[Content warning: You should know by now we write about some terrible people! Racist, misogynistic, antisemitic and anti-LGBTQ+ slurs ahead]
One of the Alt-Right troll networks that emerged on Twitter during and after the 2016 US Presidential election was known as "The Shed." The Shed was a loose network of Twitter accounts that engaged in racist, antisemitic and anti-LGBTQ+ harassment campaigns and "doxed" journalists as well as anyone else who crossed their path. One of the most toxic of these Twitter trolls went by the alias "Spicci." We exposed Spicci in an earlier article as a New Hampshire electrician named John F. Rokes, Jr.
Another of The Shed trolls whose toxicity on was nearly on par with that of Rokes was a woman who called herself "Kaspa." Like Spicci, she had long escaped identification, harassing, threatening and doxing countless people on Twitter without consequence. But karma's a kick in the shins, and here is your kick, of Angle Vale, South Australia. Hope you have a jar of Australian Dream handy!
"Kaspa" and "The Shed"
The Twitter troll known as "Kaspa" was a member of the trolling collective dubbed "The Shed," which conducted extensive online harassment campaigns against journalists, activists and anyone who caught their attention or had political leanings left of right-wing. The Shed moniker itself was somewhat apocryphal, bordering on urban legend. It started as part of a pro-Trump meme factory and social media manipulation engine that included Alt-Right adjacent e-celebrities like manosphere lowlife Mike Cernovich and shady opportunist Jack Posobiec. The more ambitious participants tried to distance themselves from the Alt-Right, whose increasingly overt Nazism became political poison. The second wave of the The Shed was more extreme, trafficking in doxes and blatantly racist content.
The ostensible leader of The Shed was known as "Microchip," a troll turned federal informant whose recent testimony in the trial of Douglass Mackey (aka "Ricky Vaughn") shed light on his tactics, which included bot networks and other fairly sophisticated methods. Researcher Erin Gallagher showed some of the main players in this troll network in an analysis of cyber-harassment in social media which can be found here.
Microchip's most notorious acolyte was New Hampshire electrician John F. Rokes, Jr. whom we exposed as using the handle "Spicci." Rokes harassed and threatened people for years using hundreds of different Twitter accounts. Despite his surprisingly crude technique of using burner phones to create Twitter accounts, Spicci's name would be invoked in neo-Nazi circles with hushed tones as though he were some sort of internet bogeyman. His exposure showed that there was no wizard behind his curtain of anonymity. He was just an angry, mean, dysfunctional gamer weirdo with way too much time on his hands.
Kaspa was another key part of this multi-year trolling and harassment campaign. Using her mentor Spicci's crude and labor-intensive burner phone swapping technique, she ran through hundreds of short-lived Twitter accounts (she claimed to have used around five-hundred). With these Twitter accounts, Kaspa released doxes on numerous journalists which were in turn circulated throughout neo-Nazi Twitter circles. Some of these harassing tweets were re-tweeted many times by her followers, amplifying the harassment. Kaspa consistently used altered images of her real face to represent her online accounts and was known to be a woman in Australia.
As the Black Lives Matter movement gained momentum, Kaspa went berserk and doxed numerous journalists who covered anything related to it. She aggressively targeted high-profile social media accounts for harassment. She also doxed dozens of people for reasons ranging from real or imagined online slights to ideological disputes. She routinely posted private addresses, phone numbers, and other personal details to facilitate trolling and harassment
Clearly assuming she was safe in her Australian lair, Kaspa released doxes on numerous political figures. On this side of the pond, this kind of stuff would likely get you a door knock. It's a wonder she didn't end up in the back of a divvy van!
But there was a circular firing squad element to these activities. Kaspa also harassed other right-wing figures (particularly women) who were viewed as not ideologically extreme enough or too lascivious in conduct or appearance. The amount of petty infighting within their own circles was astonishing. Kaspa postured as some sort of avenger, defending her "friends" from various imagined slights and insults, doxing (or threatening to dox) other pseudonymous trolls that angered her.
