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Yarno Ritzen @yarnoritzen.com · Jan 24
My friend @philipobaji.bsky.social and I have started a GoFundMe to help him raise funds for his important work on uncovering Russian atrocities across Africa.

Philip does incredible work in a region that doesn't get the coverage it deserves.

Please donate!

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'Denmark changes name of Greenland into Epstein Island so Trump stops talking about it.'
January 8, 2026 at 11:04 AM
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Absolute banger of a headline.
January 6, 2026 at 12:53 PM
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beijingpalmer.bsky.social
personally I think if a story about an illegal war and kidnapping leaks to you should publish it.
bnonews.com BNO News @bnonews.com · 6d
NEW: Plans for secret U.S. raid to capture Maduro leaked to the Washington Post and New York Times before it happened, but both decided not to publish to protect U.S. troops - Semafor
January 4, 2026 at 6:07 AM
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kooyjan.bsky.social
“Since this story was reported, Radio Dabanga has notified NPR that some funding streams outside the United States, including from the Netherlands' government and private donors, have continued to support the station, averting immediate danger of collapse.”

Some good news at the start of 2026!
January 2, 2026 at 3:55 PM
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De columns van Schimmelpenninck hebben nu al effect.
December 23, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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mmasnick.bsky.social
Ok. Now had a chance to check and, well, at least some docs do appear to be straight up classic redaction fail. And there are some *interesting* bits here.

www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...
Showing highlights of paragraphs 202 through 206 in a doc with 203-205 blacked out. Text in next image 202. Defendants also actively obstructed law enforcement by denying investigators access to Little St. James beyond its boat dock. 203. Defendants also attempted to conceal their criminal sex trafficking and abuse conduct by paying large sums of money to participant-witnesses, including by paying for their attorneys’ fees and case costs in litigation related to this conduct. 204. Epstein also threatened harm to victims and helped release damaging stories about them to damage their credibility when they tried to go public with their stories of being trafficked and sexually abused. 205. Epstein also instructed one or more Epstein Enterprise participant-witnesses to destroy evidence relevant to ongoing court proceedings involving Defendants’ criminal sex trafficking and abuse conduct. 206. Defendants also concealed their fraud on the Government in obtaining unearned tax benefits by providing false testimony and submitting false and inaccurate reporting to the Economic Development Commission to prevent detection of Defendant Southern Trust Company’s non-compliance with requirements concerning the nature of its business and the residency of the persons it employed.
December 23, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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lorax.bsky.social
They didn't do the redactions right, and a bunch of financial information and immigration fraud detail is viewable on the Epstein files if you just highlight the black bars, and copy and paste into a new doc.
December 23, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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December 23, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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December 22, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss pulled a 60 Minutes segment on allegations of abuses at an El Salvador detention center where the Trump administration sent hundreds of Venezuelan migrants. n.pr/4pagOTD
CBS News chief Bari Weiss pulls '60 Minutes' story, sparking outcry
CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss pulled a 60 Minutes segment on allegations of abuses at an El Salvador detention center where the Trump administration sent hundreds of Venezuelan migrants.
n.pr
December 22, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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propublica.org
Amid soaring starvation in the Kakuma Refugee Camp, one young mother of two said she had considered taking her own life to save her children, “because I heard the U.N. takes care of the kids when the parents are gone.”
After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death
“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.
www.propublica.org
December 21, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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EXCLUSIVE: Last month, the Somali e-visa system had a large data breach - 35,000 passports were exposed.

The Somali gov. moved the e-visa system to a new domain. But that new domain also exposes e-visas, which contain sensitive data such as passport numbers.

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
Personal data of thousands left exposed by new Somalia e-visa security flaw
Al Jazeera finds Somalia’s electronic visa website lacks proper security, allowing anyone to download sensitive data.
www.aljazeera.com
December 18, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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ciara2001.bsky.social
Picturing very confused police at speed checks who can't work out what speed it was doing or what direction it was heading
December 17, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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I remember a time when the world was up in arms because the Houthis were seizing tankers.

