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Kolina Koltai

@koltai.bsky.social

Senior investigator & Trainer @Bellingcat.com Investigating explicit non-consensual deepfakes/AI and disinfo w/OSINT "I am a doctor, but not that kind of doctor."

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a baseball player for the los angeles dodgers is standing on a field ALT: a baseball player for the los angeles dodgers is standing on a field
02.11.2025 05:22 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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'Happy Halloween!': DHS spokeswoman responds to report of immigration agents wearing horror masks in L.A. The story by a local news site featured images posted to social media showing what the outlet says were agents in unmarked cars donning Chucky and Momo masks.

'Happy Halloween!': DHS spokeswoman responds to report of immigration agents wearing horror masks in L.A.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

01.11.2025 03:10 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Cardiff Catholic priest Mark Rowles sentenced for sending racist neo-Nazi messages Father Mark Rowles was arrested by counter terror police for extreme right wing activity on social media.

wasn’t expecting to read tonight about a Catholic priest going by the name "skinheadlad1488" in a chatroom called Aryan Reich Killers but here we are

www.bbc.com/news/article...

31.10.2025 19:51 β€” πŸ‘ 620    πŸ” 232    πŸ’¬ 38    πŸ“Œ 29
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Tear Gas, Pepper Balls Among Weapons Deployed Against Illinois Protesters A judge recently issued a restraining order on crowd-control tactics by federal agents in the state, including those involved in Operation Midway Blitz.

New from Bellingcat: β€œβ€˜Pattern of Extreme Brutality’ β€” Tear gas, pepper balls among weapons used by federal agents at Illinois immigration protests.”
Read the full investigation:
www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10...

31.10.2025 19:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1207    πŸ” 552    πŸ’¬ 29    πŸ“Œ 38
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Tear Gas, Pepper Balls Among Weapons Deployed Against Illinois Protesters A judge issued a restraining order on crowd-control tactics by federal agents, including those involved in Operation Midway Blitz in the Chicago region.

Children tear-gassed. Teenagers tackled to the ground. Bellingcat analysed footage of clashes between federal officers and civilians after a judge issued a restraining order on crowd-control tactics in Illinois: www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10...

31.10.2025 19:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1818    πŸ” 823    πŸ’¬ 29    πŸ“Œ 39
Mapping Midway Blitz in Illinois
YouTube video by Bellingcat Mapping Midway Blitz in Illinois

Our researcher @koltai.bsky.social and @evidentmedia.org explain our research into these allegedly disproportionate acts carried out by federal officers in Illinois here: youtube.com/shorts/HKXEY...

31.10.2025 19:15 β€” πŸ‘ 146    πŸ” 48    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

If you aren't paying attention to what is happening in Illinois/Chicago, you're missing out on Bovino and federal agents using tear gas, pepper balls, and force against the people.

Check out our investigation alongside @evidentmedia.org

31.10.2025 19:43 β€” πŸ‘ 682    πŸ” 340    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 13
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Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino Gets Out of Daily Check-Ins For Now After Appeals Court Grants Emergency Stay The DOJ filed the motion with the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday afternoon, hours before Bovino was set to appear at the Dirksen Federal Building to meet with U.S. District Judge Sara E...

FULL STORY: Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino will not appear in court Wednesday for what was to be the first of his daily check-ins with a judge after a federal appellate court granted an emergency stay hours before he was set to appear, @bymattmasterson.bsky.social reports for @wttw.bsky.social

29.10.2025 21:20 β€” πŸ‘ 203    πŸ” 93    πŸ’¬ 37    πŸ“Œ 30

btw, this was the meme that Bushart posted that got him arrested and jailed for over a month and has his facing felony charges.

29.10.2025 21:29 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

I partially think this is just engagement baiting - creating distressing content to get views

29.10.2025 21:06 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Surely, no thing can go wrong relying on facial recognition to ID people to arrest, even overriding birth certificates as proof of citizenship.

29.10.2025 20:46 β€” πŸ‘ 34    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
image an AI video from Sora of ICE officers arresting people in a McDonalds

image an AI video from Sora of ICE officers arresting people in a McDonalds

Sometimes it is a whole account on TikTok that posts these videos. Sometimes it is just 1-2 of these videos.

