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Jake Godin
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Senior Researcher, Bellingcat. Previously at Scripps News.
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New SkySat imagery from Planet Labs over northern Gaza from Dec 5 shows extensive damage to the Beit Lahia Cemetery after the IDF cleared two paths through the middle of it.

🧵 I have a cemetery destruction thread on Twitter that I'll re-post to Bluesky for tracking purposes.

CC: @geoconfirmed.org
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Is anybody keeping a running tally of major DoD programs like this that get canxd?
November 25, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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This is called “chain refoulment” and it’s illegal under both U.S. and international law. And the State Department and ICE know very well what Ghana is doing and simply don’t care.
ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
November 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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The number of ways this is disgraceful behavior from the Secretary of Defense is...a lot.

Service members do have a duty to refuse illegal orders

All Americans have a 1st Amendment right to say that out loud.
Hegseth is now threatening to recall Sen. Mark Kelly to active duty in order to court martial him.
November 24, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Analyses by Maher and by Steven Beck have supported open-source/visual/audio investigations by Bellingcat, CNN, WaPo, and NYT — helping attribute the killing of Abu Akleh to Israeli soldiers, Israeli military killing 15 rescue workers in Gaza, and Peruvian security forces killing unarmed protesters.
November 22, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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The forensic audio analysis by Rob C. Maher of the 2024 Trump assassination attempt has been peer-reviewed and published in the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society. This is great news for visual and audio investigations! aes2.org/publications...
November 22, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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I’ll note that it is striking how anemic the scholarly support has been for the lawfulness of the boat strikes.

Of former USG natsec lawyers who know what they’re talking about, none have publicly defended the killing spree at sea.
Buckle up for the speedy production of some vast literatures.
November 24, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Geolocation| Search efforts for the bodies of killed residents, reportedly at the Al-Nawasra family house in the Maghazi Camp, Central #Gaza
31.427849, 34.383184
🗓️22 Nov. 2025
Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXq8...
Photos: www.facebook.com/maghazimun/p...
November 23, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Bus stop spacing distribution in New York City, Toronto, and Prague.
November 22, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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'Light Fantastic'

21,837 images across 18 time-lapse sequences photographed by Don Pettit & Butch Wilmore are repaired, remastered and retimed to create 3x real time video footage.

Credit: Butch Wilmore / Don Pettit / ISS / NASA / ESRS / Seán Doran

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cKk...
ISS - Light Fantastic
YouTube video by Seán Doran
www.youtube.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Yellow markers placed 231 meters further into Al-Sha'af, Shejaiya, 31.505011, 34.473358.
November 20, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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AP and others *have* been on the ground and interviewing families and telling their stories, and the people on the boats appear to the mostly working class low-level people smuggling cocaine, not hardened cartel operatives bringing in fentanyl as the admin repeatedly has suggested.
Cotton on Trump's boat strikes: "Use common sense. If any of these had been boats full of fisherman or refugees, CNN would've already been on the ground & interviewed all their families & told their stories. We can be confident all of these strikes have been against cartel-based drug traffickers."
November 20, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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3 Salvadoran men sent to CECOT by the Trump administration are still being held incommunicado there

They haven't been able to talk to their families or attorneys since arriving in March

apnews.com/article/el-s...
Human rights commission calls on El Salvador to protect 3 deported men it imprisoned
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights is calling on El Salvador to protect the rights of three Salvadoran men deported by the United States.
apnews.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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wrote about the president’s flagrant and destructive corruption in a column that references street fighter, the simpsons, machiavelli, and a host of revolutionary-era americans (gift link)
Opinion | The White House Gold Rush Is On
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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The @wsj.com drops results of a major investigation into Syria's mass graves. The numbers are staggering.

