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rose-anne gush @rsenne.bsky.social · 8d

FASCISM

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."

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Daniel Denvir @danieldenvir.bsky.social · 20d

New ep: Trump’s intense police, ICE, military repression w/ Alberto Toscano and @stschrader1.bsky.social. What does this reveal about MAGA’s fascist authoritarian project—and about the illiberalism immanent in carceral and imperialist state? FIRST in 2-part series www.thedigradio.com/podcast/fasc...

Fascist Police State w/ Alberto Toscano and Stuart Schrader

Featuring Alberto Toscano and Stuart Schrader on Trump’s intensification of police, ICE, and military repression. What does this all reveal about MAGA’s fascist and authoritarian project—and about the...

www.thedigradio.com

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Felix Anderl @felixanderl.bsky.social · 16d

In den nächsten zwei Semestern organisieren wir diese interdisziplinäre Vorlesungsreihe "Faschisierung – analytische Perspektiven, Schauplätze, Gegenstrategien". Jede Vorlesung an einer anderen Uni und hybrid! Ich spreche am 20.1. am @zfk-mr.bsky.social Marburg.
krisol-wissenschaft.org/fascisation

Vorträge im Wintersemester 2025/26
Alle Vorträge finden öffentlich, hybrid auf Zoom und vor Ort, in deutscher Sprache statt.
16.10.25
Patrick Eiden-Offe:
Was ist Faschisierung? Einige theorie- und begriffshistorische Vorüberlegungen
18–20 Uhr

Vor Ort:
Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung, Technische Universität Berlin
Raum KAI 1315
Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 104–106
10553 Berlin

Online:
↗ tu-berlin.zoom-x.de/j/62793925879?pwd=Gtgvfgj1WUSKpLwEaGQXhEpDc59bPe.1

15.11.25
Katrin Köppert:
Digital Blackface, memetischer Faschismus und Geschlecht
18–20 Uhr

Vor Ort:
Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien
Hörsaal 1, EG
Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2
1010 Wien

Online:
↗ tu-berlin.zoom-x.de/j/62793925879?pwd=Gtgvfgj1WUSKpLwEaGQXhEpDc59bPe.1

Dieser Vortrag findet im Rahmen der Veranstaltungsreihe „Kunst-Forschung-Geschlecht“ der Universität für Angewandte Kunst Wien statt.

07.01.26
Simon Strick:
Faschisierung als Plattform: Ungleichzeitigkeit und Reaktion
18–20 Uhr

Vor Ort:
Medientheater, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Georgenstraße 47
10117 Berlin

Online:
↗ tu-berlin.zoom-x.de/j/62793925879?pwd=Gtgvfgj1WUSKpLwEaGQXhEpDc59bPe.1

Dieser Vortrag findet im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung „Prompting Fascism. Medien/Theorien des neuen Faschismus“ an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin statt.

20.01.26
Felix Anderl:
Arbeit, Boden, Cholesterin: Faschisierung und performative Ländlichkeit
18–20 Uhr

Vor Ort:
Zentrum für Konfliktforschung, Philipps-Universität Marburg
2. Stock (Dekanatssaal)
Ketzerbach 62
35037 Marburg

Online:
↗ tu-berlin.zoom-x.de/j/62793925879?pwd=Gtgvfgj1WUSKpLwEaGQXhEpDc59bPe.1

03.02.26
Nanna Heidenreich:
Faszinierender Faschismus? Feminismus, Faschisierung und die Frage der Ästhetik
16–18 Uhr

Vor Ort:
Institut für Friedensforschung und Sicherheitspolitik an der Universität Hamburg
Raum 2/23
Beim Schlump 83
20144 Hamburg

Online:
↗ tu-berlin.zoom-x.de/j/62793925879?pwd=Gtgvfgj1WUSKpLwEaGQXhEpDc59bPe.1

Die Vortragsreihe wird im Sommersemester 2026 fortgesetzt.

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rose-anne gush @rsenne.bsky.social · 24d

Proofs arrived ✨

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Pavlos Roufos @proufos.bsky.social · Sep 5

Anyone who speaks of 'legitimate concerns' is in cohorts with this pack of braindead fascists, its as simple as that.

