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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 1d

It’s important to understand that the demonization of ‘Antifa’ isn’t just about kneecapping the enemies of MAGA. It’s about creating an opportunity to bring down the law-enforcement apparatus on anyone who dares dissent.

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 1d

A great part of David's book The Age of Insurrection details all the mass shootings and natural disasters and other tragedies that were baselessly blamed on antifa in 2020. Highly recommend: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/720886...

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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 1d

And in the case of the Minnesota murders, the inversion of reality couldn’t be more stark: The killer was a classic far-right domestic terrorist who was directly inspired by Donald Trump.

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The suspect in the shooting of 2 Minnesota lawmakers had a 'hit list' of 45 officials

Vance Boelter was captured in a wooded area on Sunday night, and charged in the shootings of two state lawmakers and their spouses. He appeared in federal court after being charged with murder.

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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 1d

That was followed by Mike Pence blaming “leftists” for the shootings during his GOP convention acceptance speech.

Whatever MAGA claims, you can almost guarantee that it will be an inversion of factual reality.

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By portraying Oakland cop killer as 'leftist,' Pence joins GOP chorus erasing far-right violence

As Mike Pence demonstrated last night in his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention (RNC), conservatives have come up with a handy way to simply erase far-right domestic terrorism fro...

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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 1d

And of course, their plan worked because the media are so lazy and corrupt. It wasn’t long before there was a congressional hearing at which Sen. Ted Cruz blamed the shootings on “antifa”.

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Turning reality on its head, Cruz claims right-wing ‘Boogaloo’ killer was ‘antifa’

Republicans have long embraced Trumpian lies they call “alternative facts,” but Texas Sen. Ted Cruz this week reached new depths by outright falsifying the record about a domestic terrorist who killed...

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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 1d

You might recall that in fact the secret militia with whom this Air Force staff sergeant trained plotted the killings in hopes that “leftists” would get the blame. Of course, since this was barely even reported on, no one could blame you for not knowing.

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‘Boogaloo Boi’ killer was an active member of a secretive terrorist militia group planning violence

Despite the widespread media narrative blaming Black Lives Matter and antifascist activists for last summer’s protest violence, there were plenty of suspicions that far-right extremists seeking to int...

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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 1d

Remember how the murder of a federal LEO in Oakland during the anti-police protests in 2020 was initially assumed to be a leftist crime, but it turned out to have been committed by a far-right Boogaloo Boi?

www.dailykos.com/stories/2020...

Bay Area 'Boogaloo Bois' charged with ambush of federal officers at anti-police protest

The “Boogaloo Boi” who shot a California sheriff’s deputy last week was officially charged Tuesday with the shootings of two federal officers in an ambush at an anti-police protest in Oakland a week b...

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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 1d

This has always been part of the GOP playbook: Downplay incidents of right-wing violence, and then repurpose them as supposed acts of leftist terrorism for public consumption. They first did this in 2020.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 4d

Of course, it’s worth keeping in mind that Gibson is also pals with the new director of the National Counterterrorism Center.

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Joey Gibson's rotating cast of followers has a history of violent extremists and white nationalists

One of the things you notice about Joey Gibson after you observe him for a while is that the cast around him keeps … shifting. Gibson, founder of the street-brawling group Patriot Prayer, brought his ...

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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 4d

Joey and Co. have a long and violent history of far-right organizing, notably with Proud Boys and Oath Keepers and other militia types.

www.dailykos.com/stories/2019...

Joey Gibson's rotating cast of followers has a history of violent extremists and white nationalists

One of the things you notice about Joey Gibson after you observe him for a while is that the cast around him keeps … shifting. Gibson, founder of the street-brawling group Patriot Prayer, brought his ...

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 4d

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…

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 4d

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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Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition) @shaneburley.bsky.social · 8d

For those lucky enough to not know this is a neo-Nazi meme normally found on TRS and the Daily Stormer being shared by the official DHS account.

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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 10d

Neither is Dave anymore.

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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 10d

Yet for some reason Dave was unable to mention Jamal Khashoggi.

The Hollywood Reporter @thr.com · 10d

Dave Chappelle criticized the status of free speech in the United States while on stage at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia.

Dave Chappelle Criticizes Free Speech in America at Saudi Arabia Comedy Festival

Dave Chappelle criticized the status of free speech in the United States while on stage at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia.

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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 11d

One of my only heroes.

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 11d

The naturalist Jane Goodall died today at 91. Hope, she argued, is not merely “passive wishful thinking” but a “crucial survival trait.” Revisit a conversation with Goodall, from 2021: nyer.cm/F55JtsS

An image of Jane Goodall and a chimpanzee, from 1965. Photo courtesy CBS Photo Archive / Getty.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12d

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 13d

Post you from a different era.

A teenage Dave washing the mud off the undercarriage of the pickup from the spud farm where he worked.

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LEFT COAST RIGHT WATCH @lcrw.bsky.social · 13d

At a certain point the “things will go back to normal” crowd will forget what normal was

Texas man accused of plotting Pride parade shooting as revenge for Charlie Kirk

Exclusive: ‘Come on bro let’s go hunting fairies,’ Joshua Cole wrote to a friend two days before the Abilene Pride Parade, according to an FBI probable cause affidavit reviewed by The Independent

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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 13d

Mostly because you fear that they will know you’re bigoted against them and will respond accordingly.

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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 16d

NEW: The Heritage Foundation is pushing a terrorism designation based on "transgender ideology" on the claim that "50% of major (non-gang) school shootings since 2015" involve a transgender shooter or trans-related motive. @dell.bsky.social and me on why that's false:

www.wired.com/story/herita...

Heritage Foundation Uses Bogus Stat to Push a Trans Terrorism Classification

By inflating numbers and narrowing definitions, Heritage promotes a false link between transgender identity and violence in its push for the FBI to create a new terrorism category.

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John Horgan @johnhorgan.bsky.social · 16d

12/n Anyone who works on terrorism will tell you that coding can be tricky business. Having done a lot of it, I agree. However, this study is not only methodologically flawed, but far more egregiously, presents a *highly* distorted characterization of what is happening right now.

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John Horgan @johnhorgan.bsky.social · 16d

1/n A few days ago, an article appeared in The Atlantic with a bold headline “Left-wing terrorism is on the rise.”

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Left-Wing Terrorism Is on the Rise

For the first time in more than 30 years, attacks by the far left outnumber those by the far right.

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 19d

You can read more about what antifa actually is in my book To Catch a Fascist: The Fight to Expose the Radical Right, now available for preorder www.simonandschuster.com/books/To-Cat...

To Catch a Fascist

A searing, provocative investigation into the rise of white nationalist and neo-Nazi movements in the United States, centered on the anti-fascist g...

www.simonandschuster.com

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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 20d

Hopefully she’ll just take him out to the gravel pit when she’s done.

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Sandieglo @sandieglo.bsky.social · 22d

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