I believe it is of journalistic and public interest to analyze the contents of the probable manifesto of Robin M Westman, the Annunciation Catholic School shooter. this is a live-thread as I work! 🧵
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So give all the fascists weapons and disarm the left and minorities? Fuck off
aug 28, 2025, 6:59 pm • 3 0 • view
people are so delusional about the way gun control laws are actually implemented. local police departments which are primarily MAGA even in blue states decide who deserves to defend themselves. my blue state has effectively banned trans people from owning guns but will gladly give them to neo nazis
aug 28, 2025, 10:37 pm • 3 1 • view
inb4 anyone tries to tell me they didn't ban trans people from owning guns: yes they did. if you have received treatment for mental illness in MA you are disqualified. even if you are FULLY recovered and 100% safe and your doctor says so. that disqualifies every single trans person I know. (2/3)
aug 29, 2025, 12:28 am • 2 0 • view
discriminatory laws are typically not written to explicitly discriminate. that's why courts have often held that the appearance of discrimination is what matters, not whether intent can be proven. if your law "just coincidentally" discriminated against a group, it's still discrimination. (3/3)
aug 29, 2025, 12:28 am • 2 0 • view
I disagree. Let professionals go over whatever info is present. It is their job and their training. Most importantly, giving notoriety & attention to mass shooters is exactly what they want ❌Do NOT say their names ❌Do NOT print their manifesto ❌Do NOT focus on them! ❌Do NOT help mass shooters
aug 27, 2025, 9:35 pm • 5 0 • view
I think people are allowed to be curious and want to know why why why… I think it’s natural to ask questions and not understand and want to understand. But if you dont want to know, don’t read about it. If I was family if the victims, I’d avoid the internet for a while.
aug 28, 2025, 12:29 am • 1 0 • view
Yea how well is that working out?
aug 28, 2025, 12:16 am • 10 0 • view
Can we see the original please? And why / how did he learn Cyrillic?
aug 27, 2025, 9:18 pm • 2 0 • view
It’s not that hard to learn. It’s just a different alphabet. You don’t have to be a Russian spy to figure it out 🙄
aug 28, 2025, 1:33 am • 0 0 • view
It is hard to learn for an average Minneapolis kid. But that's not why I asked anyway.
aug 28, 2025, 1:42 am • 1 0 • view
Thank you for taking this so seriously
aug 27, 2025, 9:20 pm • 1 0 • view
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aug 28, 2025, 4:07 pm • 0 0 • view
Thank you for doing this, as objectively as one can. I can't get those archive links to work, so I assume they were somehow scrubbed.
aug 27, 2025, 11:24 pm • 2 0 • view
Thanks, but-- if possible, I now think even less of the shooter than before. All that bloviation and NOT ONE WORD about why this fucking weasel needed to shoot up LITTLE KIDS rather than just eat that gun. And family advice?? Fuck that whining & incredibly MORALIZING little shit for all eternity.
aug 27, 2025, 10:11 pm • 5 1 • view
This person apparently had a deep admiration for mass shooters, particularly the one who did Sandy Hook. A deeply disturbed and deranged individual.
aug 27, 2025, 11:50 pm • 1 0 • view
I wonder if it will be another one that's connected to terrogram? That's some scary shit
aug 28, 2025, 12:23 am • 1 0 • view
I also wondered about this shooter becoming radicalized online.
aug 28, 2025, 12:31 am • 0 0 • view
I’d like to hear a psychologist’s feedback on her manifesto/suicide note. The narcissism was exhausting.
aug 27, 2025, 8:39 pm • 18 0 • view
Do women really shoot up schools and do the blam blam murder suicide thing? Sounds a bit mannish to me
aug 28, 2025, 1:31 am • 1 0 • view
Statistically, it is a very dude thing to do, but there have been a couple women. I tend to believe that the majority just want to end their lives and instead of getting help or just doing it, it’s almost a competition to take out as many people as possible.
aug 28, 2025, 1:47 am • 0 0 • view
Yeah, that’s definitely… a man thing. I can think of maybe 3 women in all of recorded human history who acted like that
aug 28, 2025, 9:23 am • 1 0 • view
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aug 27, 2025, 9:20 pm • 2 0 • view
Save your bullshit for someone else.
aug 27, 2025, 9:46 pm • 3 0 • view
Forgive me if I don’t honor the invented gender identity of another sick white male mass murdering piece of shit. We don’t owe him anything. This male violence needs to stop.