Steve 🏳️‍🌈🇬🇧 @wohyeahwohyeah.bsky.social · Sep 3

This is vile. Local guy speaks to Sky News about the impact of asylum seekers protests. Watch what happens and share widely

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rose-anne gush @rsenne.bsky.social · Sep 3

i obviously don't disagree with you in aims or intention - but where the drive for rare earths or CRMs was for green energy/recharging - even if perhaps more present in policy in Europe - it is now for missiles

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rose-anne gush @rsenne.bsky.social · Sep 3

and the owners of Tanbreez (Greenland) are flirting with Trump/Lockheed Martin et al., to supply the US defence industry with heavy rare earths like Gallium that China has banned as export. The story of how clean energy morphs into militarism

Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos.bsky.social · Sep 3

I’m in @financialtimes.com on Trump’s recent move to make the Pentagon the top shareholder in the US only rare earths mine. This is the “worst of all worlds” resource nationalism: a toxic mix of environmental harm, militarism, Big Tech, financial de-risking, and asset appreciation. Link below ⬇️

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rose-anne gush @rsenne.bsky.social · Sep 1

Fascism

Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · Sep 1

It is insane to me that the richest man in the world is using his global megaphone to call for millions of British people to be rounded up and deported (including my family) and somehow this isn’t even news.

Elon Musk « x@elonmusk•6h
Remigration is the only way
Steve Laws
@Steve_Laws_•18h
Go anywhere in the UK and look around, you'll just see foreigners everywhere.
It's truly sickening the damage that has been done to our nation and our people....

Steve Laws & @Steve_Laws_
X.com
Epping is everywhere.
12:02•8/29/25 • 275K Views

Elonmusk
All Britain is Epping

@Steve_Laws_
Keep highlighting this Elon, we appreciate it.

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Yossi Bartal @yossibartal.bsky.social · Aug 17

Wie die Hungersnot in Bengalen dank Bilder bekämpft wurde und was Adorno über die soziale Kälte zu sagen hat, die von uns angesichts Kinderfotos aus Gaza eingefordert wird, in meiner neuen Kolumne in @ndaktuell.bsky.social

Die Macht der Bilder

Bilder von Hungernden emotionalisieren. Wer sie zu diskreditieren versucht, möchte die gesellschaftliche Kälte herbeiführen, die Verbrechen ermöglicht, meint Yossi Bartal.

www.nd-aktuell.de

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rose-anne gush @rsenne.bsky.social · Aug 17

I received the first ~and very generous~ blurb for my book, a strange experience I will not get used to

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Jacobin Magazin @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social · Aug 17

Welche Architektur ist emblematisch für den Neoliberalismus? Der Historiker Christian Welzbacher zeigt, welche Räume in einer Gesellschaft entstehen, die nicht nur Elend hervorbringt, sondern dieses Elend auch noch profitabel macht.

Architektur ohne Moral

Welche Architektur ist emblematisch für den Neoliberalismus? Der Historiker Christian Welzbacher zeigt, welche Räume in einer Gesellschaft entstehen, die nicht nur Elend hervorbringt, sondern dieses Elend auch noch profitabel macht.

jacobin.de

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rose-anne gush @rsenne.bsky.social · Aug 15

very happy to see this announced in reality, and really looking forwards... save the date, register and join us in October

What Is Infrastructural Critique?
A conference in celebration of the life and work of Marina Vishmidt

@eflux.bsky.social

What Is Infrastructural Critique? - Announcements - e-flux

University of Applied Arts Vienna presents a conference in celebration of the life and work of Marina Vishmidt.

www.e-flux.com

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rose-anne gush @rsenne.bsky.social · Aug 15

finally arrived at the point of my covid where i am awake for 70% of the day. hurray

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rose-anne gush @rsenne.bsky.social · Aug 15

very happy to see this announced in reality, and really looking forwards... save the date, register and join us in October

What Is Infrastructural Critique?
A conference in celebration of the life and work of Marina Vishmidt

@eflux.bsky.social

What Is Infrastructural Critique? - Announcements - e-flux

University of Applied Arts Vienna presents a conference in celebration of the life and work of Marina Vishmidt.

www.e-flux.com

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rose-anne gush @rsenne.bsky.social · Aug 12

Telegram gibt das Datum in seinen Nachrichten nicht an. Das ist eindeutig eine Fälschung

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rose-anne gush @rsenne.bsky.social · Aug 11

