Opportunity for an early career journalist to hone their OSINT skills on public interest investigations with a great organization, @lighthousereports.com. apply.workable.com/lighthouse-r...

It would seem that the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act 1956 needs updating to reflect modern parenthood if the government grants citizenship to children born overseas of genetic Irish fathers but denies it to children of genetic Irish mothers. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

I joined @cwarzel.bsky.social on the Galaxy Brain Podcast to explain some of the reasons why America, and a lot of other Western democracies, are sliding into authoritarianism and why it's probably inevitable www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvFh...

"Things Happen" - President Trump www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ44...

"A flea market that is typically filled with Hispanic vendors was canceled this weekend. Nightclubs that play reggaeton music on Saturday nights decided not to open. And Catholic churches, which tend to have many immigrant parishioners, were unusually empty..." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...

“It is not just older generations who have enjoyed seeing photographs of their forebears — Yazidi youth have also flocked to the exhibitions, recognizing that they are testimony and affirmation of their traditions, culture and presence in Iraq’s sociopolitical landscape.”

The BBC edit was unfortunate, but of course Trump fanned the flames that led to the Capitol riot. Indeed, as he watched it unfold on television, he interjected. Not to call off his supporters, but to double down on his attack on Pence. Our short doc: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWJV...

Read our latest analysis of a mass killing near Al Fashir, Sudan. Open source evidence that we reviewed showed that more than 80 people attempting to flee Al Fashir were killed near a berm that the RSF built around the city. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/11...

Updated: Our tracking guide with the Pentagon’s latest lethal strike on a boat suspected of drug trafficking. Three men were killed in the Caribbean Sea, Defense Secretary Hegseth posted last night, raising the toll to at least 70 killed in this bombing campaign. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

From NYT Climate, via @harrystevens.bsky.social and @bradplumer.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

What’s So Great About ‘Slow Horses’? This Scene Says It All. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Gaza is destroyed socially, physically, materially and psychologically - Dr. Abu Mughaisib, who was working in Gaza until he was evacuated to Ireland last week. Speaking on @rteradio1.bsky.social . www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

In Uganda, @nickkristof.bsky.social saw how children are dying as food and medicine runs out after Trump's cuts to humanitarian aid. Gift link to his story: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

New contribution to this piece from @malachy.bsky.social and myself: the Epstein novelty check photo was indeed taken at Mar-a-Lago. nytimes.com/2025/09/09/u... The palm trees in the background are near a small hut by a tennis court (taken down in ~2005-6). Compare with a 1997 photo here:

The largest aid flotilla in history has been attacked twice in two days whilst in port in Tunisia. Open source analysis suggests an incendiary munition is to blame, contradicting official statements. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/09...

The Guardian has today printed the names, and where possible, images, of all the media workers killed in Gaza, as part of an international day of action involving more than 150 media organisations. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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Helsinki goes a full year without a traffic death, largely by upgrading pedestrian and cycling infrastructure and reducing speed limits to 30kmph, via @semafor.com yle.fi/a/74-20174831

Five journalists were killed by a targeted Israeli airstrike on Sunday, bringing the total number of journalists killed since Oct. 7 to 186. They were Al Jazeera correspodents Anas al-Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqeh, camera ops Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and Moamen Aliwa. cpj.org/2025/08/isra...

Below, our story on Rikers Island and Michael Nieves, a detainee who bled out for 10 mins as guards stood by. We spent 3 years filing FOIA requests and lawsuits to get these videos of conditions in the jail. w/ Jan Ransom, Sarah Kerr, Caroline Kim, Michael Laforgia www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJvh...

The Senate voted to approve a $9 billion rescission package aimed at clawing back money already allocated for public radio and television — a major step toward winding down nearly six decades of federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. https://n.pr/44QnXjT

I often get DM's asking how I got the skills do to the work that I do. Well, I spent a lot of my formative years on social media and got a PhD in Information Science. But if you want the quick version, you could also sign up to take one of our week long workshops from @bellingcat.com

How Trump's deal with El Salvador and Bukele is undermining a longstanding U.S. inquiry into the gang, MS13. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/u...

A wonderful, and very well-made, video from Kubrick scholar @archiviokubrick.it on this search for the Overlook Hotel photograph that closes The Shining: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd7x...

Very useful integration of @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social Sentinel-5P data into @unep.org Methane Map, with here a visualisation of the challenges #Syria is facing from a crumbling fossil fuel infrastructure, energy and solid waste hotspots causing large methane emissions

Today Kenyan civil society organisations have called upon the Kenyan government and the UN security council to take action following our reporting with the Daily Nation. We found Kenyan-labelled ammunition crates in a suspected Rapid Support Forces depot in Sudan. pressrelease.co.ke/news/375

People are having very strange conversations with ChatGPT, in which they discover secret cabals or conspiracies or that we are all in fact living in The Matrix. It sends these people into delusional spirals. Then ChatGPT tells them to email me about it. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...

