Jack Sapoch
Borders, osint, & digital investigations / investigations @lhreports.bsky.social
- ~180 Anduril Industries autonomous surveillance towers (ASTs) along the US/Mexico border Exported from QGIS w/ a custom python script and tower point data from @eff.org; compiled to video w/ ffmpeg Data: www.eff.org/document/us-...
- A map of aerial SAR activity over the incident area today
- www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202... "A Bloomberg analysis of more than a decade of government data shows that 70% of immigrants detained in Louisiana and New Mexico end up deported, which is almost twice the rate of those detained in the Northeast, and is well above the national average of 53%."
- Reposted by Jack SapochDid the New England Patriots team plane just fly to Guantanamo? 👀
- From a recent visit to the Spomenik hrabrima (Monument to the Fallen) in central Serbia near Čačak: I used Gaussian splatting to turn a set of still photos of the site into a rendered scene You can find out more on the monument here: www.spomenikdatabase.org/ostra
- It's a tremendous privilege to have our Smoke and Lies investigation recognized by @ire.org this year In a moment when the governance of borders grow harsher and more opaque, investigations like this are one way to make the violence of these institutions harder to ignore.
- The Video Division I Award goes to @lighthousereports.com, La Verdad and El Paso Matters. This was a “gripping and graphic” investigation of the deadly fire inside a migrant detention center in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. www.lighthousereports.com/investigatio...
- Over the weekend, the White House posted a video showing a group of people being walked by CBP for deportation with “Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye” playing in the background. The footage can be geolocated to the Juarez-Lincoln International Bridge in Laredo, Texas 27.502239, -99.503324
- A rough synchronization of 24 separate videos recording the crowd response to the use of alleged sonic weapons on the evening of March 15th in Belgrade
- DHS Head Kristi Noem announced today new border wall construction in AZ, pointing to a 'gap' in the fence Geolocation shows her video was filmed in Coronado National Forest’s Pajarito Mountains - an ecologically sensitive area where previous wall plans were halted 31.3326, -111.0263
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- Custom and Border Protection's multi-million aerostat surveillance balloon on South Padre Island, TX got taken out by the weather yesterday and is now among the missing. If you find it before they do, let them know. 🎈 Footage via Carol Savage/KRGV
- Frame placement/stabilization of this clip showing a recent R9X strike outside of Keftin in Idlib
- Excited to be heading to #NICAR25 in Minneapolis later this week! If you're also attending and want to connect - whether to talk open source / spatial investigations or just gab - do feel free to reach out!
- My White Stork Migration Route map featured with a write-up on Maps.com today! This one was a personal fave, super cool to have it featured! www.maps.com/monochrome-m...
- A look into some moments of daily New York life from over a century ago Exploring some digital restoration techniques with archival footage taken around NYC's Madison Square Park during a 1902 blizzard
- Geo/chrono-location: This video shows A320-214 N289GX #A2F016 - owned and operated by Global X Airlines - being used for an ICE charter flight from Seattle's Boeing Field on Feb. 18 The plane took off shortly after and transported the detainees to El Paso, TX
- Construction around Guantanamo's Migrant Operations Center has continued the last week, with around 50 additional tents set up between February 4 to 12 Approximately 100 tents were previously set up between January 30 to February 4
- "Yambio received an email from Apple on 13 November seen by the Guardian, informing him he was being targeted by 'a mercenary spyware attack' that was attempting to 'remotely compromise' the iPhone associated with your Apple account." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
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- Abbott's gov. in Texas has doubled the length of the Eagle Pass floating buoy barrier on the Rio Grande—expanding from ~1,000 ft to ~2,000 ft
- Disappointing news today from Croatia regarding our 2021 @lhreports.bsky.social et. al. Masked Men investigation: The State Attorney's Office concluded (3+ years later) that there is no reasonable suspicion that the officers "tortured migrants or treated them cruelly" www.index.hr/vijesti/clan...
- NEW: Satellite imagery shows recent changes around Guantanamo Bay's Migrant Operations Center consistent with large scale tent constructions Likely to house incoming troops, but potentially as well new migrants being flown to the island by the Trump administration, who has promised 30k detainees
- Flight tracks the last days of US Navy’s P-8 Poseidon AE683E patrolling land & sea borders around CA + AZ. Odd to see a $200 million anti-submarine warfare jet on inland ISR—part of the new administration's border theatre h/t: @theintelfrog.bsky.social
- Quick animation looking at ADS-B patterns of fire response flights during the Palisades Fire in Los Angeles Interesting to see how flight track overlaps often occur along natural topography lines like canyons
- While a wildfire rages along the US-Mexico border, military transports—including C-130s and Ospreys—are landing near Otay Mesa, not to fight fires but to stage a show of force on the border for the Trump admin ADS-B data shows the collision of crisis response and border theatre
- Really cool to see that our Desert Dumps collab. investigation was named as one of the 14 "(highly subjective) best of the best investigations selection from across the globe published in 2024" by @gijn.org www.linkedin.com/pulse/best-i...
- Last week the Croatian Ministry of the Interior announced EU funding support for "trilateral patrols at the EU external border [of #Croatia]" with officers from #Italy + #Slovenia The funding support comes via the Integrated Border Management Fund mup.gov.hr/vijesti/pilo...
- The last moments of Azerbaijan Airlines flight #J28243 visualized in 3D Demonstrates the heavy altitude swings of the plane as it limped over the Caspian Sea from Grozny before tragically crashing near Aktua, Kazakhstan ADS-B data recorded by @flightradar24.com; rendered in #b3d
