MICHAEL BOORMAN

• WHAT IF THERE WERE TWIN BOMBING CAMPAIGNS IN CALIFORNIA & NOBODY NOTICED?

  March 7, 2023 | MICHAEL BOORMAN

  CA cops announced arrests of suspects in 2 apparently separate bombing campaigns – 1 in San Jose & 1 in Fresno. They received no coverage until the arrests.

• HERE’S THE GORE ARTIST TURNING TERRORGRAM MANUALS & MANIFESTOS INTO AUDIOBOOKS

  March 1, 2023 | SOCAL RESEARCH CLUB | MICHAEL BOORMAN

  A terrorgram propagandist has a long, sordid posting history & dates a convicted pedophile.

• BEND OREGON SHOOTER KILLS TWO, HAD PLANNED LARGER ATTACK

  August 29, 2022 | MICHAEL BOORMAN

  A shooting in Bend, Oregon yesterday took the lives of two innocent people, followed by the suicide of the shooter. Police and Bend city officials confirmed today that the shooting was carried out by a man named Ethan Blair Miller, aged 20. Yesterday evening around 7pm he drove to a supermarket and according to witness […]

• THE SILENCE OF THE DOLPHINS: ARREST UNCOVERS BOOGALOO BOY NETWORK

  February 9, 2022 | MICHAEL BOORMAN

  Another day, another Boogaloo arrest: this time an overconfident gun technician and a brand new network of civil war wannabes. Thanks to a tip from the extremely handsome and charismatic Seamus Hughes at the George Washington University Project on Extremism LCRW is both amused and depressed to report the recent arrest of Matthew Chen, 26, […]

• OATH KEEPERS THEATRE ACT IIIA: THE MAN IN THE ROOM FULL OF GUNS

  January 21, 2022 | MICHAEL BOORMAN

  A new detention memo for one of the Oath Keepers defendants charged with seditious conspiracy sheds more light on the group’s plans for J6. While Rhodes stood outside the Capitol directing his troops into battle (albeit not very effectively) another member of the team, Edward Vallejo, was standing by across the Potomac with a cache […]

• OATH KEEPERS THEATRE ACT III: FALL OF THE HOUSE OF RHODES

  January 17, 2022 | MICHAEL BOORMAN

  2022 is off to a rough start for the right wing. In the last week, several prominent right wing figures have found themselves behind bars. First up, Proud Boy Tiny Toese, arrested in his home state of Washington and held without bail on – count ’em – 15 charges. Three of the charges related to […]

• NAZIS MADE A MURDER CALENDAR & COUNTERTERROR ANALYSTS ARE HELPING SPREAD IT

  January 2, 2022 | MICHAEL BOORMAN

  With a new year comes new challenges, and one of the biggest struggles for antifascists is the unhealthy relationship between right wing propagandists and a security-industrial complex that claims to protect the public but actually enables and amplifies terror. For much of 2021, LCRW has been monitoring a subset of the Terrorgram network that publishes […]

• OATH KEEPERS THEATRE ACT II: FLORIDA MAN DEMANDS YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER or I WAS A TEENAGE OATHKEEPER

  November 2, 2021 | MICHAEL BOORMAN

  In our first installment on the Oath Keepers data dump, we met Ed Durfee Jr and Brett Wynkoop, respectively the membership director and system administrator for the Oath Keepers. When the organization was abruptly deplatformed in the wake of the Capitol riots on January 6, they worked night and day to get the website back […]

• OATH KEEPERS THEATRE ACT I: HYPE, LIES AND COMMS FAILURES

  October 19, 2021 | MICHAEL BOORMAN

  In early October, journalistic nonprofit Distributed Denial of Secrets released a trove of data collected from the Oath Keepers website. LCRW has been studying the material since the release. It reveals an organization mired in dysfunction and distrust – its membership directionless and often paranoid, its administration slipshod and laughably insecure, and its leadership seemingly […]

• ‘WORLDWIDE’ ANTI-QUARANTINE RALLIES DEVOLVE INTO RIVAL CAMPS

  August 25, 2021 | MICHAEL BOORMAN

  Following accusations by anti-vaccine protest organizers Telegram channel had been hacked, a rival faction is now denouncing the ‘Worldwide USA’ organizers and declaring all protests scheduled to take place across the US this weekend to be invalid. LCRW previously reported on an outbreak of confusion last weekend, when national organizers disconnected their California Telegram channel […]

• ‘WORLDWIDE’ ANTI-QUARANTINE TELEGRAM INFIGHTING BREAKS INTO THE OPEN

  August 25, 2021 | MICHAEL BOORMAN

  The organizational chaos around the ‘Worldwide USA’ anti-lockdown protests has taken a bizarre new turn. Following the recent delisting of state and regional groups from the national umbrella group, organizers are now attempting to right the ship, while accusing their co-admins of sabotage. In a statement posted to the Worldwide USA group on Telegram earlier […]

• ‘WORLDWIDE’ CALIFORNIA ANTI-LOCKDOWN RALLIES COLLAPSE IN CONFUSION

  August 21, 2021 | MICHAEL BOORMAN

  Multiple ‘freedom rallies’ scheduled to take place August 29 in California have been abandoned by national organizers. The events, originally scheduled to take place in San Francisco, Berkeley, Santa Monica, and San Diego, are in limbo after national organizers severed ties with their California chapter with no explanation. The Worldwide California group has descended into […]

• NORTH TEXAS NAZIS DO GRAFFITI TO COPE

  May 24, 2021 | ABNER HÄUGE | MICHAEL BOORMAN

  There’s a graffiti war going on in North Texas right now between Nazis and antifascists. Most of it, according to Dallas-area antifascists LCRW spoke to is just Patriot Front, the spinoff of Unite the Right marchers Vanguard America. The group is well known for putting up stickers and not doing much else these days. The […]

• HE WENT TO THE CAPITOL RIOT THEN PLOTTED TO BLOW UP AMAZON SERVERS

  April 13, 2021 | MICHAEL BOORMAN

  A Texas man was arrested by the FBI last Thursday for plotting to blow up an Amazon data center in Virginia. Following a sting operation, Seth Aaron Pendley, 28, of Wichita Falls, Texas was indicted Friday morning on explosives charges and faces up to 20 years in prison. Formerly an amateur bodybuilder and personal trainer […]

• FBI ARRESTS CALIFORNIA BOOGALOO BOY ON CHILD PORNOGRAPHY CHARGES

  December 3, 2020 | MICHAEL BOORMAN

  The FBI arrested another member of the Boogaloo movement in California on Wednesday–this time, for involvement in child pornography. Robert Jesus Blancas, described as ‘a transient resident of the Bay Area’ was arrested on December 1st and arraigned in San Francisco. If convicted, he faces the possibility of life in prison. The FBI’s interest in […]