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...

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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Tentacles of fascist fight club reach into Tennessee, critics call Active Clubs a 'neo-Nazi militia' www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

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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and our impact will be felt/we won’t go away www.billboard.com/music/music-...

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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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...

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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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...

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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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...

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.

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

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

NOS@nieuws.nos.nl · 4w ago

Graven op Sovjet Ereveld in Leusden beklad

urging the Canadian government to lift restrictions imposed by provinces, and particularly Quebec, is not exactly a high-powered understanding of Canadian federalism

Sen. Adam Schiff@schiff.senate.gov · 4w ago

Canada's boycott of California wine is causing devastating harm to winegrowers. I'm urging the Canadian government to recognize that California doesn’t agree with these tariff wars, to lift these restrictions, and increase consumer options to strengthen both our economies.

"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...

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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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...

Europe Elects@europeelects.bsky.social · 4w ago

Slovenia: SDS's EUParliament affiliation on our website has been updated from EPP to EPP|NI. Branko Grims has been expelled from the centre-right EPP group, after repeated clashes with the group's leadership over his cooperation with the radical right. Explore: europeelects.eu/slovenia/

And it’s been canceled (h/t @mcginger.bsky.social)

Michael Colborne@colborne.bsky.social · 4mo ago

1/4 There is a neo-Nazi concert — NSBM, i.e., National Socialist Black Metal — planned to take place in Romania🇷🇴 in July 2026. 'Wallachian Gates', as per the promoters on the Facebook and (now private) Instagram page, is scheduled for July 10-11 in Buzǎu, a small city 1.5-2h from Bucharest

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

Grant Smith@grantmeaccess.bsky.social · 4w ago

Reuters photographer Nathan Howard started seeing social media reports the Patriot Front, a white supremacist organization whose members employ fascist symbolism and mask their faces in public, was marching in DC. He decided to document their activities. www.reuters.com/investigates...

“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...

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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honoured to be placed where I am and the constant centre of Rundo i Rundovci inchoate rage

Phil Williams@philinvestigates.com · last mo.

When white nationalist/fascist Robert Rundo and his Active Club gang put me in an AJAB (“All Journalists All Bastards”) graphic, I take that as a badge of honor! 1/2

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...

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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"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...

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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“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”

Searchlight magazine@searchlightmag.bsky.social · 4w ago

Patriot Front, the most militant US far-right group, is trying to extend its connections in Europe by forging an alliance with the Spanish Núcleo Nacional, itself closely connected to British nazis. But there’s already some dissent and pushback among its prospective allies. Read more here:

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/...

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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“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”

Petter Törnberg@pettertornberg.com · 4w ago

‘Polarization’ has become the master concept for diagnosing our current democratic crisis. But this is not polarization. It is the radicalization of the political right. By misdiagnosing it, we risk becoming complicit in the crisis. 🧵 Just out in Perspectives on Politics doi.org/10.1017/S153...

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.

wiley cope@wileycope.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Ruiz, a convicted felon, posts photos in a "domestic terrorist" t-shirt alongside what appear to be self-portraits: posing with firearms beneath a superimposed nazi Sonnenrad, captioned with threats to hunt and scalp Trump supporters. He replied to our request for comment with a middle finger emoji.

“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”

Molly Quell@mollyquell.bsky.social · 4w ago

Last month Dutch police arrested four men suspected of drugging and sexually abusing women after hearing from authorities in Germany and the U.K. Dutch police said the alleged perpetrators used social media chat groups to disseminate videos showing the abuse and discuss how to drug victims.

me, reading Male Fantasies Volumes 1 & 2 and having to live in this reality

really a banner week for beyond tone-deaf decisions from international sporting/moneymaking bodies

TSN@tsnofficial.bsky.social · 4w ago

The International Olympic Committee announces that it has provisionally lifted the suspension of the Russian Olympic Committee which had been in effect since October 2023.

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.

TSN@tsnofficial.bsky.social · 4w ago

The International Olympic Committee announces that it has provisionally lifted the suspension of the Russian Olympic Committee which had been in effect since October 2023.

mood (soh-rry)

never suspected (though should have) that FIFA baked a Schmittian state of exception into its rules, but here we are

Anna Bower@annabower.bsky.social · last mo.

here's the relevant “lol we can do whatever we want” clause as you can see, it's broadly applicable. sub-section 4 only excludes one category of disciplinary measures—those stemming from match manipulation—from its scope. that's not relevant to the Balogun case

95 theses nailed to the fifa hq door in Zurich, coming to a 2026 near you

Paul Cohen@paulecohen.bsky.social · last mo.

I'm in favor of a FIFA schism, all national federations opposed to the Infantino disposition decamp to Mexico, declare the current tournament anathema, and play their own World Cup with a final in the Azteca

If you’re getting lectures about fair play from Sepp Blatter…