Posted on 08/28/2026 9:56:36 PM PDT by CFW
In perhaps the most consequential move to date by the Trump administration to address the challenge of what it calls the “political terrorism” of the far-left, the U.S. State and U.S. Treasury Departments announced this week the designation of the Autistici/Inventati Collective, an Italy-based anonymous tech collective, as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist.
As the State Department described in its official announcement, A/I Collective provides sophisticated tech tools for a variety of far-left extremist actors, including website hosting, a blogging suite known as “No.Blogs,” mail services, and similar tech services. Utilizing these anonymous tools, anarchist and autonomous groups issue communiques for designated terrorist groups, issue calls to commit criminal acts, and take credit for attacks against critical infrastructure and law enforcement both in the United States and abroad.
The State Department stressed in its release that the collective helps distribute not just opinions, but “target information, tactical manuals and techniques” for conducting criminal and terrorist acts.
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It notes that the sanctions schema targets not the digital infrastructure but “The world around it” preventing the collective from banking, accepting donations, purchasing domains, or acquiring bandwidth. It goes on to warn U.S.-based supporters against attempting to circumvent sanctions without qualified legal advice, providing a list of “dos and don’ts” including “Do Not: Improvise donations, reroute funds, disguise payments, access private data, promise direct services, guess at sanctions law.”
Indeed, U.S. persons are prohibited from either receiving or providing any services to or from A/I Collective at all. That means hundreds of violent far-left actors in the United States may be scrambling to find new digital homes, or else face potential criminal investigation and liability.
There seems to be some surprise within the Antifa/Anarchist networks that the Trump administration has been successful in landing a genuine blow.
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I wanna watch ‘em squirm.
Can America confiscate Soros’ wealth for RICO actions in funding Antifa.
I’m not meaning to say Soros, specifically, just asking a question on principle.
Hooray Mr. President!
Do the same with Sinclair who lives with the CCP in China.
Come to Oregon and kill off Antifa……the vile, anti-American traitors have headquarters in PORTLAND. The Islamocommie party, Gov. Kotex, Waxface Wyden and Moron Merkley are killing the state by fraudulent elections!
The only real solution is arrest and conviction for acts of treason. Then, hang them.
“The only real solution is arrest and conviction for acts of treason. Then, hang them.”
Agreed. But waterboarding first. I want a list of every single one of the people involved in these organizations.
Thiopental suppository up the ass after water boarding, then interrogation before hanging.
Are you referring to Neville Roy Singham, the billionaire donor to leftist causes?
When you said “networks” I thought of MS Now and CNN. Maybe I wasn’t wrong.
I love it when you talk like that.
More and more I’m focusing on schadenfreude about my enemies.
Had to look that up …” A Sodium thiopental suppository is a rectal medicine that doctors once used to calm young children before surgery or medical scans.”
Why give them a sedative?
I wanna watch ‘em imprisoned.
I’m not too picky, but Treason is narrowly defined and tough to convict. Let’s use Sedition. Then hang them.
This is what I found:
Other names
Truth serum, thiopentone, thiopental
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