Jake Godin

Pleased to speak with @gregsargent.bsky.social for this piece.

It sounds like the two survivors were shipwrecked and directly targeted.

If you accept the administration's bogus theory that there is an armed conflict (there isn't), then targeting the shipwrecked would be a war crime.

There were a lot of people, including former EOD techs, that thought the DC pipe bombs had to be an "inside job" or made by a bomb tech due to the device construction.

This makes it even more clear it wasn't an inside job or done by a bomb tech.

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Read The Alleged January 6 Pipe Bomber Court Records Brian Cole of Virginia was charged with planting two incendiary devices near the Capitol. We put all the court records here.

Read The Alleged January 6 Pipe Bomber Court Records

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This is what government censorship actually looks like: defunding entire fields, deporting researchers, and quite effectively chilling speech that helps people understand how our information systems are being exploited and calls out powerful people and platforms for their bullshit.

NEW YORK-According to news reports, the Trump administration this week announced that applicants for H-1B visas for highly skilled workers would be subject to increased vetting, with an eye toward rejecting those involved in what it considers "censorship." A recent State Department cable reportedly requires U.S. consular officers to review applicants' resumes or LinkedIn profiles to determine if they have worked in areas related to misinformation, disinformation, content moderation, fact-checking, or trust and safety online. The following can be attributed to Carrie DeCell, senior staff attorney and legislative advisor at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University: "People who study misinformation and work on content-moderation teams aren't engaged in 'censorship' — they're engaged in activities that the First Amendment was designed to protect. This policy is incoherent and unconstitutional."

Knight First Amendment Institute's Carrie DeCell: "This policy is incoherent and unconstitutional."

Well. This is absurd.

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Pity the many Brian Cole's about to get misidentified by right wing influencers.

Great food here too, IMO.

Did the Trump administration commit a war crime in its attack on a Venezuelan boat? Washington Post reporter Alex Horton talks about the Sept. 2 U.S. military strike on a boat with alleged "narco terrorists," in which a second strike was ordered to kill two survivors in the water.

I went on @nprfreshair.bsky.social with Terry Gross to lay out what we know and don’t know about the administration’s second deadly strike on Sept 2, which killed two survivors in the Caribbean www.npr.org/2025/12/03/n...

I've been closely covering the USIP situation since March and am currently in the midst of a lawsuit for body cam footage of the raid.

SCOOP: Sources tell me Donald Trump's name was added to the exterior of the US Institute of Peace building ahead of Thursday's peace agreement signing between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which will be held inside the building. Confirming if it's been officially renamed.

Despite rising tensions and the alleged closure of Venezuelan airspace, U.S. deportation flights to Venezuela have continued on their usual Wed/Fri schedule. The 74th such flight of the year (EAL8280) is currently en route from Phoenix, AZ to Caracas.

Watched, Tracked, and Targeted in Gaza Life under Israel’s all-encompassing surveillance regime.

I spent sixteen months reporting this story. It follows how surveillance tech is rewriting Gaza in real time — and what it’s doing to the people inside it. Reported in partnership with @justvision.org's Palestine Reporting Lab and published in @nymag.com

The most recent boat strike was on Nov 15, nearly two weeks before the Washington Post story about the initial Sept 2 strike. Before Nov 15, they were occurring once every two or three days. What caused them to stop?

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump For years, the Biden Administration weaponized the Justice System against their Political Opponents, and anyone who disagreed with them. One of the clearest examples of this was when Crooked Joe used the FBI and DOJ to "take out" a member of his own Party after Highly Respected Congressman Henry Cuellar bravely spoke out against Open Borders, and the Biden Border "Catastrophe." Sleepy Joe went after the Congressman, and even the Congressman's wonderful wife, Imelda, simply for speaking the TRUTH. It is unAmerican and, as I previously stated, the Radical Left Democrats are a complete and total threat to Democracy! They will attack, rob, lie, cheat, destroy, and decimate anyone who dares to oppose their Far Left Agenda, an Agenda that, if left unchecked, will obliterate our magnificent Country. Because of these facts, and others, I am hereby announcing my full and unconditional PARDON of beloved Texas Congressman Henry Cuellar, and Imelda. Henry, I don't know you, but you can sleep well tonight — Your nightmare is finally over!

