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Michael Colborne

@colborne.bsky.social
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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 · 02/10/2026
conveniently, and I doubt coincidentally, the initials of Second Sons are a bit of a code for these chaps as well…
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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
tfw your clumsy attempts to insulate yourselves behind what you think is the intimidatory power of the law risk being totally undone by *checks notes* the law
The company's regulatory compliance practices may lead to its failure before anything else. The Government of Canada's website states that it has sent a notice of intent to dissolve the corporation if it does not file its financial statements "immediately."It's not clear how much revenue the corporation has generated because required annual financial filings for the company in 2025 and 2026 are listed as "overdue."
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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
good luck with that lol
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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Former soldier exposes how Canadian white supremacist group recruits members Second Sons Canada incorporated as business, requires members to sign confidentiality contract www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Former soldier exposes how Canadian white supremacist group recruits members | CBC News
Second Sons Canada describes itself as a "men's nationalist club" dedicated to fitness and preserving Canada's heritage, but a former military member who attempted to join the group says he only learn...
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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
(turns out being a subject of an AIVD report and having a member sentenced to two years for weapons offenses is bad for the 'aw shucks' fratboy optics)
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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
‘I can’t believe after letting this wasp’s nest take up residence in our house that we all got stung, how could anyone have predicted this?’
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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
and is photographing at far-right events isn’t hard enough, a Spanish photographer at the rally with visible press accreditation was pushed into the water by a police officer nos.nl/l/2631677
(Translated from Dutch) “It concerns a Spanish photographer. He tells the NOS that he was visibly wearing his press card.
"Not a single officer came up to me afterwards to help me or to check if I was okay. Other photographers pulled me out." The man says he wants to file a complaint against the police.
The police say they are aware of the incident and describe it as an unfortunate combination of circumstances. According to a spokesperson, contact has been made with the photographer to investigate what happened, after which an arrangement may be reached, such as compensation for his camera. The police are also in contact with the Dutch Association of Journalists (NVJ).”
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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
maybe September 2027 is a good to time to not allow the third iteration of this? just spitballing here lol
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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I mean, these guys announced this rally weeks ago and everyone and their dog knew what was going to happen, so I think the shock and indignation at today’s events is more than a bit tedious
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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
all about the bratstvo i jedinstvo
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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
u mad bre
Robert Rundo, August 31. "When I talk about journalists, it really…like, my brain frizzles out for a second because the, the hatred is real. The hatred is real, dog. Um, God, I lost where I was going with this because of journalists."
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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
(shared this before, will share it again [PDF link]) ojs.zrc-sazu.si/filozofski-v...
"Filozofski vestnik Letnik/Volume XXIII • Številka/Number 2 • 2002 • 191-204
EUROPE AFTER 1989:
ETHNIC WARS, THE FASCISATION OF SOCIAL LIFE
AND BODY POLITICS IN SERBIA
Zarana Papić"
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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
2/2 “all these aspects were actively included in the overall fascisation of public and private life in Serbia. The war actually arrived late: the indifference to and “tolerance” of future genocide in people’s minds were psychologically ready for activation as early as 1989” (Žarana Papić, 1949-2002)
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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
aesthetics above all, including satire I guess
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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
irony is indeed a dead scene
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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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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
never thought gravity’s rainbow would be anything prescient but here we are
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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
The photo I took back eons ago in 2018, plus a second also from 2018, both in Sofia monitoring-glossary.bellingcat.com/brands-organ...
Combat 18 graffiti, with the "3" in "318" as a number code for the letter C. The graffiti also features swastikas, a Celtic cross and "White Pride"
Sofia, Bulgaria - September 2018
Michael ColborneCombat 18 graffiti with a swastika
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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
And more - “Three people have been charged….among the accused are 18-year-old Teodor Velev, who was arrested a few days ago for an attack on Nepalese citizens, and his 39-year-old father” www.mediapool.bg/trima-obvine...
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Трима обвинени след акцията срещу "Кръв и чест" - Mediapool.bg
Трима души са привлечени като обвиняеми за участие в дейността на пловдивския клон на неонацистката организация "Кръв и чест“ след акцията на полицията и ДАНС, при която бяха задържани 18 души....
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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Another article - “Some of the detainees are criminally active, and among them there are also persons with previous convictions for various crimes” (shocker lol) frognews.bg/novini/razbi...
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Разбиха неонацистка структура в Пловдив, 18 души са задържани
Общо 18 души са били задържани при съвместната специализирана операция на МВР и ДАНС срещу неонацистка структура в Пловдив, стана ясно на брифинг на п...
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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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POLICE
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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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
not even an eclipse is safe from the far right, however
From a far-right Telegram channel: “To contemplate the darkening of the solar disk is to grasp, metaphysically, the very essence of the "Left": like that shadow, it is nothing but a privation of light, a nothingness that feeds parasitically on the splendor of being.
But just as an eclipse presupposes the star in order to exist, evil subsists only because it gnaws away at a good that is ontologically prior to it. The shadow never wins; by contrast, it merely reveals the invincibility of Order.”
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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
tfw you’re really, really not looking very hard, or know there’s a mosque not far from the centre of Kyiv
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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
also seeing more than one Nazi post in memory of Koller’s passing – man, go listen to Skrewdriver or some shit and stay out of hardcore, you dorks. it’s not for you.
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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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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I hope someone writes a poem about it
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