Marco Dalla Stella

🚨 New investigation just dropped 🚨 For years, tainted Venezuelan gold reached one of the most prestigious Swiss refineries. Clear red flags didn’t prevent more than 70t of gold, valued at $2.2B, to enter the global markets via the front door. 🧵1/5

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13 Sept

I finally got to see Descendents with Social D closure, first time at Brooklyn Paramount. Great venue, great show and great people.

13 Sept

Descendents incredibly tight, almost no intermissions, great set. I was hoping in Statue of Liberty given the location but nope. Much more pit and stagediving than I expected. ‘Merican sent people wild

13 Sept

SxDx better than what I feared due to Mike’s voice. He was visibly enjoying it, he likes the new songs and for good reasons. Weird to hear Ring of Fire so early (2nd song) but Don’t Drag Me Down is an amazing closure. The Way Things Were after Creeps+Mommy’s Little Monster was chef’s kiss.

10 Sept

Ogni tanto arriva una mail che ti cambia la giornata (in positivo)

ABC News Bot (unofficial)

3 Sept

In quasi due anni di monitoraggio sovraffollamento carceri, è la prima volta che vedo un aumento così regolare e verticale. +2% solo nell'ultimo mese. E un +10% in due anni (due anni fa la situazione era già considerata "emergenza"). Fonte: www.sovraffollamentocarcerario.it

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@abcnewsbot.bsky.social

12 Aug

Italian teenager Sara Curtis has set a new world record in the women's 50m backstroke, beating the mark previously held by Australian great Kaylee McKeown.

abc.net.auTeenager breaks Kaylee McKeown's backstroke world recordItalian teenager Sara Curtis has set a new world record in the women's 50m backstroke, beating the mark previously held by Australian great Kaylee McKeown.

youtube.comPaquita la del Barrio - Rata De Dos Patas (En Vivo)YouTube video by Discos Musart

28 July

every single time I get upset with someone, this song comes to my rescue. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vuyv...

11 July

Living within walking distance of a public pool in NYC is one of the great perks of my neighborhood. Unfortunately since I moved here (2021), lifeguard shortages made lap swimming tricky. Glad to see things are finally back to normal.

11 July

Swam 1.2 km yesterday, then another 1.2 km today. It felt awful. Goal is to get to 3.5 km in an hour and survive a 100m butterfly by the end of the summer.

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17 June

Ayer entregaron a @lamarea.com el Galardón Nacional de los premios de Periodismo de Investigación de @elconfidencial.bsky.social por el reportaje sobre Gestlife y las agencias de gestación subrogadas de @marcodallastella.com, @magdabandera.bsky.social y @patriciasimon.bsky.social #periodismo

15 June

Social Distortion’s new album, Born to Kill, sounds like it was made by a band in their 40s, not their 60s (except maybe one song). The title track is a banger, and there are two or three other hidden gems. Looking forward to seeing them with the Descendents in Brooklyn this September.

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lamarea.com'La Marea' recibe el primer Premio Nacional de Periodismo de Investigación de 'El Confidencial' por sus reportajes sobre la gestación subrogada | lamarea.comLa investigación de ‘La Marea’ sobre la agencia de gestación subrogada Gestlife, de Marco Dalla Stella, Patricia Simón y Magda Bandera, ha sido destacada por su rigurosidad e “interés público”. El medio mexicano Aristegui Noticias ha recibido el Premio Internacional por su reportaje ‘Televisa Leaks'. El galardón a la Trayectoria Profesional es para Dean P. Baquet, premio Pulitzer que ha dirigido Los Angeles Times y The New York Times, entre otros.

13 June

La investigación de ‘La Marea’ sobre la agencia de gestación subrogada Gestlife, de Marco Dalla Stella, Patricia Simón y Magda Bandera, ha sido destacada por su rigurosidad e “interés público”.

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El Confidencial

@elconfidencial.bsky.social

dozz.esDean Baquet, Aristegui Noticias y La Marea, ganadores de los Premios El Confidencial de Periodismo de InvestigaciónLos galardones se entregarán el 16 de junio, en una gala con motivo del 25.º aniversario de El Confidencial y presidida por SS. MM. los Reyes

Los galardones se entregarán el 16 de junio, en una gala con motivo del 25.º aniversario de El Confidencial y presidida por SS. MM. los Reyes dozz.es/vb3pp2

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lamarea.com'La Marea' recibe el primer Premio Nacional de Periodismo de Investigación de 'El Confidencial' por sus reportajes sobre la gestación subrogada | lamarea.comLa investigación de ‘La Marea’ sobre la agencia de gestación subrogada Gestlife, de Marco Dalla Stella, Patricia Simón y Magda Bandera, ha sido destacada por su rigurosidad e “interés público”. El medio mexicano Aristegui Noticias ha recibido el Premio Internacional por su reportaje ‘Televisa Leaks. El galardón a la Trayectoria Profesional es para Dean P. Baquet, premio Pulitzer que ha dirigido Los Angeles Times y The New York Times, entre otros.

