“…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”

An expected sight — the sudden appearance of young football hooligans, dressed in black and masked, who vandalized a party office among other things. Organizers had warned of possible violent provocations, and everyone and their dog the day after in Bulgaria assumed these guys were exactly that

Spanish police said on Monday they had broken up the country's first known cell linked to The Base, a white supremacist group designated as a terrorist organisation by the European Union www.reuters.com/business/med...

“Aftonbladet: The parents are well-educated and have well-paid jobs. Their sons have good grades, expensive designer clothes – and right-wing extremist views. Aftonbladet has mapped the young Nazis [ie Active Club guys] who were recently sentenced to prison for aggravated assault [in Stockholm]”

Aftonbladet: Föräldrarna är välutbildade och har välbetalda jobb. Deras söner har bra betyg, dyra märkeskläder – och högerextrema åsikter. Aftonbladet har kartlagt de unga nazisterna som nyliden dömdes till fängelse för grov misshandel. www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/Ex...

2/2 “The police were able to do this…[because of] an order for preventive frisking after the mayor designated part of The Hague's city centre as a high-risk security area as a precaution” The protest appears to have passed without the violence seen at previous ones (my photos below)

1/2 Dutch police report 36 arrests after a far-right protest in The Hague. “The arrested individuals are suspected of various offenses. Among them were people who were carrying prohibited items when they were subjected to a preventive frisking” (Google Translate) www.politie.nl/nieuws/2025/...

Tinus Koops (organisator) tijdens de demo vandaag: "Als jullie niet willen luisteren, dan kan het ook op een andere manier Den Haag. Dat hebben wij laten zien 20 september. (...) Als dat moet, dan hebben wij daar ook geen problemen mee." Hij verwijst hiermee naar de hevige rellen.

1/2 Dutch police report 36 arrests after a far-right protest in The Hague. “The arrested individuals are suspected of various offenses. Among them were people who were carrying prohibited items when they were subjected to a preventive frisking” (Google Translate) www.politie.nl/nieuws/2025/...

In the Netherlands, the first court hearing for Geuzenbond leader Thomas D. was today. Terror charges against him have been dropped; the Public Prosecution Service reportedly found insufficient evidence for those charges. D. will still face multiple weapons-related charges www.rd.nl/artikel/1129...

“From that [London, ON] overpass, the group displayed a banner reading “remigration now,” alongside the Canadian Red Ensign flag, the flag of Ontario and the flag of the white supremacist nationalist group Second Sons Canada”

“The findings reveal that support for the AfD among young voters is not only strikingly stable, but also closely linked to strong levels of party identification and pronounced nativist attitudes. These results point to a broader normalisation of far-right positions among younger generations…”

Who shares which sources on social media, and why does this matter politically? Our open-access @polcommjournal.bsky.social article shows how far-right French Twitter/X users strategically post and cite sources to achieve their goals. doi.org/10.1080/1058... #polisky #commsky #migcitsky A 🧵:

um what www.fox4news.com/news/haitian...