Lois Parshley
@loisparshley.bsky.social
Investigative journalist and photographer. www.loisparshley.com Send me tips on Signal at LoisParshley.49
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"Investors have been selling off the debt of US tech heavyweights, showing how jitters over Silicon Valley’s boom in spending on artificial intelligence have spilled into the bond market."
Investor angst over Big Tech’s AI spending spills into bond market
Debt issued by groups building data centres has been hit in recent weeks
www.ft.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
"Investors have been selling off the debt of US tech heavyweights, showing how jitters over Silicon Valley’s boom in spending on artificial intelligence have spilled into the bond market."
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Trump's dream of an Alaskan oil boom is feeling more like a bust
Donald Trump's dream of an Alaskan oil boom is feeling more like a bust
His team declared the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge "open for business." For now, nobody's buying.
www.motherjones.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Trump's dream of an Alaskan oil boom is feeling more like a bust
An excellent articulation of media criticism here that applies much more broadly than to New York’s mayoral race lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
November 8, 2025 at 6:58 PM
An excellent articulation of media criticism here that applies much more broadly than to New York’s mayoral race lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Medicare is about to start using AI to help determine prior authorization, even as companies like UnitedHealthcare face lawsuits about similar AI use.
Last year, I spoke to multiple families who had been wrongfully denied social services they qualified for because of algorithmic decisionmaking.
Last year, I spoke to multiple families who had been wrongfully denied social services they qualified for because of algorithmic decisionmaking.
November 7, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Medicare is about to start using AI to help determine prior authorization, even as companies like UnitedHealthcare face lawsuits about similar AI use.
Last year, I spoke to multiple families who had been wrongfully denied social services they qualified for because of algorithmic decisionmaking.
Last year, I spoke to multiple families who had been wrongfully denied social services they qualified for because of algorithmic decisionmaking.
Ecologist Patrick Sullivan was studying the slow advance of trees into what had been tundra, a sign of the Arctic's rapidly changing climate, when he discovered something far more surprising: Rivers across northern Alaska were turning a bright, toxic orange.
November 4, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Ecologist Patrick Sullivan was studying the slow advance of trees into what had been tundra, a sign of the Arctic's rapidly changing climate, when he discovered something far more surprising: Rivers across northern Alaska were turning a bright, toxic orange.
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Exxon funded thinktanks to spread climate denial in Latin America, documents obtained by @geoffdembicki.bsky.social reveal. The Texas-based fossil fuel company financed Atlas Network in attempt to derail UN-led climate treaty process.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Exxon funded thinktanks to spread climate denial in Latin America, documents reveal
Texas-based fossil fuel company financed Atlas Network in attempt to derail UN-led climate treaty process
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Exxon funded thinktanks to spread climate denial in Latin America, documents obtained by @geoffdembicki.bsky.social reveal. The Texas-based fossil fuel company financed Atlas Network in attempt to derail UN-led climate treaty process.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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So far, the administration's Alaska agenda is still a lot of bluster and not a lot of action. Great reporting from @loisparshley.bsky.social for @grist.org
Trump officials say Alaska is 'open for business.' So far, no one's buying.
The administration wants to drill in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Oil companies don’t, leaving Alaska to spend millions propping up the idea.
grist.org
October 31, 2025 at 6:43 PM
So far, the administration's Alaska agenda is still a lot of bluster and not a lot of action. Great reporting from @loisparshley.bsky.social for @grist.org
The Trump administration opened the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling last week. After drilling there drew little interest, the state’s own development agency has stepped in to buy leases and fund road projects to support private industry profits — spending $110 million of public funds.
October 31, 2025 at 4:10 PM
The Trump administration opened the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling last week. After drilling there drew little interest, the state’s own development agency has stepped in to buy leases and fund road projects to support private industry profits — spending $110 million of public funds.
