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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. 6 hours ago

    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. 10 hours ago

    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. 11 hours ago

    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. 11 hours ago

    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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    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:

    NBC FAKE NEWS, which is under intense scrutiny over their killing the Harvey Weinstein story, is now fumbling around making excuses for their probably highly unethical conduct. I have long criticized NBC and their journalistic standards-worse than even CNN. Look at their license?
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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”

    theres an entire cottage industry of brands geared towards "selling a walt whitman-esque existence to yuppies who would immediately die if left in the woods for 24 hours" scary thing is it works i live in a 1bedroom apartment in san francisco and own a fucking axe
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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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    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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  17. Retweeted
    Aug 31

    Oscar’s really at home on this site

    Decided to come on Twitter to remind all of you what a MISERABLE day it is today. He he he. NOW SCRAM!
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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

    Vegans Aren’t Strident Enough, Argues New Study

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  21. Aug 30

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

    Replying to @yayitsrob
    Not arboreal, boreal. An arboreal forest is redundant.
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