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
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Michael Colborne
@colborne.bsky.social
· Sep 15
Geolocating an Active Club 'Fight Night' in San Diego
An orange wall helped Bellingcat identify the location of an annual far-right event attended by neo-Nazis and white nationalists.
www.bellingcat.com
Pro tip: if you're trying to hide the location of your latest far-right 'fight night' all the blurring and and tight shots won't help you if you host it in a place with bright orange walls (and also lie to the owner about why you're renting the place)
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“The findings reveal that support for the AfD among young voters is not only strikingly stable, but also closely linked to strong levels of party identification and pronounced nativist attitudes. These results point to a broader normalisation of far-right positions among younger generations…”
🎉 New publication 🎉 Why do #youngpeople vote for the #AfD? This question has kept our research project busy for quite some time, so I'm beyond excited that our first article - co-authored with @timonscheuer.bsky.social - is now out in #GermanPolitics! 🤩 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
November 22, 2025 at 11:15 AM
“The findings reveal that support for the AfD among young voters is not only strikingly stable, but also closely linked to strong levels of party identification and pronounced nativist attitudes. These results point to a broader normalisation of far-right positions among younger generations…”
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Who shares which sources on social media, and why does this matter politically? Our open-access @polcommjournal.bsky.social article shows how far-right French Twitter/X users strategically post and cite sources to achieve their goals. doi.org/10.1080/1058... #polisky #commsky #migcitsky A 🧵:
November 21, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Who shares which sources on social media, and why does this matter politically? Our open-access @polcommjournal.bsky.social article shows how far-right French Twitter/X users strategically post and cite sources to achieve their goals. doi.org/10.1080/1058... #polisky #commsky #migcitsky A 🧵:
November 21, 2025 at 2:16 PM
“there will not even be the appearance of a semblance of justice for what has been done to you” isn’t exactly a winning selling point for a ‘peace agreement’
All the rape, torture, and murder will be brushed under the carpet, a great lesson for any future war criminals.
November 21, 2025 at 7:45 AM
“there will not even be the appearance of a semblance of justice for what has been done to you” isn’t exactly a winning selling point for a ‘peace agreement’
not particularly fond of this 2025 normalization-of-Nazi-symbols speedrun but, alas, here we are
November 20, 2025 at 7:13 PM
not particularly fond of this 2025 normalization-of-Nazi-symbols speedrun but, alas, here we are
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Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols.
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols.
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
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The far right in the EP is a threat to the future of the climate agenda. But the bigger issue, in terms of weakening existing laws & diluting future climate targets, may be the mainstream moving further to the right.
New insight by @zecsaky.bsky.social
Read here: buff.ly/7rqeFaO
New insight by @zecsaky.bsky.social
Read here: buff.ly/7rqeFaO
November 19, 2025 at 11:00 AM
The far right in the EP is a threat to the future of the climate agenda. But the bigger issue, in terms of weakening existing laws & diluting future climate targets, may be the mainstream moving further to the right.
New insight by @zecsaky.bsky.social
Read here: buff.ly/7rqeFaO
New insight by @zecsaky.bsky.social
Read here: buff.ly/7rqeFaO
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Death toll from Russian strikes on Ternopil now stands at 25, per Ukrainian emergency services; more 70 people wounded, including 15 children.
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Ukrainian rescuers searching for bodies in the rubble of a Ternopil apartment building hit by Russian air attacks. Death toll in the city is up to 19, per emergency authorities, dozens wounded.
November 19, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Death toll from Russian strikes on Ternopil now stands at 25, per Ukrainian emergency services; more 70 people wounded, including 15 children.
t.me/dsns_telegra...
t.me/dsns_telegra...
