Jake Godin

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

Yesterday, after weeks of escalating crackdowns, Egypt’s govt shut down Mada Masr, one of the country’s leading independent outlets, & convicted its editor-in-chief, Lina Attalah. They must reverse this decision & stop their assault on press freedoms. Journalism is not a crime.

real Wohl/Burkman vibes here

Day 26 #NoAInktober: Gripsack 🧳 Oleg the Ooze gone fishin’ @godin.bsky.social #art #inktober #dndart #dndcharacter #plasmoid

We get similar emails at Bellingcat, usually from peolle who have been scammed and have asked ChatGPT for help.

In about 24 hours, poles will open here in Israel. In what is a strong contender for Israel’s most critical elections. The election pits Netanyahu’s extremely unpopular coalition against a non-coherent, but moderately more liberal, opposition. Here are some thoughts as we head into it.

We’ll see what transpires but one thing important to note: in Belgrade, in front of the electoral commission, and around parliament, broadcaster RTS and other places nearby in the centre, a significant police presence has been put in place - along with a suspiciously large number of masked hooligans

Incredible if predictable betrayal of public trust: you have industry lobbyists become appointees, exploit unitary executive theory to undermine environmental laws and ride roughshod over staff.

It seems that the European Union's restriction on up-to-date Copernicus Sentinel-2 imagery has expanded to include Gaza and the Red Sea. This may have happened a while ago — the EC's corrigendum on 2026/1716 removes transparency from Copernicus censorship. Does anyone have more info/observations?

BREAKING: At least 7 killed in Jordan church shooting. Follow updates here www.al-monitor.com/originals/20...

Casey Miller & Scott Reinhard: From Open Source to Newsroom: Integrating a New Mapping System at Reuters scottreinhardmaps.com/blogs/custom... #NACIS2026

The area cleared of trees seen from space 😤 Muhos, 🇫🇮 Finland 📸🛰 Sentinel-2 link.dataspace.copernicus.eu/eun3

Writing a Big Article about the Israeli-American war on Iran and at this point it seems a Round 3 of some kind is inevitable. But I just really have to question how this could be anything beyond a few days of aura farming strikes that kill a bunch of people for no reason, then back to square one.

In August, Trump announced the “BIGGEST OIL DEAL IN WORLD HISTORY!” But is it? The text of the accord — which grants the U.S. sweeping access to Venezuela’s oil reserves — has been one of DC’s most sought-after secrets. ProPublica got to see a copy. 🧵

the routine, pay for play pardons are all by themselves one of the worst corruption scandals in american history!

nevertheless we can geolocate that ammo depot explosion to this PMU compound in northern Baghdad google.com/maps?ll=33.4...

same issue, different context: from changing/removing a watermark and inserting some flying projectiles to removing half a building and growing palm trees, subtle AI manipulations are eroding trust in user generated content and verifying becomes increasingly tedious

Day 18 #NoAInktober: Map 🗺️ A map of our travels through the Dark Forest, as recorded in Brother Olam’s notes and illustrated by Brother Bones. @godin.bsky.social #art #inktober #ttrpg #dndmap #dndart

The Trump admin claims it found 20,000 possible noncitizens on the voting rolls in California and is seeking a court order forcing the state to segregate every ballot sent to those individuals. Remember what happened the last time they made wild claims like this? DHS has ZERO credibility here.

New satellite imagery reveals the full extent of tree felling on a Washington DC golf course long eyed for development by President Trump. 430 trees were reportedly cut with little notice over the weekend, undermining attempts to protect the site. www.bellingcat.com/news/us-cana...

Comcast NBCUniversal, the parent company of NBC News, gave Trump $7.5 million for his ballroom project. Amazon, whose founder Jeff Bezos also owns the Washington Post, donated $5 million. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

In the absence of embedded reporters, unit-level releases about award ceremonies like this one are where we’re going to get detail about what US soldiers actually went through under Iranian missile attacks this year. Curious whether DOD will crack down on them. www.dvidshub.net/news/576728/...

