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Tristan Lee @tristanl.ee · 9d

I'm excited but a bit sad to announce that I've left Bellingcat to start a nonprofit investigative outlet focused on the far-right. We're called Decoherence Media, and we're launching today.

Decoherence Media @decoherence.media · 9d

Welcome to Decoherence Media, an independent nonprofit founded by @jennefer.bsky.social and @tristanl.ee that investigates authoritarian and anti-democratic movements using open-source and data-driven methods.

Welcome to Decoherence Media!

We're an independent, journalist-founded nonprofit investigating authoritarian and anti-democratic movements using open-source and data-driven methods.

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Decoherence Media @decoherence.media · 9d

Welcome to Decoherence Media, an independent nonprofit founded by @jennefer.bsky.social and @tristanl.ee that investigates authoritarian and anti-democratic movements using open-source and data-driven methods.

Welcome to Decoherence Media!

We're an independent, journalist-founded nonprofit investigating authoritarian and anti-democratic movements using open-source and data-driven methods.

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Decoherence Media @decoherence.media · 9d

We found the exposed web server of Rope Culture, a neo-Nazi online magazine from the same Nazis behind the notorious Iron March forum. It contains hundreds of email addresses of the site’s commenters, emails sent to & from their mail server & the IP address of every visit to the site.

Neo-Nazi “Rope Culture” Web Server Reveals the Structure and Culture of a Far-Right Network

Part I: The exposed web server of Rope Culture, a neo-Nazi online magazine, contains a trove of data for understanding the transnational far-right

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Decoherence Media @decoherence.media · 8d

As part of our investigation into the Rope Culture web server, we created a search interface for Nazi forum scrapes and leaked databases called FashyLeaks. Currently it includes the Iron March and Rope Culture datasets, with many more to come.

Decoherence Media @decoherence.media · 9d

We found the exposed web server of Rope Culture, a neo-Nazi online magazine from the same Nazis behind the notorious Iron March forum. It contains hundreds of email addresses of the site’s commenters, emails sent to & from their mail server & the IP address of every visit to the site.

Neo-Nazi “Rope Culture” Web Server Reveals the Structure and Culture of a Far-Right Network

Part I: The exposed web server of Rope Culture, a neo-Nazi online magazine, contains a trove of data for understanding the transnational far-right

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Decoherence Media @decoherence.media · 8d

To help familiarize yourself with FashyLeaks, read our written guide or watch our video guide.

How to use FashyLeaks

Navigating our new search interface for searching neo-Nazi datasets

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Roman Höfner @romanhoefner.bsky.social · 8d

They also published FashyLeaks – a dataset of members belonging to ironmarch as well as rope culture. Leaks and Breaches like this will turn our to be incredibly futile in the future to see where it all began: fashyleaks.com?ref=decohere...

FashyLeaks

Search interface for Nazi forum datasets, including Iron March and Rope Culture.

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Roman Höfner @romanhoefner.bsky.social · 8d

They took a deep dive into “Rope Culture”, a web Server and web magazine that was started by Alisher Mukhitdinov, the same guy who is behind the forum iron march: decoherence.media/neo-nazi-rop...

Neo-Nazi “Rope Culture” Web Server Reveals the Structure and Culture of a Far-Right Network

Part I: The exposed web server of Rope Culture, a neo-Nazi online magazine, contains a trove of data for understanding the transnational far-right

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Roman Höfner @romanhoefner.bsky.social · 8d

🚨 I have been a fan of @jennefer.bsky.social's and @tristanl.ee's work for a long, long time - They have just started @decoherence.media which everyone should follow who is interested in stories about far right accelerationism, Order of Nine Angles Satinism, and every other anti-democratic movement.

Decoherence Media

Decoherence Media investigates authoritarian and anti-democratic movements using open-source and data-driven methods

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jennefer harper @jennefer.bsky.social · 10d

More about John Paul Cupp and the larger context from which he is connected to in my article on the Tempel ov Blood: leftcoastrightwatch.org/articles/mys... and Nate Thayer's landmark primer: www.nknews.org/2013/05/whit...

