Marc R. Simms
@marcrsimms.bsky.social
Former M.A. in Int’l Relations/M.Litt in Terrorism Studies, with a focus on the far right and security issues. I used to write stuff.
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Ukraine would join EU by 2027 under draft peace plan on.ft.com/4adz7U3
Ukraine would join EU by 2027 under draft peace plan
Fast-track entry to bloc being discussed by US and Ukrainian officials backed by Brussels in drive to end Russia’s war
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December 12, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Ukraine would join EU by 2027 under draft peace plan on.ft.com/4adz7U3
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PODCAST: Moscow has conducted numerous hybrid operations and provocations on Svalbard, says Stian Bones, history professor at the UiT Arctic University of Norway
'Russia uses hybrid threats on Svalbard'
Moscow has conducted numerous hybrid operations and provocations on Svalbard, says Stian Bones. The history professor at the UiT Arctic University of Norway talks with the Barents Observer about his n...
www.thebarentsobserver.com
December 11, 2025 at 9:03 PM
PODCAST: Moscow has conducted numerous hybrid operations and provocations on Svalbard, says Stian Bones, history professor at the UiT Arctic University of Norway
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🌈 Very excited to share my new article with @barrieshannon.com in the Australian Journal of Political Science
‘Mainstreaming LGBTQIA+ hate: the far right’s anti-gender countermovement in Australia’
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‘Mainstreaming LGBTQIA+ hate: the far right’s anti-gender countermovement in Australia’
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December 11, 2025 at 10:38 PM
🌈 Very excited to share my new article with @barrieshannon.com in the Australian Journal of Political Science
‘Mainstreaming LGBTQIA+ hate: the far right’s anti-gender countermovement in Australia’
url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/q4GHCROND2...
‘Mainstreaming LGBTQIA+ hate: the far right’s anti-gender countermovement in Australia’
url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/q4GHCROND2...
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The far-right agitators travelling to Calais to abuse small-boat migrants. British anti-migrant activists are increasingly making trips to northern France to harass migrants and charity workers.
The far-right agitators travelling to Calais to abuse small-boat migrants
Anti-migrant activists are increasingly making trips to northern France to harass migrants and charity workers. Holly Bancroft examines this disturbing new trend
www.independent.co.uk
December 11, 2025 at 10:03 AM
The far-right agitators travelling to Calais to abuse small-boat migrants. British anti-migrant activists are increasingly making trips to northern France to harass migrants and charity workers.
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To that end, it's already listed in the IMO db as false flag, indicating Guyana has denied the validity.
Seems both cut-and-dry stateless, and that it's purported flag state Guyana would probably give permission to interdict if asked.
Seems both cut-and-dry stateless, and that it's purported flag state Guyana would probably give permission to interdict if asked.
December 11, 2025 at 1:06 AM
To that end, it's already listed in the IMO db as false flag, indicating Guyana has denied the validity.
Seems both cut-and-dry stateless, and that it's purported flag state Guyana would probably give permission to interdict if asked.
Seems both cut-and-dry stateless, and that it's purported flag state Guyana would probably give permission to interdict if asked.
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This does actually change the entire story. Assuming it's correct, it was an entirely lawful seizure.
December 11, 2025 at 1:18 AM
This does actually change the entire story. Assuming it's correct, it was an entirely lawful seizure.
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Security questions raised after delay in strategic shipping fleet: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-11/delay-in-national-marine-strategic-fleet/106121772
Security questions raised after delay in strategic shipping fleet
Australia's long-promised strategic fleet tender is delayed, raising concerns over the nation's maritime resilience and skills pipeline.
www.abc.net.au
December 10, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Security questions raised after delay in strategic shipping fleet: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-11/delay-in-national-marine-strategic-fleet/106121772
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👀 An ominous sign of the times: "Canada Department of National Defence scrambles to figure out how to mobilize and equip a citizens' army: documents. The plan envisions a part-time force of 100,000 reservists — and a supplementary reserve of 300,000 citizen soldiers." www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
December 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM
👀 An ominous sign of the times: "Canada Department of National Defence scrambles to figure out how to mobilize and equip a citizens' army: documents. The plan envisions a part-time force of 100,000 reservists — and a supplementary reserve of 300,000 citizen soldiers." www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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After a case where a 764 member successfully got a kid to commit suicide, a new felony law is proposed with potential Life sentences “that would explicitly criminalize the intentional coercing of minors to physically harm themselves or others, including animals”
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As online extremists push teens to self-harm, 2 senators join to propose new law making it a crime
Sens. Chuck Grassley and Dick Durbin want a new law to criminalize the actions of online networks like 764 that coerce minors to physically harm themselves or others.
abcnews.go.com
December 10, 2025 at 8:06 PM
After a case where a 764 member successfully got a kid to commit suicide, a new felony law is proposed with potential Life sentences “that would explicitly criminalize the intentional coercing of minors to physically harm themselves or others, including animals”
abcnews.go.com/US/online-ex...
abcnews.go.com/US/online-ex...
