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.

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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.
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February 13, 2026 at 5:10 AM
An "accidental" tattoo is getting a tattoo in your late teens/early 20s that you think says "love" in a foreign language but actually says "cunt"

That's cringe but we all grow

Not getting a nazi tattoo.
February 13, 2026 at 5:42 AM
Everyone else is chiming in about Platner, his central position (given he's won nothing etc)

But the Tea Party began as an astroturf campaign. Mamdani and AOC were not.
A base that has long made pragmatic, sober decisions appears increasingly attracted to charismatic outsiders who promise to break from the party’s failures of the last decade. They see their party’s leaders as feckless and inept.

It’s the Democratic Tea Party, with a twist. trib.al/mC5cBDA
February 13, 2026 at 5:33 AM
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NEW YORK (AP) — Goldman Sachs' top lawyer Kathy Ruemmler to resign after emails show close ties to Jeffrey Epstein.
February 13, 2026 at 1:59 AM
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Said it before & will say it again: A vast proportion of the current framework of Western technology & power is founded on, & delights in proliferating, eugenics. Thiel, Musk, Epstein; "AI," life extensionist, way too much of transhumanism. Gebru & Torres gave it 1 name, but the connections are OLD.
I parsed through some of the emails in the Epstein files, and it’s very clear that Epstein was a eugenicist weirdo. Something he very much had in common with the billionaire class à la Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and Donald Trump. New for @motherjones.com.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Epstein couldn't stop emailing people about eugenics
In the latest files, the trafficker gives it a Silicon Valley–pilled name: "genetic altruism."
www.motherjones.com
February 13, 2026 at 4:01 AM
sometimes I think eh why worry about climate change. we're all going to die of preventable infectious diseases or nuclear winter first

😭

love this timeline where we're just juggling existential threats for funsies.
February 13, 2026 at 4:30 AM
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Say what you will about Feinstein, but she saw that one through.
I’m old enough to remember when there was a major scandal over the CIA spying on Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff carrying out their legally mandated oversight function.
Bondi Spying On Congressional Epstein Searches Should Be A Major Scandal

Yesterday, Attorney General Pam Bondi appeared before the House Judiciary Committee. Among the more notable exchanges was when Rep. Pramila Jayapal asked some of Jeffrey Epstein's victims who were in the audience to stand up…
February 13, 2026 at 4:23 AM
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Had my colonoscopy today.

When they asked if I wanted to remove my Green Lantern cap I said:

“It will protect me by activating my power ring if someone tries to harvest my organs.”

They nodded understanding and/or fear and/or confusion.

Soon after I was safely in cryogenic colo-sleep.
February 13, 2026 at 3:34 AM
I don't understand what happens in the mind/stomach of a person who seems ok with defrauding the federal government while I'm over here getting a wee bit anxious every time I step onto the ice
the scuttlebutt about noem and lewandowski’s relationship is fun, but don’t miss that they used OBBA money to lease/buy an expensive private plane that said was for deportations but are instead using to jet around the country

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
February 13, 2026 at 4:18 AM
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CBP didn’t give her or anyone any water; she asked 3 times accg to other reports. CBP killed a 7yr old.

“8 hours after the girl & her father were taken into custody, she began having seizures & her body temperature was measured at 105.7 degrees by emergency medical technicians. shorturl.at/d2OTJ
7-Year-Old Migrant Girl Dies Of Dehydration And Shock In U.S. Border Patrol Custody
The girl's death underscores the crisis precipitated by large groups of families seeking asylum where there are inadequate facilities to detain them.
shorturl.at
February 13, 2026 at 1:33 AM
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The kids don't know this but Lewandowski first got headline-famous roughing up a lady reporter at a Trump rally
February 13, 2026 at 4:11 AM
We live in an age of medical miracles and we have a federal government who wants to burn the miracle workers.
February 13, 2026 at 4:11 AM
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Epstein Barr has also been proven to be a cause of MS, as well as lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, some lymphomas and stomach cancers. I was never symptomatic for EB but my mother had it, and now I have MS. Someone is working on an mRNA vaccine that could effectively stop MS entirely too
February 13, 2026 at 4:05 AM
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Holy moly: Seattle’s millionaire tax, passed last year, is expected to bring in $115 million in its 1st year, way more than the $50 million anticipated.

The funds will go to the city’s new social housing developer publicola.com/2026/02/11/t...

(Is NY Gov Hochul paying attention?)
Seattle’s millionaire tax is a huge success. Here is how grassroots groups beat big money and are now raising tons of money for mixed income, rent stabilized housing. (We call it “social housing.”)

www.tiktok.com/t/ZP89WjsvH/
Seattle’s millionaire tax is a wild success. #taxtherich @House Our Neighbors: Yes on 1A @Tech 4 Housing
TikTok video by Ron Davis
www.tiktok.com
February 13, 2026 at 4:01 AM
This is hell.

FYI Covid infections can re-activate the Epstein barr virus in the body (most of us have been exposed). The virus is mostly associated with Mononucleosis (the kissing disease) it's also linked to chronic fatigue syndrome. They want us sick and unable to function
February 13, 2026 at 3:59 AM
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This is just unconscionable man
February 13, 2026 at 1:43 AM
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Shout out to the student journalists that have tirelessly covered their professors' ties to Epstein. My job would be much harder without them. See thread for some of my favorite recent student news pieces.

www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
#AcademicSky #HigherEd
Professors in the Epstein Files Begin to Face Consequences
Several faculty members who spoke regularly with Epstein have been stripped of their titles or teaching duties.
www.insidehighered.com
February 12, 2026 at 4:56 PM
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This is a travesty. African and African Diaspora Studies at UT Austin has been one of the best programs in the country. And for historical context, this is explicitly about reversing the gains of student movements in the 60s and 70s.

www.statesman.com/news/educati...
UT to consolidate gender and ethnic studies programs into one new department
Affected departments include those that focus on African and African Diaspora Studies, Mexican American Studies, Women and Gender Studies and American Studies.
www.statesman.com
February 12, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Weird time to be writing so much about ice (the substance)
February 12, 2026 at 7:42 PM
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HAPPENING SOON: @oversightdemocrats.bsky.social hosting a shadow hearing to take a real look at how #DOGE damaged the federal government.

We’re proud that POGO’s own Faith Williams has been asked to be a witness.

Tune in live at 2 PM ET:
www.youtube.com
February 12, 2026 at 6:57 PM
"Inside of the detention center Wong says, captives work for $1 a day– a single 15-minute phone call is $5, according to Wong."

lataco.com/captive-loti...
Exclusive: Detention Center Captives Are Throwing Lotion Bottles Wrapped With Notes to Organizers Outside Otay Mesa Facility ~ L.A. TACO
“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh," an Otay Mesa captive communicated through handwritten note. "We are all in one big room with no doors...
lataco.com
February 12, 2026 at 5:53 PM