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The financial crisis these guys building towards is going to make 2008 look like a lawn party with the Queen Mum.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Exclusive | Trump Administration Fires Fannie Mae Ethics Officials
The dismissals come after the chief ethics officer was recently pushed out, according to people familiar with the matter.
www.wsj.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:34 AM
The financial crisis these guys building towards is going to make 2008 look like a lawn party with the Queen Mum.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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This is right -- and, to add my personal two cents of experience, independent work is more inefficient. In a well-staffed newsroom, you have story editors, writers, social strategists, fact-checkers, copy editors, and so on, each honed on their skill. On your own, you're on on your own.
Patron-Supported Journalism Can’t Be the Future of News
Writing about the failure of patron-supported journalism is itself a kind of...
talkingpointsmemo.com
October 29, 2025 at 5:37 PM
This is right -- and, to add my personal two cents of experience, independent work is more inefficient. In a well-staffed newsroom, you have story editors, writers, social strategists, fact-checkers, copy editors, and so on, each honed on their skill. On your own, you're on on your own.
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New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
October 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
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ICYMI, in March the US pulled out of the new fund established by wealthy nations to compensate low-income countries for loss and damage due to climate change. Despite being the largest historical emitter, the US had pledged only $17.5 million.
Melissa alone will likely cause billions in damage.
Melissa alone will likely cause billions in damage.
US exits fund that compensates poorer countries for global heating
Trump pulls out of Cop28 loss and damage deal that recognises harms done by richer, polluting economies to vulnerable nations
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 4:02 AM
ICYMI, in March the US pulled out of the new fund established by wealthy nations to compensate low-income countries for loss and damage due to climate change. Despite being the largest historical emitter, the US had pledged only $17.5 million.
Melissa alone will likely cause billions in damage.
Melissa alone will likely cause billions in damage.
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More than 420 anti-science bills attacking longstanding public health protections — vaccines, milk safety and fluoride — have been introduced in statehouses across the U.S. this year.
www.statnews.com/2025/10/22/a...
www.statnews.com/2025/10/22/a...
Anti-science bills hit statehouses, stripping away public health protections built over a century
More than 420 anti-science bills attacking longstanding public health protections have been introduced in statehouses across the U.S. this year.
www.statnews.com
October 23, 2025 at 3:03 AM
More than 420 anti-science bills attacking longstanding public health protections — vaccines, milk safety and fluoride — have been introduced in statehouses across the U.S. this year.
www.statnews.com/2025/10/22/a...
www.statnews.com/2025/10/22/a...
I’m honored and excited to have my work included by @scicommexcellence.nationalacademies.org. It's a hard time to be a freelance science journalist, and yet the stakes couldn’t be higher.
Congratulations to the 2025 winners of the National Academies Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communications given by @nationalacademies.org in partnership with @schmidtsciences.bsky.social !
Learn more about the winners: www.nationalacademies.org/news/2025/10... #scicomm
Learn more about the winners: www.nationalacademies.org/news/2025/10... #scicomm
October 23, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I’m honored and excited to have my work included by @scicommexcellence.nationalacademies.org. It's a hard time to be a freelance science journalist, and yet the stakes couldn’t be higher.
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SNAP benefits to halt in some states amid government shutdown -- Jay O'Brien / ABC News abcnews.go.com/Politics/sta...
SNAP benefits to halt in some states amid government shutdown
SNAP serves roughly 42 million low-income Americans.
abcnews.go.com
October 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM
SNAP benefits to halt in some states amid government shutdown -- Jay O'Brien / ABC News abcnews.go.com/Politics/sta...
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Just asked the WH if they did an asbestos abatement before demolishing the East Wing -- a project Trump began without being formally approved by the National Capital Planning Commission + on a structure built in the early 1900s, expanded in the 1940s.
Not that I expect a response. But still. 😬
Not that I expect a response. But still. 😬
October 21, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Just asked the WH if they did an asbestos abatement before demolishing the East Wing -- a project Trump began without being formally approved by the National Capital Planning Commission + on a structure built in the early 1900s, expanded in the 1940s.
Not that I expect a response. But still. 😬
Not that I expect a response. But still. 😬
Sees your frogs, raises to Alaska’s megafauna.
October 18, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Sees your frogs, raises to Alaska’s megafauna.
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For the first time in more than 100 years, Chinook salmon have been spotted at the confluence of the Sprague and Williamson rivers in Chiloquin, the government seat of the Klamath Tribes in Southern Oregon.
