Taylor Kate Brown
@taylorkatebrown.bsky.social
Investigative and solutions climate journalism. Signal: taylorkatebrown.98 | taylorkatebrown.com | previously: ProPublica, SFChronicle and BBC. I can also make your emails not suck.
Wild news: "Paper Trail" is nominated for THREE Signal Awards — “Best Documentary,” “Best New Podcast,” and… shockingly… “Best Documentary Host.” Exciting, surprising, humbling especially when you consider that this is our FIRST YEAR. Please vote for us! I'll thread the links below
In general, I would recommend getting a fact checker before you accuse someone of perjury talkingpointsmemo.com/news/eric-sc...
New Evidence Shows Just How Badly One Republican Senator Beclowned Himself in the Jack Smith Hearing
TPM has found fairly definitive evidence proving Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) misread...
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I was honestly surprised when I saw the author of the piece but it does make (broader) sense www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/o...
Opinion | I’m Exhausted. You’re Demoralized. We Weren’t Built for a World Like This. (Gift Article)
A greatly underappreciated virtue of other presidents was that you could forget about them for weeks at a time.
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ICYMI: @propublica.org has a Chrome and Firefox plugin that allows you to grab your data from FanDuel and DraftKings. If you use it, you can upload your data to us to help us to continue investigating how these sites induce people to keep betting. projects.propublica.org/sports-betti...
Help ProPublica Report on Sports Betting by Sending Us Your App Data
If you’ve bet on sports with FanDuel or DraftKings, you can help ProPublica understand how these apps respond to their users’ betting behavior. Use our browser extension to download your betting histo...
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seeing a lot of discussion about this and like: the reason the poster did a screenshot with no link is that if you actually search for the article you'd learn that this bill 1) has nothing to do with Zohran Mamdani 2) was introduced in committee back in May and didn't go anywhere
This is why the AI closet/lookbook apps fall flat for me — do you need a vibecoded app to tell you to wear a graphic t-shirt with jeans...? Do you need Muse to tell you to browse Nordstrom? This is for people who have few preferences, for whom the average is good enough.
The US is trying to keep coal plants alive in anyway they can. I'm not sure it will work buttondown.com/theplanetyou...
The carrot is gone. So is the stick.
Another swing at saving America's coal plants, regardless of cost.
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Fellow FB Marketplace fans! I want to chat for a story: Are you noticing more AI-generated listings? If you're selling, is it prompting you to use AI to create images/descriptions? Can protect privacy! DM or rainesford.alexandra@gmail.com Photo of Harry on my desk, purchased from FB Marketplace.
On Saturday @jpinckney.bsky.social saw a man in his Austin neighborhood being kidnapped by ICE. Every day since then he's passed by the car, still sitting there, a horrifying lonely symbol of what is being done. www.welcometohellworld.com/his-car-is-s...
His car is still sitting there
An ICE kidnapping in Austin
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Aminata Seck, a women's basketball player at Kentucky State (and an All-SIAC selection), was detained by ICE at the Louisville Airport more than a month ago. She's dealing with an ACL injury and has been transferred to at least four different facilities. www.usatoday.com/story/sports...
Injured women’s college basketball player detained by ICE for a month-plus
Aminata Seck, a women's basketball player at Kentucky State University, has been detained by ICE for over a month while dealing with an ACL injury.
usatoday.com
Going through my notes from an old IRE training and who do I see cited but @datab.ae (for Fatal Force) www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/inv...
Police shootings database 2015-2024: Search by race, age, department
Filter the Washington Post database, which includes police shooting statistics between January 2015 and December 2024, by unarmed police shootings, race and age of victim and more.
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To clear up a misconception I immediately jumped to: it’s not left/right; it’s front/back
Ryan Boyd@ryanboyd.bsky.social · last wk.NEW BRAIN DROPPED
"But she didn’t see the wide, congested road, built about a decade earlier for streetcars and automobiles. She saw — or imagined — a vibrant park with greenery, fountains and people walking their poodles. She scrawled her vision in ink across paper and labeled it “Connecticut Avenue Mall.”