Some more context

„Even though it is illegal to target journalists, the CPJ said that over the same period 26 reporters were victims of targeted killings, which it described as murders.“

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Palestinian reporters killed and foreigners barred in Israel’s battle for Gaza narrative

Reporters and influencers covering devastation are being silenced despite protection under international law

www.theguardian.com

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rose-anne gush @rsenne.bsky.social · Aug 11

Das kann als Rechtfertigung und Entschuldigung für den Terror, für die Tötung von Journalistengruppen, interpretiert werden, weil dieser Diskurs in den begünstigten Gesellschaften in Europa/USA diese Tötung im Allgemeinen ermöglicht hat. Ich mag diese Worte nicht. Worte sollten nicht zu Mord führen!

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rose-anne gush @rsenne.bsky.social · Aug 11

Wo sind die Beweise? Und selbst wenn das der Fall ist, rechtfertigt das nicht, ihn zusammen mit all seinen Kollegen zu ermorden. In einer „Demokratie“ haben die Menschen zumindest das Recht auf ein ordentliches Verfahren und einen Prozess.

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rose-anne gush @rsenne.bsky.social · Aug 9

<<When We Are All Enemies of the State>>

A recently discovered 1974 speech by Stuart Hall on Walter Rodney—and why fascists fear ideas.

When We Are All Enemies of the State - Boston Review

A recently discovered 1974 speech by Stuart Hall on Walter Rodney—and why fascists fear ideas.

www.bostonreview.net

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Michael Sappir @m.sappir.net · Aug 8

In Germany, I developed a slight obsession with political stickers – and especially the unhinged pro-Israel stickers from the German left's creepy philosemitic neocons, the "anti-Germans" (the most German Germans). For @thediasporist.bsky.social, I wrote up some of the wildest examples

Stickers Against Germany – the Diasporist

The antideutsch leftists papering cities in pro-Israel stickers

thediasporist.de

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rose-anne gush @rsenne.bsky.social · Aug 7

Now starting this

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Feminist Killjoy @saranahmed.bsky.social · Aug 5

I am absolutely DISGUSTED & HORRIFIED that someone can present on 'killjoys' at an event with an IDF office & a speaker from the IDF. Shame on you! Katharina Klappheck GET THAT WORD OUT OF YOUR PAPER & THIS EVENT!

White supremacy = this.
Genocide = this.
NO to this! www.hsu-hh.de/ztb/tagungsp...

Tagungsprogramm, Mittwoch, 03. September 2025 - Zentrum für technologiegestützte Bildung (ZtB)

www.hsu-hh.de

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Ana Velasco @anavelasco.bsky.social · Aug 6

What is to be expected from the country that let Annalena Baerbock get away with her "Feminist" (Genocidal) Foreign Policy and then awarded her with a top UN job?

Furthermore, where is the response/resistance from German feminists in academia to this event and, more broadly, to the militarization?

Feminist Killjoy @saranahmed.bsky.social · Aug 5

I am absolutely DISGUSTED & HORRIFIED that someone can present on 'killjoys' at an event with an IDF office & a speaker from the IDF. Shame on you! Katharina Klappheck GET THAT WORD OUT OF YOUR PAPER & THIS EVENT!

White supremacy = this.
Genocide = this.
NO to this! www.hsu-hh.de/ztb/tagungsp...

Tagungsprogramm, Mittwoch, 03. September 2025 - Zentrum für technologiegestützte Bildung (ZtB)

www.hsu-hh.de

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · Aug 6

Clear from day one, that if left unchecked, this Israeli government will not stop at anything

My tweet, Oct 7 2023:
This is a call for expulsion/genocide. Silence in the face of this threat amounts to green light
Quoted tweet:
Barak Ravid
@BarakRavid
·
Oct 7, 2023
BREAKING: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on Palestinian civilians in Gaza to “leave now” because the Israeli military is going to “turn all Hamas hiding places into rubble”
8:39 PM · Oct 7, 2023
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rose-anne gush @rsenne.bsky.social · Aug 5

Absurd, bonkers and racist go hand in hand

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 5

Trump on undocumented farm workers: "People that live in the inner city are not doing that work. They've tried, we've tried, everybody tried. They don't do it. These people do it naturally. Naturally ... they don't get a bad back, because if they get a bad back, they die."

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