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Commerce Department employees caught up in a legal battle over their mass firings are now learning that their health care coverage was cut off weeks ago, even though they were paying their premiums.
Fired, rehired, and fired again: Some federal workers find they're suddenly uninsured
Commerce Department employees caught up in a legal battle over their mass firings are now learning that their health care coverage was cut off weeks ago, even though they were paying their premiums.
www.npr.org
April 25, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Commerce Department employees caught up in a legal battle over their mass firings are now learning that their health care coverage was cut off weeks ago, even though they were paying their premiums.
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Tariff Q&A: the Actual Inbox!
I’ve gotten many, many questions about a lot of things, which has understandably increased over the last few months. It’s time to do a series of experimental biweekly Q&As to answer some of those questions! Starting with... tariffs!
kyla.substack.com/p/tariff-q-a...
I’ve gotten many, many questions about a lot of things, which has understandably increased over the last few months. It’s time to do a series of experimental biweekly Q&As to answer some of those questions! Starting with... tariffs!
kyla.substack.com/p/tariff-q-a...
Tariff Q&A: Welcome to the Actual Inbox
a brief comprehensive guide that hopefully answers all your questions
kyla.substack.com
April 4, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Tariff Q&A: the Actual Inbox!
I’ve gotten many, many questions about a lot of things, which has understandably increased over the last few months. It’s time to do a series of experimental biweekly Q&As to answer some of those questions! Starting with... tariffs!
kyla.substack.com/p/tariff-q-a...
I’ve gotten many, many questions about a lot of things, which has understandably increased over the last few months. It’s time to do a series of experimental biweekly Q&As to answer some of those questions! Starting with... tariffs!
kyla.substack.com/p/tariff-q-a...
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We're currently hiring two roles!
Fancy yourself as an open source investigator and trainer? Apply here for a role in our human rights and conflict monitoring team by April 6th www.bellingcat.com/bellingcat-i...
Fancy yourself as an open source investigator and trainer? Apply here for a role in our human rights and conflict monitoring team by April 6th www.bellingcat.com/bellingcat-i...
Bellingcat is Hiring: Open Source Investigator and Trainer (Conflict) - bellingcat
Bellingcat is hiring an open source investigator and trainer (conflict). Find out more about the role and apply within.
www.bellingcat.com
March 29, 2025 at 6:56 PM
We're currently hiring two roles!
Fancy yourself as an open source investigator and trainer? Apply here for a role in our human rights and conflict monitoring team by April 6th www.bellingcat.com/bellingcat-i...
Fancy yourself as an open source investigator and trainer? Apply here for a role in our human rights and conflict monitoring team by April 6th www.bellingcat.com/bellingcat-i...
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Want a new recipe for disaster? Health Secretary RFK Jr thinks bird flu should be allowed to spread so “the birds which are immune can be identified”.
Experts are understandably horrified.
Experts are understandably horrified.
RFK Jr.’s Prescription for Bird Flu on Farms: Let It Spread
The health secretary has suggested allowing the virus to spread, so as to identify birds that may be immune. Such an experiment would be disastrous, scientists say.
www.nytimes.com
March 19, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Want a new recipe for disaster? Health Secretary RFK Jr thinks bird flu should be allowed to spread so “the birds which are immune can be identified”.
Experts are understandably horrified.
Experts are understandably horrified.
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I want you to understand this is happening in our name and we know most of these men committed no crimes. One is a professional soccer player who was tortured in Venezuela and was working through asylum in the U.S. ICE shipped him for his Real Madrid tattoo and a picture throwing rock & roll horns.
March 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I want you to understand this is happening in our name and we know most of these men committed no crimes. One is a professional soccer player who was tortured in Venezuela and was working through asylum in the U.S. ICE shipped him for his Real Madrid tattoo and a picture throwing rock & roll horns.
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Beast is an exploitative ghoul using his charitable efforts and cash prizes as a shield from criticism.
Most of the cash he gives away was raised by exploiting kids through merch, candy bars and mouldy lunchables.
His leaked staff manual even advises to use impressionable kids as a business tactic
Most of the cash he gives away was raised by exploiting kids through merch, candy bars and mouldy lunchables.
His leaked staff manual even advises to use impressionable kids as a business tactic
mr beast talking about the human lives he has trapped in simultaneous simulations with "cant wait to upload these" is why black mirror can never be as good as it used to be
March 20, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Beast is an exploitative ghoul using his charitable efforts and cash prizes as a shield from criticism.
Most of the cash he gives away was raised by exploiting kids through merch, candy bars and mouldy lunchables.
His leaked staff manual even advises to use impressionable kids as a business tactic
Most of the cash he gives away was raised by exploiting kids through merch, candy bars and mouldy lunchables.