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Canada added several new terrorist entities today, including 764, Maniac Murder Cult (a loose, ultra-violent neo-Nazi online network with roots in Eastern Europe), and Terrorgram. www.canada.ca/en/public-sa...
Government of Canada lists four new terrorist entities - Canada.ca
The Government of Canada lists 764, Maniac Murder Cult, Terrorgram Collective, and Islamic State-Mozambique as a terrorist entities.
www.canada.ca
December 10, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Canada added several new terrorist entities today, including 764, Maniac Murder Cult (a loose, ultra-violent neo-Nazi online network with roots in Eastern Europe), and Terrorgram. www.canada.ca/en/public-sa...
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President Trump says the US seized an oil tanker off the Venezuelan coast, amid an ongoing pressure campaign against Maduro https://cnn.it/48O2mum
December 10, 2025 at 8:23 PM
President Trump says the US seized an oil tanker off the Venezuelan coast, amid an ongoing pressure campaign against Maduro https://cnn.it/48O2mum
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The 2025 National Security Strategy document makes it official: the Trump administration believes that European liberal democracy is a threat to U.S. national interest.
The US is not just Europe’s unwilling ally, but an adversary steeped in far-right ideology | Cas Mudde
Don’t say you weren’t warned: Trump’s new national security strategy seeks to destroy liberal democracy as we know it, says academic and author Cas Mudde
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:06 PM
The 2025 National Security Strategy document makes it official: the Trump administration believes that European liberal democracy is a threat to U.S. national interest.
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The New Zealand Government designates two new terrorist entities today
A) the Order of Nine Angles (O9A) (the statement of case:
www.police.govt.nz/sites/defaul...
B) The Terrorgram Collective (TC) (the statement of case: www.police.govt.nz/sites/defaul...)
gazette.govt.nz/notice/id/20...
A) the Order of Nine Angles (O9A) (the statement of case:
www.police.govt.nz/sites/defaul...
B) The Terrorgram Collective (TC) (the statement of case: www.police.govt.nz/sites/defaul...)
gazette.govt.nz/notice/id/20...
Designation of Two Terrorist Entities - 2025-au7135 | New Zealand Gazette
gazette.govt.nz
December 10, 2025 at 1:23 AM
The New Zealand Government designates two new terrorist entities today
A) the Order of Nine Angles (O9A) (the statement of case:
www.police.govt.nz/sites/defaul...
B) The Terrorgram Collective (TC) (the statement of case: www.police.govt.nz/sites/defaul...)
gazette.govt.nz/notice/id/20...
A) the Order of Nine Angles (O9A) (the statement of case:
www.police.govt.nz/sites/defaul...
B) The Terrorgram Collective (TC) (the statement of case: www.police.govt.nz/sites/defaul...)
gazette.govt.nz/notice/id/20...
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Agartha’s viral spread shows how Nazi mythology is seeping back into mainstream platforms. Teens are using the meme to target teachers by race and religion. Meta’s inaction is allowing extremist narratives to flourish at scale.
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What is Agartha? Esoteric Nazism Spreading on Meta Platforms, Followers Harassing Teachers
Agartha’s viral rise on Instagram and TikTok is pushing Nazi mythology into the mainstream, with teens using the meme to racially and religiously target teachers. As AI-generated Agartha content sprea...
globalextremism.org
December 10, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Agartha’s viral spread shows how Nazi mythology is seeping back into mainstream platforms. Teens are using the meme to target teachers by race and religion. Meta’s inaction is allowing extremist narratives to flourish at scale.
