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investigative reporter / OSINTer (english-language editor @crimew.gay, contributor @geoconfirmed.org @virtualstreets.org etc.)

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ryan fae @ryan.staticnoi.se · Sep 20
my signal is rhinozz.1337, and @crimew.gay's is nyancrimew.01. tip to us!
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wammezz.bsky.social
Recent @copernicusland.bsky.social Sentinel-2 imagery in False Colour now showing the degraged agricultural land in #Syria near Quneitra where Israel has been spraying herbicide. Images via @obretix.bsky.social
February 8, 2026 at 7:58 PM
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maxtani.bsky.social
Will Lewis is resigning as WaPo CEO, former Tumblr CEO Jeff D’Onofrio is the paper’s new acting CEO and publisher, per memos to staff
February 7, 2026 at 10:45 PM
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oliverdarcy.bsky.social
Before The Washington Post layoffs came down, a group of wealthy D.C. locals approached CEO Will Lewis with a proposal.

@passantino.bsky.social has the details in his Saturday @status.news column: www.status.news/p/washington...
February 7, 2026 at 4:37 PM
ryan.staticnoi.se
sometimes u will be reading a great article and then they'll have a graph and it has two y axes and u will close the tab and cry in the fetal position
February 7, 2026 at 6:47 AM
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dell.bsky.social
NEW: Records reviewed by WIRED show DHS’s facial recognition app (Mobile Fortify) isn’t designed to actually "verify" identity—despite DHS claims and its agents relying on its matches to support probable cause in the field.
ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are
ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn't built to work like that—and only got approved after DHS abandoned its own privacy r...
www.wired.com
February 5, 2026 at 8:29 PM
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peoplesfabric.com
TMZ's video shows both Sveum and Vazquez.

Vazquez is seen wearing a hat with the letters "SS" and a skull mask. Sveum is on the right. In the video Vazquez approaches and appears to push the person recording.
A man in a black t-shirt, tactical vest, skull mask and hat with the letters "SS." Behind him are two ultra weird looking shorter officers with zip ties and what appears to be matching, brand new all white caps turned around backwards. A federal agent in a long-sleeve black hoodie, wearing a black ball cap, a Border Patrol patch on the sleeve, orange tinted sunglasses, and a tactical vest.
February 5, 2026 at 5:31 PM
ryan.staticnoi.se
yup! all under control. jeffries and schumer seem to know exactly what we all want. done deal!
eoinhiggins.bsky.social Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 6d
Yes. Yes! Thank you
February 5, 2026 at 1:55 AM
ryan.staticnoi.se
the most incomprehensible quote i have ever seen in a press release

(sighs) openai
“Local journalism is as vital as it is valuable to connected communities and a healthy democracy — to paraphrase the late, great Walter Cronkite ‘a free press is not just important for democracy, it is democracy’,” said Chris Lehane, Chief Global Affairs Officer at OpenAI. “AI can help bolster a free press—and by extension our democracy—by freeing up reporters to spend less time on routine tasks and more time on what matters most — being out and on the ground in their communities doing the hard work of the free press — talking to people, tracking down tips, attending events and being the eyes and ears for democracy. We’re as excited as we are enthusiastic about supporting Axios as it expands local news and hires more local scribes in communities across the country. If working with Axios we can use AI to help grow the next generation of the proverbial ‘ink stained wretches’ — even if there is less ink, it will be a good thing.”
February 4, 2026 at 9:12 AM
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dgrand.bsky.social
🚨New WP "@Grok is this true?"
We analyze 1.6M factcheck requests on X (grok & Perplexity)
📌Usage is polarized, Grok users more likely to be Reps
📌BUT Rep posts rated as false more often—even by Grok
📌Bot agreement with factchecks is OK but not great; APIs match fact-checkers
osf.io/preprints/ps...
February 3, 2026 at 9:55 PM
ryan.staticnoi.se
in which a term is coined
miasato.bsky.social Mia Sato @miasato.bsky.social · 12d
The violent occupation of Minneapolis started with a vlog. I've wanted to find a framework to describe Nick Shirley & others like him: "Influencer" is too quaint. "Journalist" is obviously wrong.

I landed on "slopagandist."

