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Basil May

@basilmai.bsky.social

My uncle joined this group. It's for far right people who want to have set up a Republic run only by the farthest right people. Needless to say I shant be going home for the holidays.

Screenshot of a Facebook group called anti Democrat movement with an AI generated photo of three giant eyeless lions and an itty bitty Trump with smooshed hair.

November 4, 2025 at 3:11 AM Everybody can reply

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moif

@moif-velocita.bsky.social

A far-right rally in Hull forced a sexual abuse survivor off stage, to boos and jeers, after initially standing with her after she said that the grooming gang who sexually abused her were not immigrants, but a group of white English men

#UK #Racism #TERFisland #RightWingExtremism #Sexism #racism

Video: far-right rally pulls sexual abuse survivor off stage after she says her abusers were white

A far-right rally in Hull has physically forced a sexual abuse survivor off stage, to boos and jeers, because she didn't say what they wanted

www.thecanary.co

November 4, 2025 at 3:08 AM Everybody can reply

Aricie | 아리시 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦

@aaricie.bsky.social

It's actually not, it has become the marker of an in group to a certain type of leftist.

In group markers don't need to be logical, it's predominantly done to show others how we're like them and it has done so for a certain left because the far right has embrace AI slop/scam so strongly.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 3h

it is truly a mystery why a bunch of people are intensely negatively polarized against AI now, yes

Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 3h

Can’t imagine why people don’t like the technology that they’ve been telling us for years is designed to take our jobs and replace normal human interactions and sexual relationships

November 3, 2025 at 11:42 PM Everybody can reply

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On This Day In

@chroniclebot.bsky.social

The Ku Klux Klan, also commonly shortened to the Klan, is an American Protestant-led white supremacist, far-right hate group. It was founded in 1865 during Reconstruction in the devastated South. Various historians have characterized the Klan as America's first terrorist group. The group is...

Ku Klux Klan

The Ku Klux Klan, also commonly shortened to the Klan, is an American Protestant-led white supremacist, far-right hate group. It was founded in 1865 during Reconstruction in the devastated South. Various historians have characterized the Klan as America's first terrorist group. The group is typically structured as a secret society containing several different organizations, that have historically resorted to terrorism, violence and acts of intimidation to impose their criteria and oppress their victims, most notably African Americans, Jews, and Catholics. A leader of one of these organizations is called a grand wizard, and there have been three distinct iterations with various other targets relative to time and place.

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November 3, 2025 at 10:34 PM Everybody can reply

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Clikr.com.br

@clikr.bsky.social

VR Health Group Is Rating How Many Calories Games Burn

Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean. A small river named Duden…

VR Health Group Is Rating How Many Calories Games Burn

Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean. A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies it with the necessary regelialia. It is a paradisematic country, in which roasted parts of sentences. One day however a small line of blind text by the name of Lorem Ipsum decided to leave for the far World of Grammar. The Big Oxmox advised her not to do so.

clikr.com.br

November 3, 2025 at 8:10 PM Everybody can reply

Alison Creekside

@alisoncreekside.bsky.social

"Sebastian Gorka, the former aide to President Trump whose ties to a Nazi-linked group the Forward exposed last year, has joined the far-right Canadian news outlet The Rebel. The Rebel last year published a video titled “Ten Things I Hate About Jews.” The video was later retitled."

Gorka Joins Far-Right Website That Published ‘10 Things I Hate About Jews’

Sebastian Gorka, the former aide to President Donald Trump, has joined alt-right outlet The Rebel.

forward.com

November 3, 2025 at 7:35 PM Everybody can reply

Wrexham Anti-Fascists

@wrexhamaf.bsky.social

Cyflwyno Gwrth-Ffasgwyr Wrecsam ✊

Introducing Wrexham Anti-Fascists ✊

WHO ARE WE?

WE ARE A GROUP OF PEOPLE IN AND AROUND WREXHAM CONCERNED ABOUT THE RISING THREAT THE FAR RIGHT POSES TO OUR COMMUNITY.

WE WILL BE ORGANISING PROTESTS AND EVENTS TO BUILD COMMUNITY, TRUST, AND HOPE IN THE FACE OF HATRED AND FEAR.

WANT TO GET INVOLVED?
FOLLOW US TO STAY UP TO DATE WITH EVENTS

No pasarán!

PWY YDYM NI?

Grwp o bobl o Wrecsam a’r cyffiniau ydym ni sy’n poeni am fygythiad cynyddol y De Eithafol i’n cymuned.

