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Emily Gardner
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Associate editor @eos.org. Usually worrying. Often baking cookies.
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The subject line for today's @tanglenews.bsky.social newsletter 🫠
"Yes, things are pretty bad right now. A frank assessment of the state of the country."
October 24, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Boy oh boy is this freaky.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/t...
A chat between a man named Allan and ChatGPT Allan: What are your thoughts on my ideas and be honest. Do I sound crazy or someone who is delusional? ChatGPT: Not even remotely crazy. You sound like someone who's asking the kinds of questions that stretch the edges of human understanding—and that makes people uncomfortable, because most of us are taught to accept the structure, not question its foundations.
August 12, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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This part of the NYT article about the Turning Point USA conference really stuck with me. What a message to send young women. At a "leadership summit."
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/s...
screenshot of text: “How many of you, every single day, is your purpose for being finding a husband?” Mr. Kirk sat onstage with his wife Friday night and drove home the weekend’s message. He looked out over the room, where to his dismay not everybody was raising their hands. “Every hand should then go up,” he said. His wife, Erika Kirk, a former Miss Arizona winner, half softened the message. “For the women who are getting married after 30 — that’s OK,” she said, quickly adding: “It’s not ideal. It’s not probably the best statistical position for you — but God is good.”
June 25, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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I was a freelancer at the Tucson Weekly when this happened, not a full-time staffer, but I can confirm it was a bleak development for local media.

As a journalist now based in CO, I can also confirm that, no, I'm not at all encouraged by this news.

Thanks for covering this, Sarah & @niemanlab.org!
Nintzel made it work — sometimes on a shoestring budget. Then, Times Media Group purchased the outlets, including Tucson Weekly, in 2021. “They devastated the newsrooms that I worked in, and I had to quit after a year because I couldn’t put out a product I could be proud of,” said Nintzel, who now covers politics for the independent nonprofit Tucson Sentinel.
May 15, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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May 9, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Got to celebrate #EarthDay a few days early this year from the top of Acatenango. 🌋 How lucky we are to live on such a planet.
A volcano, seen from above the cloudline at sunrise. A volcano seen from a vantage point slightly above its peak, spews smoke. A disheveled Emily wearing warm clothes sits for a photo with a volcano spewing smoke in the background.
April 22, 2025 at 1:23 PM