Joanne Stocker
@joannestocker.bsky.social
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Verification Producer, CBS News Confirmed. Philadelphian/Londoner. I like to poke at things that don’t make sense.
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As we’ll all be using this more, a proper introduction: I’m a verification producer with the CBS News Confirmed team in London, by way of Ireland and Erbil and Philly and a bunch of other stops. I specialise mainly in OSINT, defence, conflict, big boats, and, increasingly, the far-right.
joannestocker.bsky.social
Their stares into the camera are breaking my brain
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The Assad government carried out a two-year clandestine operation to truck thousands of bodies from one of Syria’s largest known mass graves to a secret location more than an hour away in the remote desert, a Reuters investigation has found.

www.reuters.com/world/middle...
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It’s always a fun moment in the Schengen queue when the lads find out one of them has an Irish passport
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European countries are scrambling to bolster their defenses before the next wave of Russian drones: Stockpiling shotguns, installing radars and teaching civilians how to knock out out drones. Our story:

www.wsj.com/world/europe... #denmark #nato #poland #ukraine
Can Shotguns, Spy Planes and Lasers Protect Europe From the Next Drone Incursion?
A spate of suspected Russian drone appearances across Europe has forced countries to look for novel ways to protect their airspace.
www.wsj.com
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strategywoman.bsky.social
Today is Artist’s Day in Ukraine.

In the video, you see three watercolour paintings
by Ukrainian artist and soldier
Davyd Chychkan –
killed on the front line in August 2025.
joannestocker.bsky.social
The children yearn for the salt mines Last Supper
Close-up showing a faithful depiction of The Last Supper carved entirely out of salt mine walls, part of an underground church in Kraków’s salt mines
joannestocker.bsky.social
And Germany’s been training on German aircraft in New Mexico since the 1950s.
atherton.bsky.social
Been off the beat for a hot minute, but the US has for decades housed training units for foreign Air Forces at US bases? Singapore has had a base in Arizona since 2001, and they train in Idaho sometimes.

This is routine hegemon stuff, not a new/unique evil www.nationalguard.mil/News/Article...
www.nationalguard.mil
joannestocker.bsky.social
Qatar is a non-Nato major ally and hosts a major Centcom operations centre. This isn’t really weird.
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Pals!
It’s $5 Friday!
When we saw this mama n her 2 puppies in a rural NC shelter….with their weary looks of defeat….we just had ta help.
Mama Maggie is HW+, her 2 puppies Huck n Finn need basic vet care.
If you’d like to help, we truly thank you ♥️!
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Congratulations to Polymarket on their Nobel Peace Prize win
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I don't think they should be allowed to do that
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All 8 of the Blue Jays Pitchers from Yesterday (overlay)
joannestocker.bsky.social
Thank you for reading, Padre
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The Pope says: "Subscribe".
apnews.com
Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.
joannestocker.bsky.social
No I mean Jesus Christ, you’re right
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A [police] spokesman said: “We can confirm that, in the initial stages of the attack outside the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue, a call was made by the attacker to police claiming to pledge allegiance to the so-called Islamic State. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10...
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Someone make this guy a colonel
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It is very German (complimentary) that they've had to make a new law giving the federal police powers to shoot down drones