The UN Office on Drugs and Crime also reported trafficking from Haiti to Europe, including the seizure of 1,156 kg of cocaine in Belgium in August 2025 traced back to Haiti. www.occrp.org/en/news/un-s...

Transparency International Russia estimated at least $2.5bn in gold was exported from Africa to Russia since early 2022. Swissaid states that gold under Russian control in some African countries ends up in Russia via indirect routes, mostly transited via the UAE. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

The one and only valid AI flowchart.

This is the kind of thing that would be likely to break through. Make people confront the declining value of their own communities. Change the personal cost perception. Too often “Team Facts” thinks they have to be nuanced, and gets bogged down in explanations. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...

It’s not about information, it’s about identity. It’s not “misinformation”, it’s propaganda. The bullshit machine is well-funded & understands the value of networked amplification. As long as there’s no personal cost to lying or holding false belief, they will. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...

A former UN genocide prosecutor, Dr. Charles A. Adeogun-Phillips now pushes for an International Anti-Corruption Court to hold kleptocrats accountable when domestic systems fail – and urged journalists to investigate the global mechanisms that enable corruption and impunity.

"By dangling multibillion-dollar rare-earth and energy deals, Moscow could reshape the economic map of Europe—while driving a wedge between America and its traditional allies." www.wsj.com/world/russia...

There’s gotta be some grift here. Massacring unknown people in boats to supposedly stop drugs, while pardoning drug traffickers. www.bbc.com/news/article...

The Belgium PM is too stupid/corrupt to know that an objective of the "peace deal" is to derail efforts to use Russian frozen assets.

"Allein in den ersten sechs Monaten des laufenden Jahres zählten die Behörden 143 Sabotageverdachtsfälle mit möglichem staatlichem Hintergrund. Tendenz steigend."

Marbella has long attracted celebrities and the mega-rich — now it’s becoming a magnet for the “manosphere.” We unpack how male influencers, some with links to the Tate brothers, are now part of the Spanish city’s landscape: www.occrp.org/en/feature/s...

A new Global Witness investigation has identified 40+ X accounts – many created in the same month – pushing claims that Dan Gertler had been “cleared” of corruption. The claims stem from a private arbitration with no public evidence to support them. https://gwitness.org/4oolwN4

#Gold is a key component of #Sudan's war economy. Our new post explores whether it's possible to track gold mines and processing sites using #OSINT and #RemoteSensing. It is, but it's not straightforward 🧵1/4 ceobs.org/monitoring-s... #EyesOnSudan @thesentryorg.bsky.social @saferworld.bsky.social

New report by 🇫🇷France's National Cyber Security Agency (@anssi-fr.bsky.social) on the threat landscape for mobile phones since 2015. 👇 www.cert.ssi.gouv.fr/uploads/CERT...

"une porte-voix ... afin de contrer la désinformation et la guerre informationnelle dirigées contre les pays de l’AES et surtout apporter l’information juste et vraie aux populations." Right. anp.ne/aes-le-minis...

An online network of bot-like accounts, media sites and X users has been spreading disinformation supporting sanctioned Israeli tycoon Dan Gertler and attacking civil society groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, according to @globalwitness.org globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...

I can't get over how quickly the window shifted at Google over what is acceptable from its image generator. Photorealistic 'evidence' of sensitive events was once a red line. No longer. "Show the White House on fire with emergency crews responding" returns the desired image with no jailbreak.

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

ISD is proud to release the Pravda Network Spotter, a browser extension designed to detect sites linked to a Russia-aligned information operation. This extension warns users when they come across one of the pages by turning the page red, though they can still interact w/ it & switch off the alert.

Brazil's former president, Jair Bolsonaro, ordered by the country's Supreme Court to begin serving a 27-year sentence for overseeing a failed plot to hold onto power. www1.folha.uol.com.br/poder/2...

Batman showing up is just one — albeit striking — way of promoting what’s called “prosocial behavior,” or the act of helping others around you, via introducing an unexpected event. #Batmaneffect futurism.com/health-medic...

Like many services, as Signal grows, it becomes a more appealing place for scammers to try and cause harm. We've put together tips to help you protect yourself from phishing, scams, & impersonation attempts. Plus info about how Signal support communicates. support.signal.org/hc/en-us/art...

We traced over 30 unique assets to Washington-based 3D creator Ian Hubert, who makes bespoke models created for his sci-fi project Dynamo Dream, available to his Patreon subscribers. Scans of parking lots, antennas, and pipes were repurposed as Hamas and Iranian military sites

Many of these “illustrations” aren’t based on verified intelligence at all. Our analysis of 43 official IDF videos found recycled 3D environments, spatial inaccuracies, and assets lifted from unrelated artists and institutions.

