Stanislav Vysotsky
@professorstas.bsky.social
old punk. cranky academic. critical sociologist and criminologist. antifa and fascism scholar. author of American Antifa from Routledge and Antifa: What Everyone Needs to Know forthcoming on Oxford University Press.
https://antifascismresearchnetwork.com/
https://antifascismresearchnetwork.com/
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"Trump and His Party Have Put Ilhan Omar in Danger for Years"
The Minnesota congresswoman has weathered years of racist smears from Trump and his right-wing lackeys, in the lead-up to Tuesday’s attack on her. Zeteo has the receipts.
The Minnesota congresswoman has weathered years of racist smears from Trump and his right-wing lackeys, in the lead-up to Tuesday’s attack on her. Zeteo has the receipts.
Trump and His Party Have Put Ilhan Omar in Danger for Years
The Minnesota congresswoman has weathered years of racist smears from Trump and his right-wing lackeys, in the lead-up to Tuesday’s attack on her.
zeteo.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:44 AM
"Trump and His Party Have Put Ilhan Omar in Danger for Years"
The Minnesota congresswoman has weathered years of racist smears from Trump and his right-wing lackeys, in the lead-up to Tuesday’s attack on her. Zeteo has the receipts.
The Minnesota congresswoman has weathered years of racist smears from Trump and his right-wing lackeys, in the lead-up to Tuesday’s attack on her. Zeteo has the receipts.
Over on that other fascist site, BC’s far-right party is trying the same antifa are terrorists narrative as their US compatriots.
January 6, 2026 at 3:13 AM
Over on that other fascist site, BC’s far-right party is trying the same antifa are terrorists narrative as their US compatriots.
This is just white nationalist rhetoric. This administration has moved from being fascist to straight up nazi.
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 21, 2025 at 11:55 PM
This is just white nationalist rhetoric. This administration has moved from being fascist to straight up nazi.
I wrote this summary of the criminalization of antifa. Labelling antifa as a terrorist group has major implications for repression of left-wing activism but doesn't seem to have much public support outside of the right-wing echo chamber.
The Criminalization of Antifa
In the wake of the shooting of Charlie Kirk, and in response to ongoing protests against snatch and grab raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers, the Trump administrat…
helsinkinotebooks.com
December 16, 2025 at 10:19 PM
I wrote this summary of the criminalization of antifa. Labelling antifa as a terrorist group has major implications for repression of left-wing activism but doesn't seem to have much public support outside of the right-wing echo chamber.
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Elon's little serfs are quite literally begging journalists to come back because every publicly available source of data shows people have fled the platform and young people won't use it.
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
December 15, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Elon's little serfs are quite literally begging journalists to come back because every publicly available source of data shows people have fled the platform and young people won't use it.
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
Pepper spray can cause serious harm to adults, let alone a one year old.
ICE pepper-sprayed this 1-year-old girl.
Once at the hospital, the doctor had to call in a poison control specialist.
They had never seen anyone that young pepper sprayed.
Another horrific story.
More details below.
Once at the hospital, the doctor had to call in a poison control specialist.
They had never seen anyone that young pepper sprayed.
Another horrific story.
More details below.
December 15, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Pepper spray can cause serious harm to adults, let alone a one year old.
The administration is willing to engage in extrajudicial killing of antifa activists and others on the left.
White House Refuses to Rule Out Summary Executions of People on Its Secret Domestic Terrorist List
The Trump administration ignored questions about whether it would order the killings of those on its NSPM-7 list — even while answering our other queries.
theintercept.com
December 15, 2025 at 12:25 AM
The administration is willing to engage in extrajudicial killing of antifa activists and others on the left.
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The way the word elites has become devoid of all meaning is interesting. It’s a placeholder for “someone I don’t like” and it fascinates me that the people who use it most are wealthy, went to “elite” schools and hold positions of power. Look in the damn mirror. You’re talking about yourself.
December 14, 2025 at 4:18 AM
The way the word elites has become devoid of all meaning is interesting. It’s a placeholder for “someone I don’t like” and it fascinates me that the people who use it most are wealthy, went to “elite” schools and hold positions of power. Look in the damn mirror. You’re talking about yourself.
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People should take a page out of New School faculty's book and start doing forensic accounting for their own institutions using public documents
There is an absolute fucking scandal going down at The New School, wherein at appears that the university is funnelling to a MEMBER OF THE SCHOOL’S BOARD while purging faculty and staff.
