Stanislav Vysotsky

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old punk. cranky academic. critical sociologist and criminologist. antifa scholar. author of American Antifa from Routledge and Antifa: What Everyone Needs to Know forth coming on Oxford University Press.

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I hate this notion that we’re supposed to prove something about ourselves by being deeply concerned about the well-being of people who want us dead or in cages. That’s not how my decency is packaged.

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of COURSE

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Shooting conspiracies trend on X as Musk endorses Trump

Shooting conspiracies trend on X as Musk endorses Trumpwww.theverge.com Musk reportedly donated to reelection efforts for Trump.

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MAGA boards are lighting up with declarations of civil war, with a NY-based Proud Boys channel calling for feds, Democrats and reporters to be “hung in the streets.”

Far-Right Extremists Call for Violence and War After Trump Shootingwww.wired.com "They should all be hung in the streets," one person wrote of Democrats, the media, and others. "War now," another wrote.

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He's white and rightwing so here come the sympathetic stories about him being bullied in school

The gunman who allegedly tried to assassinate former President Donald Trump was bullied in high school and didn’t fit in with other students, former classmates told CNN. Here's what we know so far.

What we know about the Trump rally gunman so far | CNNwww.cnn.com The gunman who allegedly tried to assassinate former President Donald Trump was bullied in high school and didn’t fit in with other students, former classmates told CNN on Sunday.

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If someone told you, "Many of America's top reporters spend a lot of their day in a chat room run by a 'great replacement' believing white supremacist and where many posters are Nazis" you'd be alarmed. That's basically the situation now.

I’ve said this a million times, but I’m genuinely frightened about what Musk’s fascist propaganda network is doing to do to our politics. I really wish someone, anyone, would come up with a collective strategy to get journalists, organizers and elected officials off the platform.

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Xander Lenc

The right is going present a narrative in which the Rubicon of violence has been crossed, making any subsequent retaliatory violence justified. You don't need to downplay the seriousness of the assassination attempt, but you don't need to put aces in their hand either.

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Does nobody in the world remember that a Gabby Giffords, a sitting American member of congress, was shot in the head just over a decade ago? And that Steve Scalise was shot in 2017? I get that we're all scared but calling this unprecedented is just irresponsible and wrong.

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Oof a whole bunch of people are going to really have a hard time grappling with apparent accelerationism going mainstream like this.

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Correction: Democrats are expressing sympathy and suspending campaign ads while Republicans are saying calling Trump a fascist is stoking violence . . . and also blaming Biden and calling for his arrest. Asymmetrical decency.

so if i understand this correctly democrats are establishing trump as somebody to have sympathy for and unilaterally suspending their campaign efforts while the republicans work to establish a new rule that calling trump a fascist threat to democracy is stoking political violence

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So ugh since I am seeing it proliferate here I guess it needs to be said liberals across Twitter are sharing utterly QAnon brained conspiracy theories, claiming that Trump staged this shooting. Don’t do what blue anon does and spread or become a part of a conspiracy theory campaign.

Resisting fascism: Fifty years of “anti-fascism from below” conference registration is now open.

Resisting fascism: Fifty years of anti-fascism ‘from below’, 1974-2024www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk On 15 June 1974, during a violent counterdemonstration against the far-right National Front, Kevin Gately, a mathematics student from the University of Warwick was killed in London’s Red Lion Square. ...

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Anyone who thinks it’s possible to combat far right authoritarian fascist movements by simply “starving” these movement of media attention, has not seriously studied how these movements take power throughout the world.

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So when you see Elon and his antisemitic race science conspiracy theory fanboys over at the other place framing themselves as brave truth tellers who are proud to be pariahs, just remember that this is how fascists have always understood themselves and tried to sell their politics to others.

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That “border contractors” can afford private jets tells us most of what we need to know about actual border security and border political theater.

Just in: A private jet, owned by a major border contractor and a donor to the Greg Abbott campaign, may have flown Tennessee's governor to Eagle Pass. Senior Politics Writer Justin Miller has the scoop ...

Did an Operation Lone Star Contractor Fly Tennessee’s Governor to Eagle Pass?www.texasobserver.org Flight records indicate one of the governors at a Texas press event may have flown there on a jet owned by Gothams, a border contractor.

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I would humbly argue that the Missouri AG arguing that an innocent person should be kept on death row because to reopen his case would destabilize the system is proof that the system most motherfucking definitely needs to be destabilized.

