Based on this reporting, I am skeptical for now about this undertaking. To the extent the U.S. military properly applied the joint targeting cycle in the context of the alternate legal reality conjured up by OLC's Murder Memo—OIG might still give them an A+. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

This is just going to rinse repeat until tanks are empty and spot markets go vertical, then the jawboning won't matter.

Stocks bid on the news that the President has noticed the oil rally.

Incredible- Trump's $2 billion taxpayer-subsidized slush fund comes with a legal disclaimer that basically says "we are not responsible for any crimes committed with this money"

A note on this story. We asked the Marine Corps for comment last Wednesday. We asked the White House on Friday. White House spokesman asked for more time at 12 PM today, suggesting answers would come soon. Never heard back. Then another outlet publishes exclusive at 1030 PM tonight.

The report is by Earth_Insight, ORPIO (Regional Organization of Indigenous Peoples of the East), AIDESEP (Interethnic Association for the Development of the Peruvian Rainforest), and COIAB (Coordination of Indigenous Organizations of the Brazilian Amazon): earth-insight.org/insight/vani...

Deep in the Amazon, along Peru-Brazil border, lies proposed Yavarí-Tapiche Corridor: 16 million hectares of intact forest sheltering world's highest concentration of Indigenous peoples living in isolation. But threats (oil/gas, mining/logging, highways, narcos) are closing in, new report shows.

Pleased to speak with @theguardian.com about the US boat strikes and this important investigation into the identities of the victims. “I think this was in part a military spectacle to give the illusion of the administration doing something ‘macho’ about drugs.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

NEW: Airwars-supported cross-border investigation identifies victims of US boat strikes. Journalist collective reveals victims are labourers, fishermen, cab drivers. Almost 200 have been killed since Sept 2025. No trial, no defence. 🔗 www.elclip.org/los-bombarde... #LosBombardeados

DoJ set to drop fraud charges against a billionaire from India after the defendant hired one of President Trump’s lawyers and offered to invest $10 billion in the US economy. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/n...

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terrifying to still see more destruction in recent months in towns nowhere close to the supposed frontline like Baraachit

Destruction in southern Lebanon continues, including outside the Yellow Line. Just recently a solar-powered water well was destroyed in Deir Mimas, a Christian village north of the mostly-destroyed town of Kfar Kela. This also damaged a housing complex. News link: nna-leb.gov.lb/ar/news/5185...

Satellite imagery shows that at least 46 towns and villages in southern Lebanon have been heavily damaged or, in some cases, entirely flattened by the Israeli Defence Forces. Bellingcat’s interactive map reveals the scale of the destruction: www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/05...

SkySat imagery from @planet.com shows the IDF demolitions in Gaza's Rafah haven't stopped. Between April 5 and 16, three schools — some of the last remaining buildings standing — and homes were destroyed. May 1 imagery shows homes near the UAE field hospital in Rafah Stadium have been demolished.

Bellingcat used open source methods to examine statements from the authorities and media reports. Bellingcat confirmed several incidents in which villages were engulfed in the landslide and residents living near the mine were among those killed.

With the mines currently under the control of the Rwandan-backed group M23, and access restricted to journalists and many NGOs, the true number of casualties remains unclear. main.un.org/securitycoun...

Since the beginning of 2026, at least four landslides have reportedly killed hundreds of people at the Rubaya mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a major global source of coltan. www.bellingcat.com/news/africa/...

"The cost of a Starlink antenna—which is expended in an attack—is now lower than the cost of the longest-range FPV fiber-optic spools."

U.S. Air Force Special Operations Aircraft Accused Of Austrian Airspace Incursion www.twz.com/air/u-s-air-...

New: U.S. commercial satellite imagery companies imposed an indefinite blackout over the Middle East, citing force protection But Iran has its own satellite imagery. I wrote about who's actually affected: The journalists & researchers trying to hold the US accountable: www.cjr.org/feature/blin...

According to the IDF’s own investigation, the battalion commander was present when his soldiers opened fire on the three men waving the white flag, and only ordered them to cease fire after the first two had been killed and he heard the third—whom a sniper had already wounded—calling out in Hebrew.

IDF soldier who participated in the mistaken killing of three Israeli hostages in Gaza City in Dec 2023 confirmed to his mother what was widely reported at the time: they killed the men, who were waving white flags, because their unit was under orders to kill all Gazan men they encountered.

“Damage at the [Bahrain] Naval Support Activity is ‘extensive’ and [5th Fleet] headquarters there relocated to MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa…It is unlikely that troops, contractors or civilian employees will return to the base ‘anytime soon,’ the official said.”

