Peter Barth
@oldpete45.bsky.social
investigator @Bellingcat.com, texan up north. interested in organized crime. views my own.
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Russian state media are today alleging that a Bellingcat reporter was involved in an attempt to hijack a Russian fighter plane.
We would like to make clear that Bellingcat had absolutely no involvement in the alleged activities and the accusations towards us are entirely false.
We would like to make clear that Bellingcat had absolutely no involvement in the alleged activities and the accusations towards us are entirely false.
November 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Russian state media are today alleging that a Bellingcat reporter was involved in an attempt to hijack a Russian fighter plane.
We would like to make clear that Bellingcat had absolutely no involvement in the alleged activities and the accusations towards us are entirely false.
We would like to make clear that Bellingcat had absolutely no involvement in the alleged activities and the accusations towards us are entirely false.
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The Trump administration is now literally *fighting* to deny food to 42 million people, more than a third of them children.
Read that again.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
Read that again.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 2:21 AM
The Trump administration is now literally *fighting* to deny food to 42 million people, more than a third of them children.
Read that again.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
Read that again.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
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"I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys."
November 7, 2025 at 5:36 PM
"I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys."
All these years later we’re still learning the extent of Whitey Bulger’s brutal wake in New England. Life was so cheap for his crew.
A South Boston man is expected to plead guilty to manslaughter charges Wednesday in connection with slayings in 1984 and 1993, the first of which was linked to notorious gangster James “Whitey” Bulger, prosecutors said.
South Boston man expected to plead guilty to manslaughter in 1984, 1993 killings - The Boston Globe
Michael Lewis is accused of killing Michael Watson in 1984 and Boston Housing Authority worker William Villani in 1993.
trib.al
November 6, 2025 at 6:25 PM
All these years later we’re still learning the extent of Whitey Bulger’s brutal wake in New England. Life was so cheap for his crew.
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Social media footage and satellite imagery show killings as Rapid Support Forces took over Al Fashir (El Fasher). Bellingcat geolocated one incident on the city’s outskirts and showed it to the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/11...
Geolocating Darfur Killings of Those Escaping Al Fashir - bellingcat
Warning: Contains written descriptions of extreme violence including murder. All graphic footage has been omitted. A Bellingcat investigation has identified and verified the exact location of a mass k...
www.bellingcat.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Social media footage and satellite imagery show killings as Rapid Support Forces took over Al Fashir (El Fasher). Bellingcat geolocated one incident on the city’s outskirts and showed it to the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/11...
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Children tear-gassed. Teenagers tackled to the ground. Bellingcat analysed footage of clashes between federal officers and civilians after a judge issued a restraining order on crowd-control tactics in Illinois: www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10...
Tear Gas, Pepper Balls Among Weapons Deployed Against Illinois Protesters
A judge issued a restraining order on crowd-control tactics by federal agents, including those involved in Operation Midway Blitz in the Chicago region.
www.bellingcat.com
October 31, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Children tear-gassed. Teenagers tackled to the ground. Bellingcat analysed footage of clashes between federal officers and civilians after a judge issued a restraining order on crowd-control tactics in Illinois: www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10...
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Noem is not being truthful. And @propublica.org has the receipts: www.propublica.org/article/immi...
October 31, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Noem is not being truthful. And @propublica.org has the receipts: www.propublica.org/article/immi...
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Major General Ronald Burkett orders the national guards of all 50 US states, the District of Columbia and US territories to form “quick reaction forces” trained in “riot control”, including use of batons, body shields, Tasers and pepper spray
Revealed: Pentagon orders states’ national guards to form ‘quick reaction forces’ for ‘crowd control’
Pentagon memo details plan to train over 20,000 national guard members across the US to carry out Trump’s order on subduing civil unrest
www.theguardian.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Major General Ronald Burkett orders the national guards of all 50 US states, the District of Columbia and US territories to form “quick reaction forces” trained in “riot control”, including use of batons, body shields, Tasers and pepper spray
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in Demolition Man, Sylvester Stallone plays a supercop from the violent 1990s frozen in time and sent to the future. He winds up fighting a group of terrorists until he realizes they're just trying to steal food, at which point he refuses to continue attacking them
California police boost patrols at grocery stores as millions set to lose SNAP benefits
California police boost patrols at grocery stores as millions set to lose SNAP benefits
www.foxla.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:50 AM
in Demolition Man, Sylvester Stallone plays a supercop from the violent 1990s frozen in time and sent to the future. He winds up fighting a group of terrorists until he realizes they're just trying to steal food, at which point he refuses to continue attacking them
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I'm excited but a bit sad to announce that I've left Bellingcat to start a nonprofit investigative outlet focused on the far-right. We're called Decoherence Media, and we're launching today.
