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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 4d

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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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 8d

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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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2h

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 3h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 2h

Incredibly alarming—after the whole ridiculous antifa roundtable at the White House, as Mark was moving with his family to Europe after threats…

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Dr Una McIlvenna @unamcilvenna.bsky.social · 19h

I would love to know where Americans think all these academic jobs are in other countries. Do they ever speak to non-American academics about the global job market? It’s brutal

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. Never before has so much money been spent so rapidly on a technology that, for all its potential, remains largely unproven ..”

@bloomberg.com $NVDA
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not an economist but seems worrying that the whole US economy is seven companies in a trenchcoat, passing the same $20 up and down

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

Never forget that Dolly Parton gave a million bucks for covid research at the *very start* of the pandemic—including money that helped fund the development of the Moderna vaccine.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

glad to be born at a time when i got to see what life was like before the internet and will be dead before AI completely destroys humanity

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 23h

Fascinating report just released by DropSite which reveals that David Frum, while working on a profile of an Israeli ambassador to the United Nations for the Atlantic, was also shadow-writing speeches for that same ambassador.

David Frum, Douglas Murray Secretly Drafted Speeches for Israeli Ambassador

Leaked emails from former Israeli UN Ambassador Ron Prosor show David Frum, Douglas Murray offering to write his speeches and a CNN producer fundraising for Israel’s Iron Dome during Israel’s 2014 war

www.dropsitenews.com

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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 1d

Independent Senator David Pocock and Labor's Penny Wong clashed in Senate estimates yesterday over whether the Parliamentary Sports Club could be considered a lobby group, as reported in Crikey last week. The club is registered as such, and lists Responsible Wagering Australia as one of its clients.

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Rachel Withers @rachelwithers.bsky.social · 22h

The fact Wong thinks she can just snark her way out of this is a sign of how normalised the relationships between politicians and lobbyists have become.

Like, of course the PM shouldn't be president of a registered lobby group that sells corporate members access to politicians? No shit??

Crikey @crikey.com.au · 1d

Independent Senator David Pocock and Labor's Penny Wong clashed in Senate estimates yesterday over whether the Parliamentary Sports Club could be considered a lobby group, as reported in Crikey last week. The club is registered as such, and lists Responsible Wagering Australia as one of its clients.

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 21h

One of the conspirators who helped Gavrilo Princip shoot Archduke Franz Ferdinand survived to see the breakup of Yugoslavia. He could conceivably have watched the Neighbours episode where Scott and Charlene got married

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 20h

The boats were attempting to break the Israeli blockade and deliver desperately needed food and medical supplies to the Palestinian territory.
http://jrnl.ie/6838266

Latest aid flotilla bound for Gaza intercepted by Israel with two Irish on board

There are two Irish citizens aboard one of the flotilla boats, the Milad.

jrnl.ie

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Dr Una McIlvenna @unamcilvenna.bsky.social · 21h

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Dr Una McIlvenna @unamcilvenna.bsky.social · 21h

Gandhi and King were both assassinated, and the salt march and accompanying civil disobedience saw 100s of peaceful civilians shot dead in the Amritsar Massacre. I can’t imagine the bloodshed in the insanely armed USA

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Dr Una McIlvenna @unamcilvenna.bsky.social · 21h

Gandhi and King were both assassinated, and the salt march and accompanying civil disobedience saw 100s of peaceful civilians shot dead in the Amritsar Massacre. I can’t imagine the bloodshed in the insanely armed USA

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1d

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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Dr Una McIlvenna @unamcilvenna.bsky.social · 1d

Pretty standard for most Commonwealth countries, with some recent changes. UK Circuit judges in Crown court wear wig, violet robe w/ lilac facings & tippet (lilac 4 civil, red 4 crime). On ceremonial occasions, circuit judges also wear a matching hood, wig, black breeches, stockings + buckled shoes.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 2d

I posted this one week after the election in 2024. Holds up.

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · Nov 15

Billionaire grifters are about to dismantle your government. So instead of your tax dollars going to your Medicare or your Medicaid or your affordable care act or to veterans benefits or your social security - it will go to THEM in the form of tax cuts for the wealthy.

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 2d

The irony of this was too grand to keep to myself.

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Laura Seay @texasinafrica.bsky.social · 3d

Fascism is an ideology. What Tom is describing here is totalitarianism, which is a level of absolute government control. We are not anywhere near the latter yet, but the governing ideology of this White House is definitely fascist.

Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 4d

If we were living under fascism, none of you would be here daring to post things. You'd be erasing your social media accounts and keeping your head down; you'd know that peacocking your faux-bravery on a network would expose you to being disappeared.
You have no idea what "fascism" really means.

shane @mouthfulofcavities.bsky.social · 4d

the regime is zip tying toddlers and ripping them away from their mothers unclothed... calling it fascism upsets this neo-con.

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Dr Una McIlvenna @unamcilvenna.bsky.social · 2d

I mean, just look at this photo. Look at these crowds. What the hell does Starmer think he's doing? Does he think the public supports a ban on people asking for peace? A ban that says 'arrest grannies as terrorists'? What a colossal f*ck up.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

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Count Melancholia @lillyh.bsky.social · 4d

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 4d

Over 400 arrests of protesters in London thanks to the government’s refusal to admit that their decision to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist group has been a disaster

The Labour gov has so far arrested well over 1,000 people for holding up signs

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Police make more than 440 arrests at Palestine Action protest in London

Officers arrest activists at silent vigil in support of banned organisation, as demos go ahead despite PM’s pleas

www.theguardian.com

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