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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 1m

the US government lies

“CBP Home representatives told them that their lack of passports wouldn't be a problem and that the U.S. government would help them obtain the travel documents they needed. Now they are being told that they're on their own - if they get any response at all.”

“I Don’t Want to Be Here Anymore”: They Tried to Self-Deport, Then Got Stranded in Trump’s America

Venezuelan immigrants signed up for a Trump-promoted app called CBP Home, which promised a safe and easy way to leave the country, and prepared to leave on their given departure dates. Those dates hav...

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Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social · 6h

Shot of a Coast Guard officer apparently serving Kristi Noem's aide-to-camp, lugging her $2500 Goyard GM tote. Three sleeve stripes so she's a Cdr, equivalent to a Lt. Colonel in the Army I think

29 U.S.C. § 157 @organizingpower.bsky.social · May 6

No immigrants are going to actually take this offer (which is a pittance at best) but even if they did Trump would never pay. It’s bait. He’s setting a trap.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/u...

Trump Offers to Pay Immigrants Who Deport Themselves

The administration says the program to pay migrants $1,000 once their travel home is confirmed will save money because of how expensive it is to find, detain and deport people.

www.nytimes.com

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Queer Satanic @queersatanic.bsky.social · 9h

there was at least a fourth and a fifth substack article, and Metal Blast interview, but other priorities got in the way

This @danarrows.bsky.social essay about the need of liberals and ostensible leftists to ignore who people really were and what the right is saying about them is dead on, tho.

The Myth of Charlie Kirk

YouTube video by Three Arrows

www.youtube.com

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Tito Blanco @acabcats.bsky.social · 9h

Hey Portland! Take note. This is how you deal with fascists who take to the streets in your community.

Costumes and dance parties are fun and make for whimsical optics. What’s the plan for when you inevitably get punched in the face because you allowed the fash to get too cozy in your spaces?

Batallon Bakunin @batallonbakunin.bsky.social · 10h

Antifascism is so often exactly this. Attacking the explicit fascists, while fighting off the repressive arm of the state at our rearguard— as the Basque comrades so effectively did today in Vitoria against Spanish falangist fascists.

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Murph @murphtracks.bsky.social · 8h

Actually impressed with how MSNBC handled this one.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

MSNBC from last night.

Debunking the right's obsession with Antifa

Rutgers University History Professor Mark Bray joins The Weekend: Primetime to share why he and his family fled the U.S. over safety concerns amid the Trump administration's broad attacks on Antifa. H...

www.msnbc.com

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Academic Anarchy🏴 - Antifa Founder @johnbrownbread.bsky.social · 7h

Fascists always want to respond to a revolution that never occurred.

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 7h

This week on 'Yeah Nah Pasaran!' on @3crmelbourne.bsky.social, @sexenheimer.bsky.social & I talk to @taliajane.bsky.social about 'How Good is America?' 🇺🇸🫡

4.30pm, OCT 16, 2025 /// 855AM, digital, streaming, Community Radio+ app, podcats 🐈

slackbastard.anarchobase.com?p=53574

Yeah Nah Pasaran #267 w Talia Jane on God Bless America : October 16, 2025

This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! on 3CR, we talk to Talia Jane [Bluesky/Twitter]. Talia is an independent journalist based in New Yawk covering political protests & social movements. Unsurprisin…

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PopMob PDX @popmobpdx.bsky.social · 6h

After the No King's March next Saturday, the Defense Fund PDX is throwing a street fair to raise money for the Portland bail fund.

Defense fund PDX street fair October 18th 2-7 pm on Clinton St & 25th. Music, vendors, raffle
Family Friendly
All proceeds to the Bail Fund

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 6h

'The Cartography of Genocide platform documents in unprecedented detail the extent and character of Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip since October 2023.'

gaza.forensic-architecture.org/database

FA Projects

Forensic Architecture

gaza.forensic-architecture.org

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AntifaInfoBlatt @antifainfoblatt.bsky.social · 6h

(Un-) Freiheit für alle Antifas

Staatliche Verfolgungswut gegen Antifaschist*innen im „Budapest-Komplex“

➔ antifainfoblatt.de/aib147/un-fr...

Gastbeitrag: @rotehilfe.bsky.social

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pye @raptor.on.computer · 6h

it's fun to see folx embracing these costumes but remember they are cheap and easy to get out of - fursuits are not. don't be tempted by the idea of a topical photo op in your 5k custom costume, it could put you in very real danger.

Dogpatch Press @dogpatch.press · 17h

Portland's inflatable animal protesters are doing what some furries have been doing for years.

