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Remora House DC 🎃 @remorahousedc.bsky.social · 8h

Same in DC. It’s been two months.

Still constant helicopters overhead. Abandoned work trucks where neighbors have been kidnapped by ICE. Armed national guard walking the streets. Feds posting up in former unhoused spaces to keep people away.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Thinking about how much of their violence has been normalized already, how scenes that caused shockwaves 6 weeks ago are now part of the rhythm of daily life. Watched a TikTok from a daughter who has to do her parents' laundry & get their groceries because they're in hiding. This is just it now

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

“physically fighting brings more people in than sign holding or writing letters to the editor ever did. If anything, the wet blanket and attempts to control things by protest managers and liberals kills social movements”

What Anarchists Have Been Saying For Years, and What Liberals Need to Start Hearing

Anonymous What Anarchists Have Been Saying For Years, and What Liberals Need to Start Hearing December 8th, 2016

theanarchistlibrary.org

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Potomac River Antifascists @potomacriverantifa.bsky.social · 8h

Exactly

talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 10h

this is where movements become moments & die: people see the display of a radical tactic and, not comprehending the tactical purpose, adopt only the display as an echo of the fight.

it becomes an empty, consumerist meme: buy an inflatable and dance around and that’s how you fight ICE!

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 13h

This is because the feds won't stop gassing our neighborhoods so they can flee and, by extension, are also repeatedly gassing the cops. What a moment to be alive

Peter Nickeas @peternickeas.bsky.social · 13h

CPD memo to officers today: helmet and gas mask available and accessible at all times, to be read at 7 days of roll calls. (For officers assigned masks.) Supervisors to ensure compliance acc to the memo. #chicago

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Potomac River Antifascists @potomacriverantifa.bsky.social · 8h

It’s not like we have been warning everyone else about groypers for a decade or anything…

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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 9h

Incredible photo from @chicago.suntimes.com ‘s Anthony Vazquez. Pointing what looks to be a teargas launcher at someone’s head at nearly point blank range is incredibly dangerous. This is why I prefer a ballistic helmet in the field.

Feds ram SUV in chase down residential street in Chicago, then tear-gas crowd

The crash happened late Tuesday morning near 105th Street and Avenue N on Chicago's East Side, resulting in dozens of residents showing up to protest the federal immigration agents.

chicago.suntimes.com

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 9h

So can we call it occupation yet

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Potomac River Antifascists @potomacriverantifa.bsky.social · 8h

In short: no more movement celebrities

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Potomac River Antifascists @potomacriverantifa.bsky.social · 8h

Good thread about frog costumes and the liberal tendency to defang radical, direct confrontation

talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 10h

as charming and whimsical as some will view this, it bears noting that absurdity—not militancy or might—are what people have chosen to repeat from the portland standoffs against ICE.

why is that?

what purpose does this serve?

a mini 🧵:

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.

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talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 10h

the above clip looks like it’s in a parking lot on a street corner, a visibility demo. if so, they might as well have a guy flipping a sign for discounts on papa john’s with them, as this type of demo is just that: a form of advertising.

in this setting, absurdity may draw eyes but nothing else.

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Potomac River Antifascists @potomacriverantifa.bsky.social · 9h

Holy fuck I had completely memory holed that

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Potomac River Antifascists @potomacriverantifa.bsky.social · 9h

Stop treating activism like content. Stop treating people’s lives like they’re fodder for your influencer career.

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Stanislav Vysotsky @professorstas.bsky.social · 14h

Official statement from the Worldwide Anti-Fascism Research Network in solidarity with @mark-bray.bsky.social.

“The Worldwide Anti-Fascism Research Network stands in solidarity with Mark Bray and all scholars who are facing extreme repression and threats of violence.”

