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independent scholar & political analyst. Author of “Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins & Afterlife of James Mason's ‘Siege’” (Routledge, 2024) www.patreon.com/spencersunshine

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technofascists on AI: "We've made a tool that hallucinates but will still abolish every job you have the skills for. why aren't you excited about this?!"

09.12.2025 17:34 — 👍 41    🔁 13    💬 0    📌 0

At least in Rittenhouse’s case, he ended up broke teaching classes on gun safety for $50 an hr. Conservative consultants and lawyers milked him dry, then he fled to Florida. Many such cases.

09.12.2025 02:28 — 👍 585    🔁 103    💬 23    📌 12
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Abbott says Turning Point USA will expand in Texas schools Republican officials in Oklahoma and Florida have also launched plans to expand the presence of the conservative youth organization founded by Charlie Kirk.

New: Gov. Greg Abbott and Turning Point USA are launching a partnership to create chapters of the right-wing organization on every Texas high school campus.

08.12.2025 20:29 — 👍 128    🔁 84    💬 79    📌 130
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“We need to get these people out”: Right-wing pundits cheer Trump’s calls for “remigration” Right-wing media figures are applauding President Donald Trump and his administration for their apparent support of “remigration,” a far-right immigration policy associated with forced migration, mass...

The Trump administration is seemingly embracing “remigration,” a policy associated with ethnic cleansing and mass deportations that has been pushed by the far right.

08.12.2025 20:58 — 👍 84    🔁 41    💬 13    📌 2
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Pipe bomb suspect said he believed 2020 election was stolen, was supportive of Trump The FBI has spent years searching for the person who put bombs near the Democratic and Republican committee headquarters, hours before the assault on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Pipe bomb suspect said he believed 2020 election was stolen, was supportive of Trump

www.npr.org/2025/12/04/n...

08.12.2025 16:12 — 👍 24    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 1
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Get more from Mike Rothschild on Patreon Documenting the Eaton Fire and its aftermath

Fire survivors say rebuilding is a full time job. These last few weeks have proven it, as we've been up against multiple deadlines and I haven't been able to write at all. Your support is a huge help, and I promise to hit the ground running in 2026.

patreon.com/MikeRothschild

08.12.2025 17:23 — 👍 16    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1
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‘Ruthless neo-Nazi terrorist’ grooms new attackers from inside jail: feds While awaiting sentencing in a county jail in the Sierra Nevada foothills, a 36-year-old woman described as a leader of a “transnational terrorist group” has “continued to coordinate” with members of ...

New from me: Terrorgram leader Dallas Humber goes before a federal judge next week for sentencing.

Prosecutors allege that Humber has "continued to coordinate with members... via letters, phone calls and video calls" while awaiting sentencing in jail. (gift link) www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...

08.12.2025 16:47 — 👍 30    🔁 13    💬 1    📌 1

I really regret never asking Grace Lee Boggs if she knew Irving Kristol when they were both in the Workers Party in the 1940s.

08.12.2025 15:59 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The history here is actually pretty complicated, and I haven’t read anything that really handles it properly in terms of either 1. Shachtman’s own relationship to the future neocons, or 2. his evolving views about the communist dictatorships.

08.12.2025 15:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Lula is just as bad

08.12.2025 02:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Defending Dissent In Texas: DFW Prairieland Defense Committee | The Dugout Get more from The Dugout on Patreon

in this episode, the @thedugoutpod.bsky.social crew sit down with members of the DFW Defense Committee to break down the state & federal repression facing the defendants beginning with who they are. they also explore how prosecutors, the DOJ, ICE & the media have misled the public. 1/2

07.12.2025 23:47 — 👍 21    🔁 17    💬 2    📌 0
A set of images alleged to be of Garrett Michael Berna, a practicing LHMC, out of West Brookfield MA. The first, uploaded by the Bay State Active Club during April 2024, depicts white man of muscular build and a blurred face out on a hike in southern Vermont. He wears a black short-sleeve Will2Rise Athletic Club t-shirt. He flexes his left bicep, while holding a Bay State Active Club sticker in his right hand. The second and third are smaller photos of the February 2025 Patriot Front marches through New England. A member in black shades, a white balaclava, a tan baseball cap with a Betsy Ross flag patch, and tan work gloves, holds a pole and marches with other Patriot Front members. He appears to have a large chin that does not project forward much. The fourth is Garrett Berna's current Psychology Today profile photo. He is a muscular man with brown hair. He wears a brown-gray long-sleeve t-shirt partially rolled toward the elbows. A tattoo peeks out of the right sleeve. He also wears what appears to be a luxury watch on his right wrist. He holds a baby, back facing toward the camera. His facial shape is very similar to that of the man in the photos of the Patriot Front march.

A set of images alleged to be of Garrett Michael Berna, a practicing LHMC, out of West Brookfield MA. The first, uploaded by the Bay State Active Club during April 2024, depicts white man of muscular build and a blurred face out on a hike in southern Vermont. He wears a black short-sleeve Will2Rise Athletic Club t-shirt. He flexes his left bicep, while holding a Bay State Active Club sticker in his right hand. The second and third are smaller photos of the February 2025 Patriot Front marches through New England. A member in black shades, a white balaclava, a tan baseball cap with a Betsy Ross flag patch, and tan work gloves, holds a pole and marches with other Patriot Front members. He appears to have a large chin that does not project forward much. The fourth is Garrett Berna's current Psychology Today profile photo. He is a muscular man with brown hair. He wears a brown-gray long-sleeve t-shirt partially rolled toward the elbows. A tattoo peeks out of the right sleeve. He also wears what appears to be a luxury watch on his right wrist. He holds a baby, back facing toward the camera. His facial shape is very similar to that of the man in the photos of the Patriot Front march.