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President Trump says he is granting a pardon to Democratic Congressman Henry Cuellar and his wife Imelda.

Federal prosecutors said they accepted around $600,000 from an oil-and-gas company wholly owned and controlled by the government of Azerbaijan and a bank in Mexico.

Lead Post reporter on that story Alex Horton served in the infantry in Iraq.

F-16 Pilot Awarded Silver Star for Harrowing Middle East Mission An F-16 pilot was awarded a Silver Star for a mission in which he dodged surface-to-air missiles during an operation against Houthis in Yemen.

From the F-16 squadron commander’s Silver Star citation reported on here, it sounds like besides all the downed Reapers, the Air Force narrowly avoided losing one or more manned fighter jets to Houthi air defenses over Yemen during Operation Rough Rider last March

The Voice of America's Burmese Service contributor Sithu Aung Myint has been released from Insein Prison in Myanmar after 4+ years of unjust detention. But he won't have a job to go back to as nearly all of VOA's language services have been silenced by DOGE and Kari Lake, achieving what authoritaria

Sabrina Carpenter replies to WH video: This video is evil and disgusting. Do not ever involve me or my music to benefit your inhumane agenda.

Pop star Sabrina Carpenter slams the White House for using “Juno” in an ICE arrest video:

“This video is evil and disgusting. Do not ever involve me or my music to benefit your inhumane agenda.”

Comic. [Two people in front of projected satellite image. A small portion of the image is pixelated squares.] PERSON 1: Wait, when was this imagery taken? Is this censorship the work of the contractor? One of our people? *Foreign actors!?* PERSON 2 with ponytail: Do we know who’s operating a facility at that location? PERSON 1: We can’t find *anything*. [caption] My hobby: Setting up big colored panels in the middle of nowhere as a prank on remote sensing people

Satellite Imagery

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JSOC and SEAL Team 6 have spent a decade-plus orchestrating drone strikes on land, including when Bradley was the Team 6 commander overseeing Somalia/Yemen strikes—and reattacks to kill survivors, who in a land context are not as categorically hors de combat as at sea, were routine during them:

'Unauthorized' Edit to Ukraine's Frontline Maps Point to Polymarket's War Betting It looks like someone invented a fake Russia advance in Ukraine to manipulate online gambling markets.

It looks like someone invented a fake Russia advance in Ukraine to manipulate online gambling markets.

Cover of the Indigenous Journalists Association’s “Indigenous Identity Reporting Guide.” The top features the IJA logo and title. Below, a photograph shows a dancer from behind wearing traditional regalia, including a large feathered headdress, a yellow woven sash, and beaded leggings. The dancer stands outdoors in front of a building with a mural, with seated attendees visible in the background. The bottom of the cover lists the website “www.indigenousjournalists.org.”

The Indigenous Journalists Association released a reporting guide to help reporters cover Indigenous identity responsibly and ethically. It offers tools and context for navigating heritage, identity fraud, community verification, and more. indigenousjournalists.org/2025/11/ija-...

Trump Declares Venezuelan Airspace Closed

Pleased to speak with @johnismay.bsky.social about Trump’s saber rattling towards Venezuela.

“Threats of the use of force, much less an actual attack on Venezuela, would violate the U.N. Charter. Any such attack would also lack congressional authorization.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...

Mariupol residents are seeing their homes demolished and resold. Researcher Ilvija Bruge breaks down her investigation in our latest Bellingchat Premium episode on Patreon. www.patreon.com/posts/how-ma...

16-year-old American Mohammed Ibrahim has been released after over 9 months in an Israeli prison without trial.

I was relieved to hear from his family today and to know that he’s safe and where he belongs — with his family.

Does Pete Hegseth have a "golden shield" against prosecution in the form of a DOJ OLC opinion? Ed Whelan thinks not.

Fake sources using my name keep cropping up.

Here, a former senior military official from Romania, Corneliu Pivariu, cites me in an article for Diplomat Magazine: diplomatmagazine.eu/2025/11/25/s...

It's entirely made up, presumably by his AI ghost writer. I haven’t written for Carnegie in years.