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thatweltschmerz.bsky.social
@thatweltschmerz.bsky.social
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- Translator, writer, researcher; focus on transatlantic far right
- Translating Rudolf Rocker's long-ass memoirs
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thatweltschmerz.bsky.social @thatweltschmerz.bsky.social · Sep 4
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.

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Total Propaganda
A Blog About Language and the Far Right
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thatweltschmerz.bsky.social
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
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November 28, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Reposted
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“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…
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November 8, 2025 at 12:40 PM
thatweltschmerz.bsky.social
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”…
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November 5, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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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.

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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…
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October 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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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
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"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
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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
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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
thatweltschmerz.bsky.social
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
thatweltschmerz.bsky.social
Translation of Maja T.'s statement about starting a hunger strike:

#FreeMaja #BudapestKomplex
Hunger Strike Statement Maja T. Budapest, 5 June 2025 My name is Maja. I was illegally extradited to Hungary almost a year ago. Since then, I have been held here in inhumane prolonged solitary confinement. Yesterday, on 4 June 2025, a decision was supposed to be made about my petition to be transferred to house arrest. That decision was postponed. My prior petitions to be transferred to house arrest have been rejected. I am no longer willing to endure this unbearable situation and wait for decisions from a judiciary that has systematically violated my rights again and again in recent months. For that reason, I am beginning a hunger strike today, 5 June 2025. I demand to be transferred back to Germany, to be able to return to my family, and to be able to participate in the trial in Hungary from my home. I can no longer tolerate the prison conditions in Hungary. My cell was under 24-hour video surveillance for more than three months. For over seven months, I had to wear handcuffs any time I was outside my cell and sometimes inside my cell too, regardless of whether I was buying things, having Skype calls, or meeting with visitors. Officers conduct hourly visual inspections in my cell, including at night, which always means turning the lights on. I have to submit to body searches, during which I have to undress completely. Visits happened in separate rooms where a screen separated me from my family members, lawyers, and official representatives. The officers have left my cell in complete chaos after cell checks. The architecture prevents me from seeing sufficient daylight. The tiny courtyard is made of concrete and there is a grate across the top of it. I cannot control the temperature of the water in the shower. My cell is continuously overrun by bedbugs and cockroaches. I am not sufficiently provided with balanced and fresh food. Additionally, I am in prolonged solitary confinement. No contact with other prisoners was possible at all for almost six months. Even now, I see and hear other people for less than an hour per day. This permanent deprivation of human contact is deliberately meant to do mental and bodily harm. That is why the European Prison Rules provide for “at least two hours of meaningful human contact a day”. That is why “prolonged solitary confinement” – the confinement of a prisoner for at least 22 hours a day for more than 15 days – is considered inhumane treatment or torture according to the Nelson Mandela Rules adopted by the United Nations. Here in Hungary, I have been buried alive in a prison cell, and this pre-trial detention can last up to three years in Hungary. For these reasons, I should never have been extradited to Hungary. The Berlin court of appeals and the Special Commission “Linx” of the State Office of Criminal Investigations in Saxony planned and executed my extradition and in doing so very deliberately circumvented my lawyers and the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany. On 28 June 2024, a few hours after my instant-extradition, the Constitutional Court ruled that I could not be extradited for the time being. On 6 February 2025, it ruled that my extradition was illegal. To date, no one who took part in it has been held accountable. Thus far, there have been no reparations for me. I would like my hunger strike to be a warning that no one else should be extradited to Hungary. Right now, that regard needs to go above all to Zaid from Nuremberg, who is very acutely under threat of extradition to Hungary. I declare my solidarity with all antifascists who are being prosecuted in the Budapest proceedings.
June 7, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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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 ...
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June 1, 2025 at 4:08 PM
thatweltschmerz.bsky.social
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
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April 2, 2025 at 7:36 PM
thatweltschmerz.bsky.social
"Gulf of America" has some real "Freedom Fries" energy, if you ask me
January 8, 2025 at 3:21 AM
thatweltschmerz.bsky.social
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
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Way to stick it to the "globalist" elites.

#DualLoyalty

www.reuters.com/world/argent...
Argentina's Milei given Italian citizenship during Rome visit, source says
Italy's government has granted citizenship to Argentina's President Javier Milei on account of his Italian family roots, a source with knowledge of the matter said on Friday, confirming earlier media reports.
www.reuters.com
December 14, 2024 at 7:06 PM
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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
thatweltschmerz.bsky.social
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...
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December 4, 2024 at 5:39 PM
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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...
Another Arrest in the Budapest Complex Antifascist Gino Was Arrested in Paris on 12 November 2024 On 12 November, Gino, an antifascist, was arrested in Paris on a European warrant. Having already eluded a court-ordered extradition from Finland by freeing himself from his ankle monitor, Gino has now been re-apprehended in France. At present, the exact circumstances of his arrest remain unclear. He is now faced with a new extradition request from Hungarian authorities and runs the risk of being handed over to Orbán’s authoritarian state. Ilaria Salis, a European Parliamentary representative from Italy who spent time imprisoned in Hungary after she was also accused of participating in antifascist interventions during the 2023 “Day of Honor” in Budapest, expressed her solidarity on X, writing: When he was three years old, Gino came to Italy, where he lived continuously for more than 20 years. But because of systemic racism in Italy, he was denied citizenship under the pretext of police reports for his serious engagement as an activist in the movement. For me, Gino is a companion, a friend, and a brother. But solidarity isn’t just a humane and personal matter. Above all, it is also political. Once again, the tyrant Orbán is trying to trample the values of antifascism and the rule of law under foot. We also stand in solidarity with Gino and call for the immediate release of our comrades from prison! In Hungary, they are threatened with torturous conditions in the prisons and a political trial, as the experiences of antifascists who have already been incarcerated clearly show. Due to a racist judicial system and repression, we fear that Gino will experience additional violence and discrimination both in his extradition hearings in France and in his trial in Hungary. We call on everyone to stop another extradition to Hungary! Whether in Germany or in France — Free All Antifas! Gino Libero!
November 21, 2024 at 2:28 AM
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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...

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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...
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November 20, 2024 at 7:30 PM
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"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
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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