How a 60-year-old painting inspired a ‘deckover’ park atop a D.C. underpass
The project is transforming the empty space above a four-lane underpass into a pedestrian plaza.
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"Now, though, there’s a magical portal that lets you walk the streets of Washington in 1950 and see exactly where people lived" ggwash.org/view/104864/...
Step through this magical portal to a DC with 800,000 people
In 1950, about 800,000 people lived in DC. That’s 100,000 more than today, even though the city had many fewer buildings back then.
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Everything's important! But data centers are additive vs hard to abate stuff factored in! "The concern for Shah...is that angst about the greenhouse gas emissions of AI data centers will drag attention away from areas with substantially higher emissions, like transport and heavy industry."
On Wall Street, Frustration Is Mounting That AI Will Hijack the Climate Debate
Of all the ways in which artificial intelligence might destroy humanity, its carbon footprint is far down the list for some of Wall Street’s most prominent climate experts.
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WHCA's statement in response to the ban was pretty medium but this feels more practically effective for a president who is far more interested in TV.
Scott Nover@scottnover.bsky.social · last wk.BREAKING: TV pool will not be providing coverage of presidential events until further notice b/c of CNN's ban, pool chair and FOX News Washington Bureau Chief Bryan Boughton said. It's effectively a boycott by the fellow members — ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
A few weekends ago I went to Miami and attended 9 open houses in extremely high-risk flood areas to see what agents are telling prospective buyers about them. Here is my journey
The open houses at the edge of disaster
What are buyers being told about climate risk in Miami? I posed as one to find out.
heated.world
Today I learned that the state of Tennessee changed their open records law in April and apparently decided that college athletics vendor contracts are now all classified, making it one of the most restrictive policies in the country. That sucks, in my humble opinion.
Propublica is, uh, sticking to sports.
ProPublica@propublica.org · 2w agoNEW: Sports reporting is shrinking. But at ProPublica, we’re diving in. We won’t cover the games, but we’ll be keeping score — of which powerful people are winning, of who’s being hurt and of which systems can be held accountable.
"The Health Department has not decided whether to provide the shots to states through the Vaccines for Children program, which serves uninsured and low-income families."
Covid Vaccines Delayed for Half of U.S. Children (Gift Article)
The Health Department has not decided whether to provide the shots to states through the Vaccines for Children program, which serves uninsured and low-income families.
nytimes.com
I have a lot of Ross stories. Here's one of them: KDKA-TV's newsroom is in Downtown Pittsburgh, on a plaza with a little park. A few years back, several of us were watching through the windows as a gentleman exhibited some concerning drug-induced behavior, until the point when he was slumped over
TribLive@triblive.bsky.social · 2w agoTV TALK: After 25 years at KDKA-TV, Ross Guidotti signs off Friday. The plainspoken reporter opens up with @robowentv.bsky.social about walking away, what he’ll miss and the one opportunity he always wanted but never got.
The Simpsons: We've Tried Nothing
ALT: The Simpsons: We've Tried Nothing
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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoRick Scott: "With regard to destroying mankind, these companies need to do the right thing on their own. We're not going to get smart enough to regulate them. We're not going to get something done up here."
Cuts to SNAP, surging prices, and federal layoffs are making it difficult for District residents to put food on the table, @samdelgado.bsky.social reports:
Food insecurity in the DC area hits a new high
Cuts to SNAP, surging costs, and federal layoffs are making it difficult for District residents to put food on the table.
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Sir?!? Get yourself a chicago CPA www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/he-hasnt-c...
Pope Leo XIV Does Tech Support and Tax Prep for His Brother in Suburban Chicago
John Prevost locked himself out of a new computer, propped his iPad on top of it, and called the Vatican. Then he told Italian TV what makes him proudest of his brother: “He hasn’t collapsed yet.”
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