Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis
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Climate journalist based in NYC. Only speaking for myself. If the NYT has no haters I'm dead.

Tips? Reach me on Signal kendrawrites.04
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I want to be clear about something: I'm an expert in like two things. Hating mayo and climate change.

Everything else I skeet is just bitches be saying shit on the internet.
You ever call a senator's office and ask the staffer who picks up what it's like to work for someone without a spine?

10/10 recommend.
November 11, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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Hello @support.bsky.team why has
@sarahkendzior.bsky.social been suspended without explanation?????
November 11, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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The new Republican plan same as the old Republican plan: Fucking die already.
Rick Scott told me his plan would be to take all of the remaining ACA subsidies and redistribute them to HSA accounts and people can then buy whatever insurance a state certifies. Basically a repeal/replace.
He denied when I asked wouldn’t that create two-tiered system where sick pay much more…
November 11, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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In a rare case of Substack notes usefulness, I just learned that Sarah Kendzior (author of They Knew and a brilliant writer) got bounced from Bluesky. What the hell? new @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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It was a major mistake that the Senate didn’t hold high-profile hearings and investigations into the corrupt Roberts Court when ProPublica was breaking the scandals.

Now that same corrupt Court is blowing up NIH, NSF, and all of US basic science.

Our failure to pick a big fight with the Court 1/
look at what this leadership did with oversight powers of SCOTUS in the middle of multiple devastating scandals for the conservatives. look at the half assed impeachments and half-assed oversight during the teens.
November 11, 2025 at 4:20 AM
I think Joyce Carol Oates has managed to be impossible to milkshake duck.

Not because she hasn't said problematic things - she has.

But she has said them in service to no higher goals. She's not trying to take over the government, or start a cult or a movement
November 11, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Honest question? When are we going to start treating what he says as just the "info" he was most recently fed?
President Trump criticized the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) during a Fox News interview tonight, saying people "get it automatically now so the number is many times what it should be, it's disgraceful."
Trump says "we can reform" SNAP
"SNAP is supposed to be if you are down and out," Trump said on Fox News this evening.
www.axios.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:07 AM
In college I was in Model UN but like bad at it (you should do things you enjoy but are bad at). And one conference I was like Libya or something and rather than engage in actual geopolitics I decided to embody the "vibe" of Libya and the chair kept calling on me just cause I was funny.
November 11, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”
November 11, 2025 at 3:33 AM
He looks like skeletor
Rick Scott told me his plan would be to take all of the remaining ACA subsidies and redistribute them to HSA accounts and people can then buy whatever insurance a state certifies. Basically a repeal/replace.
He denied when I asked wouldn’t that create two-tiered system where sick pay much more…
November 11, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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we're an unwell country and culture and you can tell because so many people can't help but watch the NFL
November 11, 2025 at 3:12 AM
My most bougie post

1. Staub is better (if you don't buy the stuff that's like super super on sale which is really just the imperfect stuff under a discount)
2. Even though Le Creuset is known for cast iron, all of my stainless steel is Le Creuset because I got it on a ridic sale
‘Ultimately, it was culinary circumstance backed up by savvy marketing that made Le Creuset a byword for cast-iron cookware’ – Thomas Marks celebrates the centenary of France’s most famous pots and pans
A pan for all seasons
The emergence of Le Creuset cookware a century ago sparked a change in how home kitchens both looked and functioned
buff.ly
November 11, 2025 at 3:28 AM
You know who's the real winner in all of this?

Medical tourism.
November 11, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Hey, a lot of people are talking about changing affiliation from Democratic to Independent.

Let me tell you why you shouldn’t do that in Colorado.

One of the main ways to get a primary challenge candidate on a ballot is to caucus for your party. You need to be registered as a Dem to caucus.
November 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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The climate crisis is one of the top most severe threats to human existence, alongside nuclear war and a massive asteroid.

It blows my mind how many leaders choose to just whistle past the grave. This isn’t some event on some obscure future date—it’s already happening.
November 11, 2025 at 1:56 AM
They're all on blood thinners.
November 11, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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Vancouver had 117 people die during the 2021 heat dome climate disaster.
November 11, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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For those who don't know the history, the tree is an annual gift in commemoration for the aid Boston provided after the 1917 Halifax explosion. It's a truly wonderful story.
Boston Christmas Tree - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 11, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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Massachusetts Republicans are so cooked that they're trying to attack Michelle Wu for "wasting" taxpayer money by visiting Nova Scotia to pick up Boston’s annual Christmas tree.

Now who's waging a War on Christmas, huh?
November 11, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Huge issue. Huge. /s
More than 15 Senate Democrats join GOP to advance nationwide ban on hemp products, including CBD gummies,
oh the paul amendment is going down 78-22
November 11, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Interesting that NY gov Kathy Hochul felt compelled to put out a statement against Dems' deal to end the shutdown
November 10, 2025 at 3:45 AM
With alt text.

But also, I told you when used effectively shame works. The problem is Elon isn't shamed by normal things like the weight of being responsible for the deaths of 600,000 people, or being a white supremacist or whatever. Oates just landed on a pressure point.
November 11, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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Hot new game in town to compare how much your ACA plan premiums are increasing!
November 11, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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My ACA current plan is going from $385/mo to $821/mo.
November 11, 2025 at 12:21 AM