Nathan Patin

Reuters found that major US law firms, fearing political backlash, have pulled back or hidden pro-bono and civil-rights work that could conflict with the Trump administration reut.rs/4l8V7kE

Bloodied Faces, Sobbing Children: Immigration Officers Smash Car Windows to Speed Up Arrests We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “mini...

NEW: We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office.

ICE claims officers use a “minimum amount of force.”

You can judge for yourself.

By @nicolefoy.bsky.social @mckenziefunk.com

Fun stuff @404media.co! Can’t wait for the next one

Used ChatGPT's "agent" for the first time.

Tasked it with searching FAA registry for about a dozen companies. Worked like a charm, _but_ I still conducted the searches manually too to check its work, so I didn't really save any time

See y’all there

NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

Boundaries are good!

"A World of Misery, From 200 Miles Up" — short write-up on this image and video from Ibrahim Alsallout by @aric.bsky.social at the NYT: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/w...

When you want to make sure you don't miss the end of @sector035.bsky.social's Week in OSINT sabbatical

Tehran Is at Risk of Running Out of Water Within Weeks

“the crisis has grown so extreme that the government shut down all government offices and services in Tehran and more than two dozen other cities across the country on Wednesday, creating a three-day weekend in an attempt to lower water and electricity usage”

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/w...

Plus ça change - josimarfootball.com Money-laundering, scamming, cyber slavery compounds and appalling human rights abuses are no obstacles for Premier League clubs looking for betting partners – or the UK regulator.

New.

Money-laundering, scamming, cyber slavery compounds and appalling human rights abuses are no obstacles for Premier League clubs looking for betting partners – or the UK regulator.

By @philippeauclair.bsky.social

josimarfootball.com/2025/07/29/p...

A July 26 SkySat image from Planet Labs showing a large crowd of Palestinians visible around an aid convoy in southern Gaza. There are enough people in the crowd to make it very easily visible in the satellite imagery. There's a large amount of destruction in the area and an IDF outpost is nearby.

A massive crowd of Palestinians surrounding aid trucks is visible in July 26 SkySat imagery from @planet.com near the so-called Morag Corridor at 31.3104, 34.2822 in southern Gaza.

July 26 video from Ibrahim Alsallout on Instagram showed the crowd from the ground: www.instagram.com/p/DMkmVvNo6n...

Palestine: As mass starvation spreads across Gaza, our colleagues and communities we work with are wasting away | Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ... Over 100 humanitarian groups, including MSF, urge governments to act as starvation spreads in Gaza.

Doctors Without Borders joins more than 100 organizations to sounding the alarm that lifesaving aid must enter #Gaza.

www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-as...

A statement from Reuters and other news organizations that begins: "We are desperately concerned for our journalists in Gaza, who are increasingly unable to feed themselves and their families."

Rare joint statement from @reuters.com & other news organizations on the situation in Gaza:

Bellingcat’s J&A helped build mechanisms for open source research to enhance legal accountability, particularly in atrocity crimes. This is the final research to be conducted by @bellingcat.com as part of this team but GLAN is continuing its OSI accountability work. j-and-a.glanlaw.org/kharkiv.

New SkySat imagery from Planet Labs over northern Gaza from Dec 5 shows extensive damage to the Beit Lahia Cemetery after the IDF cleared two paths through the middle of it.

🧵 I have a cemetery destruction thread on Twitter that I'll re-post to Bluesky for tracking purposes.

CC: @geoconfirmed.org

Dude I’m so lucky how did this just fall into my lap

Logged onto X for the first time in a minute and wow I’ve got so many DMs things seem like they’re going great over there

Who tried to steal Graceland from Elvis Presley’s family? A trail of clues left by Naussany Investments, the fake company that scammed Elvis Presley's family, led to a grandmother in Missouri.

So good. Here’s mine. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Missed this one! Well done

“I wrote down my phone number really big and waved it up at Irma Velasco, a nurse practitioner, who was hanging out on her balcony. She permitted me to come up to her apartment to take some photos of the view.”

This is probably the most detailed investigation we've ever done, proving which units and commanders were behind the use of cluster munitions in Kharkiv in the opening months of the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

important context for headlines like this: Altman also runs a company (Worldcoin) that he claims will solve this problem he also created

We're Publishing Our ICE Reporting In Spanish From ICE's facial recognition app to its Palantir contract, we've translated a spread of our ICE articles into Spanish and made them freely available.

V cool by 404 www.404media.co/were-publish...

Probably my all time favorite example of this www.bellingcat.com/news/2024/03...

Spotify Publishes AI-Generated Songs From Dead Artists Without Permission "They could fix this problem. One of their talented software engineers could stop this fraudulent practice in its tracks, if they had the will to do so"

Spotify putting AI-generated songs on the official pages of dead artists is a new and very low low www.404media.co/spotify-publ...

In our latest Bellingcat Stage Talk we discussed how we monitored the immigration raids in LA using footage shared on social media. Listen to the episode with @koltai.bsky.social, @sergioolmos.bsky.social of @calmatters.org and Kevin Clancy of @evidentmedia.org here: rss.com/podcasts/bel...

Since AFP was founded in 1944, we have lost journalists in conflicts, some have been injured, others taken prisoner. But none of us remember witnessing colleagues die of hunger".

— The outgoing Editorial Committee (Société de Journalistes, SDJ) of the AFP

Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die July 21, 2025 AFP has been working with 1 writer, 3 photographers and 6 videographers, all freelance, in the Gaza Strip since its staff journalists left in 2024. Along with a few others, they are now the only ones left to report what is happening in the Gaza Strip. The international press has been banned from entering the territory for nearly two years. We refuse to watch them die. One of them, Bashar, has been working with AFP since 2010, first as a fixer, then freelance photographer, and since 2024, as lead photographer. On July 19th he managed to post a message on Facebook: “I no longer have the strength to work for the media. My body is thin and I can’t work anymore.” Bashar, 30, works & lives in the same conditions as all Gazans, moving from one refugee camp to another under Israeli bombings. For > a year he’s lived in utter destitution, working at extreme risk to his life. Hygiene is a major issue for him, with recurring bouts of severe intestinal illness. Since Feb, Bashar’s been living in the ruins of his home in Gaza City with his mother, 4 brothers & sisters and the family of one of his brothers. Their house is devoid of any furnishings, except a few cushions. On Sunday morning, he reported that one of his brothers had “fallen, due to hunger.” Even though these journalists receive a monthly salary from AFP, it’s no longer enough to buy food, or they have to pay completely exorbitant prices. The banking system has collapsed, and those who exchange money via online bank accounts charge a commission of up to 40%. AFP no longer has the ability to provide them with a vehicle and there is not enough fuel to allow these journalists to travel for their reporting. Driving a car means becoming a target for Israeli airstrikes. AFP reporters therefore travel on foot or by donkey cart. (alt txt continued in next post)

A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency.

"Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die"

Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:

While I do believe that deep fake vishing is happening, I’m skeptical of some of these incidents. In many cases the only evidence we have is the word of the person who was just deceived and who has the greatest incentive to lean on this explanation. Proceed with caution.