Gift link (open in a web browser) www.theverge.com/news/869824/...
What is Nick Shirley?
Slop doesn’t need to be AI-generated
www.theverge.com
February 3, 2026 at 5:21 AM
ryan.staticnoi.se
i talked to mira, a very good friend, a few days back about this unifying mindset in MPLS. she put it into necessarily rough yet overwhelmingly clear words here.

great read from someone living the federal hell
transnews.network Trans News Network @transnews.network · 8d
TNN reporter Mira Lazine (@thefreeradical.org) found a community in Minneapolis. Now, that community is under attack by a fascist regime — and fighting back.

Here’s her look of the realities on the ground, where exhaustion and terror exist alongside defiance and hope:
My City Is Under Occupation: A Trans Reporter’s Dispatch From Minneapolis
TNN reporter Mira Lazine found a community in Minneapolis. Now, that community is under attack — and fighting back. Here’s her look of the realities on the ground.
transnews.network
February 2, 2026 at 8:36 PM
ryan.staticnoi.se
CBP Black Hawk overhead the ICE OUT protest in the Bay today. we know from Chicagoland that they frequently fly without transmitting ADS-B Out, so they won't appear on flight trackers.

you may also see a white-and-blue Airbus H125, their 'control' helicopter, which often does appear on trackers.
jwcroxton.bsky.social James Croxton @jwcroxton.bsky.social · 8d
Local news has been reporting in recent days that low-flying helicopters would be a common sight in the lead up to the game on Sunday.

I've seen the same helicopter swoop down twice so far.
A military-looking helicopter flies over Downtown San José.
February 2, 2026 at 8:21 PM
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propublica.org
A note from our editors:
Note from the editors: ProPublica is publishing the names of the two federal immigration agents involved in the fatal shooting of Minnesota protester Alex Pretti. We believe there are few investigations that deserve more sunlight and public scrutiny than this one, in which two masked agents fired 10 shots at Pretti as he lay on the ground after being pepper-sprayed. The Department of Justice said it is investigating the incident, but the names of the two agents have been withheld from Congress and from state and local law enforcement. The policy of shielding officers’ identities, particularly after a public shooting, is a stark departure from standard law enforcement protocols, according to lawmakers, state attorneys general and former federal officials. Such secrecy, in our view, deprives the public of the most fundamental tool for accountability.
February 1, 2026 at 9:10 PM
ryan.staticnoi.se
summarizes journalism pretty well
foiaball.com David at FOIAball @foiaball.com · 10d
Gotta be the only journalist out here baking baguettes and reviewing the Epstein docs
January 31, 2026 at 7:01 PM
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frank.computer
You can catch my full, open course on accessibility in visualization here:
openvisualizationacademy.org/courses/acce...
1.1 Introduction - Accessibility in Data Visualization - Open Visualization Academy
openvisualizationacademy.org
January 30, 2026 at 6:55 PM
ryan.staticnoi.se
the thing that irks me the most abt the bondi arrests is the lack of pushback from the right-leaning media, who have historically (afaik) not been This Bad at pushing for press freedoms

free don lemon. free georgia fort.
January 30, 2026 at 6:09 PM
ryan.staticnoi.se
and my mouth Dropped open
bsky.realhackhistory.org ⸻realhackhistory.org @bsky.realhackhistory.org · 11d
Well shit, here we go again with the latest Epstein files drop.