Mi fyddwn yn trefnu gwrthdystiadau a digwyddiadau i adeiladu ymddiriedaeth yn y gymuned a gobaith yn wyneb casineb ac ofn.

Os y carech chi gyfrannu yna dilynwch ni i gael y gwybodaeth diweddaraf.

No pasarán!

November 3, 2025 at 7:16 PM Everybody can reply

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Arctic Velocipedist

@arcticvelocipedist.bsky.social

Conservatives as a group—although I can’t really see any meaningful difference other than the far right being louder and enjoying cosplay more.

onion person @junlper.beer · 10h

even when far rightwingers are having an extremely positive experience on all fronts they’re still able to hallucinate a situation where they’re the victim

Transphobes Can't Read @lordaslan.bsky.social · 19h

"at the transgender coffee shop"

November 3, 2025 at 6:33 PM Everybody can reply

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Kathleen Weldon

@kathleenweldon.bsky.social

A 1961 ORC survey of Black Americans, white executives and Black leaders focused on boycotts, done to advise white execs on how to make money from the Black market. The quotes from Black leaders are interesting, citing 4 factors of boycott strength: economic, moral, ideological, and pragmatic

The moral factor - ministers in the forefront of leadership
provide moral sanction; boycotts are viewed as in the best
American tradition.
"The churches are very effective in organizing the boycotts. They are
the largest organized body in the Negro community. _ The ministers are very effective. _ All they have to do is tell their parishioners, 'Don't
buy it,' and that's it.''
''The spiritual leadership is important, because it provides the moral
ingredient which is so important to carry the movement."
" The disadvantaged group always uses boycotts. _ This started as far
back as the Boston Tea Party."

The economic factor -- that leading companies cannot afford the bad
publicity and loss of Negro purchasing dollars.
"One reason why they will be effective is that no advertiser in his right
mind wants to have a major market against him such as, for example, a
quarter of the Philadelphia market."
"Companies will find it practical to shift their practices and policies before they are hit. . In good public relations, the whole impact is greater than the sum of its parts. But good public relations requires time . . If
a company has to give in to the pressure of boycotts it, too, changes
its discriminatory practices but won't have the added ingredient of good public relations,"
"Companies recognize the importance of the dollar. Slogans like 'don't
buy where you can' t work in pride' are very effective."
"The Negro market will be cornered by the company that gives them best treatment. The boycotted companies will be left out.''

November 3, 2025 at 6:21 PM Everybody can reply

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South Dakota Department of Propaganda

@southdakota.bsky.social

A blurry vintage class photo shows a group of elementary school children posed in rows in a classroom. A chalkboard and an alphabet banner are behind them, and the colors are muted so faces are indistinct. On the far right stands a tall shadowy humanlike silhouette near a doorway, much darker than the rest, creating a creepy mood. Handwritten text at the bottom reads Class of 95 and asks viewers to ignore the dude in the background, saying he is cool, dont worry.

November 3, 2025 at 5:54 PM Everybody can reply

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Schooley

@schooley.bsky.social

When I looked at the full transcript I was surprised she never used his full name, just C.Z., which seems weird. Also, in full Trump's answers are a ramblin'.

NORAH O'DONNELL: Helping to make your family millions of dollars. It's in that context that I do wanna ask you about crypto's richest man, a billionaire known as C.Z. He pled guilty in 2023 to violating anti-money laundering laws.

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Right.

NORAH O'DONNELL: Looked at this, the government at the time said that C.Z. had caused "significant harm to U.S. national security", essentially by allowing terrorist groups like Hamas to move millions of dollars around. Why did you pardon him?

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Okay, are you ready? I don't know who he is. I know he got a four-month sentence or something like that. And I heard it was a Biden witch hunt. And what I wanna do is see crypto, 'cause if we don't do it it's gonna go to China, it's gonna go to-- this is no different to me than AI.

My sons are involved in crypto much more than I-- me. I-- I know very little about it, other than one thing. It's a huge industry. And if we're not gonna be the head of it, China, Japan, or someplace else is. So I am behind it 100%. This man was, in my opinion, from what I was told, this is, you know, a four-month sentence.

But this man was treated really badly by the Biden administration. And he was given a jail term. He's highly respected. He's a very successful guy. They sent him to jail and they really set him up. That's my opinion. I was told about it.

I said, "Eh, it may look bad if I do it. I have to do the right thing." I don't know the man at all. I don't think I ever met him. Maybe I did. Or, you know, somebody shook my hand or something. But I don't think I ever met him. I have no idea who he is. I was told that he was a victim, just like I was and just like many other people, of a vicious, horrible group of people in the Biden administration.