The silence is deafening now.
December 12, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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pptsapper.bsky.social
Goddam why does 1918 go so hard
root2702.bsky.social root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 29d
Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918
The man who is unwilling to wear a flu mask usually is of the kind who expects everybody to listen to him when he speaks
December 12, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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What a story.
janelytv.bsky.social Jane Lytvynenko @janelytv.bsky.social · Dec 10
Ukraine's Operation Spiderweb is one of the most ambitious covert operations to date, striking a precious airplane fleet deep in Russia's territory.

Read our exclusive account based on conversations with those involved:

www.wsj.com/world/europe...
Inside Ukraine’s Daring ‘Operation Spiderweb’ Attack on Russia
Kyiv’s plan to smuggle more than 100 drones into enemy territory required meticulous planning, high-tech gadgets—and luck.
www.wsj.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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anneapplebaum.bsky.social
An earlier version of the NSS specifically said that the US should try to pry Italy, Austria, Poland and Hungary away from the EU
www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/...
December 10, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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thomasmuntz.bsky.social
De wreedheid waartoe we in dit land in staat zijn benoemd mij soms de adem. Uit dit eerste onderzoek van onze nieuwe generatie onderzoeksjournalisten blijkt dat dit 'vrijwel uitsluitend moeders van kleur' treft. Ombudsmannen herkennen het en hebben gemeenten aangesproken, toch gaat het door
December 9, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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birteschohaus.bsky.social
The Russian dark fleet is going even darker!
Read this new investigation of our international team of @ftm.eu @pointerkro-ncrv.bsky.social @tijd.be @vrtnws.be @recherche.ndr.de SZ and WDR
www.ftm.eu/articles/swi...
Russia’s dark fleet goes darker as fears grow over arms smuggling and sanctions evasion
Suspicious vessels linked to Russia – including its shadow fleet – are increasingly going dark, a joint investigation involving Follow the Money has found. Ships cannot be located due to disruptions t...
www.ftm.eu
December 9, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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shaneharris.bsky.social
I've waited nearly ten years to tell this story: In 2016, I developed a source in Iranian intelligence named Mohammad Hossein Tajik. He told me he came from a politically connected family. That he had led Iran's cyber army. And that he had secretly worked for the CIA. 🧵
December 8, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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johanfretz.bsky.social
Kleine maar schokkende scoop:

Marit de Roij, ambtenaar BZ, die geen kans naliet om haar liefde en steun voor genocidaal Israël uit te dragen en collega's die zich wél uitspraken tegen de genocide te shamen.

Haar nieuwe job vanaf de zomer 2026: landenmedewerker Israël op Buitenlandse Zaken. 🤡🎪
December 8, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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arnevanderwal.bsky.social
Scoop: Israel’s biggest defence company suspended by NATO amid corruption probe www.ftm.eu/articles/isr...
Israel’s biggest defence company suspended by NATO amid corruption probe
Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest weapons firm, is implicated in a widening NATO corruption scandal. The military alliance’s procurement agency (NSPA) has suspended the company from bidding on new contr...
www.ftm.eu
December 8, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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Nightmare blunt rotation.
kimvankeken.bsky.social Kim van Keken @kimvankeken.bsky.social · Nov 18
U weet wel, de vertegenwoordigers van de gewone man. Maar weet waarvandaan zij hun ‘onafhankelijke’ blik vandaan halen.
November 18, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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I'll be attending #gijc25 in Kuala Lumpur this year. In case anybody wants to meet and discuss investigative journalism, pitching to Al Jazeera or anything related (or just say 'hi'), hit me up on Signal: onray.96
November 17, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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To see what happened, watch our investigation '36 Days in July', which features audio by Hassina ordering to shoot unarmed protesters. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dt2-...
November 17, 2025 at 8:55 AM