aug 27, 2025, 9:49 pm • 2 0 • view
I bet you jumped for joy and went off to masturbate over the news reports when you saw they were trans Because you’re trying so hard to make them being trans an important point while make the access to guns irrelevant Gross shit
aug 27, 2025, 11:03 pm • 1 0 • view
I would love to misgender that douchebag. It’s my personally satisfying petty revenge. However, members of the trans community have said that to ignore the gender identity of one, even the shitbags, is to deny the gender identity of all. So, out of respect for all transgendered, Robin is a she/her.
aug 27, 2025, 10:24 pm • 3 0 • view
I'm not a psychologist, but the flight of ideas, loose associations, grandiosity, & generally illogical conclusions are each indicators clinically for bipolar disorder. Summed together it would clearly point that way.
aug 27, 2025, 11:27 pm • 1 0 • view
I would also suggest potential alcoholism from the videos shared in this thread, whether it was a chronic issue or not is unknown, but I will say that a lot of people with untreated or undertreated bipolar disorder (which often coincides with anxiety) will self-medicate, commonly with alcohol.
aug 27, 2025, 11:28 pm • 1 0 • view
That’s a good point. The whole “move on with your life and forget that this ever happen.” WTAF?!?
aug 27, 2025, 11:42 pm • 1 0 • view
People generally try to avoid cognitive dissonance. They don't want to have to deal with their belief system being challenged, even just within their own minds.
aug 27, 2025, 11:45 pm • 1 0 • view
I would really like randos online to stop diagnosing strangers. You do not understand narcissism. You sound like you heard about it from some toxic fandom who thinks being famous = narcissism. Stop using that word. It's ableist. This kind of behavior gets people forcibly incarcerated and sterilized.
aug 27, 2025, 10:51 pm • 1 0 • view
I feel compelled to diagnose you: bullying close-minded, uncomfortable with challenging ideas, catastrophizing ideation. This post is pondering as our people all across the country tonight, especially after learning the killer was trans: what mental disorders did he/she have?
aug 28, 2025, 12:33 am • 2 0 • view
God, could you just sit down an shut up with your obnoxious entitled ablist transphobic rhetoric for one god damn second‽ Children are dead. The shooter was a nazi. Trans people are statistically LESS likely to commit a mass shooting. Narcissism is a real thing. You aren't a licensed professional.
aug 28, 2025, 3:47 am • 3 0 • view
It’s the Internet, Erinn. If you don’t like something that someone says, you have every right to scroll on. Scroll on, Erinn. Scroll on.
aug 27, 2025, 10:55 pm • 1 0 • view
"Pray for the victims and their families" like excuse me but you're the one who is actively choosing to go and mass murder some strangers? Hello??
aug 27, 2025, 8:45 pm • 24 0 • view
Cyrillic?
aug 27, 2025, 10:48 pm • 2 0 • view
Russian
aug 27, 2025, 11:35 pm • 1 0 • view
Hm. That’s interesting. Unless they were actually Russian, why Russian? I guess the right wing in America love Russians now though.
aug 28, 2025, 12:32 am • 4 0 • view
They're saying that his Russian was riddled with mistakes. Couldn't even write some letters of the alphabet correctly.
aug 28, 2025, 3:20 am • 2 0 • view
Oh. Well lol. Maybe the gibberish was a sign of their mind kinda going..
aug 28, 2025, 3:07 pm • 1 0 • view
Yep. And perhaps alcohol.
aug 28, 2025, 3:14 pm • 1 0 • view
Oh definitely lol
aug 28, 2025, 3:14 pm • 1 0 • view
Tough to say. This individual had both far right & far left views.
aug 28, 2025, 12:43 am • 1 0 • view
Makes it harder for someone that might be sneaking peeks while you're writing to know what you actually wrote, since the average American won't know.
aug 28, 2025, 1:29 am • 3 0 • view
👍 Hadn't thought about it like that. Guess it's not in my nature to think that way
aug 28, 2025, 1:31 am • 0 0 • view
Apparently he didn't either 🙄
aug 28, 2025, 4:39 am • 1 0 • view
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aug 28, 2025, 11:50 am • 0 0 • view
first, to establish a timeline: at 13:27 UTC, Jeff Day of the Star Tribune hears shooting and calls 911, per a Tribune report. Westman's identity is first divulged to the media, as far as I can tell, around 16:30 UTC.
aug 27, 2025, 7:59 pm • 72 1 • view
three videos were posted to a YouTube channel with the username "robinw1312" and display name "Robin W" 2 hours prior to that first divulgence. an archive of the channel on the 18th (web.archive.org/web/20250718...) shows that the name and username were not changed.
aug 27, 2025, 7:59 pm • 73 1 • view
Sorry, so the videos were uploaded a few hours before the shooting began? Or minutes? I just wonder what on earth America spends all this money on defence or policing if they can’t actively be monitoring the internet for active threats. Lots of shooters have had manifestos online for the public.
