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Jessica McKenzie
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editing & reporting climate stories @thebulletin.org // outdoorsy newsletter: http://pinchofdirt.substack.com // tips: [email protected] or [email protected] or jessimckenzi.01 on signal
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January 27, 2026 at 9:02 PM
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feel like the cuckoo emails always pick up after the clock announcement
January 27, 2026 at 8:10 PM
jessimckenzi.bsky.social
there is so much to unpack here.

"It's about simultaneous revolutions in our viewers' careers, their children's schools, their homes, and their communities" sounds like trad culture war fare...no mention of anything of national or global significance??
It's about simultaneous revolutions in our viewers' careers, their children's schools, their homes, and their communities"
January 27, 2026 at 5:57 PM
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....but what does this meannnnn. stop posting about my town
January 27, 2026 at 4:32 PM
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"the most aggressive, comprehensive, and consequential climate policy rollback that the authoritative Climate Action Tracker has ever analyzed"
In the United States, the Trump administration’s agenda—which seeks to systematically repeal targets and policies, as well as decimate funding for climate change mitigation and science, among other things— is the most aggressive, comprehensive, and consequential climate policy rollback that the authoritative Climate Action Tracker has ever analyzed. The administration has proposed and/or implemented across-the-board halting of carbon dioxide, climate, and environmental data collection and has also threatened to shutter or break up the major climate modeling centers that produce projections critical for developing optimal strategies for climate adaptation and mitigation. The cessation of data collection includes, but is not limited to, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s iconic carbon dioxide monitoring at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii; NASA’s OCO-2 and OCO-3 satellites, which monitor carbon dioxide from space; and the Environmental Protection Agency’s Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program to track industrial and agricultural emissions. The data and information gaps created by the administration’s actions, although partially filled by other countries and/or the private sector, will mean that there is limited crosscheck on greenhouse gas emitters and hindered projections of future climate. Emission reduction and climate mitigation efforts may now be flying blind.
January 27, 2026 at 4:21 PM
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half??????
Paul Farhi @farhip · 3h Per former colleagues at the @washingtonpost : In a Zoom meeting today, Post foreign staff was told by editors that up to *half* the Post’s newsroom will be cut imminently. Biggest cuts to foreign and sports staff. Sickening.
January 26, 2026 at 9:43 PM
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sure, jan
A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said in a statement that the agency “unequivocally condemns” this type of action or officer conduct and that supervisors “acted swiftly to address the issue.” “Under President Trump and Secretary Noem, ICE is held to the highest professional standard,” the spokesperson said. “The ICE Office of Professional Responsibility will conduct a thorough investigation.”
January 25, 2026 at 9:44 PM
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nyt: here's how the trump admin blatantly lies about events that have been videotaped

also nyt: moar body cams

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/o...
Congress has the power to hold the administration accountable through its control of federal spending. A pending bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security offers a crucial opportunity to perform scrutiny and impose necessary guardrails, such as funding for body cameras.
January 25, 2026 at 8:08 PM
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uhhh is google books just completely broken? you're telling me there's no metals in this metal book??
January 23, 2026 at 4:55 PM
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idk that this feels like a bright spot to me
One bright spot in the stock market came from the rising value of defense stocks. Northrop Grumman, an aerospace and defense company, nudged higher Tuesday morning, pushing further into record territory having risen almost 20 percent already this month.
January 20, 2026 at 3:46 PM
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ok a couple hours later and a lot of brine in the one with a weight but not so much in the other one...
January 20, 2026 at 12:25 AM
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now where have i heard that before
Iran Backpedals on Executions Threat but Casts Protesters as ‘Terrorists’
January 15, 2026 at 9:30 PM
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omg google ai is so dumb
January 15, 2026 at 6:34 PM
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hilarious autosave draft from when word crashed earlier this week
It's the most horrible time of the year
January 15, 2026 at 5:17 PM
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"The hysterical pussy hats were right." still thinking about this quote three days later, and probably will be for a while...

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/o...
@lwoodhouse Was just thinking this today. The hysterical pussy hats were right. They were just premature is all.
January 15, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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THIS STUPID AI IMAGE DOESN'T EVEN MAKE SENSE. IT IMPLIES THAT GREENLAND CAN SPLIT ITSELF AND CHOOSE BOTH PATHS omgomg

www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
January 14, 2026 at 6:09 PM
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i also saw the headline on the homepage and did a double take. six? it was three an hour ago
January 13, 2026 at 7:01 PM
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everyone on this site interpreted this as ham-fisted glazing, but it only now occurs to me that it could have been a sly dig at rubio's expense

i don't think it was, but it's an interesting possibility
Then Mr. Dokoupil got his viral moment: a tonally confused segment in which he showed internet memes featuring the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, and praised his “impressive résumé.” Mr. Dokoupil concluded with an ad-libbed remark that raised eyebrows: “Marco Rubio, we salute you. You’re the ultimate Florida man.”
January 13, 2026 at 2:54 PM
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i don't know anything about broadcast news, but this sounds like amateur hour
But problems have piled up. Mr. Dokoupil’s debut weeknight telecast on Jan. 5 was marred by a teleprompter issue that left the anchor grasping for words and shaking his head with frustration in front of millions of live viewers. “First night, big problems here,” he conceded. The blunder occurred in part because Ms. Weiss and her aides were rewriting the “Evening News” script up until minutes before the 6:30 p.m. airtime, three people with knowledge of the events said.
January 13, 2026 at 2:48 PM
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on the white house website looking for recent photos of trump, like ya do, and spotted a link to "Media Offenders" in the media tab. this is deranged. www.whitehouse.gov/mediabias/
January 12, 2026 at 5:40 PM
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solved! i just searched direct match in settings
January 12, 2026 at 5:22 PM
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ya some are bookmarks but some are "direct matches" and don't show up in the bookmark tab. so ebay i think is both, so when i type in "e" it has multiple ebays in the suggestions...
January 12, 2026 at 5:19 PM
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really depressing to realize that the climate pundits have just been having the same conversations/debates for decades and are still acting like they have new ideas to bring to the table
This week saw a watershed moment for those of us committed to moving environmentalism from a politics of limits to a politics of possibility. Senator Barack Obama proposed a $150 billion After the failure of climate legislation in the U.S. Senate for the third time in June 2008, Time magazine named Nordhaus and Shellenberger "Heroes of the Environment",[6] calling Break Through "prescient" for its prediction that climate policy should focus not on making fossil fuels expensive through regulation but rather on making clean energy cheap. The book's authors reiterated this argument in a September 2008 op-ed for the Los Angeles Times, arguing for $30–$50bn in annual research subsidies for clean energy.[7]
January 7, 2026 at 6:58 PM
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probably the funniest list i'm on, made by a bitcoin/ai enthusiast, but i can't see who else is on there because bsky flagged it for "possible violations of Bluesky's community guidelines in its name or description"
Techno-pessimists People who don't like things like AI, Bitcoin, VR, Robots, or Digital Watches and won't shut up about it
January 7, 2026 at 3:29 PM
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lol the dishwashing pod industry must be scared bc they have a doctor-influencer posting vids "debunking" "misinformation" on tiktok

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January 7, 2026 at 2:24 AM