This is some solid work 🔥

Small drone attacks are killing more civilians around the world than ever before. I made a map about it:

Parents in a small southwestern Manitoba community allege a 14-year-old boy charged in connection with a school attack threat had a history of threatening others, in some cases holding other youth at knifepoint www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Dallas Stars ban fan from American Airlines Center after video circulates of Nazi salute www.dallasnews.com/sports/stars...

"Israel is preparing to attack Iranian energy facilities but is awaiting a green light from the United States, a senior Israeli defence official said on Saturday, adding that any such attacks would likely come within the next week." www.reuters.com/world/middle...

US satellite firm Planet Labs announces blackout on war on Iran images https://aje.news/fnp5w7

Just had this from Planet Labs, the US government have asked satellite imagery providers for "voluntarily" restrictions on access to satellite imagery. Given a lot of them provide satellite imagery to the USG we can probably guess the outcome of not acquiescing to that request.

Peak AI Dystopia.... Cant wait to hear someone used the backdoor access to Claude by the chipotle support chat to hack into some military facility

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

Three Norwegian boys are charged with offenses the police believe to associate with The Com. According to the police one of them has had direct contact with «Slain» a member of No Lives Matter responsible for two dtabbings in Hässelby, Sweden in 2024. www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/rekr...

“Make the victim defenseless and start filming”: How a Flemish teenager became leader of sadistic online terrorist group ‘No Lives Matter’ www.hln.be/binnenland/m...

Alberta separation is back in the spotlight - but why now, and does it actually have momentum? I am joined by @acmack.bsky.social and Rob Currie on the CIDP podcast to discuss. We take the temperature on separatist sentiment and what it means for Canada youtu.be/ddik3c9uHSw?...

Been asked if there's an official announcement, but no, not for some weeks - if all goes well. Brief overview: ONLIVES aims to tackle the accelerating mutations of criminal extremism, which blur into other serious crime, including CSA and incitation to self-harm, hitting youth especially hard. 1/3

This project will be one to watch for those involved in CVE and CT works. It's a three-year, multi-national Euro research project. New Zealand is tied in, and we're proud as a Kereru to be linked to the calibre of researchers and practitioners it will bring together.

p.s. @ginavale.bsky.social just shared this with me: academic.oup.com/bjc/advance-...

Current models of #radicalization are not equipped to deal with the rapid convergence of multiple, overlapping harms, especially in the context of Com networks. I recently collaborated with Max Taylor and Ethel Quayle on this new piece for Perspectives on Terrorism. pt.icct.nl/article/radi...

Violent Extremist Network “764” Member Pleads Guilty to Sexually Exploiting Minors and Cyberstalking www.justice.gov/usao-md/pr/v...

Jakub Dobeš in the Habs post game interview greets the crowd with "Ça va", which is more French than what Michael Rousseau, Air Canada CEO, used in his condolence message after yesterday's tragic plane crash. www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...

Update 764 / COM / Germany / Ludwigsburg Investigators currently believe that the 16-year-old from the Stuttgart area contacted eleven alleged victims. Five of them are believed to have subsequently harmed themselves. The victims are children under the age of 14 and teenagers. 1/

Police in Manitoba and Nova Scotia say they’ve foiled plans for “violent,” simultaneous attacks on two schools and arrested two teenagers. globalnews.ca/news/1173611...

Crown stays charges against self-proclaimed 'Queen of Canada' Romana Didulo www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Cascade of A.I. Fakes About War With Iran Causes Chaos Online www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This piece is worth your time but I’m going to lift out this part. You tell me: does this sound like a “dead” ecosystem?

Three brothers have been detained for the attack on the US embassy in Oslo this weekend. Swedish news reports anonymous sources confirm they are tied to the Swedish organized crime group Foxtrot, which has a history of similar attacks for hire on behalf of Iran targeting embassies in the nordics.

Spanish member of EU parliament Irene Montero received death threats from a member of 764. According to police sources, the message warned of an intention to murder her and her family at her home. www.huffingtonpost.es/sociedad/sad...

From the Finnish Security & Intelligence Services 2026 report: Young people’s general interest in violence is visible in communities linked to nihilistic violent extremism. Networks like The Com provoke people to self-destructive behaviour, sexual crimes and brutal violence supo.fi/en/national-...

At least 70 Dutch people, mainly minors, are active in the Com network according to research from The Hague Center of Strategic Studies (HCSS). hcss.nl/report/hcss-...

‘Less than a speck of dirt’: exploring the manifestos of nihilistic violent extremists. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Family of Tumbler Ridge shooting victim suing OpenAI www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Late last year, a white supremacist dating platform was hacked and its users leaked. One of those users is Royal Canadian Air Force Major Tristan Armstrong, who CAHN has linked to thousands of posts made on far-right forums between 2019 and 2024. 🧵 www.antihate.ca/air_force_ma...

Two female Lake Brantley High School students (age 14 & 15) told officials they intended to kill a classmate & that would create a “blood bond” with Adam Lanza (Sandy Hook kilker) that would bring him back to life. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

A Jan. 6 defendant pardoned by President Donald Trump for his role in the Capitol attack was sentenced to life in prison for child molestation and related crimes. Andrew Paul Johnson was arrested in August, nine months after Trump pardoned him.

Absolutely bonkers story about Google Gemini instructing a man to procure a robot body for it so Gemini could become his wife www.wsj.com/tech/ai/gemi...

A 16-year-old boy from Northumberland has been found guilty of being part of The Base, as well as possessing and sharing terror publications www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Complete and utter failure. archive.is/2026.02.21-0...

A Downey man linked to Com-affiliated group 764 has been arrested for coercing, inducing, and enticing minor girls to create and send him sexually explicit videos – one of them he groomed to film herself engaging in self-directed violence he shared with others online www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr...

Lake Charles Resident and Participant in Nihilistic Violent Extremist Group Indicted for Stalking, Threatening, and “Swatting” a Minor and Her Family and for Possessing Child Sexual Abuse Materials www.justice.gov/usao-wdla/pr...

1 teen released, 1 still in custody in Saskatoon case of alleged online 'violent extremism' www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Youth involved in terrorist activities of the 764 Network placed on Peace Bond by RCMP rcmp.ca/en/news/2026...

"This," cried the Mayor, "is your town's darkest hour! The time for all 'Whos' who have blood that is red To come to the aid of their country!" He said. "We've GOT to make noise in greater amounts! So, open your mouth, lad! For every voice counts!" ~ Dr. Seuss

Earlier this week @pbaskar.bsky.social quoted me in this excellent piece about how extremists around the world use platforms like Roblox & Minecraft to recruit children. Please read & share—especially with parents of young children. Gift link! ⤵️

"[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...

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