Four men from Active Club Sweden have been sentenced to prison after they were found guilty of several racially motivated assaults in Stockholm
The men, aged between 21 and 23, were jailed for between six months and three years and will have to pay damages
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
The men, aged between 21 and 23, were jailed for between six months and three years and will have to pay damages
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Four ‘active club’ members sentenced to prison in Sweden for racist assaults
Men aged 20 to 23 convicted at trial that showed pattern of far-right activists assembling in gyms
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Four men from Active Club Sweden have been sentenced to prison after they were found guilty of several racially motivated assaults in Stockholm
The men, aged between 21 and 23, were jailed for between six months and three years and will have to pay damages
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
The men, aged between 21 and 23, were jailed for between six months and three years and will have to pay damages
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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Gute Nachrichten aus #Norwegen: Sicherheitsbehörden haben das zweitägige #RechtsRock -Festival 'Alien Terminator Fest' in #Eidskog nach einem Tag abgebrochen.
Good news from #Norway: Authorities shut down the two-day neo-Nazi festival 'Alien Terminator Fest' in Eidskog after just one day.
Good news from #Norway: Authorities shut down the two-day neo-Nazi festival 'Alien Terminator Fest' in Eidskog after just one day.
Kommunen grep inn etter tips om «nazifest»
Eidskog kommune har sagt opp leieavtalen med arrangørene av det som angivelig var en nynazistisk festival.
www.nrk.no
November 16, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Gute Nachrichten aus #Norwegen: Sicherheitsbehörden haben das zweitägige #RechtsRock -Festival 'Alien Terminator Fest' in #Eidskog nach einem Tag abgebrochen.
Good news from #Norway: Authorities shut down the two-day neo-Nazi festival 'Alien Terminator Fest' in Eidskog after just one day.
Good news from #Norway: Authorities shut down the two-day neo-Nazi festival 'Alien Terminator Fest' in Eidskog after just one day.
….seven explosive devices, an airsoft rifle covered with things like the 14 words, references to the Christchurch terrorist and the perpetrator of the 2017 Quebec mosque attacks and the Romanian Iron Guard ‘St Michael’s cross’, a TikTok video with a spinning Black Sun, and more…
A 17-year-old accused of bombing a Jakarta school mosque left nearly 100 injured, carrying a rifle covered in neo-Nazi slogans. TikTok posts tied to him point to online communities that celebrate extremist violence, highlighting how these digital subcultures are shaping real-world attacks.
Alleged Jakarta Bomber Leaves Behind Digital Trail Worshiping Past Racist Attackers
A 17-year-old student accused of bombing a Jakarta school mosque on November 7, injuring nearly 100 people, left behind a digital trail glorifying white supremacist killers and neo-Nazi symbols. His r...
globalextremism.org
November 16, 2025 at 7:54 AM
….seven explosive devices, an airsoft rifle covered with things like the 14 words, references to the Christchurch terrorist and the perpetrator of the 2017 Quebec mosque attacks and the Romanian Iron Guard ‘St Michael’s cross’, a TikTok video with a spinning Black Sun, and more…
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BLUF: The Trump admin will add 4 European “violent Antifa” groups US FTO list on 20 November. CTEC Director @jason-blazakis.bsky.social notes, for @washingtonpost.com, the groups “don’t have one fatality associated with their activity.” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Trump recasts foreign terror list to focus on ‘Antifa,’ cartels
The administration is making an unprecedented expansion, designating entities in Europe and Latin America not typically a focus of U.S. counterterrorism efforts.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:32 PM
BLUF: The Trump admin will add 4 European “violent Antifa” groups US FTO list on 20 November. CTEC Director @jason-blazakis.bsky.social notes, for @washingtonpost.com, the groups “don’t have one fatality associated with their activity.” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Streets have been renamed, Ukrainian monuments removed, and murals painted over. Bellingcat investigates how apartment blocks in the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol have been demolished to make way for a new Russian suburban utopia… www.bellingcat.com/uncategorize...
Building on Ruins: The Russification of Mariupol, One Apartment Block at a Time - bellingcat
Bellingcat has identified 23 multi-storey housing complexes being built in occupied Mariupol and advertised for sale to Russian citizens.
www.bellingcat.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Streets have been renamed, Ukrainian monuments removed, and murals painted over. Bellingcat investigates how apartment blocks in the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol have been demolished to make way for a new Russian suburban utopia… www.bellingcat.com/uncategorize...