aug 27, 2025, 11:42 pm • 2 0 • view
Because it's not a pre-emptive system. First they vacuum up all the data, and when you end up on their radar for something, THEN they can begin establishing connections, gathering evidence, etc. Snowden explained the selector process when he released the documents on it.
aug 28, 2025, 12:35 am • 0 0 • view
because of this timeline, I (and an increasing amount of non-tabloid media sources) consider the video to very likely be legitimate. the three videos are entitled "Robin Westman ehehe," "Robin Westman," and "08.27.2025 RMW." they appear to be intended to come up from a YouTube search.
aug 27, 2025, 7:59 pm • 77 1 • view
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aug 28, 2025, 11:51 am • 0 0 • view
the videos' names and relative times are archived on the Wayback Machine: web.archive.org/web/20250718... web.archive.org/web/20250827... now: what do they show?
aug 27, 2025, 7:59 pm • 55 2 • view
the longest video, the 20-minute "Robin Westman," shows two journals, both with entries written in Cyrillic script approximating English. (as I transcribe, I'll be verifying this.) the first journal spans the dates May 23 to July 19, and the second spans the dates July 19 to August 21, 2025.
aug 27, 2025, 7:59 pm • 68 1 • view
I feel like I’m dense or missing something here, but could you explain the “Cyrillic script” part? I saw the screenshots you posted in this thread, and I can’t see any difference from the traditional English that I’m used to.
aug 27, 2025, 10:36 pm • 0 0 • view
Did you see this one? It's a mishmash of Latin and Cyrillic letters, used to more or less represent the sounds of the English words. bsky.app/profile/ryan...
aug 27, 2025, 11:58 pm • 1 0 • view
Ah, there it is! My bad, I thought the (already-posted) manifesto was supposed to be the Cyrillic part, and didn’t realize OP hadn’t gotten to the actual Cyrillic yet when I posted that comment.
aug 27, 2025, 11:59 pm • 1 0 • view
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aug 28, 2025, 11:53 am • 0 0 • view
the shortest video, the 2-minute "08.27.2025 RMW," shows the second journal again, but the entries continue until today, August 27. the third 11-minute video "Robin Westman ehehe" shows a Latin-script manifesto, plus an assortment of munitions.
aug 27, 2025, 7:59 pm • 62 1 • view
the third video is of most immediate interest. the manifesto is shown on pages that appear to be torn out of the second journal. I'm transcribing it page-by-page in alt text. please be aware that its contents are sensitive.
![To My Family and Friends: I don't expect forgiveness and I don't expect any apology I have to hold much weight, but to my family and those close to me, I do apologize for the effects my actions will have on your lives. Please know I care for all of you so much and it pains me to bring this storm of chaos into your lives. This will affect so many more people than the ones that are immediately involved. To my Mother and Father: I am sorry I didn't turn out as you had hoped. You did not fail me, you gave me so much. I truly appreciate the love you have given me, I feel I was raised to be a good person. I've kept those traits of empathy, self-sacrifice, and good character. Please do not think you have failed as parents. I was corrupted by this world and have learned to hate what life is. Life is love, life is pain. There is too much to accept, too many things to put up with just to live. I'm tired of the pain this world gives out. Please move on and continue to give your love to my brothers and sisters, and the rest of the world. They may not forgive you but you need to move on from me. Forget my life and the pain I've brought. I love you both. Thank you for everything. I'm sorry. To my Siblings, I am sorry for forever tainting the rest of your lives. Your careers, lives, and relationships, all will be turned upside-down. Please hold on to who you are, not who I am. Change your names if you must. I wish I could tell you that before I go. Please know that [...]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lb5rzms2ky5fmp6clthjwuvx/bafkreibyx2ldaqrr2i6kmby2gwhlrrqxzncffppnjit2cf5sxqxgi66s7a@jpeg)
aug 27, 2025, 8:11 pm • 63 5 • view
page two, which explains that Westman was "severely depressed" and had "been suicidal for years" but "[o]nly recently [...] lost all hope." the shooting is what they consider "their final action."
