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Staff Writer, . Climatology, technology, geology, theology. (Apologies.) // DM for Signal, email

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Jul 20

    I’ve finally achieved my lifelong dream: Writing a story entirely about academic geology that has an f-bomb in the lede

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  2. Just read that crazy New York Times op-ed! Now it’s time to take a big sip of water and post my new selfie

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  3. In a decade, for all I know, we could live in the world of Lochner 2: Electric Due Review but these will still be my people

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  4. As a Supreme Court justice, Brett Kavanaugh could bring sweeping changes to US policy around taxes, unions, abortion, climate change, the authority of the presidency, the power of the state over life and death itself and yet whenever I see his name I sing it to the Van Halen song

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  5. If you want the background on what Kavanaugh could mean for US climate policy, then lucky you, I wrote about it in July:

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  6. Retweeted
    11 hours ago

    Kavanaugh on Chevron doctrine: “I am not a skeptic of regulation at all. I am a skeptic of unauthorized regulation, of illegal regulation.”

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  7. Sep 4

    Perhaps someone should establish a think tank devoted to exactly these ideas. It could be headquartered in the Bay Area, perhaps. Maybe its name could be something like the …Breakthrough Institute? Yes, perhaps? And their Twitter handle could be ?

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  8. Sep 4

    it me, the human man alive in 2018 who rediscovers every 18 months that indigo girls covered dire straits and who is nonetheless THRILLED about it every time

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  9. Retweeted
    Sep 4

    Overnight, we published a essay calling out the campaign against the press, and asking journalists to fight back. This morning, the president is threatening NBC’s license. You can read the essay here:

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  10. Retweeted
    Sep 2

    you know what, I got to say hi to a sheep today. respectfully and from a distance. it was sleeping on a grave. so that's really the meaning of today. grave sheep where you least expect them.

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  11. Sep 3

    A catacylsm, and a preventable cataclysm at that:

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  12. Retweeted
    Aug 31

    "sometimes I’ll have dreams in the middle of the night. I’m standing there on Mars next to her, and wiping the dust off her lenses"

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  13. Aug 31

    from age 22 to age 36, walt whitman’s main job was literally being a struggling liberal journalist in brooklyn

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  14. Aug 31

    in the cottage industry’s defense, walt whitman’s existence was also geared around “selling walt whitman as anything but a yuppie who would immediately die if left in the woods for 24 hours”

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  15. Aug 31

    I am ready to discuss this discovery with national political reporters in diners, union halls, and Waffle Houses across the country:

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  16. Retweeted
    Aug 31

    “You can text a friend everything from a 🚈 to a 🚂 to the 🚅There’s a 🚘, a 🚖, an 🚑. There is even a 🛴 emoji. “But there is no pickup-truck emoji.” A revelation from ⁦

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    Aug 31
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  18. Aug 31

    you can still catch richard smallwood on the piano if you start watching now fyi

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  19. Aug 31

    “There is a whole dissertation to be written on intellectuals using the word neoliberal to mean ‘rules I shouldn’t have to follow.’”

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  20. Aug 30
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  21. Aug 30

    Indeed. Unrelatedly, I haven’t had lunch yet today.

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