Worldwide Antifascism Research Network

An international network of academics studying Antifascism

antifascismresearchnetwork.com

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Potomac River Antifascists @potomacriverantifa.bsky.social · 1d

Fixed it

The original photo but with “anti-“ removed everywhere so it says General Patton is a fascist

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Potomac River Antifascists @potomacriverantifa.bsky.social · 1d

Stick to eating dots and running away from ghosts, David

David Pakman @davidpakman.bsky.social · 1d

The extreme left’s weird soft treatment of Nick Fuentes is a reminder that if you go far enough in either direction, you loop back around

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Potomac River Antifascists @potomacriverantifa.bsky.social · 1d

Please vet information before sharing, people. There’s so much fake shit out there that’s made to get us mad and keep us from doing useful work.

talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 1d

a fake quote being attributed to zohran mamdani is igniting the pro-palestine left.

he never said arresting netanyahu would make him a trumpian fascist. that phrase was posted by an account known for using extreme rhetoric to accuse mamdani of effectively saying that as a result of him softening.

image circulating claiming to attribute a fake quote to mamdani. text reads:
dec. 2024: “as mayor of nyc i would arrest benjamin netanyahu”
sept. 2025: “arresting netanyahu would make me a trumpian fascist.” - this second quote has in big letters over it the words “fake quote.”

post from the originator of the phrase. text reads:

@zei squirrel
here you have it side by side. Zohran in December 2024, when he was running in the primary, pledging that he will definitely arrest Netanyahu. Then fast forward to Zohran in September 2025, after he won the primary, and suddenly arresting Netanyahu makes you a Trumpian fascist:

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Bex 🐸 (they/them/frog) @thinlyveiledtruth.bsky.social · 1d

Just a reminder: LA is still getting slammed by ICE.

I'd guess about 50-60 people taken in the San Fernando Valley today.

And it's only 1pm... #ChingaLaMigra

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 1d

People don't need more evidence to conclude he's a white supremacist. Evidence isn't the issue here. The problem is convincing people that white supremacy is a threat rather than something they can elide and quietly benefit from without actually saying they like it.

☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 1d

Elon Musk is a white nationalist. Anyone who needs more data points to reach this conclusion is beyond help or persuasion.

If you buy, rent, service, or supercharge a Tesla you are supporting the most powerful white nationalist on earth. Period.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

Musk is funding the legal battle of UK Far Right activist Tommy Robinson - real name Stephen Yaxley Lennon - as he faces charges brought by counterterrorism police.

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WhiteRoseAFA @whiteroseafa.bsky.social · 2d

These costumes are driving the propagandists mad. They're struggling to demonize the protesters and their messaging garbage. They'll keep trying different angles though, because they need the propaganda content.

Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 2d

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

Andy ngo mad about muppets again — this time in Chicago

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

Because TikTok is an incredible place, every time we open the app now, we are shown that fake video of a reporter being arrested. Simultaneously, a bunch of commenters are convinced our video of state troopers in Broadview from yesterday evening is AI. Perfect, no notes

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Josep Goded (New Main Account) @josepgoded2.bsky.social · 2d

Palestinians mourn their colleague Saleh Al-Jaafarawi, killed today by Israeli-backed gangs in Gaza City.

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Potomac River Antifascists @potomacriverantifa.bsky.social · 2d

Boosting for a friend. Please give if you can

Murph @murphtracks.bsky.social · 3d

🚨 MUTUAL AID REQUEST 🚨
A good friend on the West Coast has been going through some health issues and needs rent assistance this upcoming month. If you can spare a few bucks, it would help out a whole lot. (I personally vouch for this fundraiser and would really appreciate a boost.)

Comrade Survival Fund

By SoCal Mutual Aid Network

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Global Project Against Hate and Extremism @globalextremism.bsky.social · 2d

Nick Fuentes has long trafficked in racism and misogyny. Now, mainstream podcasters and platforms are helping him reinvent himself—muting his slurs while amplifying his reach. His sanitization shows how extremists are being normalized in U.S. politics and media.

Read more:

The Sanitization of Antisemite Nick Fuentes

Nick Fuentes, a 27-year-old Holocaust denier and white nationalist, has long trafficked in racism, misogyny, and antisemitism. Yet mainstream podcasters and platforms are now offering him space to rei...

globalextremism.org

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Ⓐnarchohoodism @161bklyn.bsky.social · 2d

Ngo ain’t no journalist. He is a propagandist and has even (at least once that I know of) been an active participant in far right violence along with Patriot Prayer in 2020 or 2019 or 18. I’ll find it.

www.wccsradio.com/rss/veteran-...

Veteran journalist flips script on media ‘running cover’ for Antifa violence: ‘Anarchist communism’

As liberal pundits and networks across the country downplay the rise of violence carried out by Antifa, a jour...

www.wccsradio.com

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Potomac River Antifascists @potomacriverantifa.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, on one hand, the more the merrier.

On the other hand, what’s to say they won’t start scapegoating us again the moment there’s a Democrat in the White House?

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