Steve Horn (he/him/his)
@steveahorn.bsky.social
Muckraker + local/climate journo turned strategic investigative researcher. Runner. 🐈 guy. History nerd. Cinephile. Adjunct Prof, UFL + Bd Chair, CA Streets Initiative. San Diegan. My posts only.
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Wrote a long book that comes out August. It covers from the origins of life at alkaline hydrothermal vents some 4 billion years ago through the Volcker Shock. I'm told pre-orders help, so if that sounds like your thing, buy one, won't you? www.harpercollins.com/products/the...
The Story of CO2 Is the Story of Everything
How carbon dioxide made planet Earth, shaped human history, and now holds our future in the balance.
Every year, we are dangerously warping the climate by ...
www.harpercollins.com
May 21, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Wrote a long book that comes out August. It covers from the origins of life at alkaline hydrothermal vents some 4 billion years ago through the Volcker Shock. I'm told pre-orders help, so if that sounds like your thing, buy one, won't you? www.harpercollins.com/products/the...
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Wrote about how climate change is bad www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...
Climate Realism Is a Delusion
By shooting for 3 degrees Celsius of warming, the world could slide toward a more cataclysmic 4 degrees.
www.theatlantic.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Wrote about how climate change is bad www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...
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"Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so."
November 23, 2025 at 10:28 AM
"Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so."
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"We live in an era where personal expression is saturated by digital filters, hivemind thinking is promoted through endless algorithms and academic freedom itself is under assault by the weakest minds among us. AI has only made this worse. It is a crisis."
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
www.huffpost.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:28 AM
"We live in an era where personal expression is saturated by digital filters, hivemind thinking is promoted through endless algorithms and academic freedom itself is under assault by the weakest minds among us. AI has only made this worse. It is a crisis."
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
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This, by @giacgrassi.bsky.social, remains one of the simplest and best climate visuals
November 23, 2025 at 9:30 PM
This, by @giacgrassi.bsky.social, remains one of the simplest and best climate visuals
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As harrowing as this, it felt like a relief to read it. The commentariat's refusal to grapple with what climate change will do to us, if we don't phase out fossil fuels, has been driving me insane.
This should help break the collective amnesia.
This should help break the collective amnesia.
November 23, 2025 at 6:05 PM
As harrowing as this, it felt like a relief to read it. The commentariat's refusal to grapple with what climate change will do to us, if we don't phase out fossil fuels, has been driving me insane.
This should help break the collective amnesia.
This should help break the collective amnesia.
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When the HBO series Chernobyl was released, the nuclear advocacy community was up in arms about 'scaremongering'
In 2025, they are doing absolutely everything in their power to turn American into Russia and to actively set in motion the next major nuclear disaster
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
In 2025, they are doing absolutely everything in their power to turn American into Russia and to actively set in motion the next major nuclear disaster
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
October 31, 2025 at 2:40 PM
When the HBO series Chernobyl was released, the nuclear advocacy community was up in arms about 'scaremongering'
In 2025, they are doing absolutely everything in their power to turn American into Russia and to actively set in motion the next major nuclear disaster
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
In 2025, they are doing absolutely everything in their power to turn American into Russia and to actively set in motion the next major nuclear disaster
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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The average viewership for the NBA Finals and World Series over the last decade
November 5, 2025 at 7:58 PM
The average viewership for the NBA Finals and World Series over the last decade
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Here's a really great, clear explanation from @michael-thomas.bsky.social of what we know about why US electricity prices are rising. (No, it's not data centers, except in some very specific local areas.)
Why Are Electricity Prices Rising?
Probably not for the reasons that you think
www.distilled.earth
October 24, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Here's a really great, clear explanation from @michael-thomas.bsky.social of what we know about why US electricity prices are rising. (No, it's not data centers, except in some very specific local areas.)
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"Crabapple is a time traveler, a necromancer and an unclassifiable genius. She beckons readers through a portal to an irresistible,lost world, one bound together by passion, solidarity, and a burning hunger for justice.“- @naomiaklein.bsky.social
Preorder www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/646320...
Preorder www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/646320...
Here Where We Live Is Our Country by Molly Crabapple: 9780593229453 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
The dramatic story of the Jewish Bund—a revolutionary movement from a vanished world—and their radical vision of solidarity in an age of division. “Molly Crabapple beckons readers through...
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October 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
"Crabapple is a time traveler, a necromancer and an unclassifiable genius. She beckons readers through a portal to an irresistible,lost world, one bound together by passion, solidarity, and a burning hunger for justice.“- @naomiaklein.bsky.social
Preorder www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/646320...
Preorder www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/646320...
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Bill Gates doesn't know shit about the climate crisis, as has been demonstrated by his previous approach to funding climate action.
October 29, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Bill Gates doesn't know shit about the climate crisis, as has been demonstrated by his previous approach to funding climate action.
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This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.
October 29, 2025 at 9:44 PM
This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.
