I spoke w @trbrtc.bsky.social, @sanjanamv.bsky.social re grave IHL concerns w this attack -What was the target? Likely a building, given munition. -Homes are presumptively civilian. What, if any, basis was there to believe it was being / about to be used to make effective contrib. to mil action? 1/2

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 4d ago

The U.S. struck a family home on Iran’s Qeshm Island overnight on Thursday with a large-scale bomb, according to an analysis of videos, photos and satellite imagery by weapons experts and The New York Times. Iranian officials said the strike killed a boy and his parents.

"The United States struck a family home on Iran’s Qeshm Island overnight on Thursday with a large-scale bomb, according to an analysis of videos, photos and satellite imagery by weapons experts and The New York Times." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/w...

Evidence Indicates U.S. Dropped Bomb on Residential Area in Iran, Killing 3 Civilians

The weapon, one of the largest in the U.S.’s arsenal, struck a house in a heavily populated area, according to a Times analysis.

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Our latest visual investigation indicates the U.S. dropped a 2,000-pound bomb on a residential area on Qeshm Island in southern Iran, killing a 2-year-old and his parents. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/w...

Evidence Indicates U.S. Dropped Bomb on Residential Area in Iran, Killing 3 Civilians (Gift Article)

The weapon, one of the largest in the U.S.’s arsenal, struck a house in a heavily populated area, according to a Times analysis.

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The U.S. struck a family home on Iran’s Qeshm Island overnight on Thursday with a large-scale bomb, according to an analysis of videos, photos and satellite imagery by weapons experts and The New York Times. Iranian officials said the strike killed a boy and his parents.

Evidence Indicates U.S. Dropped Bomb on Residential Area in Iran, Killing 3 Civilians

The weapon, one of the largest in the U.S.’s arsenal, struck a house in a heavily populated area, according to a Times analysis.

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UPDATED STORY: Google has paused a tool that allowed users to briefly create deepfake AI satellite images with the click of a button. www.npr.org/2026/07/31/n...

Google pauses AI satellite images, after fears of deepfakes in the sky

Journalists, human rights advocates and open source analysts recoiled in horror at the initial decision: "The opportunities for abuse and disinfo are literally boundless," said one.

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Trump administration sought the phone records of several NYT journalists and their relatives — including one reporter’s mother www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/b...

Rigorous and important Sky News documentary on Minab, where the U.S. bombed a school and killed 120 children. It combines on-the-ground reporting with 3D reconstruction, eyewitness accounts, archival footage, expert analysis and a Pentagon whistleblower. www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

Sky News investigation into Minab school attack finds all evidence points to US being responsible

YouTube video by Sky News

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NYT visual analysis suggests the US hit 2 drinking-water facilities overnight in s Iran with precision-guided munitions. Deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure is war crime. When asked, Hegseth tenaciously refused to identify a legitimate military target connected with this attack.

Analysis of Satellite Image and Videos Suggest Precision U.S. Strikes on Iranian Water Facility

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GBU-39 wing remnant next to an entry hole consistent with a GBU-39 bomb at a water infrastructure building. NYT identified this photo as being taken on the roof of one of two water infrastructure buildings damaged by alleged US strikes outside Bemani, Iran. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/w...

NEW: Our visual analysis suggests the U.S. hit two drinking-water facilities overnight in southern Iran with precision-guided munitions. Deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure could constitute a war crime. w/ @ckoettl.bsky.social @johnismay.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/w...

Analysis of Satellite Image and Videos Suggest Precision U.S. Strikes on Iranian Water Facility

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While dormant, three AI models — for face detection, cropping, and encoding — have been pushed from Meta's servers. The system is designed to pull faceprints from those servers and store them locally. (Meta says it isn't building a central face database.) www.wired.com/story/meta-s...

"Deny, deflect, delay" — Piers Morgan on whether the US is running the IDF's Gaza playbook three months after the Minab and Lamerd school strikes. With NYT Visual Investigations' Malachy Browne and Christiaan Triebert (ex-Bellingcat, ex-Airwars), www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHCJ...

‘UNMISTAKABLY a US Attack’ Trump Military Accused of Bombing Iranian School

YouTube video by Piers Morgan Uncensored

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L - GOP Rep and MI senate candidate Mike Rogers actual photo from the campaign trail. R - Photo put out by staffer.

A.G. Sulzberger of @nytimes.com joins Pope Leo XIV in issuing serious warnings about how AI threatens the health of democratic civilization. When *it* happens... we can't say we weren't warned (even if AI eventually disappears these warnings). Alarm bells are ringing. variety.com/2026/biz/new...

New York Times Publisher Warns That AI Companies Are Making Choices That ‘Violate Settled Law’ and Could Cause a ‘Great Deal of Unnecessary Harm’

Publisher A.G. Sulzberger made AI the center of his keynote address to the World News Media Congress.

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Insightful and shocking report by @trbrtc.bsky.social a.o. @nytimes.com about the PrSM: How a New U.S. Weapon Killed 21 Civilians in Iran www.nytimes.com/video/world/...

Video: How a New U.S. Weapon Killed 21 Civilians in Iran

Evidence shows a new missile championed by the U.S. military struck a residential neighborhood in Iran in February, unleashing thousands of deadly pellets on homes, schools and streets. Here’s what th...

