Audrey Gray
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Writing about our climate, courage, and protection.
https://www.audreygray.nyc
newrepublic.com/article/1857...
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The Most Powerful Crypto Bro in Washington Has Very Weird Beliefs
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says the U.S. is in ādeclineā and embraces a cultish tech movement to build ānetworkā societies beyond the reach of nation-statesāand heās got Congress eating out of his h...
https://newrepublic.com/article/185738/coinbase-brian-armstrong-crypto-lobbying-washington-politicians
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A photo I shot from the Bluffs two weeks agoā¦sending comfort today to all who are aching on the East and West Sides, to Altadena, Topanga, Malibu.To those displaced and unsettled. To those grieving and suffering from the health effects of the smoke. To those who moved away but are right here still.
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This is painful and, for me personally, too soon...BUT it's really good. "The fires" could happen again, and DWW outlines some practical prevention measures.
@dwallacewells.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/o...
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Opinion | Which City Burns Next?
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/opinion/los-angeles-fires-lessons.html
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OlĆŗfįŗ¹Ģmi O. TĆ”Ćwò
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I am reminded here to tap the sign encouraging you all to support independent, worker run, billionaire free newsrooms how and where you are able
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Itās here! 90th & West End Ave. Not to be picky but it could use a door and a dial tone.
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Damon Beres
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Goodnight, sweet angel.
@matteowong.bsky.social
, in mourning for the MetroCard (and with a lot of cool new photos and videos of the MetroCard factory in its final days):
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The MetroCard Never Got Its Due
A symbol of New York is gone.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/12/metrocard-farewell-new-york-subway/685276/?gift=iWa_iB9lkw4UuiWbIbrWGeeoHtTyztPfXLnUuLoTFTA
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Wildest of the year.
www.dezeen.com/2025/03/31/m...
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Philippe Starck reveals "unique and surprising" hotel topped with 19th-century mansions
Philippe Starck has unveiled the surreal Maison Heler hotel in Metz, France dezeen, which its topped with what appears to be a 19th-century mansion.
https://www.dezeen.com/2025/03/31/maison-heler-philippe-starck-metz-sureal-hotel/
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Amtrakās āNext Genā proves again to be an utter debacle, and MTA a miracle.
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thebarbedwire.com/2025/12/29/t...
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The Kindness That Got Us Through The Year
This year was a year to remember, and for (mostly) the wrong reasons, yet for every awful thing that happened in Texas kindness prevailed.
https://thebarbedwire.com/2025/12/29/the-kindness-that-got-us-through-the-year/
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Scott Horton
14 days ago
Trump's DOJ was monitoring all the movements of the Miami Herald reporter who was covering the Epstein case.
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Trump Halts Five Wind Farms Off the East Coast
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/climate/trump-offshore-wind-farms.html?smid=bs-share
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Chris Geidner
21 days ago
Again, from Michael Grynbaum, here is Sharyn Alfonsi's full email. It must be read:
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molly taft
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do leaders of the top investigative newsroom in the country not understand what makes their journalism valuable??????
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āā¦even in the midst of chaos and violence, we can remain compassionate and fearless.ā -Tuan Andrew Nguyen
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/a...
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Tuan Andrew Nguyen Wins High Line Commission
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/arts/design/tuan-andrew-nguyen-high-line-commission.html
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Drilled
27 days ago
We're thrilled to announce that Nina Lakhani will be joining Drilled as senior global climate justice reporter in January, based in Mexico City. We've long admired her incredible ability to tell the human stories of the climate crisis and can't wait to collaborate!
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Bill Grueskin
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Oh lord what a beautiful piece: āHis brainchild now consorts with the bad buys The sinker, clinkers, dogs and dregs, The Edsels of the world of moveable type, The bummers that no amount of hype could shift, The unbudgeable turkeys.ā h/t
@beijingpalmer.bsky.social
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'The Book of my Enemy Has Been Remaindered' - Clive James
https://web.cs.dal.ca/~johnston/poetry/bookofmyenemy.html
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Shefali Luthra
29 days ago
No student journalist should ever have to write this kind of story
www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...
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Active shooter on campus, no suspects in custody, Department of Public Safety reports
The alert and call were sent to students immediately by DPS following the incident, urging students to hide, run or evacuate until further notice.
https://www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025/12/active-shooter-on-campus-department-of-public-safety-reports
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New York Times Weather
about 1 month ago
Officials in Washington State are especially concerned about the Skagit and Snohomish Rivers, which were rising on Thursday and expected to crest at record levels by Friday. But it could be days before the full extent of damage from the floods is known.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/w...