The scale of this infighting is hard to convey. There are thousands of posts devoted to it. To characterise it as childish is unfair to children, as these are grown-ass adults maintaining multi-year feuds over internet name-calling. Even in the world of internet trolls, Kaspa was exceptionally racist, antisemitic, and bigoted. Her cruelty was unusually pronounced, often directed at other women whom she called "thots," "roasties" and "whores."
Her obsessive misogyny was not surprising, however. Kaspa was active in Gamergate, a spectacularly dumb and vicious trolling campaign that focused special energy towards harassing women. As early as 2014 Kaspa was using the thinly-veiled usernames Kasambra and Kaspanda with the Twitter handle "@chrenarchaeota" and boosting Gamergate, Donald Trump, Milo Yiannopolis, Millennial Matt Colligan, Sam Hyde, Alex Jones and other right-wing figures.
Kaspa was also obsessively antisemitic and frequently posted antisemitic and Holocaust denial tweets.
Kaspa even doxed celebrities like Justin Timberlake for his support of social justice movements. Her desperate need for racist street cred manifested itself in tweets to celebrities, whom she assaulted with racial slurs and doxes.
After the 2019 massacre in Christchurch, New Zealand, in which a single person murdered 51 Muslim worshippers at mosques in the city, Kaspa was one of the many white nationalists who celebrated the event by following the murderer's Twitter account. Like Spicci and the other members of The Shed, Kaspa's racism was particularly vicious, callously savouring the fifty-one innocent lives cut short while hiding behind a Twitter account.
Although Kaspa had a years-long run as a toxic racist shitbird, her productivity would eventually get the better of her. It was only a matter of time before the various tidbits of information she had left littered about the internet could be put together to expose her true identity.
"Shedding" Some Light on Kaspa
Kaspa was cavalier with her own personal information over the years. Her most recent social media activity was on the Nazi-friendly social media site Poa.st where she continued with her bigotry in a mostly unmoderated environment.
In June of 2021 we exposed the creator and administrator of the site as Dan Stevens of Ontario, Canada, who uses the alias "Anime Graf Mays" or simply "Graf." (Stevens has been mad at us ever since.) Stevens referred to his site as “the most racist social media site on the planet,” which may be only a small exaggeration. Racist and anti-LGBTQ+ posts on Poa.st are not only accepted on the site but also encouraged.
Kaspa was a frequent user of Poa.st and publicly posted a lot of details about her personal life on the site. On several occasions she posted photos of her workplace, which appeared to be an automobile place of some sort. Once she wrote about how she hated Teslas and that she had to attend "incident investigation training."
Kaspa also publicly posted disparaging remarks about her fellow employees, including racial slurs, and referred to a Jewish female co-worker as "the Gomorrah prostitute." There were several references to making co-workers cry. Kaspa indicated that her racist views were known and seemingly tolerated by her employers.
In one very racist retelling of a work incident, Kaspa wrote that her organisation had "accidentally accepted the business of an isis nigger" and texted her boss asking if she should work from home from then on. She posted screenshots of the texts.
In May of 2023, Poa.st experienced a massive security breach, leading to the exposure of thousands of user accounts. The breached files were subsequently leaked to multiple file sharing sites for public download. Stevens speculated in his disclosure to Poa.st users that the breach was done by members of a rival internet forum and that these rivals were conducting a harassment campaign against him. The leaked files included users' direct messages to each other within the site. These messages, previously private but now exposed to public scrutiny, proved to be a treasure trove of information on users of Poa.st, several of whom we have reported on here.
Reading the direct messages between Kaspa and Poa.st owner Dan "Graf" Stevens, we learned that they were longtime online friends going back to the Gamergate days. If you have come to the conclusion that Kaspa is a horrible person in public, it turned out that she is just as bad in private.
1043-<2023-02-14T03:16:30.000Z> Kaspa: Michigan is full of niggers isn't it
1044:<2023-02-14T03:16:50.000Z> Kaspa: And beaners too
1045:<2023-02-14T03:17:07.000Z> Kaspa: Damn its gonna be a beaner
1046-<2023-02-14T03:26:25.000Z> graf: poa.st/notice/[REDACTED]
1047-<2023-02-14T03:26:27.000Z> graf: oh no no no
1048-<2023-02-14T03:43:33.000Z> Kaspa: Possibly!
