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Sarah Stoecklin

@sarahstoecklin.bsky.social
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Technical writing, UX, open source research (DR Congo, misogyny, SGBV). Extremely Online at discord.gg/bellingcat CongoEye member, Bellingcat contributor. Reds and Tolkien fan. Views my own.

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Ohio Capital Journal @ohiocapitaljournal.com · 16/09/2026
Anxiety among Haitians in Ohio has been growing as the federal government has started flying people who lost protected status back to the troubled Caribbean country ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/09/15/a...
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As Ohio Haitians worry, violence in their home country spreads • Ohio Capital Journal
As former Haitian holders of protected status face deportation to Haiti, violence there is spreading, an international aid group said.
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Ohio Capital Journal @ohiocapitaljournal.com · 15/09/2026
Ohio U.S. Sen Jon Husted served as a member of the board of directors for a bank that donated $500,000 to Husted's political committee, Jon Husted for Ohio, after he joined, according to campaign disclosures ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/09/14/h...
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Husted political committee got nearly $500K from a bank he worked for while in office • Ohio Capital Journal
Then-Lt. Gov. Jon Husted said he was joining a bank's board for the experience, not money. It gave his political committee nearly $500,000.
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Ifeanyi Uddin @ifeanyiuddin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"Repression in Mr Museveni’s Uganda is nothing new. But there is a widespread sense that the regime is degenerating into something darker and more despotic." — @economist.com
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What will happen to Uganda when Yoweri Museveni goes?
Nothing good, if recent months are anything to go by
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Today's newsletter: -Texas has delayed its maternal mortality report until after the midterms -Ectopic pregnancy deaths have nearly doubled -Conservatives want abortion on the 2028 ballot in Massachusetts -A Louisiana business gives little girls pretend ultrasounds before they "adopt" dolls 🙃
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Report: Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Doubled
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Sarah Stoecklin @sarahstoecklin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Look at what my friend did!
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Sarah Stoecklin @sarahstoecklin.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Is this where the Capitalization in the Tweets is coming From?
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Alex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
America The Titanic 🤝 Iceberg effed them up
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Kolina Koltai @koltai.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
New publication from me! 🎉 Please check out my latest investigation where we identify (no surprise) a crypto guy to a popular 'leaked' nudes website. Users could even get paid out for sharing leaked/hacked nudes from women. Within 48 hrs of reaching out to him, the site went offline. Impact! 🙌
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Ohio Capital Journal @ohiocapitaljournal.com · 10/07/2026
Ohio is the state that saw the biggest drop in enrollment in health plans under the Affordable Care Act after the Republican-controlled Congress last year allowed pandemic-era subsidies to buy insurance on ACA exchanges to expire ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/07/09/o...
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Ohio saw the largest drop in enrollment after Trump/Republican Affordable Care Act cuts • Ohio Capital Journal
After subsidies to buy care on ACA exchanges expired last year, Ohio the biggest drop in participation. That's likely to mean more uninsured.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Abuse of women has long been the canary in the coal mine—a bright red waving flag, warning of broader offenses yet to come. Ignoring it has always come with a cost open.substack.com/pub/jessica/...
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The Platner Pattern
Are we really doing this again?
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
"she asked for it"
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Kolina Koltai @koltai.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Grok is the biggest AI deepfake porn and CSAM creator in the world. This is not an isolated incident. I've have people message me about their UA daughters being victims with Grok being the technology behind the abuse. At what point will Musk be held accountable?
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Mónica C. Camacho @mc2x.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
One of the most damning things about this debacle has been some ppl’s thirst for a redemption arc whether or not it’s deserved. Many of his supporters seemed to celebrate every hideous thing he said/did like it’s the sin that leads to confession, literal or metaphorical collateral damage be damned
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Carlos Gonzales @mabl2k.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Beyond counting deaths, the management of human remains becomes a crucial humanitarian and forensic challenge — one that determines whether families can eventually find answers and closure. @bellingcat.com www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/07...
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Between Graves and Uncertainty: The Management of the Dead After Venezuela's Earthquake - bellingcat
Videos, pictures and satellite imagery show the challenges facing Venezuela as it tries to get to grips with huge fatality numbers in the wake of last month's earthquakes.
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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 04/07/2026
new metaphor just dropped
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Sarah Stoecklin @sarahstoecklin.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Love to see local open-source research.