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Everyone is buzzing about the big sporting event of the night: The Chicago Bulls defeating the Atlanta Hawks 128-123 to go to 3-0 on the season
October 28, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Everyone is buzzing about the big sporting event of the night: The Chicago Bulls defeating the Atlanta Hawks 128-123 to go to 3-0 on the season
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“Babe it’s 1 am why aren’t you in bed the children are going to wake up so early tomorrow”
“Sorry hun, me and the 157 most brain damaged friends I’ve met online are watching two baseball teams we don’t care that much about and the bits have gone on so long we can’t turn back now”
“Sorry hun, me and the 157 most brain damaged friends I’ve met online are watching two baseball teams we don’t care that much about and the bits have gone on so long we can’t turn back now”
October 11, 2025 at 5:02 AM
“Babe it’s 1 am why aren’t you in bed the children are going to wake up so early tomorrow”
“Sorry hun, me and the 157 most brain damaged friends I’ve met online are watching two baseball teams we don’t care that much about and the bits have gone on so long we can’t turn back now”
“Sorry hun, me and the 157 most brain damaged friends I’ve met online are watching two baseball teams we don’t care that much about and the bits have gone on so long we can’t turn back now”
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This picture is from the start of this game
Will Klein in a "Rapinoe/Kaepernick 2020" shirt
October 28, 2025 at 6:55 AM
This picture is from the start of this game
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NEW: "The company’s estimates therefore suggest that every seven days, around 560,000 people may be exchanging messages with ChatGPT that indicate they are experiencing mania or psychosis." @lmatsakis.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/chatgp...
OpenAI Says Hundreds of Thousands of ChatGPT Users May Show Signs of Manic or Psychotic Crisis Every Week
OpenAI Says Hundreds of Thousands of ChatGPT Users May Show Signs of Manic or Psychotic Crisis Every Week
www.wired.com
October 27, 2025 at 5:45 PM
NEW: "The company’s estimates therefore suggest that every seven days, around 560,000 people may be exchanging messages with ChatGPT that indicate they are experiencing mania or psychosis." @lmatsakis.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/chatgp...
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This is now two baseball games long. Therefore, this should count for the 3rd and 4th game in the World Series.
October 28, 2025 at 6:38 AM
This is now two baseball games long. Therefore, this should count for the 3rd and 4th game in the World Series.
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SNAP, the country's largest anti-hunger program, dates back to the Great Depression and has never been disrupted this way. Most recipients are seniors, families with kids, and those with disabilities.
'Uncharted territory': Ongoing shutdown threatens food aid for 42 million people
SNAP, the country's largest anti-hunger program, dates back to the Great Depression and has never been disrupted this way. Most recipients are seniors, families with kids, and those with disabilities.
n.pr
October 27, 2025 at 1:37 PM
SNAP, the country's largest anti-hunger program, dates back to the Great Depression and has never been disrupted this way. Most recipients are seniors, families with kids, and those with disabilities.
Man, WHAT A GAME. Let's go Dodgers! Can't believe they play again in 17 hours lol.
October 28, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Man, WHAT A GAME. Let's go Dodgers! Can't believe they play again in 17 hours lol.
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Now warming in the Dodgers bullpen...
October 28, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Now warming in the Dodgers bullpen...
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My god, the Dodgers are putting Sandy Koufax in
October 28, 2025 at 5:36 AM
My god, the Dodgers are putting Sandy Koufax in
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BREAKING: Gov. Gavin Newsom of California just vetoed a bill that would have banned #PFAS in cookware and other consumer products. Given California's market clout, this is massive blow to public health.
October 14, 2025 at 12:59 AM
BREAKING: Gov. Gavin Newsom of California just vetoed a bill that would have banned #PFAS in cookware and other consumer products. Given California's market clout, this is massive blow to public health.
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This was once the kind of shit we cited to differentiate ourselves from authoritarian countries. It’s just who we are now.
Wow, wow, wow. This has always been legally possible but the law has virtually never been enforced — and now this is the SECOND case I've heard of in the last month (first involving a person with a green card) of a noncitizen being charged for failure to carry their papers.
NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...
October 14, 2025 at 2:54 AM
This was once the kind of shit we cited to differentiate ourselves from authoritarian countries. It’s just who we are now.
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"We have an economy where a handful of modern-day robber barons wield extraordinary power. They hold enormous control over our paychecks, our bills, our time, and our futures.
...But the good news is that nothing about any of this is inevitable." - Lina Khan
...But the good news is that nothing about any of this is inevitable." - Lina Khan
October 14, 2025 at 12:26 AM
"We have an economy where a handful of modern-day robber barons wield extraordinary power. They hold enormous control over our paychecks, our bills, our time, and our futures.
...But the good news is that nothing about any of this is inevitable." - Lina Khan
...But the good news is that nothing about any of this is inevitable." - Lina Khan
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That Final Four press conference brought in an army of cameras—literally hundreds. You'd have thought it was Beyoncé, T. Swift or Tom Cruise.
But no, it was for a nonagenarian, wheelchair-bound team chaplain.
Here's the CBS Sports obituary on Sister Jean, gone at the beautiful age of 106.
But no, it was for a nonagenarian, wheelchair-bound team chaplain.
Here's the CBS Sports obituary on Sister Jean, gone at the beautiful age of 106.
Sister Jean dies at 106: Legendary Loyola basketball chaplain and March Madness icon passes away
Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt gained national attention during the men's team run to the 2018 Final Four
www.cbssports.com
October 10, 2025 at 12:50 PM
That Final Four press conference brought in an army of cameras—literally hundreds. You'd have thought it was Beyoncé, T. Swift or Tom Cruise.
But no, it was for a nonagenarian, wheelchair-bound team chaplain.
Here's the CBS Sports obituary on Sister Jean, gone at the beautiful age of 106.
But no, it was for a nonagenarian, wheelchair-bound team chaplain.
Here's the CBS Sports obituary on Sister Jean, gone at the beautiful age of 106.