His leaked staff manual even advises to use impressionable kids as a business tactic
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Reply with your favourite Starter Packs for people fleeing X here. Here's Bellingcat's:
go.bsky.app/HZSzS41
go.bsky.app/HZSzS41
March 16, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Reply with your favourite Starter Packs for people fleeing X here. Here's Bellingcat's:
go.bsky.app/HZSzS41
go.bsky.app/HZSzS41
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🚨 What trends will be shaping #journalism in 2025?
This is the question at the heart of our yearly report on media trends by Nic Newman & Federica Cherubini and based on a survey of 326 managers from 51 countries
Read it here: buff.ly/GO70ZKt
9 findings in thread
This is the question at the heart of our yearly report on media trends by Nic Newman & Federica Cherubini and based on a survey of 326 managers from 51 countries
Read it here: buff.ly/GO70ZKt
9 findings in thread
March 17, 2025 at 9:22 AM
🚨 What trends will be shaping #journalism in 2025?
This is the question at the heart of our yearly report on media trends by Nic Newman & Federica Cherubini and based on a survey of 326 managers from 51 countries
Read it here: buff.ly/GO70ZKt
9 findings in thread
This is the question at the heart of our yearly report on media trends by Nic Newman & Federica Cherubini and based on a survey of 326 managers from 51 countries
Read it here: buff.ly/GO70ZKt
9 findings in thread
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Our Auto-Archiver tool allows you to archive any content on the internet by pasting a URL. In 15 minutes Bellingcat's @msramalho.bsky.social and developers Erin Clark and Paddy Robertson will be live, demoing new updates to the tool and answering your set up questions. discord.gg/Gm6cghPG?eve...
March 14, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Our Auto-Archiver tool allows you to archive any content on the internet by pasting a URL. In 15 minutes Bellingcat's @msramalho.bsky.social and developers Erin Clark and Paddy Robertson will be live, demoing new updates to the tool and answering your set up questions. discord.gg/Gm6cghPG?eve...
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Are you a keen researcher and passionate about environment or wildlife investigations? Bellingcat is looking for wildlife and environment related investigations that use open source methods and tools. www.bellingcat.com/uncategorize...
Pitch Wildlife and Environmental investigations to Bellingcat - bellingcat
If your source material is online and public, and your story unearths something deeper about our planet, we'd love to hear from you.
www.bellingcat.com
March 13, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Are you a keen researcher and passionate about environment or wildlife investigations? Bellingcat is looking for wildlife and environment related investigations that use open source methods and tools. www.bellingcat.com/uncategorize...
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Amen
Do better teaching your sons how to be good people, good men, good citizens.
Take the game systems away
Encourage them to socialize
Clamp down hard on bullying and misogyny
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/rich...
Do better teaching your sons how to be good people, good men, good citizens.
Take the game systems away
Encourage them to socialize
Clamp down hard on bullying and misogyny
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/rich...
March 11, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Amen
Do better teaching your sons how to be good people, good men, good citizens.
Take the game systems away
Encourage them to socialize
Clamp down hard on bullying and misogyny
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/rich...
Do better teaching your sons how to be good people, good men, good citizens.
Take the game systems away
Encourage them to socialize
Clamp down hard on bullying and misogyny
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/rich...
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Breaking News: The Education Department announced that it was firing more than 1,300 workers, effectively gutting the agency. The layoffs mean that the department will now have a work force of about half the size it did when President Trump took office.
Education Department to Fire 1,300 Workers, Gutting Its Staff
The layoffs mean that the department will now have a work force of about half the size it did when President Trump took office.
www.nytimes.com
March 11, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Breaking News: The Education Department announced that it was firing more than 1,300 workers, effectively gutting the agency. The layoffs mean that the department will now have a work force of about half the size it did when President Trump took office.
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In our latest investigation, we identify the former Wagner fighter and admin of a racist Telegram group behind a Russian fashion brand that sells clothing items glorifying far-right ideology and the Russian mercenary group Wagner. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/03...
Unmasking Maskov: How Bellingcat Found a Man Outfitting Russian Neo-Nazis - bellingcat
H8Core is a Russian fashion brand that sells clothing items glorifying far-right ideology and the Russian mercenary group Wagner. Its products – which include t-shirts, caps and hoodies – have been cr...
www.bellingcat.com
March 6, 2025 at 11:07 AM
In our latest investigation, we identify the former Wagner fighter and admin of a racist Telegram group behind a Russian fashion brand that sells clothing items glorifying far-right ideology and the Russian mercenary group Wagner. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/03...
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Fund managers have said that Trump’s Make America Great Again agenda has instead unleashed a Make Europe Great Again trade that is reordering global financial markets. www.ft.com/content/2e81...
March 6, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Fund managers have said that Trump’s Make America Great Again agenda has instead unleashed a Make Europe Great Again trade that is reordering global financial markets. www.ft.com/content/2e81...