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100,000 Ordered to Evacuate as Rivers Rise in Washington State
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/weather/washington-flooding-rain-atmospheric-river.html
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Amy Westervelt
about 1 month ago
Or if you're more of an audio person:
drilled.media/investigatio...
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New Oil Colonialism
As the fossil fuel industry races to tap its remaining reserves, what impact is it having on what it calls āfrontierā countries in the Global South?
https://drilled.media/investigations/new-oil-colonialism
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FRANCE 24 English
about 1 month ago
The Bright side: French Christmas ad starring vegetarian wolf goes viral
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The Bright side: French Christmas ad starring vegetarian wolf goes viral
French supermarket IntermarchĆ© went viral after posting a charming Christmas cartoon ad about a vegetarian wolf. The clip has been watched tens of millions of times worldwide.Ā
https://f24.my/Bc7d.bs
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Here's a little goldmine: recordings of author talks/interviews at Shakespeare & Co. in Paris. (I'm a huge fan of Francesca Wade's new Gertrude Stein bio, and this interview!)
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Podcasts
Stay in touch with the bookshop through The Shakespeare and Company Interview podcast. Hosted by S&Co Literary Director Adam Biles the show features conversations with internationally acclaimed author...
https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/podcasts
about 1 month ago
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ProPublica
about 1 month ago
Trump hung up on a ProPublica reporter after being asked whether his Florida mortgages were similar to those of others he had accused of fraud. Read our full investigation here š
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Trumpās Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing ...
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-mortgage-fraud-florida-principal-residences?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1765341000&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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āThey aimed weapons at witnesses that included staff and students while many more students watched from their windows. These tactics, with the implicit threat of violence, are unacceptable, dangerous, and profoundly disturbing.ā
www.augsburg.edu/now/2025/12/...
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University statement on December 6 law enforcement action on campus - Augsburg Now
The Augsburg University community was deeply shaken by an incident that took place on campus on December 6. Without producing a warrant, an armed, masked group of ICE agents targeted an undergraduate ...
https://www.augsburg.edu/now/2025/12/07/university-statement-on-december-6-law-enforcement-incident-on-campus/
about 1 month ago
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This Hanya Yanagihara quote feels bullseye to me: "But perhaps Gen X's greatest contribution...is not the irony or apathy with which we're popularly associated but our against-all-rationality dedication to making things our wayāeven when the world is hostile, even when it seems no one cares."
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Amazing that Paul Goldberger (who wrote Gehry's biography) had just yesterday written about the firm's latest project...the day before Gehry passed away at age 96. It's such a beautiful case for never retiring.
www.architecturaldigest.com/story/archit...
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Architect Frank Gehry Conjures an Astonishing, Sculptural Home in Silicon Valley
With interiors by The Wiseman Group, the visionary architectās latest project balances form and livable function
https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/architect-frank-gehry-sculptural-home-in-silicon-valley
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The writing in this New Yorker at 100 Netflix thing is so, so bad...."he quipped."
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Gift link.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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The Strange Disappearance of an Anti-AI Activist
Sam Kirchner wants to save the world from artificial superintelligence. Heās been missing for two weeks.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/12/sam-kirchner-missing-stop-ai/685144/?gift=NdplpYPBD0DO229JTO-1fNw2hFOFeWPcDPlnOolg7-g
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David Roberts
about 1 month ago
Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved. Don't look up!
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Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/climate/zillow-climate-risk-scores-homes.html?unlocked_article_code=1.5E8.pnKU.tdqxwARPeVCp&smid=bs-share
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I love this photo by Denise Sofranko of Raitt & Prine performing in ā93. (New doc!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/a...
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āMr. Trump has said publicly that he would like a ballroom big enough to hold a crowd for a presidential inauguration.ā So, about 1,000 people then.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
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Inside Trumpās Push to Make the White House Ballroom as Big as Possible
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/us/politics/trump-white-house-ballroom.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Peter Sterne
about 1 month ago
Northwestern throws trans women under the bus to please the Trump administration (while also paying off the Trump administration).
