I still think these two paragraphs from Ganz are the most important contemporary political writing

Hey everyone, I was trying to avoid asking, but I got laid off by the school I was working for & got sick last week during day-to-day substitute work. Probably can’t work for most of the few weeks left in the semester. I don’t get paid over the summer and my savings are dwindling. Anything helps.

chat, is it good to have an email saying "I have always been in the Jeff Epstein corner regardless of circumstance" that you sent in 2012? www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

We just passed 500 names, including 220 who haven't previously been reported on in connection with Epstein. Thanks to everyone who's sent us tips, we're identifying more people every day.

Bellingcat’s strength is our collective. We’re conducting a quick 5-minute survey to see how we can improve the connection with you, our audience, and provide the resources you need for your own research. Contribute to our anonymous review here: bellingcat.questionpro.eu/t/AB3vDHmZB3...

Yo dawg I vibecoded an OSHIT dashboard for vibecoded OSHIT dashboards, so you can monitor the situation while you monitor the situation

Has anyone written a comprehensive article on the proliferation of vibe-coded OSINT/OSHIT slop dashboards? Good Reddit thread tracking them www.reddit.com/r/osinttools...

guy who is mad at Nolan’s Odyssey because it depicts the sea as blue instead of wine-dark

Post a meme made by you

HELEN OF TROY MUST BE PLAYED BY THE SEXY GREEN M & M

New type of guy: posting on Bluesky at a death metal show

New type of guy: playing Candy Crush® at a death metal show

Aircraft tracking has become a powerful tool for journalism. In our Stage Talks podcast, @gillianbrockell.com demonstrates how flight data and open tools can be used to trace government flights, identify ICE aircraft, and verify aviation activity. Listen: rss.com/podcasts/bellingcatstagetalk/2829188

More problematic water usage by AI

The Internet is disappearing before our very eyes and it’s why we should all support that absolutely critical work of @archive.org

I grew up in Seattle and live in Texas now, this story is heartbreaking

NEW: Seattle might declare a civil emergency to help LGBTQ (mostly trans) people fleeing red states, so I looked for a Texas angle. An organizer told me that Texas is #1 among trans people looking to relocate: "The baseline hostility to their existence is unbearable." www.chron.com/culture/arti...

BREAKING: It’s now past 5pm ET and no word from the Supreme Court. This means the 5th Circuit’s ruling restricting telehealth prescriptions of mifepristone is now in effect. However the Supreme Court could act and change this at any time.

Latest episode of BIG TERROR with Jake Hanrahan is out, covering the evolution of Peter Thiel’s favorite datamining firm Palantir. Not one to be missed bleeding-edge.ghost.io/big-terror-e...

Dr. Rubeliz Bolivar Barrios has been released! She should never have been locked away by ICE. As an emergency and trauma doctor, she served patients in South Texas with dedication. I am grateful that she will be reunited with her 5 year-old daughter Milena and husband.

Incredible things are happening in the mind of Jake Lang. In response to a question on whether Lang's group, Crusader's Active Club, is part of Robert Rundo network of white nationalist groups, Lang says no, then calls himself their "Fuhrer."

Shrek is in the Epstein files

Dalton Eatherly, a livestreamer who goes by “Chud the Builder” and grew his Kick profile by filming himself in public hurling racial slurs at Black people, got in a fight outside Tennessee courthouse after doing exactly that. He pulled out a gun and shot a man and himself. fox17.com/news/local/c...

Over Christmas, white nationalist Dave Reilly had James Fishback, Florida’s groyper governor candidate, on his YouTube show. Later in the episode his cohost opened a Nazi flag someone mailed them as a Christmas gift. Today Reilly is en route to Kentucky to help Thomas Massie

Follow @megaphonenews.bsky.social now. Some of the best, most consistent news and analysis on Lebanon. I was literally trying to figure out how to RSS feed their page onto Bluesky so I could spread it here. But now they're here themselves!

I really would like to figure out what rich private jet owner is behind the shell company Psalm 52:8 LLC. The cruelties they've enabled with their earthly riches has made them ineligible for eternal reward. If you have any tips, please signal me at gbrockell.44.

Never FOIA your heroes

Kilmar's return from CECOT was the moment the Trump regime's inevitability was shattered despite civil society rolling over again and again, and they remain enormously Mad about it.

"The Patriot-News, for example, won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for its landmark reporting on the sex crimes of Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky... On May 9, The Patriot-News published an article headlined, 'Kalshi promo code PENNLIVE: UFC 328 Preview'..." popular.info/p/pulitzer-w...

“The Post could not independently determine who is behind XFreeze.” Hmmm in three minutes I found a SoundCloud account with a different alias that uses the same email address as this guy, and in another five minutes I had a personal Facebook, phone number, and birthday.

This is a wild story

Sir, you are the reason Seattle no longer has an NBA team.

I went on one of my favorite podcasts, Popular Front with Jake Hanrahan, to talk about our epstein.photos project open.spotify.com/episode/037o...

a member of the white nationalist Lone Star Active Club, Jason Lee Van Dyke, who is a Texas-based lawyer, lost a fight May 2. Van Dyke is pictured in the middle, next to Patriot Front ringleader Josiah Buster aka Swolercaust and LSAC members. A video of Van Dyke tapping out is in this thread 🧵

Bellingcat and Cerosetenta have uncovered online links between the first South American branch of the far-right Active Club movement in Colombia and a mainstream political figure who ran in recent elections for the country's largest right-wing political party. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/05...

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...

You read about how complicit the liberal media was with the ascendance of the national socialists in Germany and it's difficult to comprehend. The thing is, I see it now and it is still difficult to comprehend. To be this stupid and gullible. To be this incompetent. To be as complicit as this.

I'm rockin the 4" inseam from May to November

Defeated. He could barely stand out of round one. Wearing Will2rise shorts.

1/ As open source research professional I can pull your Venmo, a couple other data points and map your social circle and family real fast. Find out where you live etc. Scammers do the same thing and the scams are getting more sophisticated and happening more frequently with AI.

We’re still not sure @thebarbedwire.com will make it to its second birthday in August, but this has been some of the most important investigative reporting I’ve ever edited.

You can tell Bluesky has the juice because David Myatt made a sock account on here

Even in the most generous sense of the term “activist,” I’m not an activist by way of the fact that I don’t *do* anything. Also, this is a term used to delegitimize independent reporting. Anything that’s not published in mainstream outlets gets cast aside as advocacy or activism. This is dangerous.

Rest in Power to Laura Sennett, a longtime photojournalist and antiracist activist with @onepeoplesproject.bsky.social who spend decades documenting, tracking, and countering the racist far-right. Knowing her was a blessing, and her memory will carry on with all of those she spent her life helping.

Tremendous work here from @tristanl.ee, mapping oit more than 400 people in photos from the Epstein files, including 170 who haven't been reported on before decoherence.media/we-identifie...

For the past 2 months I’ve been building a facial recognition pipeline for the Epstein files and obsessively identifying as many people as I could. We just published the website and a guide for how to use it. Explore the structure of the Epstein Class with epstein.photos