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Peter Barth
@oldpete45.bsky.social
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investigator @Bellingcat.com, texan up north. interested in organized crime. views my own.
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Peter Barth @oldpete45.bsky.social · 11d
Our latest on the Kinahan Cartel @conplnk.bsky.social @beaudonelly.bsky.social @johnmooneyirl.bsky.social
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 11d
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
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Tim Shenk @timshenk.msf.ca · 6d
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
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 10d
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.”
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
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Peter Barth @oldpete45.bsky.social · 11d
Psyched to finally read this @praddenkeefe.bsky.social
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Peter Barth @oldpete45.bsky.social · 11d
Our latest on the Kinahan Cartel @conplnk.bsky.social @beaudonelly.bsky.social @johnmooneyirl.bsky.social
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 11d
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
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Emily Baker-White @ebakerwhite.bsky.social · 12d
lol
lmao
sigh

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
ByteDance to Get About 50% of TikTok US Profit Under Trump Deal
TikTok’s Chinese parent company will likely get about half of the profit from the platform’s US operation even after it sells majority ownership to American investors as part of a deal orchestrated by...
www.bloomberg.com
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Lance Racey (aka CranesfootLance) @cranesfootlance.bsky.social · 14d
BBC News - Woman in Spanish cold case identified after 20 years
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
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Jan-Albert Hootsen @jahootsen.bsky.social · 14d
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.
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WPRI 12 @wpri12.bsky.social · 16d
The longtime mobster known as "The Cheeseman" died on Sunday, according to an obituary. He rose through the ranks of the Patriarca crime family and took over leadership roughly eight years ago: https://www.wpri.com/target-12/carmen-the-cheeseman-dinunzio-reputed-mob-boss-dead-at-68/ 
Reputed mob boss Carmen DiNunzio dead at 68
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 16d
Trump making Gadaffi's UN speech look normal.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16d
Trump to the UN: "I'm really good at this stuff. Your countries are going to hell."
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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 15d
"Leominster police arrived at the scene, recovered the child and returned her to the family." www.nbcboston.com/news/local/i...
ICE agents held 5-year-old girl outside Leominster home to get father to surrender, family says
Video appears to show federal immigration agents trying to coax the man out of his Massachusetts home while asking, "Is that your daughter?"
www.nbcboston.com
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 15d
NEW: CBP has been funneling DNA from US citizens—including kids—into the FBI’s crime database. Nearly 2,000 Americans swabbed, many with no charges. Once for violent offenders, CODIS is becoming a mass-surveillance archive.

analysis by @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social
DHS Has Been Collecting US Citizens’ DNA for Years
Newly released data shows Customs and Border Protection funneled the DNA of nearly 2,000 US citizens—some as young as 14—into an FBI crime database, raising alarms about oversight and legality.
www.wired.com
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Peter Barth @oldpete45.bsky.social · 22d
RIP to a great one. youtu.be/vZ9DUVyljnI?...
Robert Redford | 60 Minutes Archive
YouTube video by 60 Minutes
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 24d
Tramell Tillman of “Severance” became the first Black man to win outstanding supporting actor in a drama series.

As a first-time nominee, Tillman used his acceptance speech to pay tribute to his mother: “My first acting coach was tough. But all great mothers are.” https://wapo.st/48f8MDY
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Aric Toler @aric.bsky.social · 27d
On the manhunt
@robinsteinnyt.bsky.social
has been monitoring police scanner chatter, and it's - as usual with these events - insane. It included chatter about police searching for a man with a prosthetic arm in a hospital
(This was also a plot thread in Twin Peaks)
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/u...
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Globe New Hampshire @globenh.bsky.social · Sep 8
The fourth and final victim in the decades-old Bear Brook murders in New Hampshire has been identified, officials announced Sunday, a major breakthrough in one of the state’s most enduring mysteries.
Fourth victim identified in New Hampshire’s Bear Brook murders, ending 40-year mystery - The Boston Globe
The identification marks the end of a 40-year-long search to identify all four victims of Terry Rasmussen, who died in prison in 2010.
trib.al
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 28d
The largest aid flotilla in history has been attacked twice in two days whilst in port in Tunisia. Open source analysis suggests an incendiary munition is to blame, contradicting official statements. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/09...
Incendiary Munitions Strike Gaza-bound Flotilla Two Nights in a Row - bellingcat
On September 8 and 9, two vessels of the Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) were attacked outside the port of Sidi Bou Said in Tunisia. Bellingcat analysed footage and images from both incidents. ...
www.bellingcat.com
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · Sep 8
Countdown to this being dismissed as an AI fake.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · Sep 8
Checking in on this!
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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · Sep 8
Trump’s Takeover of DC: Traffic Stops Turn Into Immigration Arrests for Delivery Riders and Workers

