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Against Cryptofascists, Entryists and Red-Browns In Canada.

Antifascist researcher, insufferable nerd and bitter old lefty. He/Him.
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unicornriot.bsky.social
NEW: Over 50,000 people attempted to block the founding convention for the new youth org of the far-right AfD party on Nov. 29 in Gießen, Germany. Wide-ranging actions-including 19 blockades around the small city-prevented a majority of participants from attending. Police violently beat blockaders.
November 29, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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ctvnews-mirror.bsky.social
France’s far-right leader hit by egg, days after flour attack
French far-right leader hit on the head with an egg
Jordan Bardella, leader of France’s far-right National Rally party, was hit on the head with an egg Saturday, just days after another incident in which a protester threw flour at him.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 29, 2025 at 11:31 PM
acerbicnerd.bsky.social
These thugs are so unpopular their own jackboots are turning against them.
mayhem1994.bsky.social Mayhem RN @mayhem1994.bsky.social · 15h
ICE agent falls to the ground, possibly tearing his ACL, as the person he's trying to detain runs away
November 29, 2025 at 7:43 PM
acerbicnerd.bsky.social
If you think establishment opposition figures are afraid to speak out now, just wait till there's a war raging and omnipresent pressure to "support our troops!".

I still remember 2003.
Trump says airspace above and around Venezuela should be considered closed
The FAA recently warned major airlines of a "potentially hazardous situation" when flying over Venezuela.
www.reuters.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:46 PM
acerbicnerd.bsky.social
Tucker is promoting Galloway as "...one of the most conservative politicians in the U.K." and people are still trying to sell him as a leftist.
Youtube screenshot featuring title and description for the Tucker Carlson show: "George Galloway Speaks Out on Being Forced Into Exile After Criticizing Ukraine War". Description reads "George Galloway has been elected to parliament seven times, and on many issues is one of the most conservative politicians in the U.K. But when he criticized the Ukraine war, he was detained by British police and had his property confiscated. He’s now in exile" Header image for George Galloway's appearance on the Tucker Carlson show.
November 29, 2025 at 3:41 PM
acerbicnerd.bsky.social
It isn't only immediate personal cognitive effort, once you get to the scale of movements the cost of transmitting complex ideas starts to compound. It is quantifiably harder to build a movement around complex ideas than it is to build one around simplistic bullshit.
timbale.bsky.social Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 1d
Persuasive letter on populism as a cognitive short-cut in the @financialtimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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nateo.bsky.social
Arktos Press is one of several nodes in the international fascist lit movement--even its name is based on Nazi occultist/esoteric polar myths about a mystical 'Hyperborea'. It is extremely overtly fascist and neo-Nazi (e.g. publishes Benoist, Evola, Dugin, Spengler, Lynn, etc.)
rhyskamjones.bsky.social Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 1d
I know things are bad, but I was honestly somehow surprised to see that the books of the racist, fascist Arktos Press are available free with a Kindle Unlimited subscription