Here’s an email from someone to Jeffrey Epstein telling him that he should hire Anonymous snitch sabu.
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
To: Jeffrey Epsteinfjeevacation@gmail.com] From: Sent: Wed 5/28/2014 3:23:21 AM Subject: Before being freed, hacker Sabu was 'extraordinary' FBI informant - Los Angeles Times Hire this kid. Im serious. http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-hacker-sentencing-20140528-story.html
January 30, 2026 at 5:55 PM
ryan.staticnoi.se
terrific little project
January 30, 2026 at 4:22 AM
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ddosecrets.org
DDoSecrets has moved from .com to ddosecrets.org - spread the word!
To whom it may concern, Distributed Denial of Secrets has moved our domain to ddosecrets.org immediately. Please switch all links and email addresses from .com to .org right away. If you receive any email from an @ddosecrets.com address it is illegitimate; please contact us immediately by Signal or social media and let us know if you receive email from our old domain. Our Signal and Cwtch contacts and onion addresses remain unchanged. Technical details follow. Our domain registration lapsed on January 28th. Our domain registrar had invalid contact information, and so we were not notified that domain auto-renewal had failed until they released the domain name and it was purchased by a domain squatter. To our knowledge no services have been deployed maliciously using our old domain, and no emails have been sent from our old addresses. User data, publicly published, and limited distribution data has not been compromised. Our document submission system Globaleaks is unaffected, and libraryofleaks.org remains unchanged. All of our servers are online and intact, just with a new domain name. We will keep you updated as the situation develops. This statement can be confirmed by: DDoSecrets social media - https://bsky.app/profile/ddosecrets.org https://kolektiva.social/@ddosecrets Emma Best - https://bsky.app/profile/emma.best https://kolektiva.social/@mxy Milo Trujillo - https://bsky.app/profile/backdrifting.net https://kolektiva.social/@illegaldaydream
January 29, 2026 at 6:14 PM
ryan.staticnoi.se
reading about precolonial chamorro fishing methods (they had upwards of 40) and found this one where they pavlov'd fish into getting caught. but like. thousands of years ago

"The Chamorros had a practical application to their experiments in behavioral animal psychology. They caught fish." 🔥🔥🔥🔥
The acho' achuman was made from a large poi (spherical stone sinker) tied to an inverted half-empty ha'iguas (coconut shell). The fisherperson chewed coconut meat and forced it from his or her mouth into an opening in the coconut shell. This feeding apparatus was then lowered from a canoe into ten fathoms (60 feet) of water. The fisherperson shook the line. The resulting noise and escaping coconut mash attracted the fish. Each day the fisherperson would feed the fish a few feet closer to the surface. Finally, when the fish were feeding about six feet below the surface, they were caught with a net. The conical-shaped net was about nine feet in diameter. This reminds us of Pavlov, the famous Russian scientist, who trained dogs to salivate by ringing a bell before he fed them. Behavioral psychologists like B. F. Skinner have even trained pigeons to play Ping Pong with their beaks. They do this by rewarding correct behavior. The Chamorros had a practical application to their experiments in behavioral animal psychology. They caught fish.
January 29, 2026 at 5:03 AM
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makenakelly.bsky.social
SCOOP w/ @carolinehaskins.bsky.social: ICE Is Using Palantir’s AI Tools to Sort Through Tips

www.wired.com/story/ice-is...
ICE Is Using Palantir’s AI Tools to Sort Through Tips
ICE has been using an AI-powered Palantir system to summarize tips sent to its tipline since last spring, according to a newly released Homeland Security document.
www.wired.com
January 28, 2026 at 9:41 PM
ryan.staticnoi.se
"It is not journalism to publish the lies of a state institution whose agents have killed yet another person."
ardenthistorian.bsky.social Annika Brockschmidt @ardenthistorian.bsky.social · 17d
Es ist kein Journalismus, die Lügen einer Behörde zu stenografieren, deren Agenten erneut einen Menschen getötet haben.
bobbybaerchen.bsky.social Waveybobson (95,7% links) @bobbybaerchen.bsky.social · 17d
Oh halt, die Videos liegen vor und wurden gesichtet?! Und in dem einen offenbart sich tatsächlich ein anderes Geschehen als von der Täterbehörde behauptet?

WIESO WIRD DAS DANN NICHT HERVORGEHOBEN SONDERN EINFACH NEBENEINANDERGRSTELLT

(Es gibt übrigens mindestens drei Videos)
January 25, 2026 at 9:40 AM
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adamsteinbaugh.bsky.social
Here is the newly-unsealed State Department memo confirming -- finally -- that the detention of Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk was based on an op-ed.

No antisemitic activity. No support of terrorism.