Welcome to Decoherence Media, an independent nonprofit founded by @jennefer.bsky.social and @tristanl.ee that investigates authoritarian and anti-democratic movements using open-source and data-driven methods.
Welcome to Decoherence Media!
We're an independent, journalist-founded nonprofit investigating authoritarian and anti-democratic movements using open-source and data-driven methods.
decoherence.media
October 27, 2025 at 11:15 AM
I'm excited but a bit sad to announce that I've left Bellingcat to start a nonprofit investigative outlet focused on the far-right. We're called Decoherence Media, and we're launching today.
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Russian flag bulker Zaid (sistership of Zafar which was sanctioned for links to Houthi financier Said al-Jamal with "initiatives in Russia": including arms procurement & plundering of Ukrainian grain) transited Bosphorus toward Med carrying stolen wheat from occupied Sevastopol likely to Alexandria
October 24, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Russian flag bulker Zaid (sistership of Zafar which was sanctioned for links to Houthi financier Said al-Jamal with "initiatives in Russia": including arms procurement & plundering of Ukrainian grain) transited Bosphorus toward Med carrying stolen wheat from occupied Sevastopol likely to Alexandria
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New satellite images show the scale of demolition that has occurred on the East Wing of the White House in less than a month.
October 23, 2025 at 7:02 PM
New satellite images show the scale of demolition that has occurred on the East Wing of the White House in less than a month.
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Another Russian ship has been added to the grain smuggling fleet, captured on camera and on satellite imagery, evading sanctions to deliver grain from occupied Crimea to Houthi-controlled Yemen. Follow its covert journey here: www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10...
Russia’s Grain Smuggling Fleet Continues Undeterred - bellingcat
Bellingcat has identified yet another Russian-flagged vessel exporting grain from occupied Crimea to Houthi-controlled Yemen.
www.bellingcat.com
October 23, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Another Russian ship has been added to the grain smuggling fleet, captured on camera and on satellite imagery, evading sanctions to deliver grain from occupied Crimea to Houthi-controlled Yemen. Follow its covert journey here: www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10...
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Update: TikTok sent us a comment saying our story “deliberately distorts and sensationalizes how we respond to legal requests.”
They again did not answer our Qs about whether they’re sharing data with ICE, or why it is no longer their policy to tell you before they give the government your data.
They again did not answer our Qs about whether they’re sharing data with ICE, or why it is no longer their policy to tell you before they give the government your data.
New from me: TikTok ignored repeated questions about whether and how they share data with ICE. Also, earlier this year, they quietly updated their policies about what happens when law enforcement asks for your data. 1/
www.forbes.com/sites/emilyb...
www.forbes.com/sites/emilyb...
TikTok Won’t Say If It’s Giving ICE Your Data
Changes to TikTok's policies make it easier for the company to share users’ personal information with governments. TikTok did not respond to questions about the changes.
www.forbes.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Update: TikTok sent us a comment saying our story “deliberately distorts and sensationalizes how we respond to legal requests.”
They again did not answer our Qs about whether they’re sharing data with ICE, or why it is no longer their policy to tell you before they give the government your data.
They again did not answer our Qs about whether they’re sharing data with ICE, or why it is no longer their policy to tell you before they give the government your data.
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"To live through this moment is to feel that some essential component of our shared humanity is being slowly leached out of the world. Spend enough time online, and you will see that not only is this cheaply rendered synthetic content everywhere; it is quietly shaping culture"
Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.
AI’s Invasive Species
The slop is winning.
www.theatlantic.com
October 22, 2025 at 11:01 AM
"To live through this moment is to feel that some essential component of our shared humanity is being slowly leached out of the world. Spend enough time online, and you will see that not only is this cheaply rendered synthetic content everywhere; it is quietly shaping culture"
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From opposing Putin to raising funds for a neo-Nazi paramilitary group, this is the digital footprint of one Russian man with a shifting political ideology. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10...
How a Former Political Hopeful Helps Russian Neo-Nazi Group Rusich Sell its Online Merch - bellingcat
An investigation by Bellingcat has found that a former St. Petersburg local election prospect is helping Neo-Nazi paramilitary group, Rusich, operate its online store.
www.bellingcat.com
October 21, 2025 at 10:40 AM
From opposing Putin to raising funds for a neo-Nazi paramilitary group, this is the digital footprint of one Russian man with a shifting political ideology. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10...
