During a hearing with Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin on Capitol Hill this week, US Rep. Lauren Underwood brought up our recent report with Physicians for Human Rights on rising deaths in ICE detention centers. Watch below, and read the report here: https://bit.ly/4oNOlo4

Ukrainian drones struck an oil refinery in Ufa, the Ukrainian Telegram channels Exilenova+ and Supernova+ reported, publishing several photos and videos from the scene. meduza.io/en/news/2026...

Fab Lora!

Moscow air defense starting it's own fires by shooting down Ukrainian drones. The building hit by the downed drone in the first video is visibly on fire in the second video, as are numerous structures in the area.

Fab 🎉 insight by fellow toolkit "guardian", Martin @cargocultscientist.bsky.social who is in charge of the Social Media category.

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Of great interest

New Ukrainian large underwater drone, Sea Trident SL-1000 -> www.hisutton.com/Ukraine-UUV-...

Trump administration officials began weighing sanctions on Anthropic weeks before they demanded the company take its latest and most advanced AI model offline, after a dispute shattered the White House’s already-fragile trust in the company.

So freakin excited for this. 🤸🏼🤸🏼🤸🏼

I'm excited but a bit sad to announce that I've left Bellingcat to start a nonprofit investigative outlet focused on the far-right. We're called Decoherence Media, and we're launching today.

🧵 1/7** New from Bellingcat: researchers cracked open a method for pinpointing vessels inside GPS jamming zones using data that was hiding in plain sight the whole time. @yoruk.bsky.social @galen.reich.me.uk and Youri van der Weide (www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/06...)

Something to keep an eye on.

Notifications for deleted shouldn't remain in any OS notification database, and we've asked Apple to address this. In the meantime, you can prevent any preview text from your Signal messages from appearing in your notifications. Signal Settings > Notifications > Show “No Name or Content”

Here's me for @bellingcat.com tracing Russia Today subsidiary Ruptly's digital footprints all the way from Berlin to Abu Dhabi www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/06...

What in the ham sandwich?

Ukraine launched a drone attack near St. Petersburg overnight, hitting the area again just before the last day of Russian President Vladimir Putin's flagship economic forum in the city.

The Russians deliberately struck an ambulance in Kherson.

🎧🎙💥 #RussianSecrets - Meine NDR-Kollegin @alicepesavento.bsky.social erzählt euch heute bei #11km, wie die OSINT-Recherche zu Russland‘s Geheimprojekt „Harmonie“ ablief. Es geht um Schiffsbewegungen, Satellitenbilder und stundenlange Suchen in sozialen Netzwerken: spotify.link/cN4YBj73IXb

I Spy With My Software-Defined Radio

According to British Intelligence, Russia regularly "drops" guided aerial bombs on its own and occupied territories due to inadequate military training and crew fatigue.

Ukraine may test a ballistic missile as early as this summer with a potential direction toward Moscow, Fire Point's co-founder said. According to him, the system is practically ready, with only the engine still unfinished. Once that issue is resolved, the next test launch is planned. #Ukraine

trialinternational.org/latest-post/... Wow. Fab work from @hrcberkeley.bsky.social and @aeowinpact.bsky.social

BBC News reported the RSF, which controls most of the western Darfur region bordering Chad, is suspected of carrying out the attack. It denied involvement and blamed Sudan's army, which in turn blamed the RSF www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Remnants from the control sections of other GB25 or GB50 bombs have previously been found after RSF attacks in Sudan, including attacks on Kassala Airport and Coral Marina Hotel in Port Sudan (as seen in the images below).

Another image shared by the N'Djamena-based broadcaster MRTV Facebook page shows Chadian soldiers standing beside the remnants www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1...

Images of the Tiné remnants were shared by ATPE CHAD, which reported a local prosecutor had visited the site of impact www.facebook.com/atpelinfo/po...

