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But our reporting suggests the balloon might have lost the ability to change direction somewhere in North America, where Synthetaic’s software found it in Planet satellite images in Canada, South Dakota, Missouri and South Carolina and Copernicus EU Sentinel-2 images in MT & SD

Parallax allows us to calculate the balloon's height too. Drawing lines connecting the satellite, the balloon and the ground and overlaying those lines creates “similar triangles” between the lines, which allows us to create an equation for the value of the balloon's height.

Audio recordings obtained by the NYT appear to capture Russian military efforts to retrieve debris of the U.S. drone downed in the Black Sea last week. nyti.ms/3JYuWxX with robinnyc Aleksandra Koroleva

Such a powerful six minutes. youtube.com/watch?v=PRIJuN…

“Maybe we should have had better opsec”

We've identified the leader of the Discord group where top secret U.S. documents were leaked — it's a 21-year-old member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, specifically its intelligence wing. Gift link, no paywall: nytimes.com/2023/04/13/wor…

Open-source evidence and shoe-leather reporting points to the Pentagon documents leaker: an airman in the Massachusetts Air National Guard. With Malachy Browne Christiaan Triebert Aric Toler Haley Willis Julian E. Barnes Michael Schwirtz Thomas Gibbons-Neff +more nytimes.com/live/2023/04/1…

Jack Teixeira, accused of leaking classified documents, was fixated on weapons, mass shootings and shadowy conspiracy theories, our review of his chat history shows. By Aric Toler robinnyc Glenn Thrush Riley Mellen Ishaan Jhaveri John Ismay nytimes.com/2023/05/06/us/…

This attempt to characterize the blustering, contradictory person behind the leaks was a crash-course for us on how to join, archive, organize, and glean info from Discord servers— their content as well as their members. A valuable new OSINT skill 👇 nytimes.com/2023/05/06/us/…

Poorly Aged Things

The Sunday, May 21, 2023, edition of the Uvalde Leader-News contains a special 56-page color magazine memorializing the 19 students and two teachers who died on May 24, 2022, as a result of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary. The newspaper will be in stores this afternoon.

Check out the theatrics unleashed by sanctions on Russian oil, all in plain sight. ( except to the U.S. insurer evidently)

via @NYTimes My good friend David Dunlap tells the origin story of our proud Sports section, which will unceremoniously disappear soon. ⁦NYT Sports⁩ nytimes.com/2023/07/22/pag…

“We remain haunted by the uncertainty of which day our lives may be extinguished.” Visual evidence, data and interviews with residents in Myanmar show how the military’s brutality against civilians is escalating. nyti.ms/478Aa3z

"They told us to go south. We went south. We still haven't found any safety." Our visual investigation found Israel routinely used one of its largest bombs in areas it ordered Gaza’s civilians to move for safety. nytimes.com/video/world/10…

New Visual Investigations analysis of the aid convoy killings, alongside Haley Willis, robinnyc, and Ainara Tiefenthäler. nytimes.com/video/world/mi…

Visual evidence and internal communications show that before the strike on World Central Kitchen, multiple aid operations and local staff shelters in Gaza had come under Israeli fire — even after the I.D.F. was notified of the locations and logged them as humanitarian sites.

Honored to have had a small role in this investigation that shared in the #pulitzerprizes2024. Thanks to robinnyc for the hours of detailed questions, and Haley Willis & Ishaan Jhaveri for putting up with my ramblings. I pray for peace and the safe return of all hostages.

In recent months, one of Haiti's most powerful gangs — 5 Segonn — promoted itself with brash rap videos. Recently, however, the gang has obtained better weapons and is presenting itself as a paramilitary force. Our visual investigation takes a deep dive: nyti.ms/4bPiJXx

And thanks to the Google Street View car for driving by exactly at the right time. It hadn't been by since 2013 before this image.