@colborne.bsky.social
@bellingcat.com journalist etc focused on the transnational far right. i give trainings. i take pictures of stickers. Signal: michaelcolborne.01
"Canadians tend to think of far-right extremism and white nationalism as a strictly American problem...but these movements are gaining a foothold in mainstream [Canadian] culture, and the structure for that to happen has been in this country since its inception"
thewalrus.ca/far-right-ex...
did you say yes
09.12.2025 17:26 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"The video also included Elliot Rodger along with subtitles of Adolf Hitler's speech - 'you mustn't act yourself' and 'you must obey'. This was glorifying his act of terrorism in Santa Barbara, USA, in 2014.
incel + Active Club crossover special
09.12.2025 11:53 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A neo-Nazi drug dealer who glorified Hitler on his antisemitic social media account has been jailed for two years. Joseph Beaver, who was found to have links to Active Club Scotland, was found with a gun in his garden shed in Dundee 🏴
www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottis...
09.12.2025 07:40 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
WATCH: Advocates for political violence among those welcomed to conference at Tennessee state park www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
09.12.2025 01:18 — 👍 377 🔁 179 💬 25 📌 26
“What's new is that H. also distributed images that incited the lynching of a journalist. This journalist had published critical articles about the terrorist groups to which H. belonged, namely The Base and The Green Brigade.” (Google translate from Dutch)
ah
07.12.2025 10:36 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Alexander H., a Swedish man sentenced recently in Luxembourg for planned terror attacks on Eurovision in Rotterdam in 2020, “ had produced enough nitroglycerine to make dynamite for a bomb intended to detonate the A27 motorway and an electrical substation…in Hilversum [NL]”
07.12.2025 10:34 — 👍 23 🔁 12 💬 2 📌 0
The All-Russian Cossack Society turns school clubs into pipelines for state-sponsored militarisation and recruitment for war in Ukraine. Bellingcat shows how they shape an alternative mobilisation force: www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/12...
05.12.2025 11:25 — 👍 366 🔁 115 💬 12 📌 10
Terrormisstankarna avskrevs men ledaren för nederländska Geuzenbond fortsatt misstänkt för omfattande vapenbrott.
I mannens bostad fann polisen en ”mindre vapenfabrik”, det skriver Michael Colborne.
Not mentioned in the Guardian article, but we identified the man behind Mr Deepfakes
www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/05...
the trick is to have absolutely no diy skills (me, mostly)
05.12.2025 09:15 — 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0After several brutal acts of violence from Active Club Sweden, the US founder of the Active Club movement Robert Rundo is spreading lies about what his Swedish “friends” did, in what appears to be a laughably unconvincing effort to manage the movement's violent reputation
04.12.2025 13:45 — 👍 32 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0“When new [far-right] organizations are formed, they often present themselves as a new movement based on a new idea, but in most cases they are people with a background in other far-right organizations who repackage and relaunch themselves under a new name….as if it were something completely new”
02.12.2025 11:28 — 👍 27 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 1
Case in point: “the provocation against the protest” by “agitators”
www.dnevnik.bg/photos/2025/...
An expected sight — the sudden appearance of young football hooligans, dressed in black and masked, who vandalized a party office among other things. Organizers had warned of possible violent provocations, and everyone and their dog the day after in Bulgaria assumed these guys were exactly that
02.12.2025 11:17 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Spanish police said on Monday they had broken up the country's first known cell linked to The Base, a white supremacist group designated as a terrorist organisation by the European Union
www.reuters.com/business/med...
“Aftonbladet: The parents are well-educated and have well-paid jobs. Their sons have good grades, expensive designer clothes – and right-wing extremist views. Aftonbladet has mapped the young Nazis [ie Active Club guys] who were recently sentenced to prison for aggravated assault [in Stockholm]”
30.11.2025 09:54 — 👍 48 🔁 23 💬 1 📌 2
Aftonbladet: Föräldrarna är välutbildade och har välbetalda jobb. Deras söner har bra betyg, dyra märkeskläder – och högerextrema åsikter. Aftonbladet har kartlagt de unga nazisterna som nyliden dömdes till fängelse för grov misshandel. www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/Ex...
30.11.2025 09:31 — 👍 57 🔁 28 💬 5 📌 6
2/2 “The police were able to do this…[because of] an order for preventive frisking after the mayor designated part of The Hague's city centre as a high-risk security area as a precaution”
The protest appears to have passed without the violence seen at previous ones (my photos below)
1/2 Dutch police report 36 arrests after a far-right protest in The Hague. “The arrested individuals are suspected of various offenses. Among them were people who were carrying prohibited items when they were subjected to a preventive frisking” (Google Translate)
www.politie.nl/nieuws/2025/...
Tinus Koops (organisator) tijdens de demo vandaag: "Als jullie niet willen luisteren, dan kan het ook op een andere manier Den Haag. Dat hebben wij laten zien 20 september. (...) Als dat moet, dan hebben wij daar ook geen problemen mee."
Hij verwijst hiermee naar de hevige rellen.
2/2 “The police were able to do this…[because of] an order for preventive frisking after the mayor designated part of The Hague's city centre as a high-risk security area as a precaution”
The protest appears to have passed without the violence seen at previous ones (my photos below)
1/2 Dutch police report 36 arrests after a far-right protest in The Hague. “The arrested individuals are suspected of various offenses. Among them were people who were carrying prohibited items when they were subjected to a preventive frisking” (Google Translate)
www.politie.nl/nieuws/2025/...
can’t believe the dulcimer tones of Cannibal Corpse aren’t on this list
26.11.2025 20:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Oh, and a copy of Terrogram’s the Hard Reset
archive.is/2025.11.26-1...
the standard HEMA non-violence kit
26.11.2025 16:42 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The six "working firearms" involved included several revolvers, a rifle, and a modified pistol. The prosecutor listed 250 bullets and blank cartridges, 25 cartridge magazines, and hundreds of percussion caps. But there were also crossbows, arrows, tactical vests (like those worn by soldiers), two airsoft Kalashnikovs, butterfly knives, and 300 grams of gunpowder. Antique, legal weapons were also found inside. The Public Prosecution Service describes it as a "large collection of working weapons with matching ammunition." Also striking was the discovery of a workshop in the old restaurant in Erp. According to the Public Prosecution Service, weapons and ammunition were made there. Police also found manuals for making tear gas, Semtex explosives, and landminac
tfw you say you’ve “always distanced [yourself] from violence” but get arrested with a cache of weapons including revolvers, a rifle, a modified pistol, hundreds of rounds of ammo, crossbows, butterfly knives and manuals for making Semtex and landmines 🤷
www.omroepbrabant.nl/nieuws/60000...
"Thomas D. counted his cartridges; there were 81. With that, he said, he could kill 81 people from the anti-fascist movement Antifa. It was that remark that set off alarm bells at the General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD)"
www.ad.nl/binnenland/g...
"According to authorities, at least six working firearms, weapon parts, ammunition and means to manufacture ammunition...were found at D.'s home.
According to the suspect, he has had a hobby interest in weapons from an early age and distances himself from violence."
archive.is/sK9rp
