curiousscout.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

A new bat coronavirus that has the capacity to spread to humans, similar to the one that caused the COVID-19 pandemic, has been discovered by a Chinese researcher. Good thing we are completely prepared this time. www.newsweek.com/new-coronavi...

submitted 2 days ago • 800 comments

Donald Trump’s firing of military leaders — four-star General Brown and four-star Admiral Franchetti — along with top legal officers is a betrayal of legions of first rate service members who dedicate their lives to our nation’s defense. This is a growing national security risk.

submitted 2 days ago • 529 comments

Another way the dictatorship might kill you. This is from a friend who is a retired air traffic controller.

submitted 7 days ago • 273 comments

A black family now owns the site of America’s largest slave revolt.

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

I’ve never been afraid to fly. But I’ve got two flights this week, transiting through JFK, and I’m not enjoying the feeling this update is creating…

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

The lure of Elon’s alternate reality for his followers is so powerful that he will tell them that pulling books off shelves, deleting words from government websites, and banning programs for their kids based on words they used is all part of fighting back against censorship. And they just let him

submitted 7 days ago • 46 comments

Our 2nd panel is THIS Friday, Feb 21! At a time when #pressfreedom and access are under threat, it’s more important than ever for our field to come together, share knowledge, and learn from one another ☀️ www.sunlightresearch.net/research-tra...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

ICYMI: Trump is razing the federal workforce, and the fallout on D.C.'s economy could be severe.

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

The DOGE website missed its Valentine's Day deadline for producing a detailed list of the savings it was making, and now it's missed its second self-imposed deadline...

submitted 7 days ago • 26 comments

This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as allude to slavery or the civil rights movement. The wholesale erasure of history in real time.

submitted 8 days ago • 2109 comments

It’s probably a bad sign when the wealthiest person in the world, who’s already shutting down entire government agencies in a coup and has access to all our personal information, is now talking about “a second American revolution”

submitted 11 days ago • 95 comments

CARTOON OF THE DAY

submitted 12 days ago • 95 comments

EDITORIAL: The inevitability of Trump’s so-called common sense arrived again on Sunday when he claimed that “South Africa is confiscating land,” and that “certain classes of people” were being treated “very badly.”

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Now more than ever, #journalism needs reporters with sharp investigative skills for powerful accountability stories. Join us next week for our 2nd panel session with Walter Smith Randolph of NY's @cbsnews.com & @andreacaroleball.bsky.social. Sign up today! www.sunlightresearch.net/research-tra...

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

It’s so frustrating for folks who have worked really hard and who have been continually sold the idea of meritocracy to see people who objectively do not meet a high standard of merit and lack a basic understanding of the bare minimum of civics, history & government… get coveted jobs & get promoted

submitted 12 days ago • 41 comments

At the #BerlinConference of 1885, European powers partitioned #African territory 140 years ago. Today, war ravages the DRC with quite nuanced causes according to Dr. Steve-Régis N’Sondé, a researcher affiliated with CIRECK, Congo-Mioa. #AfricanUnion

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

A coalition of news organizations said in a court filing that video exhibits from a Jan. 6 riot case had "disappeared" from a government platform that provided access to evidence used in court.

submitted 12 days ago • 1187 comments

Republican Party efforts to dismantle the federal government have now shifted towards eliminating the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

"Don't let them talk us out of democracy." Thanks @chrisgeidner.bsky.social @lawdorknews.bsky.social

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

The Associated Press says it was banned from covering an event in the Oval Office because it has not aligned its editorial standards with President Trump’s executive order on changing the name of Gulf of Mexico.

submitted 12 days ago • 34 comments

The Center for Journalism & Democracy that I founded at Howard U is launching its "Truth Over Power" training and speaker series. Up first, hands-on digital security training for journalists. Journalists: This free training will help you protect yourself & sources. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

submitted 13 days ago • 5 comments

The Navy has already killed off its heritage committees—one of the ways the organization remembers sailors who came from different backgrounds, including those with disabilities. Basically against regs now to attend any "Black history" or "Indigenous history" events on duty or in uniform.

submitted 13 days ago • 17 comments

Not Like Us literally has a section where he’s like please be patient while i explain how this is about slavery and colonialism.

submitted 14 days ago • 6 comments

National & legacy media outlets going after Palestine supporters for not "being out on the streets" following Trump's statements about colonizing Gaza seem to forget that this president released hundreds of violent felons/militia members not even a month ago, among other reasons unassessed by MSM 🤦‍♀️

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Hour by hour, we are watching the nation’s professional civil service decimated. This isn’t the type of thing that we can just pick up the pieces in four years. This is decades of damages done in weeks.

submitted 13 days ago • 7 comments

BREAKING: VIRUS FROM NEVADA DAIRY WORKER WITH BIRD FLU HAS THE SAME GENETIC MUTATION seen in the Nevada cows – a change of PB2 D701N that has previously been assoc with more efficient virus replication in ppl & mammals. CDC told Fortune that the D1.1 variant in this worker is the same strain of

submitted 13 days ago • 473 comments

1/ Scientists are exploring a new frontier in food: edible microbes. Could bacteria and algae be the protein sources of the future? 🧵 🔗: https://undark.org/2025/01/29/new-food-bacteria-algae/

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

HuffPost laid off so many excellent journalists today, including a national investigative reporter we hired literally one month ago

submitted 18 days ago • 56 comments

Guy On Doomed Planet Mostly Concerned With Skin Color Of People In Movies theonion.com/guy-on-...

submitted 18 days ago • 196 comments

☀️ Last day to sign up for Sunlight’s panel featuring investigative journalists from @themarshallproject.org & the Austin American-Statesman! Find ways to overcome investigative challenges & take back actionable insights you can apply to your beat #journalism www.sunlightresearch.net/research-tra...

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

This is… I don’t even have words. “The memo, headed with the subject line “ENDING ILLEGAL DEI AND DEIA DISCRIMINATION AND PREFERENCES,” instructs the Civil Rights Division…to take a number of steps to attack any private companies that prioritize diverse workforces through DEIA programs.”

submitted 18 days ago • 26 comments

The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.

submitted 19 days ago • 2837 comments

Marco Rubio is now the acting director at NARA there are certainly worse choices (believe me) but this doesn't bode well for NARA's independence or the preservation of presidential records in particular

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

The U.S. Military Academy at West Point ordered 12 officially sanctioned clubs for women and ethnic or racial groups to shut down immediately, in a drive to comply with the Trump administration’s directives on diversity, equity and inclusion, the academy said on Wednesday.

submitted 18 days ago • 142 comments

I’m angry. Righteous, justified anger. So many of us tried to warn. To educate. I tried. But here we are.

submitted 19 days ago • 173 comments

A lot of Black people I know saw this coming and have gone quiet / underground for like, a year. From CRT/DEI, We were being purged from positions, sidelined from jobs, and under this new line of attack for the last 3-4 years at state and local levels.

submitted 19 days ago • 47 comments

What’s happening in the US is starting to feel more like a hacking than an election, with Trump basically cast as the idiot who clicked on the phishing email that let the ransomware guys in. Struck by how crucial tech not politics reporters are to us understanding it

submitted 19 days ago • 51 comments

submitted 19 days ago • 198 comments