My go to newsletter on drone threats analysis and civ harm. This article is especially freaking crucial. little-flying-robots.ghost.io/what-can-we-.... Spending so much time on drone strikes in Africa. Where can I sign up to be a drone *expert*?!!

What Can We Do About Drone Attacks on Civilians? Some Thoughts

Lately, I've been spending a lot of time analyzing, reporting on, and researching the horrifying global uptick in the use of small, cheap, short-range drones to intentionally target and kill civilians...

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A post online that got a bunch of traction teased a christian nationalist militia that's growing, but hid all of the info and group name behind a substack paywall. The group is called Ozark Christian Initiative, with chapters in MO, AK, TX, OK, and NE. Fuck people who gatekeep info on the far-right.

Russia launches ballistic missile and drone strike on Kyiv

Russia launches ballistic missile and drone strike on Kyiv

The head of Kyiv's military administration says Russia is "once again massively attacking" and has hit residential buildings.

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Smoke rising from Dubai's Jebel Ali Industrial Area following reports of several explosions. Possibly just an industrial accident, no official word from authorities as of now.

Satellite Imagery Shows Scale of Venezuela Earthquake Damage Bellingcat has received satellite imagery from Planet Labs PBC that shows one the worst affected areas in the country, including a large number of collapsed buildings and apartment blocks in La Guaira. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/06...

Satellite Imagery Shows Scale of Venezuela Earthquake Damage - bellingcat

Satellite imagery provided to Bellingcat shows one of the areas worst impacted by the Venezuela earthquakes.

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Morris Tidball-Binz's message was clear: protocols already exist, but implementation is what matters. Families have the right to information, victims deserve dignity. Preparation, not improvisation, is essential to reduce the human toll of future disasters in Venezuela and the Region

Our partners spoke with UN forensic expert Morris Tidball-Binz about lessons from Venezuela's earthquake in the dignified management and identification of the dead. @bellingcat.com #AlianzaRebeldeInvestiga #Terremotos #PrevencionSismica #earthquakesresponse www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Bi5...

¿Qué hacer para reducir el impacto de los terremotos? #ConversaARIConLaLuz

YouTube video by EfectoCocuyo

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Yay Leith :)

Bellingcat@bellingcat.com · last mo.

Toolkit Guardian Lieth Sánchez has tried and tested many tools in this category, but not all of them are designed for investigations. One recent resource is a bird identification app. Find out how you can use this tool here: bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/more...

I better try it!

Bellingcat@bellingcat.com · 2mo ago

What can munition remnants, damage patterns, or craters at the site of a strike reveal? Bellingcat researcher @easybakeovensz.bsky.social created five challenges to introduce you to techniques that open source researchers use to analyse the aftermath of a strike. Challenge.bellingcat.com

June 8 Sentinel-2 imagery over southern Lebanon shows a large amount of destruction in two villages near Beaufort Castle, an area the IDF has been active in since earlier this month. Similar to many of the villages further south, much of Yohmor and Arnoun appear to have been destroyed by the IDF.

Watch Bellingcat's @giancarlofiorella.bsky.social on CTV News explaining the disinformation campaign targeting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Fake videos appearing to be from media organisations, including Bellingcat, have been shared across social media. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGDq...

New wave of online disinformation after Zelenskyy's open letter to Putin | Deception Decoded

YouTube video by CTV News

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Working with Bellingcat researcher @sebkilli.bsky.social Vandermeersch, @dailymail.co.uk recently covered our analysis of several high-profile drone strikes that the United Arab Emirates government appeared to downplay, mischaracterise or simply did not acknowledge. www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4II...

The Iranian Strikes the UAE Didn’t Want You To See | Photo Evidence

YouTube video by Daily Mail World

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Trump's assertion is false. As @bellingcat.com reported earlier this year, authenticated videos from the strike on the Minab's girl school clearly show that the munitions that impacted the site were Tomahawk missiles. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...

Video Shows US Tomahawk Missile Strike Next to Girls’ School in Iran - bellingcat

New video footage shows a US Tomahawk missile hitting an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) facility in Minab, Iran, on Feb 28, showing for the first time that the US struck the area. The footag...

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Matthew Gertz@mattgertz.bsky.social · 3w ago

I would loooove to know what happened during this interview cut immediately after Trump tells a Fox News interviewer that photos of "fragments that appear to be from Tomahawk missiles" at a destroyed Iranian girls school may have been "AI-generated."

How do investigations actually come together? Costanza Gambarini (@source-material.org) joined us on our last Stage Talk to discuss investigative methods, digital research, collaboration across newsrooms, and the lessons she's learned reporting on environmental wrongdoing. rss.com/podcasts/bel...

"Building Environmental Investigations" with Costanza Gambarini | Podcast Episode on RSS.com

This week, we spoke to SourceMaterial's Costanza Gambarini, fresh off her win at the Press Awards for Environmental Journalist of the Year. We spoke about what makes a good environmental journalist an...