1049-<2023-02-14T03:43:39.000Z> Kaspa: It's always niggers
1050-<2023-02-14T03:43:44.000Z> Kaspa: 😆
She claimed to be an Australian woman of Serbian descent. Despite her own family's status as immigrants, she is cruelly contemptuous of other foreign transplants as well as Indigenous people.
<2023-03-26T00:54:06.000Z> Kaspa: My peoples
<2023-03-26T01:28:27.000Z> Varus: What kind are you
<2023-03-26T02:28:22.000Z> Varus: i like slavic women so it makes sense now :O_O
<2023-03-26T03:25:13.000Z> Varus: im guessing ukranian or russian
<2023-03-26T03:47:52.000Z> Kaspa: Serbian
<2023-03-26T03:52:48.000Z> Varus: ohhh interesting. have you been to serbia or outside australia
<2023-03-26T03:53:16.000Z> Kaspa: Yes but not since I was a kid, with my parents
<2023-03-26T03:53:23.000Z> Kaspa: So maybe that doesn't even count
<2023-03-13T05:33:50.000Z> Kaspa: I got cool skill attributes from being serbian you dont get it
<2023-03-13T05:34:05.000Z> VBurner: can you smell Bosnian blood on someone or something?
<2023-03-13T05:38:31.000Z> Kaspa: Yes and it makes me SICK!
<2023-03-13T05:39:04.000Z> Kaspa: Seriously tho very lucky to come from a non Turk raped lineage my dad was a blonde haired blue eyed 6'5 strong man
Also, in a direct message conversation with Dan Stevens ("graf") she revealed these doozies:
<2023-02-12T09:08:14.000Z> Kaspa: The shortened version of my full name is literally Kas and I know they were stupid goofy poorly made meme Avis but they literally had my face in them idk
<2023-02-12T09:10:51.000Z> Kaspa: Yeah I don't think anybody thought i would use my own face even my own friends
By "meme Avis" she meant her avatars, or the images she used for her social media accounts. At another time she and Stevens discussed their time zones:
<2023-02-12T07:37:47.000Z> graf: 2:37am here
<2023-02-12T07:37:52.000Z> graf: I think you are 12? hours ahead maybe 14
…
<2023-02-12T07:38:53.000Z> Kaspa: About 16 hours ahead, it's 6pm here
<2023-02-12T07:39:13.000Z> graf: oh bruh you must be on the wollongong side of straya
<2023-02-12T07:39:15.000Z> graf: one day i will make it there
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<2023-02-12T07:49:35.000Z> Kaspa: South Australia, little bit lower than Wollongong lol…
<2023-02-12T07:50:32.000Z> Kaspa: In a retarded ass 30 minute time zone too I don't think it's actually real and maybe time zones are just jewish tricks
<2023-02-12T07:50:35.000Z> Kaspa: It really does
<2023-02-12T07:50:47.000Z> Kaspa: There's a place here called iron knob
<2023-02-12T07:50:57.000Z> Kaspa: And a whole town called banana
<2023-02-12T07:51:20.000Z> Kaspa: There used to be a mount nigger head but crying abos made them change it
Amidst the racist banter, complaining about her petty rivalries with other women on social media, and general psychotic viciousness, Kaspa also confirmed the name of her employer, CEVA Automotive Transport in Adelaide. She shared many photos of her worksite and the various cars that they handle as well as internal communications including her employee performance reviews.
Disturbingly, Kaspa claimed her racist and antisemitic comments in the workplace were tolerated and even considered humourous.
Kaspa had posted publicly in racist and homophobic terms about auto brands her employer deals with, like Tesla and Ford. In the now-public DMs, Kaspa claimed to have a "blood feud" with the Ford account coordinator of CEVA and posted a photo of her, calling her a "jew bitch," "beaner spic bitch" and "a cunt."