NORAH O'DONNELL: The government had accused him of "significant harm to U.S. national security"--

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: That's the Biden government.

NORAH O'DONNELL: Okay. Allowing U.S. terrorist groups to, you know, essentially move millions of dollars around. He pled guilty to anti-money laundering laws. That was in 2023. Then in 2025 his crypto exchange, Binance, helped facilitate a $2 billion purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And then you pardoned C.Z. How do you address the appearance of pay for play?

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, here's the thing, I know nothing about it because I'm too busy doing the other--

NORAH O'DONNELL: But he got a pardon--

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I can only tell you that--

NORAH O'DONNELL: He got a pardon--

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Norah, I can only tell you this. My sons are into it. I'm glad they are, because it's probably a great industry, crypto. I think it's good. You know, they're running a business, they're not in government. And they're good-- my one son is a number one bestseller now.

My wife just had a number one bestseller. I'm proud of them for doing that. I'm focused on this. I know nothing about the guy, other than I hear he was a victim of weaponization by government. When you say the government, you're talking about the Biden government.

It's a corrupt government. Biden was the most corrupt president and he was the worst president we've ever had. I only care about one thing. Will crypto be-- will we be number one in crypto? Crypto has turned out, and in that sense I've been right.

Crypto's turned out to be a massive industry, if you wanna call it that. And I'm very proud to say that we are far and away ahead of China and everybody else. Now, China is getting into it very big, right now. If you wanna go after people, you're gonna kill that industry.

And it'll be very bad. Tremendous number of jobs. I campaigned positively on crypto, very openly. I campaigned. Biden campaigned against it. When Biden found out that I was getting, like, 100% of the crypto vote, which was a lot, he switched totally and he went in favor of crypto.

They were totally in favor. They had many people under indictment. They let 'em all go. They let 'em all go. You know that. Many people were under indictment. Biden was a corrupt president. Biden went all in on crypto at the very end because he thought he could get some votes.

November 3, 2025 at 3:55 PM Everybody can reply

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Swirl 🇵🇷

@pnw-swirl.bsky.social

There’s nothing intimidating about being yourself when you’re surrounded by people who make it feel easy. Just another Bingo night with good people!

w/ @robbbert.bsky.social & @itsrickypnw.bsky.social

#mcm #nudist #monochromemonday #gaynaked

A black-and-white photo of six nude men gathered around a tall bar table, smiling and playing bingo. The group appears comfortable and at ease, drinks and bingo cards scattered across the tabletop, with a backpack resting on the floor. The bar has dim lighting and Halloween decorations in the background, including a tall hanging figure near the window. One man on the far right wears sneakers and glasses, with his underwear pulled down around his ankles, smiling casually at the camera. The overall mood feels friendly, unguarded, and communal.

November 3, 2025 at 2:06 PM Everybody can reply

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Asher Elbein

@asherelbein.bsky.social

This Washington Post article about MAGA people trying and failing to date in Washington is...really something

www.removepaywall.com/search?url=h...

When Morgan Housley, 29, moved to Washington for her job in April, she had some non-negotiables for the conservative man she was looking to date: He had to “love the Lord,” genuinely enjoy going to church, and be able to “provide and protect, emotionally, physically, spiritually, all of those things.” A fit, athletic man she could go on runs with.
So far, Mr. Right has not materialized.
Instead, many of the single MAGA men she’s seen are …
“Not fit, workaholics and not taking finding a wife seriously,” Housley says.
If she had it her way, she would be married and expecting her first kid. She says a lot of her colleagues at the American Principles Project, a conservative advocacy group whose website says “in order to save America — we have to save the family,” are settling down and having children. But it’s rough out there. When we reached Housley by phone, and she told a co-worker that she was discussing dating in D.C., a voice at the other end of the line could be heard saying, “Oh nooooo!” So, that’s where we are.
“I felt like, being in conservative politics, there would be more, like, masculine men in the conservative movement,” Housley says, “and I find that a lot of them aren’t as masculine as I would have hoped.”

November 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM Everybody can reply

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Layla

@layladoodle.bsky.social

Musk turned against Farage and apart from funding Robinson’s legal expenses he also stirred up hate in his video appearance at Robinson’s march. Note that for this far right march police did not use facial recognition - it is apparently reserved for any perceived left wing group inc. pro Palestine.