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Tomi McCluskey @tomi-mcc.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
The cost to seafarers caught in conflict is too often overlooked. I am proud to have contributed to Airwars' work documenting the impact of the US-Iran-Israel conflict on civilian mariners. The maritime space is just one aspect of a conflict where civilian harm spanned the region.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
all the laid off coders mixing with perpetually laid off journalists might, one day, lead to the launch of a publication whose CMS doesn't suck shit to use
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Sarah Stoecklin @sarahstoecklin.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Especially relevant to Ohioans.
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Sarah Stoecklin @sarahstoecklin.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
If you give a hobby baker a package of black cocoa for Christmas, they might turn up with a mocha cheesecake in the summer. Recipe in comments 🤗
A rectangular cheesecake with alternating layers of homemade Oreo wafer crust, chocolate cheesecake, and coffee cheesecake. 12 layers total.
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Kolina Koltai @koltai.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Clothoff, the infamous AI nudification site, has been given a 14-day deadline to stop children from accessing the site. If they don't, they risk almost $50 million in fines and being delisted from Google. It's not clear to me if this would be delisted from everywhere or just Australia.
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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
This is such a moving piece. If your interested in #Ebola — the damage it causes, the trauma families and communities and responders face during and after an outbreak — please read it. www.statnews.com/2026/05/20/e...
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I saw Ebola as both doctor and patient. I wish people cared more about the Africans I worked alongside
“As another Ebola outbreak unfolds, we cannot repeat the mistakes of the past,” writes Krutika Kuppalli.
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 12/05/2026
Since the beginning of 2026, at least four landslides have reportedly killed hundreds of people at the Rubaya mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a major global source of coltan. www.bellingcat.com/news/africa/...
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DRC’s Coltan Belt: Verifying Deadly Landslides At Mines Under M23 Control - bellingcat
Hundreds reportedly died in landslides at DRC’s Rubaya coltan mines. What can open sources verify?
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Sarah Stoecklin @sarahstoecklin.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
2026: 2.25
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Giancarlo Fiorella @giancarlofiorella.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
CNN has independently conducted an analysis into the new Minab IRGC base video. CNN concludes, as @bellingcat.com did, that the video shows a US Tomahawk missile impacting the vicinity of an elementary school where 160 children were killed on February 28. www.cnn.com/world/live-n...
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New video appears to confirm US airstrike on IRGC base adjacent to Minab school
Iran has named Mojtaba Khamenei the country’s new supreme leader following the killing of his father Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, state media reports. Follow for live updates.
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Merel Zoet @merelzoet.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 08/03/2026
The footage appears to contradict President Donald Trump’s claim it was an Iranian missile that hit the school on Feb. 28. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
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Trump Blames Iran for Deadly Strike on Girls’ School
President Trump on Saturday blamed Iran for the bombing of a girls’ school in southern Iran, which Iranian officials say killed more than 160 people. “My opinion, based on what I’ve seen—that was done...
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Tomi McCluskey @tomi-mcc.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
🚨 2 March: The ITF & Joint Negotiating Group designate the Strait of Hormuz and surrounding waters as a High Risk Area, activating enhanced protections for IBF-covered seafarers. www.itfglobal.org/en/news/join... 🧵 1 of 2
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 02/03/2026
The United States said Monday it was imposing sanctions on Rwanda's military, taking action against a longtime partner which it accused of violating a peace agreement in the Democratic Republic of Congo. ➡️ u.afp.com/SuYB
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Benjamin Strick @bendobrown.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
I built a free tool that shows how night-time lights have changed anywhere on Earth. Here's how it works and why it's useful for monitoring conflict, disasters, development and growth. 👇
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
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Sarah Stoecklin @sarahstoecklin.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
"2025 will be the first year of this century where more young children died than the year before."
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Sarah Stoecklin @sarahstoecklin.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
It was never all in your head.
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 20/02/2026
A Bellingcat investigation reveals child soldiers in Sudan’s civil war have become viral figures on TikTok. Videos attracting millions of views show the children with senior military officials, celebrating battlefield victories and delivering violent threats. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/02...
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Viral Child Soldiers on TikTok: The ‘Disney Stars’ of Sudan’s Civil War - bellingcat
To stay up to date on our latest investigations, join Bellingcat’s WhatsApp channel here. Child soldiers linked to Sudan’s warring factions have gained viral fame on TikTok, with their videos attracti...