I've been suiting at many protests this year and for No Kings Oct 18 I'm bike marshalling. Don't risk suit damage but some of these tell you the risk levels before you go.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Among Portland Protests, It’s Frogs and Sharks and Bears, Oh My!

www.nytimes.com

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.bsky.social · 6h

This episode is 🔥🔥🔥

Damning illustration of the radicalisation of the mainstream elite and their ability to swallow any reactionary moral panic

If Books Could Kill @ifbookspod.bsky.social · Sep 11

Episode 44: Summer of Our Discontent

Thomas Chatterton Williams is the only thinker brave enough to ask the question: is there a way to make that sentence longer?

Thomas Chatterton Williams'

Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 09/11/2025 · 1h 32m

podcasts.apple.com

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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 1h

what great music to wake up to! we are not alone 🖤

Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 5h

I used to say what's on my mind
And kindred spirits were easy to find
But now my words are locked with a fist
There must be s/thing that I must have missed
I used to say what I want to say
I used to play how I want to play
But now our nation's liberty is lost
In ...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1XM...

Fascist Degradation - Di Nigunim

YouTube video by Terrasemilla

www.youtube.com

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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 1h

If you follow all the recommendations in this guide, whichever cop is assigned to look at your phone or computer data will have a bad day. Maybe they'll quit their job... we can hope.”

Sweet Science, Savage Art @sweetscisavart.bsky.social · 3h

Intro to digital security...

Sweet Science, Savage Art @sweetscisavart.bsky.social · 6d

Turn Off Your Phone and other Digital Security Strategies: Keep your phone, computer, and digital life safe with these basic tips.

archive.org/details/turn...

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1312 Press @1312press.bsky.social · 9h

dont let them defang antifa - we are not afraid of conflict

Batallon Bakunin @batallonbakunin.bsky.social · 10h

Antifascism is so often exactly this. Attacking the explicit fascists, while fighting off the repressive arm of the state at our rearguard— as the Basque comrades so effectively did today in Vitoria against Spanish falangist fascists.

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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 9h

“envisioning a future where reality is changed by cabinet members' decrees to preemptively please the president on the cusp of nuking Europe, not so far from now,”

b9AcE is anti-fascist (@[email protected])

"Dystopia: Land of the unfree", a 1 hour and 22 minutes documentary on the history of the conditions leading to USA's current descent under authoritarian Trump, from 1787 through the civil war, KKK, J...

todon.eu

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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 9h

it’s so gorgeous! thank you for sharing it

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treekisser @treekisser.bsky.social · 10h

San Francisco is a delightful paradise. Fuck this piece of shit.

Billionaires out of Frisco!

Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 14h

So Elon Musk using the language “only solution” when joining Marc Benioff in the call to send federal troops into the city of San Francisco. (Musk doesn’t live in SF. Some of his immigrant employees probably do.)

10/10/2025 Elon Musk tweets: “It's the only solution at this point.
Nothing else has or will work.” He is sharing a post that says, “Pretty much 80% of San Francisco wants federal intervention on deporting drug dealers. That's how insane it's been here.
90+ kilos of fentanyl seized in one year by
SFPD. 4,300 OD deaths since 2020…”

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Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 10h

lmao US Gestapo supporting grifting liars are claiming I’m in black bloc at ICE as we speak. Girl I’m literally in bed cuddling my cat

Floofy cat with sleepy fur laying with her paws up next to me in bed

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Batallon Bakunin @batallonbakunin.bsky.social · 10h

Antifascism is so often exactly this. Attacking the explicit fascists, while fighting off the repressive arm of the state at our rearguard— as the Basque comrades so effectively did today in Vitoria against Spanish falangist fascists.

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DGK 🦖 @dontgetkettled.bsky.social · 11h

Incredible watch, and stoked to see the corking materials we’ve worked hard on finding their way to a broader audience, as intended. Solidarity with Seattle and every other city showing up to keep people safe.

Cork the streets.

SquidTips - Aj/Alex 🏍 🦑🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @squidtips.bsky.social · 1d

In ~45 minutes I'll be posting a video about my favorite Direct Action, that is deeply connected to my love for motorcycles: Corking

In 7 days we have another national day of protest, and I hope this helps organizers create better, safer marches!

youtu.be/MUGVvyJ4z2U

The Most Dangerous Way I Serve My Community

YouTube video by SquidTips

youtu.be

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Uzza @uzzamodea.bsky.social · 11h

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svart flagg @svartflagg.bsky.social · 11h

Today in Portland, a fed shooting pepper balls from the roof of the ICE facility was so eager to aim for people’s heads, that after shooting one photographer in the head and another in the upper arm, they accidentally shot a DHS agent in the head. This photo shows the moment of impact;

Riot cops standing a street with less-lethal weapons, and one in a gas mask has a cloud of pepper dust around his helmet.

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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 10h

i know! glad we looked it up

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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 11h

Geneva B Art

illustration :)

gdbee.carrd.co

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