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Trump tariffs may stop Gloomhaven from reaching retail stores in the US www.polygon.com/gaming/56034...

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INCREDIBLE opinion by Wilkinson refusing to stay Judge Xinis's orders in the Abrego Garcia case, condemning DOJ's arguments as "shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 14 hours ago • 273 comments

@tomcartwright.bsky.social has been very helpful.

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

CPJ has issued a safety advisory for journalists traveling to or entering the US: cpj.org/2025/04/cpj-...

submitted 15 hours ago • 10 comments

The Retired J.P. Morgan Executive Tracking Trump’s Deportation Flights www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 17 hours ago • 3 comments

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R): "We are all afraid…I am oftentimes very anxious myself about using my voice because retaliation is real."

submitted 19 hours ago • 3592 comments

My latest —

submitted 21 hours ago • 139 comments

JUST IN: Trump challenges judges' probes of compliance with deportation orders reut.rs/44r8PL1

submitted 20 hours ago • 16 comments

NBC News reviewed over 100 pages of documents submitted by the federal government in its effort to deport Mahmoud Khalil. In some instances, the government appears to be relying on unverified tabloid articles. In others, the government claims are clearly erroneous. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

submitted 1 day ago • 47 comments

HAPPENING NOW!! Rubio formally announces the closure of the State Department’s Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference, formerly known as the Global Engagement Center.

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Among other things in this insane wsj article, Elon hits up women on DMs to have his babies, of which he seems to have dozens. He sets them up with money partly structured as loans. He has a compound in TX where he wants each mom/kids to live in separate residences. Kids are called his “legion”.

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SCOOP: sources tell me that the State Dept plans to eliminate its only office to counter foreign disinformation, as soon as today, delivering a win to foreign governments like Russia, Iran, and China—and the office's mostly conservative critics. www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/16/1...

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The "protected their neighbor from ICE" thing has been reposted into my feed like 30 times, has 17K reposts, and is about a story from 2019. C'mon.

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Noticed a bunch of these ornate gold medallions slapped all over the Oval Office. We found em on Alibaba. “High-density Home Decoration Polyurethane Appliques Ornament PU Foam Veneer Accessories” from seller Guangzhou Homemax Decorative Material Limited. sherwood.news/power/shop-t...

submitted 2 days ago • 601 comments

How to protect democracies from falsehoods? By empowering the young with open-source investigation skills, argue @bellingcat.com founder @eliothiggins.bsky.social and @drnataliemartin.bsky.social from @cmpcr.bsky.social in this piece reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/how-pro...

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Curious how a Bellingcat researcher tackles our Open Source Challenge? Researcher Aiganysh Aidarbekova will give it a try—tune in tomorrow at 5 PM CEST / 11 AM EDT on our Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/bellin...

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Trump to Bukele: "Home-growns are next. The home-growns. You gotta build about five more places. It's not big enough."

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I was interviewed by BBC News re: why I think the U.S. administration reversed tariffs for consumer electronics. "...this is surveillance technology and this is also the technology that fuels a lot of what this...administration cares about, which is market trading and crypto." youtu.be/pc_nJqrvWx0

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A German businessman was charged with drug trafficking in Australia after 200kg of cocaine was found in a hotel last December. Bellingcat and the Sunday Times used a running app and Google reviews to investigate the alleged link between him and the Kinahan cartel. www.youtube.com/shorts/aqZQf...

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

Hours ago, @politico.com revealed that DOGE is working with DHS on automating mass deportation efforts — likely explaining why many US citizens, green card holders, and even a Canadian (in Canada) got threatening emails last night terminating “your parole” and telling them to leave the US in 7 days.

submitted 6 days ago • 304 comments

Board game publishers lament the devastating impact of new US tariffs on the tabletop industry: 'There is no silver lining. It is a lose-lose-lose situation for everyone involved' www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

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Trump ICC sanctions order challenged in US court by human rights advocates www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Very informative chart from Washington Post

submitted 6 days ago • 187 comments

Trump's special envoy, real estate investor Steve Witkoff's Gulfstream G650 arrives to St. Petersburg Pulkovo. Likely for a third round of talks with Vladimir Putin about Ukraine.

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

Today Bellingcat staff are on stage at the International Journalism Festival! #IJF25

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

NEW: @nytimes.com reports that the Trump admin is moving to strip hundreds of thousands of immigrants of Social Security Numbers they got when they were granted work authorization, repurposing a "death master file" to try to erase their previous legal presence in the United States.

submitted 7 days ago • 73 comments

Tim Cook's $1 million contribution to the inaugural party fund could have been $100 million and it still wouldn't matter. There's no tribute great enough to prevent this leopard from eating your faces, my dear industrialists.

submitted 7 days ago • 9 comments

don't love the sound of this! *RFK JR.: WILL KNOW BY SEPT WHAT CAUSED AUTISM `EPIDEMIC' IN US

submitted 7 days ago • 32 comments

Trump: "There will be a transition cost and transition problems."

submitted 7 days ago • 138 comments

Brooke Rollins goes full Pyongyang: "What you have assembled in your vision is a turning point and inflection point in American history. And so just being a part of that is being the greatest honor. Thank you for that."

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Bondi: "Within the next 24 hours you're going to be seeing another huge arrest on a Tesla dealership, president. And that person will be looking at at least 20 years in prison with no negotiations."

submitted 7 days ago • 583 comments

BLOOMBERG: MASSIVE HOPIUM RESERVE DISCOVERED UNDER NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE

submitted 9 days ago • 24 comments

This is going to be the bloody wall being 10 feet taller all over again, isn't it? www.cnbc.com/2025/04/10/c...

submitted 7 days ago • 27 comments

jeeeeeesus boingboing.net/2025/04/09/t...

submitted 7 days ago • 226 comments

I watched a great video the other day about tech designed by the west being forced onto the developing world, without considering how the tech is actually used. It’s a specific example, but sums up the tech industry as a whole.

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

Yep, it's rough watching everyone from late night hosts to lightweight tech YouTubers explain the still dangerous effects & likely intents of this erratic policy both more honestly & accessibly than news outlets. Since Colbert explains how 125% tariffs on China are a systematic risk, CNN should too.

submitted 8 days ago • 24 comments

“A shift supervisor assigned to Rubio’s detail reportedly became irate when staff at Hotel Amigo refused to reopen the bar after it had closed. When the staff & night manager tried to tell the staff member to return to his room, he became physically aggressive.” www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

submitted 8 days ago • 74 comments

Here’s a bunch of times over the past few days that Trump and his team told us they absolutely, positively weren’t going to pause their tariffs. Total climbdown.

submitted 8 days ago • 97 comments

Don’t feel good about saying “I told you so” but I’ve been screaming about the dangers of mass public-private surveillance for years and people roll their eyes. Now the most insane conspiracist freaks are at the helm of all those sophisticated systems and we can’t put the genie back in the bottle

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

#Journalist Timur Soykan while being detained: "The gangs will lose, the people will win." #Turkey

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Trump still hasn't figured out political asylum and insane asylums are two different things

submitted 8 days ago • 216 comments

Like August 6th 1945 was a big day in Japan.

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On March 23, a convoy of aid workers, traveling in vehicles marked with emergency flashing lights, was struck by gunfire in Gaza. Bellingcat used video footage of the incident to perform an audio analysis of the shooting. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/04...