Articles about Brigitte Bardot after her death on Sunday have referred to her far right sympathies, which supposedly emerged later in the film star's life. Here she is, though, in 1958 with Jean-Marie Le Pen and Pierre Lagaillarde, future founder of the extremist OAS terror group

Seven men who were violently arrested and injured by NSW police on suspicion of planning an "Islamist terror attack" near Bondi Beach have been released without charges. No terror links were found, the men were traveling on holiday to their Airbnb.

Aristocrate descendante de l'élite nazie et de Karl Marx, proche des extrêmes droites américaines, la vice-présidente de l’AfD a publié sa stratégie : gagner le Kulturkampf afin de rendre acceptable un programme extrême. L'Avent de l'interrègne 6/8. legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/12/2...

“Convicted five times for inciting racial hatred, Bardot remained, for three decades, an exception in French culture – the only celebrity to openly defend the far right. In the 1990s…the star adopted those views and married…[an] adviser to Jean-Marie Le Pen” www.lemonde.fr/en/obituarie...

Worth noting, before the misty-eyed tributes begin, that Brigitte Bardot was handed six fines for “inciting racial hatred,” opposed to MeToo-era reporting on sexual assault and publicly endorsed far-right leaders in France.

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A Moscow school stabbing shows how far-right extremism operates as a transnational ecosystem. The attacker drew directly from online white supremacist culture—manifestos, symbolism, and the “Great Replacement”—showing how digital radicalization lives across borders and turns ideology into violence.

C-REX affiliate @drkondor.bsky.social tells The Guardian how extremist messaging is woven through cultural aspects of everyday life, both online and offline. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Check out this great article by @ashifakassam.bsky.social, featuring yours truly and the fab @gretajasser.bsky.social! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

“…far-right groups have seized on cultural production – from clothing brands to top 40 music – to normalise their ideas, in a process that researchers say has hit new heights in the age of social media” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Denis Kapustin (“Nikitin”), Russian neo-Nazi leader of the Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK) fighting on the Ukrainian side against Russia, has been killed in battle, reportedly by an FPV drone strike International neo-Nazi Telegram is already full of remembrances and eulogies for ‘White Rex’

Neo-Nazi Denis Kapustin, nom-de-guerre White Rex — leader of the pro-Ukraine Russian Volunteer Corps — is no more. Reportedly droned somewhere in Zaporizhia. t.me/rvc_army/1640

“…since they are Canadian, I would not rule out treachery”

High quality rip of the 60 Minutes CECOT segment: drive.google.com/file/d/1lKjJ...

Important context here: when Peter Thiel and David Sacks began their war on diversity as undergrads at Stanford, thirty years ago, the very first tactic they adopted was to normalize slurs that had already been stigmatized out of mainstream society. This return of these hateful terms was a key goal.

We’ve identified a website that’s become the go-to store for the most radical fringe of the far-right to design and order patches from.

Bellingcat’s work in 2025 verified war crimes, exposed deepfake abuse, and challenged disinformation. We want to uncover wrongdoing. We can with your support: www.bellingcat.com/donate This is how we cut through the digital noise to tell stories that matter.

The leaders of Canada’s biggest white nationalist group believe that “the Nazis were right,” that a violent “race war” for Canada’s future is underway and that non-white people should be deported en masse “at gunpoint” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

to add to the Jake Paul schadenfreude, Andrew Tate also lost a fight to some reality TV influencer. most analysis of the fight I've read described his opponent as deeply untalented but Andrew lost anyway. Tate's endurance was awful and he was gassed after the first round.

German court overturns ban on neo-Nazi Hammerskins group

The loneliness epidemic is a sensory hypersaturation epidemic

CBC has put together an impressive collection of clips exposing Diagolon and Second Sons in their own words. These are white nationalists and neo-Nazis who want an ethnic cleansing and believe "violence is the answer." Largest group of its kind in Canadian history. www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

“Espanola’s members, including Orlov, are far-right Russian soccer hooligans….broadcaster RTVI, citing anonymous sources, reported on Dec. 10 that Orlov had been killed by return fire during an arrest on arms trafficking charges the previous day.”

Espanola, an ultranationalist paramilitary group made up of far-right soccer hooligans fighting on Russia’s side in Ukraine, confirmed on Friday the death of its leader, Stanislav Orlov, under unclear circumstances.

In Germany, charges have been filed against 8 suspects allegedly part of neo-Nazi group Letzte Verteidigungswelle, including membership in a terrorist organization. 6 also face attempted murder charges from 2 arson attacks including on an asylum accommodation centre www.tagesschau.de/investigativ...

War doesn’t just destroy buildings—it erases places where children learn, play, and grow. Bellingcat and journalists from @afp.com bureaus in Paris and Kyiv take a look at the lost spaces of youth in Ukraine. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/12...