This should be headline news.
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This should be headline news.
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December 14, 2025 at 9:08 PM
People should take a page out of New School faculty's book and start doing forensic accounting for their own institutions using public documents
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Part of the Chanukah tradition is to place the light menorah either outside or in a window where outsiders can see it. This is supposed to advertise the miracle of Chanukah. These days, it is also a way of saying, “This is a Jewish home.”
Every year I think about how it is also an act of bravery.
Every year I think about how it is also an act of bravery.
December 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Part of the Chanukah tradition is to place the light menorah either outside or in a window where outsiders can see it. This is supposed to advertise the miracle of Chanukah. These days, it is also a way of saying, “This is a Jewish home.”
Every year I think about how it is also an act of bravery.
Every year I think about how it is also an act of bravery.
From his defense of the free speech rights of Holocaust deniers to his more recent statements opposing antifa activism, Chomsky has been consistently wrong on fascism in its social movement form.
At some point in the past, Chomsky did a lot of good getting Americans to at least recognize the horrors our government was responsible for, but we have long moved past the need for him, and it’s been decades since he was actually on the side of the angels so much as just vaguely tangential to them.
not to underrate the seriousness of chomsky palling around with epstein, but bannon's a fucking out and out fascist and has been for a very long time, something chomsky knows and knew when this was taken
December 13, 2025 at 11:29 PM
From his defense of the free speech rights of Holocaust deniers to his more recent statements opposing antifa activism, Chomsky has been consistently wrong on fascism in its social movement form.
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In case you have never seen this.
December 13, 2025 at 10:38 PM
In case you have never seen this.
They’re trying so hard to make antifa a terrorist threat because it gives them a broad brush to criminalize and persecute the left. They will go after locally based antifascist affinity groups to try to look like they’ve made progress on their threats.
GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
December 11, 2025 at 8:40 PM
They’re trying so hard to make antifa a terrorist threat because it gives them a broad brush to criminalize and persecute the left. They will go after locally based antifascist affinity groups to try to look like they’ve made progress on their threats.
The DOJ is moving from vague threats against antifascists and the left to targeted persecution.
🚨Pam Bondi is ordering the FBI to “compile a list" of Americans who may be extremists, per signed memo leaked to me:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-fbi-l...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-fbi-l...
LEAK: FBI List of “Extremists” Is Coming, Memo Reveals
Are you on Trump's naughty list?
www.kenklippenstein.com
December 7, 2025 at 9:15 PM
The DOJ is moving from vague threats against antifascists and the left to targeted persecution.
This is indicative of how little these people actually know about antifa activism, but it’s still a dangerous open-ended method for persecuting antifascists and the left.
Pam Bondi tells law enforcement agencies to investigate antifa groups for ‘tax crimes’
Move is part of Trump’s broader crackdown on leftwing groups, including designation of antifa as ‘domestic terrorism’ group
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:08 AM
This is indicative of how little these people actually know about antifa activism, but it’s still a dangerous open-ended method for persecuting antifascists and the left.
Apparently, possessing anarchist zines makes someone “antifa.” Further proof that this is just a war on the left. The administration is going for more radical and marginalized activists before it turns its attention on more mainstream ones.
The Feds Want to Make It Illegal to Even Possess an Anarchist Zine
Daniel Sanchez is facing federal charges for what free speech advocates say is a clear attack on the First Amendment.
theintercept.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Apparently, possessing anarchist zines makes someone “antifa.” Further proof that this is just a war on the left. The administration is going for more radical and marginalized activists before it turns its attention on more mainstream ones.
Identifying fascists is a thorough, methodical, and verifiable process.
On Monday, we published this investigation into "Exiles of the Golden Age," a fascist conference in Vancouver this July.
We identified 18 of the 50+ people our photographer captured outside the venue, including small business owners and neo-Nazis.
Here's how we did it. 🧵
We identified 18 of the 50+ people our photographer captured outside the venue, including small business owners and neo-Nazis.
Here's how we did it. 🧵
Everybody Attending White Nationalist Conference Caught on Film
Advertised near-exclusively in white nationalist online spaces, promotional social media posts for the event include symbolism popular with neo-Nazis, including the kolovrat sun wheel and a table with...
www.antihate.ca
November 14, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Identifying fascists is a thorough, methodical, and verifiable process.
The administration is going to have a hard time proving any link between domestic antifa groups and any of the networks listed in today’s designation, but that won’t stop them from bringing the full force of federal law enforcement against antifascists domestically.
