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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 05/02/2026

Bellingcat's Director of Research and Training @giancarlofiorella.bsky.social appeared on CTV yesterday to discuss the misleading AI-generated images that were used to falsely identify ICE agents and weapons at the centre of the two fatal shootings in Minneapolis youtu.be/mL7Fbp3UrSo?...

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AI images spreading confusion about ICE agents in Minneapolis, expert says

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Albert Clownstein @albertclownstein.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

I stole this fair and square only because it was worth it. 😂

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Joe Gray aka JOSINT @c3pjoe.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

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Albert Clownstein @albertclownstein.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

You all are so famous 😂 Inb4 new bellingcaf OSINT method released…. Geolocation analysis from a Russian fighter jet.

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Albert Clownstein @albertclownstein.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

I got gang banged by Nazi loving pussies on X. But I love all nighters and I’m ready for round 2.😁

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Albert Clownstein @albertclownstein.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

How come you can be a felon and be president but you can’t be a felon and vote?

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Albert Clownstein @albertclownstein.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

How could you do a clown so wrong…

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Albert Clownstein @albertclownstein.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

"Yeah," my attorney said, cracking open another beer. "Also, I think the bus is on fire." And it was. But that’s another story.

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Albert Clownstein @albertclownstein.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

It was broken because we forgot how to disagree without hating each other. "Maybe we’re not all the same," I said, watching the horizon blur into darkness. "But that’s what makes it beautiful."

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Albert Clownstein @albertclownstein.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

We hit the road again, feeling like we’d saved the world, or at least a small greasy spoon in the middle of it. As the sun set, painting the sky in a kaleidoscope of colors, I realized my attorney was right: America wasn’t broken because we disagreed.

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Albert Clownstein @albertclownstein.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

The man in the MAGA hat and the Bernie bro even shook hands, though it was clear neither trusted the other entirely. Progress, I thought. Messy, ridiculous progress.

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Albert Clownstein @albertclownstein.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

We need each other, you lunatics!" For some reason—maybe the booze, maybe the absurdity—this actually worked. Someone started clapping, and soon the whole diner was roaring with laughter and applause.

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Albert Clownstein @albertclownstein.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Silence fell again. He held up a bottle of hot sauce like it was the Holy Grail. "This," he said, "is what America is: a glorious, messy mix of flavors. Spicy, sweet, sometimes downright bitter. But if you try to separate the ingredients, it all falls apart.

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Albert Clownstein @albertclownstein.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

It was about to get ugly when my attorney stood on a table and shouted, "EVERYONE SHUT UP!"

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Albert Clownstein @albertclownstein.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

But of course, peace is a fragile thing. It wasn’t long before the arguments started. One man in a MAGA hat and another in a "Feel the Bern" T-shirt got into a heated debate over who was ruining the country faster.

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Albert Clownstein @albertclownstein.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Pancakes started flying out of the kitchen like frisbees at a summer camp. Someone put on Johnny Cash. For a brief, syrupy moment, the divide didn’t matter.

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Albert Clownstein @albertclownstein.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

The place went silent. A burly man in a camo hat looked like he might throw a punch, but then a waitress with a cigarette dangling from her lips muttered, "Hell yeah," and the tension dissolved into chuckles.

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Albert Clownstein @albertclownstein.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

My attorney, already two beers deep by 9:00 a.m., slapped a 20 on the counter and announced, "Pancakes for everyone! Red, blue, or purple, it doesn’t matter. You all bleed maple syrup."

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Albert Clownstein @albertclownstein.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Our first stop was a diner in Middle-of-Nowhere, USA, where the air smelled like bacon grease and existential dread. Inside, it was a patchwork quilt of America: truckers, soccer moms, and teenagers staring at their phones like they were gazing into the abyss.

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Albert Clownstein @albertclownstein.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

but nobody seemed to notice we were all stuck on the same busted bird, flapping like mad and getting nowhere.

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Albert Clownstein @albertclownstein.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

As the landscape blurred by—a strip mall here, a cow pasture there—I couldn’t help but think about the absurdity of it all. Red states, blue states, left wing, right wing...

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Albert Clownstein @albertclownstein.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

He wasn’t wrong. But I didn’t tell him that because my mouth was currently full of half-melted gummy bears, my makeshift breakfast. "Maybe we’re all idiots," I said, spraying gummy shrapnel across the dashboard. "The real enemy isn’t left or right. It’s the goddamn ego."

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Albert Clownstein @albertclownstein.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

"The trouble with this country," he said, swigging a PBR as the bus coughed and sputtered like it might die any second, "isn't that we're divided. It's that everyone thinks they're the only ones who are right."

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Albert Clownstein @albertclownstein.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Beside me sat my attorney, a dubious character with a fondness for Hawaiian shirts and an unshakable conviction that duct tape could fix any problem, including democracy itself.

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Albert Clownstein @albertclownstein.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

The mission? A ludicrous one, really: to bridge the political divide of America with nothing but a trunk full of fireworks, two cases of cheap beer, and a belief that people are more alike than they care to admit.

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Albert Clownstein @albertclownstein.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Fear and Loathing in the Land of the Divided By: Someone Probably Unemployable Tomorrow We were barreling down the Interstate in a decrepit VW bus, its paint peeling like a snake shedding skin, and its engine growling like a bear that had just stubbed its toe on a rock.

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Albert Clownstein @albertclownstein.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Probably because Microsoft owns Call of Duty therefore they are advertising their own product.

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 26/11/2024

There are two Bellingcat workshops coming up! We have a course focused on verification and social media & individual-focused research, taking place on December 10-13, 2024, 9am-1pm EST / 3-7pm CET www.bellingcat.com/workshops/de...

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December 10-13, 2024: Bellingcat Online Workshop (16-hour) [New York: 9am-1pm (EST) / Amsterdam: 3-7 pm CET] - bellingcat

Register here This workshop is a verification course and course in social media & individual-focused research, taking place on December 10-13, 2024, 9am-1pm EST (New York)/ 3-7pm CET (Amsterdam), cove...

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Albert Clownstein @albertclownstein.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Agreed why turn this place into those places. Keep it different, that’s partly why we came here.

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