Eliot Higgins

The EU flag peeling back to reveal the swastika Elon Musk Pretty much @elonmusk • 3 h Alice Smith • @TheAlice... • 15 h The Fourth Reich

Would have thought he’d be pro-EU then.

BREAKING: A group of soldiers have appeared on Benin’s state TV announcing the dissolution of the government in an apparent coup in the West Africa nation aje.io/ea1qgx

Volunteer Community Volunteer Community Program Update Last updated: September 1, 2025 Our Volunteer Community has grown significantly since it began as a Global Authentication project in February 2022. It's truly ins...

Bellingcat Volunteer Community made this work possible and there is some incredible geolocations and digital sleuthing in this piece.
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Russia is ALL GAS NO BREAKS on the so-called youth "military patriotic" education. There's a social shift and the price to pay is in blood and trauma for generations to come.

The state sponsored Russian Cossacks are one part of that, they are also a way to co-opt an identity that is Ukrainian too.

Playing the "Good/bad migrant line helps spread further division and racism.

As @migrantvoice.bsky.social points out in this piece "People do not check what job someone has, or how they arrived, before attacking them".

Labour knows this and just carries on.

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Putin should have accepted Trump’s deal. Now Russia’s collapsing economy could lead to his downfall | Simon Tisdall The war against Ukraine has hit ordinary Russians hard, and the deteriorating situation is likely to inflame tensions, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall

Putin should have accepted Trump’s deal. Now Russia’s collapsing economy could lead to his downfall | Simon Tisdall

I apologise for failing your purity test, we must be ever vigilant against wrongthink.

I've been saying this for a year now: the Democrats have missed a gigantic political opportunity--and, at this point, have failed in an ethical obligation--to create a shadow-government health department that dispenses medically accurate information, guidance, and advice.

Can you give me some examples of how those groups control tbe government in Ukraine?

I thought we were talking about neo-Nazis in Ukraine?

So which neo-Nazis hold polticial office in Ukraine at the moment?

I think using a 6 year old article about a group that has no significant political power to claim Ukraine is a Nazi state a little much.

No more than Russia.

Very annoying to say the least.

No different from the pro-Russian Bellingcat = CIA idiots

If only there were a way to fuse the two

I got bored and blocked him. He has clearly ran out of ideas and thats no fun for me.

We recently discovered our YouTube account was shadowbanned for reasons we're not entirely clear on, but it's all fixed now.

YouTube video by Bellingcat Who Gets to Live in Rebuilt Mariupol?

We also produced a video version of this article for YouTube, which also acts as a case study in "don't read the comments"
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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.

Similarly, this article uses a combination of satellite imagery and 3D models to demonstrate the destruction of Mariupol
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From School to Battlefield to Grave: How Russian Cossacks drive young people to war - bellingcat The All-Russian Cossack Society turns school clubs into pipelines for state-sponsored militarisation and recruitment for war in Ukraine. Bellingcat shows how they shape an alternative mobilisation for...

Bellingcat has been experimenting with story formats, trying to get away from drawing coloured boxes around important things. Our latest is below:
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NYT: “.. a wave of companies have begun petitioning officials” for tariff relief. “Businesses that depend on foreign materials .. argue that tariffs .. are simply raising consumer prices .. rather than encouraging more manufacturing ..”

@nytimes.com
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Another lie

Ok liar

He lied and just admitted it

So you admit you lied before, got it.

This will always and forever be the most on point and prescient thing that Fukuyama ever wrote.

Meanwhile, at Netflix HQ

In new episode of #SistersInLaw, we discussed the grand jury’s refusal to re-indict Letitia James, the drug boat scandal, and next week’s SCOTUS arguments. You can listen here.
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