Violet Blue
Violet Blue

@violetblue@mastodon.social

Award-winning author, journalist. Shaped like the hole in your heart.

Engadget, Popular Science, freelance reporter on hacking, privacy, sexuality, human rights. Previously SF Chronicle, ZDNet, CBS, O Magazine, many more.

Six IPPY awards (2023 Gold); notable book appearance: Oprah; Advisor to Without My Consent.

Coming soon: Mental Health and Horror (documentary).

New book: amazon.com/Fish-Has-Word-Water

"[Trump officials] designated antifa, short for anti-fascist, a domestic terrorist group, even though the president did not have the lawful authority to do so. Antifa is also not an organization... [it's] akin to designating Marxism or feminism as a terror group."
theguardian.com/us-news/2026/m

The Guardian

Anti-ICE protesters accused of being part of antifa found guilty of support for terrorism in Texas

Case was seen as major test of the first amendment and whether the US could use broad anti-terrorism statute to prosecute leftwing protesters

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