Kaleidic Riot

Kaleidic Riot

@badmenbad.bsky.social

Anarchist, music fan, poster

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Mass deportations were a key part of Trump's campaign & the GOP's platform this year. He's stacking his administration with extreme anti-immigrant hardliners like Stephen Miller & Tom Homan. We can expect to see brutal human rights violations. What can we do to reduce the harm? 🧵

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The government says anti-fascists are a threat to the public because they want to give the far-Right the green light to kill people. www.oregonlive.com/crime/2026/1...

oregonlive.comFBI probes 16-year-old Bend shooter’s online radicalization, apparent Nazi obsessionThe FBI and police are investigating the teen’s interactions with violent extremism groups, including the predatory faction known as 764, on the online platform Discord, two law-enforcement sources to...
John Thelefty@johnnthelefty.bsky.social

Notice how Andy Ngo leaves out the Bend mass shooter's obsession with Nazism www.oregonlive.com/crime/2026/1...

"You just call everyone you disagree with a Nazi!" Depends what I disagree with them about. If what we disagree about is whether white nationalism is desirable... then calling them a Nazi seems appropriate in that case.

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Replying to @nathanpgoodman.bsky.social

And in addition to being used to crack down on immigrants' speech, the powers of the Border Patrol, ICE, and DHS more broadly are used to surveil & crack down on citizens who exercise their rights to protest.

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The Trump administration's efforts to deport Mahmoud Khalil illustrate how immigration restrictions can threaten free speech. My latest paper examines this as one example of a broader problem: immigration restrictions undermine the freedoms America was founded to protect.

Al Jazeera English@aljazeera.com

Mahmoud Khalil takes deportation fight to the US Supreme Court https://aje.news/6ws0td

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Looking forward to reading this!

Nathan Goodman@nathanpgoodman.bsky.social

I have a new paper in the Markets & Society journal in which I argue that immigration restrictions, and the violence of ICE & CBP, threaten the basic principles of American liberal democracy. www.marketsandsociety.org/v2i1/immigra...

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*Cops, murdering with impunity, beating their partners, sexually assaulting the vulnerable, defending fascists, helping ICE kidnap people, brutalizing protesters, etc. Malcolm Gladwell: Wow, we really need more of these guys around.

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Got on TikTok to catch up on cat videos my partner sent me and I see this. Just a guy with a Stalin pfp straight up lying about an anarchist bookstore (The Big Idea in Pittsburgh) because they have books critical of the USSR.

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Sorry for tormenting you with absurdity on the fascist site, but this level of intellectual property defending really needs to be seen to be believed.

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Also like our *society* isn't one uniform totalizing system that indoctrinates us all into patriarchy the exact same way from a standardized textbook, but a varied network structure or ecosystem. There are *different* (interlocking and conflicting) patriarchal narratives and norms in circulation!

Erin Elkin@shadell.itch.io

It’s also worth noting that socialization isn’t a single discretely bounded theory or process! Different disciplines spend a lot of time investigating it in different ways! You can’t just go “socialization!” like that necessarily produces a single deterministic outcome!!!

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Replying to @rechelon.bsky.social

Fascism is a modern (era) anti-modernism (ideology). Few marauders in history would see themselves as aligned with every other man carrying weapons and intending violent conquest, since those were adversaries. But today the shame and frustration of modern checks on power eclipses everything else.

This obviously was much more severe when men could legally rape their wives and married women couldn't own property. But the power dynamics & abuse potential associated with marriage, especially with joint finances, is really troubling.

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Kyle Cheney@kyledcheney.bsky.social

A judge has thrown out the Trump administration's lawsuit against New York City over its sanctuary policies, rejecting the federal govt's claim that the city's policies violated the Supremacy Clause. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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wild to have started this as a response to the united states government killing our noblogs site as part of their authoritarian crackdown on certain first-ammendment-protected speech we built our own platform with no centralized control. it serves pages from a tiny, cheap single-board computer

Image loading works (see BASH logo at top of post) when inserted using Micron formatted language into the editor. This makes BASH BLOG a viable platform for things with necessary visual components, like report backs.

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Replying to @bigbash.bsky.social

the ultra-light pages can be easily replicated and reproduced. important signals cannot be stopped. in a time of rising authoritarianism censorship, it is imperative that we maintain our own networks and the ability to communicate important information across them effectively.

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the 4chan term of art for not being a nazi school shooter wannabe was "moralf*g"

Liberal Currents@liberalcurrents.com

"By the 2010s, the vanguard of the fascist movement had moved from terrorist groupuscules into mutually radicalising online communities. … The religion of death was proselytised by teenage boys pushing boundaries and calling each other gay if anyone said that they’d gone too far."

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After being brought down by the noblogs shutdown, my website is finally back and prettier than ever ✨ This is where you can find an archive of my work as well as a theory library collection of nearly 300 articles and books! butchanarchy.org

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My very first experience in Budapest -- literally upon walking out of the famous train station in 2013 -- was getting chased by five neonazis who recognized my anarchist patches. Gino faces up to 24 years in prison in Hungary and up to 10 years in Germany for fighting back against those neonazis.

Rote Hilfe e.V.@rotehilfe.bsky.social

Gino hat sich heute in Hannover gestellt und sitzt jetzt in Haft. Paris hatte seine Auslieferung an Ungarn wegen Foltergefahr abgelehnt, jetzt holt ihn Deutschland. Wir fordern: Keine Auslieferung nach Budapest, sofortige Freilassung rote-hilfe.de/meldungen/an...

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Folks complain about rising illiteracy on social media, but I think the deeper issue isn't inability to parse straightforward sentences but a cultivated unwillingness to model different viewpoints and social contexts. Performative dunking rewards *not bothering to understand* the enemy.

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NEW: Greek Trials Turn Migrants Into ‘Smugglers’ and Minors Into Adults Crete’s courts are convicting shipwrecked people on the move as “smugglers” in trials lasting minutes, with lawyers documenting minors registered as adults and sentences reaching hundreds of years.

unicornriot.ninjaGreek Trials Turn Migrants Into ‘Smugglers’ and Minors Into Adults - UNICORN RIOTCrete’s courts are convicting shipwrecked people on the move as “smugglers” in trials lasting minutes, with lawyers documenting minors registered as adults and sentences reaching hundreds of years.

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New: Feds got warrants to use fake cell towers to hunt Don Lemon’s producer, a 21-year-old college student. They also sought to use the technology against a journalist and a state Senate candidate.

wired.comFeds Got Warrants to Use Fake Cell Towers to Hunt Down Don Lemon’s ProducerInvestigators also sought permission to use an invasive surveillance tool called a cell-site simulators against journalist Georgia Fort and a Minnesota state Senate candidate.

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And I thought regular cops were the biggest babies in America.

Jared@jaredmcclain.bsky.social

Things got more insane just about as soon as I posted this last night. DHS is now arguing that we cannot even put the names of ICE officers in our lawsuit against those officers. Their position is that, if a defendant works for DHS, they cannot be named in a lawsuit. Never seen anything like it.

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Replying to @rechelon.bsky.social

They say the anarchist dream of self-hosting is dead. They say the centralized datacenter form is an unavoidable product of economies of scale. They say the datacenters are too big for activists to sabotage. And yet they increasingly seem like giant red button vulnerabilities in state conflict.