had said, "He hasn't anything on. A child says he hasn't anything on."

"But he hasn't got anything on!" the whole town cried out at last.

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Newfoundland Antifascist @newfoundlandantifa.bsky.social · Apr 17

Nobody would confess that they couldn't see anything, for that would prove them either unfit for their position, or a fool. No costume the Emperor had worn before was ever such a complete success.

"But he hasn't got anything on," a little child said.

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Newfoundland Antifascist @newfoundlandantifa.bsky.social · Apr 17

The Emperor's New Clothes - Hans Christian Anderson
andersen.sdu.dk/vaerk/hersho...

So off went the Emperor in procession under his splendid canopy. Everyone in the streets and the windows said, "Oh, how fine are the Emperor's new clothes! Don't they fit him to perfection? And see his long train!"

Hans Christian Andersen : The Emperor's New Clothes

Hans Christian Andersen: life and works - research, texts and information

andersen.sdu.dk

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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · Apr 4

we’re pleased to have added @arc-161.bsky.social to our AFA Research starter pack

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