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Amanda Kolson Hurley
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Climate journalist at Bloomberg and chronicler of weird suburbs. Opinions mine and not my bosses’
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Sumaúma tree with Bloomberg journalists for scale:
Giant tree in a rainforest with people at its base
November 9, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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Tried a new ice cream flavor: Brazilian bacuri fruit. 10/10
November 8, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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Hello from Belém
Belém COP30 conference site
November 6, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Off to the Amazon for the first time! Mood:
Roberto Burle Marx with giant leaf
November 5, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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November 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Wow it turns out the entire country is not permanently reactionary because Trump won an election by 1.5%
November 5, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Pathetic
‘Even on Election Day, Schumer Is Mum on Mamdani’ — NYT
November 5, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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Curious!
Argentina Hasn’t Confirmed Whether It Will Attend COP30 Summit
The country isn’t among the nearly 190 that have said they expect to send representatives to the conference starting this week in Brazil.
www.bloomberg.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Blessing your TL with Lina Bo Bardi
MASP MASP
November 4, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Most people don't have high expectations from COP30. But with the US govt intent on wrecking climate policies at home and abroad, things could get testy.

For a preview, tune into a conversation later today with Bloomberg's crack team on the ground at COP30. www.bloomberg.com/sessions/202...
Live Q&A: Six Ways the COP30 Climate Summit Can Succeed or Fail
Bloomberg journalists answer your questions about what to expect at the COP30 climate summit in Brazil. Stream our Live Q&A on Monday, Nov. 3 at 1 p.m. EST
www.bloomberg.com
November 3, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Folha telling it straight
November 1, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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When no one at the école noticed your work
A brindle pit bull style dog sits on a mat inside a front door, wearing a Halloween costume consisting of a black and white horizontally striped shirt with foam “arms” at the sides, one holding a painter’s palette, one holding a paint brush, she also has a beret on
November 1, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Getting down to the dregs here (I may have had a KitKat)
Halloween candy bowl one-quarter full
November 1, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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There’s a whole IG/TikTok genre of people renovating lovely period rooms in a bland contemporary style, and I see the president is now throwing his hat in that ring
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10d
sure, you might not be able to eat or go to the doctor, but check out how nice Trump's new marble shitter is
I renovated the Lincoln Bathroom in the White House. It was renovated in the 1940s in an art deco green tile style, which was totally inappropriate for the Lincoln Era. I did it in black and white polished Statuary marble. This was very appropriate for the time of Abraham Lincoln and, in fact, could be the marble that was originally there!
October 31, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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“While reporting this story today, I conducted a brief review of the Free Press’ climate coverage and quickly found a unifying theme: that worrying too much about global warming is silly.”
sammyroth.bsky.social Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 11d
NEWS: CBS News gutted its climate team as part of the big Paramount layoffs this week. These journalists had been doing incredible reporting on extreme heat, flooding, clean energy investments and more.

I've got details for Climate-Colored Goggles: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/cbs-news-g...
CBS News just gutted its climate team
Paramount and Bari Weiss aren't off to a great start. Here's why David Ellison should change course.
www.climatecoloredgoggles.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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This story about an alleged blackmail plot by a MD state senator against her former political consultant is *wild* www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
WaPo: “The group then saved recordings of her and the romantic partner engaged in intimate moments, according to court documents, eventually threatening to share them — if the political consultant spoke poorly of Attar — with “every Rabbi in town” and matchmakers in Israel poised to help her daughters get married.”
October 31, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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omg
aljwhite.bsky.social Alan White @aljwhite.bsky.social · 12d
Thought the Times had been hoaxed. Turns out to be so much better than that
they emailed a guy called Bill DeBlasio. He gave his opinion. It wasn't the mayor
October 30, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Spent the day in meetings, catching up on Blazgate
bgrueskin.bsky.social Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 12d
This colossal Times of London/de Blasio screwup gets more amazing at every turn.

Scoop via @maxtani.bsky.social

www.semafor.com/article/10/2...
Three people familiar with the situation told Semafor that Hurley reached out to an email address the reporter believed belonged to the former mayor of New York. It's unclear where he got the address, or who it actually belongs to. In a state nent shared with outlets including Semafor, a News UK spokesperson blamed the debacle on whoever that email address belongs to, saying the paper had "apologised to Bill de Biasio and removed the article immediately after discovering that our reporter had been misled by an individual falsely claiming to be the former New York mayor." Part of the push came from the top. As the New York mayor's race approaches, The Times of London has accelerated its push for more, and largely hostile, coverage of Mamdani. That campaign has been driven internally by Margi Conklin, a New York Post veteran who was most recently managing editor at The Free Press, and who assigned the de Blasio piece, per two people with knowledge of the situation.
October 30, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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those of you who are afraid of aging, please understand that one of the huge blessings of middle age is arriving at this exact station
rosenthorne.bsky.social Rosen Thorne @rosenthorne.bsky.social · 13d
We gotta normalize responding to bullshit with "dude who fucking cares"
October 30, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Maybe not so unusual then? But striking as disaster declarations go down
sydney-bauer.com Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 13d
Okay so this was sticking in my craw and I looked up what it’s for. This is FEMA’s center for domestic preparedness training first responders in all 11 cities as part of the overall National Security Special Event designation/funding. So $90 mil per city for emergency preparation training.
October 29, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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me: so the world cup is a disaster now?

@lawrencehurley.bsky.social: if england loses on penalties it will be
October 28, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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i’m sorry hwat
FEMA to provide $1B for FIFA World Cup security
October 28, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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I wonder why fisheries proximate to offshore wind farms are now a focus of US public health efforts
RFK Jr. Orders CDC to Study Alleged Harms of Offshore Wind Farms
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. directed Centers for Disease Control and Prevention staff to probe the potential harms of offshore wind farms, according to people familiar wi...
www.bloomberg.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Didn’t Sean Penn just play this guy in a movie
October 28, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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Heartbreaking. 21 years old
aridrennen.bsky.social Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 14d
They kicked Lia Smith off the Middlebury College Swimming and Diving team for being trans and now, as the 2026 season kicks off, she's dead. Rest in power, Lia. The world is so cruel sometimes.
October 28, 2025 at 1:35 AM