Climate advice columnist. Writing at The Washington Post. No longer active here. Try: https://xitter.cf/t.co/LpPBwR743v
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The Anthropic editorial team is hiring! Come work with me.
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After nearly five years at the Miami Herald, I was laid off today along with dozens of my very talented and hardworking colleagues.
It’s sad, but I’m grateful for the experience. I am a better reporter, writer and person because of it.
Onwards and upwards.
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Southern California currently has the highest humidity in the U.S., even surpassing Florida.
The dew point over the Salton Sea reached a stifling 81°F, while Los Angeles hit 73°F, comparable to the Amazon rainforest and quite possibly its highest value on record.
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For @esquire, I wrote about losing a dream job earlier this year in the same month our daughter arrived.
About the fear and anxiety of it all.
And about the clarity on the other side: esquire.com/lifestyle/money/…
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It’s not every day that you see a former Canadian Ambassador use the word “dipshits” to describe his 🇺🇸 peers.
The dipshits running the US Embassy in Ottawa and the Department of the Interior forget there is a treaty between our countries that names the Great Lakes. treaty-accord.gc.ca/text-tex…
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There are retirees of all ages ready to tell the rest of us why we can't have housing!
You know in my day rent used to cost a nickel!
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I never buy anti-bacterial soap, opting instead for plain soap and water. Now @MJ_Coren explains why that means sense -- and how you might be breeding super bugs by falling for hygiene theater washingtonpost.com/climate-e…
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California is getting rid of the recycling symbol -- and that's a meaningful step in the push to curb the mounting piles of plastic waste in the U.S., writes @MJ_Coren washingtonpost.com/climate-e…
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“They are waiting to get marching orders and a direct deposit.” Ashley St. Clair had one of Elon Musk’s children and joined #MAGA at 19. But now she's taking aim at pro-Trump influencers on TikTok, saying they're paid to post. By @drewharwell washingtonpost.com/technolog…
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With gas prices rising, the math on buying an EV is changing. @MJ_Coren runs the numbers for you, to determine what's the right move at this moment washingtonpost.com/climate-e…
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Very proud that our Washington Post team in Ukraine's work has won a coveted Gold Medal from the Society for News Design. The panel summed up our Ukraine coverage simply: “We need it. The public needs it.” ❤️🩹 It was a huge group effort, as always.
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Feeling so fortunate and excited to tell stories about the changing planet for the @nytimes. nytco.com/press/chico-harlan…
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There are a number of foods I make myself rather than buying them in store. Now @MJ_Coren has shown how this route not only saves you money, it's healthier and tastier too washingtonpost.com/climate-e…
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Before the twin fossil shocks of the 1970s, GDP growth ran in parallel with fossil growth.
Afterwards, electricity took its place – the new fuel of economic growth.
Even then, the first signs of the #electrotech economy were emerging ⚡
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Glad to see this go viral — especially among conservatives. This fight isn't left vs. right. It's voters vs. lobbyists.
A lot of people are asking how this got into the farm bill. The answer: House Ag Chair Glenn Thompson put it in. Small farmers in his own district — who don't use crates — urged him not to. He said he didn't care: the National Pork Producers Council wanted it.
Principled conservatives like Reps. Anna Paulina Luna, David Valadao, Nancy Mace, Brian Fitzpatrick, and Thomas Massie have strongly opposed this provision. But too many Congressional Republicans have fallen in line with the industrial pork lobby.
The farm bill still has to pass the full House, then the Senate, where it needs 60 votes. It'll be a close vote, so every vote will matter.
Call 202-224-3121, select your reps and senators, and tell them: oppose the farm bill if the Save Our Bacon Act stays in. We can stop this.
Hidden on page 744 of the farm bill the House Agriculture Committee passed Thursday is a provision that would condemn millions of pigs to a lifetime in gestation crates.
Rebranded the 'Save Our Bacon Act,' it's a pork-industry play to wipe out every state law banning the sale of pork from crated pigs — laws the conservative Supreme Court upheld in 2023.
Over 85% of Democrats and Republicans oppose these crates. Voters have backed ballot measures to ban them in state after state.
The pork industry knows it can't win a straight vote on this. So it's burying the provision in an 800-page bill and hoping no one notices.
Contact your senators and representative today and tell them: oppose the farm bill unless the Save Our Bacon Act is stripped out. You can reach them at senate.gov and house.gov — it takes two minutes and it matters.
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SCOOP: Last year we reported extensively on Elon Musk’s desire to break into the data pipes of government to bypass the federal bureaucracy. That approach had major consequences — one of which we reveal today: A DOGE bro allegedly made off with volumes upon volumes of highly sensitive Social Security data - the agency’s “crown jewels” - which he downloaded on a thumb drive and brought over to his new job. Me, @MerylKornfield @FedGirlWaPo report on this unprecedented breach:
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This is one of my last articles for The Washington Post. The incredible photography is by @vanhoutenphoto, who was also laid off.
No full-time staff who were in Kyiv on Feb. 24, 2022 for The Post are still with the paper.
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Amid the housing crunch, more Americans are considering building accessory dwelling units. @MJ_Coren has a guide on whether this move is right for you washingtonpost.com/climate-e…
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With the Olympics done, my time at The Post is also done. It’s been an amazing five-plus years. The people I worked with weren’t just supremely talented, they were also great humans. This was truly a dream job and I’m eternally grateful I got this opportunity.
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The New York Times made news the loss leader for a $2 billion digital revenue machine, and this chart is the receipt.
News-only subscribers dropped 65% since June 2022. Bundle subscribers grew 227%. That looks like a news collapse. But the NYT deliberately killed its standalone news product. They stopped marketing it. They made it nearly impossible to buy a news-only subscription on their website. They priced the full bundle (News + Games + Cooking + Athletic + Wirecutter) at $2/month introductory, cheaper than a standalone Games subscription.
News-only ARPU is $13.33. Bundle ARPU is $12.92. Single non-news product ARPU is $3.36. Those 4.3 million single-product subscribers paying $3.36/month? They’re not the business. They’re the funnel. The NYT CEO said it explicitly on the earnings call: single products are “funnels to get people to subscribe” to the bundle.
Games now accounts for over 50% of time spent inside the NYT app. Wordle, Connections, and the Mini pull 10+ million weekly players who never intended to read a news article. But half of all NYT subscribers now pay for the bundle, and bundle subscribers retain longer, engage more, and accept price increases. The bundle just went from $25 to $30/month.
The result: digital revenue crossed $2 billion for the first time in 2025. Free cash flow hit $550 million. Adjusted operating margins reached 24% in Q4. Berkshire Hathaway just took a billion-dollar position. While the Washington Post cut 300 journalists last week, the Times added 1.4 million subscribers.
This chart shows a news company that built an attention ecosystem where Wordle gets you in the door, Cooking keeps you at breakfast, The Athletic owns your commute, and by the time you think about canceling, you’d lose four products instead of one.
The NYT figured out that the way to fund journalism in 2026 is to make sure you can’t quit the crossword.
