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Michael Colborne

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@bellingcat.com journalist etc focused on the transnational far right. i give trainings. i take pictures of stickers. Signal: michaelcolborne.01

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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Extreemrechtse studentenclub is niet meer welkom op Radboud Universiteit De Groot-Nederlandse Studentenvereniging (GNSV), met extreemrechtse denkbeelden, is niet langer welkom op het terrein van de Radboud Universiteit www.gelderlander.nl/nijmegen/ext...
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Extreemrechtse studentenclub is niet meer welkom op Radboud Universiteit
De Groot-Nederlandse Studentenvereniging (GNSV), met extreemrechtse denkbeelden, is niet langer welkom op het terrein van de Radboud Universiteit. Aanleiding is <a href="https://www.gelderlander.nl/bi...
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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Dutch far right “uses euphemistic terms such as 'remigration' to normalize their racist views. This is a deliberate strategy, according to the AIVD and NCTV”, ie something that has bleedingly obvious to some of us for a long, long time (still, worth repeating and repeating again)
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Trouw @trouw.nl · 22/09/2026
Extreemrechts weet racistische ideeën te normaliseren met verhullende taal, waarschuwen AIVD en NCTV
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Extreemrechts weet racistische ideeën te normaliseren met verhullende taal, waarschuwen AIVD en NCTV
Nederlandse rechtsextremisten gebruiken verhullende termen als ‘remigratie’ om hun racistische denkbeelden te normaliseren. Dat is een bewuste strategie, stellen de AIVD en NCTV.
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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“A former employer and neighbours tell CBC News that [the shooter] was formerly in the Canadian military in Alberta” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Suspect, police officer wounded in shooting outside Belleville, Ont., synagogue ID'd | CBC News
Investigators have identified the wounded suspect in the shooting incident that unfolded near a Belleville, Ont., synagogue Sunday night, and the local police officer who was also wounded.
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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
whoever could have predicted that, a year after a far-right rally led to violence and arrests and Nazi salutes, another far-right rally a year later in the same place would also lead to…violence and arrests and Nazi salutes
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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ongeregeldheden en ME bekogeld na uitspraak vonnis Hashim Thaci Malieveld Den Haag district8.net/ongeregeldhe...
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Ongeregeldheden en ME bekogeld na uitspraak vonnis Hashim Thaci Malieveld Den Haag
Den Haag – Direct na de uitspraak in de zaak tegen voormalig president van Kosovo Hashim Thaçi is onrust uitgebroken op het Malieveld in Den Haag. De Mobiele Eenheid (ME) staat opgesteld en grijpt in....
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Reuters @reuters.com · 16/09/2026
Former Kosovo President Hashim Thaci was found guilty ‌of war crimes by the Kosovo war crimes tribunal reut.rs/46Zx6b7
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Former Kosovo president Thaci sentenced to 25 years in prison for war crimes
Former Kosovo President Hashim Thaci ​was found guilty ‌of war crimes by the Kosovo war crimes tribunal ​on Wednesday.
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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Kristoffer Nippak, 33, was found guilty of participating in the activities of a terrorist group (AWD) by an Ontario Superior Court judge Wednesday. (after the 🇨🇦 govt listed Atomwaffen as a terrorist group in 2021, many “former” AWD members joined Active Club Canada) www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Ontario man found guilty of terrorism charge | CBC News
An Ontario man was found guilty of participating in the activities of a terrorist group by an Ontario Superior Court judge Wednesday.
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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Doing my semi-regular 'what nonsense is Active Club founder Robert Rundo saying now' scour online. Once again, he seems committed to saying the quiet, i.e., openly violent part out loud; here he is rambling in an August 31 podcast about "permanent resting grounds...a graveyard" for nonwhite people
Robert Rundo, August 31. "All we need is our people to be strong and to get willpower, and then we could send all these people back to their fucking country. And if they don't want to go back, we'll find permanent resting grounds for them. But, and I mean nothing in a negative way, obviously. Permanent resting grounds, we'll like we'll, we'll find like a, a graveyard for them. "
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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
1/2 “…all these years we went through a whole set of preparations for war: verbal and visual, emotional and cognitive, mental (or even mystical) and public, horizontal and vertical, time and timelessness, spatial and a-spatial…”
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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
a less satisfying corollary of ‘the cruelty is the point’ is ‘the absurdity is the point.’ from Trump to equally (more?) brain-rotted neo-Nazis, they will freely take aesthetic cues from things that are just making fun of them (e.g., still-extant Fight Club worships) without caring about the irony
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
A few things (international) commentatoes should remember. Only 2 million people live in Sachsen-Anhalt. Half of Berlin, a tenth of NRW. Around 400k will vote AfD. Even with this strong result, 80% of people living in S-A will not have voted for the AfD. In a state that is a far-right stronghold.
