covering organized crime @Bellingcat.com. texan up north. views my own.
Peter Barth
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Trump up at 2am posting about being mad at the TV.
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US special forces seized an oil tanker that our joint @bellingcat.com @thetimes.com project linked to the Kinahans. In March we covered how we found a bill of sale listing former UFC fighter Mounir Lazzez, a friend of Daniel Kinahan, as the director of a company that purchased the ship in 2023.
Bellingcat's @koltai.bsky.social spoke to PBS News about non-consensual deepfake pornography and authorities' struggle to deal with them
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After the 2022 mass shooting at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas, the state passed a law mandating police presence in schools. Our reporter describes how some students have experienced physical force by school police officers since then. Read the full investigation. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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"No AI" fast becoming the "pesticides and additives-free" of our digital universe.
Iran circumvented sanctions by transfering billions in funds for its military through the Binance exchange after Trump pardoned Binance's CEO Changpeng Zhao
last year
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Eliot Higgins
There has been a sharp rise in so-called "nudification" technology. These AI-powered tools can generate realistic fake images and videos that depict people as undressed, often without their knowledge ...
Satellite imagery shows that at least 46 towns and villages in southern Lebanon have been heavily damaged or, in some cases, entirely flattened by the Israeli Defence Forces. Bellingcat’s interactive map reveals the scale of the destruction: www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/05...
NEW: A stunning new project from @lawfaremedia.org's @katherinepomps.bsky.social finds that 97 Jan. 6ers who received clemency for their role in the Capitol riot then got arrested, charged, and/or convicted with subsequent crimes—a number much higher than previously reported.
Great read by April Xu for @documented.net documentedny.com/2026/04/13/l...
More Kinahan Cartel news - Seized in US helicopter raid, the oil tanker linked to Kinahan cartel
www.thetimes.com/article/2bfa...
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Dozens of towns and villages within the IDF's “Yellow Line” in southern Lebanon have been heavily damaged or destroyed in recent months.
Since Google revealed its plans for an AI search overhaul, visits to our "No AI" search page have tripled…and they’re still rising! Want to make it your default on Chrome or Firefox? Grab our No-AI extensions and banish AI-assisted answers, chat, and AI images. (1/3)
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The crypto transactions took place despite repeated red flags. Binance says it has “zero-tolerance for illicit activity.”
Dozens of men were swept up in crackdowns on New York's Chinatown gangs in the 1990s and sentenced to decades in prison. More than 30 years later, they're urging the state to let them go home.
