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Data scientist @bellingcat.com, interested in far-right networks and conspiracy theories
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Exclusive: Bellingcat in partnership with @tjekdet.dk , @politiken.dk and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) can reveal the identity of a key administrator behind MrDeepFakes, one of the world’s largest providers of non-consensual deepfake pornography. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/05...

NEW: Tulsi Gabbard used the same weak password across multiple accounts for years. It contains the word "shraddha"; members of a group that has been described as a cult (and which she has denied having any affiliation with) say she was given the name Shraddha Dasi after being received into it.

smh even "having a manic episode" isn't safe from being replaced by AI

Baltimore Banner wins Pulitzer Prize for coverage of overdose crisis

ICYMI, I spoke to BBC's Consumer Fight Back on AI image generation scams. They even ordered some of the AI products to see what showed up! No big surprise, the items were nothing like the images.

🚨 A reliable source in El Salvador told El Faro that the Bukele-controlled Attorney General’s Office is preparing at least seven arrest warrants for members of El Faro following an interview with two former gang leaders on their years-long relationship to Bukele. elfaro.net/en/202515/el...

"Independent journalists like Kabas uncovering major scoops are something of an existential threat to mainstream media’s business model, because they prove that you don’t need to spend millions of dollars to report the news."

what was the relationship between neo-Nazi terrorist ideologue James Mason, Burzum's Varg Vikernes, and the Heathen Front? spencersunshine.com/2025/05/05/v...

New from 404 Media: the Signal clone the Trump administration uses was just hacked. TeleMessage makes a modified version of Signal that archives messages for government agencies, Waltz used it. A hacker got some users' messages, group chats. Hugely significant breach www.404media.co/the-signal-c...

TeleMessage has taken everything down from their website www.telemessage.com

ooo she sounds smart and hot wonder if she has a name!!!

Oklahoma Education Commissar Ryan Walters announces new academic standards for the coming school year. Among other things, all students will be required to learn Trump's version of the 2020 election.

It might be interesting to see whether or not the app Mike Waltz was using (TM SGNL) is actually end-to-end encrypted www.telemessage.com/mobile-archi...

In a move that raises very serious First Amendment issues, ICE executed a major splashy operation in California aiming to arrest a guy for posting fliers with names, pictures, and apparent phone numbers for ICE HSI agents. I am struggling to think what possible law posting that info could violate.

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Honestly this is just incredible content.

Funny thing about this post. A couple of weeks later, and he could no longer make this claim.

unorthodox fascist James Porrazzo has died. the 2nd leader of the Nazi skinhead gang American Front he later b/c a Duginist & founded New Resistance. he's gotten attention b/c his early connex to Joshua Caleb Sutter (Tempel ov Blood). Here's my 2012 article on him. www.splcenter.org/resources/re...

Mexican food in the Netherlands is an actual war crime

We've saved every cop in America from having 358 panic attacks, that's almost one every day for a whole year!

Two leaders of global child exploitation network 764 were arrested: Leonidas "War" Varagiannis from Thessaloniki, Greece, and Prasan "Trippy" Nepal from High Point, North Carolina. www.justice.gov/opa/pr/leade...

Former heroin addict turned HGH guy with worms in his brain who plays around with roadkill and only drinks raw milk: Everyone else is stupid and, frankly, their teeth work too good.

HITLER DOOD WAT NOU?

Well, I'm not a "guy," but thanks.

New: This is the leaked internal ethical justification Palantir has given its employees for building a massive immigrant deportation database with ICE: www.404media.co/this-is-pala...

It’s been three years since Elon Musk moved to buy Twitter and remold it into a MAGA propaganda machine. @hannahgais.bsky.social and @stevanzetti.bsky.social joined the show to chat about the site’s transformation and who benefited most from it. postthroughit.substack.com/p/016-how-x-...

EFF advocates for privacy and free speech online for everyone. That's why we're celebrating equity and accessibility with our new braille sticker: shop.eff.org/products/lad...

ICE Agents Wait At Edge Of Delivery Table To Deport Newborn

Happy upside-down Mussolini day to those who celebrate!

Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social is joined by @mpaarlberg.bsky.social to talk about El Salvador’s ‘state of exception’ under Nayib Bukele, how Trump sees that as a model, the conditions of prisons, and what this all means. Available on all podcast apps + Patreon www.patreon.com/posts/tftt-1...

Coming to feeds on Monday: We're joined by @hannahgais.bsky.social and @stevanzetti.bsky.social to talk about X and the ways it became, as one "intellectual dark web" pundit put it, "unusable for normal humans." Find "Posting Through It" on your favorite podcast app. @michaelehayden.bsky.social

Be careful, listening to this for a full hour may radicalize you into raising money for insurgencies against repressive governments

Seeing a lot of headlines using passive language like "2-year-old US citizen appears to have been deported". Shame there's no way to know which agency or organization is responsible for deportations.

Virginia Giuffre, the prominent survivor of Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuse, has died by suicide. Giuffre, 41, died in Neergabby, Australia, where she had been living. Giuffre was one of the earliest and loudest voices calling for criminal charges against Epstein. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Ed Martin's latest target: Wikipedia. The interim U.S. attorney and pro-Trump bulldog has sent a letter seeming to threaten the Wikimedia Foundation's tax-exempt status over allegations that it is "spreading propaganda." Our story: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Kingsley Wilson has apparently been promoted to Pentagon Acting Press Secretary, seems like the administration's efforts to "combat anti-Semitism" are going well

It's a high bar, but this from @radleybalko.bsky.social might be one of the most fucked up things I've read in the new Trump era. For context, this TX lawyer had just had an informal conversation with a family caught up in ICE raids. Seriously. Read this. radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-courag...