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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Glorifikacija ratnog zločinca Mladića na Telegramu: Od Putinovog medijskog mogula i ruskih navijača, do sankcionisanog vojnog blogera detektor.ba/2026/08/28/g...
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Glorifikacija ratnog zločinca Mladića na Telegramu: Od Putinovog medijskog mogula i ruskih navijača, do sankcionisanog vojnog blogera
Proruske i srpske nacionalističke Telegram grupe i kanali koje prati stotine hiljada osoba iz Bosne i Hercegovine, Srbije i Crne Gore, nakon smrti osuđenog ratnog zločinca Ratka Mladića učestvuju u si...
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Stiftelsen Expo @stiftelsenexpo.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Kommer de våldsamma händelserna med nazistisk koppling leda till någon reaktion hos bulgariska myndigheter?
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Kommer Bulgarien skärpa sig efter nazistisk våldsvåg?
Flera våldsamma händelser i den bulgariska staden Plovdiv har kunnat kopplas till det internationella nazistiska nätverket Blood & Honour. Frågan är om händelserna kommer att leda till någon reaktion ...
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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Ratko Mladić is dead www.yahoo.com/news/article...
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Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic, convicted of genocide, has died, Serbian TV reports
BELGRADE, Aug 27 (Reuters) - Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic, who was serving a life sentence for genocide in the bloody 1992-95 war in Bosnia, has died in the United Nations detention centre in The
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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Kommer Bulgarien skärpa sig efter nazistisk våldsvåg? @stiftelsenexpo.bsky.social expo.se/kommentar/ko...
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Kommer Bulgarien skärpa sig efter nazistisk våldsvåg?
Flera våldsamma händelser i den bulgariska staden Plovdiv har kunnat kopplas till det internationella nazistiska nätverket Blood & Honour. Frågan är om händelserna kommer att leda till någon reaktion ...
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Anti-Fascism and Far Right @ffrafaction.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
A senior member of Australia’s white supremacist National Socialist Network has taken his own life, but the NSN is silent www.news.com.au/national/vic...
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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“Regarding Bulgaria, there is documented use of Blood & Honour/Combat 18 symbolism and information about the Bulgarian scene and international contacts. For example, @bellingcat.com has documented Combat 18 graffiti in Sofia from 2018” www.segabg.com/hot/category...
Bulgarian text from article - “За България има документирана употреба на символиката на Blood & Honour/Combat 18 и сведения за българска сцена и международни контакти. Например Bellingcat има документиран графит на Combat 18 в София от 2018 г.”
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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Eighteen people associated with Blood & Honour were detained by police in Plovdiv, Bulgaria’s 2nd largest city, over the weekend www.mediapool.bg/krav-i-chest...
Google translated from Bulgarian: “A total of 18 people were detained in Plovdiv in a joint operation by the Ministry of Interior and the National Security Agency (DANS) last night over a
24-hour period, the police announced at a briefing.
The young people were arrested in a room that until two years ago operated as a bar. Flags and posters with various neo-Nazi symbols, as well as a gas pistol , were found in the private club. The detainees are connected to the international neo-Nazi organization
"Blood and Honor", said Senior
Commissioner Vasil Kostadinov, Director of the Regional Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Plovdiv.”Google translated from Bulgarian: “Among those detained is a father and his two sons. One of his sons, 18-year-old Teodor Velev, was arrested a few days ago in connection with the beating of Nepalese people, but the court released him on bail of 700 euros on Wednesday.
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The private club "Blood and Honor" in Plovdiv was housed in a former establishment by the train station, near the Youth Hub. Photo: BGNES”
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 12/08/2026
Heidi Beirich is a world leading expert on far-right extremism: “Dr. Beirich is innocent, and this case is without merit,” her attorney, Michael J. Proctor said in a statement. “We believe the charges against her and the SPLC are politically motivated, and Dr Beirich has been targeted in this case”
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
NEW: CNN is reporting as an "exclusive" that the former CFO of SPLC, Heidi Beirich, was arrested in California today. They have a quote from Blanche at a news conference and say this is "part of a superseding indictment," but the docket does not yet reflect the superseding indictment.