www.wsj.com/world/middle...
Bodies Keep Turning Up in Syria, Haunting New Leaders
In the months after the fall of the Assad regime, Syrians have continued to discover large-scale burial sites, sometimes by chance. “Everyone who’s missing now…they’re buried in the ground somewhere.”
www.wsj.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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The National Press Club (of which I'm a board member) "is deeply troubled by President Trump's comments today regarding the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi." www.press.org/newsroom/nation...
National Press Club Statement on President Trump’s Remarks on the Murder of Jamal Khashoggi
WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 – The National Press Club is deeply troubled by President Trump’s comments today regarding the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Mr. Khashoggi’s murder inside a diplomatic facility was a grave violation of human rights and a direct attack on press freedom. That fact is not in dispute. For reporters around the world — and for those who risk their lives to report on powerful figures, governments, and global events — statements that appear to minimize or excuse the killing of a journalist have real-world consequences. They can embolden those who wish to silence reporters, and they can undermine the essential principle that journalists must be able to work without fear of violence or retribution. The National Press Club stands with Jamal Khashoggi’s family, with our colleagues at The Washington Post, and with journalists everywhere who continue to do their jobs under threat. Mr. Khashoggi’s death was a tragedy and a crime. His life and work deserve truth, transparency, and unwavering recognition of the principles he upheld. We urge all world leaders — including our own — to speak with moral clarity about the protection of journalists and to reinforce the universal commitment that a free press is indispensable to a free society. About the National Press Club Founded in 1908, the National Press Club is the world’s leading professional organization for journalists. With 2,500 members, the Club, through its Press Freedom Center, is a leading voice for press freedom in the U.S. and worldwide. Contact: Bill McCarren, 202-662-7534, [email protected] for the National Press Club Center for Press Freedom
www.press.org
November 19, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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The Post is keeping an updating map and list of the Trump administration’s extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific (Gift link)

wapo.st/4oNn8RJ
Mapping U.S. strikes in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific
An ongoing record of U.S. military strikes in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific since Sept. 2.
wapo.st
November 18, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Pleased to speak with Patty Nieberg about the Trump administration's practice of designating criminal entities as "foreign terrorist organizations."

"[P]olitically, this administration has used these designations to pave the way for military action."
November 18, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Occasional reminder that not only is the use of force illegal in this situation, so is the *threat* of the use of force.
November 15, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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NEW: DHS launched a $200mln+ ad campaign, featuring, Kristi Noem, aimed at stemming illegal immigration.

We found the firm secretly hired for the work has ties to Noem.

@justinelliott.bsky.social, @josh-kaplan.bsky.social & @amierjeski.bsky.social:

www.propublica.org/article/kris...
November 14, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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Streets have been renamed, Ukrainian monuments removed, and murals painted over. Bellingcat investigates how apartment blocks in the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol have been demolished to make way for a new Russian suburban utopia… www.bellingcat.com/uncategorize...
Building on Ruins: The Russification of Mariupol, One Apartment Block at a Time - bellingcat
Bellingcat has identified 23 multi-storey housing complexes being built in occupied Mariupol and advertised for sale to Russian citizens.
www.bellingcat.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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brian is doing the lord's work going to every media outlet and just saying "it's usually illegal to kill people"
Please to speak with @the-independent.com about the boat strikes and the law.

“The term for premeditated killing outside of armed conflict is murder. And the Trump administration has not established that these strikes are taking place in an armed conflict.”

DOJ: US forces following orders.
Experts doubt legal memo shields troops from prosecution over Trump’s boat strikes
November 14, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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SecState has views on international law and the boat strikes it seems.

It is not just the Europeans, but a range of former USG national security lawyers—including former State Department attorneys—who have criticized these maritime strikes as unlawful.
US Secretary of State yesterday:

“I don’t think the European Union gets to determine what international law is. What they certainly don’t get to determine is how the United States defends its national security."

Source: x.com/StateDept/st...

@bcfinucane.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Fancy a challenge? Check out our latest puzzles on our Bellingcat Open Source Challenge website. This month's challenges are all about geolocating using 3D models.
Managed to solve them? Share your working out with us below- but try to avoid spoiling the answers for others! challenge.bellingcat.com
Bellingcat Open Source Challenge
Test your open source research skills.
challenge.bellingcat.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Even with ceasefire in Gaza the IDF continues its urbicide.

Israel argues it is all terror infrastructure.

Some analysts say 'Israel could be violating the laws of war, which prohibit the destruction of civilian property by an occupying power.'

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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November 12, 2025 at 7:03 AM