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Matthew Eadie
about 1 month ago
And one more other thing Iām seeing now, that Northwestern unsurprisingly didnāt mention in its statement, effectively banning gender affirming care at NU school of medicine
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Matthew Eadie
about 1 month ago
This is the second largest payout from a private university to the Trump admin yet, second only to Columbiaās $200m
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Free spirited joy from E.B.White, responding to a U.S. Dept of Ag bulletin re: bees resisting breeding... "Man is meddlesome, man is dull, Man is busy instead of idle, Man is alarmingly suicidal... I am a bee, I know about love: You go upstairs, you go above..."
www.badbeekeeping.com/ebwhite.htm
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E.B White: Song of the Queen Bee
http://www.badbeekeeping.com/ebwhite.htm
about 1 month ago
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Erin Kissane
about 2 months ago
arguing about AI on here today is the cowardās path and you know it, you gotta go do it with your worst uncle
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"I donāt know what kind of impervious boor you have to be not to notice that everything in France looks better than things look anywhere else. There is some sort of atavistic aestheticism embedded in the French soul. The smallest objects of daily use are touched with beauty." -Janet Malcolm
about 2 months ago
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Eric Umansky
about 2 months ago
āIsrael has destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in areas of Gaza that have remained under its control since the ceasefire. āMany of the razed buildings did not appear to be damaged prior to being destroyed. There were houses with gardens, trees and some small orchards.ā
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Israel has destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in Gaza since ceasefire
Entire neighbourhoods controlled by Israel have been levelled in less than a month, the images show.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0mxylxw48yo
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"...her writing, which is often called journalism, is in fact some other wholly original form of art, some singular admixture of reporting, biography, literary criticism, psychoanalysis, and the nineteenth-century novelāEnglish and Russian both."
www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6...
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Janet Malcolm, The Art of Nonfiction No. 4
āThe 'I' character in journalism is almost pure invention.ā
https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6073/the-art-of-nonfiction-no-4-janet-malcolm
about 2 months ago
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āIf we drive the carbon cycle far enough from equilibrium, it will respond in kind, no matter how hard we try to subordinate it to the market, or tame it with panicked legislation.ā -
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(quote from Peterās excellent new book)
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FRANCE 24 English
about 2 months ago
Delhiās pollution is a crisis of democracy as much as public health, citizens say
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Delhiās pollution is a crisis of democracy as much as public health, citizens say
Citizens in the Indian capital of New Delhi say that the governmentās inaction against the pollution-driven public health crisis signals both a struggling democracy and hypocrisy, as India leads talks on climate action in the Global South at COP30.Ā
https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20251115-delhi-pollution-crisis-democracy-public-health-cop30-india?source=bluesky
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Christopher Cox
about 2 months ago
Writers! Applications for the Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award are open. This year, we've increased the prize to $15,000 to account for the higher cost of pasta. Apply now:
journalism.nyu.edu/about-us/awa...
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Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award - NYU Journalism
Matthew Power was an award-winning journalist who reported empathetically on the human [ā¦]
https://journalism.nyu.edu/about-us/awards-and-fellowships/matthew-power-literary-reporting-award/
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"Emissions appear to have stayed nearly flat in China and Europe, but rose significantly in the United States and much of the rest of the world."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/c...
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Carbon Dioxide Emissions Head for Another Record in 2025
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/climate/greenhouse-gas-emissions-china.html?smid=bs-share
about 2 months ago
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Brooke Jarvis
2 months ago
I've posted before about how much I enjoy the random and detailed pedantry of fact-checking. Just off a call that required watching YouTube clips to parse the correctness of a simile involving the way Imperial Walkers fall over in Star Wars.
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are you not infotained
2 months ago
A siege-breaking snowstorm followed by the strongest aurora in living memory is proof that Chicago has the Mandate of Heaven and its enemies will die by her sword
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David Wallace-Wells
2 months ago
āClimate-related disasters forcibly displaced 250 million people globally over the past decade, the equivalent of 70,000 displacements every day, according to a report by the UN refugee agency.ā
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Climate disasters displaced 250 million people in past 10 years, UN report finds
Floods, storms and droughts have uprooted people across the globe as rising temperatures intensify conflict and hunger
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/09/climate-disasters-displaced-250-million-people-in-past-10-years-un-report-finds
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David Roberts
2 months ago
"Fossil demand has been flat for industrial energy since 2014, for buildings since 2018, for road transport since 2019, & may peak for electricity this year. 2/3 of countries have already seen peak fossil demand in end-use sectors, & half the world has seen a peak in fossil fuels for electricity."
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The Electrotech Revolution | Ember
The annual slidedeck from Kingsmill Bond and the Ember Futures team unpacks how electrotech is rewriting the economics and geopolitics of energy.
https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/the-electrotech-revolution/#foreword
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Marvelous familyā¦they found me Janet Flannerās postwar love lettersā¦for $26 including shipping. š
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/n...
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One Bookstore, 3 Sisters and 100 Years
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/nyregion/three-sisters-argosy-books.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
2 months ago
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Meade Krosby
2 months ago
Adaptation š¤ Mitigation
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Bill Grueskin
2 months ago
Are we invading Poland
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Amy Westervelt
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