www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/09...
In DC, Traffic Stops Turn Into Immigration Arrests for Delivery Riders and Workers
Bellingcat and our partner Evident Media geolocated and verified 42 federal agent encounters in the US capital from Aug. 11 to Sept. 2.
www.bellingcat.com
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Giancarlo Fiorella @giancarlofiorella.bsky.social · Sep 8
One of the most exciting initiatives that we've launched at @bellingcat.com this year is our Open Source Challenge page.

Each month, you get a set of five new challenges to solve.
They're perfect practice for students, practitioners, and educators.

challenge.bellingcat.com
Bellingcat Open Source Challenge
Test your open source research skills.
challenge.bellingcat.com
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Peter Barth @oldpete45.bsky.social · Sep 4
the force includes “several hundred fighters from the United States, Europe and El Salvador who are trained as snipers and specialists in intelligence and communications, as well as helicopters and boats. Vectus's force includes some French and Creole speakers” www.reuters.com/world/americ...
Exclusive: Trump ally Erik Prince plans to keep personnel in Haiti for 10 years to fight gangs and collect taxes
The prominent Donald Trump supporter and private security executive Erik Prince says he has a 10-year deal with Haiti to fight the country's criminal gangs, and then take a role in restoring the country's tax-collection system.
www.reuters.com
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Peter Barth @oldpete45.bsky.social · Sep 4
This news follows an announcement in mid Aug that Erik Prince’s firm Vectus Global is sending 200 foreign contractors to Haiti to help combat gangs (link to a Reuters report on that below) apnews.com/article/un-h...
US and Panama propose new force of 5,550 in Haiti with the power to detain gang suspects
The United States and Panama are urging the U.N. Security Council to authorize a 5,550-member force with the power to detain gang members in Haiti to help stop the escalating violence.
apnews.com
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John Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social · Sep 2
NEW: Mercenary spyware is coming to the US.

ICE just quietly unsuspended their contract with spyware maker #Paragon.

Remember them? Caught earlier this year being used to hack Italian journalists.

This is bad, let's talk about how we got here 1/

jackpoulson.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
Exclusive: ICE reactivated its $2 million contract with Israeli spyware firm Paragon, following its acquisition by U.S. capital
The cyber division of ICE's Homeland Security Investigations on Saturday quietly lifted a stop-work order put into place by the Biden administration in October.
jackpoulson.substack.com
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · Sep 2
Congratulations to @stevanzetti.bsky.social and @tristanl.ee (of @bellingcat.com) for winning the Al Neuharth Innovation in Investigative Journalism Award, small newsroom category from @journalists.org, for a series of articles identifying online extremists. awards.journalists.org/entries/open...
Winner in the 2025 Online Journalism Awards: The Al Neuharth Innovation in Investigative Journalism Award, Small Newsroom, for Open-Source Extremism Identifications, published by The Texas Observer and Bellingcat
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · Sep 2
Our Council Transcript Search tool has proved popular. Interested in what goes into building a tool like this? Listen to our latest Stage Talk on podcast platforms. The creator of this resource, @galen.reich.me.uk, shares his tips for creating a sustainable research tool. rss.com/podcasts/bel...
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · Sep 1
Finding the truth about conflicts in difficult to access regions is a challenge. Read as we take you through the processes required to identify and verify what is really happening in a conflict, using the recent violent uprisings in Manipur, India as an example.
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A Guide To Monitoring Conflict Amidst a Sea of Misinformation - bellingcat
How does one monitor a conflict zone on the brink of civil war, especially in a region which is difficult to access, experiences frequent internet shutdowns and where misinformation is common? In this...
www.bellingcat.com
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