Claudia Shambaugh
@clshambaugh.bsky.social
Not to be confused with the current Mexican president. Host of recently launched podcast, "The Power Curve."
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No lie, I thought that the bars represented vertical redactions, so much redacting so little time....
December 20, 2025 at 1:37 AM
No lie, I thought that the bars represented vertical redactions, so much redacting so little time....
The power of @anatosaurus.bsky.social social proof. At Orange Co Crystal Cove Beach conservancy holiday craft shop me: "Oh you might get a little more traffic during the shopping boycott of the Big Box stores. Ladies on the same page. Drop this everywhere, cuz folks are ready #blackfridayboycott.
November 25, 2025 at 4:09 AM
The power of @anatosaurus.bsky.social social proof. At Orange Co Crystal Cove Beach conservancy holiday craft shop me: "Oh you might get a little more traffic during the shopping boycott of the Big Box stores. Ladies on the same page. Drop this everywhere, cuz folks are ready #blackfridayboycott.
"So I’m glad the person who (allegedly) started the Eaton fire was was caught. I’m glad the agencies that (allegedly) screwed up are being taken to task.
But let’s resist the urge to make that the end of the story."
But let’s resist the urge to make that the end of the story."
Plus, highlights from my convo with climate scientists about Bill Gates' problematic memo. Read the latest Climate-Colored Goggles, and subscribe if you can: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/the-gates-...
News roundup: The Gates of Doom
Climate scientists take Bill Gates to task. Plus, assigning blame after a devastating fire.
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November 11, 2025 at 5:30 AM
"So I’m glad the person who (allegedly) started the Eaton fire was was caught. I’m glad the agencies that (allegedly) screwed up are being taken to task.
But let’s resist the urge to make that the end of the story."
But let’s resist the urge to make that the end of the story."
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Today my daughter's preschool is holding a farewell assembly for one of her classmates whose mother has no choice but to self deport. The school is hoping it will be joyful in tone, so we might make this less upsetting for this 3 year old.
There's just no words for the uselessness of this cruelty.
There's just no words for the uselessness of this cruelty.
October 10, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Today my daughter's preschool is holding a farewell assembly for one of her classmates whose mother has no choice but to self deport. The school is hoping it will be joyful in tone, so we might make this less upsetting for this 3 year old.
There's just no words for the uselessness of this cruelty.
There's just no words for the uselessness of this cruelty.
Kudos to @sammyroth.bsky.social for his continued high standards in asking solid questions, providing worthy takes, and bringing his readers along.
Thanks everyone for reading my Boiling Point newsletter the last 5 years. Today's edition is a goodbye note — and an update on what comes next. Happy to say my @latimes.com colleagues will keep bringing Boiling Point to your inbox every Thursday! www.latimes.com/environment/...
Commentary: Leaving the L.A. Times, and a new direction for Boiling Point
I'm not done telling stories about climate. And neither are my wonderful friends and colleagues.
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October 9, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Kudos to @sammyroth.bsky.social for his continued high standards in asking solid questions, providing worthy takes, and bringing his readers along.
Can I get an "udmærket!" ?
Great story by @fieseler.bsky.social tying together climate comedy, attacks on free expression and Samuel L. Jackson's fantastic TV ad for offshore wind power: www.canarymedia.com/articles/cul...
Can climate comedy still work? This offshore wind ad suggests it can.
The satirical video starring Samuel L. Jackson pokes fun at offshore wind disinformation right as the Trump administration is targeting both comedy and…
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September 27, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Can I get an "udmærket!" ?
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Great story by @fieseler.bsky.social tying together climate comedy, attacks on free expression and Samuel L. Jackson's fantastic TV ad for offshore wind power: www.canarymedia.com/articles/cul...
Can climate comedy still work? This offshore wind ad suggests it can.
The satirical video starring Samuel L. Jackson pokes fun at offshore wind disinformation right as the Trump administration is targeting both comedy and…
www.canarymedia.com
September 27, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Great story by @fieseler.bsky.social tying together climate comedy, attacks on free expression and Samuel L. Jackson's fantastic TV ad for offshore wind power: www.canarymedia.com/articles/cul...
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Latner and Keena's decades of research offer multi-layered context in this long format interview; thank you Gentlemen!
#gerrymandering #redistricting #CongressionalDistricts #2026Elections
Latner and Keena's decades of research offer multi-layered context in this long format interview; thank you Gentlemen!
#gerrymandering #redistricting #CongressionalDistricts #2026Elections
Gerrymandering; Drawing Distinctions about Drawing New Lines | The Power Curve
Political science professors Alex Keena and Michael Latner cut through all the dizzying details of the Congressional district mapping around the country, as the gerrymandering erodes representation an...