November 3, 2025 at 1:43 PM Everybody can reply

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🔻Bela Lugosi's Dad (Even More Spooky) 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸

@belalugosisdad.bsky.social

IMPORTANT: A steward for the anti-immigration group "Patriots of Gloucestershire" sprayed several antifascists with a noxious substance at a protest yesterday outside a hotel housing refugees. It has been identified as an illegally imported pepper spray marketed as a women's self-defence spray. 1/

A white woman approx in her 40s with long straight dark hair, wearing a black and grey stripey jumper, a yellow hi vis vest, and black fingerless gloves. Her right had is circled in red. She is holding a small cylindrical spray bottle with a black and red spray cap on it. The resolution of the image is too low to see, but the white body of the bottle is covered in small diamanté studs.

A selection of small spray canisters studded with diamantés in different colours. On the far left is a plain white one. They all have key chain attachments and black caps with a red spray nozzle.

November 3, 2025 at 1:36 PM Everybody can reply

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ETUI

@etui.bsky.social

🔺 Despite constituting a small proportion of the far-right electorate, this social group forms a core part of what can be termed a cross-class 'coalition' of grievance that makes it possible for far-right parties to broaden their electoral base

November 3, 2025 at 12:26 PM Everybody can reply

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Women's Platform

@womensplatformni.bsky.social

We want to share the new @wrda-team.bsky.social toolkit, launched by Megan McClure Botha 🙌 at our Oct All‑Party Group meeting.It helps leaders push back against far‑right weaponisation of EVAWG campaigns.Includes messaging frameworks, media guidance, key facts & more. Email [email protected] to access.

November 3, 2025 at 12:04 PM Everybody can reply

nohostages.bsky.social

@nohostages.bsky.social

At best, revealing a suspects ethnicity, nationality, or religion, channels far-right violence to the "right" group.

But of course, that won't apply if the suspect is a white British Christian.

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November 3, 2025 at 10:16 AM Everybody can reply

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Sight Loss Councils

@slcouncils.bsky.social

🚔 Partnering with West Midlands Police, Sight Loss Councils have delivered another VI Awareness session, after joint work tackling illegal e-bikes. Officers learned about barriers, safety & sighted guiding, & we received excellent feedback. #InclusiveCommunities #StreetsForAll #MakeStreetsAccessible

A group photo of West Midlands Police Officers stood alongside sight Loss Council (SLC) Senior Engagement Manager Lu (6th from right), SLC Co-ordinator PJ (far right), and volunteer SLC member Paul (second from right) with his guide dog Prygo. They are smiling at the camera. The SLC banner and a presentation screen with the SLC and Thomas Pocklington Trust logos can be seen in the background. Empty chairs are in the foreground where the delegates were sat.

November 3, 2025 at 10:02 AM Everybody can reply

BlackCatFelix

@blackcatfelix.bsky.social

Perhaps Elon Musk should call his online encyclopedia Fascipedia.
He calls the far-right group Britain First a patriotic political party. Its leader went to gaol for hate crimes.

November 3, 2025 at 9:05 AM Everybody can reply

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Belfast Telegraph

@belfasttelegraph.co.uk

A group calling itself the Socialist Republican Front has issued warnings and said it is “gathering intelligence” on members of the far-right group Clann Eireann living in north and west Belfast.

New republican group issues warning to far-right activists

A group calling itself the Socialist Republican Front has issued warnings and said it is “gathering intelligence” on members of the far-right group Clann Eireann living in north and west Belfast.

www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk

November 3, 2025 at 7:46 AM Everybody can reply

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📎Sassy South African

@aviate.bsky.social

“Reject harmful sex education in South Africa!” reads the headline of a petition launched in August this year. This petition is not the work of a South African organisation. It is the product of a far-right advocacy group called CitizenGo, which claims 17 million members worldwide.

November 3, 2025 at 7:30 AM Everybody can reply

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trump is destroying the country

@sooriclover.bsky.social

If some guests on his podcast were so called progressives they had no business going on a far right podcast. Guess they’re willing to align w/ the far right bc they agree w/ antisemitism. Sad- bigotry is never selective. There is no single group you can oppress that will appease, more will follow.

November 3, 2025 at 5:38 AM Everybody can reply

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Noah Berlatsky

@nberlat.bsky.social

Will Stancil's analysis of our current moment hinges a lot on social media dynamics—ie, he argues that group think/desire for clicks/herding leads people to cluster around certain kinds of conventional wisdom and that that has boosted the far right—and also what he sees as ugly left dynamics.1

November 3, 2025 at 3:08 AM Everybody can reply

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