Building on Ruins: the Russification of Mariupol, one apartment block
at a time
www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-...
at a time
www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-...
Building on Ruins: The Russification of Mariupol, One Apartment Block at a Time - bellingcat
Bellingcat has identified 23 multi-storey housing complexes being built in occupied Mariupol and advertised for sale to Russian citizens.
www.bellingcat.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Building on Ruins: the Russification of Mariupol, one apartment block
at a time
www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-...
at a time
www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-...
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For the #neoNazi music archives:
Tomorrow, this year's “Hammerfest” of the European #Hammerskins will take place in #Milan (presumably at the “Skinhouse” in the Bollate district). The festival, featuring six bands, is also being billed as the ‘30th anniversary celebration of Hammerskins Italy’.
Tomorrow, this year's “Hammerfest” of the European #Hammerskins will take place in #Milan (presumably at the “Skinhouse” in the Bollate district). The festival, featuring six bands, is also being billed as the ‘30th anniversary celebration of Hammerskins Italy’.
November 14, 2025 at 6:50 AM
For the #neoNazi music archives:
Tomorrow, this year's “Hammerfest” of the European #Hammerskins will take place in #Milan (presumably at the “Skinhouse” in the Bollate district). The festival, featuring six bands, is also being billed as the ‘30th anniversary celebration of Hammerskins Italy’.
Tomorrow, this year's “Hammerfest” of the European #Hammerskins will take place in #Milan (presumably at the “Skinhouse” in the Bollate district). The festival, featuring six bands, is also being billed as the ‘30th anniversary celebration of Hammerskins Italy’.
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A British neo-Nazi once employed as a Buckingham Palace warden has been identified as Matthew Gravill—linked to Active Club England, & extremist Robert Rundo. @heidibeirich.bsky.social told his prominence in photos with Rundo shows his influence in a growing transatlantic white supremacist network.
British neo-Nazi who worked at Buckingham Palace giving tours is unmasked
The 26-year-old from Leicestershire used to work in Buckingham Palace.
metro.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 5:26 PM
A British neo-Nazi once employed as a Buckingham Palace warden has been identified as Matthew Gravill—linked to Active Club England, & extremist Robert Rundo. @heidibeirich.bsky.social told his prominence in photos with Rundo shows his influence in a growing transatlantic white supremacist network.
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Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.
Op Margraten zijn twee panelen over zwarte Amerikaanse bevrijders van Nederland opeens weg. ‘Past bij beleid van de regering-Trump’
Op Margraten zijn twee panelen over zwarte Amerikaanse bevrijders van Nederland opeens weg. ‘Past bij beleid van de regering-Trump’
Op de Amerikaanse begraafplaats in Margraten is het opeens stil geworden rond de zwarte Amerikanen die hielpen Nederland bevrijden. Twee panelen die hun bijdrage herdachten – én wezen op hun strijd tegen racisme binnen het leger – werden zonder toelichting verwijderd.
www.nrc.nl
November 8, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.
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A man has been arrested. Current theory is that he somehow snapped and used his own blood. Has/will be taken to a psychiatric clinic after police processing.
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presseportal.de/blaulicht/pm/43561/6153045
November 7, 2025 at 7:53 AM
A man has been arrested. Current theory is that he somehow snapped and used his own blood. Has/will be taken to a psychiatric clinic after police processing.
presseportal.de/blaulicht/pm/43561/6153045
presseportal.de/blaulicht/pm/43561/6153045
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“.. in a group Signal chat, .. he wrote in part: ‘I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.’”
@reuters.com #Chicago
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@reuters.com #Chicago
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November 6, 2025 at 2:24 PM
“.. in a group Signal chat, .. he wrote in part: ‘I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.’”
@reuters.com #Chicago
www.reuters.com/world/us/bor...
