Taylor Kate Brown
@taylorkatebrown.bsky.social
Investigative and solutions climate journalism. Born the year of Star Trek IV and 347 ppm | taylorkatebrown.com | previously: ProPublica, SFChronicle and BBC. I can also make your emails not suck. Icon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Parisienne_(fresco)
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In Juneau, Alaska, a carbon offset project that's actually working
Visiting Alaska is an emissions-heavy prospect. An innovative program has tourists ease that by helping buy heat pumps for locals.
grist.org
A year in publishing, kind of: (to be clear this thread is more for me than for you).
I started the year with a holdover for work done in 2023 - and it became one of my most talked about pieces. I got to talk about it on the radio and the weather channel(!) grist.org/energy/in-ju...
I started the year with a holdover for work done in 2023 - and it became one of my most talked about pieces. I got to talk about it on the radio and the weather channel(!) grist.org/energy/in-ju...
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Ahead of Saturday’s game, @maustermuhle.bsky.social spoke with @washingtonspirit.com captain and goalkeeper Aubrey Kingsbury ⚽ 🥅
The Washington Spirit move on in the playoffs
Goalie and team captain Aubrey Kingsbury saved the day last weekend, but the pressure now ramps up.
51st.news
November 13, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Ahead of Saturday’s game, @maustermuhle.bsky.social spoke with @washingtonspirit.com captain and goalkeeper Aubrey Kingsbury ⚽ 🥅
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Enviros are asking Georgia utility regulators to push off a key vote on Georgia Power's request to meet a 10,000MW need with mostly gas-fueled power plants until January, when two new regulators are seated. It's an uphill battle. From my colleague, Drew Kann
www.ajc.com/business/202...
www.ajc.com/business/202...
After Democrats’ wins, groups ask PSC to delay key Georgia Power vote
Environmental groups have asked the PSC to delay a vote on whether to allow Georgia Power to undertake a historic expansion until after newly elected Democrats are seated.
www.ajc.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Enviros are asking Georgia utility regulators to push off a key vote on Georgia Power's request to meet a 10,000MW need with mostly gas-fueled power plants until January, when two new regulators are seated. It's an uphill battle. From my colleague, Drew Kann
www.ajc.com/business/202...
www.ajc.com/business/202...
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Flooding at the COP30 venue...that's not too on the nose, or anything...
Scoop: The UN sent Brazilian officials a letter demanding improvements to security and poor conditions at COP30, including stifling heat and flooding inside the venue. Gift link:
UN Orders Brazil to Improve Security, Poor Conditions at COP30
A top UN climate official demanded Brazilian authorities immediately develop a plan for addressing security lapses, soaring temperatures, flooding and other poor conditions at the COP30 conference in ...
www.bloomberg.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Flooding at the COP30 venue...that's not too on the nose, or anything...
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Want a place to write your thoughts outside bluesky? Started that politics or books newsletter two years ago but couldn't keep it up? I wrote this low-cost quickstart newsletter guide for these (and other) situations.
www.taylorkatebrown.com/launch-your-...
www.taylorkatebrown.com/launch-your-...
Taylor Kate Brown
www.taylorkatebrown.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Want a place to write your thoughts outside bluesky? Started that politics or books newsletter two years ago but couldn't keep it up? I wrote this low-cost quickstart newsletter guide for these (and other) situations.
www.taylorkatebrown.com/launch-your-...
www.taylorkatebrown.com/launch-your-...
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An absolute powerhouse of a @propublica.org team has done what U.S. officials refuse to do: identify the men and women swept up in that midnight raid in Chicago. Life in the building was not perfect, but reporters found little evidence to back up government claims: www.propublica.org/article/chic...
“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime
Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...
www.propublica.org
November 13, 2025 at 4:23 PM
An absolute powerhouse of a @propublica.org team has done what U.S. officials refuse to do: identify the men and women swept up in that midnight raid in Chicago. Life in the building was not perfect, but reporters found little evidence to back up government claims: www.propublica.org/article/chic...
