MSNBC is reporting that the backpack that the Midtown shooter ditched in Central Park was full of Monopoly money (Or, to be conservative, it is a backpack "resembling" that of the shooter. But it wasn't some random cheap Jansport backpack, it was a bit specialized)

A new DoJ indictment alleges that RT employees "covertly fund[ed] and direct[ed]" a US company with $10m in order to push pro-Russia content. The company is based in Tennessee.

There is one media company based in Tennessee with the same phrase listed in the indictment...





Indictment: justice.gov/d9/2024-09/u.s…

A bit of a wild story yesterday out of Belgorod.

The RDK claimed to have killed a pretty senior Russian officer during their operation in Belgorod (Novaya Tavolzhanka), and shared his ID card. His name is Andrei Stesyev.

t.me/russvolcorps/5… Soon after, the Svoboda Rossii Legion (Freedom to Russia) shared additional pages of his ID documents, along with a couple of drone shots showing a body lying in the grass, claiming it was Stesyev.

(Join together the t dot me for the link)

https://t [.] me/legionoffreedom/863

The tweets are pretty specific, saying that the explosion happened at 2:35am. However, nothing from local channels yet.
t.me/romanov_92/388…

https://twitter.com/yarotrof/status/1665896783007055872

This was two hours ago, so the fact that it's news isolated to just some RU milbloggers makes it a bit tough to believe

Was trying to figure out why the Polish Volunteer Corps pixelated out part of this BTR in a video recently published. Then I realized: oooh yeah of course.

(See next tweet for pixelation reveal)

🚨 Geraldo Rivera's boot has been found in the Baltic Sea 🚨

https://twitter.com/TheGrayzoneNews/status/1665618556216659968

But really, the Grayzone doing an underwater expedition in the Baltic Sea and touting the discovery of an old boot as breathtaking truthtelling journalism feels like a fever dream.

An apparent RDK fighter (or proxy/friend?) is selling two 'souvenirs' he got in Belgorod oblast this week. He's also selling some other choice items.
Auctions go back quite a few years, and include a Russian "trophy" knife he claims to have taken in Peski (Donetsk oblast) in 2015 The same KKK patch being sold by this user was worn by Aleksandr Skachkov in Belgorod, an RDK fighter. He was previously arrested by the SBU for selling translated copies of the Christchurch shooter's manifesto.

https://twitter.com/EliotHiggins/status/1660980457993822209

Checking out some new 50cm imagery on Planet of Belgorod now. This was likely caused one way or the other from the mini-invasion, located at 50.457124, 35.609863 (google.com/maps/place/50%…) Nothing I can notice at the city administration building of Grayvoron, which was allegedly hit by a shell dropped by a Ukrainian drone.
google.com/maps/@50.48522…

lol someone already made the Wikipedia update More from Baza: reports of a Russian Mi-8 helicopter crash near Prokhorovka (a ways north of Belgorod and the border, nowhere near the incursion)
t.me/bazabazon/17851

New court documents in the Teixeira case just dropped (courtlistener.com/docket/6718949…). Some interesting bits in here for sure. I wanted to do screenshots to highlight parts of this document, but basically the entire PDF is worth a screenshot highlight.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

Is this a typical thing for Twitter to do? It's "sensitive" content in that it shows that a mass shooter had two Nazi tattoos? (I honestly don't know, maybe this is how it's always been, I've only seen the sensitive warning on things like violent videos/photos)

I've been playing around with this tool for a couple of months, and it's insanely cool once you get the hang of it. It lets you leverage OSM's data for geolocation, but without having to learn how to use Overpass-Turbo.

bellingcat.com/resources/how-… The tool lets you search for intersecting features within a certain radius of @openstreetmap's data. You can use this for geolocation.

For example: show me all parks in NYC within a 50m radius of a one-way street with a 25mph speed limit, Catholic church, and Italian restaurant.

Wrote up a summary on @bellingcat that shows how the recently-unearthed Odnoklassniki account of the Allen, TX mall shooter is definitely, absolutely, certainly his.
bellingcat.com/news/2023/05/0… Also: lol

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1655977617583898637

Took a while, but I found the Odnoklassniki profile of the Allen. TX shooter described in this NYT article:
ok.ru/profile/574887… His YouTube account: youtube.com/@dustyshacklef…

Government motion for pretrial detention of Jack Teixeira was just posted: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco… Why would he smash his Xbox?

Since 2014, our YouTube channel has basically been a giant repository for us to dump videos that we embed into articles. Our new social media manager is cleaning it up and making it actually presentable, and maybe even worth following. There's some neat stuff in there!

https://twitter.com/bellingcat/status/1651268625054015488

If you've see the Navalny documentary, you have to watch the full, 49-minute (!!!!) call between Navalny and one of his poisoners, Konstantin Kudryavtsev. The movie only shows ~2min of the call.

So, I think I figured out how these edited casualty counts came about.

The first public mention of them was through the pro-Russia Donbass Devushka Telegram channel. How did the channel get her?

A pro-Ukraine troll group on Telegram made them as a joke, and sent on to her.

https://twitter.com/AricToler/status/1644139100407054336

Donbass Devushka posted the documents on April 5th at 1:29pm (US/Central) and shortly after.

In the Devushka group chat, you can see someone say they have leaked documents about half an hour before then.

We found posts on a public Discord server from Jack Teixeira going back to February 25, 2022 - the day after Russia's full invasion of Ukraine - with information from classified intelligence reports.
nytimes.com/2023/04/21/us/… Everyone had a good sense of humor about it. Unknowing is Jack's Discord handle.

That's right

My first byline with the NYT, detailing some of the new Discord/Pentagon leaks.

nytimes.com/2023/04/13/wor… (Freelance, Bellingcat can't get rid of me that easily)

(Also, everyone adding their watermarks to public Discord screenshots is a chump) This isn't the original-original source. The guy who posted them on this Minecraft server got them from some other Discord server (I don't know which one)