Amy O'Leary
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Formerly NYT, This American Life, Upworthy & Headspace. In NH.
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Justin Walsh
about 15 hours ago
I am not smart enough to give advice to
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and I can't wait to read this book. But I would argue that there's an even greater possibility here: we need humanistic perspectives incorporated into techno-scientific practice to improve their outcomes so everyone benefits.
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Parker Molloy
1 day ago
I've been watching these terrible Washington Post podcast clips on YouTube, and dear god, this is bleak. Also, the view counts are just... how are they so low?
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Sammy Roth
about 17 hours ago
Cool to see 19 new wind turbines generate as much electricity as 400 (!) old turbines in CA's Altamont Pass. The U.S. could more than double its onshore wind capacity with no new land via repowering, per a Stanford study:
www.quittingcarbonmedia.com/a-repowered-...
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A repowered California wind farm rises in a birthplace of the industry
Quitting Carbon recently toured Brookfield Renewable U.S.' Mulqueeney Ranch Wind Repowering Project in Northern California's Altamont Pass, one of the sites where today's wind power industry was born.
https://www.quittingcarbonmedia.com/a-repowered-california-wind-farm-rises-in-a-birthplace-of-the-industry/
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Sherrilyn Ifill
about 17 hours ago
Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the stateâs racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.
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Cynâ§ââ§Ë
about 20 hours ago
The libby app is truly one of the best things that has ever happened to me. I implore EVERY one to get a library card and get the app! So many books at your fingertips!!
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Prisonculture
1 day ago
we're in a literacy crisis.
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Parker Molloy
3 days ago
This rules
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It's like I always advise media clients: if you're not thinking about promotion in your content lifecycle, why did you even bother creating an Olm, or a Siphonophore?
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The Dobson Family and Colin the Dalek
6 days ago
I still love the theory a Year 6 child proposed to me that David Attenborough is actually God and he got fed up with people not noticing the amazing things he'd created, so he made documentaries to show off.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans)
6 days ago
Fascists succeed in general because they are willing to take stuff, break rules, get violent, while most of their opponents are not Fascists lose, in general, because they pick (at least) one fight too many with someone they didn't expect to fight back
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Ed Burmila
6 days ago
Discourse about finding "the Rogan of the Left" or "the liberal answer to Fox News" rarely accounts for the reality that the entire conservative media universe is the enormously unprofitable vanity project of a few rich sociopaths. It "succeeds" because they don't care how much it costs.
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SeaTea
6 days ago
This dog was a three term mayor of Whoville.
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Alexander Chee
6 days ago
This is going in my treasured screenshots album and Iâll post a link to my AI reference guide page for my CW students, on Canvas.
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Andrew Steele
7 days ago
I got a Google Alert for my name yesterday, pointing to an article for an outlet Iâd never spoken to, full of quotes Iâve never said. Itâs now correctedâŠbut the editor told me âI asked Google to find an expert but I think it used AI.â Isnât it your job to check..?
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Lauren M
8 days ago
Musn't let the climate breakdown get in the way of the racism
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Evan Berry
8 days ago
Itâs a wonky term, but âpolycrisisâ helps us remember that climate change, economic injustice, and far right reactionary politics are not separate, nor are they really analogies or metaphors for one another.
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Eileen Clancy đ§ż
10 days ago
Internal ICE records reveal widespread use of force in detention centers By Douglas MacMillan, Andrew Ba Tran, Drea Cornejo and Luis Melgar Reports: guards increasingly use chemical agents and physical tactics on detainees, even for demanding adequate water, food, and medical care Gift link!
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Internal ICE records reveal widespread use of force in detention centers
The reports detail how guards have increasingly used chemical agents and physical tactics on detainees, including groups demanding adequate water, food and medical care.
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Kim Lyons
10 days ago
A detail I didnât know: âThe Herald entered the Epstein series for a Pulitzer Prize that year, but it was not a finalist. Alan Dershowitz ⊠who helped broker Epsteinâs original deal, wrote a letter to the Pulitzer committee that year, urging them not to honor Brownâs work.â
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Julie K. Brown receives Pulitzer Prize special citation for her work on Jeffrey Epstein case
Brown's 2017 and 2018 reporting was cited at the awards ceremony. âHer work, and the governmentâs release of the Epstein files, continue to reverberate around the world.â
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Eileen Clancy đ§ż
11 days ago
Extraordinary story, from SiobhĂĄn O'Grady, formerly the Ukraine bureau chief of the Washington Post, and her team. She and her colleagues were all cast aside by the management. Here's just one line: "He radios his commander and asks for a drone to drop a body bag from the sky."
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This seems very bad
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Who's up for an AI Slop Tax?
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein đ
14 days ago
I keep thinking about the ease with which they cancelled elections over the last 24 hours
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Paul Rosenberg
14 days ago
This is sextupling down on something LA Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong trotted out post-2024 election, to use AI to write alternative versions of stories. I most ignore LAT these days, but that was too wild to ignore. Needless to say, this would be a total triumph of
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jamelle
15 days ago
yeah, so two things. first, i have been saying for some time that *this* is the message. and that it is a broad one that can fit a large number of concerns. and second, this dude has the juice.