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How a New U.S. Weapon Killed 21 Civilians in Iran By Christiaan Triebert, Alexander Cardia and John Ismay May 26, 2026 "Evidence shows a new missile championed by the U.S. military struck a residential neighborhood in Iran in February, unleashing thousands of deadly pellets." @trbrtc.bsky.social

Video: How a New U.S. Weapon Killed 21 Civilians in Iran

Evidence shows a new missile championed by the U.S. military struck a residential neighborhood in Iran in February, unleashing thousands of deadly pellets on homes, schools and streets. Here’s what th...

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New paper finds "After the first year of war...82% of each square kilometer of the Gaza Strip had been damaged at least once and that 67.9% of its built-up area has been destroyed." "Our results show that more than 3/4s of Gaza’s economy has been destroyed since the start of the conflict"

The destruction of Gaza: Satellite measurements of the economic cost of war

Abstract. We map and estimate the economic impact of the Israel–Hamas war on the Gaza Strip that began after the 2023 October 7 attacks by Palestinian mili

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“The pope is really doing the Lord’s work here, and I say that as an atheist. There are so few institutions left on planet Earth that have the gravitas, strength, communal network to take on this phenomenon, which is trying to become inevitable and superhuman.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/t...

As A.I. Fever Rises in Silicon Valley, Pope Leo Has a Few Words

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And perhaps my greatest worry: Customised AI-generated podcasts like these have a target audience of one. They destroy the public sphere by isolating us.

Big protest and march at Brooklyn Criminal Court and outside Brooklyn DA Gonzales's office in protest of this woman's treatment today. Organized by the Association of Legal Advocates and Attorneys, UAW Local 2325.

NYC for Abortion Rights@nycforabortion.bsky.social · 3mo ago

On Fri night, Brooklyn court staff forced a woman to give birth inside the courtroom. Per public defenders, she gave birth in handcuffs, unable to reposition herself, unable to pick up her infant. The men who’d shackled her looked on. The judge lauded the birth of a ‘beautiful baby’ on the record.

Israel says it will sue @nytimes.com over Nicholas Kristof's reporting on the horrible torture of Palestinian prisoners. It's an absurd attack on press freedom meant to further shield any accountability. Watch us count the ways this lawsuit threat is both frivolous and outrageous.

Deep in the Amazon, along Peru-Brazil border, lies proposed Yavarí-Tapiche Corridor: 16 million hectares of intact forest sheltering world's highest concentration of Indigenous peoples living in isolation. But threats (oil/gas, mining/logging, highways, narcos) are closing in, new report shows.

Tampere University offers a 3-year fully funded PhD position on the use of open source investigation in relation to the Ukraine and Palestine conflicts. tuni.rekrytointi.com/paikat/?o=A_...

Doctoral Researcher (U-KNOW-project, focus on open-source investigation in the Ukraine or Palestine conflicts) / Väitöskirjatutkija

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The Royal Academy of Art (KABK) is looking for an investigative journalist to teach their Evidence-Based Stories module. (As someone that has taught guest workshops there before, can certainly recommend it!) www.kabk.nl/en/news/vaca...

Vacancy: Investigative Journalist (0.12 FTE)

For the Master Non-Linear Narrative of the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) we are looking for an investigative journalist.

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Exposed: How Ukrainian wheat stolen by Russia is smuggled to Israel. My investigation, with the fab @yoruk.bsky.social , reveals how grain stolen from occupied Ukrainian territory has been sold to Israel. Profits from the shady operation are financing Putin's war www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Exposed: How Ukrainian wheat stolen by Russia is smuggled to Israel

A Haaretz Investigation Reveals How Grain Stolen From Occupied Ukrainian Territory Has Been Sold to Israel. The Profits of the Shady Operation Are Financing Putin's War

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A group of senators has called on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to answer questions about his execution of military operations against Iran, referencing four separate attacks that killed civilians, including Minab and Lamerd. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/u...

“High costs, murky admissions practices, uneven academic standards and fears about free speech on campuses, the committee said, are among the reasons for widening discontent over higher education’s worthiness.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/u...

Yale Report Finds Colleges Deserve Blame for Higher Education’s Problems

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I told @trbrtc.bsky.social & @johnismay.bsky.social the missile involved in the strike that killed 21 civilians, including at least 5 children, appears to be ~15 feet long--closer to a PrSM than an Iranian cruise missile. This is how I made that estimate. www.armscontrolwonk.com/archive/1221...

It Really Looks Like A PrSM

The New York Times has a second story by Christiaan Triebert, John Ismay, Alexander Cardia, Leanne Abraham and Azmat Khanout that concludes … well, [...]

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Pete Hegseth's Defense Dept appears to be caught in a lie. It involves deaths of 21 people (including at least 5 children), injuring 110 in Lamerd, Iran with sports hall and school. By a U.S. missile (PrSM) never before used in combat. NYT sources include: 3 US officials! 1/

New Evidence Further Implicates U.S. Missiles in Strikes That Killed 21 Civilians in Iran

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The Pentagon suggested Iran was responsible. But new evidence further shows tit were U.S. PrSMs (which blast thousands of tungsten pellets outwards) that killed 21 civilians in Lamerd, Iran, including a toddler and several children. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/10/w...

New Evidence Further Implicates U.S. Missiles in Strikes That Killed 21 Civilians in Iran

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