NEW: Kenya has never had an Ebola case. However, a planned quarantine facility exclusively serving Americans exposed to the virus in Africa has sparked massive protests, leading to a deadly police crackdown. “Why can’t the facility be in America?” asked Lucy Kagure, mother of a killed protester.

Happy Canada Day to this hungry red squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus) at Mont Tremblant in Quebec, just west of Montreal! Yes, that is a dedicated squirrel feeder! 🇨🇦🐿️⚜️ #SquirrelsOfTheWorld #CanadaDay

From @cwf-fcf.bsky.social’s IG page: “This squirrel is ready to celebrate! Happy Canada Day, everyone!” 🇨🇦 « V’là un écureuil qui est prêt à fêter! Bonne fête du Canada!” 🇨🇦 📸 Linda McBride #sqrlpix #CanadaDay www.instagram.com/p/DLkOp1Vsugy/

Happy #CanadaDay! 🇨🇦 Happy #WildlifeWednesday! 🐿 Spotted this little squirrel chittering up in our pine tree. So cute! #nature #photography

Every major city should have a Museum of Rodentology, with wings dedicated to squirrels, another to the unique rodents of South America, and a gift shop where visitors can buy me a gift. 🎁🐿️🏛️ @mainlymuseums.bsky.social

30 June is the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Independence Day. Congo is home to the Congo Rope Squirrel (Funisciurus congicus). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo_r... 🇨🇩🐿️🌍 #30juin #RDC #SquirrelsOfTheWorld www.iucnredlist.org/species/8758...

I am in a strange land. 🍅

Union general George H. Thomas, the "Rock of Chickamauga” served under fellow Virginian R. E. Lee at the outbreak of the war, but unlike Lee didn’t forsake his oath. He also doesn’t mince words on what he felt about former Confederates in an 1868 report on Reconstruction efforts that he led👇

I wonder if the Rhiwbina Rugby Football Club — the Squirrels — ever made the jump to Bluesky… @rhiwbinaRFC 🏉🐿️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 rhiwbina.rfc.wales

Happy 100th birthday, Mel Brooks ❤️😍 Funniest man alive.

As they have started the search for the next James Bond actor, has nobody proposed Mamdani?

Cats are good for something. 🪰😾 #SaySomethingNiceAboutCats

Trees. Trees. Trees. They matter. Plant them. Protect them.

Finland’s men’s football team are the Eagle Owls. Nigeria has the Super Eagles. DR Congo has the Leopards. England has the Three Lions. Algeria has The Fennec foxes. But who has a national football team called The Squirrels? 🇧🇯⚽️🐿️ #SquirrelsOfTheWorld #WorldCup #Benin open.substack.com/pub/africanf...

It is time for a new team to win the World Cup! Forget Dragons and Lions and Leopards, the time of The Squirrels has come! 🏆⚽️🐿️ #football #WorldCup2026 #SquirrelScrolling

The 1951 Refugee Convention, UNHCR: ‘The core principle of the 1951 Convention is non-refoulement, which asserts that a refugee should not be returned to a country where they face serious threats to their life or freedom.’ Source: www.unhcr.org/about-unhcr/...

It is time for a new team to win the World Cup! Forget Dragons and Lions and Leopards, the time of The Squirrels has come! 🏆⚽️🐿️ #football #WorldCup2026 #SquirrelScrolling

Finland’s men’s football team are the Eagle Owls. Nigeria has the Super Eagles. DR Congo has the Leopards. England has the Three Lions. Algeria has The Fennec foxes. But who has a national football team called The Squirrels? 🇧🇯⚽️🐿️ #SquirrelsOfTheWorld #WorldCup #Benin open.substack.com/pub/africanf...

French Resistance fighter and historian Marc Bloch, murdered by the Gestapo in 1944, is inducted into Panthéon in Paris.

M 7.5 earthquake 23 km SE of Yumare, Venezuela earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

Ok you guys. Here’s the deal. The M7.1 in Venezuela was upgraded to a M7.2. AND it was followed shortly by a M7.5. Not good.

holy shit bsky has a water sealant expert that predicted the reflecting pool failure mode perfectly

Heard Trump compared to the Roman Emperor Commodus today:

The UN declares June 24 to be Women in Diplomacy Day. Officially, the International Day of Women in Diplomacy. ♀ 🇺🇳 www.un.org/en/observanc...