The photo below appears to have been taken in Debel, a Christian village in southern Lebanon. The comms pylon and base on the hill in the background would be UNP 5-66 and the perspective from the buildings at 33.120212, 35.361487 lines up: www.google.com/maps/place/3... CC: @geoconfirmed.org

Reposting given SecDef’s suggestion before SASC today that the War Powers Resolution’s 60-day clock isn’t running because of the ceasefire.

“A shell company backed by Donald Trump Jr and Eric Trump has merged with a critical minerals group that last year secured up to $1.6bn in US government support to mine tungsten in Kazakhstan.”

any flight trackers have info on these recent "SWORD" military(?) high-altitude balloon(?) flights in California?

Haaretz talks to Israeli soldiers facing Hizbullah drone attacks as they guard civilian contractors demolishing Shi'ite towns in occupied south Lebanon: www.haaretz.com/middle-east-...

Our new report on satellite imagery assessment of damage to heritage sites in the Gaza Strip is online. This analysis records widespread damage across the territory & lists only 100 of the 524 sites listed on the EAMENA database as being in a ‘Good’ or ‘Fair’ condition. 🔗 eamena.org/article/remo...

Dialing up the killing spree at sea.

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On Cole Allen's apparent Bluesky account, from Amy Qin and myself. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/u...

Exposed: How Ukrainian wheat stolen by Russia is smuggled to Israel. My investigation, with the fab @yoruk.bsky.social , reveals how grain stolen from occupied Ukrainian territory has been sold to Israel. Profits from the shady operation are financing Putin's war www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

For what it is worth, these photos US President Donald Trump posted appear to be the same picture, manipulated in different directions. And the original photo is from July 2004, when George W. Bush was president.

Planet Labs’ decision to restrict Middle East satellite imagery is raising questions within a multibillion-dollar industry about commercial independence and global accountability

NEW from me in @justsecurity.org. My dissection of the Trump administration's latest legal defense of its war on Iran. "This defective and overly permissive justification risks further eroding legal constraints on the use of force." www.justsecurity.org/137097/state...

New: Bellingcat has identified at least 80 police stations and law enforcement or Basij paramilitary group infrastructure which were damaged or destroyed in the first three weeks of the United States’ and Israel’s strikes on Iran www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/04...

While @atrupar.com has often pointed out times it appears Trump is dozing, the below screenshot does appear to be edited to make him look extra... sleepy. Original screenshot appears to be from around the 26:39 timestamp in the actual press event, seen here on C-SPAN: www.c-span.org/program/whit...

Stars & Stripes ombudsman says she's been fired by the Pentagon. www.stripes.com/opinion/2026-...

Amal Khalil, the Lebanese journalist at Al Akhbar Newspaper, who was targeted and killed by the IDF yesterday, had shared with ARIJ her testimony on the explicit threats she received from Israel for her revelatory work www.linkedin.com/posts/arijne...

I'm growing my team of investigators at @weareoversight.bsky.social! Learn more about our work and how to apply at the link below.

Zarbiv describing taking blindfolded Gazan prisoners back to their neighborhoods for release after they’d been leveled by IDF earthmovers: “When we took the cloth off their eyes, they were completely disoriented, they did not understand where they were.”

“Zarbiv’s latest videos are now from southern Lebanon, where Israel is conducting demolitions across a swath of Lebanese territory that it now occupies. Israel Katz, the Israeli defense minister, has vowed to raze towns there as Israel did in Gaza.”

I'm having a hard time believing my eyes with water data this year. The Colorado River mainstem through Grand Junction was flowing at 54 cfs last night. Not a typo. 54 cfs. Last year on this date it was flowing at 1,420cfs. Even in 2002, the driest year on record, it was at 690cfs on April 22.

*OSINT alert* 1st image is from today, showing a 'swarm' of small boats at speed in Straits of Hormuz This is typical behavour of Iranian fishing vessels in that area Other 3 images from same area, same time of year but 2024 & 25 (dates at top) First rule of #OSINT... know what normal looks like

My analysis for renowned journalist Nilo Tabrizy’s investigation into the pattern of illegal and reckless U.S. and Israeli strikes in Iran…

this is so profoundly dishonorable

GREEK CAPTAIN OF A PANAMANIAN-FLAGGED MALAYSIAN OIL TANKER EN ROUTE TO AUSTRALIA WITH IRAQI CRUDE: "So is the Strait open or not?" IRGC COMMANDER, REFRESHING TRUTH SOCIAL: "Look here man, I know just as much as you do, ok?"