I allege that Garrett Michael Berna, a licensed mental health counselor out of West Brookfield MA & practicing in Newton MA (lic. #LMHC10304), is dead certainly a member of Patriot Front and the New England Active Club. He's likely been active with both organizations since April 2024, if not before.

07.12.2025 21:50 — 👍 209    🔁 70    💬 4    📌 10

🧵 Blood Tribe unmasked here.

Notable Chris Poulhaus and Drake Betentz marched masked for a while and unmasked later.

New face here. Will drop a bunch of images and articles in this thread for researchers.

07.12.2025 21:35 — 👍 228    🔁 104    💬 9    📌 2
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EXCLUSIVE: Forced Detransitions ‘Nearly Toppled’ Medical Unit in Georgia Prison During Care Ban — Assigned In the midst of a lawsuit, a Georgia prison resumes gender affirming care for trans inmates.

In August, we got a bit of extra money from a generous donor, and I used it to expand into coverage of trans life in American prisons.

This piece, by incarcerated journalist B Speaks, describes the chaos Georgia's forced detransition regime, currently halted by the courts, wreaked in one prison.

07.12.2025 18:42 — 👍 373    🔁 155    💬 3    📌 5

Oh, I had to look that up - Hahahaha. I bet this is some serious scholarship rather than just a regurgitation of the semi-conspiratorial framing of the “neocons=trots” idea

07.12.2025 12:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

trying to decide if i'm going to try and write a max shachtman book or not

07.12.2025 05:01 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I believe that Darby was killed by internalized homophobia. i think he was capable of even more interesting work if he lived and gotten off junk.

07.12.2025 05:00 — 👍 21    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

the "liquidization" of the kulaks was what finally cemented the Stalinist system

07.12.2025 04:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Beyond the incel: Europe in the face of masculinist terrorism Violent attacks against women by radicalised men are multiplying on European soil. With the phenomenon only partially understood, an adequate response remains to be found.

Important @voxeurop.bsky.social article on a phenomenon that still gets too little attention in Europe.

07.12.2025 02:48 — 👍 74    🔁 33    💬 3    📌 2

The target is those expressing “opposition to law and immigration enforcement; extreme views in favor of mass migration and open borders; adherence to radical gender ideology.” It also will establish “a cash reward system” for info leading to the arrest of leaders in “these purported terrorist orgs”

07.12.2025 02:39 — 👍 57    🔁 34    💬 3    📌 2

My org @fightforthefuture.org has been “de-googling” for the last year.

We’re totally off Google suite, Google docs, Drive, Calendar.

We’re using Signal and Element for chat, Nextcloud for docs, etc

Planning to publish a “how to” guide for other nonprofits and activist groups soonish.

06.12.2025 19:53 — 👍 1761    🔁 400    💬 62    📌 15

I need to make a basic physical flyer - is there a program that’s simpler than Canva for that?

07.12.2025 00:58 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0

RICO charges are specifically named.

06.12.2025 21:34 — 👍 15    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

It “could be the starting point for charges against a number of left-leaning advocacy groups & nonprofits” that “Trump has accused without evidence of having ties to extremists.”

the FBI will also “disseminate an intelligence bulletin on Antifa & Antifa-aligned anarchist violent extremist groups.”

06.12.2025 21:34 — 👍 17    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0

“Attorney General Pam Bondi sent a memo outlining methods for bringing charges against various entities they accuse of being aligned with antifa.”

thehill.com/policy/natio...

06.12.2025 21:34 — 👍 33    🔁 22    💬 5    📌 4

after the civil war ended, the greatest issue the Soviets faced was the collectivization of agriculture. it's funny that Stalinists never talk about how this wouldn't be an issue in the US today in their dream scenario, since agri-business has already done the work of consolidation for them.

06.12.2025 21:19 — 👍 45    🔁 8    💬 3    📌 0
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Strange People on the Hill A gripping story that reveals what happened to a small American town when an influential white nationalist group relocated its headquarters there, illustrati...

Hey folks, my first book is out in April! It's a narrative non-fiction account of five years of life in Berkeley Springs, WV after the "great replacement" fixated group VDARE bought a 19th century castle there.

Get 20% off now with the code STRANGE20:
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/micha...

06.12.2025 19:38 — 👍 199    🔁 68    💬 16    📌 7
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Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.

“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”

www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social

05.12.2025 22:56 — 👍 1770    🔁 1247    💬 113    📌 438
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(Part 1) Homicide and Hate: The Devon Arthurs Murders Spotify video

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@tylerdipeppe.bsky.social made an appearance in the Deviant Podcast in a series about Atomwaffen Division and the Devon Arthur murders. Of course, he never told anyone or shared it, so here is the series.

(Part 1) Homicide and Hate: The Devon Arthurs Murders
open.spotify.com/episode/5W5N...

05.12.2025 22:55 — 👍 20    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 1

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