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Exclusive: Former Southern Poverty Law Center CFO arrested on fraud charges | CNN Politics
A former chief financial officer at the Southern Poverty Law Center has been arrested in California and for her alleged role in overseeing secret payments to informants inside of White supremacist gro...
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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
pivoting to eclipse photography at least for tonight
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 30/07/2026
The FIFA World Cup was predicted to be the biggest betting event in history. Bellingcat researcher @msramalho.bsky.social looked into the data on prediction markets Polymarket and Kalshi - and found that fans wagered more than US $14 billion through the two sites www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/07...
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Will Ronaldo Cry​? World Cup Fans Bet Billions Through Prediction Markets - bellingcat
Users traded on almost 60,000 outcomes, betting on everything from the sponsor of the Golden Boot winner to whether Cristiano Ronaldo would shed a tear during a Portugal match.
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Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 28/07/2026
Tentacles of fascist fight club reach into Tennessee, critics call Active Clubs a 'neo-Nazi militia' www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
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Tentacles of fascist fight club reach into Tennessee, critics call Active Clubs a 'neo-Nazi militia'
The Active Club founder has called organized fights like the ones in which Rettke participates as a "tip-off point for a fascist cultural revolution."
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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
and our impact will be felt/we won’t go away www.billboard.com/music/music-...
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Lou Koller, Frontman of Hardcore Pioneers Sick of It All, Dies at 59
Lou Koller, the founding frontman of New York hardcore institution Sick of It All, has died following a battle with esophageal cancer. He was 59.
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Open Measures @openmeasures.io · 15/07/2026
Hundreds of channels for white supremacist "active club" groups have appeared on Telegram over recent years, purporting to represent a growing network of "leaderless" racist groups across the world. But what if that's not exactly the case? Our latest: openmeasures.io/telegram-act...
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White Supremacist ‘Active Clubs’ Might Be Less Decentralized Than They Claim - Open Measures
Open Measures builds accessible and transparent products to contextualize the spread of harmful online content that impacts public discourse and global events.
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Anti-Fascism and Far Right @ffrafaction.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
14-year-old boy has been charged with a terrorism offence after police discovered an alleged plan to target two London mosques that was linked to "extreme right-wing terrorism". www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Boy, 14, charged with terror offence targeting London mosques
The alleged offences are linked to "extreme right-wing terrorism" police say.
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Anti-Fascism and Far Right @ffrafaction.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Elon Musk’s family foundation took Tommy Robinson to Russia, says Musk’s father Errol Musk says far-right activist is ‘a fine young man’ and held meetings with Russian business figures www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Elon Musk’s family foundation took Tommy Robinson to Russia, says Musk’s father
Errol Musk says far-right activist is ‘a fine young man’ and held meetings with Russian business figures
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Noelle Cook @noellecook.com · 11/07/2026
Extremism does not always begin in the language of politics. Sometimes it arrives as wellness, motherhood, faith, “doing your own research,” protection, or a community that makes fear feel like belonging. By the time it becomes recognizable as extremism, it may already have become identity.
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Remembering Srebrenica @srebrenicauk.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
On 11 July, we remember. We remember the more than 8,000 Bosniak Muslim men and boys murdered in the Srebrenica genocide. We honour survivors, victims’ families and the Mothers of Srebrenica, and we stand against hatred, division &denial. We’ll never forget. #Srebrenica31
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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Riffing on what @levi98k.eurosky.social already pointed out, would be more than prudent in this article about vandalism at a Soviet war cemetery in NL to not only mention that there were both anti-Putin and anti-Zelensky slogans (??) but neo-Nazi slogans that are in the thumbnail of the video
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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
urging the Canadian government to lift restrictions imposed by provinces, and particularly Quebec, is not exactly a high-powered understanding of Canadian federalism
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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
"In Johannesburg's Alexandra township, a Reuters reporter saw protesters breaking down doors and entering houses where they believed undocumented immigrants were hiding" www.reuters.com/world/africa...
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South African protesters go door-to-door forcing immigrants from their homes
Groups of anti-immigration South Africans seized foreigners from their homes in Johannesburg ​and handed them to police in a hardening of protests that have sown fear ‌in communities.
