Brian PJ Cronin

@brianpjcronin

Environmental/Outdoors reporter at , Professor at Marist College. I’m either outside doing something dumb or at home covered in cats.

Beacon, NY
Joined February 2009
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    20 hours ago

    Cool! What about false climate science claims, ⁩?

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    20 hours ago

    New York State began vaccinating 1,075 prisoners 65 and over on Friday (Feb. 5). Corrections officers and staff were already eligible to receive vaccinations.

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  3. Feb 8

    Don’t see why we can’t get Portishead to play the halftime show next year

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    Feb 7

    Skipping right past the part where the students also accused him of saying disparaging things about Black teens, being disrespectful during an indigenous ceremony, and being sexist.

    "For reporter Donald McNeil to end his long career as a result of a single word, risks sending a chilling message. That the paper apparently altered its course ... as a result of public pressure is a further worrying signal. Pen America weighs in:
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  5. Feb 7

    Guessing it’s not a coincidence that published this on Superb Owl Sunday.

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    Feb 6

    Thread and yes. Wildly popular health influencers like Dr. Oz have been using the rhetoric of "here's what the government won't tell you" and "here's what doctors don't want you to know" for years. I can see that opening the door to conspiratorial thinking.

    Alt-health marketing sells distrust of public health: reasonable in a country that abuses its citizens. As a protective response against the cruel ambivalence of the state, wellness/yoga easily aligns with conservative, libertarian, or sovereign citizen movements. /6
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  7. Feb 6

    How was the capitol riot only a month ago

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    5 Dec 2017

    Tecmo Concussion Bowl

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    Feb 6

    This is a very good piece. I haven't seen ties between QAnon and poverty or even education level. The ties are mostly circumstantial, like sudden losses of a job or a loved one, and -- more importantly -- how much people know about how the internet works.

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    Feb 6

    The city council really needs to re-examine this public-private partnership that produced an empty mall, vacant luxury condos, and a suicide art.

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    Feb 5

    Biden Bars Trump From Receiving Intelligence Briefings, Citing ‘Erratic Behavior’

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  12. Feb 5

    J.D. Vance is advising the people in charge of Parler, which is a scoop that gets less surprising the more I think about it

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  13. Feb 5

    Honestly the “I don’t care about my haters, I only care about high-quality pasta” energy throughout this interview is INSPIRATIONAL

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    Feb 5

    There’s no excuse for eating indoors at a restaurant right now that doesn’t ultimately boil down to “I really want to,” and that just isn’t good enough

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    Feb 4

    “Every attempt to interfere with the proper outcome of the election was defeated. But it’s massively important for the country to understand that it didn’t happen accidentally.” “The system didn’t work magically. Democracy is not self-executing.”

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    Feb 4

    Lovely obituary of Paul Crutzen, who warned the world that we were unwittingly demolishing the ozone layer and later popularized the term "Anthropocene" to describe Earth's current geological era: by

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    Feb 4

    "And that’s what people dealing with climate grief generally underscore: that grief for the planet shouldn’t be buried. In fact, when processed communally, it might actually be a potent weapon." via

    “We need to restore ourselves so we don’t burn out and know how to be in this crisis for the long haul that it is,” one researcher said. 
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    Feb 4

    I’ve come to believe that attention (and how we extract it, wield it, waste it, abuse it, sell it, lose it and profit from it) is key to understand the world we live in. ⁦So I found ⁦⁩, the man who predicted the attention economy 30 yrs ago

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    Feb 4

    We made one of these and we’re going to trick it into becoming a whale

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    Feb 4

    Lengthy, convincing analysis of the movie shown at the Jan. 6 Ellipse rally as a piece of fascist propaganda. "Fascist propaganda creates an awesome sense of loss, and a desire for revenge against those who are responsible."

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