Putting the pieces together, we learned that the long-time racist, antisemitic, misogynistic and anti-LGBTQ+ troll and all-round terrible person known as "Kaspa" was actually
As Mileusnic relates to The Shed, the leak of Poa.st direct messages reveals her relationship with her co-conspirator John Rokes, Jr., aka "Spicci," which appeared to be an online relationship that never came to fruition. She wrote to Stevens:
<2023-02-12T08:06:36.000Z> Kaspa: Yeah mine is too so I moved [REDACTED]. I squandered my time away on an American man who wouldn't and still probably won't commit to anything other than drugs and really bad ones not normal ones, but that's okay at least I can always say I did everything I could to help the person I love and make it work but it just didn't. If it did work I would have a family too I think but bullying trannies and calling people niggers passes the time at least
…
<2023-02-12T08:07:32.000Z> graf: sometimes you cant help those people
<2023-02-12T08:17:59.000Z> Kaspa: Yeah he is badly addicted to heroin and also alcohol. Refuses rehab, I almost dropped $12k on a stay at the best one I could find in new england for him but he told me he wouldn't go and they don't give your money back if they don't show up. Very heartbreaking way to see to someone you care about…
<2023-02-12T08:56:26.000Z> Kaspa: Good it should change. You shouldn't let anyone walk all over you, anyone who would be worth allowing to do that to you would never do it in the first place if that makes sense. And it will burn you out on helping people when you help those who don't deserve it and make your life hell for helping which isn't fair because you don't have to help but still do. Mine was one of our old twitter mutuals which I knew a little before twitter. I haven't heard back from him since last September when he was begging me to go over and marry him. I was 1 day from spending $5000 on a ticket when he went all ghost on me again. When we started getting close he told me he used to use and got clean and I feel like he was being truthful as looking back and comparing the behaviour it wasn't the same but I can't be sure if he was just better at hiding it or if new england is just so bad with the epidemic of heroin addiction that it's impossible to stay clean being constantly surrounded by it and others who use. Eventually he would try to use it as a means to push me away and would do things like send me photos of needles in the back of his hand. Upsetting stuff, but I still would have done anything to get him off that literal poison.
We know she is speaking about John Rokes, Jr., because in a DM conversation with another user, Rokes' online alias is referred to. She notes that she has not heard back from him since September of last year (2022):
<2023-03-06T08:14:15.000Z> n3f_X@nicecrew.digital: is spicci doin alright?
<2023-03-06T08:14:32.000Z> n3f_X@nicecrew.digital: he was talkin crazy ass shit last time i ran into em on gab i think
<2023-03-06T08:15:23.000Z> Kaspa: I don't know if he is alright or not
<2023-03-06T08:15:34.000Z> Kaspa: He hasn't responded to me since September of last year
Drug abuse and recovery is a serious issue and we don't shame those who suffer from addiction. At the same time, drug addiction is not an excuse for the threats and harassment that Rokes engaged in during his time as "Spicci." Mileusnic's formerly-private-but-now-public messages regarding Rokes further confirm our identification of Rokes as "Spicci," which he attempted to deny immediately following his exposure.
For those who know Mileusnic personally, further confirmation of her identity can be gained by listening to an audio clip of her voice which she shared to the world, and which was preserved by South-East Anti-Racist Action.
Exit Kaspa; Enter
As "Kaspa," Kasandra Mileusnic engaged in some of the most horrifically vicious bigoted internet trolling that we have seen. Now, thanks to the self-described “most racist social media site on the planet,” her true identity has been exposed and her behaviour can be held to public scrutiny. Like her cohorts in The Shed, she was no mastermind; just a pathetic, entitled racist with a lot of hate and too much time on her hands. But even this poor excuse for a human caused real fear and damage with her mass harassment. Shame on you, Kasandra. Karma is a kick in the shins.
A big thanks to our comrades the White Rose Society (Australia) for their contributions to this piece! You can find them on Twitter at @whiterosesocau.
Correction: We removed one photo which we had thought was a photo of her workplace, which it wasn't. It was a screenshot of a realistic video game. Much thanks to the reader who pointed it out!