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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 · 25d
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)

www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/09...
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.
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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 38m
Meet the man tapped to be the Czech Republic's next Foreign Minister, Filip Turek. He has repeatedly endorsed Hitler and belittled the Holocaust. His string of racist vulgarities includes calling Obama the n-word. His sexist ugliness includes rejecting women's suffrage.
denikn.cz/1864721/popa...
„Popálit cikáně je polehčující okolnost, Obama je negr.“ Odhalujeme smazaný svět Filipa Turka
Možný budoucí ministr zahraničí Filip Turek na Facebooku opakovaně zveřejňoval otevřeně rasistické, sexistické či homofobní výroky a také četné narážky na Hitlera a Mussoliniho. Deník N má k dispozici...
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3h
in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa
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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 2h
“The term "remigration" appears in the election manifestos of the PVV, FvD, BBB, JA21, and BVNL. Experts warn against the normalization of the term and the far-right ideology behind it. "Remigration represents the mass deportation of asylum seekers and people with a migration background."”
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de Volkskrant @volkskrant.nl · 4h
Hoe 'remigratie' mainstream wordt in de Nederlanse politiek
PVV, FvD, BBB, JA21 en BVNL pleiten voor ‘remigratie’, volgens inlichtingendiensten een ‘eufemisme voor deportatie’
www.volkskrant.nl
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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 15h
“One cannot account for [fascism]…without accounting for fascism’s intrinsic ridiculousness. This is what any serious analysis of its contemporary forms should consider….there is no reason not to laugh while analyzing fascist tendencies in our contemporary societies”
www.e-flux.com/journal/76/7...
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Reuters @reuters.com · 23h
'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize
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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 20h
"After [AWD] was listed as a terrorist entity, many former members joined "Active Club Canada," according to the RCMP, which announced the charges against Althorpe in December 2023."
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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 20h
Matthew Althorpe, 29, of Niagara Region, pleaded guilty to facilitating terrorist activity, instructing others to carry out terrorist activity and committing an offence for a terrorist group

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Ontario man pleads guilty in Toronto to 3 terrorism charges | CBC News
An Ontario man pleaded guilty in Toronto on Thursday to three terrorism charges for his participation in an international neo-Nazi terrorist group.
www.cbc.ca
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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 2d
"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"
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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 2d
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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 2d
Good news: Yankees lose, Blue Jays win

www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
Blue Jays defeat Yankees to advance to ALCS
The Toronto Blue Jays won Game 4 of their American League Division Series matchup against the New York Yankees to advance to the next round of the Major League Baseball playoffs.
www.cbc.ca
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 3d
Satellite analysis by Bellingcat found that wildfires destroyed over a third of Namibia’s most visited wildlife reserve last month, impacting crucial grazing lands for endangered species, including black rhinos and elephants. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10...
Wildfires Ravage One of Africa’s Largest Nature Reserves - bellingcat
Satellite analysis of the Etosha wildfires in Namibia has found that more than a third of the nature reserve was burned.
www.bellingcat.com
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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 4d
home and away plus a new third jersey, with submissions from the public
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Jason Markusoff @markusoff.bsky.social · 4d
Coca-Cola Coke Zero
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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 4d
watch me unsuccessfully attempt to pivot to ship tracking next week
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 4d
For this occasion, @colborne.bsky.social is making a quick detour from his usual far-right work to try out some maritime research. Want to see how he does? Join our livestream on October 15, 5PM CEST on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@bellingcato...
Bellingcat
Bellingcat is an independent investigative collective of researchers, investigators and citizen journalists brought together by a passion for open source research. Founded in 2014, we have pioneered...
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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 5d
stricter laws in the UK on having this kind of material that wouldn’t necessarily be illegal in other countries even if it’d merit attention from authorities
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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 5d
the casual understated bat flip
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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 5d
would be a lot better if these guys obsessed with satanism just really into gorgoroth or something instead of right wing terror
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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 5d
Candiani "accepted that he had a tattoo on his chest bearing the neo-Nazi symbol "88" - code for the phrase "Heil Hitler".

He also admitted applying to join a right-wing extremist group, Active Club, but said he got "cold feet"."

www.bbc.com/news/article...
'Satanist' actor guilty over right-wing documents
Declan George Candiani is found guilty of collecting information likely to be useful for terrorism.
www.bbc.com
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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 5d
few things in this world give me as much satisfaction as watching the Yankees get absolutely pummelled
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MLB (Bot) @mlbbot.bsky.social · 5d
VLADDY SLAM!!!!!!!!

#ALDS
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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 5d
A mosque in East Sussex has been damaged in a suspected arson attack, which police are investigating as a hate crime

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Peacehaven: Fire at East Sussex mosque probed as 'hate crime'
Video appears to show two people in balaclavas at the mosque before a large blaze spreads.
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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 6d
I’ve received multiple death threats + doxing (including my home address) directly following harassment from Turning Point USA, Jack Posobiec, Andy NGO, + Fox News which called me an antifa ‘financier.’

I have been forced to move my classes online.

If journalists want to talk, DM me or reply here.
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Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition) @shaneburley.bsky.social · 6d
For those lucky enough to not know this is a neo-Nazi meme normally found on TRS and the Daily Stormer being shared by the official DHS account.
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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 7d
fair - I do often see “populist” being used euphemistically a lot more than I’d like, regardless of the (un)popular nature of some of they do, which ends up eliding the (far) right nature of what they do. but it doesn’t mean “populist” is a term to completely throw in the trash
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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 7d
“When we use the term “populist”, we often create a semantic link between the word and “the people”. So when we allow the far right to be described as populist, we are incorrectly implying that they are tapping into what the people want or that they speak for the “silent majority””
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.bsky.social · 7d
This short piece co-authored with Alex Yates shows why the misuse of populism plays right in the hands of the far right

(Annoyingly, the app is not allowing me to tag colleagues, but follow them!)

theconversation.com/the-word-pop...
The word ‘populism’ is a gift to the far right – four reasons why we should stop using it
Extremists benefit when we use euphemisms that confer on them an air of legitimacy.
theconversation.com
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