In Scotland, a man has been charged after ~40 Raith Rovers 'ultras' were pictured giving Nazi salutes with an SS flag. The club has dissociated itself from and condemned the 'ultras,' saying they "unequivocally condemn any display of fascist or racist imagery" www.thenational.scot/news/2570286...

Trotz Verbot: Deutsche Hammerskins waren tonangebend auf Geheim-Treffen & Konzert am 15. November 2025 in Italien. Vor rund 500 Neonazis spielte dort die RechtsRock-Band «Spreegeschwader», die zu Hitlergrüßen und „Sieg Heil“-Rufen animierte. Artikel: exif-recherche.org?p=13326

HOW TO GET A TAXPAYER-FUNDED XMAS DINNER: White supremacist Sean Kauffmann was being taken into custody until he could post a higher bond on a DV charge. Then he shot a bird at NC5’s cam, landing himself 10 days in jail for contempt and getting his bond revoked. 🎥: Bryan Staples

“Meta appears to selectively enforce its policy on hateful content, removing some Nazi references while leaving other forms of hatred on the platform.” Overt Nazi and fascist content on Instagram, especially if it’s not in English, has become increasingly easy to find in the last year or more…

New from me! After we reached out to the owner of these deepfake porn sites, they were removed offline and he deleted his socials. Each time a site goes down, it's a win for me. Hopefully this guy never tries to get them up and running again. Check out our investigation!

Bellingcat’s @koltai.bsky.social uncovers the Hungarian national behind two deepfake porn websites. The key figure rakes in profits and vacations in luxury hotels in Dubai and Bali, whilst website visitors create sexually explicit images and videos. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/12...

In an Athens hotel today, there was a meeting of pro-Russian far-right groups that featured, among others: former Golden Dawn 🇬🇷, PSN 🇷🇸 , FN 🇮🇹, DN 🇪🇸, Heimat 🇩🇪, 'Brotherhood of Academists' 🇷🇺, Breitbart, and Steve Bannon's 'War Room' podcast, among others

Meanwhile in Serbia, leader of far-right 'animal rights' group Levijatan, Pavle Bihali, confirms the authenticity of a recording of him making rounds where he states he acts on orders from powerful figures: "I don't do anything on my own, I do everything as I'm told." n1info.rs/vesti/mogu-d...

NSW Police say 12 people were killed in a shooting at #Bondi Beach targeting the Jewish community A further 29 people have been taken to hospital An event was being held at the beach to mark the start of #Hanukkah had more than 1,000 in attendance, police say www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ck...?

New South Wales Police say 11 people have been killed in a shooting at Bondi Beach targeting the Jewish community, with 29 taken to hospital - including a child

the amount of rent-free space I personally occupy in this man’s head is truly something

An investigation by Bellingcat and Lloyd’s List found that Saudi Arabia joined the countries importing grain directly from a sanctioned port in occupied Crimea. Meanwhile Russia attempts to secure recognition of the Ukrainian territory via a US-led peace plan. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/12...

Amid US-based 'Active Clubs' and teen 'Youth Clubs' expanding their online presence, @openmeasures.bsky.social have also identified a new Youth Club targeting young men in the UK openmeasures.io/internationa...

"Canadians tend to think of far-right extremism and white nationalism as a strictly American problem...but these movements are gaining a foothold in mainstream [Canadian] culture, and the structure for that to happen has been in this country since its inception" thewalrus.ca/far-right-ex...

A neo-Nazi drug dealer who glorified Hitler on his antisemitic social media account has been jailed for two years. Joseph Beaver, who was found to have links to Active Club Scotland, was found with a gun in his garden shed in Dundee 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottis...

WATCH: Advocates for political violence among those welcomed to conference at Tennessee state park www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

Alexander H., a Swedish man sentenced recently in Luxembourg for planned terror attacks on Eurovision in Rotterdam in 2020, “ had produced enough nitroglycerine to make dynamite for a bomb intended to detonate the A27 motorway and an electrical substation…in Hilversum [NL]”

The All-Russian Cossack Society turns school clubs into pipelines for state-sponsored militarisation and recruitment for war in Ukraine. Bellingcat shows how they shape an alternative mobilisation force: www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/12...

Terrormisstankarna avskrevs men ledaren för nederländska Geuzenbond fortsatt misstänkt för omfattande vapenbrott. I mannens bostad fann polisen en ”mindre vapenfabrik”, det skriver Michael Colborne.

Not mentioned in the Guardian article, but we identified the man behind Mr Deepfakes www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/05...

After several brutal acts of violence from Active Club Sweden, the US founder of the Active Club movement Robert Rundo is spreading lies about what his Swedish “friends” did, in what appears to be a laughably unconvincing effort to manage the movement's violent reputation

“When new [far-right] organizations are formed, they often present themselves as a new movement based on a new idea, but in most cases they are people with a background in other far-right organizations who repackage and relaunch themselves under a new name….as if it were something completely new”