"[T]he core requirement for practitioners is analytical adaptation." Excellent advice for identifying and coding nihilistic violent extremism and the Com network from @maargentino.com and @anguslindsay.bsky.social.

CALL FOR CHAPTERS! Me and @grahammacklin.bsky.social are putting together an edited collection looking at the use of pseudoscientific ideas by extremist movements. If you are interested, please send us your abstracts at this link: forms.gle/mAUtpDGNEj9i...

Telegram Stars: Exploring Micropayment Exploitation, Digital Goods and the Evolving Tactics of Terrorist Financing gnet-research.org/2026/02/09/t...

A 15-year-old boy accused of carrying out a knife attack at a medical college hostel in Russia’s Ufa has been identified by local media as a member of a neo-Nazi organization www.msn.com/en-in/autos/...

The French offices of Elon Musk's X have been raided by the Paris prosecutor's cyber-crime unit, as part of an investigation into suspected offences including unlawful data extraction and complicity in the possession of child pornography. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Um…bit bold to call the story I broke on Tuesday a “Star analysis” with zero credit to me! This is such a bummer. I worked really hard on this one.

How to classify nihilistic violent extremists: does it fit in the terrorism box? Is it sub-national security? As I have been reflecting on this I could not stop thinking about Schrödinger’s Cat. So @anguslindsay.bsky.social & I wrote this www.maargentino.com/schrodingers...

READ THE FULL LIST: rachelgilmore.substack.com/p/a-list-of-canadian-companies-profiting www.patreon.com/posts/list-o...

🚨Want to know which Canadian companies are profiting off of ICE and Trump’s violent mass deportation agenda? Well I just spent the last few days digging into exactly that. Here are the companies I found, how much they’re making, and whether they’re getting Canadian taxpayer dollars. Sneak peek:

Life sentence for man who killed Japan's ex-PM Shinzo Abe www.bbc.com/news/article...

Terrorgram, 764 und die Nazisatanisten: Es wurde eine neue Studie vom LKA BW veröffentlicht, die einige sehr gute Punkte zum Thema enthält. Fangen wir aber mal bei der Tagesschau und der dünnen Meldung dazu an: 1/

On the killing of Renee Nicole Good, I just published a piece in @foreignpolicy.com arguing the Trump administration is weaponizing the narrative of “vehicular terrorism” as a shortcut to justify an unlawful killing: “death squad logic, adapted to American streets” foreignpolicy.com/2026/01/13/v...

‘Teenage Terrorists’ in Deutschland Eine bundesweite Hellfeldstudie zur „Terrorgramszene“ (‘Teenage Terrorists’ in Germany? A Nationwide Study of the “Terrorgram” Scene) lka.polizei-bw.de/wp-content/u...

Her daughter died after falling in with online extremists who idolize school shooters. Now, she's warning other parents. www.cbsnews.com/news/tcc-764...

Her daughter died after falling in with online extremists who idolize school shooters. Now, she's warning other parents. www.cbsnews.com/news/tcc-764...

God I wish this wasn't so close to reality.

It is great to live in a society where the priority is we will record people burning to death through glass or crushed through door frames to post on main.

Michelle Carter was sentenced to close to five years in prison after she convinced her boyfriend Conrad Roy to kill himself via text in 2014. But i guess it ok when you are worth half a billion dollars.

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Hey that's me!!! Though Q is not posting, the influencers who made their cops on there movement and the base of believers are still quite active and influential

Coming in January. Stay tuned 👀 @sarahposner.bsky.social

The Atlantic suggesting, without evidence, that Canada's Global TV broadcasting the '60 Minutes' segment on CECOT that CBS distributed to it may have been an act of "treachery." 🔗: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Hows that journalism oligarchy going?

CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was. You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...

Richard Servello, director of the Blair County Children’s Advocacy Center, is advising local parents to monitor children’s online activity within gaming platforms that can introduce them to online predator groups, such as The Community and the 764. www.altoonamirror.com/news/local-n...

