Bora Erden
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space, politics, forensics | spatial investigations @nytimes | previously @situ_research
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The variety of federal forces deployed to support President Trump’s deportation campaign and anticrime efforts continues to expand. It can be hard to tell them apart or to understand what powers each agency has. Here is a guide to how these forces are operating.
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Who Are the Federal Forces Behind Trump’s Mass Deportations and Crime Crackdown? (Gift Article)
As President Trump deploys ICE, Border Patrol, the National Guard and other forces to U.S. cities, here’s how to tell them apart — and what their powers are.
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October 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM
The variety of federal forces deployed to support President Trump’s deportation campaign and anticrime efforts continues to expand. It can be hard to tell them apart or to understand what powers each agency has. Here is a guide to how these forces are operating.
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NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites
The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war
The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war
October 8, 2025 at 4:58 PM
NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites
The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war
The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war
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An analysis of dozens of 3D animations published by the Israeli army discovered digital assets sourced not from classified intelligence but rather from commercial libraries and content creators as far afield as Scotland and Port Orchard.
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How a Scottish maritime museum ended up in Israel’s 3D propaganda
An analysis of dozens of Israeli army animations discovered digital assets sourced not from classified intelligence but commercial libraries and content creators.
www.972mag.com
October 8, 2025 at 5:06 PM
An analysis of dozens of 3D animations published by the Israeli army discovered digital assets sourced not from classified intelligence but rather from commercial libraries and content creators as far afield as Scotland and Port Orchard.
www.972mag.com/israeli-army...
@mekomit.bsky.social
www.972mag.com/israeli-army...
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Earlier this month, an ICE officer shot and killed Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez, a Mexican immigrant, in a Chicago suburb. We analyzed surveillance, body cam and bystander videos, and found that key aspects of the DHS description of events do not hold up.
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How an Attempted ICE Arrest Near Chicago Turned Deadly (Gift Article)
The New York Times analyzed surveillance, police body-camera footage and bystander videos to understand what happened when an immigration agent shot and killed a motorist in a Chicago suburb.
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September 23, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Earlier this month, an ICE officer shot and killed Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez, a Mexican immigrant, in a Chicago suburb. We analyzed surveillance, body cam and bystander videos, and found that key aspects of the DHS description of events do not hold up.
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NEW: Inside Gaza’s ‘death traps’ via @FT
GHF’s plan forces hungry Palestinians to trek miles to aid sites, often through the IDF’s active military areas. Hundreds have been killed and thousands injured. This is how…
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GHF’s plan forces hungry Palestinians to trek miles to aid sites, often through the IDF’s active military areas. Hundreds have been killed and thousands injured. This is how…
www.ft.com/content/6c74...
Inside Gaza’s ‘death traps’
[FREE TO READ] A US-backed scheme forces hungry Palestinians to trek kilometres for food aid. Many never make it back
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July 14, 2025 at 6:19 AM
NEW: Inside Gaza’s ‘death traps’ via @FT
GHF’s plan forces hungry Palestinians to trek miles to aid sites, often through the IDF’s active military areas. Hundreds have been killed and thousands injured. This is how…
www.ft.com/content/6c74...
GHF’s plan forces hungry Palestinians to trek miles to aid sites, often through the IDF’s active military areas. Hundreds have been killed and thousands injured. This is how…
www.ft.com/content/6c74...
Our investigation into the Assad regime’s use of mass graves shows how the practice grew from a few bodies in existing tombs to industrial-scale trenches. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How Syria’s Dictator Buried His Victims (Gift Article)
A cemetery near Damascus was transformed into an industrial-scale mass grave for Syrians who opposed President Bashar al-Assad.
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July 7, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Our investigation into the Assad regime’s use of mass graves shows how the practice grew from a few bodies in existing tombs to industrial-scale trenches. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
on the dozen+ agencies operating at the Los Angeles anti-immigration raids protests www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How Many Law Enforcement Agencies Are Involved in LA Immigration Protests? (Gift Article)
A Times analysis identified more than a dozen agencies that were on the ground in the past week. See which are represented, the gear they carry and how they interact.
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June 13, 2025 at 3:18 PM
on the dozen+ agencies operating at the Los Angeles anti-immigration raids protests www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
We kept an eye on the migrant tent camp that the Trump administration spent millions building and used as a photo op backdrop. Weeks later and after no migrants were ever held there, the tents are coming down. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/u...
Guantánamo Migrant Operation Has Held Fewer Than 500 Detainees, and None in Tents
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May 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM
We kept an eye on the migrant tent camp that the Trump administration spent millions building and used as a photo op backdrop. Weeks later and after no migrants were ever held there, the tents are coming down. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/u...