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No Joyman @nojoyman.bsky.social · 9h

Old Soviet joke:

Why do ICE agents travel in groups of three?

One can read, one can write, and the third keeps an eye on the two intellectuals

Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 12h

New ICE recruiting methods have resulted in half of this group of absolute winners failing AN OPEN BOOK TEST

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 5h

Tapping the sign

Why Underachievers Dominate Secret Police Organizations: Evidence from Autocratic Argentina
Adam Scharpf and Christian Gläßel

Autocrats depend on a capable secret police. Anecdotal evidence, however, often characterizes agents as surprisingly mediocre in skill and intellect. To explain this puzzle, this article focuses on the career incentives underachieving individuals face in the regular security apparatus. Low-performing officials in hierarchical organizations have little chance of being promoted or filling lucrative positions. To salvage their careers, these officials are willing to undertake burdensome secret police work. Using data on all 4,287 officers who served in autocratic Argentina (1975-83), we study biographic differences between secret police agents and the entire recruitment pool. We find that low-achieving officers were stuck within the regime hierarchy, threatened with discharge, and thus more likely to join the secret police for future benefits. The study demonstrates how state bureaucracies breed mundane career concerns that produce willing enforcers and cement violent regimes. This has implications for the understanding of autocratic consolidation and democratic breakdown.

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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 6h

action items for sure!

Late Night Anti-Fascists @latenightafa.bsky.social · 11h

If anyone would like to notify the school about Ian’s history, please do so politely. We’ll keep an eye on updates.

Blog post:
latenightafa.noblogs.org/ian-ballinge...

Ian Ballinger aka Kansas Zoomer of Pleasanton, KS: Teacher and former TPUSA Groyper

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 8h

Outside of a covert infiltration operation... you don't befriend unrepentant Nazis, ever.

You don't cultivate casually friendly relationships with unrepentant Nazis, ever.

ESPECIALLY if your job is to report on them.

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 8h

#tdih 1947

The NAACP sent the UN an appeal to redress human rights violations by the U.S. against African-Americans including lynching, segregation, & gross inequalities in education, housing, health care, & voting rights.

Drafted by W. E. B. Du Bois & more. ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ap...

Oct. 23, 1947: An Appeal to the World

The NAACP sent to the U.N. a document titled “An Appeal to the World,” to redress human rights violations the United States committed against its African-American citizens.

www.zinnedproject.org

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Late Night Anti-Fascists @latenightafa.bsky.social · 11h

If anyone would like to notify the school about Ian’s history, please do so politely. We’ll keep an eye on updates.

Blog post:
latenightafa.noblogs.org/ian-ballinge...

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fashfreenw.bsky.social @fashfreenw.bsky.social · 8h

Ya this dude shouldn’t be in a classroom

Late Night Anti-Fascists @latenightafa.bsky.social · 11h

But because of his frequent comments about teenage girls and violence toward women. Ian Ballinger, formerly known online as Kansas Zoomer, should not be allowed ANYWHERE NEAR children.

The Catholic Church literally says girls can marry at 14. Explain to me the moral issue with this, you cant.

KZ: Why is it wrong to think a 16 year old (her actual age) is attractive? If you dont think shes attractive you're lying to yourself. Women dont magically become attractive on birthday number 18. My great great grandma got engaged at 14. What's the big deal?

KZ: Like a girl, ask her out, she just wants to be friends. you rape her

KZ: I had a beautiful dream where the wives of every wignat are rounded up, put in a giant room with a giant hammer and the hammer crushes all of them to smithereens. And then off in the corner the wignats are crying at the loss of their wives. #IHaveADream

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Late Night Anti-Fascists @latenightafa.bsky.social · 11h

About a decade earlier, Ian was steeped in the My Little Pony fandom as a 'brony', with his eyes set on making fan films in the community. However, Hasbro denied permission to use their intellectual property.

Ian eventually devolved into racist pony posting on Twitter.

Interview with Ian about a documentary on bronies

Kansas Zoomer's pony posts, the last of which says "sorry bronies, but my little pony is only for white people" with a sieg heiling nazi pony in white

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Late Night Anti-Fascists @latenightafa.bsky.social · 11h

Speaking of white supremacists in TPUSA, one ID we didn't have time to get around to last year was groyper / nazi / brony Kansas Zoomer, identified as Ian Ballinger of Kansas.

KZ was previously outed and became a meme online, but more concerning is that he works with kids. 🧵

Ian Ballinger on the right, pictured in a photo on the TPUSA at KU account

Ian Ballinger holding a Nick Fuentes America First flag in front of the Kansas State Capitol Building in Topeka

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fashfreenw.bsky.social @fashfreenw.bsky.social · 1d

Will be hard for this turning point, so called mainstream Republican, to deny he’s associated with neo Nazis, violent white supremacist felons, and fascism when his social media has pics of him at a Hammerskins event. Hammerskins are about as stereotypical neo nazi racist skinhead as it gets

Front Range Antifascists @frontrangeantifa.bsky.social · 1d

Nathan was identified after CU Boulder's TPUSA chapter posted a photo announcing their new Executive Board.

They tagged Nathan's Instagram, which featured photos of him competing at Frontiers 25, a white supremacist boxing tournament.

An instagram post from CU Boulder TPUSA announcing Nathaniel Ellis as their secretary.

Nathaniel Ellis' Instagram account featuring a photo of him boxing with a man in a hammerskins shirt.

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fashfreenw.bsky.social @fashfreenw.bsky.social · 1d

Turning Point and patriot front are like peas in a pod. Meet white nationalist Nathaniel Ellis

Front Range Antifascists @frontrangeantifa.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: CU Boulder sophomore Nathaniel Ellis has been identified as a member of the white supremacist groups Patriot Front and Active Club.