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As fighting intensifies in Mali, Bellingcat has verified two recent strikes that used Shahed-136 type kamikaze drones. Video footage of the strikes provides the clearest open-source evidence to date of use of these drones in the conflict www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/07...

Shahed-Type Drones Filmed During Mali Village Attacks - bellingcat

Bellingcat has geolocated footage showing Shahed-136 type kamikaze drones in operation in Mali.

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New PlanetScope imagery captured today, July 28, reveals the extent of the damage from the wildfires in Bordeaux, France.

Wildfires have devastated parts of Europe this past week, particularly in France and Spain, where more than 330,000 people have been evacuated. With temperatures expected to rise again, the risk of further damage remains. Learn to track active fires with open sources: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmnf...

Monitoring Wildfires Using Open Source Tools

YouTube video by Bellingcat

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x.com/i/status/208... @airwars.bsky.social 🎉 go read it

Airwars (@airwars) on X

Anatomy of an AI Kill Chain A visual project from Airwars and @AINowInstitute breaks down how artificial intelligence is transforming every aspect of war - and how militaries are offloading life and death decisions to flawed technologies https://t.co/UGCjcYhVNu

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During a hearing with Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin on Capitol Hill this week, US Rep. Lauren Underwood brought up our recent report with Physicians for Human Rights on rising deaths in ICE detention centers. Watch below, and read the report here: https://bit.ly/4oNOlo4

Ukrainian drones struck an oil refinery in Ufa, the Ukrainian Telegram channels Exilenova+ and Supernova+ reported, publishing several photos and videos from the scene. meduza.io/en/news/2026...

Report: Ukrainian drones strike oil refinery in Russia as drone attack alerts issued across Ural region — Meduza

Ukrainian drones struck an oil refinery in Ufa, the Ukrainian Telegram channels Exilenova+ and Supernova+ reported, publishing several photos and videos from the scene.

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Fab Lora!

Bellingcat@bellingcat.com · 2mo ago

Toolkit Guardian Lora Petrova has tried and tested many tools that can support financial investigations. In this video, she explains why it's important to be cautious when searching for and using these resources.

Moscow air defense starting it's own fires by shooting down Ukrainian drones. The building hit by the downed drone in the first video is visibly on fire in the second video, as are numerous structures in the area.

Fab 🎉 insight by fellow toolkit "guardian", Martin @cargocultscientist.bsky.social who is in charge of the Social Media category.

Bellingcat@bellingcat.com · 2mo ago

Toolkit Guardian Martin Sona @cargocultscientist.bsky.social has tried and tested a lot of tools useful for investigators focused on social media analysis. Here is Martin talking about his experience and why universal access to open source tools is important:

Bellingcat volunteers, staff and the wider open source researcher community contribute to writing and updating Toolkit descriptions. Bellingcat staff members check each toolkit entry before it goes online. Find out more here: www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...

Introducing Bellingcat's Collaborative Open Source Toolkit

Our Online Investigations Toolkit comes with detailed descriptions maintained by a team of volunteers and an AI-powered assistant.

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This month, we're highlighting the work of our Toolkit Guardians. However, building open-source tools and maintaining the Toolkit wouldn't be possible without your support. If you'd like to help sustain this work, please consider making a donation here: www.bellingcat.com/donate-belli...

Of great interest

Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦@perevaa.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Ukraine developed DART, a 1.84 m, 13 kg rocket launched from balloons at 12–18 km. It carries a 3.5–10 kg warhead with graphite fragments. After 6 km, navigation shuts off, a solid motor starts, and EW can’t affect it.

New Ukrainian large underwater drone, Sea Trident SL-1000 -> www.hisutton.com/Ukraine-UUV-...

Trump administration officials began weighing sanctions on Anthropic weeks before they demanded the company take its latest and most advanced AI model offline, after a dispute shattered the White House’s already-fragile trust in the company.

How Anthropic lost the White House’s trust — and then its flagship product

The Trump administration weighed export controls on Anthropic weeks before forcing its AI model offline, after a dispute over sharing its technology with a China-linked firm.

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So freakin excited for this. 🤸🏼🤸🏼🤸🏼

Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Added a bunch more attacks on civilians with small drones to my map and database this week, on a related note. I should have a statistics page up in a few days and will be figuring out the best way to allow people to export raw data. map.faineg.com

I'm excited but a bit sad to announce that I've left Bellingcat to start a nonprofit investigative outlet focused on the far-right. We're called Decoherence Media, and we're launching today.

Decoherence Media@decoherence.media · 9mo ago

Welcome to Decoherence Media, an independent nonprofit founded by @jennefer.bsky.social and @tristanl.ee that investigates authoritarian and anti-democratic movements using open-source and data-driven methods.