A 764 member in New Zealand plead guilty to 13 charges, including knowingly distributing child exploitation material, possessing objectionable publications, exposing a young person to indecent material, threatening to kill & failing to comply with a computer search www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/crime/haw...

Tracking a No Lives Matter inspired attack in Russia this morning. A 15 year old in the suburbs of Moscow killed a 10 year old migrant and wanted to kill his teacher. A manifesto was published in a groupchat and the attack filmed. The perpetrator references the Christchurch attacker.

'He's Making his Listings, He's Checking Them Twice' and some of these actors have not been very nice 🎅. www.maargentino.com/observations...

It has been a very busy and wild year.

Canada becomes 1st country to list extremist network 764 as a terrorist entity www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

As of today the Government of Canada has listed 764 and Maniac Murder Cult as terrorist entities. 🤘🔥 www.publicsafety.gc.ca/cnt/ntnl-scr...

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...

How the DOJ is Prosecuting Nihilistic Violent Extremism as Domestic Terrorism www.justsecurity.org/126226/prose...

Nearly one in 10 UK parents say their child has been blackmailed online, with harms ranging from threatening to release intimate pictures to revealing details about someone’s personal life www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

RADIA's latest brief is on violence-focused online communities - such as The Com, and groups like 764 and No Lives Matter. These networks incite & manipulate young people into acts of violence posing complex challenges for researchers, policymakers, & practitioners. www.helsinki.fi/assets/drupa...

New from the indomitable @maargentino.com and myself. Understanding the Relationship Between 764 And The Com Network www.maargentino.com/understandin...

In his latest piece, Mauro Lubrano examines the revival of insurrectionary anarchist zine 325 and its renewed focus on anti-technology ideology. This framing has increasingly tangible consequences as similar narratives appear in communiqués claiming attacks on technology-related infrastructure.

Over the past few months there have been several Com Network arrests, as well as increased media attention and awareness about the network, its harms and groups. One of the common misconceptions is differentiating the Com Network and 764. www.maargentino.com/understandin...

CN: Sexuelle Gewalt, Suizid auf Verlangen, Mord, Terror Abfragen bei allen 16 deutschen Landeskriminalämtern zeigten, dass insgesamt zehn von ihnen Ermittlungsverfahren mit Bezug zu »764« oder Com führen, manche sogar mehrere. 1/

An evacuation was triggered at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, following a an email threatening a "massacre" or bombs being placed on campus. The false threats are being reported as linked to 764. diariodeavisos.elespanol.com/2025/11/univ...

Interviewed my friend @markkersten.bsky.social on genocide - what is it and when is it. A good primer for those new to the topic. For the CIDP podcast: youtu.be/9nLuYt9qL_s?...

A parent in Nova Scotia discovered that her child had been targeted by online predators while using a school-issued Chromebook. The device, provided by the school board, gave access to apps and games including Roblox. 1/ www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

29 year old male from Portsmouth, was an active member of a Telegram Com group. The 6,000 strong group targeted more than 100 child victims on mainstream social media, initiating chats before coercing them to send photos of themselves. www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/com-mod...

"But unlike most social media apps, which have a minimum age of 13, Roblox allows younger children to use the platform. Since most children and young teens don't have an ID, they will need to submit a selfie to the platform for verification using a third-party AI scan" www.abc10.com/article/news...

neo-Nazi and National Socialist Network member Joel Davis, who has been charged by the AFP's National Security Investigation team with using a carriage service to encourage hate towards a federal MP www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

You can either be the person doomscrolling and yelling into the ontological technoscape expecting change; or you roll up your sleeves and do something about it.

'10 minutes of murder': Why one family is speaking out about the online extremist network 764 abcnews.go.com/US/10-minute...

Meet the neo-Nazi targeting kids online, teaching them to hate and to prepare to kill. Jon Minadeo courts kids in video chat apps, berating children of color, encouraging white kids to arm themselves for 'race war' www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

Pardoned J6 perpetrator Andrew Paul Johnson was arraigned in a Florida court in October on multiple charges, including molesting a child as young as 11 years old. theintercept.com/2025/11/17/p...