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Oregon Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals (AFT 5017) @ofnhp.bsky.social · 1d

We are in the final hours before our strike begins on Oct. 14th at 7am, and we have been getting trained on how to run a picket line and how to share our story with the public. But we will need your support! Click here and sign up for a picket shift: form.jotform.com/251634890806...

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 1d

🚨🚨🚨WA Governor Bob Ferguson responds to a letter he received from AG Pam Bondi in which she threatened to place him in jail. 🧯He is on fire! 1/2

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Rob Scott @robscottanthro.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, it’s good

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Amber Speaks Up @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 2d

Your grandfathers didn’t storm Normandy so you could be afraid of the word antifascist or “antifa”

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

It’s the Feds making Portland look like a war zone— not the protesters.

And honestly, these protesters are brilliant. They’re flipping the whole authoritarian cosplay on its ass!

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 2d

i think it’s noteworthy that a lot of centrist pundits have decided to just take it as a given that jd vance lies constantly and to treat this as almost part of his intellectual program so that only gauche rubes would bother to mention or care about it.

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Rob Scott @robscottanthro.bsky.social · 2d

I can’t join the front in Portland from the East coast. But I can tell you about my antifa uniform. I would join riding the hobby horse my hippie aunt gave me as a at age 5 powered by two coconuts for click-clacking. I am told my “Ni!” is fearsome. What’s your antifa OOTD?

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Rob Scott @robscottanthro.bsky.social · 2d

youtu.be/tEGFPqYprEs the unipiper has reported to the front in war ravaged Portland joining TACO chicken man and frog dude # 1 it would appear. I knew this summers rose parade was an antifa drill.

The Unipiper made an appearance at Portland's ICE protest

YouTube video by The Oregonian

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Rob Scott @robscottanthro.bsky.social · 2d

The unipiper has been called up and has reported to the front www.facebook.com/share/r/1ABt...

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 3d

Please keep making podcasts about how democrats need to stop being so condescending about red states

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 4d

Our plane to Spain is in the air!

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Thank you so much to the countless people supporting us in every way and in particular all of the Rutgers students and faculty who have supported us every step of the way.

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Rob Scott @robscottanthro.bsky.social · 4d

This is a fundraiser to aid Prof Bray’s exit to Spain.

www.freefunder.com/campaign/hel...

"Help us leave safely" on FreeFunder

Click here to support "Help us leave safely" by Dara on FreeFunder!

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Avery de Lange @averydelange.bsky.social · 5d

Yes! I think that the fact that the rich actors in SAG and their broke peers have aligned interests despite their disparate circumstances is an important and illustrative truth.

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Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 5d

Doing politics the right way is when the far-right regime in power memorializes a fallen influencer by terrorizing an academic that the influencer's McCarthyist organization once baselessly singled out for abuse.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 13d

2a) Apart from featuring his definition of fascism (which he offers reluctantly), Paxton observes how the fascist relation to ideas is merely tactical and not grounded in intellectual consistency.

Useful for today's world to remember how fascists dont feel the need to "justify" changes in position.

The fascist leaders themselves, as we observed in chapter 1, called
their movements ideologies, and many interpreters have taken them at
their word. It is commonplace to see fascism defined by extracting common threads from party programs, by analogy with the other “isms.” This works better for the other “isms,” founded in the era of educated elite politics. I tried earlier to suggest that fascism bears a different relation to ideas than the nineteenth-century “isms,” and that intellectual positions (not basic mobilizing passions like racial hatreds, of course) were likely to be dropped or added according to the tactical needs of the moment. All the “isms” did this, but only fascism had such contempt for reason and intellect that it never even bothered to justify its shifts.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 5d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you for your solidarity, fellow members of @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social !!

Defending Our Colleagues from Attacks by the Rutgers Chapter of Turning Point USA - Rutgers AAUP-AFT

This week, our colleague Dr. Mark Bray has come under attack by Turning Point USA’s Rutgers chapter for his public scholarship. Their campaign to have Dr. Bray fired has resulted …

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Rob Scott @robscottanthro.bsky.social · 5d

This from that radical anarcho-communist rag:

“Focused and persuasive... Bray’s book is many things: the first English-language transnational history of antifa, a how-to for would-be activists, and a record of advice from anti-Fascist organizers past and present.”—THE NEW YORKER

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Rob Scott @robscottanthro.bsky.social · 5d

But here we are: an absurd incoherent contradictory petition… and now my colleague is fleeing the country because death threats. I hope fellow academics will show Prof Bray solidarity whatever your politics. And I hope the public will see the petition for what it is - confused babbling snowflakery

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Rob Scott @robscottanthro.bsky.social · 5d

To be charitable, the petition is incoherent and needs an editor, like they could have rendered Bill O’Reilly’s name correctly. (The R was in lowercase.)

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Rob Scott @robscottanthro.bsky.social · 5d

I am really stuck on 'do they not realize that calling for a professor's removal for allegedly advocating deplatforming is kinda, sorta an extreme type of deplatforming?'.

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Rob Scott @robscottanthro.bsky.social · 5d

After getting over the inexplicable capitalization of He (Do they mean Prof. Bray is like God?) and mentally rewriting the sentence so it actually makes some kind of sense,

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Rob Scott @robscottanthro.bsky.social · 5d

Also in the petition:
“In his handbook, He believes deplatforming those with opposing values of antifa and political violence is a necessary and essential part of ANTIFA."

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Rob Scott @robscottanthro.bsky.social · 5d

Right, remove him, but we only know that because it is in the petition title and literally nowhere else, least of all in the above sentence which somehow got distracted, lost its way, and just decided to quote Tate on X (while also failing to get Tate’s point) instead of completing a thought.

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