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Senior Researcher, Bellingcat. Previously at Scripps News.

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Jake Godin @godin.bsky.social · Dec 6

New SkySat imagery from Planet Labs over northern Gaza from Dec 5 shows extensive damage to the Beit Lahia Cemetery after the IDF cleared two paths through the middle of it.

🧵 I have a cemetery destruction thread on Twitter that I'll re-post to Bluesky for tracking purposes.

CC: @geoconfirmed.org

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 9h

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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Jake Godin @godin.bsky.social · 1d

Should note that some of the mound was already paved pre-war — though the area was mostly orchards. There was also a café on top that people frequented, as pointed out by @michaeldpress.bsky.social and SkyNews: bsky.app/profile/mich...

Two years later, there's been an immense amount of destruction.

An October 8 2023 SkySat satellite image from Planet Labs showing part of Gaza City's Shejaiya neighborhood where the archeological mound Tell Ali Muntar is located. There are large orchards visible and a cafe and building with solar panels visible on part of the hill.

An October 7 2025 SkySat satellite image from Planet Labs showing part of Gaza City's Shejaiya neighborhood where the archeological mound Tell Ali Muntar is located. All of the orchards and buildings have been destroyed except the solar panel building, which has been incorporated into a now-paved IDF outpost on top of the hill surrounded by extensive earthworks.

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Jake Godin @godin.bsky.social · 1d

After conducting extensive earthworks on top of the archeological mound Tell Ali Muntar, it appears in more recent @planet.com SkySat imagery from October 7 that the IDF has since paved the top of the mound.

The visible black area is similar to what we've seen when pavement has been used elsewhere.

A September 18 2025 SkySat satellite image from Planet Labs showing part of Gaza City's Shejaiya neighborhood where the archeological mound Tell Ali Muntar is located. Most of the buildings surrounding the hill have been destroyed. There are IDF vehicles and gravel visible at an apparent IDF outpost on top of the hill.

A October 7 2025 SkySat satellite image from Planet Labs showing part of Gaza City's Shejaiya neighborhood where the archeological mound Tell Ali Muntar is located. Most of the buildings surrounding the hill have been destroyed. There are IDF vehicles and other material visible at an apparent IDF outpost on top of the hill, which is now black indicating the previous gravel area has been paved over.

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Jake Godin @godin.bsky.social · 1d

Latest PlanetScope capture over Netzarim was around noon, so not sure if it'd started getting dismantled by then. This is what it looks like compared with the October 4 PlanetScope.

Possible we'll see them destroy the berms around the site like the last time they withdrew from most of the corridor.

PlanetScope image taken by Planet Labs on October 4 2025 showing the "Netzarim Corridor" near Wadi Gaza where the IDF created one of the Gaza Humanitarian Fund sites. There is a large amount of destruction in the image with very few buildings still standing. The GHF site is a large square area surrounded by berms and with white gravel.

PlanetScope image taken by Planet Labs on October 10 2025 showing the "Netzarim Corridor" near Wadi Gaza where the IDF created one of the Gaza Humanitarian Fund sites. There is a large amount of destruction in the image with very few buildings still standing. The GHF site is a large square area surrounded by berms and with white gravel.

Jake Godin @godin.bsky.social · 1d

This will be visible in @planet.com imagery (PlanetScope or SkySat) once it starts happening. So far, no major changes at the southern sites when comparing October 4 and October 10 SkySat but will keep an eye on it.

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

Gaza Humanitarian Fund "distribution sites" (Israeli killing fields) are being dismantled as part of the ceasefire

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Gabòr Friesen @gaborfriesen.bsky.social · 2d

For my 2nd undergraduate thesis, I researched the feasibility of using Convolutional Neural Networks to automate the process of mapping military trenches. Thought this summary might interest some of you.
medium.com/@gaborfriese...

Using AI to Detect Military Trenches on Satellite Imagery

This article provides a simplified and summarised view of my second undergraduate thesis. For access to the full thesis on this topic (14 pages) or underlying datasets, please reach out to me …

medium.com

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Forum on the Arms Trade @forumarmstrade.bsky.social · 12d

3/ for more on the long history of the oversight of firearms exports, see our resource page
www.forumarmstrade.org/catitoiii.html

Transfer of USML Cats I-III to Commerce

Possible transfer of USML categories I-III (guns and ammunition) to CCL

www.forumarmstrade.org

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Forum on the Arms Trade @forumarmstrade.bsky.social · 12d

2/ despite how the Trump administration frames it, many in the Forum's shared community and others will see this as a very dangerous step that makes it easier to export assault weapons, undoes Congressional notification, and requirements that could provide much greater protections from misuse.

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Forum on the Arms Trade @forumarmstrade.bsky.social · 12d

1/ Breaking- today, the Commerce Department announced the rescinding of a May 2024 Biden administration rule related to firearms exports, notably semi-automatic weapons (assault weapons). media.bis.gov/press-releas...

