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Mark Bray
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Historian @ruhistorydept.bsky.social

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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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Wish I were there. Solidarity! #AbolishICE

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Després que Trump signés un decret per etiquetar “Antifa” com a organització terrorista, el debat és més urgent que mai.
A Antifa (2017), Mark Bray aporta història i claus per reconèixer i combatre el feixisme.
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@capitanswing.bsky.social
New York City turned OUT.
@handsoffnyc.bsky.social ✊❤️

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Eurodiputado de Vox reivindicando la división de voluntarios españoles en el ejército nazi durante la II Guerra Mundial. Mientras, el líder del partido ha sido invitado por Israel para participar en una conferencia sobre 'antisemitismo'.

Police attack antifascists confronting the fascist group Núcleo Nacional in Catalunya. #NoPassaran
💥 Càrregues policials contra els manifestants que protestaven pel desembarcament del partit d'ultradreta Núcleo Nacional a Catalunya

🪧 Centenars de persones s'han concentrat davant de la nova seu de l'organització a Sentmenat

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💥 Càrregues policials contra els manifestants que protestaven pel desembarcament del partit d'ultradreta Núcleo Nacional a Catalunya

🪧 Centenars de persones s'han concentrat davant de la nova seu de l'organització a Sentmenat
WSJ investigation: In the past 6 months ICE agents have fired at vehicles 13 times, leading to:

* 8 people shot
* 5 of which were U.S. citizens
* 2 died
* no victims drew a weapon

The playbook: Agents box in a vehicle, block attempts to flee, then fire

www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...
Videos Show How ICE Vehicle Stops Can Escalate to Shootings
A WSJ visual investigation found that the Minneapolis ICE killing is one of 13 incidents where federal immigration agents have used deadly force against civilians in vehicles since July.
www.wsj.com
they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.
In the video that the shooter took, which I believe was leaked to be exculpatory, he appears to yell “fucking bitch” after he shoots Renee Good.

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Barricades Protect Autonomous Grieving Zone in South Minneapolis After ICE Killed Woman Yesterday
DHS Warns Any Action By Americans Will Be Treated As Domestic Terrorism https://theonion.com/dhs-warns-any-action-by-americans-will-be-treated-as-domestic-terrorism/
Given ICE’s violent, impunity-drenched core, at a moment when the Trump regime is leaning heavily into a vision of dominance grounded in aggression and lawlessness, such a killing (certainly not ICE's first) was all but inevitable. @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2026/01/07/i...
This Isn’t the First Killing by ICE — and It Won’t Be the Last
ICE shot a woman point-blank in Minneapolis. The agency’s raids and impunity were always going to lead to death.
theintercept.com

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Gaza City's landscape was once packed with concrete residential blocks. In the weeks before a ceasefire in October, Israel widely deployed a new weapon: M113 Armoured Personnel Carriers repurposed to carry between 1 and 3 tons of explosives, Reuters found reut.rs/49fw0cd

Solidarity.
What gave you courage in 2025?
What gave you courage in 2025?
Last piece of the year y'all! This one is a must read.

@shaneburley.bsky.social takes a deep deep dive into Richard Spencer's rebrand in order to illuminate the fringe right's movement dynamics, influence on the mainstream, and political impasses.

spectrejournal.com/varieties-of...
Varieties of White Nationalism – Spectre Journal
Shane Burley looks at Richard Spencer's rebranding effort to illuminate the movement dynamics and political impasses of the "dissident" right.
spectrejournal.com
On Nov. 18, dozens of community members were alerted to an immigration raid at a warehouse in St. Paul. Within minutes of federal agents with ICE, the DEA and FBI arriving at the workplace, a rapid response network mobilized to confront the agents. A week later, a rally denounced the raid.
Community Responds to ICE Raid That Took 14 People
YouTube video by Unicorn Riot
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Despite what you may hear, antifa supersoldiers are not running Portland. (Unfortunately.)

For @thebaffler.com, I wrote about Trump's war on the left, NSPM-7, and his administration's new attempts to mobilize the ressentiment of its supporters. thebaffler.com/latest/phant...
Phantom Threat | Hannah Gais
With enough conspiratorial flair, just about anyone can be a fire-breathing radical.
thebaffler.com

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!

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“No fan falta gaires feixistes per dur a terme el feixisme”
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@albasidera.bsky.social
#PagesEditors

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imagining explaining this to time traveler from 2015:

so GOP turned this teen into celeb for killing protesters. He’s at event w/ who’s who of MAGA infighting over how explicitly fascist they should be, posting r-word (back in vogue) & “gay” as pejorative, on a platform owned by a billionaire Nazi-

Hi! Thank you. I’m not sure exactly where you can get the English-language edition over there but maybe some online booksellers will ship internationally?

The far-right party Vox is imitating Trump by trying to declare ‘antifa’ a terrorist organization in Spain.
💢 Vox copia la estrategia de Trump y lleva al Congreso la ilegalización del "movimiento Antifa" y su inclusión en la lista terrorista europea.

⭕️ "Antifascista es cualquier persona que se opone al fascismo, es decir, cualquier demócrata", analiza @miquelramos.bsky.social

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💢 Vox copia la estrategia de Trump y lleva al Congreso la ilegalización del "movimiento Antifa" y su inclusión en la lista terrorista europea.

⭕️ "Antifascista es cualquier persona que se opone al fascismo, es decir, cualquier demócrata", analiza @miquelramos.bsky.social

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#OtD 13 Dec 1895 Lucia Sanchez Saornil was born in Spain. A poet, painter, feminist, lesbian and anarchist, she co-founded the Mujeres Libres (Free Women) group which played an important part in the Spanish Civil War. Commemorative items here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

Bologna Antifascista Sempre