Without missing a beat? Only several of VOA's 48 language services are barely operational. Kari Lake has left nearly all staff on paid admin leave for the past 11 months despite a federal judge ordering her to bring them back. See: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/202...

USAID money that saved people’s lives now reallocated to create a paid entourage for the guy who promised to put federal employees in trauma

The sourcing on the #RSF base was exceptional (meaning people / organisations chose to share very sensitive stuff with Reuters) and very hard to refute. The government of #Ethiopia is now kicking out Reuters journalists, according to the Addis Standard: addisstandard.com/ethiopia-dec...

Strong sourcing here for #Ethiopia backing the RSF in #Sudan: www.reuters.com/investigatio...

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BREAKING: Judge blocks Hegseth effort to punish Sen. Kelly. "This Court has all it needs to conclude that Defendants have trampled on Senator Kelly's First Amendment freedoms and threatened the constitutional liberties of millions of military retirees." Background: www.lawdork.com/p/breaking-k...

Recent PlanetScope imagery from @planet.com shows a new 2.6km-long berm that's been built by the IDF in south central Gaza near Kisufim Road. The berm roughly follows the "Yellow Line" that divides IDF-occupied areas and the rest of Gaza. Similar berms are visible elsewhere in the north and south.

Dear friends on Bluesky, it's been an overwhelming week since the mass layoff at the Post. I'll be continuing the work and would be so grateful if you sign up here to keep up with my future journalism. docs.google.com/forms/d/1dlh...

Bodies being "disintegrated" by explosions is very real, but it's from the pressure created, not any heat or thermal effects. There's also plenty evidence of this in videos from Gaza and other conflict zones, but this AJ article gets the fundamental science entirely wrong.

This quote about "obliterating matter" isn't unique to thermobaric explosives, it's the same effect from the shock wave. The shock wave from thermobaric explosions typically last longer, but don't reach as high of a peak pressure as conventional explosives.

This AJ article is wrong about explosions and explosives in several fundamental ways. This "phenomenon" the article mentions is due to the shock wave caused by the explosions, not due to the heat generated. www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

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“There was zero plan, except causing pain,” said one U.N. official about the Trump administration’s decision to stop funding the group with no notice or communication. “And that is not forgivable.” (Published Dec. 2025)

US military averaged just under one air strike per day in Somalia in the first month of 2026. The highest or second-highest monthly Somalia strike numbers ever, rivaled only by Dec 2025. 2025, the highest year for Somalia strikes yet, had 140+ strikes (10-15 most months).

And, again, the agent-doxxed-and-then-attacked scenario the masks ostensibly are intended to prevent has never actually occurred. www.pbump.net/o/ices-excus...

Great article tracking local news stories about ICE detention centers. "After El Paso’s ME ruled migrant’s death a homicide, ICE sent the next body to an Army hospital", "Nicaraguan Man in ICE Custody Dies in Mississippi Hospital", "Lawsuit alleges inhumane conditions at ICE Adelanto facility"

what a shot

OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit

What a fantastic show. Gorgeously immersive, energetic, loaded with Puerto Rican culture and perspective. 11/10, impossible to beat that.

A man taken into custody in Rochester Thursday by federal immigration agents and now held at the Whipple Federal Building in the Twin Cities is a recent organ transplant recipient who is without his needed anti-rejection medication, state Rep. Kim Hicks tells MPR News.

Typically 500m distances are given in Lebanon. 100m is much lower than several different standards or measurements for a safe distance of a 2,000 pound bomb, including a USMC "danger close" standard. Video Source: instagram.com/p/DUa1greiEkt/ Article: bellingcat.com/news/2026/02...

MK-84 2,000-pound bomb with a JDAM kit hitting a building in Gaza after an IDF notice. Bellingcat recently asked the IDF about the lack of evacuation distances in public evacuation notices in Gaza, which are included in notices in Lebanon, so interesting to see a 100m distance in the notice here.

(Bloomberg) - Elon Musk can be forced to testify in a lawsuit brought by government workers and contractors who accused him of unlawfully directing the dissolution of the [USAID] while he was a senior White House adviser, a judge ruled. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot. I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.

