Tristan Lee

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.

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[guy who can’t fully remember that Gramsci quote] it’s Monster Time

NEW: Transgender Texas Student Union has retained counsel in response to the Travis County filing related to the fake transgender mailers. It's Chris Hilton, who previously worked for Ken Paxton at the Texas Attorney General's office and left temporarily to defend Paxton in his impeachment trial.

it's a tie at 47.24%!!!

There have now been major voter suppression occurrences registered in 12 out of 27 states in Brazil. Major liberal Brazilian news channel ICL reports São Paulo mayor Ricardo Nunes, who supports Flávio Bolsonaro, said earlier he couldn’t “justify the costs” of running a full fleet in the city today.

Early this year, I visited Ingram, a TX town of ~1,900, to check out a tip. The area was starting to recover from its worst flood in a century. But as Latino workers drove to jobsites to help rebuild, the tipster said, a cop in a black Dodge Charger kept stopping them ... 🧵

NEW: Ingram, Texas, was just rebuilding from a devastating flood when its tiny police department enrolled in ICE’s 287(g) deportation program. Within a year, cops would hand over the equivalent of 10% of the town. with @nytimes.com

A fascist opened fire on people of colour in Trappes and Verriere near Paris, killing one person and injuring 5 more incl a 12 yo girl who was shot 8 times. He opened fire at a children's playground and a hijabi woman. He also shot dead a young black man. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

They invented Erdős numbers but for Aella

Freedom of movement is the most fundamental human right; everything else is built on top of it. The 20th century was a campaign to smother that freedom and we should not let it win

Cool site

🇺🇸🗳️ With the 2026 midterms two weeks away, I felt this election deserved a better map. 🧵

Back in June, Cook County Sheriff deputy Gigliotti dapped up an ICE agent after an arrest in a suburban courthouse, prompting an investigation by the sheriff's professional review office. Sheriff spox says the ICE agent is an ex-CCSO employee and Gigliotti was "simply greeting a former colleague."

New: OutYouth, an LGBTQ+ youth program in Austin, says it's briefly closing for safety reasons because it was mentioned in the fake trans resource guide pamphlets that went out this week across Texas - www.chron.com/culture/arti...

In case anybody needs social proof/thinks I'm exaggerating.

I fear Khachiyan may dislike Vivek for Bo French reasons

Hey, it’s the official release day for Seeing Like a Supply Chain! And of course I’m swamped with grading and lesson-planning, but maybe I can say a little about the book and the process of researching it. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

It's notable that these Groypers hate Indians more than they like rapists

Huh, they're drafting that turbonationalist Russian HOI4 streamer (whom Paradox disgustingly platformed before) because he got kicked from university for failing French exams twice @mikesenters.bsky.social

New OEIS sequence just dropped

We don't talk enough about how crazy it is that there were 2 different right-wing vigilante murderers named Daniel Perry and Daniel Penny. I'm just saying that someone should probably look into white military veterans named "Daniel Pe**y".

Some this AfD email stuff is juicy, scary and oh so familiar A 2023 letter to the AfD's NRW office proposed armed soldiers and police occupy the Reichstag and take power temporarily. "Politicians who exercise state authority in violation of the Basic Law can only be opposed by force," it says.

I got to know Garrett and Whitney a bit in the first months of the 2020 BLM protests in Austin, before I became a journalist. Garrett's murder was devastating, and Abbott's pardon was almost worse.

Today we launch the first episode of my podcast. I interviewed Whitney Mitchell, whose fiancé and caretaker Garrett Foster was murdered at a BLM protest in 2020. Foster's killer was convicted by a jury and given a 25-year sentence. Then Texas Gov. Greg Abbott pardoned him.

If you happen to work for a company that has access to the USPS Mailer ID (MID) or Customer Registration ID (CRID) lookup tool, please DM me.

Hexane (281 GB) Internal material from the far-right #German party #AfD (Alternative für Deutschland/Alternative for Germany) and its surrounding infrastructure. ddosecrets.org/article/hexane Help us keep publishing: donorbox.org/ddosecrets

Asking for some help: i'm working on a project documenting ICE raids on music, arts, and other cultural venues in 2026. I know about the big Memphis raid, but please comment or DM if you know of others.

They’re all doing electoral Downfall posting on X the Everything App

A Nathan Fielder, Lance Oppenheim, and James C. Scott production

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

Bovino got fired in March, attended a neo-Nazi rally in May, appeared on a white nat podcast in June and a podcast hosted by J6er and Proud Boys this week. Bovino is now working with another J6er who hosted a rally in Minneapolis named after a racial slur.

Young people now who want to pursue a low-revenue career path with a possible-but-uncertain future payoff pretty much have to leave town. I got to do it living 1.25 miles from the Texas capitol.

New from me today www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

NEW from LCRW: The SoapGirls saga gets weirder. From possible fake fans juicing their online following to real fans threatening to bury our reporter @wileycope.bsky.social alive to more cancelled shows & visa issues, the South African band that did blackface in a music video is having a bad time

NEW: Chicago-area cops took part in an undercover probe by ICE agents into Minneapolis mutual aid networks last spring, records obtained by WIRED show, including unspecified electronic surveillance, audio recordings, ALPR data by @awinston.bsky.social