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Edition 9 – Searching through the Epstein files – here's how Hey there, Hakan here. My main roadblock when trying to learn Python was that I never knew what I could use it for. So I would learn how to loop from numbers...

For this week's newsletter: a lightweight tool to search through the Epstein-files. Since I had a hard time learning python (couldn't figure out what to use it for), it's geared towards people who are in a similar position. It's a copy-and-pasteable walkthrough

buttondown.com/readwrite/ar...

China’s senior-most general is accused of leaking information about the country’s nuclear-weapons program to the U.S. and accepting bribes for official acts. 🔗: on.wsj.com/49E5k6k

Edition 9 – Searching through the Epstein files – here's how Hey there, Hakan here. My main roadblock when trying to learn Python was that I never knew what I could use it for. So I would learn how to loop from numbers...

For this week's newsletter: a lightweight tool to search through the Epstein-files. Since I had a hard time learning python (couldn't figure out what to use it for), it's geared towards people who are in a similar position. It's a copy-and-pasteable walkthrough

buttondown.com/readwrite/ar...

Screenshot from JAMF threat blog about Predator spyware with one-line reading "Device in restricted region: Locale == 'US' || 'IL'"

"Device in restricted region: Locale == 'US' || 'IL'"

Real ransomware operators inadvertently telling you where they're from, only for Predator spyware

www.jamf.com/blog/predato...

“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment

Here is our synced video of three angles. We do have the 4th angle as well. We are continuing to analyze all the footage as it becomes available.

How “Bitcoin Jesus” Avoided Prison, Thanks to One of the “Friends of Trump” Billionaire fugitive Roger Ver was facing federal criminal charges until he sought the services of a select club of President Donald Trump’s former personal attorneys who have easy access to top Justi...

"A cottage industry of lawyers, lobbyists and consultants with close ties to Trump has sprung up to help people and companies seek leniency, often by arguing they had been victims of political persecution by the Biden administration."

www.propublica.org/article/bitc...

White House posts digitally altered image of woman arrested after ICE protest Guardian analysis shows images are the same, with Nekima Levy Armstrong looking composed in original but sobbing after alteration

Darker skin colour, changing facial expression from composed to crying, straight from the White House.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

(S+) Kelcy Warren: Trump-Vertrauter kauft sich in Deutschlands Energieversorgung ein Ein US-Milliardär hat nach SPIEGEL-Informationen Teile von Deutschlands Treibstofflogistik übernommen, inklusive Zugang zu Nato-Flughäfen und Pipelines. Das Wirtschaftsministerium erlaubt den Deal unt...

Die Firma eines US-Milliardärs und Trump-Buddys hat nach @papertrailmedia.de & @spiegel.de-Informationen Teile von Deutschlands Treibstofflogistik übernommen, inklusive Zugang zu Nato-Flughäfen und Pipelines. Das Wirtschaftsministerium erlaubt den Deal unter Auflagen. www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...

"Two members of Elon Musk’s DOGE team working at the Social Security Administration were secretly in touch with an advocacy group seeking to “overturn election results in certain states,” and one signed an agreement that may have involved using Social Security data to match state voter rolls..."

Edition 8 - Dealing with 100,000 horrible pictures for the Damascus Dossier Hi! This newsletter is a bit different, because it will also published as a blog post over at DARC, Jan's company. So whenever it says 'we' just imagine it...

In this weeks newsletter, @jls.bsky.social describes how to process 100,000 photos without looking at them. No graphic material is included, but the theme may be unsettling.

I‘m always amazed by Jan, and if you read this, you’ll know why

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This is the guy arrested in Armenia in June 2024 that called Russian officials and requested a "green corridor" home

eumostwanted.eu#/nefedov-ole...

Der Hacker, der der Justiz entkam Ein russischer Hackerboss wird verhaftet und verschwindet dann spurlos. Geleakte Chats legen nahe, dass er staatliche Unterstützung hatte

Here's the poster:
www.bka.de/DE/IhreSiche...

Here's our story at Der Spiegel
www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web...