An op-ed in a student newspaper.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Action Memo for Senior Bureau Official John Armstrong FROM: SUBJECT: CA/VO - Stuart Wilson, Deputy Assistant Secretary (SBU) Revocation of Fl Visa for Rumeysa OZTURK (SBU) Recommendation 1: That you approve the revocation of the Fl visa, effective immediately, for under section 221(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). Due to ongoing ICE operational security, this revocation will be silent; the Department will not notify the subject. (Approve/Disapprove by 03/21/25) Decision: [Approved] (SBU) Recommendation 2: That you authorize the transmission of the attached notification to the Department of Homeland Security noting the, immediate revocation of OZTURK's visa. (Approve/Disapprove by 03/21/25) Decision: [Approved] Background (SBU} On March 21, 2025, the Assistant Director of the National Security Division of DHS/ICE's Homeland Security Investigations referred to CA information regarding Rumeysa OZTURK, a Turkish national, for a possible determination by the Secretary that the alien is deportable under INA section 237(a)(4)(C). As a nonimmigrant visa holder, such a determination is not necessary for OHS/ICE to pursue removal of OZTURK from the United States, as INA section 237(a}(1)(B) provides that an alien is deportable if their nonimmigrant visa has been revoked under INA section 221(i). (SBU) Under INA section 221(i), the Secretary of State may at any time, in his discretion, revoke a visa.. This authority is delegated to you pursuant to Delegation of Authority 367-4. Department policy reflected in 9 FAM 403.ll~S(B) provides that a visa may be revoked in cases of a suspected ineligibility, when an individual would not meet requirements .for admission, or "in other situations where warranted." (SBU) OZTURK was issued an F-1 visa on December 14, 2020, valid until December 9, 2025. According to information provided by OHS/ICE/HSI OZTURK is a post doctorate degree candidate in Child Studies and Human Development at Tufts University. On March 21, 2025, OHS/ICE/HSI referred information to CA indicating that OZTURK co-authored an op-ed in Tufts' student newspaper. In this article, the authors wrote, "Graduate Students for Pal'estine joins Tufts Students for Justice in Palestine (TSJP), the Tufts Faculty and Staff Coalition for Ceasefire, .and Fletcher Students for Palestine to reject the ,University's response" {to a student government resolution). According to OHS/ICE/HSI, Tufts Students for Justice in Palestine was placed\\ on interim suspension 11 after it used images of weapons to promote a protest rally and urged members of the Tufts community to 'join the student intifada." OHS/ICE/HSI referral concluded that "OZTURK's involvement in these activities and associations with these groups may undermine U.S. foreign. policy by creating a hostile environment for Jewish students and indicating support for a designated terrorist organization." (SBU) While OZTURK has been involved with the actions protesting Turfts' relationship with Israel, QHS/ICE/HSI has not, however, provided any evidence showing that OZTURK has engaged in any antisemitic activity or made any public statements indicating support for a terrorist organization or antisemitism generally. While the report implies a connection between OZTURK and the now-banned Tufts Student for Justice in Pa… OZTURK was involved in any of the activities which resulted in TJSP being suspended from Tufts. (SBU) Through a search on March 21, 2025, on available USG interagency databases, CA/VO identified no reporting specific to OZTURK, and interagency vetting partners did not provide any response to OZTURK's 2024 visa application indicating the existence of derogatory terrorism-related information. (SBU) OHS did not identify any alternative grounds of removability that would be applicable to OZTURK, including the ground of removability for aliens who have provided material support to a foreign terrorist organization or terrorist activity, and have not indicated whether it plans to consider termination of OZTURK's SEVIS registration. Although information provided by OHS/HSI/ICE does not establish any potential ineligibility for OZTURK, you may, in your discretion and in accordance with Department policy in 9 FAM 403.11-5(8), approve revocation of her F-1 visa effective immediately based on the totality of the circumstances presented indicating that revocation may be warranted.
January 23, 2026 at 2:27 PM
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peoplesfabric.com
Spotted just now in Minneapolis: Arizona CBP Agent Timothy Donahue (knit cap).

Donahue has a history of physical violence, waving his sidearm, and threatening to shoot people. His social media feed was littered with racist, bigoted right-wing hate-speech.
January 24, 2026 at 6:35 PM
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bosh.worstpossible.world
any political assessment that starts with polling data is doomed to fail. we are in a moment that presents the moral test of our lives. politicians can either rise to the occasion or shirk back in fear. it really is that simple
January 22, 2026 at 8:22 PM