In my latest essay at I trace the recent antifa conspiracy theories back to the anti-communist conspiracy theories that defined the right during the Cold War, maintaining a coded antisemitic core.
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The supposedly liberal Multnomah County, which contains Portland, voted down voting rights for undocumented people. What a progressive paradise.
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One thing that bothers me about "Dems needed to talk about economic issues!" is that abortion and reproductive rights are, among other things, economic issues. That's not to defend Dem campaigning or messaging but to indict how some think about what counts as kitchen table issues
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Check out my buddy Benjamin S. Case’s new book Street Rebellion from dismantling some of the conventional wisdom about strategic non-violence. I wrote a blurb for it and highly recommend anyone interested in the growth of mass protests read it.
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NEW PODCAST EPISODE! It's the audio from the panel I was on with @areidross @shane_burley1 & @MicCrenshaw for the launch of No Pasaran! leftcoastrightwatch.org/podcast/the-ab
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“The far-right is a crisis, and a symptom of the larger instability as a whole.” -
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Don't miss our latest podcast episode with @shane_burley1, as we talk about the midterms, ongoing far-Right violence, and the need for antifascist and anti-racist movements to grow and expand as the crisis all around us does as well. itsgoingdown.org/shane-burley-n
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And, of course, there's Instagram where I post big updates plus just photos from concerts and hiking and whatnot. Follow me there too!
instagram.com/shaneburley/
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As you probably know, I have a Patron account that is incredibly active with a lot of exclusive essays, articles, interviews, reviews, etc., and this is probably the best option if you want to help support my work.
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If you do Medium, I usually mirror different articles I publish there, so (as long as I keep it up) it can be a good place to simply get a stream of actual content.
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My second newsletter, and the one I spend more time with, is The Maiseh Review, which publishes on books, movies, music, and various Judaica. It is free, but we do need a few people to pay $3 so it can break even and keep it free for everyone.
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If you prefer getting emails, I have two newsletter with two different types of content. The first is simply a place to get updates and articles from me, hear about upcoming events, and the whatnot.
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For Tik Tok folks, I will try to be posting mainly protest videos, quick little vlog updates, and will do more as I am doing travel for my next books.
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If you use Telegram, I am just now trying to build up this thread with new articles and discussion with folks about what's happening with the left and the right. Join and try to make it spicy!
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I post even more frequently at this page, one for my first book, Fascism Today: What It Is and How to End It. I usually post everything I publish on there as well as photos and videos.
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This is the Facebook Page for my new book, No Pasaran: Antifascist Dispatches from a World in Crisis and I'll make it mostly A+ antifascist content.
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For those who are leaving Twitter to escape Elon Musk, I'm putting a few social media links so that you can follow my stuff on different platforms. *thread*
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If you want to understand the situation with ICWA, I recommend this podcast.
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Earlier this year was the featured speaker at a straight-up white supremacist conference where speakers praised HItler & called for Fauci to be hanged.
McCarthy condemned her & now is considering her for powerful GOP role. Tells you everything. huffpost.com/entry/cpac-afp
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CBS News has learned that several top @RepMTG allies in Trump's circle continued in recent days to urge McCarthy to give her a plum seat on @GOPoversight, should the GOP win the majority. And McCarthy is listening and not rejecting the idea, per 3 people briefed on the talks.
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Wrote a bit on antisemitism as "the socialism of fools."
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as put it at the time: “The rising hard-right flank — represented in Congress by MTG & others— is setting the conservative agenda, and they view these leaders (correctly) as the out-of-touch establishment.” huffpost.com/entry/cpac-afp
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Far-right pundit & self-ID'ed 'proud Jew' Darren Beattie, a regular guest on Tucker Carlson & Bannon's shows, promoting an intellectual-dark-web journal that argues the 'blood libel' myth was real & other explicit antisemitic content
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Very high quality --- check it out twitter.com/spring_pierian…
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What would it take for American Jews to collectively mourn the passing of what Israel & Zionism meant for us in the 20th century, in order to fully face the reality of Israeli fascism today? What technologies of mourning does our tradition already provide for this?