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August 22, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Latner and Keena's decades of research offer multi-layered context in this long format interview; thank you Gentlemen!
#gerrymandering #redistricting #CongressionalDistricts #2026Elections
Latner and Keena's decades of research offer multi-layered context in this long format interview; thank you Gentlemen!
#gerrymandering #redistricting #CongressionalDistricts #2026Elections
Schools open in Santa Ana, CA open next week; I sit down with a primary school counselor who spells out what this cohort has been dealing with since birth:
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Primary Schools in the Age of ICE: The Kids Are Not Alright | The Power Curve
Brandon Gernux, Santa Ana Unified elementary school counselor and neurodivergent advocate brings us into the classroom of the youngest generation enrolled in public school amidst the immense challenge...
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August 8, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Schools open in Santa Ana, CA open next week; I sit down with a primary school counselor who spells out what this cohort has been dealing with since birth:
cshambaugh.podbean.com/e/primary-sc...
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Something I am thinking a lot about is the risk posed by the large concentration of pro-democracy media on Substack.
On the one hand, it facilitates those outlets growth, which is important.
On the other, it’s clear their investors are looking to maximize money and an eventual exit.
On the one hand, it facilitates those outlets growth, which is important.
On the other, it’s clear their investors are looking to maximize money and an eventual exit.
July 22, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Something I am thinking a lot about is the risk posed by the large concentration of pro-democracy media on Substack.
On the one hand, it facilitates those outlets growth, which is important.
On the other, it’s clear their investors are looking to maximize money and an eventual exit.
On the one hand, it facilitates those outlets growth, which is important.
On the other, it’s clear their investors are looking to maximize money and an eventual exit.
You know it's a horrible budget when mainstream/centrist journalists implore followers to have their reps oppose the legislation. And to the other journalists who use the regime's term for the budget, just STOP it.
July 1, 2025 at 11:02 PM
You know it's a horrible budget when mainstream/centrist journalists implore followers to have their reps oppose the legislation. And to the other journalists who use the regime's term for the budget, just STOP it.
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Climate change isn't just another political thing that Republicans and Democrats argue about. It's like immigration and healthcare and the January 6 insurrection. Gigantic life and death consequences. Lies on one side, facts on another. A plea to fellow journalists to take it seriously.
Really hate how Republican politicians have managed to shift the way political reporters cover energy. Hardly matters if they don't quote climate deniers if they fail to note how many people are killed and sickened by fossil fuel pollution, and how much cheaper solar and wind are.
July 1, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Climate change isn't just another political thing that Republicans and Democrats argue about. It's like immigration and healthcare and the January 6 insurrection. Gigantic life and death consequences. Lies on one side, facts on another. A plea to fellow journalists to take it seriously.
Just posted my latest podcast episode with veteran Wade. It's long and well worth the time:
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Thank You For Your Service Ms. Wade
Stephanie Wade, former Marine infantry officer, educator, veterans liaison for a number of campaigns and public office holders, member-at-large of the OC Veterans Advisory Council, and civic leader ri...
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June 12, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Just posted my latest podcast episode with veteran Wade. It's long and well worth the time:
www.podbean.com/ew/pb-93q67-...
www.podbean.com/ew/pb-93q67-...
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LOS ANGELES: Stay off the streets tonight. Stay home. Stay safe.
Tom Homan says the National Guard might be deployed — and I’m telling you, he wants violence.
They’re baiting us to react so they can escalate.
Rule #1: Never protest at night. That’s when the worst happens—under cover of darkness.
Tom Homan says the National Guard might be deployed — and I’m telling you, he wants violence.
They’re baiting us to react so they can escalate.
Rule #1: Never protest at night. That’s when the worst happens—under cover of darkness.
June 7, 2025 at 11:50 PM
LOS ANGELES: Stay off the streets tonight. Stay home. Stay safe.
Tom Homan says the National Guard might be deployed — and I’m telling you, he wants violence.
They’re baiting us to react so they can escalate.
Rule #1: Never protest at night. That’s when the worst happens—under cover of darkness.
Tom Homan says the National Guard might be deployed — and I’m telling you, he wants violence.
They’re baiting us to react so they can escalate.
Rule #1: Never protest at night. That’s when the worst happens—under cover of darkness.
