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Eliot Higgins

@eliothiggins.bsky.social

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Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.

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@eliothiggins.bsky.socialJun 29, 2026, 10:40 AM Pinned

We're launching a funding drive on Bellingcat today. It's a tough funding environment at the moment with global funder cuts & the fear of Trump scaring off donors, so support us here
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A short video about what your donations will fund
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@briantylercohen.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 8:10 PMReposted by @eliothiggins.bsky.social

“ABC pulling the story only made it a bigger story. Certainly not what Don Jr. or the WH were going for. And ABC doesn’t look great, either. All of which underscores the need for news that is neither owned nor leveraged by this White House— a commodity vanishingly rare in today’s media environment.”

@chadbourn.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 4:18 PMReposted by @eliothiggins.bsky.social

So Trump has been planning to stitch up Ukraine for weeks.

@chadbourn.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 4:18 PMReposted by @eliothiggins.bsky.social

The first Russian diesel cargo heading for the US left St Petersburg on September 22, two weeks *before* Trump announced the deal with Putin, Windward reports. The Greek-flagged tanker Minerva Zen carrying 275,000 barrels of diesel/gasoil is due at the US East Coast around 11–12 October.

Map of tanker’s route
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@anthonylfisher.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 3:35 PMReposted by @eliothiggins.bsky.social

ABC News' lawyer told a judge the network is tempering its election coverage because of government threats. The Trump Censorship Industrial Complex is real...and expanding.

ms.nowOpinion | The Trump Censorship Industrial Complex is real. This ABC lawyer just admitted it.Anthony L. Fisher: ABC’s lawyer says the network is tempering its coverage of the government because of the administration’s threats.
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@eliothiggins.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 7:51 PM

Trump just shitting all over the legacy of his pal Lindsey Graham

@yoruk.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 7:01 PMReposted by @eliothiggins.bsky.social

…, a Greek tanker was loading sanctioned Russian diesel in St Petersburg’s Peterburgskiy Neftyanoy Terminal. It sailed for the US on September 23rd and will arrive to the East Coast in one week, likely the Port of Wilmington

@yoruk.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 7:01 PMReposted by @eliothiggins.bsky.social

Trump has been hiding his Russian diesel deal for over a month: the deal was announced yesterday, but it was likely agreed when Witkoff and Kushner visited the Kremlin on 5th September. While Trump was signing the Lindsey Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026 on 18th September,…

@washingtonpost.comOct 10, 2026, 5:41 PMReposted by @eliothiggins.bsky.social

Breaking news: The Pentagon acknowledged that the number of troops who have died in the Middle East during its operations against Iran is higher than previously reported, and updated the official count to include two more noncombat deaths.

washingtonpost.comPentagon raises official toll of troops killed during war with Iran to 21The Post exclusively reported last month that the numbers of service members lost was greater than what the Pentagon was reporting in its public database.
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@scumm-bar.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 2:33 PMReposted by @eliothiggins.bsky.social

@jagolinzer.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 2:35 PMReposted by @eliothiggins.bsky.social

See, also, Prof @admati.bsky.social’s keynote at the 2026 Cambridge Disinformation Summit:

youtu.be/2lUM8ccDcBI?...

@jagolinzer.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 2:33 PMReposted by @eliothiggins.bsky.social

Stanford financial economist Anat Admati @admati.bsky.social just joined here.

She’s a leading voice on systemic risk in banks, corporate governance, and finance.

I highly recommend following her here and reading her book The Bankers’ New Clothes.

press.princeton.edu/our-authors/...

@antibot4navalny.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 1:32 PMReposted by @eliothiggins.bsky.social

3️⃣ Expanding student protests will ignite massive social strikes, plunging France into a total economic collapse and civil war that will rapidly spread as a contagion across Europe.

@antibot4navalny.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 1:32 PMReposted by @eliothiggins.bsky.social

2️⃣ High school protests, strikes, and decaying education infrastructure are framed as a direct consequence of sanctions against Russia and aid to Ukraine.

@antibot4navalny.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 1:32 PMReposted by @eliothiggins.bsky.social

1️⃣ "Experts agree that" Macron must prioritize the interests of French citizens over the demands of "authoritarian regimes such as Ukraine".

