Chris Zubak-Skees
@zubakskees.bsky.social
Data journalist and software engineer https://zubak-skees.dev
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"Fourth-year Sophia Bangura, one of the student journalists who worked on the project, was terminated from the organization three days later for “insubordination” for asking followup questions during the interview and declining to apologize to the interim president’s office."
Student journalist terminated following interview with UVA interim President Paul Mahoney - C-VILLE Weekly
Getting an interview with, let alone answers from, upper leadership at the University of Virginia is an uphill battle for any news organization. The groups with the most access to UVA’s administration...
c-ville.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:55 PM
"Fourth-year Sophia Bangura, one of the student journalists who worked on the project, was terminated from the organization three days later for “insubordination” for asking followup questions during the interview and declining to apologize to the interim president’s office."
@thewheatgerm.bsky.social There's one Wikipedia editor who has been single-handedly keeping Jet Lag out of Charleville-Mezieres's history of culture and sport.
November 12, 2025 at 11:40 PM
@thewheatgerm.bsky.social There's one Wikipedia editor who has been single-handedly keeping Jet Lag out of Charleville-Mezieres's history of culture and sport.
Oh so that's why he flew to San Angelo.
New WSJ: After flying an FBI jet to see his girlfriend sing at a wrestling match, FBI director Kash Patel took the jet to a private Texas hunting resort called the Boondoggle Ranch. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Kash Patel’s ‘Effin Wild’ Ride as FBI Director
In just one week in October, he ticked off his bosses with premature comments about a terror investigation squeezed in a trip to the ‘Boondoggle Ranch’ on the bureau jet.
www.wsj.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Oh so that's why he flew to San Angelo.
Uh, Michael Wolff what are you doing? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
November 12, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Uh, Michael Wolff what are you doing? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Palantir update via www.wired.com/story/alex-k...
November 11, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Palantir update via www.wired.com/story/alex-k...
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Members of the community argue with federal officers during an immigration enforcement action in the Little Village neighborhood Saturday in Chicago.
November 8, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Members of the community argue with federal officers during an immigration enforcement action in the Little Village neighborhood Saturday in Chicago.
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
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New on The New York Times : “Almost Half of U.S. Imports Now Have Steep Tariffs”
Almost Half of U.S. Imports Now Have Steep Tariffs
www.nytimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:19 AM
New on The New York Times : “Almost Half of U.S. Imports Now Have Steep Tariffs”
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And Public Citizen has a report on the enforcement actions the donors have been facing.
www.citizen.org/news/corpora...
www.citizen.org/news/corpora...
November 4, 2025 at 5:57 PM
And Public Citizen has a report on the enforcement actions the donors have been facing.
www.citizen.org/news/corpora...
www.citizen.org/news/corpora...
"ah 我要 (wo yao) is the yo quiero of Chinese" <- my brain on Duolingo
October 26, 2025 at 2:13 PM
"ah 我要 (wo yao) is the yo quiero of Chinese" <- my brain on Duolingo
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Reuters tracked one of the tankers in a "dark fleet" smuggling diesel into Mexico, following a paper trail that led through U.S. businesses and one of the world's deadliest drug cartels.
This is a heck of a story.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
This is a heck of a story.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
October 23, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Reuters tracked one of the tankers in a "dark fleet" smuggling diesel into Mexico, following a paper trail that led through U.S. businesses and one of the world's deadliest drug cartels.
This is a heck of a story.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
This is a heck of a story.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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A Cuban man deported by the U.S. to the African nation of Eswatini is on a hunger strike at a maximum-security prison having been held there for more than three months without being charged or having access to legal counsel under the Trump administration’s third-country program.
A Cuban man deported by the US to Africa is on a hunger strike in prison, his lawyer says
A lawyer representing a Cuban man deported by the United States to the African nation of Eswatini says he is on a hunger strike after being held at a maximum-security prison for more than three months without charge or access to legal counsel.
bit.ly
October 23, 2025 at 1:30 AM
A Cuban man deported by the U.S. to the African nation of Eswatini is on a hunger strike at a maximum-security prison having been held there for more than three months without being charged or having access to legal counsel under the Trump administration’s third-country program.
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BREAKING from PP
We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*
The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:
Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer
More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
by @nicolefoy.bsky.social
We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*
The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:
Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer
More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
by @nicolefoy.bsky.social
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
October 16, 2025 at 4:06 PM
BREAKING from PP
We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*
The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:
Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer
More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
by @nicolefoy.bsky.social
We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*
The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:
Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer
More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
by @nicolefoy.bsky.social
My high school absolutely taught Excel, I was Microsoft certified on it and the whole office suite, as a 15-year-old.