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

NEW: Leaked documents reveal Amazon's "dirty energy empire". Soaring electricity demand in Mumbai, where Amazon has 16 data centres, has led to crumbling coal power stations being kept open—and fears AI is helping keep the world hooked on fossil fuels. www.source-material.org/amazon-data-...

“I cannot pretend that #Cop30 has delivered everything that is needed. The gap between where we are and what science demands remains dangerously wide.” - UN secretary general António Guterres www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Russia has declared CORRECTIV an "undesirable organization" correctiv.org/in-eigener-s...

Since 6 October, political ads have been banned on Google and Meta. Nonetheless, ads from regional factions of Flemish far-right party Vlaams Belang surfaced on Meta last month. Only weeks before the ban Vlaams Belang had drastically upped its spending on the platforms. apache.be/2025/11/24/v...

Holy shit.

It’s really hard to defend industry academic collaborations with meta as earnest, if they’re internally burying evidence of harm. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

“An Ivanka Trump fan account, IvankaNews, has 1 million followers and frequently posts about the dangers of Islam, the threat of illegal immigration and support for Trump. That account is based in Nigeria.” www.thedailybeast.com/top-maga-inf...

Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro has been arrested a few days before he is due to begin serving a 27-year prison sentence.

Anyone posted this one yet?

Breaking News: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he personally instructed the CDC to abandon its position that vaccines do not cause autism. The move underscores his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy — in this case, that vaccines save lives — and bend the health department to his will.

It will shock few that the Cop30 draft deal 'does not align with science, with law, with the legitimate demands of children, youth, frontline communities...or ultimately with the very objective of the UNFCCC,' @unsrclimatehrights.bsky.social says Read more reax www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

All the rape, torture, and murder will be brushed under the carpet, a great lesson for any future war criminals.

A French ICC judge placed under US sanctions for his work on the ongoing Gaza genocide case describes how sanctions have impacted his life: no Amazon, PayPal, Visa or Mastercard; severely restricted banking; hotel bookings canceled—"like being sent back to the 1990s." www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

"The networks use couriers in Britain and elsewhere to collect physical cash generated from the drugs trade, firearms supply, and organised immigration crime, in exchange for cryptocurrency. The cash is then secretly sent to criminals or sanctioned individuals in other countries."

Manufacturing consent

Signal polls are here! Find the best time for your group chat to hang out, choose a vacation destination, or ask if you should give yourself a haircut at 1 AM. Now in the latest version of Signal for iOS, Android, and Desktop. signal.org/blog/polls/

ProPublica and the Guardian’s analysis shows that extra greenhouse gases released in the next decade as a result of Trump’s policies are expected to lead to as many as 1.3 million more temperature-related deaths worldwide in the 80 years after 2035. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

The lawsuit, backed by environmental organization @greenpeace.org , seeks financial compensation and demands TotalEnergies reduce its oil and gas production to slow the greenhouse gas emissions that warm the planet. apnews.com/article/belg...

Elon Musk returned to the White House for the first time since his split with Donald Trump, the clearest public sign yet of improving relations between the US president and the world’s richest man. on.ft.com/3LKB7Jf

A Rolling Stone x WIRE investigation: TikTok Is Obsessed With Parrots. It’s Fueling a Global Black Market A probe into the African-grey trade reveals a web of poachers, egg smugglers, businessmen & multitudes who want a talking bird. Read: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Iceland Climate Minister Johannsson: "It is a direct threat to our national resilience and security. (This) is the first time a specific climate-related phenomenon has been formally brought before the National Security Council as a potential existential threat." www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Eine ABC-Reporterin, Mary Bruce, macht ihren Job. #Trump beschimpft ihren Arbeitgeber und sie (ausführlicher noch nach einer Frage zu #Epstein; siehe Thread) und spricht nebenbei Mohammed Bin Salman vom Mord-Vorwurf an Jamal #Khashoggi frei. 1/x #USA #Pressefreiheit #binSalman

My latest. The infiltration of Twitter led to the imprisonment of one human rights activists who poked fun at the royal family and execution of another journalist: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

How powerful do fossil fuel companies feel right now? Energy Transfer, the company that built Dakota Access Pipeline and recently won a big verdict against Greenpeace, wants a North Dakota court to step in and halt a lawsuit against it in the Netherlands. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...

French energy giant TotalEnergies was formally accused yesterday of complicity in war crimes and torture — after a criminal complaint filed in Paris over a massacre at its Mozambique gas site, first exposed by a POLITICO investigation last year.