Big news today: StL Co. Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell is seeking to vacate Marcellus Williams' conviction. The MO AG thinks that revisiting wrongful convictions destabilizes the criminal legal system. So, yeah, expect the state to fight this. theintercept.com/2024/01/29/m...

St. Louis County Prosecutor Seeks to Vacate Death Penalty Conviction of Marcellus Williamstheintercept.com Citing crime scene DNA that didn’t match Marcellus Williams, Wesley Bell asked a Missouri court to review evidence of his innocence.

Centrist “liberals” are more afraid of the left than they are of the right.

Pelosi urges FBI probe of Gaza ceasefire protests in US, suggests Russia links

Pelosi urges FBI probe of Gaza ceasefire protests in US, suggests Russia linkswww.reuters.com Former U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Sunday that she thinks some protests in the United States demanding a ceasefire in Gaza could be linked to Russia, and that the FBI should conduct a probe into their funding.

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A leaked group chat run by New York Young Republican Club President Gavin Wax featured support of race realism, Zyklon B and oven jokes, defense of Richard Spencer, and slurs. Participants included white nationalist James Allsup & Proud Boy Shane Trejo.

EXCLUSIVE: 'Yeah that was too far': Private Facebook chats for Gavin Wax's Liberty Conservative litt...www.dailydot.com Leaked chats from the far-right blog Liberty Conservative, run by Gavin Wax, reveal the use of racial slurs, Holocaust jokes.

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What We Know About The Edmonton City Hall Shooter In a video reportedly recorded before the shooting, Bezhani Sarvar blames inflation, multiculturalism, “wokeism,” the fighting in Gaza, and more. www.antihate.ca/what_we_know...

What We Know About The Edmonton City Hall Shooterwww.antihate.ca In a video reportedly recorded before the shooting, Bezhani Sarvar blames inflation, multiculturalism, “wokeism,” the fighting in Gaza, and more.

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SCOOP: Police have arrested a 17-year-old from California who sources say carried out hundreds of swatting attacks across the US under the handle Torswats. He's facing multiple felonies in Florida for allegedly targeting a mosque. @dmehro.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/torswa...

Police Arrest Teen Said to Be Linked to Hundreds of Swatting Attackswww.wired.com A California teenager who allegedly used the handle Torswats to carry out a nationwide swatting campaign is being extradited to Florida to face felony charges, WIRED has learned.

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remember trump keeps winning republican primaries *because* hes a rapist, not despite it

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NEW: Tucker Carlson Calgary Appearance Decries the “New State Religion” of “Transgenderism” “This is not a political debate to which you have been invited to participate. This is a destruction of you and your culture.” www.antihate.ca/tucker_carls... #abpoli

Tucker Carlson Calgary Appearance Decries the “New State Religion” of “Transgenderism”www.antihate.ca “This is not a political debate to which you have been invited to participate. This is a destruction of you and your culture.”

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Just to be real crystal clear here, there's no change in policy. They're throwing a few Nazi virgins into the volcano in the hopes that the Cancel Gods will be appeased. www.platformer.news/p/substack-s...

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It’s really astonishing how Great Replacement stuff went from fringe conspiracist shit to something the most powerful people on the right routinely invoke to fairly muted outcry

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Three and a half years after thousands of community members ransacked and torched Minneapolis Police's 3rd Precinct during the George Floyd Uprising, a new precinct has been approved and is being called a “Community Safety Center.” Full story/film ⤵️ unicornriot.ninja/2023/film-an...

Film: An Infamous Precinct in Ruins and a Community Organizing Itself - UNICORN RIOTunicornriot.ninja A new site has been approved 3.5 years after the 3rd Precinct was torched by protesters. We look at the contentious process in our article and film.

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Canada Must Recognize Anti-homeless Violence as a Hate Crime | The Tyeethetyee.ca Being visibly unhoused dramatically increases a person’s risk of being victimized in an attack.

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#antifaXmas

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My Washington Post op-ed is up. You'll never guess what it's about. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Yes, it’s okay to compare Trump to Hitler. Don’t let me stop you.www.washingtonpost.com My very minor status as an authority on Hitler comparisons stems from having coined “Godwin’s Law” more than three decades ago.

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A police officer searched a classroom at a Massachusetts middle school for the novel “Gender Queer,” after receiving an anonymous complaint The ACLU says they cannot recall any instances of police going to a school to search for a book

The police officer who searched for a book in a Great Barrington classroom also used a body camera. ...www.berkshireeagle.com The ACLU is looking further into why and how police thought it was their place to go looking for a book in a classroom.