A year ago Elon Musk tweeted that he had fed USAID "into the wood chipper." It was an act that killed people. We don't know most of their names, but we know 27. I've listed them below. Much like with Renee Good + Alex Pretti, we should also remember these lives taken by the cruel men who lead us

January job cut announcement data generating predictable doomer headlines. *Don't use this data without caveats.* It's a small, unrepresentative sample of actual layoffs, and much noisier. Increases of this magnitude in announcements => small increases in actual layoffs.

US-made munitions continue to be used in Gaza, with a Hellfire missile being used in a strike last night. bsky.app/profile/chri...

My latest covering some of the strikes using US-made munitions used in Gaza.

I expected the cuts would be bad but I'm honestly stunned and sickened seeing how many great journalists the Washington Post just lost. People who nailed huge investigations, documented war zones, exposed horrific crimes, dropped all at once for failures they did not cause.

American-made munitions have played a significant role in Israel’s operations in Gaza. Bellingcat has collated scores of incidents where the remnants of US-made munitions have been found in the aftermath of Israeli strikes. Read here: www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/01...

WaPo laying off entire Middle East team

Verification by @easybakeovensz.bsky.social indicates that the weapon remnants visible at the impact site are from a Hellfire missile control section and rocket motor. Yellow marks the control section, red shows the control section internals, and blue marks the rocket motor.

Israeli airstrike on a makeshift shelter in an IDP camp, geolocated in al-Mawasi, Khan Younis, 31.378161, 34.288275.

Apparently morale at DOJ is so low that line attorneys are asking to be held in contempt so they can get some sleep yikes

Judge Reyes starts with a comparison: George Washington versus Kristi Noem.

This is probably a Skat Shell fired at a high angle. A Skat Shell dispenses four different submunitions when fired that each emit smoke or chemical irritant.

This is neat. SatVu is using their high-resolution thermal infrared satellite imagery to monitor data center activity. www.satellitevu.com/news/satvu-r... 🛰️🔥

JUST IN | Israeli forces detonated & destroyed the Morag Water Station in Rafah today, a facility that supplied water to roughly one-third of the city’s residents before the war, Palestinian investigative journalist Younis Tirawi Reuters w/ footage purportedly circulated by Israeli soldiers. The...

Geolocation| Israeli forces blow up the Turkish Moraj Water Station in northern #Rafah 31.311889, 34.263417 w/ verification help from @fdov21.bsky.social Video: x.com/ytirawi/stat...

Further destruction of water infrastructure in Gaza. Younis Tirawi shared a video on X showing the IDF blowing up the Morag Water Station: x.com/ytirawi/stat... According to Tirawi, the caption reads: “We specialize in paint jobs, and small renovations. Details on DM"

NEW: The Trump Administration is exempting new experimental nuclear reactors from environmental reviews. The exclusion comes just days after NPR revealed the administration had secretly rewritten environmental and safety standards at the Department of Energy. www.npr.org/2026/02/02/n...

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Based on the logo on the vehicles they appear to be part of the European Union Border Assistance Mission to Rafah. Logo reference: eeas.europa.eu/eubam-rafah_en

Geolocation| Vehicles, likely belonging to EUBAM Rafah, at the fence between Israel and Gaza, near Kerem Shalom. 31.226206, 34.277162 🗓️1 Feb. 2026 Video: t.me/amitsegal/56...

Not only are these AI generations faulty algorithmic guesses, but as I once wrote, “There is nothing inherently special, authoritative, or accurate about AI-generated outputs.” People tend to place a lot of mistaken trust in the output of machines

Donald Trump threatens to sue Trevor Noah for telling jokes at the Grammy Awards. I'm sure the self-declared free speech absolutists will be rushing to Noah's defence at any moment.

Our monitoring work over #Gaza has shown that destruction of the historic environment by the IDF has continued despite the ceasefire, most notably in the widespread demolition of parts of Gaza City's E suburbs (including W of the Yellow Line) in the first weeks of December 2025.

More recent reporting on this situation by the BBC and Associated Press can be found at: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... apnews.com/article/gaza... @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social @unesco.org

Remote-sensing assessment of Gaza's heritage shows the devastating impact of systematic demolition of #Gaza City's eastern Shejaiya area as recently as December, incl. west of the Yellow Line. This area has the highest density of documented historic structures outside the centre of Gaza City.