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Matthias Meyer
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(he/him) | researching the far right & antifeminism | working @wi-rex.bsky.social at @idz-jena.bsky.social | beware the disco in discourse | views are my own
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Matthias Meyer @mmyr.bsky.social · Sep 5
Für das Dossier Rechtsextremismus der bpb habe ich einige Gedanken zu rechtsextremen Diskursstrategien und -interventionen aufgeschrieben:
Rechtsextreme Diskursstrategien
Die Nutzung von NS-Vokabular, geschichtsrevisionistische Aussagen oder NS-Verherrlichung sind meist keine willkürlichen Vorkommnisse im Diskurs, sondern eine Strategie der extremen Rechten.
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Matthias Meyer @mmyr.bsky.social · 8h
Serious TW here:
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 9h
1/ The first excerpt of Virginia Giuffre's posthumus memoir is out and it is gutting: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the king’s brother
In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an ‘apex predator’ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy a...
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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 9h
I just think AI is so exciting bc it's a machine that you can get wrong answers from, that yields environmental devastation, and is being forced on all of us
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 9h
“The Defense Department has confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America,” the Pentagon Press Association said
Oct. 15, 2025 PENTAGON PRESS ASSOCIATION STATEMENT Today, the Defense Department confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America. It did this because reporters would not sign onto a new media policy over its implicit threat of criminalizing national security reporting and exposing those who sign it to potential prosecution. The Pentagon Press Association's members are still committed to reporting on the U.S. military. But make no mistake, today, Oct. 15, 2025 is a dark day for press freedom that raises concerns about a weakening U.S. commitment to transparency in governance, to public accountability at the Pentagon and to free speech for all. PPA
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 9h
The Supreme Court’s majority right wing indicated in oral arguments that they think racism is over on the same day that the vice president defended the “I love Hitler” guy, and that the NYT reported that the current administration plans to accept only white, English-speaking refugees.
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Altpapier @altpapier.bsky.social · 2d
Der Unterschied: Die Rückwärtsgewandteit der Autobranche trägt zur Zerstörung des Planeten bei, die Rückwärtsgewandtheit des Journalismus nur zur Zerstörung der Demokratie. Man muss halt immer das Positive sehen. (2/2)
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Wissensnetzwerk Rechtsextremismusforschung @wi-rex.bsky.social · 19h
Heute ist unser 4. Newsletter erschienen!

Darin berichten wir über aktuelle Aktivitäten im #Wi-REX und Entwicklungen im Forschungsfeld #Rechtsextremismus:

🔗 Hier nachlesen: t064d1364.emailsys1a.net/mailing/217/...

👉 Melden Sie sich hier an, um informiert zu bleiben:
wi-rex.de/verteiler/
Wi-REX Newsletter 04 – Okt 2025
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Matthias Meyer @mmyr.bsky.social · 1d
When looking at the situation in Port-au-Price or Haiti in general, bear in mind that France punished Haitians for their successful revolution by billing their former slaves in the range of two-digit billions. That money was extorted from Haiti.
Demanding Reparations, and Ending Up in Exile (Published 2022)
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Miteinander e.V. @miteinanderlsa.bsky.social · 2d
Wir wollten einladen - zur Neueinweihung des Gedenksteins für Frank Böttcher in Magdeburg.

Doch bereits drei Tage nach der Einlassung der Gedenktafel wurde der Stein erneut besudelt. So wird aus der Neueinweihung ein öffentliches Statement gegen das Vergessen, für die Orte der Erinnerung.
Dreigeteilte Kachel. Oben das Foto eines Gedenksteins mit einer eingelassene Gedenktafel, darauf der Name "Frank Böttcher". Unten das Foto eines Gedneksteins mit einer eingelassene Gedenktafel, darauf der Name "Frank Böttcher". Stein und Tafel sind mit schwarzer Farbe beschmiert. In der Mitte der Text: Das Vergangene ist nicht vergangen, und das Gedenken bleibt ein Störfaktor - für die Täter der “Baseballschläger-jahre”. Sie wollen die Orte der Erinnerung auslöschen. Wir halten dagegen. Jetzt erst recht: Kommt alle zur Kundgebung am 17. Oktober um 16 Uhr. Pascal Begrich, Geschäftsführer Miteinander e.V.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 2d
The Treasury Secretary declares himself to be pro-monarchy, and promises to punish the entire country if the people exercise their First Amendment rights.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
Bessent: "No Kings means no paychecks. No paychecks and no government."
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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 3d
My version of this is that Vought, Yarvin etc represent a kind of braindead right-Gramscianism, which leaves out all the interesting subtleties and treats civil society _only_ as a realm of indoctrination, where one ideological master-narrative can readily be substituted for another.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d
a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 3d
What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 3d
The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 3d
Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation
Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.
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Christian Eymery @christianeymery.bsky.social · 3d
Heute vor 82 Jahren wurde Willi Graf, Mitglied der Weißen Rose, nach 8 Mo. Haft von den Nazis ermordet. Während seiner Haft schwieg er trotz fortwährender Verhöre durch die Gestapo. Er rettete damit vielen Gleichgesinnten das Leben.
In ehrenvollem Gedenken.
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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 4d
ICE drag girl out of car & body slam her to ground—then pin her face down & kneel on her neck.