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 2d

A map of Gaza shows how Israeli forces will withdraw under the first phase of the ceasefire plan while remaining in control of nearly 60% of the besieged Strip aje.io/kekalb

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Jake Godin @godin.bsky.social · 2d

Clearly the founder of Antifa is a vampire.

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Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 2d

Posobiec at Trump’s antifa propaganda event: “Antifa has been around going back to the Weimar Republic”

Noem at the same event: “We’ve arrested the girlfriend of one of the founders of Antifa”

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 2d

U.S. Northern Command says that elements of the Texas national guard are now “employed in the greater Chicago area.”

The statement claims that they’ve been deployed to protect ICE and federal property.

U.S. Northern Command &
@USNorthernCmd
X.com
Effective today, elements of the Texas National Guard, under Title 10 authority and command and control of U.S. Northern Command, are employed in the greater Chicago area.
These soldiers are employed to protect U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other
U.S. Government personnel who are performing federal functions, including the enforcement of federal law, and to protect federal property.
For the latest information on our Federal Protection Mission, please see the link below:

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 3d

A lot going on here, but a religion note: DHS Assistant Sec. Tricia McLaughlin refers to Rev. Black as a "pastor" here — using quotation marks.

It's a notable slight against a faith leader's status, as Black is, in fact, an ordained minister of a church operating within the Presbytery of Chicago.

This footage is from almost a month ago. What this clipped video doesn’t show is that these agitators were blocking an ICE vehicle from leaving the federal facility—impeding operations.

Over and over again, law enforcement ordered these agitators to move off of federal property so the vehicle could move. Law enforcement verbally warned these agitators that they would use force if they did not move and stop impeding operations. They did not comply.

Shortly after, rioters began throwing rocks, bottles and launching fireworks at the law enforcement officers on the roof.

At the time of this incident, this facility held criminal illegal aliens including gang members, drug traffickers, and other violent criminals. Obstructing law enforcement puts officers, detainees and the public at risk. If you are obstructing law enforcement you can expect to be met with force.

And, as an aside, this is the same “pastor” who flipped
@Sec_Noem
and our team the bird when we were there last week.

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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 2d

Pentagon Press Association says negotiations with DoD about its revised requirements for credentials reporters "have not been as successful as we had hoped."

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Jennifer Smart ♠️ Commissions open! @jaesmart.bsky.social · 2d

#inktober day 8: reckless 🔥
Revenant and Guardian face a fearsome foe

An ink drawing of a bird person with a halberd, a small feminine child in a dress and veil carrying a harp, and a large spectral skeleton charging towards a menacing dragon in the background.

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 2d

POTUS is personally invested in this deal.

Remains to be seen whether there will be the necessary USG followthrough to make it stick.

I am very proud to announce that Israel and Hamas have both signed off on the first Phase of our Peace Plan. This means that ALL of the Hostages will be released very soon, and Israel will withdraw their Troops to an agreed upon line as the first steps toward a Strong, Durable, and Everlasting Peace. All Parties will be treated fairly! This is a GREAT Day for the Arab and Muslim World, Israel, all surrounding Nations, and the United States of America, and we thank the mediators from Qatar, Egypt, and Turkey, who worked with us to make this Historic and Unprecedented Event happen. BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS!

DONALD J. TRUMP
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 3d

Correction: besides the 75+ Somalia strikes (81 by @davidsterman.bsky.social's count), there has also been one Somalia "operation" on July 25 that AFRICOM didn't describe as an air strike, suggesting it was a JSOC ground raid

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Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 3d

Yesterday's Syria strike puts US combat actions during the second Trump administration at:

—1,000+ air strikes in Yemen (March-April)
—75+ air strikes in Somalia
—7 air strikes and 3 JSOC ground raids in Syria
—4 air strikes in the Caribbean
—B-2 strikes on 3 sites in Iran
—1 air strike in Iraq

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3d

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 3d

I started working on this research in my spare time with a small group of fellow journos/artists — Nicole Vögele, @jakecharlesrees.bsky.social , & Robin Kötzle — after noticing recurring patterns in IDF 3D videos last year

The Ferret (via @billybriggs24.bsky.social): theferret.scot/idf-scottish...

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 3d

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

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Keri Blakinger @keribla.bsky.social · 3d

amazing fact check from yesterday's senate oversight hearing

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Aric Toler @aric.bsky.social · 3d

Our New York Times Visual Investigations team is hiring a reporter. It's the same job I have -- use visual investigation/OSINT/etc. skills to report on the world.

You'll need to be based in/near NYC. Pay range is ~110-130k.

www.nytco.com/careers/job-...

Open-Source Reporter (Video Journalist), Visual Investigations | The New York Times Company

www.nytco.com

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