@antibot4navalny.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 1:32 PMReposted by @eliothiggins.bsky.social

🧵 Tracking bots matters because covert ops reveal what official propaganda hides. As seen Oct 9, Kremlin-aligned Matryoshka network is pleading with Macron to lift sanctions against Russia before his term ends. To build pressure, it is pushing the 3 key claims below ⤵️

@cwebbonline.comOct 10, 2026, 3:42 AMReposted by @eliothiggins.bsky.social

7 shots fired into an SUV with a 5-year-old child in the back seat as the vehicle was moving away. Markwayne Mullin claims the driver “weaponized” his vehicle. Bullshit! “Weaponized vehicle” has become ICE’s go-to excuse for shooting folks. Where’s the evidence? It’s not in this new footage.

@noelreports.comOct 10, 2026, 6:45 AMReposted by @eliothiggins.bsky.social

Well okay then. Ukrainian attack drones struck the NZNP Rostovsky oil products export terminal in Rostov-on-Don, setting the Russian fuel facility ablaze. The strike came just hours after the US eased sanctions on Russian diesel exports and Trump announced a major diesel deal with Putin. #Russia

@emma-briant.co.ukOct 10, 2026, 3:12 AMReposted by @eliothiggins.bsky.social

"Oscar-winner Alex Gibney’s 4-hour documentary about Elon Musk may be the most important film of the year." www.rogerebert.com/reviews/elon...

@coldwarsteve.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 5:33 PMReposted by @eliothiggins.bsky.social

@jayrayner1.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 7:34 AMReposted by @eliothiggins.bsky.social

For today’s @ftweekend.com I am at the restaurant inside the high end Mayfair furniture shop RH London. And it’s chaos. Warm water. Can’t mix cocktails. Run out of hamburgers. Dull food for bored oligarchs who don’t eat. Have a few quotes and a pic of a £22 baked potato.

www.ft.com/content/5993...

Drift through its rooms admiring the oversized sculptures, the overstuffed seating and the passive-aggressive war on colour. I was tempted to give myself a quick nosebleed just to introduce a splash of red. While there, do take a look inside the utterly magnificent restaurant at the back of the ground floor, housed in what was once a banking hall. The cathedral-high ceilings are coated in gold leaf and dangle with giant golden chandeliers like crystal udders. There are pillars, acres of polished wood veneer and lots of soft curved seating, picked out by pools of light from dainty table lamps. Gawp at it. Gasp at it. But whatever you do, don’t book a table in it. On my recent visit, the whole operation was a bloody shambles.It starts in the second-floor cocktail bar, designed by Anouska Hempel, where the £16 Margarita comes from a bottle of pre-mix with a hand-scribbled label, and they can’t make any classic cocktails which aren’t on the list. Ask them for a Daiquiri then watch the panic flicker in their eyes. Online, the cheapest bottle of wine offered up here is a Riesling at £68. When you arrive, it turns out to be £86.Back downstairs in the restaurant a bottle of sparkling water is brought. It’s warm. We ask for ice. None comes. We ask again. None comes. Third time’s a charm. At least we get water quickly; the wait for food is interminable (if you don’t count the £56-worth of mini lobster rolls we didn’t order, that they tried to foist on us). We watch one of our dishes being offered to a nearby table. The diners look baffled. The waiter returns to the pass in the open kitchen where a row with the chef appears to ensue. He waves a ticket at her. Finally, 10 minutes later the plate comes to us. In a functioning restaurant you should be able to spot the person in charge immediately. There is no one in charge of this room. It’s chaos.Our missing dish is the cutely named “Parisian petite potato”. I wanted to see what a £22 baked potato was like. Small, is the answer, and topped with the now obligatory caviar. Honestly, there’s so much caviar washing around London at the moment, I’m convinced there’s some bloke with a lock-up in Camberwell who has got hold of a surplus that fell off the back of a knackered old sturgeon. Now he’s pushing it out to W1. Anyway, it’s a baked potato with fish eggs. I’m not sure which bit of it is Parisian but it’s definitely petite, I’ll give it that.
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