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New: Under immense pressure, Zelensky told European counterparts he'd been pressed to take a swift decision on the US peace plan by Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner. Trump is hoping for a final deal agreed “by Christmas”.
w/ @henryjfoy.ft.com
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Trump gives Zelenskyy ‘days’ to respond to peace proposal
Ukrainian president pressed by US envoys for a swift response with an aim to agree ceasefire with Russia ‘by Christmas’
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December 9, 2025 at 6:04 PM
New: Under immense pressure, Zelensky told European counterparts he'd been pressed to take a swift decision on the US peace plan by Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner. Trump is hoping for a final deal agreed “by Christmas”.
w/ @henryjfoy.ft.com
www.ft.com/content/ea36...
w/ @henryjfoy.ft.com
www.ft.com/content/ea36...
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Here you've got the NSN - an Australian neo-Nazi org that is very influential w the international hard-right - arguing that their violent attack on an Indigenous protest camp in Melbourne last August was justified bc the camp was Antifa, using the US terror designation as a permission slip.
4/ A seemingly critical component of the defence's case rests on the claim that Camp Sovereignty was in fact anTEEfa HQ.
Google's favourite nazi zine & unofficial house organ of the NSN:
Google's favourite nazi zine & unofficial house organ of the NSN:
December 9, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Here you've got the NSN - an Australian neo-Nazi org that is very influential w the international hard-right - arguing that their violent attack on an Indigenous protest camp in Melbourne last August was justified bc the camp was Antifa, using the US terror designation as a permission slip.
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Committee on the Administration of Justice: “There is no place for denial now that the UN has called out paramilitary racist violence and intimidation in N. Ireland"
The state continues to protect agents, opts not to engage in genuine disarmament and demobilisation & facilitates terror. [13/13]
The state continues to protect agents, opts not to engage in genuine disarmament and demobilisation & facilitates terror. [13/13]
UN committee urges NI Executive to tackle racist violence
It wants the NI Executive to “adopt robust measures to prevent and combat paramilitary racist violence
www.bbc.co.uk
December 9, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Committee on the Administration of Justice: “There is no place for denial now that the UN has called out paramilitary racist violence and intimidation in N. Ireland"
The state continues to protect agents, opts not to engage in genuine disarmament and demobilisation & facilitates terror. [13/13]
The state continues to protect agents, opts not to engage in genuine disarmament and demobilisation & facilitates terror. [13/13]
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RSF’s control of the Heglig oilfield means government has lost the most important oil facility in the country.
What’s changed in Sudan after the Rapid Support Forces’ control of Heglig?
RSF’s control of the Heglig oilfield means government has lost the most important oil facility in the country.
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December 9, 2025 at 1:30 PM
RSF’s control of the Heglig oilfield means government has lost the most important oil facility in the country.
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December 9, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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💰SCOOP: Hungary is in advanced talks with Russia on a plan to bypass US sanctions on Serbia’s mostly Russian-owned NIS oil firm by having a Hungarian firm buy shares. My sources say this is foreign minister Péter Szijjártó’s main topic at today’s Moscow trip—just 11 days after Orbán's Kremlin visit.
December 9, 2025 at 8:34 AM
💰SCOOP: Hungary is in advanced talks with Russia on a plan to bypass US sanctions on Serbia’s mostly Russian-owned NIS oil firm by having a Hungarian firm buy shares. My sources say this is foreign minister Péter Szijjártó’s main topic at today’s Moscow trip—just 11 days after Orbán's Kremlin visit.
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Walking into disaster: how narcotraffickers captured the BVI
Walking into disaster: how narcotraffickers captured the BVI
The long read: When the new premier of the British Virgin Islands said he needed an armed security detail, his chief of police knew trouble was on its way
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Walking into disaster: how narcotraffickers captured the BVI
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To the irritation of some other European capitals, Paris has withheld any details on the institutions holding the world's second biggest accumulation of immobilised Russian state funds on.ft.com/4pUtSxa
December 8, 2025 at 6:14 AM
To the irritation of some other European capitals, Paris has withheld any details on the institutions holding the world's second biggest accumulation of immobilised Russian state funds on.ft.com/4pUtSxa
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The attacks are the latest report of tensions flaring between the neighbours, after a ceasefire was agreed to in July.
Thailand launches air raids along Cambodia border after deadly clashes
The attacks are the latest report of tensions flaring between the neighbours, after a ceasefire was agreed to in July.
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December 8, 2025 at 2:30 AM
The attacks are the latest report of tensions flaring between the neighbours, after a ceasefire was agreed to in July.