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author, “Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins & Afterlife of James Mason's ‘Siege’”
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Spencer Sunshine's avatar Spencer Sunshine @transform6789.bsky.social
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@socialismforall.bsky.social can you send me a message on this platform or via my website? spencersunshine.com/contact/

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Wow, real banana republic stuff. I'm glad our presidents can launder money and associate criminally without worrying about this kind of thing.

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Carolyn Gallaher's avatar Carolyn Gallaher @cgallaher.bsky.social
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That any elected officials participated in J6 is disturbing. That some of those folks also have prior records is bonkers.This guy's on a school board & has a been arrested for drunken driving & other crimes. He says he won't step down. That level of cognitive dissonace screams evangelical

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Spencer Sunshine's avatar Spencer Sunshine @transform6789.bsky.social
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I'm not funded by any universities, think tanks, or secret services, so please consider signing up for my Patreon & supporting my work; for $2+/mo you get exclusive content & help pay my rent! If you'd just like to see this piece, note that Patreon is offering free 7-day subscriptions.

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my July Patreon essay, "On Transgression," is up. Artists & counterculturalists have long assumed that there is something politically useful about transgression as such. Is that still true—and was it ever?
www.patreon.com/posts/on-tra...

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It came out in 2020 and was inc in an Antifa infoblatt issue. You can see that the whole thing is laid out and it was published in hardcopy. Other people have complained about the title, but, such as it is.

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Jetzt online! Die deutsche Übersetzung meines Leitfadens zur antifaschistischen Organisierung, "40 Dinge Faschismus zu bekämpfen", ursprünglich 2020 herausgegeben von @AntifaInfoBlatt und @DisorderRebel, gibt es nun hier zum Download: spencersunshine.com/2024/06/29/4...

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Brooke Binkowski's avatar Brooke Binkowski @brooklynmarie.bsky.social
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I'm sorry everyone, I don't mean to pile on but I just had to write this depressing story too. They're calling Patriot Front a "conservative group" around here (I wrote this so obviously I didn't)

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Spencer Sunshine's avatar Spencer Sunshine @transform6789.bsky.social
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suggestions for good podcasts which cover terrorism?

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Breaking news: Federal prosecutors improperly charged hundreds of Jan. 6 defendants with obstruction, the Supreme Court ruled on Friday, upending many cases against rioters who disrupted the certification of the 2020 presidential election.

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my last talk last week at Birkbeck in London is now online. a number of people asked if my German & Norwegian talks were recorded and this is a general example of what I gave (although in this case with some extra attention paid to antisemitism and Britain).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GvI...

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Just saw them a couple months ago, really good

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Rita, antifascist🏴's avatar Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social
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“At least twelve German groups are already active on social media…Active Clubs (ACs) present themselves as a new brand of far-right extremist group, with clear, effective, and comparatively less overtly political messaging that aims to attract as many members as possible.”

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Spencer Sunshine's avatar Spencer Sunshine @transform6789.bsky.social
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Yes I agree with this reading and commentary

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Spencer Sunshine's avatar Spencer Sunshine @transform6789.bsky.social
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No, not this time. Might try to do a British tour sometime next year tho

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It’s amazing how some people just can’t grasp that there might be real world consequences for having enabled the spread of neo-Nazi terrorist doctrines

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tomorrow (Wednesday, June 19) in London: I’ll give a special talk about how industrial & neofolk musicians played a key role in creating “Siege.” Pelican House, 144 Cambridge Heath Rd, Bethnal Green, E1 5QJ

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Should have made it clear that there is one going on in the US too

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Spencer Sunshine's avatar Spencer Sunshine @transform6789.bsky.social
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one of the more interesting discussions I’ve had in Germany is people telling me that there is also a new revival of Stalinist and Maoist sects among younger activists

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Thursday, June 20th is my last talk in Europe before heading back. It's at Birkbeck at the University of London, Room B20, Torrington Square main entrance, WC1E 7HX

please note that this has been moved to a new room
free but they ask you to register in advance
bisa.bbk.ac.uk/event/neo-na...

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Jack Graham's avatar Jack Graham @timescarcass.bsky.social
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They're very often the same people anyway. The number of fascists who've been busted for kiddie porn or grooming or abuse... At this point we should probably just declare neo-fascism the political wing of paedophilia.

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I have two more talks left in my European tour, both in London. At the first one I’ll talk about the industrial & neofolk music angle. It’s 7PM on Wednesday, June 19 at Pelican House, 144 Cambridge Heath Rd, Bethnal Green, E1 5QJ

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If that stuff dangerous, because it cuts both ways politically. It’s a big issue the far right pushes.

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Talia Lavin's avatar Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social
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in any other country the las vegas music festival massacre would be a historical landmark that led to massive social shifts

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Spencer Sunshine's avatar Spencer Sunshine @transform6789.bsky.social
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(oops! link for the center is below).
For ex the Oklahoma City museum is private (tho there's a fed outdoor memorial park next to it). The Greensboro Massacre just has one of those historical marker signs. (If I'm wrong & you know of ex, however, please comment below.)
www.22julisenteret.no/en

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I hadn't known about this memorial & so it was great to find out about it; we need more of these in the U.S. The center is state funded & I believe there isn't one U.S. government-funded indoor memorial to those killed by the Far Right - other than in the Civil Rights Mvt & I'm just assuming that.

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Spencer Sunshine's avatar Spencer Sunshine @transform6789.bsky.social
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after my Oslo talk, staffers at the 22 July Centre came up to tell me about their project & then opened just to let me see it. It "is a commemoration & learning centre" about the fascist Anders Breivik's attacks in Oslo & on Utøya July 22, 2011, when he murdered 77 people.

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wow those 14 hours in Oslo were really something

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Spencer Sunshine's avatar Spencer Sunshine @transform6789.bsky.social
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My phone hasn’t been working all day and just decided to turn on. I sent you some direct messages.

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Spencer Sunshine's avatar Spencer Sunshine @transform6789.bsky.social
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every time I give talk I remove more and more names from it

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Spencer Sunshine's avatar Spencer Sunshine @transform6789.bsky.social
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Well, at least it seems like there’s a better reason for that.

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Spencer Sunshine's avatar Spencer Sunshine @transform6789.bsky.social
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Berliners are far more into hugs than you would think. (Not clear of this applies to other cities.)

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I don’t understand Americans who spend their life in the Berlin expat bubble. How boring.

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Graham Macklin's avatar Graham Macklin @grahammacklin.bsky.social
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Alex Jones agrees to liquidate his assets to pay Sandy Hook families, in move that would end his ownership of Infowars

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Teddy Wilson's avatar Teddy Wilson @reportbywilson.bsky.social
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Extremists Links: The Proud Boys, the far right violence extremist street gang, is reportedly 'rebuilding and regaining strength as Trump campaigns to return to the White House.'

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Speaking tomorrow (june 6) in Berlin! Free & open to the public. 
“Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism in the United States,” opened by Christoph Kopke
Entry 17:30
Berlin School of Economics and Law (HWR Berlin), Campus Schöneberg Haus B 4.44

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Spencer Sunshine's avatar Spencer Sunshine @transform6789.bsky.social
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James Mason's comments on my book: "Wow! Quite a piece. Quite a document."

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I dont think so, but my talk at Hamburg university was recorded for FSK and there is a short YIVO talk from yesterday (with many Q&A) on YouTube. All overlapping stuff. www.youtube.com/live/DjtC7q2...

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