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If Cigarette Smoking Man from The X-Files were real, he would just be, like, inviting random Pro Publica reporters to his Signal groups by accident, then writing shit like, "THE ALIEN INVASION BEGINS TOMORROW. SICK, MY BROTHERS."
November 12, 2025 at 9:13 PM
If Cigarette Smoking Man from The X-Files were real, he would just be, like, inviting random Pro Publica reporters to his Signal groups by accident, then writing shit like, "THE ALIEN INVASION BEGINS TOMORROW. SICK, MY BROTHERS."
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I liked @grantblank.bsky.social 's Georgia PSC video so much, I wrote about it (and other, related thoughts) buttondown.com/theplanetyou...
Somebody finally made a good climate regulator video
On bringing reporting to the world of short-form video.
buttondown.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I liked @grantblank.bsky.social 's Georgia PSC video so much, I wrote about it (and other, related thoughts) buttondown.com/theplanetyou...
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Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, expresses regret. Editor says court cases against city continue #ksleg
Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, expresses regret • Kansas Reflector
A handful of county-level officials who were involved in a small-town Kansas newspaper raid in 2023 will pay a cumulative $3 million to three journalists and a city councilor.
kansasreflector.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, expresses regret. Editor says court cases against city continue #ksleg
Want a place to write your thoughts outside bluesky? Started that politics or books newsletter two years ago but couldn't keep it up? I wrote this low-cost quickstart newsletter guide for these (and other) situations.
www.taylorkatebrown.com/launch-your-...
www.taylorkatebrown.com/launch-your-...
Taylor Kate Brown
www.taylorkatebrown.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Want a place to write your thoughts outside bluesky? Started that politics or books newsletter two years ago but couldn't keep it up? I wrote this low-cost quickstart newsletter guide for these (and other) situations.
www.taylorkatebrown.com/launch-your-...
www.taylorkatebrown.com/launch-your-...
Aabria Iyengar interviewed (also, very good).
The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons and Dragons to Be Racist
The fantastical roots of “scientific racism”
www.theatlantic.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Aabria Iyengar interviewed (also, very good).
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slightly demoralizing as a writer to see people reacting to the headline of this piece questioning the premises of the "masculinity crisis" because they think only read the headline and so think it is affirming them
November 10, 2025 at 4:18 PM
slightly demoralizing as a writer to see people reacting to the headline of this piece questioning the premises of the "masculinity crisis" because they think only read the headline and so think it is affirming them
What up New Jersey DEP (the one remaining state regulator with a say in this)
November 7, 2025 at 8:29 PM
What up New Jersey DEP (the one remaining state regulator with a say in this)
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thank you Anthony Scaramucci for this extremely relatable analogy about people buying bitcoin on margin
November 7, 2025 at 5:36 PM
thank you Anthony Scaramucci for this extremely relatable analogy about people buying bitcoin on margin
I hated reading this combination of words this but I had to know which pipeline it was. Full @truth.bsky.social investigation here (also Hunterbrook got "Truth" @ bsky? geez) hntrbrk.com/sable-2/
November 7, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I hated reading this combination of words this but I had to know which pipeline it was. Full @truth.bsky.social investigation here (also Hunterbrook got "Truth" @ bsky? geez) hntrbrk.com/sable-2/
It's about to get very cold in parts of the east coast early next week... (via @themainemonitor.org ) www.newscentermaine.com/article/news...
Heating aid to move forward in Maine as shutdown stalls federal funding
“Borrowing funds from one program to pay for another is certainly not ideal and is not a long-term solution,” MaineHousing Director Dan Brennan said.
www.newscentermaine.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:34 PM
It's about to get very cold in parts of the east coast early next week... (via @themainemonitor.org ) www.newscentermaine.com/article/news...
I liked @grantblank.bsky.social 's Georgia PSC video so much, I wrote about it (and other, related thoughts) buttondown.com/theplanetyou...