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La investigación sobre la agencia de gestación subrogada Gestlife, de @marcodallastella.com, @patriciasimon.bsky.social y @magdabandera.bsky.social, ha sido destacada por su rigurosidad e “interés público”.

Never been into basketball. As a European, football (soccer) was my thing. This changes tonight. #Knicks

Like… I’ve seen some really amazing, surprising, emotionally charged and unpredictable soccer matches. But this is another level.

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Donncha Ó Cearbhaill

@donncha.is

7 May

In January, a phishing message arrived on my Signal account, supposedly from "Signal Support." I was able to turned the tables on the attackers and get a unique view of the wide-scale campaign by the attacker's targeting journalists and politicians I was target #13,730 in their database.

6 May

"Whisper Large v3 The latest version of Open AI's largest model. It can be more accurate, but is also more prone to generate repetitions." MORE PRONE?!

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Bill Grueskin

@bgrueskin.bsky.social

5 May

What kind of country just blows vessels out of the water, without any sort of due process for the people in those boats? I don't know if people appreciate how outrageous that is.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Marco Rubio: "Right now you have a country who is unlawfully, criminally, and illegally taking possession of an International waterway and blowing up commercial vessels. I don't know if people appreciate how outrageous this is."

nytimes.comU.S. Mint Buys Drug Cartel Gold and Sells It as ‘American’

🔎 1/ A new investigation by @nytimes.com reveals that for years the U.S. Mint has been buying gold linked to Colombian criminal organizations. It shows how easily “tainted” gold can enter global supply chains through official channels. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/26/w...

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6/ What stood out most in this work wasn’t only the scale (a multi-billion dollar market tied to environmental destruction, human rights abuses, and criminal finance), but how normalized and under-scrutinized these mechanisms are.

7/ So the question becomes: is the system failing to control tainted gold, or is it working exactly as designed, by making “clean” and “dirty” gold indistinguishable in practice?

nytimes.comU.S. Mint Buys Drug Cartel Gold and Sells It as ‘American’

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4/ Once gold is certified as “legal” on paper, the entire downstream chain treats it as compliant. Very few actors question it further. Plausible deniability is built into the system as everyone can point to documents, certifications, or standards.

5/ Borders add another layer of opacity. By the time gold reaches market, its origin are effectively rewritten. To the buyers' eyes, the precious metal is “made in the U.S.” or “made in Switzerland.”

nytimes.comU.S. Mint Buys Drug Cartel Gold and Sells It as ‘American’

2/ These findings closely align what we uncovered (and others revealed before us) in an investigation I worked on for @irpimedia.eu and @occrp.org . Leaked documents showed how tainted Venezuelan gold passed through controls at one of Europe’s most prestigious refineries.

3/ What emerges is not just a set of isolated loopholes, but a decades-long systemic failure: • Controls rely heavily on paperwork that can be forged or recycled • Traces of illegal mining (like mercury) can be removed • Gold is quickly relabeled and “cleaned” through a few transactions

24 Apr

I’m noticing more people, esp Gen Z, using analog devices like film cameras and Walkmans. It’s still rare, but definitely more common than it was three years ago. Is it just me?

7 Apr

quite an ad #nutella #artemis #moon

medium.comAcoustic Adventures #1 and #2 writeupThis is a writeup of the first two of five Acoustic Adventures osint challenges https://challenge.bellingcat.com/

6 Apr

Baby gifted me with a longer-than-usual nap and I could tackle a couple of challenges from the latest @bellingcat.com OSINT challenge, this time focused on audio. Gave the third one a try too, but that seems harder than I thought. #Osint #osintchallenge medium.com/@md3934/acou...

6 Apr

“It’s a country with no gold of its own—yet until recently, Switzerland refined nearly 70% of the world’s gold. That share may have dropped to around 50%, but it remains the global hub for gold refining. That alone raises serious questions.”

occrp.orgFive Questions on the Gold TradeMark Pieth, a Swiss lawyer and professor of criminal law, discusses the issues raised by a recent OCCRP investigation into how weak industry regulations may have allowed gold from conflict areas in Ve...

6 Apr

In this interview released to @occrp.org, Mark Pieth, one of the leading experts on illicit gold flows, answers five questions about an investigation I spent nearly a year on. It traces a multibillion-dollar opaque gold trade #Venezuela, #Curaçao, and #Switzerland. www.occrp.org/en/feature/f...

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Missing The Point

@missingthept.bsky.social

5 Apr

Artemis II crew returning to Earth.

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Ewald Scharfenberg

@ewaldsvi.bsky.social

22 Feb

A Swiss gold refinery, which serves as a supplier to tech giants such as Apple, Tesla, and Nvidia, received shipments of Venezuelan blood gold from Curaçao for years and processed them. armando.info/el-oro-de-gu...

armando.infoEl oro de Guayana llegó incluso a Silicon Valley con sello suizoUn esquema comercial utilizó documentación engañosa para mover unas 90 toneladas de oro venezolano, valoradas en 3.000 millones de dólares, contribuyendo a perpetuar la catástrofe ambiental y de derec...

