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Technical writing, UX, open source research (DR Congo, misogyny, SGBV). Extremely Online at http://discord.gg/bellingcat CongoEye member, Bellingcat contributor. Reds and Tolkien fan. Views my own.
CNN has independently conducted an analysis into the new Minab IRGC base video.
CNN concludes, as @bellingcat.com did, that the video shows a US Tomahawk missile impacting the vicinity of an elementary school where 160 children were killed on February 28.
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The footage appears to contradict President Donald Trump’s claim it was an Iranian missile that hit the school on Feb. 28. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
“We thought we were living in a politically neutral slave state.”
🚨 2 March: The ITF & Joint Negotiating Group designate the Strait of Hormuz and surrounding waters as a High Risk Area, activating enhanced protections for IBF-covered seafarers.
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The United States said Monday it was imposing sanctions on Rwanda's military, taking action against a longtime partner which it accused of violating a peace agreement in the Democratic Republic of Congo. ➡️ u.afp.com/SuYB
I built a free tool that shows how night-time lights have changed anywhere on Earth.
Here's how it works and why it's useful for monitoring conflict, disasters, development and growth. 👇
"2025 will be the first year of this century where more young children died than the year before."
And the next time you see this sort of Discourse in the wild, I hope you take that opportunity to say, "You think just like Jeffrey Epstein."
It was never all in your head.
A Bellingcat investigation reveals child soldiers in Sudan’s civil war have become viral figures on TikTok. Videos attracting millions of views show the children with senior military officials, celebrating battlefield victories and delivering violent threats. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/02...
This hit to my psyche is so bad I require compensation.
When you go to see how the first show on this leg of the tour went, and get cooked by auto-subtitling.
Welcome back good hair baseball king
Google Image search has "similar" and "exact matches". The AI is responding that "visibly similar images" have been online. There are many photos of guns categorized as "visually similar".
Upload the image from DHS into Google Image search and select "exact matches" to reproduce Eliot's results.
A DHS statement claimed “an individual approached US Border Patrol officers” with “a handgun” in the Alex Pretti shooting incident. A Bellingcat analysis of the footage appears to show that a gun was taken away from where Pretti was situated by an agent just before the first shot was fired.
Please don't spread disinformation!
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Please don't spread disinformation!
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Please don't spread disinformation!
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Please don't spread misinformation!
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this is about the 10th time we've explained it today but the first time one of us got called a fascist for it.
Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...
I see Logan has you set up. Looking forward to meeting you!
Hi andi! Do you have a Discord account already, and if so, are you logged in?
Historically, we've focused a lot on the brutal actions of authoritarian regimes, and today is no different.
One example of how Grok is being used to target women. Swedish Deputy Prime Minister Ebba Busch being sexualised, degraded, and humiliated step-by-step by Grok. All the images accurately reflect the prompts provided.
Offensive de l’AFC/M23 au Sud-Kivu : Denis Mukwege déplore l’incapacité de l’UA à désigner clairement Kigali comme acteur de déstabilisation et appelle à des actions concrètes contre le Rwanda
On December 8, 2025 a video allegedly from the city of Sange started circulating on X. Lawrence Kanyuka of M23 alleged it showed the result of a firefight between FARDC and Wazalendo. We will refer to this as the M23 video. Note that this video is graphic. x.com/LawrenceKany...