Benjamin Strick

New from @elisethomas.bsky.social on the laundering efforts of A7, a political and commercial enterprise aimed at enabling large-scale evasion of sanctions levelled against Russia. 👇

A7 Abroad: Sanctions evasion as a service A7, led by convicted fraudster Ilan Shor and backed by sanctioned Russian banks, claims to have moved over $86 billion in less than a year. CIR’s investigation details how A7 uses shell companies and ...

New @cen4infores.bsky.social investigation: Sanctions, shell companies and Russian state-backed money laundering.

Here’s how Ilan Shor and the Kremlin are laundering tens of billions of dollars around the world.

www.info-res.org/reports/a7-a...

Is everyone appreciating how utterly sick this is

Conservative influencer Nick Sortor among those arrested after fights break out at Portland ICE facility Sortor posted Friday morning about his arrest on social media, telling PPB to "lawyer up." The Department of Justice has opened an investigation into his arrest.

Pam Bondi's DOJ now running interference for far right influencers arrested by local cops in Portland. Opens investigation into arrest of Nick Sortor www.kgw.com/article/news...

Great job! 👏

🧵Introducing the Trump Action Tracker website!

Today I’m launching www.trumpactiontracker.info - a live, searchable list of authoritarian‑style actions from Trump’s second term (over 740 actions so far). 1/14

Investigating War Crimes: Arms Trade This chapter is designed to assist journalists investigating arms sales that may have crossed the line into fueling national and international crimes or systemic human rights abuses.

Investigating War Crimes: The Global Arms Trade.

Great resource from Global Investigative Journalism Network & Iain Overton gijn.org/resource/gui...

You don't need to share location to weather apps, choose one that allows you to add forecasts for different locations. Also don't share location with dating apps - Bumble etc shouldn't need it and it doesn't make you safe or help you find a match for them to know your exact location.

The example of how this looks in practice can be seen on our map of fire events in Sudan, which we have been running since April 2023. felt.com/map/Map-of-F...

GitHub - Centre-for-Information-Resilience/Burnscar Contribute to Centre-for-Information-Resilience/Burnscar development by creating an account on GitHub.

You can visit the Burnscar github repo here where the pipeline has been open sourced github.com/Centre-for-I...

This matters not only for research on Sudan, but also for the future of event detection as this pipeline is just the start to identify incidents more rapidly.

We hope this work will enrich data globally, across Ukraine, Myanmar and other areas where burn scars are an indicator

Using a third layer, building footprints, allows the data to be enriched to count how many structures are affected by intersections between the previous data and the building polygons

The extraction of those likely burn areas gives a binary map to allow for a more clear detection of what was not burned vs what is newly burned. This is like turning up the contrast in an image.

The second data source is Sentinel-2 imagery, which validates two images of an event (before and after) to highlight detection of change. In this image for example, we can see the dark spot in the bottom right indicating a burn scar.

This tool saves an incredible amount of time in the detection of burned civilian areas.

It uses well-known tools in the industry. The first of which is NASA FIRMS, a tool to detect heat signatures on the earth's surface

Our open-source pipeline for detecting war crimes from space is live. Built by our Sudan team at CIR with BigData Republic, it uses NASA FIRMS & Sentinel-2 data to flag burn events near civilian sites, turning satellite imagery into evidence. Full details: bigdatarepublic.nl/articles/det...

Want to see when changes pages are made to a website? There’s a cool function on the @archive.org that lets you track those changes, like where NASA edited out some interesting lines from their site in 2025.

"Top 5 hacks to find deleted websites, posts and secret changes"

Guide to advanced use of the Internet Archive by Benjamin Strick:

How to track changes made to websites
How to view collections of archived sites
How to search through TV News archives

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwuX...

From the GoogleEarthFinds community on Reddit: Insanely Detailed Images of US Carriers Explore this post and more from the GoogleEarthFinds community

Reddit post with more details www.reddit.com/r/GoogleEart...

Bing Maps 'birds eye' view has a crazy amount of detail, like this US Navy base - open for the world to see.
www.bing.com/maps/?cp=36....

This was an Israeli strike on a residential tower in south Rimal, Gaza City on 10 September, 2025.

It is just one of the 1800+ verified incidents we have mapped across Gaza, West Bank, Lebanon & Israel, which we have updated today: www.info-res.org/israel-gaza-...

As @ineiversen.bsky.social points out, Russia has rebuilt some areas in Mariupol to stage to stage propaganda.

After bombing this field, they rebuilt it with the Russian Navy flag and slogan "ДОЛГ ЧЕСТЬ ОТВАГА" (Duty, Honour, Courage) - there's no honour here.

bsky.app/profile/inei...

Google Earth has updated imagery of Ukraine's Mariupol - which has been under Russian occupation since May 2022.

This is the Drama Theatre, bombed by Russia in March 2022, where hundreds died. All evidence of the strike has since been wiped away. Location: 47.0960, 37.54871

Geolocation proof 👇

Geolocation of footage showing site of reported Israeli drone strike targeting vehicle in Southern Lebanon. Location: 33.32583, 35.54167.

YouTube video by Bendobrown OSINT At Home #26: Top 5 Wayback Machine Hacks to Recover Pages, Prove Edits & Search TV News

Hi! The @archive.org has many epic features like saving sites and viewing deleted pages, but it's also got some little useful functions like tracking edits, searching broadcasts and visualising topics in news items.

I visit all of them in this YouTube tutorial 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwuX...

Geolocation of scene from new MI6 recruitment video in Riga - Latvia. Coordinates: 56.949748, 24.104719.

Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYB1...

This Company Turns Dashcams into ‘Virtual CCTV Cameras.’ Then Hackers Got In A hacker has compromised Nexar, which turns peoples' cars into "virtual CCTV cameras" that organizations can then buy images from. The images include sensitive U.S. military and intelligence facilitie...

Insane, but also inevitable. 130 TB of dashcam videos. "The CIA did not respond to a request for comment on its policies concerning staff or visitors’ use of personal dashcams." www.404media.co/this-company...

This is dystopian. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Telegram account 'MonitorWar', which accurately reports on Russian strikes on Ukraine and their paths, has created a visualisation of the massive combined strike on Ukraine that happened overnight. Note the paths that continued into Polish airspace.

Source: t.me/monitoringwa...