Nathan is on the Executive Board for CU Boulder's Turning Point USA Chapter.

Read the full report: frontrangeantifa.noblogs.org/nathan-ellis/

Three photos of Patriot Front member Nathaniel Ellis

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fashfreenw.bsky.social @fashfreenw.bsky.social · 1d

It seems I’ll have to update my pirate’s raiding the White House lego set I built when I was 14. Bring on the village people, gonna need some construction working lads.

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.

Photograph of ongoing demolition of the East Wing of the White House.

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fashfreenw.bsky.social @fashfreenw.bsky.social · 1d

Correction, you are a Bad Ass Old Lady BAOL). And a hell of a pain in the fascist ass 🥧🤘

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Late Night Anti-Fascists @latenightafa.bsky.social · 1d

Since most media won't talk directly to anti-fascists, we've followed the lead of other comrades and added an FAQ to the about page on our blog.

We've also included a long list of hoaxes about 'antifa', feel free to take and repurpose any of this information.

screenshot of page showing opened section about Hoaxes and campaigns targeting antifa, with about 15 links to articles visible

the section continued with 30 more links.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 1d

Collaborators:

Aozora @aozorasf.bsky.social · 2d

This is who is paying for the destruction of the White House East Wing, per @wsj.com

Altria Group Inc.
Amazon
Apple Inc.
Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp.
Caterpillar Inc.
Coinbase Global
Comcast Corp.
Hard Rock International
Google
HP Inc.
Lockheed Martin Corp.
Meta Platforms Inc.
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fashfreenw.bsky.social @fashfreenw.bsky.social · 1d

Point and laugh. Point and laugh. Point and laugh.
They expect aggression and train for that, they don’t really know what to do with ridicule.

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Big Tex @btactual.bsky.social · 2d

$495/2000!

Big Tex @btactual.bsky.social · 7d

Being innocent is expensive as hell. We need to raise about $2000 to order court transcripts for my upcoming trial and are giving away some stuff to help meet that need. Please share!

freetex.noblogs.org/post/2025/10...

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fashfreenw.bsky.social @fashfreenw.bsky.social · 2d

Ive gotten to the point where now whenever i see a fed while out ridding my bike I just start yelling fuck you nerds. I honestly think it’s more startling to them than yelling fascists, and people turn their heads more idk if their expecting actual trekies or what but it seems to work for attention

Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 2d

Federal agents are staging a massive operation downtown near Canal street. Show of force with reportedly dozens of agents from agencies including ICE, FBI, IRS, DEA, etx

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Wiley D Cope @wileydcope.bsky.social · 2d

Last week, I broke the story of how a Russian street fight promotion expanded into the US with help of neo-nazis from the Active Club network & Patriot Front.

Streets Fight Club (SFC) has promoted no-rules, bare-knuckle fights on Instagram & YouTube while raising funds for Russia’s war on Ukraine.

August 6, 2025 post from the SFC Telegram channel showing a masked man in camouflage with an SFC patch posing next to a dirtbike. The post includes the hashtag #SFCFamily and a caption in Russian that translates to, “Well,do you understand Russian?”

August 10, 2025 Instagram story from the SFC American account showing Tennessee Active Club member Thomas Grady posing with Graham Whitson of Patriot Front. Both are wearing SFC shirts and the caption reads, “ONLY WARS.”

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fashfreenw.bsky.social @fashfreenw.bsky.social · 3d

Well this certainly looks like blatant corruption

Arnie @lthammari.bsky.social · 3d

snowbrains.com/senate-bill-...

Senate Bill Would Give Away Public Land For Free, Support Ski Town Development - SnowBrains

A bill introduced in the U.S. Senate by Utah Senators Mike Lee and John Curtis in May would transfer 24 acres of public land in the Dixie National Forest from the Federal Government to Brian Head Town...

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fashfreenw.bsky.social @fashfreenw.bsky.social · 4d

Anti communist club/anti communist action have always been dog whistles used by anti semites to more sneakily advance a white nationalist agenda. This is a nice break down of that history

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 6d

Left: Father Coughlin's anti-communist club, September 1935
Right: Donald Trump's anti-communist club, October 2025

Anti-Communist Club
Is Formed by Coughlin
ROYAL OAK, Mich., Sept. 17.-(U.P.)—The Rev. Charles E. Cough-lin today announced formation of a children's anti-Communist club in which communism will be taught to
"expose its fallacies."
"We take the candy from the pill and show what's inside," the priest said "It is the first such club to be formed and we hope it will spread all over America."
The club will function in the school maintained by Father Coughlin's parish of the Shrine of the Little Flower.

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Jeremiah Hayden @jeremiahhayden.bsky.social · 4d

Protestors have pushed agents back into the ICE facility after their brief attempt to disperse people. Seemed to be so a few cars could leave. Maybe 40 agents for this. That’s perhaps what the budget is for. People choking in the roads, mace and pepper to their faces. Some say at least one arrested.

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Spooky Scott Kelley Ernest, BSPH 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #mtpol @mxscottkernest.bsky.social · 4d

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Keila Szpaller @keilaszpaller.bsky.social · 5d

Ron Osborn, almost 93, said he’s a Korean War veteran out at the Hamilton, Montana, No Kings rally to show his patriotism. “We’re proud American citizens, loyal to the flag and the Constitution.” #montana

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Pride at the Pier 🏳️‍🌈🤝⚧️ he/she/they/xe @prideatthepier.bsky.social · 4d

Behind Hibbs in this photo is Tony Perkins, the president of the Family Research Council.

The FRC, who sponsored the summit, has been labeled an anti-LGBTQ hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Perkins smiled as hundreds of people chanted “Shame” at him.

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