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Gisela Pérez de Acha

@giselilla.bsky.social

Open Source Investigative Reporter. I write about extremism, disinfo, corruption and the environment. Formerly teaching OSINT at UC Berkeley. Mexicana. Polyglot. Nerd. More at www.giselaperezdeacha.com

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31.07.2025 00:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

taquitos de canasta, my love

29.07.2025 20:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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08.07.2025 23:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Masked, Armed, Forceful: Finding Patterns in California Immigration Raids
YouTube video by Evident Media Masked, Armed, Forceful: Finding Patterns in California Immigration Raids

Masked men leaping out of unmarked vehicles. Latino men taken from their places of work or while waiting for the bus. Street vendors tackled to the ground and forcefully held down.

We collected videos of just over 100 incidents.

W/ @evidentmedia.org , @bellingcat.com
youtu.be/6BuxaVdv7po?...

08.07.2025 20:00 — 👍 25    🔁 25    💬 1    📌 1
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⭕ Crónica | Se le revuelve el estómago. Una semana antes fue amenazado su hermano

Una mujer tomó el teléfono del negocio y le llamó para exigirle un pago de 230.000 pesos. La amenaza incluyó la advertencia: “A los chapitos les urge para seguir”.

🔗 tinyurl.com/ye67mty6

07.07.2025 23:35 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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How the Assad Regime Buried Its Victims in a Mass Grave in Syria A cemetery near Damascus was transformed into an industrial-scale mass grave for Syrians who opposed President Bashar al-Assad.

How Syria’s Dictator Buried His Victims www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

05.07.2025 01:29 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Video: How Los Angeles Police Officers Broke Protocols and Injured Protesters A Times analysis of videos and interviews with police, protesters and legal experts found that officers misused 40-mm sponge rounds at immigration-raid protests.

How Los Angeles Police Officers Broke Protocols and Injured Protesters www.nytimes.com/video/world/...

05.07.2025 00:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Worth a read!

03.07.2025 17:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Active Club Chapters Growing Globally A new report from GPAHE reveals a staggering 25% increase in chapters of the neo-Nazi Active Club network worldwide. Since October 2023, at least 231 chapters have been documented in 28 countries, inc...

"There are now 187 active AC chapters in 27 countries, up from 149 chapters in 21 countries in late 2023. That represents a growth of 25 percent in a short time. Half of the new groups are “Youth Clubs” that specifically recruit teen boys aged 15 to 18." globalextremism.org/post/active-...

02.07.2025 19:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Worth a watch!

27.06.2025 17:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’ve been writing about digital security for years. And I’m bored. Thanks for reading.

27.06.2025 17:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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27.06.2025 15:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Before/after false color low-resolution satellite imagery of Natanz following the US strike reportedly with two GBU-57 'bunker buster' bombs.

22.06.2025 13:15 — 👍 16    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 9
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We're at War and We're Not (Because Only Congress Can Declare War): Some Notes Tonight I was writing about last week's news when I was interrupted by this week's news, – I joked a few days ago that the whole country would love a slow news week, and I sure would. For one thing we could t...

We're at War and We're Not (Because Only Congress Can Declare War) www.meditationsinanemergency.com/were-at-war-... via @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

22.06.2025 17:28 — 👍 66    🔁 14    💬 2    📌 1
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Open-Source Information Provides Powerful Evidence of Gender Crimes in Iran and Beyond Digital open source data can be ethically deployed to strengthen investigations and prosecutions on gender crimes in Iran and elsewhere.

The final in a special @justsecurity.org series, @alexakoenig.bsky.social and Andrea Richardson discuss how #OSINT can strengthen accountability for gender crimes through our report on attacks against #WomanLifeFreedom protestors:
www.justsecurity.org/112988/open-...

20.06.2025 16:19 — 👍 4    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 1
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Silvia Delgado, la exabogada del Chapo Guzmán, gana la elección para jueza en Chihuahua La abogada ha sido la segunda candidata más votada para el cargo de jueza en materia penal, esto la coloca entre los cinco aspirantes que obtendrán un cargo de impartición de justicia en el Estado del...

Silvia Delgado, exabogada del El Chapo Guzmán, ganó la elección para jueza penal en Chihuahua elpais.com/mexico/2025-...

19.06.2025 21:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Héctor Ulises Orduña, el presunto abusador sexual que ganó la elección judicial desde prisión El candidato, relacionado con casos de pornografía infantil en Estados Unidos, fue validado por el Poder Ejecutivo. El INE deberá analizar si invalida su triunfo

Abro hilo sobre los personajes que ganaron la elección al poder judicial en México: Héctor Ulises Orduña, relacionado con casos de porno infantil en Estsdos Unidos, gana desde prisión elpais.com/mexico/2025-...

19.06.2025 21:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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How My Reporting on the Columbia Protests Led to My Deportation As an Australian who wrote about the demonstrations while on campus, I gave my phone a superficial clean before flying to the U.S. I underestimated what I was up against.

“I fear that writing about this, and speaking to the media will trigger further reprisals from the U.S. government. I’m afraid that I will be banned for good, if I haven’t been already.” www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

19.06.2025 18:11 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task

19.06.2025 17:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ay ay ay qué cosas estar viviendo al borde de otra guerra así.

19.06.2025 01:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Brazil’s Bolsonaro accused in spy agency case as coup trial is ongoing The far-right former president is accused of using Brazil’s intelligence agency to conduct illegal spying.

Brazil’s Bolsonaro accused in spy agency case as coup trial is ongoing | Jair Bolsonaro News | Al Jazeera https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/17/brazils-bolsonaro-accused-in-spy-agency-case-as-coup-trial-is-ongoing

19.06.2025 00:06 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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18.06.2025 19:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Apple confirmed that Messages app flaw was actively exploited in the wild Apple confirmed that a security flaw in its Messages app was actively exploited in the wild to target journalists with Paragon's Graphite spyware.

Apple confirmed that a security flaw in its Messages app was actively exploited in the wild to target journalists with Paragon’s Graphite spyware. securityaffairs.com/178962/mobil...

16.06.2025 02:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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“Delay, Interfere, Undermine” President Donald Trump has praised Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele as a crime fighter, but new reporting based on interviews and documents reveals how senior Salvadoran officials have impeded a U.S....

Despite Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s crime fighter reputation, his top aides blocked extraditions of MS-13 leaders to the U.S. www.propublica.org/article/buke... by @tchristianmiller.bsky.social

16.06.2025 01:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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pretty dried flowers

15.06.2025 22:46 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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NBC's Jacob Soboroff reports from the Los Angeles protests as law enforcement fires flash bangs NBC News correspondent Jacob Soboroff was reporting on the ground in Los Angeles when law enforcement started using crowd control tactics against protesters, including firing flash bangs. Soboroff spe...

here’s the moment LASD advanced on protestors with horses and used flash-bangs as we reported live yesterday. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp-vi...

15.06.2025 13:33 — 👍 2720    🔁 835    💬 136    📌 61
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US-backed Israeli company's spyware used to target European journalists, Citizen Lab finds New revelations that spyware made by a U.S-backed Israeli company was used against at least three European journalists have raised concerns about abuse of commercial spyware even in democratic countri...

Spyware from a U.S.-backed Israeli company was used to target the phones of at least three prominent journalists in Europe, two of whom are editors at an investigative news site in Italy, according to Citizen Lab, citing new forensic evidence of the attacks. apnews.com/article/spyw...

12.06.2025 16:15 — 👍 13    🔁 8    💬 2    📌 2

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