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“The Israel that many Americans — and especially American Jews — fondly remember for its irreverent secularism and vaguely social-democratic ethos no longer exists,” writes @joshualeifer. nyti.ms/3UqPRMg
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this country's right wing has become far more radicalized and conspiratorial over the pandemic years in ways that are still fully manifesting in the political arena, but there's a near total far right/mainstream right confluence on loads of topics that has accelerated rapidly
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BREAKING: Pentagon finally discloses plan to clean up drinking water poisoned by jet fuel at Red Hill tanks in Hawaii – but says it will take 5 years. Almost 100,000 families being forced to ingest gasoline.
This is a major emergency. Biden must act now.
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Everyone with a “good job” should look at Twitter and understand all that destruction can happen to you. Doing that to companies is the whole business model of the private equity industry. Unionize WHILE THINGS ARE STILL GOOD. Until you do, you’re driving fast with no seatbelt.
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Firebomb against a drag show supporter in Tulsa, suspicious device outside a Birmingham synagogue, and now a bomb exploded outside of Texas Public Radio—all in just over a week. I study the escalation of political violence, and this is what it looks like.
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What appears to be a bomb was detonated under a sculpture next to the TPR headquarters in San Antonio early Monday morning. The sculpture is not on our property.
This footage is from our security cameras.
The FBI, SAPD, SAFD and other agencies are investigating.
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This article is a great example on how the coverage of Indigenous issues doesn’t meet the basic standards of journalism. This article grossly misrepresents what happened in the underlying custody cases and the people behind the lawsuit.
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In a case that could affect thousands of Native American children, the Supreme Court will begin hearing arguments Wednesday in the case of a four-year-old girl, whose birth mother is Navajo but who is living with a white family who wants to adopt her. nyti.ms/3WKaB3B
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Case also has a great chapter in my new anthology #NoPasaran about fighting antisemitism and it’s important role in the antifascist coalition
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Check out my buddy Benjamin S. Case’s new book Street Rebellion from dismantling some of the conventional wisdom about strategic non-violence. I wrote a blurb for it and highly recommend anyone interested in the growth of mass protests read it.
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We are in desperate need of composition notebooks! Incarcerated folks use them to write, draw, and create while locked behind bars. That's something we want to support. If you do, too, consider sending us some!
No spiral-bound notebooks, please.
Mailing info below. 👇
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What to Know About Irving’s Antisemitic Movie Post and the Fallout
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In my latest piece for I look at antifa conspiracy theories, which are just a continuation of anti-communist conspiracies, which have acted as a binding agent for the right since the earliest days of the Cold War.
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.@shane_burley1 For the midterms, the GOP is reviving its most infamous antisemitic conspiracy theory
The MAGA crusade against a mythically potent, satanic ‘antifa’ harks back to older conspiracy theories tied up with the far right and toxic antisemitism
haaretz.com/us-news/2022-1
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Don't miss our latest podcast episode with , as we talk about the midterms, ongoing far-Right violence, and the need for antifascist and anti-racist movements to grow and expand as the crisis all around us does as well. itsgoingdown.org/shane-burley-n
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"Intelligence analysts had internally raised concerns about the decision to accuse anyone caught in the streets by default of being an 'anarchist extremist' specifically because 'sufficient facts' were never found 'to support such a characterization.'"
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You not really caring what happens to other people is a political objective. It's important to understand that. Fascism does not just succeed by winning adherents. Cooperation, resignation, and withering empathy also allow it to thrive.
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Reading Burley’s Why We Fight now
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On our latest podcast, we spoke with @shane_burley1 about their new book on @AKPressDistro, the insurgent far-Right post-J6 going into the midterms, and the need for autonomous movements to expand + build in times of crisis + increasing instability. itsgoingdown.org/shane-burley-n
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On our latest podcast, we spoke with about their new book on , the insurgent far-Right post-J6 going into the midterms, and the need for autonomous movements to expand + build in times of crisis + increasing instability. itsgoingdown.org/shane-burley-n
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