Tristan Lee
Data scientist @bellingcat.com, interested in far-right networks and conspiracy theories
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- I talked with Columbia Journalism Review about how I'm using and thinking about generative AI. I'm broadly negative on its societal impact, but it can be useful for programming, especially in languages I'm less familiar with.
- Reposted by Tristan LeeThe drummer for Austin metal band Lord Buffalo (a legal green card holder) has been seized by ICE off of a plane as the group was departing for their European tour. His current whereabouts are unknown. www.metalsucks.net/2025/05/14/l...
- Reposted by Tristan LeeNEW: “By withdrawing the CFPB’s data broker rulemaking, the Trump administration is ensuring that Americans will continue to be bombarded by scam texts, calls and emails," says Sean Vitka, executive director of Demand Progress. A scoop:
- It's worse than that, HSI "movie prop" badges are available online too
- Rep. Julie Johnson to Noem: "Are you aware that ICE agent jackets are available on Etsy for $20? Anybody can throw a mask on and run around and terrorize people of color without any regard for the law because your agency does not have proper protocols to make sure your agents are clearly identified"
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- Reposted by Tristan LeeY'all there is a big difference between right wing groups declaring support for ICE and a *very specific* false claim floating around that asserts agents are wearing masks because they are not federal agents but actually secret J6ers/etc. If you don't see why this is problematic, we cannot help you
- Liberal engagement bait pages are adopting the far-right conspiracy theory that Patriot Front are feds
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- Reposted by Tristan LeeSunday's @nytimes.com carries the photos of 15 medics and rescue workers shot and killed by the IDF in Gaza in March, collected from their families and colleagues. QR links out to video reconstruct, Six Deadly Minutes. Please share. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWhN...
- Reposted by Tristan LeeThwarted terrorist attacks, stabbings, murder – and more than 100 alleged members arrested in at least four countries: What exactly is the so-called ‘Maniac Murder Cult’ (MKU/MMC/М.К.У./MKY), and which cases have been linked to it? (justifiably or not, but more on that later…)
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- Reposted by Tristan LeePer NBC News: Rumeysa Ozturk has been released!
- Active Clubs are increasingly becoming a Patriot Front front
- NEW, from me: I found Patriot Front trying to boost recruitment by secretly controlling a large part of the active clubs network according to audio messages and a leaked document I reviewed. www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...
- Reposted by Tristan LeeNEW, from me: I found Patriot Front trying to boost recruitment by secretly controlling a large part of the active clubs network according to audio messages and a leaked document I reviewed. www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...
- Reposted by Tristan LeeMAGA's brains are so broken. they speed ran the normal Pope conspiracies, and made the quantum leap to "the Pope is worse than woke, he's trans!" in less than 12 hours.
- POPE-INT
- Reposted by Tristan LeeThe new pope signed up for Twitter in 2011 with a Hotmail email address that he also used for a lot of other stuff, which is how I know that he's probably the first pope on Zynga and almost certainly the first pope on Tumblr
- Reposted by Tristan Leethe point of Andor isn't "only anarchists are right" or "only terrorism works" or "only liberals defeat fascism" it's that birthing a movement that can destroy an imperial regime requires a diversity of tactics and people all willing to throw their lives away for the cause
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- Do you condemn the Ghorman Front?
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- Same energy
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- Reposted by Tristan LeeTANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
- Reposted by Tristan LeeBased on open source information we found that David Do, a 36-year-old Canadian pharmacist in the suburbs of Toronto, has been living a double life. He is the most prominent figure identified to have had control over the administration of MrDeepFakes.
- Reposted by Tristan LeeExclusive: Bellingcat in partnership with @tjekdet.dk , @politiken.dk and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) can reveal the identity of a key administrator behind MrDeepFakes, one of the world’s largest providers of non-consensual deepfake pornography. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/05...
- Reposted by Tristan LeeNEW: Tulsi Gabbard used the same weak password across multiple accounts for years. It contains the word "shraddha"; members of a group that has been described as a cult (and which she has denied having any affiliation with) say she was given the name Shraddha Dasi after being received into it.
- smh even "having a manic episode" isn't safe from being replaced by AI
- Reposted by Tristan LeeBaltimore Banner wins Pulitzer Prize for coverage of overdose crisis
- Reposted by Tristan LeeICYMI, I spoke to BBC's Consumer Fight Back on AI image generation scams. They even ordered some of the AI products to see what showed up! No big surprise, the items were nothing like the images.
- Our very own @koltai.bsky.social spoke to the BBC this morning about how AI image generation is enabling e-commerce scams. Listen back here to the highlights: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
- Reposted by Tristan Lee🚨 A reliable source in El Salvador told El Faro that the Bukele-controlled Attorney General’s Office is preparing at least seven arrest warrants for members of El Faro following an interview with two former gang leaders on their years-long relationship to Bukele. elfaro.net/en/202515/el...
- Reposted by Tristan Lee"Independent journalists like Kabas uncovering major scoops are something of an existential threat to mainstream media’s business model, because they prove that you don’t need to spend millions of dollars to report the news."
- Plagiarizing Independent Journalists Is Part of Mainstream Media’s Business www.splinter.com/plagiarizing...
- Reposted by Tristan Leewhat was the relationship between neo-Nazi terrorist ideologue James Mason, Burzum's Varg Vikernes, and the Heathen Front? spencersunshine.com/2025/05/05/v...
