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Madison Area Antifascist, Reader, and Layabout

One month after the execution of Corey Ruiz, killer cop Kiel Peterson is still walking free and MPD is pepper spraying and arresting peaceful protesters at a vigil. We won't forget Corey Ruiz!

Two ICE agents tracked down a woman *inside a polling place* yesterday. Why? They demanded that she take down an Instagram post in which she named Jonathan Ross as the man who shot & killed Renee Good (after the Star Tribune identified Ross). www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

Federal agents track down Syracuse woman, demand she remove Instagram post about ICE

She believes the warning was related to a post about the ICE agent who shot Renee Good in Minneapolis.

syracuse.com

Far-right extremists across Europe and the United States are using the chaos in Belfast to escalate anti-immigrant violence, glorify street unrest, and push white nationalist “remigration” rhetoric, as neo-Nazi and Identitarian networks openly celebrate attacks on migrant communities. Read more:

International Far Right Stoking Belfast Protests and Anti-Immigrant Violence

Far-right extremists across Europe and the United States are using the chaos in Belfast to escalate anti-immigrant violence, glorify street unrest, and push white nationalist “remigration” rhetoric, a...

globalextremism.org

A huge loss to Madison and local journalism. Tone has been an amazing source of impactful and insightful local journalism for over a decade, an an important voice in Madison politics and culture. I'm hugely grateful for the work they produced. It will be sorely missed.

Tone Madison@tonemadison.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Tone Madison is saying goodbye on April 3. Though we're sad, we're also grateful. Over the next couple weeks, we'll be proud to bring you a few more fiercely independent stories on local arts, culture, and politics.

Anti-Muslim extremist Tommy Robinson has been allowed into the U.S. despite past assault convictions, immigration fraud, and a history of rhetoric tied to real-world violence. The founder of the English Defence League now claims allies close to Donald Trump helped secure his entry. Read more:

Violent Islamophobe Tommy Robinson Allowed Entry Into the United States

Anti-Muslim extremist Tommy Robinson has been granted entry into the United States despite a record of violence, fraud, and past immigration violations that previously barred him. The founder of the E...

globalextremism.org

An insane, perfect encapsulation of it all: The same day Trump’s agents kill a Veterans Affairs ICU nurse in broad daylight, the CEOs of Apple and Amazon join Trump to watch a private screening of a film about his wife directed by an alleged sexual abuser who was seen shirtless in the Epstein Files

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I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.

Abolish ICE is a fine sentiment but not enough. The entire DHS needs to go and we should say it. It's not like it's some sacred long-standing institution (though even if it was it wouldn't change anything)

There’s a big story everyone is missing—but this article hits on it. We aren’t just seeing public health dismantled bc we’ve been taken over by conspiracy theorists and lunatics. What we’re really seeing is the giant, predatory, underegulated wellness industry come to Washington.

FDA deletes warning on bogus autism therapies touted by RFK Jr.‘s allies

The agency used to warn of chelation, used by RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine ally David Geier.

arstechnica.com

A definitional element of extremism is that harming an out-group is inseparable from the success or survival of the in-group. For extremists, such harm becomes an intrinsic need. They come to believe that denying them the right to harm out-groups is the same thing as denying them the right to exist.

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 10mo ago

The right, along the Roberts Court, is trying to nullify the Reconstruction amendments guaranteeing equality under the law, in order to restore the Antebellum Constitution, which envisions “liberty” as an eternal aristocracy of race and class (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

When the 18th-century writer Samuel Johnson asked why “we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes,” he was identifying no mere contradiction, but liberty as it was imagined by men who owned other human beings as property. Slaveholders such as John Calhoun saw slavery as inseparable from their own freedom, and they worried that the false doctrine of abolitionism would eliminate that freedom away. “Already it has taken possession of the pulpit, of the schools, and, to a considerable extent, of the press; those great instruments by which the mind of the rising generation will be formed,” Calhoun said. (It seems the “woke mind virus” was telling lies about the great and benevolent institution of American slavery as far back as two centuries ago.)

Defending slavery, however, required invasive uses of power, such as banning antislavery literature and returning escaped Black people to bondage. Many white Americans in the 19th century began to understand that the “Slave Power” curtailed their freedoms as well. And this is what many people forget: Systems of domination rarely spread their blessings widely. The Redemption-era revocation of Black freedoms didn’t result in prosperity for white people writ large, but a Gilded Age in which the upper classes gained unfathomable wealth and economic crises left millions destitute. The nation may have held on to white supremacy, but it also got low wages, a threadbare welfare state, and a society dominated by the rich. Everyone else was too divided by race and class to challenge them.

Sam Altman: hey I made a machine that stole literally all your stuff in order to make CSAM of your child actors, sometimes it encourages people to kill themselves Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.

Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon

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Neo-Nazi “Youth Clubs” are using TikTok and Telegram to recruit teens with white supremacist propaganda, MMA training, and conspiracy theories like the “Great Replacement.” Inspired by violent figures like Robert Rundo, they now have presence in 42 U.S. states. Read more:

Neo-Nazi Teenagers Across America Starting Their Own Active Clubs

A dangerous new front in youth radicalization is spreading across the U.S., as neo-Nazi "Youth Clubs" modeled on the white supremacist Active Club network gain traction among teens aged 15 to 18. With...

globalextremism.org

The West’s favourite genocidal state, Israel, pointing its guns at unarmed citizens from multiple countries who were just trying to deliver baby formula and other essentials to the besieged civilian population of Gaza

All eyes on the Global Sumud Flotilla, currently being illegally intercepted and kidnapped in international waters. Novara currently has good live coverage from Kieran on board.

What centrist libs can't seem to internalize is that the US contains a large, longstanding, well-funded political movement that *wants political violence and authoritarianism*. It does not need to be provoked in any way in order to pursue those goals.

enormous violence is being done to us by unaccountable elites. they rob us blind, they send our neighbors to foreign dungeons or murder them in the street. they cut healthcare to build concentration camps and conduct a livestreamed genocide. they rape and traffic and brazenly get away with it all

i genuinely dont know what other industry has failed as speculatively as journalism has failed at meeting this moment we are talking about whether zohran is going to do a sharia law while gop has been trying to pass a bill to strip medicaid to pay for concentration camps like