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thatweltschmerz.bsky.social
@thatweltschmerz.bsky.social
- Translator, writer, researcher; focus on transatlantic far right
- Translating Rudolf Rocker's long-ass memoirs
Fedi: @ThatWeltschmerz@kolektiva.social
Web: joseph-k.com
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I went and started a blog about language and the far right. It’s called Total Propaganda.

It’s a plain Wordpress blog, but you can subscribe like a newsletter and pretend this is 2025. Best of all, it is and shall remain AI-free.

totalpropaganda.net
Total Propaganda
A Blog About Language and the Far Right
totalpropaganda.net
On one hand, "far-right influences among Project 2025 applicants" might be the most obvious thing I've ever posted on social media.

On the other, the details are pretty interesting for the continuities they reveal among various far-right tendencies. Worth a read

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Leaked files show far-right influences among Project 2025 applicants
Applicants reportedly cited Nazi theorists and other extremists as inspiration for Trump administration roles
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Reposted
“All proceeds support our Translation Stops Deportation campaign to raise funds to provide free document translation to people who face deportation after they have fled ethnic, political, gender-based, and anti-LGBTQ+ violence.” ~ kolektiva.social/@ThatWeltsch...
Dance Party Benefit!
Join us Sunday November 16th for our End-of-Year Dance Party Benefit! Featuring:          DJ Stylus (Brooklyn Wonderland) Dirtyfinger (Freak For All)Gek…
refugeetranslation.org
November 8, 2025 at 12:40 PM
For far-right actors, antifa is the "woke mind virus" in their own heads. They keep trying to understand it, and they keep failing.

A prominent white nationalist site interviewed a "former Antifa member” who's seen the light.

It didn't go well. Breakdown here:

joseph-k.medium.com/amren-tries-...
AmRen Tries — and Fails — To Understand What Antifa Is
Last week, leading neo-fascist website American Renaissance (AmRen) published what it claims is an interview with a former “Antifa member”…
joseph-k.medium.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Translation of a recent press release from Maja T.'s support committee. Maja's latest motion to be moved from solitary to house arrest was denied again. Also, testimony of a nazi "victim" who Maja is accused of attacking contradicted that of an eye witness.

joseph-k.medium.com/last-day-of-...
Last Day of Hearings This Year for Maja T.; Verdict Due on January 22
[The following is a translation of a press release issued by Maja T.’s support committee. I am not affiliated with that committee, and the…
joseph-k.medium.com
October 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The good news is that you can't really be classified as antifa if you're not from the Antîfa-en-Provence region of France.
September 23, 2025 at 7:57 PM
"Police revealed in arresting documents that Gokey said that 'Charlie Kirk was a martyr,' that he 'was a martyr for Charlie Kirk,' and that 'political violence breeds political violence.' Police also detailed several transphobic comments he allegedly made."

www.azfamily.com/2025/09/19/p...
Phoenix man accused of threatening to shoot up gay bar amid political anger
A Phoenix man is in jail after police say he threatened to shoot up a gay bar near his apartment reportedly because he was angry about recent political violence across the country.
www.azfamily.com
September 22, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Ezra Klein in 2045: Now that the war is finally winding down, we can see in retrospect that the Trump-era GOP did have its excesses. But if you want to know how that happened, you have to look at the party's roots: the abolitionists who founded it in the 1850s were extremists too!
September 20, 2025 at 3:42 AM
New: Part one of a three-part essay about the roots of "The Great Replacement.”
totalpropaganda.net/2025/09/18/i...
September 18, 2025 at 10:48 PM
I went and started a blog about language and the far right. It’s called Total Propaganda.