White Power and apocalyptic cults: Pro-DPRK Americans revealed | NK News

Nate Thayer exposes the clandestine world of America’s North Korea supporters and their shadowy lives

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jennefer harper @jennefer.bsky.social · 10d

Having moved in with his new "wife," her mother, and his new partner's 3 children, all of whom are Black Muslims, Cupp aka Walid, claimed to have converted to Islam and became somewhat prolific on social media creating lengthy video rants disparaging Jews and making pro-Hitler and racist posts.

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jennefer harper @jennefer.bsky.social · 10d

Until his recent return to Portland, Cupp appears to have been living with his mother in Florida where he worked at a Wal-Mart. It appears he was able to transfer to an Oregon based Wal-Mart and moved back across the country to live with a new partner who he addresses in social media as his wife.

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jennefer harper @jennefer.bsky.social · 10d

John Paul Cupp, Jillian Hoy, and Joshua Sutter were involved in pro-North Korea organizing. Hoy and Sutter organized under a few different Juche groups with one established as early as 2003 by Sutter. In November 2004, Sutter created the "Rural People's Party"

A 2006 photo of John Paul Cupp during his trip to North Korea. He has short hair, and is wearing a button up shirt, tie, and business jacket. He is posing for the photo in front of a scenic, nature backdrop.

A plaque commemorating Kim Il Sung presented to Joshua Sutter and lists his groups the Songun Politics Study Group (USA) and the Rural People's Party.

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jennefer harper @jennefer.bsky.social · 10d

Cupp aka Walid, is perhaps most known for his relationship with Jilian Hoy, wife to neo-Nazi Joshua Sutter. According to the late Nate Thayer, the three met in December 2007 in South Carolina. In early 2008, Cupp fell in love with Hoy & claimed to be engaged w/her (a claim Hoy would later deny).

Jillian Hoy holds a pro-North Korea propaganda magazine. She has long dark blonde hair and is wearing a long sleeve, white, button up shirt.

Pro-North Korea propaganda showing a photo of Joshua Sutter and the mobile home in South Carlonia which served as the headquarters for a pro-North Korea group. The image included a sketch of the figure known as Drill Sergeant Grey (a Tempel ov Blood figure) and a figure of Krishna.

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jennefer harper @jennefer.bsky.social · 10d

It's unclear if John Paul Cupp, aka Walid, is still in a relationship w/the woman he moved back to OR for as he states on social media that he is alternating between sleeping in cheap hotels in north Portland and the sidewalks by the ICE detention center.

John Paul Cupp aka Walid is photographed wearing a black head wrape, what seems like a short cape or long scarf around his neck and a dress garb. His red beard is scraggly and reaches down to almost his mid-ches.

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jennefer harper @jennefer.bsky.social · 10d

Antisemite John Paul Cupp, who is now going by the name "Walid," has been living in Portland, OR again for over a year. As seen in this still shot from a video interview by a citizen journalist on the platform X whose account name is "Oceanplot," Cupp has been seen recently near the ICE protests.

John Paul Cupp is pictured with a dark head wrap, a checkered blue flannel of different shades of blue, a long goatee beard died red at the ends and showing grey at the top near the chin, and dark eyeliner around his eye.

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Roman Höfner @romanhoefner.bsky.social · 21d

Gift link for this story (first come first serve: works 10 times) www.spiegel.de/panorama/jus...

(S+) Sadisten-Netzwerk um »White Tiger«: Wie ein FBI-Agent an der Hamburger Polizei verzweifelte

Im Juni haben die Behörden einen Mordverdächtigen aus Hamburg verhaftet. Waren sie zu langsam? Ein US-Ermittler, der den mutmaßlichen Pädokriminellen Jahre zuvor enttarnte, erhebt im SPIEGEL Vorwürfe.

