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"North Carolina senator Thom Tillis told people that the FBI warned him about 'credible death threats' when he was considering voting against Pete Hegseth’s nomination for defense secretary... "Tillis ultimately provided the crucial 50th vote to confirm." www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

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I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

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In Paris ~20 far-right extremists, blackclad and in hoods, attacked a film showing at an immigrant workers’ association, sending one man to hospital. Six attackers are in custody. “Paris est Nazi!”, one of the attackers was heard shouting on video from the scene www.leparisien.fr/paris-75/par...

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Thank you George Bishi for this excellent essay! On the importance of including fascism and antifascism in the analysis of southern African history. #Zimbabwe

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We need to take the globalisation of antifascism research more seriously. Start by reading this important essay on the fight against Rhodesia’s settler fascism by George Bishi! 🙏

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We need to take the globalisation of antifascism research more seriously. Start by reading this important essay on the fight against Rhodesia’s settler fascism by George Bishi! 🙏

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

If Congress and the courts can't stop Trump from abusing his power, who can?

submitted 12 days ago • 75 comments

An interesting development for organisations. Given the state of X algorithm, and how it affects debates and the dissemination of scientific information, the French National Research Center (CNRS) invites all affiliated scientific institutions to evaluate whether it is still relevant to remain on X.

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PEN America Condemns Government Censorship of Science pen.org/press-releas...

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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

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"If the West is to truly confront fascism, it must recognise that this is inseparable from colonialism, and therefore, to be rid of fascism, it must dismantle colonialism." / Moshumee Dewoo helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/02/03/t...

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Here we go again 👇

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Proudly presenting the next essay of The Helsinki Notebooks: “The Decolonial Imperative: Confronting Fascism, Colonialism, and the Geopolitics of Selective Outrage” by Moshumee Dewoo: helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/02/03/t...

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Heute 20.000 in Hamburg. Morgen nächste Demo gegen Rechts 👉🏼Morgen, 16 Uhr Ballindamm

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I can’t wait to get my hands on this new book on Elizabeth Gurley Flynn by Mary Anne Trasciatti! www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/elizabeth-gu...

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Last chance to send your abstract to the upcoming conference in Helsinki "Imagining the Anti-Fascist City" - send your paper proposal by 1 February! #CFP helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/01/09/c...

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A paper that understands its responsibility, in a country that knows it when it sees it. Impressive from Die Zeit. Refuses to show the salute, but calls it out for what it so obviously was. Headline: “A Hitler Salute is a Hitler Salute is a Hitler Salute”

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"Umstrittene Geste"

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Demokratins vänner behöver en överlevnadshandbok till Trump 2.0. Läs min senaste kolumn: www.abounderrattelser.fi/artikel/over...

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In his farewell speech to the nation, Biden warned about the oligarchic takeover of America. We warned you a year ago, with an issue 100% dedicated to it: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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In the first #THN dispatch of 2025 Moshumee Dewoo explores the perils of ideological purity and reflects on the challenges of lingering in the many shades of grey, in the nuanced spaces between the ultra-right and ultra-left: helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/01/15/f...

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Submit your paper proposal to the ”Imagining the Anti-Fascist City: Contested Geographies of Resistance and Solidarity”-conference in Helsinki! DL 1st February! #CFP

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Hey everyone! My contract is about to end so I would appreciate you all keeping an eye out for roles/funding schemes that may suit me. I am a "geriatric ECR" too far from PhD viva (5 years) for most postdocs yet unable to get permanence with the job market being the way it is.

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CFP: ”Imagining the Anti-Fascist City: Contested Geographies of Resistance and Solidarity” Keynote speaker: prof. David Featherstone (Glasgow) Deadline 1 Feb. 2025 👇 socialhistoryportal.org/news/article...

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The celebrated Harlem Renaissance author was inspired by her experiences as a mixed-race teenager and young adult in the Danish capital, a time that informed her 1928 novel, “Quicksand.” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/t...

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Min senaste kolumn: ”Är ”Gleichschaltung” det politiska ordet för 2025?” Om Trump och likriktningen av samhället enligt den auktoritära ledarens tilltänkta vilja. www.abounderrattelser.fi/artikel/ar-g...

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I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget

submitted 69 days ago • 683 comments

Inspirational reading for the current political moment:

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The king of the household (sceptically observing academic working from home)

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"I am half Zimbabwean, half South African. I am neither one nor the other. I belong to both Zimbabwe and South Africa. I belong to neither one nor the other. I am caught in the middle of two broken people, two broken spaces. I claim both. I claim neither one nor the other." / Thelma Nyarhi

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Alright, thank you for helping crowdsource this Starter Pack of Independent / Non-Corporate Media Sources. These voices will be essential in the Trump 2.0 era. Please check out these folks and share! Let me know if I missed anyone... 🙏

submitted 78 days ago • 274 comments

Pretty simple folks, it’s far right, not hard right

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I honestly can’t believe we’re even still talking about Biden pardoning Hunter when Trump is planning to demolish public education, hand Ukraine to Putin, screw the health of the literal planet we live on, deploy troops on US soil, and … oh yeah … pardon all the J6 domestic terrorists.

submitted 82 days ago • 272 comments

”Saving America from Herself” (July 1939). Fascists and rightwing extremists attacking the US Declaration of Independence. #AntifascistArt

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THN has published a new dispatch against fascism and the far right: Giovani Bertolazi Brazil writes on the history of Brazilian antifascism and how it maintains a level of relevance in the present and is capable of inspiring a whole new generation of people #antifascism:

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A new dispatch from the @helsinkinotebooks.bsky.social

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Not much hype about it, but NYC Municipal Archives are located in an incredibly beautiful building. Best Black Friday deals a historian could dream about.

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"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil." Thomas Mann

submitted 87 days ago • 317 comments

Lovely visit to Roosevelt Island today!

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Quite a few Americans like the idea of strongman rule. Essential to it is the idea that a strongman will be your strongman. He won't. snyder.substack.com/p/the-strong...

submitted 88 days ago • 207 comments

Check out this growing antifascist open access resource:

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Democratic authenticity “from below” comes only with the rejection of corporate PAC money 💰

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My work features prominently in a Nature editorial today. Great to see digital preservation being taken seriously. "Millions of research articles are absent from major digital archives. This worrying finding, [...] was laid bare in a study by Martin Eve" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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And the nomination for “Best Historical Pamphlet that Speaks to the Current Moment” goes to… Rajani Palme Dutt!

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Great day at the archives today! Some highlights from the 1930s/1940s in New York City. #antifascism

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Difficult to describe what a dangerous moment we are in. The owner of Twitter/richest man in the world/closest adviser to the next US president is promoting a far-right Tommy Robinson (!) documentary to his 200 million followers. This is the mainstreaming of violent, Islamophobic fascism.

submitted 91 days ago • 633 comments