Somebody finally made a good climate regulator video
On bringing reporting to the world of short-form video.
buttondown.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I liked @grantblank.bsky.social 's Georgia PSC video so much, I wrote about it (and other, related thoughts) buttondown.com/theplanetyou...
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It’s been a pleasure working with Lex and everyone in the politics vertical at Teen Vogue. I’m heartbroken that my column, Disability Visibility, is gone. Teen Vogue was one of the few places that published disabled journalists regularly. I just spent the last 2 months working on my next column
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 6, 2025 at 5:28 AM
It’s been a pleasure working with Lex and everyone in the politics vertical at Teen Vogue. I’m heartbroken that my column, Disability Visibility, is gone. Teen Vogue was one of the few places that published disabled journalists regularly. I just spent the last 2 months working on my next column
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Gracie, a 23-year-old student and parent in Maryland, stressed that many peers are dealing with not being able to feed themselves or their children due to delays to SNAP benefits. She said uncertainty over SNAP delays “builds this anxiety of, ‘Well, if this is going to be taken away, what else is?'
More Young People Will Go Hungry Without SNAP
“We’re trying to make it, but it’s been hard.”
www.teenvogue.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Gracie, a 23-year-old student and parent in Maryland, stressed that many peers are dealing with not being able to feed themselves or their children due to delays to SNAP benefits. She said uncertainty over SNAP delays “builds this anxiety of, ‘Well, if this is going to be taken away, what else is?'
Real ones know.
Apparently all you needed to do to predict the NYC election results was read that one N.K. Jemisin novel.
November 5, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Real ones know.
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there are many layers to this year's #GaPSC election, as we've reported in the @ajc.com
For many Georgians, this race is about their power bills.
My story with Drew Kann:
www.ajc.com/business/202...
For many Georgians, this race is about their power bills.
My story with Drew Kann:
www.ajc.com/business/202...
How two obscure races became a referendum on Georgia Power bills
Georgia Power customers have seen bills rise. Now they get to vote for two members on the state regulatory commission for the first time since 2020.
www.ajc.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:29 PM
there are many layers to this year's #GaPSC election, as we've reported in the @ajc.com
For many Georgians, this race is about their power bills.
My story with Drew Kann:
www.ajc.com/business/202...
For many Georgians, this race is about their power bills.
My story with Drew Kann:
www.ajc.com/business/202...
Potential to be the greatest voir dire of DC's already-excellent voir-dire history www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
Jury selection begins in the trial of D.C.'s 'sandwich guy'
Sean Dunn went viral this summer for throwing a salami sub at a Customs and Border Protection agent.
www.nbcnews.com
November 3, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Potential to be the greatest voir dire of DC's already-excellent voir-dire history www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
Excellent autumn scenes in the Morning Walk feed.
November 3, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Excellent autumn scenes in the Morning Walk feed.
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If you believe that within every person is a whole world, then within every community is a universe. So what happens to a neighborhood when it loses one of its stars?
For Mt Pleasant, it means losing Gael Gomez, a 19 year-old who helped bring the cosmos to the people.
51st.news/mount-pleasa...
For Mt Pleasant, it means losing Gael Gomez, a 19 year-old who helped bring the cosmos to the people.
51st.news/mount-pleasa...
Mount Pleasant’s sidewalk astronomer might have to leave his home
But Gael Gomez wants people to keep looking up — at the sky and in life.
51st.news
October 31, 2025 at 6:30 PM
If you believe that within every person is a whole world, then within every community is a universe. So what happens to a neighborhood when it loses one of its stars?
For Mt Pleasant, it means losing Gael Gomez, a 19 year-old who helped bring the cosmos to the people.
51st.news/mount-pleasa...
For Mt Pleasant, it means losing Gael Gomez, a 19 year-old who helped bring the cosmos to the people.
51st.news/mount-pleasa...