Michael Colborne

@colborne.bsky.social

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

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

Euronews@euronews.com · 3w ago

Dutch riot police clashed with around 500 far-right protesters in The Hague during an anti-immigration rally. Police used water cannons and dogs after demonstrators threw fireworks and performed Nazi salutes. #EuropeNews ➡️ https://l.euronews.com/Gow3

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/...

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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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. "

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…”

POLITICO Europe@politico.eu · last mo.

Serbia’s hopes of joining the EU were further threatened today by the funeral of notorious army commander Ratko Mladić, convicted of war crimes and the Srebrenica genocide.

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

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · last mo.

Trump also just posted this AI slop that explains the design is “inspired by the discipline and functionality of the Starship Trooper uniform.”

AI slop of the Space Force service dress uniform

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.

“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.”
Michael Colborne@colborne.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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.”

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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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.

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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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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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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