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Michael Gould-Wartofsky

@mgouldwartofsky.bsky.social

Scholar of the far right + the radical left. Author of The Occupiers (Oxford 2015), Resistance (forthcoming). PhD in Sociology. Nothing human is alien to me. https://thecriticalrealist.com

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Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

06.10.2025 22:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 25275    ๐Ÿ” 12138    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 524    ๐Ÿ“Œ 497

Strength and solidarity to you and your family, Mark.

07.10.2025 01:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Iโ€™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 โ€˜financier.โ€™

I have been forced to move my classes online.

If journalists want to talk, DM me or reply here.

04.10.2025 23:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2888    ๐Ÿ” 1022    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 96    ๐Ÿ“Œ 65

Sending solidarity and strength.

07.10.2025 01:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Well, yeah, we're suing ICE.

This wasn't really a hard decision. As little faith as we have in institutions, we recognize the value of drawing visible lines in the sand. We drew ours personally a while ago, but better late than never.

May every protester be freed and may this occupation end.

06.10.2025 18:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3899    ๐Ÿ” 767    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 30    ๐Ÿ“Œ 17

Let it never again be said that a woman with no real reporting experience who fell for a Twitter account called "Official Antifa" cannot be the head of a huge news organization

06.10.2025 14:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15056    ๐Ÿ” 2796    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 223    ๐Ÿ“Œ 92
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UPDATE: Hegseth today called up 400 members of the Texas National Guard, with Gov. Abbott's apparent permission, to be deployed "where needed, including in the cities of Portland and Chicago." www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

06.10.2025 02:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 670    ๐Ÿ” 272    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 50    ๐Ÿ“Œ 131

RECAPTURE OUR NATIONAL IDENTITY!

This week, we arrested hundreds of criminal illegal aliens, terrorists, and terrorist sympathizers across our country in Portland in Chicago.  

Now, we need your help. Block communists, terrorists, and globalists from ever entering our country.

RECAPTURE OUR NATIONAL IDENTITY! This week, we arrested hundreds of criminal illegal aliens, terrorists, and terrorist sympathizers across our country in Portland in Chicago. Now, we need your help. Block communists, terrorists, and globalists from ever entering our country.

chat i don't think this is good

06.10.2025 02:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 628    ๐Ÿ” 112    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 18    ๐Ÿ“Œ 24
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Trump federalizes the National Guard in Chicago, while troops arrive in Oregon The White House said Trump "authorized" the deployment of 300 Illinois National Guard members, after vowing to send troops into Chicago. Meanwhile, Guard members arrived in Oregon from California.

The White House said Trump "authorized" the deployment of 300 Illinois National Guard members, after vowing to send troops into Chicago. Meanwhile, Guard members arrived in Oregon from California.

05.10.2025 21:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 306    ๐Ÿ” 109    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 55    ๐Ÿ“Œ 21

theyโ€™re intenionally advertising to and recruiting far right loyalists. they post and reply to explicit groyper memes. theyโ€™re not super subtle about what this government is

03.10.2025 22:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11305    ๐Ÿ” 2593    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 218    ๐Ÿ“Œ 92

Signalgate 2.0, this time not about plans for attacking Houthis in Yemen, but sending the 82nd Airborne to Portland, Oregon

04.10.2025 01:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1414    ๐Ÿ” 520    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 27    ๐Ÿ“Œ 19
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Iโ€™m so struck by this video. A regular day in Logan Square in front of a grocery store and ICE pulls up and tear gassed people. Funston Elementary School is right across the street as well. This is a major corridor in Logan Sq. No concern for human safety

Video from: www.reddit.com/r/chicago/co...

03.10.2025 18:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 493    ๐Ÿ” 301    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 36    ๐Ÿ“Œ 46

Shelters that house unaccompanied minors are bracing for "Freaky Friday," the start of an ICE operation that will first issue letters to children, seeking to pressure them to return to the countries they've fled in exchange for a cash payment. If they decline, their parents will be targeted by ICE.

03.10.2025 00:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2156    ๐Ÿ” 1003    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 84    ๐Ÿ“Œ 283
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ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team Documents show ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.

NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

03.10.2025 13:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6477    ๐Ÿ” 4905    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 795    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1021

Free Eman. Free her now.
@emanabdelhadi.bsky.social

03.10.2025 15:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: โ€˜We Are Determined to Fight Thisโ€™ Apple removed ICEBlock reportedly after direct pressure from Department of Justice officials. โ€œI am incredibly disappointed by Apple's actions today. Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never t...

so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesnโ€™t like, which is totally normal stuff

www.404media.co/iceblock-own...

03.10.2025 02:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16632    ๐Ÿ” 7082    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 766    ๐Ÿ“Œ 464

Another bloody chapter in the Westโ€™s long history of anti-Jewish violence.

This, too, is a form of fascism.

02.10.2025 14:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.

they pulled families out of their apartments overnight, and ZIPTIED KIDS TOGETHER

this country.

abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

02.10.2025 12:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 19    ๐Ÿ” 18    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

If youโ€™re at all interested in defending democracy or defeating Trump, this is a literal MUST WATCH

01.10.2025 18:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 221    ๐Ÿ” 159    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 15    ๐Ÿ“Œ 9

ADP numbers for September were -32,000 on a projection of +51,000.

August was revised to -3,000, marking the first consecutive negative months since the heights of Covid.

This is bad.

01.10.2025 13:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5476    ๐Ÿ” 1797    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 219    ๐Ÿ“Œ 96

That's the definition of fascism from Robert Paxton, one of the preeminent historians of the subject, from his book ANATOMY OF FASCISM which came out more than two decades ago.

01.10.2025 00:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4695    ๐Ÿ” 1431    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 70    ๐Ÿ“Œ 28

Hegseth: The military is for killing people and breaking things. No more rules of engagement.

Trump: Iโ€™ll be sending the military into U.S. cities.

30.09.2025 19:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1744    ๐Ÿ” 633    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 101    ๐Ÿ“Œ 34
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1/ DEVELOPING: A journalist was rushed to New York-Presbyterian Hospital following another incident with an ICE agent at 26 Federal Plaza, an immigration court in NYC. The last I heard, he was getting X-rays for his lower back.

30.09.2025 18:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9611    ๐Ÿ” 4577    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 442    ๐Ÿ“Œ 399
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BREAKING

A federal judge that the Trump admin's policy targeting pro-Palestinian students for deportation violated the First Amendment.

His blistering, 161-page ruling starts with a threat he received in chambers and his response.

30.09.2025 16:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3354    ๐Ÿ” 1134    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 40    ๐Ÿ“Œ 67

When he talks about the โ€œenemy from within,โ€ heโ€™s talking about us.

30.09.2025 15:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Opinion | The Right Didnโ€™t Catch Cancel Culture From the Left

History: "But the right did not learn cancel culture from the left; the modern right in America emerged as a censorious movement."
The Right Didnโ€™t Catch Cancel Culture From the Left www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...

30.09.2025 10:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 332    ๐Ÿ” 93    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 11    ๐Ÿ“Œ 16

I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this

30.09.2025 01:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7810    ๐Ÿ” 2325    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 67    ๐Ÿ“Œ 37
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Mohsen Mahdawi and Mahmoud Khalil outside Columbiaโ€™s (locked) gates on the eve of their possible deportation

29.09.2025 17:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 580    ๐Ÿ” 138    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 9
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ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards

29.09.2025 01:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 22184    ๐Ÿ” 5664    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1367    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2126

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