EXCLUSIVE: A network of neo-Nazi fight clubs has been growing across Canada.
VICE News has discovered the identity of a young man at the center: 🧵1/5
The Active Clubs are the fastest-growing neo-Nazi movement in Canada. They meet up regularly to train martial arts, put up racist posters, and recruit young, easily manipulated white men to their cause. 🧵2/5
Nov 1, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Neo-Nazis are showing up at pro-Palestine protests in an attempt to push anti-Jewish conspiracy theories and tropes into the mainstream. Here’s what you need to know about them. 🧵1/6
The presence of these groups, like the white nationalist and antisemitic National Justice Party, at protests shouldn’t be seen as an indication that there is some ideological kinship between them and the wider pro-Palestine movement. 🧵2/6
Apr 26, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
After he was outed as a teen, Tony's evangelical parents told him he was “going to hell.”
An LGBTQ rights group gave him hope, but then his mom withdrew permission for counseling—based on advice from a group called Moms of Liberty. trib.al/rOQk82T
Moms for Liberty, an organization that calls itself a “parental rights group,” had persuaded Tony’s mom Carolyn that the Rainbow Youth Project was trying to “convince Tony to have his private parts removed and changed.”
Dec 15, 2022 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Gabriela was 17, pregnant, and out of options. The much-older father of the baby insisted she keep it a secret. She was sent to the Rosa Maria House—a Christian shelter where she’d learn to become a mother. (1/9) trib.al/MVTtb3X
Paraguay is arguably South America’s most conservative and religious country. Children and teens who become pregnant see little option beyond giving birth, whether they want to be mothers or not. (2/9) vice.com/en/article/bvm…
Nov 30, 2022 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
In a suicide note, Danny Elliot wrote, “there are millions of chronic pain patients suffering just like me because of the DEA. Nobody cares.”
He and his wife died one week after the DEA raided a doctor’s office in California. (1/9) trib.al/N2RLcsN
The DEA suspended the ability of Danny’s doctor to prescribe powerful opioids, including fentanyl. For pain clinic patients like Danny, the drug was a necessary part of life. (2/9) vice.com/en/article/wxn…
Oct 17, 2022 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
“I felt like I was going to die. Then I decided I was never going to do this again.”
Jessica figured it would be one of those nights where she’d be up until dawn doing cocaine—but she didn’t expect the experience to be terrifying. (1/9) trib.al/C6RpBAn
The Toronto-based journalist was sharing a gram of coke with friends one night in March but within an hour, she said her heart was pounding. She tried to calm down and take deep breaths. Nothing worked. (2/9) vice.com/en/article/z34…
Aug 25, 2022 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
EXCLUSIVE: VICE News interviewed founders of PragerU and the Daily Wire, two of the internet’s biggest spreaders of climate crisis denial, and confirmed they received seed funding from the Wilks brothers, ultra-religious Texas fracking billionaires. trib.al/wMbPJaP
For years, PragerU has made content calling the climate crisis “hysteria.” Founder Dennis Prager said early funding from the Wilks helped the company “expand,” but says he's in no way influenced by it. "I have to answer to God, not donors."
NEW: VICE News has learned that one of the individuals posting multiple threats against the FBI in the wake of the Mar-a-Lago search was also at the Capitol on Jan. 6. trib.al/5LVZwie
In the build-up to the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, Brandon Lee Sanders posted multiple violent comments on the fringe, far-right forum TheDonald.
Police in Argentina arrested 19 people in a massive raid of the famed Yoga School of Buenos Aires alleging it’s actually a “transnational criminal organization” that recruited women into “geisha” apprenticeships to ascend levels of the group. trib.al/FDzRayk
The Yoga School, which operates in Argentina and at least three U.S. cities — Chicago, New York and Las Vegas — allegedly used the so-called “geisha” group to engage in sex acts with “people of power” for money and influence. trib.al/FDzRayk
Aug 23, 2022 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
“QAnon Queen” Romana Didulo claims to be the true leader of Canada, waging a secret war against a cabal of pedophilic elites. But she’s moved far beyond typical QAnon musings, to threatening to execute her enemies—and anyone who disobeys her.
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To her loyal followers, Didulo is an extraterrestrial spiritual leader with access to secret, New Age healing technology. Online, she has tens of thousands of followers hanging on her every word and showering her with adulation.