"The Blackening of Europe", for example
Book cover for Clare Ellis's "The Blackening of Europe" published by Arktos Press, showing that it is free on Kindle Unlimited The Blackening of Europe is a critical analysis of the historical and ideological origins of the European Union, with special regard to the consequences of these developments for the indigenous Europeans who presently risk becoming demographic and political minorities in their own homelands. Broken into three volumes, Volume I. Ideologies and International Developments traces the seeds of the present-day EU to its earliest theoreticians and to the societies and historical dynamics that helped to bring it about and shape it. From Count Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi to the Fabian Society and the Frankfurt School, from tensions between Europe and the Middle East to the ambition to weld Eurafrica, from Kant, the cosmopolitans and the Enlightenment liberals up to neoliberalism and neoconservatism, the first volume of The Blackening of Europe provides one of the first thorough analytical critiques of the European Union from the point of view of the rights of indigenous Europeans About the Author Clare Ellis, PhD, was born and raised in the United Kingdom and moved to Canada at the turn of the century. She has written articles for the Council of European Canadians and The Occidental Quarterly, some of which have been translated and shared internationally. Under the supervision of author and Professor Ricardo Duchesne at the University of New Brunswick she conducted research on the demographic and political decline of native Europeans. Although the PC academic environment was extremely hostile to her thesis, Clare persevered and was awarded her doctorate in December 2017. The Blackening of Europe is based on her findings.
November 28, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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reclaimingtrans.bsky.social
In an interview w/ Meghan Murphy*, Mary Lou Singleton said she was in touch w/ the journalists who wrote the Guardian piece about the Free Birth Society but refused to be in it because they didn’t want to talk about how the FBS was “a refuge for women who were gender critical” & “covid critical”.
transcript from YouTube video 38:50-39:53 reads long time. They contacted me so many times asking me to be on record for that story and I just I just wasn't Oh, really? Yeah. I'm not willing to do it. I'm not I'm not interested in taking down Emily and Yolanda. Um, but I have to say when I made the decision not to talk to them, well, I had multiple reasons. One was they refused to acknowledge certain social factors that led to the growth of of the free birth society and led to it being such a social phenomenon. One one being the the massive um influence of gender ideology and all the other online birth spaces and that the free birth society was a refuge for women who were gender critical to be able to speak their minds about the mind [ __ ] of gender and to not be jumped on every time they used female language to talk about birth. So the free birth society Facebook group grew and grew and grew out of that issue. like it was it was a refuge of sanity for women in the birth world. They were absolutely unwilling to discuss that. They said it was, you know, basically a like every, you know, transcript from YouTube video 39:59-40:41 reads it's a toxic issue that they didn't want to they didn't want to even mention. And they refused to talk about COVID and how the social isolation of women that was imposed on them by the government was, was one of the reasons women flocked to online spaces and that the free birth society was the only big birth space and women's gathering space that was COVID critical as well. So women who disagreed with gender ideology and women who disagreed with the governmental response to COVID found a lot of um solidarity in free birth society and the Guardian authors weren't willing to to touch that. So I I just didn't want to talk to them. But
November 27, 2025 at 10:14 PM
acerbicnerd.bsky.social
There's something deeply funny about everyone, from "anti-cancel-culture leftists" up to and including sitting GOP politicians and the Christian right, who are only too happy to collaborate with these people because they consider them to be the "moderate" and "reasonable" leftists.
foxdie.bsky.social Foxdie @foxdie.bsky.social · 2d
I know we're all focusing on the chat gpt thing but this is an absolutely insane way for the observer and also glinner to refer to an ecofacsist who believes that trans people were invented by jews to eliminate humanity and that mass bombing campaigns should happen for the enviroment.
Screenshot from that observer puffpiece. it reads: He was planning to spend Thanksgiving with writer Derrick Jensen, an environmentalist who has been ostracised for his views on trans issues, but had to cancel due to the trial. “He’s had his publishing career destroyed,” says Linehan. “He was in academic publishing and now he’s just this lovely old guy who lives in the woods, you know? That makes him sound really bad but, yeah, these are my new friends.”
November 28, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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scoiattolo.mountainherder.xyz
It's wild to me that this guy has reinvented himself as a resist grifter on this website
Senate candidate has history of sending racist, misogynist messages | Arizona Mirror
Arizona U.S. Senate hopeful Craig Brittain made headlines yesterday after he sent racist text messages to a potential campaign vendor.
azmirror.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:53 AM
acerbicnerd.bsky.social
The gift that keeps on giving...
Innocent Woman Smeared as ‘Bomber’ After Gabbard Goon’s DIY Probe
A MAGA website wrongly named an ex-cop as an attempted pipe bomber. Now the chain of events which led to the smear is unfolding.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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annamerlan.bsky.social
NEW: When Propecy Fails is one of the most famous social psychology books of all time, a look at a small group of UFO believers when the “spacemen” failed to land. I wrote about a new study from an independent researcher who says the book is not what it seems. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
It’s one of the most influential social psychology studies ever. Was it all a lie?
A classic book on UFO believers and their "cognitive dissonance" after aliens failed to land is called into question.
www.motherjones.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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uzzamodea.bsky.social
It is unacceptable that this dude was allowed in leftist spaces. Some people are really twisting the concept of "popular front" & "big tent" if they're gonna allow the fascists into the bar. And not just a fascist, a fucking accelerationist genocidal tankie.
November 25, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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rechelon.bsky.social
Okay, so news cycle finally seems (relatively) slow, so I'm going to finally do some promotion for my book.

