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CNN has independently conducted an analysis into the new Minab IRGC base video. CNN concludes, as @bellingcat.com did, that the video shows a US Tomahawk missile impacting the vicinity of an elementary school where 160 children were killed on February 28. www.cnn.com/world/live-n...

The footage appears to contradict President Donald Trump’s claim it was an Iranian missile that hit the school on Feb. 28. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

🚨 2 March: The ITF & Joint Negotiating Group designate the Strait of Hormuz and surrounding waters as a High Risk Area, activating enhanced protections for IBF-covered seafarers. www.itfglobal.org/en/news/join... 🧵 1 of 2

The United States said Monday it was imposing sanctions on Rwanda's military, taking action against a longtime partner which it accused of violating a peace agreement in the Democratic Republic of Congo. ➡️ u.afp.com/SuYB

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"2025 will be the first year of this century where more young children died than the year before."

It was never all in your head.

A Bellingcat investigation reveals child soldiers in Sudan’s civil war have become viral figures on TikTok. Videos attracting millions of views show the children with senior military officials, celebrating battlefield victories and delivering violent threats. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/02...

When you go to see how the first show on this leg of the tour went, and get cooked by auto-subtitling.

Welcome back good hair baseball king

A DHS statement claimed “an individual approached US Border Patrol officers” with “a handgun” in the Alex Pretti shooting incident. A Bellingcat analysis of the footage appears to show that a gun was taken away from where Pretti was situated by an agent just before the first shot was fired.

Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...

Historically, we've focused a lot on the brutal actions of authoritarian regimes, and today is no different.

One example of how Grok is being used to target women. Swedish Deputy Prime Minister Ebba Busch being sexualised, degraded, and humiliated step-by-step by Grok. All the images accurately reflect the prompts provided.

Offensive de l’AFC/M23 au Sud-Kivu : Denis Mukwege déplore l’incapacité de l’UA à désigner clairement Kigali comme acteur de déstabilisation et appelle à des actions concrètes contre le Rwanda

On December 8, 2025 a video allegedly from the city of Sange started circulating on X. Lawrence Kanyuka of M23 alleged it showed the result of a firefight between FARDC and Wazalendo. We will refer to this as the M23 video. Note that this video is graphic. x.com/LawrenceKany...

Willy Ngoma is the M23 military spokesman, and poses in imagery of places M23 occupies. His presence inevitably inspires discourse from pro-Congolese government social media posters that he is Photoshopped into a location. In Uvira, he took a photo outside the mayor's office: x.com/i/status/199...

CongoEye is evaluating many images and videos from M23's offensive push to Uvira. We have completed the following verifications and due to dis/misinformation, are publishing them now. This is the first of three threads.

Welcome to CongoEye’s first open-source monitoring summary, a report on interesting finds on social media about the Democratic Republic of Congo. These are items which may be too small to be covered in international or Congolese media, but can be verified or enhanced with open-source reporting.

NEW: In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant. She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency. Then she died. www.propublica.org/article/texa...

⚠️ US Secretary of War announces Operation SOUTHERN SPEAR on X. Source: x.com/SecWar/statu...

Russian state media are today alleging that a Bellingcat reporter was involved in an attempt to hijack a Russian fighter plane. We would like to make clear that Bellingcat had absolutely no involvement in the alleged activities and the accusations towards us are entirely false.

🚨 SNAP SHUT-OFF SUPPORT DRIVE -NOV 1ST 🚨 When the system cuts off our neighbors, we feed each other. Bring what you can, canned goods, dry food, non-perishables, and help fill the gap. This is how we fight back: with community, not cruelty. #NoSnitchNovember #Ohio50501 #FoodNotFascism

I want this baseball game to go on for 20 innings. Never stop.

The Leahy law is being killed off. "The US State Department has removed an online portal for reporting alleged human rights violations by foreign military units supplied with American weapons." www.bbc.com/news/article...

I will add that often the place the Nazis dig their claws in propagandically is on misogyny. I've seen my fair share of dudes who present themselves as butch tough guy Nazi watchers and want the Nazis to see them as macho, too. And once you're trying to impress Nazis... Oof.

Please - stop doing the screenshot no link thing on Bluesky. This platform does not punish you for posting a URL. You picked up the habit from Meta apps? Stop doing Mark Z's bidding. Link ESPECIALLY to authors, reporters, bloggers, etc. where you quote the work.

Noelvi Marte robbed a home run and saved the Cincinnati #Reds season in a 2-1 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates www.redlegnation.com/2025/09/25/n...

I want you to read one of my 2022 investigations again + understand that the response you’re seeing from your children’s school boards-the harassment + firing of teachers, administrators & staff-is tied to a network of folks who have been in this game for years: www.propublica.org/article/geor...

Following Soliman's release from an Ohio jail, his asylum status had been reinstated and his application for a green card has been revived, one of his attorneys told ProPublica. More from @hannahallam.bsky.social: www.propublica.org/article/ayma...

🎉 GREAT NEWS: Ayman Soliman was released from ICE detention and his legal asylum status was reinstated. www.cincinnati.com/story/news/p...

The U.S. government is trying to deport Ohio children’s hospital chaplain Ayman Soliman, alleging tenuous connections to terrorism. If DHS succeeds, experts say it could hand the Trump admin. a “sledgehammer” to use on mass deportations. ➡️ Read the full story: www.propublica.org/article/ayma...

On the Utah shooter's meme bullet casings, and how the extremely-online shooter is now commonplace. From @sheeraf.bsky.social, Richard Fausset, and me. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/u...

I feel like I've spent today sorting through accusations of this guy being a groyper, only to find that those aren't based on anything. There isn't an indictment yet. The cops haven't handled this better, but seriously—posting without verification makes you no better than the right yelling "antifa."

For the second weekend in a row, he shuts down a major traffic artery so he can visit his urban walkable neighborhood. A 15-minute city, if you will. Decent people would stay somewhere else instead of creating gridlock (your girl was stuck in it last week) but he's the Center of the Universe ✨

Kindu : la ville plongée dans la panique après un échange de tirs entre les Wazalendo et les forces de l’ordre

Human rights violations don't have a geopolitical "side". They are universal and affect all alignments. Eliot discusses some of the bigger names in "but what about/now do the West" discourse, but read this, and apply it to the people pushing this brain rot wherever you see it.

Dinosaur cookie decorating foul, or a Russian oligarch who went against the boss? Let your imagination be your guide.

i ain't reading all that i'm happy for u tho or sorry that happened

CES not even looking at the third base coach ✋

Oh okay I thought Ukraine was dragging you idiots into ww3 as you have repeatedly said

Uganda (officially) moves its troops into Congolese towns | @thecontinent.org continent.substack.com/p/uganda-off...

I want to remind everyone that the White House and the GOP have been systematically dismantling protections for abortion providers and clinics ever since Trump took office

NBC News analyzed leaked reports, satellite images and interviews to reveal the extent of Rwanda's carefully concealed and high-tech war in the Congo, as the U.S. tries to strike a deal for peace and access to the region's minerals.

Mexico has only one gun store in the entire country. Almost all criminal guns come from a handful of dealers in the 4 US border states, and the US gov fights tooth and nail for Americans to keep selling guns to cartels and buying their drugs, but somehow we’re the criminals