It’s a plain Wordpress blog, but you can subscribe like a newsletter and pretend this is 2025. Best of all, it is and shall remain AI-free.

totalpropaganda.net
Total Propaganda
A Blog About Language and the Far Right
totalpropaganda.net
September 4, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Translation of Maja T.'s statement about starting a hunger strike:

#FreeMaja #BudapestKomplex
June 7, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Here's Maja T.'s statement to the court in Budapest last Feb. Maja has been in jail pending trial for a year and a half for alleged participation in altercations with neo-nazis in Feb 2023. This is the first public statement Maja has been allowed to make.

antidotezine.com/2025/05/26/i...
"I will not perish here!" | Antidote Zine
On 21 February 2025, the trial against German antifascist Maja T. started at the Hungarian court in Budapest. They offered Maja fourteen years in exchange f ...
antidotezine.com
June 1, 2025 at 4:08 PM
When the people behind now-defunct white nationalist site VDARE bought a castle in West Virginia, they promised to be quiet neighbors. Recently they hosted a conference with Patriot Front goons & a handful of antisemitic and "race science" intellectuals.

alasbarricadas.noblogs.org/post/2025/03...
A Fascist Gathering in West Virginia – A Las Barricadas
alasbarricadas.noblogs.org
April 2, 2025 at 7:36 PM
"Gulf of America" has some real "Freedom Fries" energy, if you ask me
January 8, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Earlier today, The Washington Post website had the following headlines up simultaneously:

"Strength of South Korea democracy tested as president defies arrest"

and

"Congress certifies Trump’s electoral college victory in a peaceful transfer of power".

The US is a parody of itself.
January 7, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Today marks one year since Maja T. was arrested for allegedly attacking Nazis in Budapest. The good folks at Antidote Zine have marked the occasion by publishing an interview I recently did with support crew the Budapest Antifascist Support Committee (BASC).

antidotezine.com/2024/12/11/b...
International Antifascist Solidarity: The Budapest-Komplex | Antidote Zine
In June 2024, a German antifascist was extradited from Germany to Hungary in a hasty operation intended to deny them all legal recourse. On the anniversary ...
antidotezine.com
December 11, 2024 at 8:46 PM
Italian cops arrested 12 people from neo-Nazi group Werwolf Division Wednesday. They also searched homes of 13 people. Suspects were allegedly part an "organised cell" capable of "lone-wolf" attacks. Charges include criminal association for terrorism & illegal firearms.

www.msn.com/en-us/news/w...
MSN
www.msn.com
December 4, 2024 at 5:39 PM
Gino, an antifascist the Hungarian gov's been after for alleged violence during Budapest's 2023 Nazi ComicCon ("Day of Honor" they call it), was arrested in Paris. Info's still scarce, but here's a translation of the initial post from the solidarity committee (BASC).

www.basc.news/weitere-verh...
November 21, 2024 at 2:28 AM
96-year-old Ursula Haverbeck, known widely as "Nazi grandma," has died. She received multiple jail sentences in Germany over the years for Holocaust denial, which had already made her a living "martyr" among her fellow travelers. Their loss is our gain, I guess...

mastodon.social/@endstationr...
ENDSTATION RECHTS. (@endstationrechts@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image In rechten Kreisen wird übereinstimmend berichtet: Die notorische Holocaustleugnerin Ursula #Haverbeck ist wohl gestorben. Die 96-Jährige wurde in der Szene bereits zu Lebzeiten als...
mastodon.social
November 20, 2024 at 7:30 PM
"Columbus community leaders are condemning reports of armed neo-Nazis marching Saturday afternoon through the Short North, using racial slurs toward people of color and shouting about Jewish people and white power."

www.dispatch.com/story/news/l...

#NeoNazis #Columbus #Ohio #fcknzs #fascism
Gov. Mike DeWine, Columbus leaders condemn neo-Nazis marching Saturday through Short North
Columbus police are responding as social media videos show about a dozen people dressed as Nazis marching through the Short North and Victorian Village.
www.dispatch.com
November 17, 2024 at 3:50 AM
Intro (EN): Testing this out. Posts mostly about reactionary movements on both sides of the North Atlantic, language, occasionally music, frequently bad puns. Take it or leave it.

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November 9, 2024 at 2:08 PM