aric.bsky.social
Visual Investigations at The New York Times
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Works for me. Go to the nytimes.com front page, it's there too.
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More details on Rodriguez in this piece:
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...
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same guy. loather was banned, so he made a new account with 1 letter difference.
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yeah most everyone can
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And another, with a Habbo Hotel reference.
bsky.app/profile/trav...
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www.israelhayom.com/2024/09/30/t...
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The automated crawler
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If you want to see his old tweets before his original account was suspended, go here. (He was a Don Hughes reply guy) The weird URL structure breaks when hyperlinking and I can't get it to work without looking wonky.
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See:
bsky.app/profile/kyot...
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Bonus lore:
This is the same video that Grok got obsessed with last week, when it kept yelling about white genocide in South Africa.
x.com/RadishHarmer...
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First I'm seeing this (would have cited you if we got it from here of course), good spot!
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I didn't see anything on Discord or her post -- I only searched on Twitter about this and don't read blue sky outside of my mentions. But good spot on it!
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The government's use of private planes to facilitate deportation flights leads to some strange coincidences. The Georgtown student paper did an interesting piece on how planes used by the basketball team for away games are also used for ICE deportations:
thehoya.com/news/inside-...
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I tried counting how many buildings were destroyed in Rafah in just April -- I had done this with no issue in some previous investigations on Israeli combat engineers -- but it was just too many.
(I did count 300+ greenhouses/agricultural structures around Rafah destroyed over just a few weeks)
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If it wasn't for that school and water tank in the background, I wouldn't have recognized the scene from the image from just 48 hours ago. The IDF has been very thorough in destroying neighborhoods in Rafah proper and north of the town, and now they're working in the northwest parts of the city.
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There is a *lot* more destruction visible in this video that was not in the May 11th satellite image from Planet.
Parts of the Tel Sultan neighborhood were relatively (compared to the rest of Rafah) unharmed. Now, it looks like the IDF is now destroying this large residential area.
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This is the hospital that they've been using as a base. It was still being built and wasn't in use (as far as I know). It was going to be (by far) the largest hospital in Rafah.
The mosque right next to the hospital was also destroyed in September of last year.
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A Times report from this morning has two Israeli military officials sourced who "confirmed the documentary’s conclusions"
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/w...
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Snark subreddits are kiwifarms for middle-aged women
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There haven't been any footage of the munition remnants from the market strike in any Telegram/Twitter sources we've found. If you've seen something floating around WhatsApp or some less-accessible places, let me know.
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The only footage we could find from local reports that matched the Pentagon's description from that night is this one, showing a Quds missile. However, it was clearly not from the Sanaa market attack -- the video was filmed in a governorate west of Sanaa.
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That's the Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City, but yes it's a similar scene for that area.
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Another, more recent video from a local artist who filmed everyday life after the war. Basically everything you see in her video is now in ruins.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfld...
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If you want to see what this neighborhood of Rafah looked like before it was destroyed, check out this video. I included timecodes for where different scenes appear in the attached screenshot.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5DJ...
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This is the anecdote that got a lot of attention yesterday on Twitter.
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Bad satellite analysis
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Looks like the IDF made a small outpost / berm right outside of the ruins of the destroyed school
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www.middleeastmonitor.com/20180301-gaz...
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Yeah, that's exactly what the arrows/lines show
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From a 1897 issue of The Sketch, when the ballroom was first opened. This was before it was repainted/remodeled to the 1921 style, but it's neat to see the balcony from the opposite angle.