Investigating Israel's strikes on Iran and their impact on civilians. We cross referenced addresses of Iranian commanders and nuclear scientists from a public database with geolocated footage of strikes. @pallabimunsi.bsky.social & Oscar Featherstone edition.cnn.com/2025/06/19/w...

“The great change wrought by the internet for most people is not in how public disorder is caused, but in how it is reported. The violence of the past week has been aired with an immediacy and intimacy unimaginable 15 years ago” www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

“Two weeks” is one of President Trump’s favorite units of time. It can mean something, or nothing at all. By Shawn McCreesh. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/w...

On Friday, five Proud Boys sued the US government for $100 million for their “political persecution” as “allies of President Trump.” A reminder of how they instigated multiple breaches during the Capitol riot. Our visual investigation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DfL...

ICE agent smashes car window to grab somebody without warrant www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjguDNwJ/

"The soldiers came to the scene very close – and then he heard them shooting everyone who was still alive.” The account of Asaad Al-Nasasra, who survived an IDF attack on a convoy of medics in March and was detained for over a month. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Ukraine Hid Attack Drones in Russia. These Videos Show What Happened Next. www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/02/world/europe/ukraine-russia-drone-attacks.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ME8.bcBu.SlVgFdhrbLyK&smid=url-share

"The starvation of Gaza can be measured in the jutting ribs of a 6-year-old girl." So begins Vivian Yee's report. Don't look away. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/w...

A strike on a school where families were sheltering. Israel's far-right chant "Death to Arabs". An Israeli minister provokes at the al-Aqsa Mosque. "Everything we're seeing is related to blast bomb injuries" - Dr. Victoria Rose. @lindseyhilsum.bsky.social's report on Gaza youtu.be/eYVNhFfbdug

News Analysis: President Trump and his family have monetized the White House more than any other occupant, normalizing activities that once would have provoked heavy blowback and official investigations.

Trump claims that a video shows the “burial sites” of “over 1,000” white farmers in South Africa. It doesn't. From @rileymellen.bsky.social and me www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/u...

The Spy Factory: How Russia’s intelligence services turned Brazil into an assembly line for its deep-cover operatives –– until an elite team of Brazilian cops hunted them down. New investigation with Michael Schwirtz. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/w...

The private plane that the U.S. government used to deport eight migrants to Djibouti/South Sudan (unclear what the final destination is) was previously used in the Brittney Griner/Viktor Bout prisoner swap. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/u...

Flight carrying US detainees destined for South Sudan likely flew through Shannon airport to Djibouti www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/u...

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“It was striking how cordial he was to the white South Africans -- two professional golfers and a luxury good magnate -- while clashing with or dismissing Ramaphosa.” www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05...

Israel has rapidly accelerated its destruction of Rafah in April and May. It's hard to understand the magnitude of this, even when spending time analyzing recent satellite imagery. From me, Samuel Granados, Aaron Boxerman, and @rileymellen.bsky.social Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Mohammed al Bardawil, a young witness to the attack on medics who we interviewed in Gaza, was killed at the weekend when an Israeli gunboat fired on Rafah beach. His father Saeed asked our colleague Bilal Shbair today for a photo of them together when Bilal interviewed them.

In 30 days, the Houthis shot down seven MQ-9 drones (around $30 million each). Several F-16s & an F-35 fighter jet were nearly hit. Two pilots & a flight deck crew member were injured when two F/A-18 Super Hornets fell into the Red Sea from an aircraft carrier 10 days apart nyti.ms/3H4z4x8

Sunday's @nytimes.com carries the photos of 15 medics and rescue workers shot and killed by the IDF in Gaza in March, collected from their families and colleagues. QR links out to video reconstruct, Six Deadly Minutes. Please share. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWhN...

Cool open-source investigative tool I just learned about: alltext.nyc. It lets you search any text found in Google Street View images from 2007 to 2024— graffiti, shop signs, street text, you name it. Just type in what you see, and see what pops up.

New doc from Zeteo claims to have identified the IDF sniper who killed journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. The man they identify is Captain Alon Scagio, who died in Jenin last June after getting hit with a roadside bomb. zeteo.com/p/who-killed...

Bill Gates speaks about Elon Musk in a new interview: "The world’s richest man has been involved in the deaths of the world’s poorest children." Elsewhere, he says the international aid cuts will result in the additional deaths of millions of children. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/m...