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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Unshocking news to learn (weeks later, I’m slow) that the EPP punted Branko Grims out of their EU parliamentary group for doing more than just dancing with the far right sloveniatimes.com/48188/sloven...
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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
And it’s been canceled (h/t @mcginger.bsky.social)
“Due to several and unforseen setbacks this edition is cancelled. We'll see again soon on the grounds of Wallachia, with a strong and brilliant line-up.
Tickets aquired for this edition remain valid for the next one. See you soon and may our spirit rise again!”
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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 08/07/2026
Racists online saw this photo, doxxed her, and found out she had a previous arrest (the charge later being dismissed). Meanwhile she is a mentally disabled working mom minding her business. If someone can put me in contact, I’m happy to offer her a housing relief stipend thurmanperryfoundation.org
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The Thurman Perry Foundation | Creating An Equitable World For Women & Girls Impacted By Incarceration
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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
“Platner had promised Democrats there wouldn’t be stories of that nature coming out, two people with knowledge of the assurances told NBC News” (if someone gets caught lying about their Nazi tattoo, maybe don’t take their subsequent claims at face value…) www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
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Graham Platner drops out of Senate race, allowing Maine Democrats to replace him
His decision comes within days of a key deadline, allowing Maine’s Democratic Party to select a new candidate to face Republican Sen. Susan Collins in a critical contest for Senate control.
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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
honoured to be placed where I am and the constant centre of Rundo i Rundovci inchoate rage
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Anti-Fascism and Far Right @ffrafaction.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
A neo-Nazi who was plotting a gun attack has been jailed for 13 and a half years after being caught in an MI5 sting. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Essex neo-Nazi jailed for terror offence after MI5 sting
Alfie Coleman, 22, is sentenced at the Old Bailey after being found guilty in April.
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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
"Elle est persuadée que ces hommes appartiennent à l'Active Club Romandia, un groupe néonazi adepte des sports de combat..." www.blick.ch/fr/suisse/ro...
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Son mari tabassé pour son t-shirt, une Vaudoise témoigne
Samedi après-midi à Vidy (VD), un Lausannois a été violemment agressé et hospitalisé pour avoir refusé de retirer son t-shirt antifasciste. Ses agresseurs, en fuite, sont soupçonnés d’extrême droite, ...
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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
“In [Núcleo Nacional’s] case, critics from across the political spectrum have exposed connections and family ties between their leaders and prominent members of two Spanish right-wing parties, the conservative PP and the anti-immigration Vox”
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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Security footage showed the suspect hurling two bricks through the newspaper's front door before fleeing; the attack comes three days after a similar incident at Channel 12's Tel Aviv offices www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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Masked vandal smashes Haaretz entrance door overnight
Security footage showed the suspect hurling two bricks through the newspaper's front door before fleeing; the attack comes three days after a similar incident at Channel 12's Tel Aviv offices
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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
“Across democracies, the central dynamic is not two poles drifting apart but the transformation of the political right into authoritarianism, norm breaking, and openness to political violence”
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wiley cope @wileycope.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Lone Star Active Club member Avery Ross Ruiz made the trip from Texas to join Patriot Front in Washington DC this past weekend. Ruiz is a convicted felon who has previously made threats to hunt and scalp Trump supporters.
Top image: A masked Avery Ross Ruiz of Lone Star Active Club flexes at a Patriot Front rally in Washington DC on July 4, 2026.

Bottom image: Avery Ross Ruiz flexes prior to his knockout loss at Dia de los Mexicanos in Houston, TX on May 9, 2026.
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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
“The German predator network managed to thrive despite clear violations of Telegram’s terms of service, again raising questions about how the platform has been used for criminal activity”
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Listen I'm Scary OK @katiemcvay.cryptoanarchy.network · 07/07/2026
me, reading Male Fantasies Volumes 1 & 2 and having to live in this reality
John Oliver, on General Hospital, staring in what Josephine Riesman accurately termed “angered disbelief"
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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
really a banner week for beyond tone-deaf decisions from international sporting/moneymaking bodies
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Gord Miller 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @gmillertsn.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The initial reaction from senior sports federation officials in Europe is that reinstating Russia while the occupation of Ukraine is ongoing will likely lead to a mass European boycott of the LA Olympics, and there will be pressure on Canada to join it.
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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
mood (soh-rry)
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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
never suspected (though should have) that FIFA baked a Schmittian state of exception into its rules, but here we are
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