"I'm 15!" she cries out. "I'm not resisting!"

Agents have now asked multiple area housing associations to unlock main doors—so they can go door to door.

Hoffman Estates, Illinois
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Verbrecher Verlag @verbrecherverlag.bsky.social · 4d
Im Tagesspiegel greift Sebastian Leber die rechte Kampagne gegen den Kulturstaatsminister Wolfram Weimer und einige für den Deutschen Verlagspreis nominierten Verlage auf. Und ordnet das in einen größeren Kontext ein.
Danke!
Mehr: www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/die-...
Die Union scheint dazugelernt zu haben: Der Tag, an dem der AfD-Shitstorm einfach verwehte
Monatelang trieb die rechte Empörungsindustrie die demokratischen Parteien vor sich her. Nun hat sich erstmals gezeigt, dass ihr Einfluss begrenzt ist. Das macht Hoffnung.
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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 4d
I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...
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Todd Wolfson @proftwolf.bsky.social · 5d
I am proud to say that MIT has rejected Trump's poison compact. MIT President Sally Kornbluth: "Therefore, with respect, we cannot support the proposed approach to addressing the issues facing higher education."
@aaup.org @aft.org @higheredlabor.bsky.social @uaw.org
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Regarding the Compact
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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 6d
Reminder: because the veteran prosecutor nominated by Trump as U.S. attorney and approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee after 8 months on the job found no basis for indicting James Comey or Letitia James, Trump replaced him 3 weeks ago with an insurance lawyer he met at one of his golf courses.
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Wissensnetzwerk Rechtsextremismusforschung @wi-rex.bsky.social · 6d
Bonnie M. Meguid, @hildecoffe.bsky.social, @anacweeks.bsky.social und Miki Caul Kittilson zeigen, wie PRR (populist radial right) parties zwar Frauenrechte thematisieren, wenn es wahltaktisch opportun ist, dabei ihre Positionen aber kaum bis gar nicht verändern:
doi.org/10.1177/0010...
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Wissensnetzwerk Rechtsextremismusforschung @wi-rex.bsky.social · 6d
#NeuesAusDerForschung

@dasalgon.bsky.social und @tevoelker.bsky.social unterstreichen in ihrer Analyse (für Deutschland, seit 1990), dass die Übernahme rechtsextremer Positionen durch andere Parteien deren Ideologie und Positionen normalisiert und verbreitet:
doi.org/10.1017/S147...
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Linus Westheuser @lwestheuser.bsky.social · 7d
JUST OUT: "Boundaries and Cleavages: Elements of a Cultural Sociology of Political Divides."

OA: direct.mit.edu/ecps/article...

It develops what the cultural sociology of group formation can contribute to research on political cleavages.

(And why "Somewheres vs Anywheres" really doesn't cut it.)
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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 7d
WSJ: President Trump believed his Truth Social post demanding prosecutions of James Comey and other political foes was a private message to his attorney general, and "and was surprised to learn it was public."

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Anti-Fascist Collective… @wtafc.bsky.social · 10d
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The Last Mile with USAID @thelastmileusaid.bsky.social · 7d
There is no single way to resist; only the courage to invent one. 👍
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 7d
Jack collaborated with neo-Nazi twins to make a documentary. He was a fan of white supremacist Richard Spencer. He has tweeted 1488, the alphanumeric code for Heil Hitler. He wrote an unreadable anti-antifa book. Last year he wrote a book abt the left called “Unhumans.” That he’s now speaking here…
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 7d
From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec
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