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Roman Höfner @romanhoefner.bsky.social · 21d

WT was finally arrested in 2025. Shortly afterwards, one of the FBI agents who had identified White Tiger as Shahriar J. from Hamburg – and had gathered evidence that he manipulated the 13-year-old boy from the US into committing suicide – accused the German police of having acted far too slowly.

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Roman Höfner @romanhoefner.bsky.social · 21d

A few month later, we again reported on White Tiger as well as on another case in which a young man was manipulated into committing suicide while 764 members watched it on a livestream (gift link). www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web...

(S+) Gewalt in digitalen Plattformen: Die Chatgruppen, die Menschen in den Tod treiben

Auf Plattformen wie Discord oder Telegram organisiert sich eine gewalttätige Szene. Die gefährlichsten Mitglieder drängen junge Nutzer gezielt in den Suizid – wie den 25-jährigen Samuel Hervey.

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Roman Höfner @romanhoefner.bsky.social · 21d

We first reported about WT in March of 2024, when the young man from Hamburg was still at large. @linaverschwele.bsky.social and I visited his parents house, where he lived as well – and were able to speak with them directly and with him on the phone. (Gift link) www.spiegel.de/ausland/cybe...

(S+) Cybergrooming: Wie sich Sadisten weltweit in Chatgruppen zu Straftaten verabreden

Sie zwingen Minderjährige zu Nacktfotos, Selbstverletzungen und sogar Suizid – Recherchen enthüllen, wie sich Sadisten weltweit in Chatgruppen zu solchen Taten verabreden. Und wie sie aufgespürt werde...

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Roman Höfner @romanhoefner.bsky.social · 21d

The German 764 member White Tiger has just been indicted on more than 200 different counts. Among them are the murder of a 13-year-old boy from the United States and five counts of attempted murder. State prosecutors say the 21-year-old had a total of over 30 victims. www.spiegel.de/panorama/ham...

Hamburg: Mutmaßlicher Sexualstraftäter »White Tiger« wegen Mordes angeklagt

Die Hamburger Staatsanwaltschaft hat Anklage gegen einen mutmaßlichen Cyberkriminellen erhoben. Der als »White Tiger« bekannte 21-Jährige soll mehr als 200 Straftaten begangen haben. Ein Opfer beging ...

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Roman Höfner @romanhoefner.bsky.social · Oct 1

Great reporting & disturbing revelations by @bnr.nl about Telegram's handling of CSAM material (or the lack thereof): www.bnr.nl/nieuws/tech-...

Telegram biedt 'veilige haven' voor online handel in kinderporno

Uit cijfers van het Meldpunt Kinderporno blijkt dat meer dan de helft van de meldingen van Telegram komt.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · Sep 25

An important read about the background and possible motivation of the ICE shooter. His friends describe him as an extremely online edge lord, with no strong political leanings.
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-ice-sh...

The ICE Shooter’s Motive

Joshua Jahn's friends speak

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Jonas Schaible @beimwort.bsky.social · Sep 20

Hoffe, kein journalistisches Medium denkt auch nur darüber nach. Es wäre dann auch kein journalistisches Medium mehr.

NPR @npr.org · Sep 20

The Pentagon is implementing new guidelines that will require journalists to sign a pledge and agree to report only approved and officially released information.

Defense Secretary Hegseth requires new 'pledge' for reporters at the Pentagon

The Pentagon is implementing new guidelines that will require journalists to sign a pledge and agree to report only approved and officially released information.

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · Sep 20

SCOOP (pre approved and officially vetted)

NPR @npr.org · Sep 20

The Pentagon is implementing new guidelines that will require journalists to sign a pledge and agree to report only approved and officially released information.

Defense Secretary Hegseth requires new 'pledge' for reporters at the Pentagon

The Pentagon is implementing new guidelines that will require journalists to sign a pledge and agree to report only approved and officially released information.

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404 Media @404media.co · Sep 16

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States.

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DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing

Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.

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