My NSPM-7 coverage has for weeks been met with smug assurances that there's no law for domestic terrorism. Well, the Trump admin just designated Antifa groups as Foreign Terror Orgs - for which there is a law:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trump-slap...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trump-slap...
Trump Escalates War on Leftists With Antifa Foreign Terror Label
Move cites NSPM-7, saying four European Antifa groups espoused "anti-Christianity," "anti-capitalism," and "anti-Americanism"
www.kenklippenstein.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:51 AM
The administration is going to have a hard time proving any link between domestic antifa groups and any of the networks listed in today’s designation, but that won’t stop them from bringing the full force of federal law enforcement against antifascists domestically.
There seems to be no justification for how they determined any of these groups are foreign terrorist groups. And certainly no evidence that they have direct ties to any U.S. antifa groups. Just like with the rest of this antifa panic, they’re just randomly creating boogeymen.
The administration appears to be laying the groundwork for designating "antifa" as a Foreign Terrorist Organization.
www.state.gov/releases/202...
www.state.gov/releases/202...
Designations of Antifa Ost and Three Other Violent Antifa Groups - United States Department of State
Today, the Department of State announces the designation of Antifa Ost, Informal Anarchist Federation/International Revolutionary Front, Armed Proletarian Justice, and Revolutionary Class Self-Defense...
www.state.gov
November 13, 2025 at 8:26 PM
There seems to be no justification for how they determined any of these groups are foreign terrorist groups. And certainly no evidence that they have direct ties to any U.S. antifa groups. Just like with the rest of this antifa panic, they’re just randomly creating boogeymen.
Fascists tried to have a conference in Vancouver. It was infiltrated. Now, they’ve been identified.
1/ NEW: We identified 20 people who attended a white nationalist conference and, despite their efforts to keep it secret, caught another 30 people on film to identify in the future. Several MMA/combat sports instructors were discovered and their gyms have cut ties.
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Everybody Attending White Nationalist Conference Caught on Film
Advertised near-exclusively in white nationalist online spaces, promotional social media posts for the event include symbolism popular with neo-Nazis, including the kolovrat sun wheel and a table with...
www.antihate.ca
November 10, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Fascists tried to have a conference in Vancouver. It was infiltrated. Now, they’ve been identified.
The conflation of movements in this excerpt is really troubling but not unexpected. This is the same logic of all counter-extremism thinking that lumps different movements and ideologies into one amorphous enemy.
This is the first time I know of ASIO publicly describing a specific incident as “anarchist and revolutionary extremism”:
November 5, 2025 at 8:25 PM
The conflation of movements in this excerpt is really troubling but not unexpected. This is the same logic of all counter-extremism thinking that lumps different movements and ideologies into one amorphous enemy.
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Shapiro and Weiss seriously thought they could fan the flames of reactionary politics and it would spare them. Did they think they could spew racist and transphobic bigotry and it not end up growing into a monster that eventually came for them too? They made this bed for all of us.
November 3, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Shapiro and Weiss seriously thought they could fan the flames of reactionary politics and it would spare them. Did they think they could spew racist and transphobic bigotry and it not end up growing into a monster that eventually came for them too? They made this bed for all of us.
This story speaks to the essence of antifascism as a form of self-defense.
“The American left is armed and getting organized, not because it wants to wage war, but because it refuses to be an easy target.”
“The American left is armed and getting organized, not because it wants to wage war, but because it refuses to be an easy target.”
Inside the World of Leftist Gun Nuts
Graham Platner’s firearms trainings are only the most public example of the left’s efforts to arm themselves.
theintercept.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:01 AM
This story speaks to the essence of antifascism as a form of self-defense.
“The American left is armed and getting organized, not because it wants to wage war, but because it refuses to be an easy target.”
“The American left is armed and getting organized, not because it wants to wage war, but because it refuses to be an easy target.”
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Forget Monday's two-hour Tucker Carlson interview with Nick Fuentes-- this 2.5 minute video from the head of the Heritage Foundation just completely shattered the right-wing pro-Israel consensus. The leading MAGA organization welcomed antisemitism into the movement with open arms
October 30, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Forget Monday's two-hour Tucker Carlson interview with Nick Fuentes-- this 2.5 minute video from the head of the Heritage Foundation just completely shattered the right-wing pro-Israel consensus. The leading MAGA organization welcomed antisemitism into the movement with open arms