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I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
We're not done yet | 18F
18f.org
March 1, 2025 at 10:38 PM
I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
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The Far-Right Concert Coming To Europe...
February 4, 2025 at 6:29 PM
The Far-Right Concert Coming To Europe...
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The downing of flight MH17 in 2014 inspired a movement of online researchers to search for answers... Now, you can see how the Bellingcat team helped uncover those answers in a new three-part documentary series on National Geographic.
February 5, 2025 at 11:37 AM
The downing of flight MH17 in 2014 inspired a movement of online researchers to search for answers... Now, you can see how the Bellingcat team helped uncover those answers in a new three-part documentary series on National Geographic.
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Sheltering in schools or hospitals won’t be possible for many of those returning to Northern Gaza amid the ceasefire, Bellingcat's @godin.bsky.social found that more than 80% of former shelters have been damaged or destroyed by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/02...
Satellite Imagery Shows Schools and Hospitals Destroyed in Northern Gaza - bellingcat
Thousands of people have begun returning to their abandoned homes in northern Gaza after Israeli forces opened the Netzarim corridor, which separates the northern and southern parts of the territory, ...
www.bellingcat.com
February 4, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Sheltering in schools or hospitals won’t be possible for many of those returning to Northern Gaza amid the ceasefire, Bellingcat's @godin.bsky.social found that more than 80% of former shelters have been damaged or destroyed by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/02...
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For the past 48 hours, thousands of TikTok users have been posting and sharing videos ostensibly about "cute winter boots." But the phrase is not about footwear. It's algospeak code being used to discuss fighting back against Trump and his draconian immigration policies.
TikTok's 'cute winter boots' trend explained
As the U.S. government seeks to enact stricter controls over online speech, TikTok users are adopting more coded 'algospeak' to criticize and resist the government
www.usermag.co
January 25, 2025 at 3:37 PM
For the past 48 hours, thousands of TikTok users have been posting and sharing videos ostensibly about "cute winter boots." But the phrase is not about footwear. It's algospeak code being used to discuss fighting back against Trump and his draconian immigration policies.
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Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who in 1948 became the first Black nurse to serve in the regular U.S. armed forces after years of being barred from a segregated military, died on Jan. 8. She was 104.
Nancy Leftenant-Colon, 104, Dies; Army Nurse Broke a Color Barrier
After years of being barred from a segregated military, she became the first Black nurse in the regular U.S. armed forces. She was later an Air Force officer.
www.nytimes.com
January 25, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who in 1948 became the first Black nurse to serve in the regular U.S. armed forces after years of being barred from a segregated military, died on Jan. 8. She was 104.
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✅As Meta ends its fact-checking program in the US, global partners in 115+ countries are left in limbo wondering if they are next. Our journalist Gretel Kahn spoke with fact-checkers worldwide to explore the potential impact of this decision.
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/amid-wa...
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/amid-wa...
Amid war, vicious attacks and political turmoil, global fact-checkers fear the impact of the end of Meta’s programme
Fact-checkers from Brazil, Croatia, Italy, Nigeria, Ukraine and the Philippines explain the potential effects for their revenue and their news ecosystem.
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk
January 17, 2025 at 9:09 AM
✅As Meta ends its fact-checking program in the US, global partners in 115+ countries are left in limbo wondering if they are next. Our journalist Gretel Kahn spoke with fact-checkers worldwide to explore the potential impact of this decision.
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/amid-wa...
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/amid-wa...
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The Tulsa Race Massacre was not committed by an uncontrolled mob but was the result of “a coordinated, military-style attack” by white citizens, the Justice Department said in a report. It was the first time the U.S. government has given an official account of the 1921 massacre of Black residents.
Tulsa Massacre Was a ‘Coordinated, Military-Style Attack,’ Federal Report Says
The Justice Department’s conclusion follows an investigation of the 1921 atrocity in Oklahoma in which up to 300 Black residents were killed.
www.nytimes.com
January 11, 2025 at 11:43 PM
The Tulsa Race Massacre was not committed by an uncontrolled mob but was the result of “a coordinated, military-style attack” by white citizens, the Justice Department said in a report. It was the first time the U.S. government has given an official account of the 1921 massacre of Black residents.
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Satellite Imagery is used extensively in open-source investigative research, in this guide tech-fellow Agnes Cameron explains how some satellite images reveal more than the eye can see. www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...
A Beginner’s Guide to Seeing More With Satellite Imagery
Multispectral satellite images can reveal useful information about the world, such as mining activity and changes in vegetation.
www.bellingcat.com
January 10, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Satellite Imagery is used extensively in open-source investigative research, in this guide tech-fellow Agnes Cameron explains how some satellite images reveal more than the eye can see. www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...