Happy Pink Flamingo Day! 🦩

nobody in British politics seems to want to say it but the single biggest driver of their inability to keep a prime minister for any length of time is that Brexit was stupid and ruinous and made everyone’s lives worse

President Trump’s attacks on the LGBTQ community are nothing new. In fact, he stole his playbook directly from the politicians of the McCarthy era who outed and fired thousands of government workers solely for being gay.

Happy World Camel Day! An animal so nice They emojied them twice! 🐪🌍🐫 #WorldCamelDay #camels

Good morning to everyone, but especially to all the camels, for today is their special day! To celebrate World Camel Day, here is an illustration of a camel from the book 'Animated Nature' (1828) by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon. 📷 Reserve 590 BUF #WorldCamelDay #CamelDay #RareBooks

Today (22 June) is World Camel Day! For #mosaicMonday this amazing fragment of a Byzantine mosaic features a grazing camel. It is said to be from Syria. #worldcamelday Art Institute of Chicago 1970.1065 www.artic.edu/artworks/353...

Why do humans go along with having mediocrities and bullies as leaders? And why do low-level politicians and party insiders fall in line for obviously immoral “leaders”? The problem is much bigger than Trump or any one elected official.

The reflecting pool is being sabotaged by paid protistas

To the “AI is useful” crowd, it might certainly be in theory, but we can’t ignore that it is being shaped by right wing extractive logics mired in cultural hierarchal commitments, that have very little interest in a utility that serves a broader social good.

#WorldRefugeeDay Our awareness should be everyday, shouldn’t it.

Somehow Caturday is trending but World Refugee Day is not on @bsky.app ? Maybe it’s trending in other languages. Aujourd’hui c’est la Journée mondiale du réfugié.

Today is World Refugee Day. @unhcr.org

A 22-year-old just got a $30 million investment valuing his new futures exchange at $300 million. He graduated Stanford, wrote for Thiel's Stanford Review, interned at Andreessen Horowitz. His mom? Pro-crypto Sen. Gillibrand, D-NY. Bipartisan capture in full bloom. fortune.com/2026/06/18/t...

nothing in the US is getting better until we start start treating this kind of thing as what it is: a form of bribery

“Seventy-five years ago, in the aftermath of the Second World War, countries came together and agreed that anyone forced to flee war, conflict or persecution had the right to seek safety and protection. That promise was enshrined in the 1951 Refugee Convention.”

“Tomorrow is World Refugee Day, a moment to recognize the courage and determination of nearly 42 million people uprooted from their countries by war, violence and persecution.” ~UN High Commissioner for Refugees Barham Salih

Juneteenth represents a partial liberation. Slavery still exists in America. The 13th Amendment abolished slavery except as punishment for crime, creating a pipeline from plantation slavery to prison slavery. Today we remember those who never stopped resisting, and we take action.

Today in History: June 19th 1865: In what is now known as Juneteenth, Union soldiers arrive in Galveston, Texas, with news that the Civil War is over and slavery in the United States is abolished. #BlackHistory

Is MAGA just an American version of China’s Cultural Revolution? Smashing democratic traditions & mocking their own country’s heritage. And for the unquestioning Cult of Mao, MAGA has the Cult of Trump. And for “Better red than an expert” there is the army of incompetent ideologues and anti-science.

The kids love Kylian. #WorldCup 🇫🇷⚽️🏆

#London, #UK has used the #beaver 🦫 to stop flooding #EalingBeaverProject, uses beavers to do what they do, build dams, in a rewilding effort bringing beavers from Scotland to UK. “They have protected nearby streets and Greenford tube station from routine #flooding. “

An unexpected group of engineers - beavers - has solved the flooding issue affecting northwest London residents’ homes, streets, & the local Tube station since the 1970s. London Mayor Sir Sadiq Khan championed the reintroduction of beavers. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

‘A lot of the people who have come here legally, especially over the last 30 years, and those who have been born here, they don’t belong here. And they do need to go back to the… countries of their ancestors.’ Charlie Downes, Restore Britain’s Campaign Director. Absolutely monstrous ‼️

Los gatos odian a los gatos. 😾⚔️😾 #CatsHateCats

There’s a Pokémon crime wave in Laval, police say montrealgazette.com/news/local-c...