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Agree. When I am looking to make sense of breaking news, the Guardian has been consistently clearer and more direct.
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Zeb Larson
16 days ago
If you want to counteract that, it has to be with emotional narratives and they have to be everywhere.
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Louisa
16 days ago
You should read every single word of this
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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âSheâs opening the bees!â US beekeeper jailed for trying to save friend from eviction
Massachusetts woman set swarms of insects on sheriffâs deputies attempting to evict elderly man with cancer
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/28/massachusetts-beekeeper-jailed-eviction?CMP=fb_gu&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwdGRjcAReOK9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEekgdhPBGdij16Ldch-yCl3N-Z9CdpOAPGvfXPxPKVU4BChI38kwwdwOq8UCo_aem_KosCwcs9DMDmYBMkbMf3sg#Echobox=1777387913
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis
17 days ago
One of the problems with technology today is if you're a millenial/xennial you remember when tech worked.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein đ
17 days ago
Once you start to understand that there is a powerful and influential minority of Americans who think democracy is a bad idea, you start to understand the fight we are in
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Erika Hall
20 days ago
We need a banger song of the summer about the importance of critical thinking.
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Alexander Chee
21 days ago
The Killham Bear Center has a new cub named Hiro, and Iâm a little obsessed.
www.instagram.com/kilhambearce...
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I wrote on historiography and powerâlooking at how schema-driven interpretations of the past are produced and contested, using the Balkan War as a case study!
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Jeff Sharlet
22 days ago
It's either about oranges or the end of the world, and it's maddening, sad, well-reported, and well-told.
slate.com/business/202...
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It Was on Your Table Every Morning Growing Up. Itâs Dying Before Our Eyes. No One Wants to Face It.
The powerhouse of American citrus is suffering a brutal decline. Everyone has a theory about why.
https://slate.com/business/2026/04/florida-state-orange-food-houses-real-estate.html
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Petter Törnberg
23 days ago
Is social media dying? How much did Twitter change as it became X? Which party now dominates the conversation? Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has changed Here are the key take-aways đ§” Full paper out now in in JQD:DM!
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Shifts in U.S. Social Media Use, 2020â2024: Decline, Fragmentation, and Enduring Polarization | Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media
https://journalqd.org/article/view/9611
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molly conger
23 days ago
birds: they will never email you. and thatâs a promise.
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Radley Balko
23 days ago
This is monstrous. Just profoundly shameful behavior by our government.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/w...
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Trump Is Said to Be in Talks to Send Afghans Who Aided U.S. Forces to Congo
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/world/europe/afghan-refugees-congo-us.html
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Jonathan Cohn
23 days ago
"Clean energy is now scaling fast enough to absorb rising global electricity demand, keeping fossil generation flat before its inevitable decline."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Clean energy generation exceeded rise in global electricity demand in 2025
Output from solar farms rose by a third while electricity from fossil fuels fell, research from thinktank reveals
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/21/clean-energy-generation-exceeded-rise-global-electricity-demand-2025
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein đ
23 days ago
Empire collapse
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Eileen Clancy đ§ż
23 days ago
Good people exist. Another abductee released. Good fella, Norm flew to Texas to get him. Picked him up close to midnight. Overnighted in a hotel. Took him to Walmart so he to get something aside from the clothes he was kidnapped in. Flew him back to MSP. Drove him home. Read the whole thread!
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Jeff Sharlet
23 days ago
Like me, you may think you understand the horror of measles and the murder being committed by RFK & co. Read this, if you can handle it--my eyes are tearing up for this splendid child lost--and learn just how much more terrible and heartbreaking it is.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...
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Opinion | Measles Took My Daughter. This Is What I Want Everyone to Know.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/opinion/measles-child-britain-vaccination.html?unlocked_article_code=1.clA.nuBB.XxloGAdRjasj&smid=url-share
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Philip Gourevitch
23 days ago
flat out identity theft
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans)
23 days ago
Trump is within sight of an under 30% overall approval rating. One of the most important causes right now is to establish a media narrative and popular support behind severe punishments and consequences to our present criminals running things.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans)
24 days ago
this is one of the most offensive things I've seen in years
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Nice thread of classic tips.
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Max Kennerly
25 days ago
A couple points on this manifesto, apart from the racial superiority subtext others noted. Palantir is a company built on public contracts, they bill the state billions to surveil and target the state's population. The manifesto exists to justify their demand for even more. /1
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Robđž
25 days ago
I keep getting told goods move by diesel truck Not China which is shifting to 100% electric trucking
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China eyes near-total electrification of freight trucks to cut emissions
Chinaâs push to electrify heavy trucks could slash road oil demand by half, driven by cost, scale, and energy security.
https://interestingengineering.com/transportation/china-electric-trucks-cut-emissions
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Waiting for our flight to take off and the pilot is trying to REBOOT THE AIRPLANE. After the first attempt failed, he just said, "planes are just like a big cell phone, you have to turn them off and then on again." Ummm.
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undrwrldAchvr.();
30 days ago
If boycotting Target for dropping DEI wasn't enough, boycotting Target to prevent getting falsely jailed by AI seems pretty good.
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