I read many hundreds of books and articles in drafting Did The Science Wars Take Place? and a lot of delicious quotes or examples didn't make it in...
www.amazon.com/Did-Science-...
November 26, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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jennefer.bsky.social
Antisemite John Paul Cupp, 45, is charged w/ "Threats Made Against a Federal Law Enforcement Officer," according to a US Dept. of Justice press release. According to the complaint, Cupp threatened to kill law enforcement officers and sexually assault their wives.
www.justice.gov/usao-or/pr/p...
November 25, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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castanetkamloops.net
Four arrested as police enforce injunction at Upper Walbran blockade #Vancouver
Four arrested as police enforce injunction at Upper Walbran blockade - BC News
Dozens of police descended Tuesday morning on a blockade set up by old-growth activists in late August to prevent logging in the Upper Walbran Valley on Vancouver Island.
www.castanetkamloops.net
November 26, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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chrispps.bsky.social
the parts of our evolved cognitive architecture -- and some individuals' personalities in particular -- that contribute to classical forms of magical thinking do not simply evaporate when religious identity does, even if norms associated with some religious identities do facilitate magical thinking
chrispps.bsky.social [C][M][F] @chrispps.bsky.social · 4d
a good bit of the pathology attributed to 'religion' in the abstract is basically pathology associated with the psychology of social identity processes and the evolved psychology of coalitions; religion is a social identity & a basis for coalitions but it is hardly the only one
brendannyhan.bsky.social Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 4d
The decline of religion as a source of meaning in people's lives remains underrated as a factor shaping society. The need doesn't go away - they just seek it out elsewhere in (often false) health/wellness beliefs, (often highly polarized/conflictual) politics, etc. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/o...
November 25, 2025 at 3:51 PM
acerbicnerd.bsky.social
LMAO, Yves really said this and it's goin' down like a lead balloon on Jupiter.
Facebook post from Yves Engler: "Time to confront NDP's racist foreign policy problem. Would it be racist for the NDP to exclude a white cis male who played Junior A hockey from its leadership Race? Maybe so, if one considers it from a Haitian or Palestinian perspective. On November 10, I formally submitted to NDP vetting. Its now up to the three-person vetting committee to decide if party members will be allowed to vote for me in the leadership race. It would undoubtedly be undemocratic for the backroom committee to deny the participation of a campaign with a thousand volunteers, but would it be racist? Or to ask slightly differently is it racist to exclude someone who has led the charge against Canadian policy towards Palestine, Haiti, Africa and the Global South? If one concludes that Canadian foreign policy is fundamentally racist then it probably would be racist to exclude a leading critic of those ideas"
November 25, 2025 at 4:16 PM
acerbicnerd.bsky.social
Understandable, tbh.
November 25, 2025 at 5:59 AM
acerbicnerd.bsky.social
You know it's a bubble when...
"World Socialist Web Site to launch Socialism AI Our reporter 23 November 2025 At two major public meetings over the past week—in Berlin on November 18 and London on November 22—David North, chairperson of the World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board, delivered lectures analyzing the deepening crisis of American capitalism and the Trump administration’s drive toward dictatorship. Both meetings drew over 100 attendees, demonstrating the widespread concern over the threat of fascism under Trump and his counterparts internationally. Most significantly, North used both occasions to announce the imminent launch of Socialism AI, a revolutionary tool that will harness artificial intelligence for the development of socialist consciousness in the international working class."
November 25, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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rechelon.bsky.social
What it's strange that everyone commenting on this seems to miss is that this obsession of Thiel is a direct response to Bostrom's argument that we should stop technology (AI) by building a global totalitarian state.

Thiel is viewing the entire world through the lens of the rationalist civil war.
etvpod.bsky.social Embrace the Void @etvpod.bsky.social · 5d
He claims the default political solution people have for existential risks is one world governance. Isn't that weird, how when we have global issues we think hey maybe some global cooperation would be the best way to address global issues. You want nuclear nonproliferation? Antichrist.
November 24, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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transform6789.bsky.social
This can only end well

www.cnn.com/2025/11/24/p...
Trump administration formally designates Venezuela’s Maduro as member of a foreign terrorist organization | CNN Politics
The Trump administration could have expanded authority to take action in Venezuela starting Monday, as the US designates Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his government allies as members of a f...
www.cnn.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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4ksh4tr4.bsky.social
My god, why are these people still taken seriously by anyone?
Screenshot of a tweet where Codepink's Medea Benjamin asks Marjorie Taylor Greene to not resign
November 24, 2025 at 5:11 AM
acerbicnerd.bsky.social
ACP now doing "Marxism is not woke" tabling at Ontario universities. *cringe*
Tweet from ACP Ontario: "Members of ACP Ontario visited the University of Toronto’s St. George campus to host a tabling event featuring a sign with a provocative message: "MARXISM IS NOT WOKE". For years, the liberal-left has abandoned class struggle in favour of identity politics and has outright rejected working-class populist movements such as MAGA and the Canadian Trucker Convoy. These were movements that had working-class demands, such as bringing back industrial jobs, purging corruption, and ending foreign aid. Yet, the liberal-left refused to reach out to these working-class movements due to their "reactionary" views on issues like LGBT rights and gender equality. Self-proclaimed "Marxists" taking this stance distorts the reality of what Marxism actually represents. Students stopped by our table curious to learn more about our program, and many of them agreed with our message; Marxism is not about identity politics, it's about the understanding that class struggle is the driving force of history. That the proletariat is a revolutionary class precisely because its emancipation means the emancipation of all humanity." Tweet from ACP Ontario: "Members of ACP Ontario are again asking the public and local liberal intellectuals to change their minds on this pivotal question: Is Marxism Woke? Following a total victory over the forces of liberal reaction on the University of Toronto campus last weekend, our cadre members have launched a similar effort in Hamilton, with similar results. After meeting with many members of the local public, our cadre have reported "No Change" to the immortal truth of class struggle. The Ontario Chapter of the ACP remains committed to the principled line that no matter how you personally identify, the proletariat working class is the class of progress. We remain committed to pursuing a politics rooted in the broad working class. On the mutual understanding that no matter how you personally identify, we need a party that unites, not divides."
November 24, 2025 at 4:55 AM
acerbicnerd.bsky.social
Pink-brown alliance!
Tweet from Medea Benjamin: "Love her or hate her, Marjorie Taylor Greene has been one of the only Republicans willing to defy Trump on war, Epstein files and healthcare. Now she is stepping down and AIPAC is celebrating. Call her office: Tell her to stay."
November 24, 2025 at 3:34 AM