In 2022, Jane's Revenge firebombed pregnancy centers across the country and used an online platform to celebrate the attacks and push others to copy them. In Portland, Rose City Antifa published the home addresses of ICE officers, then used the same infrastructure to coordinate attacks on Border Patrol helicopters. In January 2025, a German far-left group called Vulkangruppe sabotaged the Transalpine oil pipeline and knocked out power to 45,000 homes in Berlin — after circulating bomb-making instructions through an encrypted network.
All of it ran through the same server farm in Italy.
The operation is called Autistici/Inventati. It's been running since 2001. For 25 years, it has provided 16,000 encrypted mailboxes, 1,500 websites, 5,500 mailing lists, and 10,000 blogs — all with a strict no-logs policy designed so that law enforcement can't trace anything back. The State Department described the whole setup as "specifically designed to support the operations of far-left terrorist networks."
Not accidentally useful to bad actors. Specifically designed for them.
On Tuesday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio designated the A/I Collective as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist group. Twenty-five years. A quarter century of building and maintaining the digital backbone of left-wing terrorism across multiple continents.
"Far-left terrorism poses a profound threat to the United States and the broader West," Rubio said. "There will be no refuge for violent extremists who wage war on our civilization and plot to undermine law and order, destroy critical infrastructure, assault political opponents, or conspire to conceal their crimes from authorities."
The State Department's client list reads as an indictment of the entire operation. Jane's Revenge — which claimed responsibility for firebombing pregnancy centers nationwide after the Dobbs decision — published its attack claims and used A/I's platforms to incite copycat violence. Rose City Antifa ran its doxing campaign against ICE agents and its coordination of attacks on Border Patrol through A/I's infrastructure. Vulkangruppe relied on A/I's encrypted network to distribute instructions for building improvised incendiary devices before putting 45,000 Berlin households in the dark.
Encrypted communications. Encrypted calls. Encrypted web hosting. No logs. No trail. Everything a violent extremist needs to operate across borders without leaving fingerprints.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent added his own statement: "Political terrorism has no place in our society, and we will continue to cut the financial lifelines of these groups until they are eliminated."
The designation now bars Americans and U.S. financial institutions from any transactions with the group. Violators face civil or criminal penalties. It comes roughly a year after President Trump officially declared Antifa a terrorist organization — a move the same media that spent four years insisting far-left violence wasn't real dismissed as an overreaction.
Twenty-five years. Three continents. Firebombings, blackouts, pipeline attacks, and doxing campaigns against federal law enforcement.
The State Department's official position, as of Tuesday, is that the operation enabling all of it qualifies as global terrorism. The only question worth asking is what took so long.