Days 9 & 10 #NoAInktober: Tattoo & Ornament Trying to catch up after a few days away! A tattoo design for a pilgrimage to the holy city of Tyvantium, where the great Sphere hangs in the sky, and a haunted music box for @godin.bsky.social’s character Olam.

The first Russian diesel cargo heading for the US left St Petersburg on September 22, two weeks *before* Trump announced the deal with Putin, Windward reports. The Greek-flagged tanker Minerva Zen carrying 275,000 barrels of diesel/gasoil is due at the US East Coast around 11–12 October.

…, a Greek tanker was loading sanctioned Russian diesel in St Petersburg’s Peterburgskiy Neftyanoy Terminal. It sailed for the US on September 23rd and will arrive to the East Coast in one week, likely the Port of Wilmington

Trump has been hiding his Russian diesel deal for over a month: the deal was announced yesterday, but it was likely agreed when Witkoff and Kushner visited the Kremlin on 5th September. While Trump was signing the Lindsey Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026 on 18th September,…

“Israel is removing essentially every structure its troops encounter, military officials said. During a recent visit, The Wall Street Journal didn’t see any buildings remaining on the Israeli side of the line.” www.wsj.com/world/middle...

The D.C. Board of Elections says it’s asking the National Guard to avoid standing near D.C.’s ballot drop boxes, which opened today, in the wake of video footage showing them near a box in Foggy Bottom this week: www.washingtonsun.com/metro/nation...

JOINT STATEMENT OF THE FOREIGN MINISTERS OF CANADA, DENMARK, GERMANY, FRANCE, ITALY, JAPAN, THE NETHERLANDS, UNITED KINGDOM "As committed supporters of the ICC we regret and strongly disagree with the announcement of sanctions to be imposed upon the Court by the United States."

Hard to overstate how much Hegseth's execution stream mirrors the U.S. military's traditional description of ISIS propaganda: broadcast killings designed to send a message, strike fear and create a social media spectacle. Will almost certainly be repurposed by online terror cells

'US imposes sanctions on ICC hours after former judge wins Nobel Peace Prize' US is no longer sanctioning individual judges and prosecutors, but the Court itself. Bans transactions with the court "cutting off their resources and crippling its ability to operate". www.reuters.com/world/us-imp...

Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating.

ICE appears to be using the parking lot of the Roxbury warehouse for processing and brief detention, and at least once appears to have taken people inside. But also, read this inside look from a federal contractor about how everyone knew the warehouse plan was insane but Miller demanded inhumanity.

Update on US-Ecuadorian maritime ops: "An Ecuadorian judge declared 32 crew members of two vessels that were intercepted and bombed by the United States in Pacific waters innocent on Wednesday." efe.com/mundo/declar...

An example of FIMI (Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference) in action at the @disinfo.eu conference? Apparently someone in the U.S. did not agree with the topic of a session named "USA as a FIMI threat: acknowledge, adapt, push back" and applied pressure on the sponsors...

Lithuania, Canada, and EEAS pulled out of #Disinfo2026 at such short notice they didn't have time to redo the signage.

A year ago, @propublica.org told you immigration agents had detained more than 170 U.S. citizens. We’ve updated our count, and we’ve got all the receipts. The tally: At least 506 citizens detained. Sometimes held at gunpoint, handcuffed, or even deported. projects.propublica.org/american-cit...

I LOVE how @propublica.org dealt with official comment here, editorially and stylistically.

Latest: Two charities associated with the world’s largest far-right Hindu group have raised more than US$24.4 million over a five-year period through US grants that allow the donor to be anonymous, Bellingcat can reveal: www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/10...

Egyptian authorities have still not released any information about the fate of the six arrested @matsda2sh journalists, raising concerns that they have been disappeared. Authorities should immediately disclose their whereabouts and grant access to lawyers www.hrw.org/news/2026/10...

We're pleased to announce that Bellingcat won three awards at the Online Journalism Awards. Congratulations to all of the winners and nominees listed here: awards.journalists.org/2026/10/02/c...

Viral reports this week suggested new Google satellite imagery showed unseen destruction in Gaza. But the imagery actually depicts the scene in February 2026. Bellingcat has obtained satellite images from September that show how the destruction has continued. www.bellingcat.com/news/middle-...