You know what tool existed when I was in high school that no one ever taught me how to use? Excel. A thing I use all the time now, mostly self-taught, existed in the late 1990s and no one was upending the curriculum to make sure I knew how to use it.
October 16, 2025 at 8:19 AM
My high school absolutely taught Excel, I was Microsoft certified on it and the whole office suite, as a 15-year-old.
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Big news in the election media landscape: ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, and CNN will no longer get their election results from Edison. They're signing on with the AP, which was already the main source of election results for newspapers, etc.: www.ap.org/media-center...
October 15, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Big news in the election media landscape: ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, and CNN will no longer get their election results from Edison. They're signing on with the AP, which was already the main source of election results for newspapers, etc.: www.ap.org/media-center...
You best start believing in Mondays, Miss Turner.
October 13, 2025 at 9:43 AM
You best start believing in Mondays, Miss Turner.
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after the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging
little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia
www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...
little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia
www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...
What Is Really Going on With All This Radioactive Shrimp? - Consumer Reports
Here’s the latest on how shrimp and spices got contaminated with cesium-137, how the FDA has responded, and why consumers should not panic.
www.consumerreports.org
October 9, 2025 at 7:05 PM
after the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging
little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia
www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...
little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia
www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...
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“.. it appears to justify an open-ended war against a secret list of groups, giving the president power to designate drug traffickers as enemy combatants and have them summarily killed without legal review.”
@cnn.com
www.cnn.com/2025/10/06/p...
@cnn.com
www.cnn.com/2025/10/06/p...
October 6, 2025 at 11:23 PM
“.. it appears to justify an open-ended war against a secret list of groups, giving the president power to designate drug traffickers as enemy combatants and have them summarily killed without legal review.”
@cnn.com
www.cnn.com/2025/10/06/p...
@cnn.com
www.cnn.com/2025/10/06/p...
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New on The New York Times : “We Tried to Reach Gazans We Interviewed Over Two Years of War. Here’s What Happened to Them.”
We Tried to Reach Gazans We Interviewed Over Two Years of War. Here’s What Happened to Them.
www.nytimes.com
October 7, 2025 at 1:12 AM
New on The New York Times : “We Tried to Reach Gazans We Interviewed Over Two Years of War. Here’s What Happened to Them.”
Platforms like insisting action is required.
October 6, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Platforms like insisting action is required.
Liquid glass really revealing 90% of apps actually used on Mac are Electron with platform neutral aesthetics and web-based styles that won't change.
October 2, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Liquid glass really revealing 90% of apps actually used on Mac are Electron with platform neutral aesthetics and web-based styles that won't change.
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"Rodrick Johnson, 67, is one of many residents who were detained by federal agents during the South Shore raid. A U.S. citizen, he said agents broke through his door and dragged him out in zip ties."
Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.
chicago.suntimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 3:14 AM
"Rodrick Johnson, 67, is one of many residents who were detained by federal agents during the South Shore raid. A U.S. citizen, he said agents broke through his door and dragged him out in zip ties."
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“They’re, they’re animals anyway. That’s what I would tell my kids all the time,” said the ICE agent, according to body cam footage. spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-...
Man detained in Cato ICE raid wrongfully deported, separated from his family
Body camera footage released from the raid shows agents referring to immigrants as 'animals.'
spectrumlocalnews.com
September 27, 2025 at 11:40 PM
“They’re, they’re animals anyway. That’s what I would tell my kids all the time,” said the ICE agent, according to body cam footage. spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-...
This isn't ICE. This is Customs and Border Protection, which normally protects the border. This is an expansion of the role of that agency.
ICE attempted
and failed to disappear a food delivery guy.
It needed to be scored.
and failed to disappear a food delivery guy.
It needed to be scored.
September 29, 2025 at 11:45 AM
This isn't ICE. This is Customs and Border Protection, which normally protects the border. This is an expansion of the role of that agency.
"In Da Nang,... state media reported that the government is evacuating more than 210,000 residents" as typhoon approaches Vietnam. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/...
Hundreds of thousands evacuate as Vietnam braces for Typhoon Bualoi
Three fishermen are reported missing after their vessels sank off the coast of Quang Tri province.
www.aljazeera.com
September 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
"In Da Nang,... state media reported that the government is evacuating more than 210,000 residents" as typhoon approaches Vietnam. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/...