- Reposted by Tristan LeeNew from 404 Media: the Signal clone the Trump administration uses was just hacked. TeleMessage makes a modified version of Signal that archives messages for government agencies, Waltz used it. A hacker got some users' messages, group chats. Hugely significant breach www.404media.co/the-signal-c...
- Reposted by Tristan LeeTeleMessage has taken everything down from their website www.telemessage.com
- The source code for the TM SGNL apps (basically a backdoored version of Signal used by Trump officials) is public! Since it's open source, I've pushed it to github for easier research micahflee.com/heres-the-so...
- Reposted by Tristan Leeooo she sounds smart and hot wonder if she has a name!!!
- Reposted by Tristan LeeOklahoma Education Commissar Ryan Walters announces new academic standards for the coming school year. Among other things, all students will be required to learn Trump's version of the 2020 election.
- It might be interesting to see whether or not the app Mike Waltz was using (TM SGNL) is actually end-to-end encrypted www.telemessage.com/mobile-archi...
- Reposted by Tristan LeeIn a move that raises very serious First Amendment issues, ICE executed a major splashy operation in California aiming to arrest a guy for posting fliers with names, pictures, and apparent phone numbers for ICE HSI agents. I am struggling to think what possible law posting that info could violate.
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- Reposted by Tristan LeeHonestly this is just incredible content.
- Reposted by Tristan LeeFunny thing about this post. A couple of weeks later, and he could no longer make this claim.
- Reposted by Tristan Leeunorthodox fascist James Porrazzo has died. the 2nd leader of the Nazi skinhead gang American Front he later b/c a Duginist & founded New Resistance. he's gotten attention b/c his early connex to Joshua Caleb Sutter (Tempel ov Blood). Here's my 2012 article on him. www.splcenter.org/resources/re...
- Mexican food in the Netherlands is an actual war crime
- We've saved every cop in America from having 358 panic attacks, that's almost one every day for a whole year!
- Two leaders of global child exploitation network 764 were arrested: Leonidas "War" Varagiannis from Thessaloniki, Greece, and Prasan "Trippy" Nepal from High Point, North Carolina. www.justice.gov/opa/pr/leade...
- Reposted by Tristan LeeFormer heroin addict turned HGH guy with worms in his brain who plays around with roadkill and only drinks raw milk: Everyone else is stupid and, frankly, their teeth work too good.
- Reposted by Tristan LeeHakeem Jeffries: egg? Medicaid? buh? Jan from Montpelier (71, retired banker): As He Died To Make Men Holy, Let Us Die To Make Men Free
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- HITLER DOOD WAT NOU?
- Reposted by Tristan LeeYou either believe that we should rule ourselves or you don't. Doing so is a burden and a grave responsibility. This is not a fair-weather commitment. It is an incredible pain, more often than not. But that is the price of not being slaves. And it is an exceptionally good deal.
- Reposted by Tristan LeeWell, I'm not a "guy," but thanks.
- Reposted by Tristan LeeNew: This is the leaked internal ethical justification Palantir has given its employees for building a massive immigrant deportation database with ICE: www.404media.co/this-is-pala...
- Reposted by Tristan LeeIt’s been three years since Elon Musk moved to buy Twitter and remold it into a MAGA propaganda machine. @hannahgais.bsky.social and @stevanzetti.bsky.social joined the show to chat about the site’s transformation and who benefited most from it. postthroughit.substack.com/p/016-how-x-...
- Reposted by Tristan LeeEFF advocates for privacy and free speech online for everyone. That's why we're celebrating equity and accessibility with our new braille sticker: shop.eff.org/products/lad...
- Reposted by Tristan LeeICE Agents Wait At Edge Of Delivery Table To Deport Newborn
- Happy upside-down Mussolini day to those who celebrate!
- Reposted by Tristan LeeDana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social is joined by @mpaarlberg.bsky.social to talk about El Salvador’s ‘state of exception’ under Nayib Bukele, how Trump sees that as a model, the conditions of prisons, and what this all means. Available on all podcast apps + Patreon www.patreon.com/posts/tftt-1...
- Reposted by Tristan LeeComing to feeds on Monday: We're joined by @hannahgais.bsky.social and @stevanzetti.bsky.social to talk about X and the ways it became, as one "intellectual dark web" pundit put it, "unusable for normal humans." Find "Posting Through It" on your favorite podcast app. @michaelehayden.bsky.social
- Be careful, listening to this for a full hour may radicalize you into raising money for insurgencies against repressive governments
- Update, Star Wars has officially released an hour-long repeat of the Niamos remix as it appeared in Episode 3 over repeating clips of Mon dancing! Another step toward releasing the song on its own! www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6wL...
- Seeing a lot of headlines using passive language like "2-year-old US citizen appears to have been deported". Shame there's no way to know which agency or organization is responsible for deportations.
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What Michelle Obama can learn from Asma al-Assad Forward Magazine (Haykal Media) 07/01/2008 web.archive.org/web/20120701... - Reposted by Tristan Lee
- Reposted by Tristan LeeVirginia Giuffre, the prominent survivor of Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuse, has died by suicide. Giuffre, 41, died in Neergabby, Australia, where she had been living. Giuffre was one of the earliest and loudest voices calling for criminal charges against Epstein. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
- Reposted by Tristan LeeEd Martin's latest target: Wikipedia. The interim U.S. attorney and pro-Trump bulldog has sent a letter seeming to threaten the Wikimedia Foundation's tax-exempt status over allegations that it is "spreading propaganda." Our story: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