The remnants appear to match the rear control section of a Chinese-made GB25 or GB50 bomb, which can be dropped by Chinese-made drones. Amnesty International previously identified a GB50 used by the RSF that it said had been re-exported to the group by the UAE www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Munition remnants from a strike that killed 17 people in Tiné, Chad, on Wednesday, appear to match a model previously used by Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in the war with Sudanese government forces – despite RSF denials of involvement in the incident.

Afghanistan's Taliban government has accused Pakistan's military of targeting civilian homes in overnight airstrikes in Kabul and the southern province of Kandahar, saying children were among those killed.

This Thursday the team behind @munitionsportal.bsky.social , from @airwars.bsky.social and Armament Research Services (ARES), will be sharing how you can use their free tool to identify munitions. Join us on Discord at 5pm CET/12pm EDT: discord.gg/3u4SVNuP?eve...

Tonight we celebrate @joedyke.bsky.social, @rowenadesilva.bsky.social, Nathan Walker, Nikolaj Houmann Mortensen, @sanjanamv.bsky.social and staff of @airwars.bsky.social for the Kim Wall Award for “Cutting-Edge Open-Source Investigations into Harm in Gaza.” youtu.be/UlV2yTO50hI #OPCAwards86

Really cool

Thank you to @slair.bsky.social and @bcfinucane.bsky.social for taking the time to provide their expertise for this piece.

airwars.org/the-first-ci... Congrats to @airwars.bsky.social and partners for this fascinating and important research 👀🎉

Love this work by @easybakeovensz.bsky.social focusing on how much chaos one agent can do. EZ-17 shot a 40 mm less-lethal 5 times in minutes, 4 of which at the faces of protestors, including at close range.

Click the arrows in the map below to view the verified Tomahawk missile sightings in Iraq last week, including the original footage and geolocation analysis. bellingcat-embeds.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/2026-march-t...

Bellingcat has geolocated eight videos showing US Tomahawks cruise missiles in Iraq heading towards Iran. The missiles appear to be flying low across valleys and were most likely fired from the Mediterranean sea, an expert told us. www.bellingcat.com/news/middle-...

This investigation was carried out with help from our volunteer community. Nicole Kiess, Livio Spaini, @afko.bsky.social sky.social, @anisashabir.bsky.social and @scaratlas.bsky.social helped geolocate the missile sightings. Learn about our volunteer community here: sites.google.com/bellingcat.c...

THREAD: Misinformation in the Iran/US/Israel war - 3 March This viral video claims to show the aftermath of a reported drone attack on the US embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, tonight. But the video was posted last week to TikTok, and shows an unrelated car accident in Riyadh.

The school building is located located immediately to the north-east of the IRGC base. Satellite imagery from 2013 appears to show the school building was part of the same compound, before a wall is seen in 2016 separating it from the base.

New video footage shows a US Tomahawk missile hitting an IRGC facility in Minab, Iran, on Feb 28, showing for the first time that the US struck the area. The footage also shows smoke already rising from the vicinity of the girls’ school, where 175 people were reportedly killed, including children.

www.info-res.org/myanmar-witn... @cen4infores.bsky.social

Trump’s war is messing with the fallout from Trump’s tariffs, which is messing from the fallout from Trump’s war on clean energy

Planet SkySat imagery today shows smoke rising from Shahid Bahonar port in Iran and a vessel on fire. The vessel alight has a visible launch pad similar to Kordestan and Makran in the analysis below and matches features seen in Google Earth imagery of Makran in Jan. 2024 . bsky.app/profile/cove...

Two days into the war: - three F-15s shot down - U.S. embassy in Saudi Arabia in flames - six U.S. service members confirmed dead; more wounded - State Department tells Americans to flee the entire Middle East

I've never seen anything like this before. There are currently at least 14 (fourteen!) KC-135R Stratotankers on their way to the Middle East. Inbound from bases across the United States. They're used to refuel other aircraft in the air.

Chris Murphy: "There is 0 history of an air strike campaign alone toppling a dictatorship and transitioning a country to democracy. We know that air strikes do not knock out Iran's nuclear capability. Why? Because we did air strikes last year. President Trump lied to the American public."

Indispensable for verifying info coming out of the Middle East. Go check it out.