Awesome long read on the Kinahans referencing our work @conplnk.bsky.social @beaudonelly.bsky.social @johnmooneyirl.bsky.social “But in 2024, Bellingcat, the open-source-investigations team, published a colorful story about how Kinahan, Sr., had left hundreds of traces of himself online”
Police gathered incriminating evidence about the Irish drug lord Daniel Kinahan, but he operated from both a technological and a geographic remove from the gory scenes on the Dublin streets: like many other wealthy criminals, he had moved to Dubai. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/cMuqpV
October 21, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Awesome long read on the Kinahans referencing our work @conplnk.bsky.social @beaudonelly.bsky.social @johnmooneyirl.bsky.social “But in 2024, Bellingcat, the open-source-investigations team, published a colorful story about how Kinahan, Sr., had left hundreds of traces of himself online”
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LAPD wants permission to shoot journalists working at protests.
inadvertent.substack.com/p/lapd-wants...
Co-authored and co-published this report with @abemarquez.bsky.social
inadvertent.substack.com/p/lapd-wants...
Co-authored and co-published this report with @abemarquez.bsky.social
LAPD Wants Permission To Shoot Journalists At ‘No Kings’ Protest, Press Lawyers Oppose
The city of LA wants to remove an injunction barring the LAPD from shooting journalists with kinetic weapons. Press attorneys are fighting to keep the protection in place.
inadvertent.substack.com
October 17, 2025 at 4:21 PM
LAPD wants permission to shoot journalists working at protests.
inadvertent.substack.com/p/lapd-wants...
Co-authored and co-published this report with @abemarquez.bsky.social
inadvertent.substack.com/p/lapd-wants...
Co-authored and co-published this report with @abemarquez.bsky.social
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Sobering report from my @doctorswithoutborders.org colleagues in Port-au-Prince: Civilians in Haiti are caught in deadly, escalating violence. Many people have lost access to medical care amid a territorial conflict between armed groups and the police. www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/civil...
Civilians in Haiti are caught in deadly, escalating violence
Many people have lost access to medical care amid a territorial conflict between armed groups and the police.
www.doctorswithoutborders.org
October 2, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Sobering report from my @doctorswithoutborders.org colleagues in Port-au-Prince: Civilians in Haiti are caught in deadly, escalating violence. Many people have lost access to medical care amid a territorial conflict between armed groups and the police. www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/civil...
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Two journalists are set to be tried in Kentucky this week.
Their crime? Covering a protest of the immigration detainment of Ayman Soliman, who himself fled persecution for his journalism in Egypt. Soliman’s lawyer called it a “cruel irony.”
Their crime? Covering a protest of the immigration detainment of Ayman Soliman, who himself fled persecution for his journalism in Egypt. Soliman’s lawyer called it a “cruel irony.”
On trial for journalism in Kentucky.
Two months after their arrests while covering a protest, a pair of local reporters face criminal charges.
www.cjr.org
September 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Two journalists are set to be tried in Kentucky this week.
Their crime? Covering a protest of the immigration detainment of Ayman Soliman, who himself fled persecution for his journalism in Egypt. Soliman’s lawyer called it a “cruel irony.”
Their crime? Covering a protest of the immigration detainment of Ayman Soliman, who himself fled persecution for his journalism in Egypt. Soliman’s lawyer called it a “cruel irony.”
Psyched to finally read this @praddenkeefe.bsky.social
September 27, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Psyched to finally read this @praddenkeefe.bsky.social
Our latest on the Kinahan Cartel @conplnk.bsky.social @beaudonelly.bsky.social @johnmooneyirl.bsky.social
A small plane crashed in Brazil recently; amongst the wreckage was the body of a former Melbourne stockbroker and 200kg of cocaine. Bellingcat and @thetimes.com reveal how the deceased Australian pilot was linked to an associate of the notorious Kinahan cartel: www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/09...
Australian Cocaine Pilot Killed in Brazil Plane Crash Linked to Kinahan Drug Cartel - bellingcat
An Australian pilot who died when his plane crashed in Brazil during a failed drug run has links to an alleged Kinahan cartel associate who is facing drugs charges in Western Australia.
www.bellingcat.com
September 27, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Our latest on the Kinahan Cartel @conplnk.bsky.social @beaudonelly.bsky.social @johnmooneyirl.bsky.social
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BBC News - Woman in Spanish cold case identified after 20 years
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Woman in Spanish cold case identified after 20 years as Liudmila Zavada
Russian citizen Liudmila Zavada, 31, was found dead in July 2005 by a road in the northeastern Spain.
www.bbc.com
September 25, 2025 at 9:52 AM
BBC News - Woman in Spanish cold case identified after 20 years
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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The more I look at human rights violations, democratic backsliding and the rising tide of aggressive populism, the more I'm convinced that we're not talking enough about the role of corruption in all of this. Corruption is the glue that sticks those three phenomena together.
September 24, 2025 at 10:08 PM
The more I look at human rights violations, democratic backsliding and the rising tide of aggressive populism, the more I'm convinced that we're not talking enough about the role of corruption in all of this. Corruption is the glue that sticks those three phenomena together.