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unrayocruel.bsky.social

@unrayocruel.bsky.social

28 Feb

🛑 Orígenes dudosos del oro: Aunque Curazao no tiene minas, grandes cantidades de oro llegaban allí desde Venezuela, donde guerrillas y organizaciones criminales controlaban la minería.

lamarea.comLa ruta de la 'chatarra' venezolana: oro que se vende por toda Europa | lamarea.comUna isla sin minas exportó miles de millones en oro venezolano a una de las mayores refinerías del mundo. Una nueva investigación revela cómo funcionaba la operación.

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Ruslan Trad

@ruslantrad.bsky.social

occrp.orgConflict-Tainted Venezuelan Gold Entered World Market Through Caribbean Island, Documents IndicateThe Caribbean island of Curaçao has no natural gold deposits. So why did dozens of tons of gold refined at a prestigious Swiss refinery come from the island? The evidence points to their origin in con...

The Caribbean island of Curaçao has no natural gold deposits, but tons of gold refined at a prestigious Swiss refinery come from the island. Their origin is traced to conflict areas in Venezuela. www.occrp.org/en/investiga...

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Journalismfund Europe

@journalismfund.bsky.social

24 Feb

🔎 New investigation by @irpimedia.eu, Armando.Info and @occrp.org reveals that more than 70 tonnes of gold sourced largely from Venezuela’s Amazon were routed through Curaçao and refined in Europe before entering the global supply chains of companies such as Apple, Tesla and Nvidia. t.ly/xF-Bb

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Gold was moved under the label of “gold scrap”, hence differentiating it from the highly problematic Venezuelan mining sector. The refinery said its own laboratory tests confirmed this. But a sample of data we independently obtained seems to contradict this claim 🧵4/5

👇👇👇 The full story 👇👇👇 www.occrp.org/en/investiga...

Leaked documents show how the gold was moved by a broker in Curacao, who received it from Venezuela and shipped it to Europe. When it reached Swiss customs, the Country of Origin was the Caribbean island, despite the absence of mines or enough pawn shops to justify those volumes. 🧵2/5

The gold was sourced in Venezuela, where the suppliers would use it to switch bolivares into dollars. Among them, an individual currently on trial in Brazil for trafficking Venezuelan gold and another who admitted of running an illegal currency exchange scheme through gold. 🧵3/5

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Daniel Laufer

@daniellaufer.de

Argor-Heraeus hat @occrp.org, @irpimedia.eu & Armandoinfo zufolge Gold aus Venezuela im Wert von über 2 Mrd. $ raffiniert. Laut der Schweizer Raffinerie handelte es sich um „scrap“, Experten sehen auch Hinweise auf Minengold. Starke Recherche von @marcodallastella.com www.occrp.org/en/investiga...

f.mtr.coolLa engañosa etiqueta del oro "reciclado" - Climática, el medio especializado en clima y biodiversidadAdemás de entrañar riesgos de 'greenwashing', esta es una de las estrategias utilizadas para introducir oro ilícito en las cadenas de suministro globales.

3 Mar

Headed to Lima to share some recent work, meet brilliant people, soak up a bit of summer, and eat an unreasonable amount of ceviche. ❤️🇵🇪

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Climática

@climatica.coop

26 Feb

El oro es un material con propiedades únicas. Y eso, precisamente, lo convierte en el material ideal para sustentar actividades ilícitas. No te pierdas este reportaje:

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@magdabandera.bsky.social

26 Feb

Una investigación revela cómo Curazao, una isla sin minas, exportó miles de millones en oro venezolano a una de las mayores refinerías del mundo. Este corredor permitió introducir en el mercado global más de 2.000 millones de dólares en oro. Por @marcodallastella.com www.lamarea.com/2026/02/26/l...

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Magda Bandera

26 Feb

Impresionante esta investigación de @marcodallastella.com sobre el proceso por el cual una isla sin minas como Curazao es el punto clave para introducir oro en toda Europa.

La Marea@lamarea.com

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IrpiMedia

@irpimedia.eu

19 Feb

L'inchiesta fa luce sui meccanismi di una filiera che, tra il 2012 e il 2018, ha fatto arrivare oltre 90 tonnellate di oro venezuelano a raffinerie in Italia, Turchia e, soprattutto, Svizzera. 🧵

irpimedia.irpi.euOro sporco. Come decine di tonnellate di oro venezuelano sono arrivate in EuropaL’inchiesta svela un commercio da oltre due miliardi di dollari in oro transitato attraverso i Caraibi, raffinato in Svizzera e Italia e immesso nelle filiere globali della tecnologia e dell’oreficeri...