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Sarah Stoecklin @sarahstoecklin.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
When you go to see how the first show on this leg of the tour went, and get cooked by auto-subtitling.
A screenshot of Reddit, where the post is a video from the New Orleans 2/5 concert. The song is called "I'm Afraid of Americans" but the auto-generated subtitles read "I'ma make a banana again I'ma make a banana again", instead of the correct lyric, which is, "I'm afraid of Americans".
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Sarah Stoecklin @sarahstoecklin.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Welcome back good hair baseball king
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 24/01/2026
A DHS statement claimed “an individual approached US Border Patrol officers” with “a handgun” in the Alex Pretti shooting incident. A Bellingcat analysis of the footage appears to show that a gun was taken away from where Pretti was situated by an agent just before the first shot was fired.
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 24/01/2026
Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Historically, we've focused a lot on the brutal actions of authoritarian regimes, and today is no different.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
One example of how Grok is being used to target women. Swedish Deputy Prime Minister Ebba Busch being sexualised, degraded, and humiliated step-by-step by Grok. All the images accurately reflect the prompts provided.
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Africa Media @africa.skyfleet.blue · 15/12/2025
Offensive de l’AFC/M23 au Sud-Kivu : Denis Mukwege déplore l’incapacité de l’UA à désigner clairement Kigali comme acteur de déstabilisation et appelle à des actions concrètes contre le Rwanda
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Offensive de l’AFC/M23 au Sud-Kivu : Denis Mukwege déplore l’incapacité de l’UA à désigner clairement Kigali comme acteur de déstabilisation et appelle à des actions concrètes contre le Rwanda
La progression de la rébellion de l’AFC/M23, appuyée par le Rwanda, dans la province du Sud-Kivu a suscité la réaction du Prix Nobel de la Paix, Denis Mukwege, au lendemain de la prise de la ville d’Uvira.
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Congo Eye @congoeye.com · 14/12/2025
On December 8, 2025 a video allegedly from the city of Sange started circulating on X. Lawrence Kanyuka of M23 alleged it showed the result of a firefight between FARDC and Wazalendo. We will refer to this as the M23 video. Note that this video is graphic. x.com/LawrenceKany...
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Congo Eye @congoeye.com · 14/12/2025
Willy Ngoma is the M23 military spokesman, and poses in imagery of places M23 occupies. His presence inevitably inspires discourse from pro-Congolese government social media posters that he is Photoshopped into a location. In Uvira, he took a photo outside the mayor's office: x.com/i/status/199...
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Stanis Bujakera Tshiamala on X: "#RDC: La ville stratégique d’Uvira, chef-lieu provisoire du Sud-Kivu depuis la chute de Bukavu en février dernier, est tombée ce mercredi aux mains des rebelles de l’Alliance Fleuve Congo (AFC/M23) sans résistance majeure, marquant une avancée fulgurante dans l’offensive qui https://t.co/5Wwpp0Z01N" / X
#RDC: La ville stratégique d’Uvira, chef-lieu provisoire du Sud-Kivu depuis la chute de Bukavu en février dernier, est tombée ce mercredi aux mains des rebelles de l’Alliance Fleuve Congo (AFC/M23) sans résistance majeure, marquant une avancée fulgurante dans l’offensive qui https://t.co/5Wwpp0Z01N
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Congo Eye @congoeye.com · 14/12/2025
CongoEye is evaluating many images and videos from M23's offensive push to Uvira. We have completed the following verifications and due to dis/misinformation, are publishing them now. This is the first of three threads.
A street with a motorbike in the foreground and a heavy army-green truck entering the left frame.
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Congo Eye @congoeye.com · 02/12/2025
Welcome to CongoEye’s first open-source monitoring summary, a report on interesting finds on social media about the Democratic Republic of Congo. These are items which may be too small to be covered in international or Congolese media, but can be verified or enhanced with open-source reporting.
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Caitlin Kelly @caitlinkelly.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
NEW: In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant. She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency. Then she died. www.propublica.org/article/texa...
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“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
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Tomi McCluskey @tomi-mcc.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
⚠️ US Secretary of War announces Operation SOUTHERN SPEAR on X. Source: x.com/SecWar/statu...
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