@reuters.com #Chicago
www.reuters.com/world/us/bor...
“Lonely and homesick for a country suffering through war, Viktoria began sharing her worries with ChatGPT. Six months later and in poor mental health, she began discussing suicide - asking the AI bot about a specific place and method to kill herself”
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
I wanted ChatGPT to help me. So why did it advise me how to kill myself?
ChatGPT wrote a woman a suicide note and another AI chatbot role-played sexual acts with children, BBC finds.
www.bbc.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:35 PM
“Lonely and homesick for a country suffering through war, Viktoria began sharing her worries with ChatGPT. Six months later and in poor mental health, she began discussing suicide - asking the AI bot about a specific place and method to kill herself”
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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New: The FBI filed a subpoena trying to unmask the person or people behind archive.is / archive.today, which have been running anonymously for 13 yrs. Site was widely used by GamerGate, and then to bypass paywalls but has become kind of core archiving infrastructure
www.404media.co/fbi-tries-to...
www.404media.co/fbi-tries-to...
FBI Tries to Unmask Owner of Infamous Archive.is Site
The FBI has subpoenaed the domain registrar of archive.today, demanding information about the owner.
www.404media.co
November 6, 2025 at 2:53 PM
New: The FBI filed a subpoena trying to unmask the person or people behind archive.is / archive.today, which have been running anonymously for 13 yrs. Site was widely used by GamerGate, and then to bypass paywalls but has become kind of core archiving infrastructure
www.404media.co/fbi-tries-to...
www.404media.co/fbi-tries-to...
~50 vehicles have been smeared with what appears to be human blood in the German city of Hanau near Frankfurt, police say
Bundestag VP Omid Nouripour: "This act strikes at the very heart of Hanau and reopens the wounds of the far-right terrorist attack five years ago"
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Bundestag VP Omid Nouripour: "This act strikes at the very heart of Hanau and reopens the wounds of the far-right terrorist attack five years ago"
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Cars in Hanau in Germany found smeared with swastikas in blood, police say
Cars, walls and postboxes have been defaced, in what appears to be human blood.
www.bbc.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:23 AM
~50 vehicles have been smeared with what appears to be human blood in the German city of Hanau near Frankfurt, police say
Bundestag VP Omid Nouripour: "This act strikes at the very heart of Hanau and reopens the wounds of the far-right terrorist attack five years ago"
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Bundestag VP Omid Nouripour: "This act strikes at the very heart of Hanau and reopens the wounds of the far-right terrorist attack five years ago"
www.bbc.com/news/article...
A fire at a boarding house for retirees on Tuesday in the northeastern Bosnian town of Tuzla left at least 10 people dead, an official and Bosnian media said
www.euronews.com/2025/11/05/f...
www.euronews.com/2025/11/05/f...
At least 10 people dead in Bosnia retiree nursing home fire
Prime Minister Nermin Nikšić described the fire as "a disaster of enormous proportions."
www.euronews.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:42 AM
A fire at a boarding house for retirees on Tuesday in the northeastern Bosnian town of Tuzla left at least 10 people dead, an official and Bosnian media said
www.euronews.com/2025/11/05/f...
www.euronews.com/2025/11/05/f...
THE YAED APPLE
November 5, 2025 at 7:12 AM
THE YAED APPLE
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When you stop using X then open it back up after a while, you realize how obviously it’s designed to elevate vicious jerks who share Musk and Trump’s cruelest, dumbest beliefs. Harder to see when you’re addicted to it; blazingly apparent from the outside looking in.
Journalists: It’s bad for you!
Journalists: It’s bad for you!
November 5, 2025 at 3:46 AM
When you stop using X then open it back up after a while, you realize how obviously it’s designed to elevate vicious jerks who share Musk and Trump’s cruelest, dumbest beliefs. Harder to see when you’re addicted to it; blazingly apparent from the outside looking in.
Journalists: It’s bad for you!
Journalists: It’s bad for you!