This is just white nationalist rhetoric. This administration has moved from being fascist to straight up nazi.

I wrote this summary of the criminalization of antifa. Labelling antifa as a terrorist group has major implications for repression of left-wing activism but doesn't seem to have much public support outside of the right-wing echo chamber.

Elon's little serfs are quite literally begging journalists to come back because every publicly available source of data shows people have fled the platform and young people won't use it. They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!

Pepper spray can cause serious harm to adults, let alone a one year old.

The administration is willing to engage in extrajudicial killing of antifa activists and others on the left.

The way the word elites has become devoid of all meaning is interesting. It’s a placeholder for “someone I don’t like” and it fascinates me that the people who use it most are wealthy, went to “elite” schools and hold positions of power. Look in the damn mirror. You’re talking about yourself.

People should take a page out of New School faculty's book and start doing forensic accounting for their own institutions using public documents

Part of the Chanukah tradition is to place the light menorah either outside or in a window where outsiders can see it. This is supposed to advertise the miracle of Chanukah. These days, it is also a way of saying, “This is a Jewish home.” Every year I think about how it is also an act of bravery.

From his defense of the free speech rights of Holocaust deniers to his more recent statements opposing antifa activism, Chomsky has been consistently wrong on fascism in its social movement form.

I would also say the main thing with Chomsky is that if his one virtue was constantly saying "US foreign policy is deeply fascist, look at Palestine, look at Guatemala" you don't actually need a white guy for that. You can read Palestinians or Guatemalans

In case you have never seen this.

They’re trying so hard to make antifa a terrorist threat because it gives them a broad brush to criminalize and persecute the left. They will go after locally based antifascist affinity groups to try to look like they’ve made progress on their threats.

The DOJ is moving from vague threats against antifascists and the left to targeted persecution.

This is indicative of how little these people actually know about antifa activism, but it’s still a dangerous open-ended method for persecuting antifascists and the left.

Apparently, possessing anarchist zines makes someone “antifa.” Further proof that this is just a war on the left. The administration is going for more radical and marginalized activists before it turns its attention on more mainstream ones.

Identifying fascists is a thorough, methodical, and verifiable process.

The administration is going to have a hard time proving any link between domestic antifa groups and any of the networks listed in today’s designation, but that won’t stop them from bringing the full force of federal law enforcement against antifascists domestically.

There seems to be no justification for how they determined any of these groups are foreign terrorist groups. And certainly no evidence that they have direct ties to any U.S. antifa groups. Just like with the rest of this antifa panic, they’re just randomly creating boogeymen.

Fascists tried to have a conference in Vancouver. It was infiltrated. Now, they’ve been identified.

The conflation of movements in this excerpt is really troubling but not unexpected. This is the same logic of all counter-extremism thinking that lumps different movements and ideologies into one amorphous enemy.

Shapiro and Weiss seriously thought they could fan the flames of reactionary politics and it would spare them. Did they think they could spew racist and transphobic bigotry and it not end up growing into a monster that eventually came for them too? They made this bed for all of us.

This story speaks to the essence of antifascism as a form of self-defense. “The American left is armed and getting organized, not because it wants to wage war, but because it refuses to be an easy target.”

Forget Monday's two-hour Tucker Carlson interview with Nick Fuentes-- this 2.5 minute video from the head of the Heritage Foundation just completely shattered the right-wing pro-Israel consensus. The leading MAGA organization welcomed antisemitism into the movement with open arms

The fascist movement in Canada is growing and becoming more militant.

Basic human decency is apparently material support for terrorism.

Support everyday antifascism.

I had the distinct pleasure of speaking with the fine folks at Yeah Nah Pasaran! about the repression of antifa in the U.S.

This is what the administration’s war on antifa looks like on the ground. A dragnet of protesters in search of an organization and conspiracy.

Excellent critique of the CSIS claim that left-wing terrorism is on the rise and likely to outpace far-right violence.

Narratives about "Antifa" were largely dormant for most of Trump's current term in office, even on alt-platforms popular with right-wing communities. That all changed when a gunman killed activist Charlie Kirk and federal officials rushed to blame the "radical left" openmeasures.io/antifa-narra...

Five Steps to Building a Successful Anti-Racist Neighborhood Watch - a pdf from our own IGD 🖤

Last week, I broke the story of how a Russian street fight promotion expanded into the US with help of neo-nazis from the Active Club network & Patriot Front. Streets Fight Club (SFC) has promoted no-rules, bare-knuckle fights on Instagram & YouTube while raising funds for Russia’s war on Ukraine.

“In the longer run, however, it is likely that this war on anti-fascism will backfire leading to a heightened profile for the movement and a deepening identification with its ideas and values among the broader populace.”

Extolling nonviolence is a slap in the face to Black and brown people for whom change was impossible without violence. It’s a slap in the face when the US exists because of violence towards Black & brown people. The only reason some of y’all can claim nonviolence is because Marsha threw a brick.

Whoa. Chicago mayor calls for a general strike; now we're talking www.huffpost.com/entry/chicag...

Saying you are nonviolent will not protect you from the violence of the state. Saying you “don’t break the law” doesn’t matter when the law is whatever the state says it is. That’s not wisdom. At best, it’s naïveté. And being naive about this has killed more people than a bullet ever could.

For those people who think antifa activism is just punching nazis, a testament to antifascists’ role in getting people out of the far right.

Please support an O.G. Black antifascist being targeted by nazis and their ilk. Daryle Lamont Jenkins is an amazing guy and he's been fighting fascism for decades.

Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

“So it looks like you’re flying a fighter jet and wearing a crown, but it turns out it’s really a bomber and the bombs are poops. You’re up there pooping on all the cities in America because you’re the king of America, and so of course you shit on it when it doesn’t behave. It’s high concept, sir.”

Show us your signs?

Wow, people, you do not need to repost the literally shitty video this much. It’s bad, but you don’t have to repost it. I believe that’s exactly what the whiner-in-chief wants.

THAT'S RIGHT YOU FASCIST JABRONIS WE GOT THE FROGS BACK!!!

We're honored that Glenn Beck woke up from whatever fever dream he was having to decide that our tiny social media collective = ringleaders in the secret global antifascist cabal. #glennbeck, #conspiracy, #antifa, #delusional

This is devastating. RIP @igd.bsky.social.