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‼️ ATTENTION SENIORS
REPUBLICANS are gonna CUT $500 billion from MEDICARE
Yup, Republicans' "Big Bill" has a hidden poison pill in it that triggers half a trillion dollars in CUTS TO MEDICARE
Call your Representative and Senators and demand they remove the Medicare poison pill (202) 224-3121
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REPUBLICANS are gonna CUT $500 billion from MEDICARE
Yup, Republicans' "Big Bill" has a hidden poison pill in it that triggers half a trillion dollars in CUTS TO MEDICARE
Call your Representative and Senators and demand they remove the Medicare poison pill (202) 224-3121
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May 26, 2025 at 12:28 AM
‼️ ATTENTION SENIORS
REPUBLICANS are gonna CUT $500 billion from MEDICARE
Yup, Republicans' "Big Bill" has a hidden poison pill in it that triggers half a trillion dollars in CUTS TO MEDICARE
Call your Representative and Senators and demand they remove the Medicare poison pill (202) 224-3121
1/2
REPUBLICANS are gonna CUT $500 billion from MEDICARE
Yup, Republicans' "Big Bill" has a hidden poison pill in it that triggers half a trillion dollars in CUTS TO MEDICARE
Call your Representative and Senators and demand they remove the Medicare poison pill (202) 224-3121
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Buried lede HuffPost, Ty Cobb, a former federal prosecutor who served in Trump’s 1st-term White House: “What passes for routine at this White House is purely corrupt.”
Nothing important here. Just a publicly-traded company disclosing to investors that it’s attempting to bribe the President of the United States by buying his cryptocurrency in order to influence his trade policy.
Company Boasts Spending Up To $20 Million On Trump Crypto Coin To Buy Influence
The arrangement puts money in Trump’s pocket in return for the opportunity to change policy — exactly the sort of pay-to-play scheme critics warned about.
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May 3, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Buried lede HuffPost, Ty Cobb, a former federal prosecutor who served in Trump’s 1st-term White House: “What passes for routine at this White House is purely corrupt.”
Still not started? Any inner sanctum explanations?
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May 1, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Still not started? Any inner sanctum explanations?
Fascism and the English Language
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Fascism and the English Language
A conversation with Anat Shenker-Osorio
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April 16, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Fascism and the English Language
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Yes, this is exactly what leapt out on me as I read it
I am fascinated by this fourth wall–breaking footnote from Justice Jackson criticizing the majority for handing the Trump administration "a notch in its belt at the start of a legal battle in which the long-term prospects for its eventual success seem doubtful." It's more about optics than law ...
April 4, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Yes, this is exactly what leapt out on me as I read it
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Which Congressional Democrat is going to fly to El Salvador to demand the release of the people the Trump regime abducted and forced into concentration camps?
April 2, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Which Congressional Democrat is going to fly to El Salvador to demand the release of the people the Trump regime abducted and forced into concentration camps?
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I'm excited to announce that Democracy Docket just launched its newest newsletter —The Opposition! Written by @jaknutson.bsky.social, it will explain the legal fights against Trump's unlawful actions.
Become a Democracy Docket member now to receive: www.democracydocket.com/member-me/
Become a Democracy Docket member now to receive: www.democracydocket.com/member-me/
April 3, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I'm excited to announce that Democracy Docket just launched its newest newsletter —The Opposition! Written by @jaknutson.bsky.social, it will explain the legal fights against Trump's unlawful actions.
Become a Democracy Docket member now to receive: www.democracydocket.com/member-me/
Become a Democracy Docket member now to receive: www.democracydocket.com/member-me/
And "The Power Curve" is just getting started; Andrew was my 3rd guest. Thank you for your time, @andrewnoymer.bsky.social.
. @clshambaugh.bsky.social is a local independent journalist who runs a new pod called "The Power Curve".
It was my pleasure to be interviewed by her. Check it out:
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It was my pleasure to be interviewed by her. Check it out:
www.podbean.com/eas/pb-35z3f...
Honest Talk About the Origins of COVID-19
Five years after the opening of the pandemic, Andrew Noymer, epidemiologist and population health scientist, speaks about the origins of Sars-coV-2, the strain of coronavirus that causes COVID-19. Fo...
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March 20, 2025 at 2:58 AM
And "The Power Curve" is just getting started; Andrew was my 3rd guest. Thank you for your time, @andrewnoymer.bsky.social.
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Yes, that's right protests are "performative." And if they're any fucking good they ought to be performances.
We have to show not tell we are the majority - that our beliefs and desires are common sense.
We have to show not tell we are the majority - that our beliefs and desires are common sense.
March 13, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Yes, that's right protests are "performative." And if they're any fucking good they ought to be performances.
We have to show not tell we are the majority - that our beliefs and desires are common sense.
We have to show not tell we are the majority - that our beliefs and desires are common sense.
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At this point I genuinely don't think it's hyperbole to say that Elon Musk is functionally in charge of the US government. Perhaps not in specific policy areas - two bills or one on the hill, policy in the mideast. But certainly functional control of the state apparatus.
This new EO signed today appears to create DOGE as a shadow government across the entire federal government. Each agency/dept will be assigned a DOGE minder who will work with the Secry or Director and essentially be in charge of all new hiring and/or firing. People have been saying the Elon is ...
February 12, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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