![[...] I love you all and truly appreciate the time I have spent with you. I have such an amazing family and it hurts me to throw this wrench into the works of you good people. I feel hope when with you, I cherish our time together. I appreciate all that you have taught me and I felt inspired to be like you when I grew up. I hope you are able to move on and continue your lives without being forever followed, forever haunted by my actions. Forget me and all that I am. Hold onto yourselves and your loved ones. I love you all. And to my friends, I trust you all to give your memory of me however you see fit. I am sorry for the confusion and heartbreak this will bring. I truly appreciate all of you for showing me a good life and helping me through dark times. I have had so many good times that gave me hope, unfortunately this world has too much pain to deal out that I can't cover up with the good sides of life. I hope you all can move on and forget the pain I've caused. I have wanted this for so long. I am not well. I am not right. I am a sad person, haunted by these thoughts that do not go away. I know this is wrong but I can't seem to stop myself. I am severely depressed and have been suicidal for years. Only recently have I lost all hope and decided to perform my final action against this world. I don't want to kneel down for the injustices of this world. I want to die. I'd rather die on my feet than live on my knees, constantly in pain.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lb5rzms2ky5fmp6clthjwuvx/bafkreidfjfin2qr4m6yvefkmfsmfyrfndrlkcm2whmpaa6dtok32fciqbm@jpeg)
aug 27, 2025, 8:18 pm • 46 1 • view
I just don't get why this needs to lead to shooting innocent children PRAYING in a church. You're suicidal. You want to die. I understand that. But WHY take others with you, who also have parents they love, just like you did yours?
aug 27, 2025, 9:47 pm • 3 0 • view
This seems to be a very common thing with mass shooters. They’re suicidal and hate the world and want others to suffer too. But also a very common thing for men in general. “Ah I hate my perfect wife and kids. Must take them out before I end my own life or run off”. patriarchy? Toxic masculinity?
aug 27, 2025, 11:48 pm • 5 1 • view
page three, which gives a further motive: Westman believed they were dying of "lung cancer" due to "vaping and other means." their understanding of cancer and its symptoms appears shallow and paranoid.
aug 27, 2025, 8:28 pm • 54 0 • view
This stupid bint got that "information" from an LLM, didn't she. I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn this is the first ChatGPT-mediated massacre...
aug 27, 2025, 11:11 pm • 0 0 • view
page four, the final page of the Latin-script manifesto. it includes a warning: "I wouldn't recommend any of you to read my journals, unless you REALLY want to, but be warned." it's unclear whether the warning is addressed toward their loved ones or the general public.
![I love you all, I will remember you. Pray for the victims and their families. I Love You [heart] Dad, Mom, Jack, Martha, Theresa, Joe, Jared, Phil, Liam — Robin M Westman 2002-2025 [signature:](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lb5rzms2ky5fmp6clthjwuvx/bafkreibolepr2n73qbken3rnepj2gxkijzw27jxlr2cmyg32slb6bxvgk4@jpeg)
aug 27, 2025, 8:33 pm • 47 0 • view
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aug 27, 2025, 8:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Granted, I wasn't writing manifestos or things revealing of my personal attitudes or anything hateful. When I wrote things I didn't want easily scrutinised under close observation, at least I made the effort of writing German transliterated into Cyrillic *cursive* instead of being quite so obvious.
aug 29, 2025, 8:58 pm • 0 0 • view
publishing that garbage will just give another low life a mentor to idolize don't say their name. don't show their writing. don't show their guns. let them rot in anonymity
aug 28, 2025, 6:15 am • 1 0 • view
Please don't use gendered language, use xanifesto instead
aug 29, 2025, 1:27 am • 0 0 • view
You’re right. “In the end, it's not the guns that commit mass shootings - it's the fractured minds wielding them.” A Psychological Profile of Robin Westman: Decoding the Despair Behind an American Tragedy bsky.app/profile/duns...
aug 29, 2025, 2:15 am • 0 0 • view
Has anyone reported where he got the guns/ammo?
aug 27, 2025, 10:49 pm • 1 0 • view
Adult with no criminal record, living in a gun friendly state
aug 27, 2025, 11:35 pm • 3 0 • view
It’s way too easy. Do Americans even need gun licenses?
aug 28, 2025, 12:30 am • 0 0 • view
We can pick this apart all we want, the common thread factor in all these mass shootings is that guns are more readily available than quality mental healthcare access ever has been in this country.
aug 28, 2025, 12:57 am • 11 2 • view
I agree that removing access to guns should be the top priority. But after that we should also try to deradicalize these people. Reaching them is not impossible. They are still human in there, somewhere
aug 28, 2025, 1:53 pm • 4 0 • view
Jesus wept 😢
aug 27, 2025, 9:43 pm • 5 0 • view
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aug 27, 2025, 9:03 pm • 0 0 • view
Until thoughts and prayers make children bulletproof, stick them up your asses.
aug 27, 2025, 9:42 pm • 59 18 • view
Thoughts, prayers and flags at half staff 🙄 That will fix the problem. 🤬
aug 27, 2025, 11:54 pm • 1 0 • view
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