Salmon clear last Klamath dams, reaching Williamson and Sprague rivers
Just a year after four dams were removed, a group of fall Chinook have migrated nearly 300 miles into the Upper Klamath Basin.
www.opb.org
October 18, 2025 at 3:30 AM
For the first time in more than 100 years, Chinook salmon have been spotted at the confluence of the Sprague and Williamson rivers in Chiloquin, the government seat of the Klamath Tribes in Southern Oregon.
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In 1972, a whistleblower leaked to the press the details of the highly unethical & racist Tuskegee Syphilis Experiments run by the United States Public Health Service. Because of that (and other unethical experiments) Congress passed the National Research Act of 1974, which includes the IRB process.
The entire HR department at the CDC is gone. Everyone at the IRB, which makes sure studies are conducted ethically and rigorously, and the ethics office, which oversee conflicts of interest for CDC leaders and advisory committee members, were also let go.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘Instability and confusion’ as CDC slashes 1,300 jobs before reinstating half
Trump administration says 700 notices were sent in error, while top CDC officer says ‘they didn’t think through what they were doing’
www.theguardian.com
October 14, 2025 at 5:22 PM
In 1972, a whistleblower leaked to the press the details of the highly unethical & racist Tuskegee Syphilis Experiments run by the United States Public Health Service. Because of that (and other unethical experiments) Congress passed the National Research Act of 1974, which includes the IRB process.
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Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
October 16, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
Just imagining Romans hitting the gym. It’s not as if lead accelerates the collapse of empires…
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a...
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a...
October 14, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Just imagining Romans hitting the gym. It’s not as if lead accelerates the collapse of empires…
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a...
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a...
This precedent-setting policy to dismantle land management plans across the country just passed the Senate today. Read more about what that means for the public lands you care about @grist.org.
Republicans are using an arcane oversight rule to permanently dismantle federal land protections.
Republican lawmakers want to use the Congressional Review Act to permanently erase federal land use plans in Alaska — and beyond.
grist.org/politics/rep...
#Republicans #Democrats #Politics #Alaska
Republican lawmakers want to use the Congressional Review Act to permanently erase federal land use plans in Alaska — and beyond.
grist.org/politics/rep...
#Republicans #Democrats #Politics #Alaska
Republicans are using an arcane oversight rule to permanently dismantle federal land protections
Republican lawmakers want to use the Congressional Review Act to permanently erase federal land use plans in Alaska — and beyond.
grist.org
October 9, 2025 at 11:04 PM
This precedent-setting policy to dismantle land management plans across the country just passed the Senate today. Read more about what that means for the public lands you care about @grist.org.
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Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...
Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
apnews.com
October 8, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...
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NVIDIA and OpenAi:
Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“
@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“
@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
October 7, 2025 at 11:08 PM
NVIDIA and OpenAi:
Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“
@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“
@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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Journalism Fail: This implies there is a donut shop aflame in Portland, Oregon right now but the photo is
1) Not Portland
2) Not 2025
It's a 33 YEAR OLD FILE PHOTO. You have to open the story & read the fine print to find out it's Los Angeles in 1992.
Come on @cnn.com. Do better.
1) Not Portland
2) Not 2025
It's a 33 YEAR OLD FILE PHOTO. You have to open the story & read the fine print to find out it's Los Angeles in 1992.
Come on @cnn.com. Do better.
"President Donald Trump and his top aides are using the word 'insurrection' more frequently to describe anti-ICE protests in places like Portland," writes Zachary B. Wolf. https://cnn.it/4pWYmzr
October 7, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Journalism Fail: This implies there is a donut shop aflame in Portland, Oregon right now but the photo is
1) Not Portland
2) Not 2025
It's a 33 YEAR OLD FILE PHOTO. You have to open the story & read the fine print to find out it's Los Angeles in 1992.
Come on @cnn.com. Do better.
1) Not Portland
2) Not 2025
It's a 33 YEAR OLD FILE PHOTO. You have to open the story & read the fine print to find out it's Los Angeles in 1992.
Come on @cnn.com. Do better.