And here at Der Standard
www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

About a year ago we published a story on Black Basta and the alleged leader of the gang, called Oleg N. He managed to escape after being presented to a judge

Today, LEA agencies announced having searched two homes of Black Basta operators in Ukraine. For Oleg, there's a "Wanted" poster

Exclusive | Trump Blasted Federal Prosecutors at White House Event, Calling Them Weak The president criticized a group of U.S. attorneys at a photo shoot, a day before the Federal Reserve subpoenas.

WSJ scoop: "President Trump criticized a group of U.S. attorneys at a White House event last week, calling them weak and complaining they weren't moving fast enough to prosecute his favored targets." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

WSJ opinion page yesterday: The U.S. attorney subpoena to Jerome Powell was beyond dumb. "Trump would do himself and the country a big favor by firing those responsible for this fiasco."

"Those responsible." Hmmm, now let's see what the WSJ newsroom is reporting today 👇🏼

preview says 3, as of now the headline is updated to 6

Police Unmask Millions of Surveillance Targets Because of Flock Redaction Error Flock is going after a website called HaveIBeenFlocked.com that has collated public records files released by police.

NEW: Completely unredacted Flock audit logs have been released to the public by numerous police departments and in some cases include details on millions of Flock license plate searches made by thousands of police departments from around the country.

In Universes for fiction
A Truce that is not peace for non

Musk publicly endorsing KKK ideology.

We're all just content for ICE Four days on the ground in Minneapolis

"A lot of the rental cars around here have been used by ICE,” one of the volunteers told us, before using a walkie talkie to tell other volunteers to stand down and stop monitoring our car."

www.garbageday.email/p/we-re-all-...

Why men should really be reading more fiction Novels require a kind of attention that the modern world is steadily eroding

„In a hyper-capitalist culture optimised for skimming and distraction, the ability to sit still with a novel is both subversive and truly gratifying“

www.ft.com/content/da33...

Ah, I was wondering where these new followers are coming from

Just seeing this now! Thank you!

Screenshot of a message in a law-enforcement-only forum where a sheriff’s detective asks other officers for activist groups and online channels to monitor ahead of an ICE protest.

Today, in a message shared w me from a law-enforcement-only forum, a sheriff’s detective says he was tasked with monitoring OSINT ahead of an ICE protest and is crowdsourcing activist “groups and specific channels” to track from other cops nationwide

Local protests, national surveillance networks

Videos Show How ICE Vehicle Stops Can Escalate to Shootings A WSJ visual investigation found that the Minneapolis ICE killing is one of 13 incidents where federal immigration agents have used deadly force against civilians in vehicles since July.

„Ross moving in front of the vehicle … which … agents say they are trained not to do“

„If agents box in a target, the vehicles should be bumper to bumper, with no room for the suspect to drive away.

„But in 3 of the 4 shootings, agents left room for the vehicle to flee“
www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...

Musk says X outcry is 'excuse for censorship' The government is urging Ofcom to use all its powers – up to and including an effective ban – against X.

Preventing the sharing of sexualised images of children is “censorship” according to Elon Musk.

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

Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards Once you’ve traded your principles for proximity to power, do you even run your own company?

"They sold their principles for power, and now they don’t even control their own companies. Welcome to gangster tech regulation!"

www.theverge.com/policy/85990...

(S+) Operation »grob fehlerhaft« – wenn schlechte Mediziner trotzdem weiterarbeiten Ein Münchner Zahnarzt verabreicht hohe Dosen Morphin, ein verurteilter Gynäkologe mit Berufsverbot behandelt wieder Patientinnen. Recherchen zeigen, wie wenig sich Ärztekammern um ihre Problemfälle sc...

Nach unserer #WorldofPain-Recherche meldete sich ein Arzt mit einem Anliegen: Schaut euch diesen Fall an, denn die Behörden tun es scheinbar nicht. Das haben wir gemacht - und weitere Problemfälle gefunden, um die sich Ärztekammern & Approbationsbehörden wenig scheren. www.spiegel.de/panorama/feh...

We've analysed this video of the shooting of Renee Nicole Good yesterday in Minneapolis frame-by-frame to highlight the positioning of the gun and phone in the ICE agent's hands.
Video: @minnesotareformer.com with annotations by Bellingcat