Bluesky User Warned Shooting Suspect About 2025 Election Theories

Law enforcement is reviewing a Bluesky account named "ColdForce" for potential ties to Cole Allen, charged with firing shots at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on April 25, 2026, in Washington, D.C. Officials state that Allen traveled from California to D.C. by train, bypassed security at the Washington Hilton, and shot a Secret Service agent who survived, before being subdued.

Allen had booked a hotel room more than two weeks in advance and used open-source media to track movements ahead of the event, according to a motion for pretrial detention filed on April 26, 2026. Allen faces charges of attempted assassination and gun-related offenses, with a potential sentence of up to life in prison if convicted.

An FBI agent stated in an April 28, 2026, affidavit that Allen used the moniker "cold force" across multiple online accounts. The Bluesky account shared personal details matching Allen's, including educational background and a name used in a pre-attack manifesto, as reported by the Daily Caller News Foundation based on archived posts.

In a February 22, 2025, exchange on Bluesky, a user with the handle "@aurelius2k5" responded to "ColdForce" after the account questioned whether there was precedent for military action in cases of alleged illegitimate elections involving the president and Congress.

The replying user stated that the election was won fairly and warned that pursuing stolen election theories entered territory similar to that of January 6, 2021, Capitol riot participants. "ColdForce" countered by citing administration actions and arguing there were no grounds to assume the win was fair.