BREAKING: 4 cops tied to Breonna Taylor’s death have been arrested and are set to be charged, VICE News has learned. trib.al/a14Otmb
The FBI arrested four current and former Louisville Metro Police officers early Thursday, according to multiple sources. Officers include former detectives Brett Hankison and Joshua Jaynes, as well as Detective Kelly Hanna Goodlett and Sgt. Kyle Meany. trib.al/ZYJcX0F
Aug 4, 2022 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Nuclear plants supply nearly 20 percent of America’s electricity, and aside from the radioactive waste, supporters argue they are surprisingly good for the climate. Now, a local battle is brewing to save California’s last nuclear power plant. trib.al/UNKOIjy
California has one nuclear plant left, Diablo Canyon. Some experts say "considering our climate crisis, closing the plant is not only irresponsible, the consequences could be catastrophic." trib.al/TBXw0jZ
Aug 3, 2022 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
"This is NOT an appropriate use of our work.” Researchers are furious that their work is being used by Florida to deny transgender kids healthcare.
We spoke to 10 researchers on how the state is misusing their research to justify its anti-trans agenda. trib.al/wCgg4p6
Dr. Ken Pang was shocked to learn his research was cited in a memo written by Florida’s Department of Health that recommends against gender-affirming care for all minors in the state. The memo also attacked using new pronouns or wearing different clothing. trib.al/hJA0GOn
Aug 2, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
A giant sinkhole just opened up in Chile. The hole, 82 feet in diameter, or roughly the width of the White House, is being investigated by geologists to see if it has a connection to contentious foreign mining operations in the region.
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It's located on a plot of land whose mining rights are owned and operated by a Canadian company, Lundin Mining.
Ayman Al-Zawarhi, who assumed leadership of the Al Qaeda terror group after the death of Osama Bin Laden, was killed in a drone strike, according to reports. bit.ly/3OZriDm
Along with Bin Laden, al-Zawarhi is considered one of the central planners of the 9/11 attacks, bringing years of paramilitary and terrorist know-how from his time leading an Egyptian terrorist group. bit.ly/3OZriDm
Jul 18, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Michael Peroutka believes public education is a communist plot, abortion and gay marriage violate God's law, and that separation of church and state is a “great lie.” On Tuesday, he may win the Republican nomination for Maryland’s attorney general. trib.al/syl3upz
His views are extreme even for the modern Republican Party, and once would have been disqualifying for any major party nominee for statewide office. His emergence as a serious candidate shows how far the door has been thrown open to extremism in the GOP. trib.al/80d3vKu
Jul 18, 2022 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
When a pastor from a St. Louis suburb took the stage at his church one weekend in early July, he spent 15 minutes railing about antifa, Black Lives Matter, feminism, and promoted the baseless claim that the Capitol riot was a hoax. trib.al/IKWqj1H
But many of his congregants say the church never used to be like that. “I can remember the sermons growing up, and they never spoke about politics. It was a quote-unquote ‘feel-good’ church,” one said. trib.al/3OZWV95
Jul 15, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
A former top Mexican security official, who is awaiting trial after being accused of taking millions of dollars worth of cartel bribes, alleges he is being set up by an informant who is a convicted child pornographer. trib.al/XrRt0Md
Federal authorities in the U.S. are accused of enlisting a jailhouse informant to pose as a Russian mobster and make hundreds of hours of secret recordings, which are now being used as evidence in the high profile case against Genaro García Luna. trib.al/rPV5rsk
Jul 13, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
He says the feds pushed him into a supermax prison in part over an ISIS tattoo–something he does not have. trib.al/Ttb6Wxm
Marco Antonio Paredes-Machado insists he was never a major player in the Sinaloa Cartel. Prior to his capture in 2011, according to court records, he was merely a “plaza boss,” akin to middle management, a few rungs below the infamous El Chapo, he said. trib.al/bR3Iz6p
Jul 13, 2022 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
Here’s what you need to know about abortion pills, how they’re used, and their legal status in a post-Roe United States. trib.al/0cqwl59
What are abortion pills?
When people talk about “abortion pills,” they usually mean two drugs: mifepristone and misoprostol. In the U.S., doses of these two drugs are typically used to induce what’s known as a “medication abortion.” trib.al/WoItzLl
Jul 12, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Could Trump be charged like a mob boss in Georgia?
It looks more likely than ever that he'll face a possible racketeering charge for his efforts to flip Georgia’s 2020 election result, lawyers say.
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The hailstorm of subpoenas dropped by a Georgia special grand jury on Trump’s inner circle presents new evidence of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ confidence that she’ll be able to bring a case, lawyers watching her investigation said.