Some get only a few thousand views. Some get over 150K views, like this one here.

Most of these videos aren't good enough to pass for the real thing, imho, but they do fool some.

29.10.2025 20:42 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
homescreen of a tiktok account with numerous videos. The thumbnails of these videos depict ICE and law enforcement agents arresting Hispanic people, often with a pregnant woman or child included crying as a man (husband/father) is being detained

homescreen of a tiktok account with numerous videos. The thumbnails of these videos depict ICE and law enforcement agents arresting Hispanic people, often with a pregnant woman or child included crying as a man (husband/father) is being detained

A good chunk of my time each week is dedicated to collecting and archiving video evidence of DHS officers arresting people. There are literally hundreds of these videos.

I cannot fathom why people spend time on Sora creating their own AI videos of families being ripped apart to post online.

29.10.2025 20:42 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

Hey, would you mind following me so I can DM you? I would love to chat with you for an upcoming article

29.10.2025 17:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is wild.

Coupled with the fact that Bovino admitted that he himself does not wear a body-camera and has not been trained to use one.

28.10.2025 17:25 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

not subtle at all

28.10.2025 17:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

the coat is giving ✨SS✨

28.10.2025 17:13 β€” πŸ‘ 44    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 2

The sweet release after basically playing two full games back-to-back

28.10.2025 07:04 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Let's gooooooooooo!!!!!

And after all that, they get to do this again in 17 hours.

28.10.2025 07:03 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Finally!

28.10.2025 07:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

18th inning. Oops. I'm tired

28.10.2025 06:33 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Will a baseball expert tell me if there ever has been a world series game that ended on the same day that the next game is scheduled?

Because at 11:30 pm and going into the 17th inning, it looks like that may happen tonight/tomorrow.

Tired for the longest WS game. Might as well make history.

28.10.2025 06:32 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

I guess everyone at dodger stadium is getting their money's worth on their tickets.

28.10.2025 06:04 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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a picture of a skeleton with the words im dead bruh above it ALT: a picture of a skeleton with the words im dead bruh above it

15th inning???

28.10.2025 05:39 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

This is dystopian shit. Did no one think of the ramifications of a false positive? Did no one review the footage to see that this kid was eating chips before police are called?

This system can get a kid killed instead of being used to save them.

27.10.2025 18:32 β€” πŸ‘ 57    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0
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Welcome to Decoherence Media! We're an independent, journalist-founded nonprofit investigating authoritarian and anti-democratic movements using open-source and data-driven methods.

Welcome to Decoherence Media, an independent nonprofit founded by @jennefer.bsky.social and @tristanl.ee that investigates authoritarian and anti-democratic movements using open-source and data-driven methods.

27.10.2025 11:09 β€” πŸ‘ 203    πŸ” 102    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 11

Thrilled to see my former colleague @tristanl.ee launch @decoherence.media.

Really excited to see the work to come, and their inaugural publication on Rope Culture!

If you research the far-right movement in anyway, Tristan is one of the best resources out there. A must follow!

27.10.2025 17:01 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The White House's East Wing is now completely demolished, as seen in @planet.com SkySat imagery taken today.

23.10.2025 19:04 β€” πŸ‘ 58    πŸ” 25    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
October planet imagery showing the east wing demolished

October planet imagery showing the east wing demolished

September planet imagery showing the east wing before work took place

September planet imagery showing the east wing before work took place

New satellite images show the scale of demolition that has occurred on the East Wing of the White House in less than a month.

23.10.2025 19:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1248    πŸ” 573    πŸ’¬ 58    πŸ“Œ 112
Heavy machinery breaking and destroying a section of the White House. Walls and roof area on the ground and turned to rubble.

Heavy machinery breaking and destroying a section of the White House. Walls and roof area on the ground and turned to rubble.

If this was a movie, the audience would think literally destroying a portion of the White House would be too direct of a metaphor to represent Trump's dismantling of America.

21.10.2025 15:05 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

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