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Amanda Kolson Hurley

@amandakhurley.bsky.social
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Climate journalist at Bloomberg and chronicler of weird suburbs. Opinions mine and not my bosses’

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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 4h
God, what a nightmare. “Witnesses described Ms. Pike as alert and lucid for stretches of time. Behind curtains, for nearly an hour, they could hear her breathing. ‘She helped the execution team find what they thought was venous access’”
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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 19h
Inside the fascinating, unconventional home of a brilliant throuple. “The critic Ken Frampton supposedly ended his tour of the building by asking, ‘But where do you live?’” www.curbed.com/article/arch...
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An East Village Factory Conversion by an Architectural Scholar and Artist
An East 13th Street building housed the final version of a communal life experiment that began in London.
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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I was born in the US and have lived 42 of my 50 years here but never attended an American higher ed institution. So I feel like a foreigner when it comes to fraternities. But they don’t seem great on net. Has a phaseout been seriously considered?
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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Enjoying the US Traitors more now that they fixed what was the worst part of the show (a cast of reality TV D-listers) and got regular joes instead. Very good that one of them is a funeral director
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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I don't really believe this but I'll happily buy more original pieces for cheap if it is true
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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
So happy it’s soup season again 🍲
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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Maybe I’ll have a rough understanding of Quebec politics one day. Today is not that day
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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Crying to the manager about someone being mean to you when you’re Talkin’ Rape
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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is fascinating, a sign of both retirement homes glowing up to try to appeal to affluent urban boomers, and white-tablecloth restaurants going where their core demographic is now (assisted living)
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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Researchers are increasingly able to pinpoint the influence of global warming on a particular heat wave or storm. Attribution science - cited in lawsuits against Big Oil and attacked by conservatives - is now part of a major Supreme Court case [gift link] www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Climate Science Under Political Attack Reaches US Supreme Court
Attribution research is increasingly cited in lawsuits seeking climate damages, which hinge on a case now before the US high court.
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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I saw ads on TV for folding drop-down ladders you could put under your upstairs windows in case of fire. Became convinced that deadly house fires were common and my family was in grave danger (no ladders!), and had nightmares for months
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Sameer Ashar @sameer-ashar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is my nephew, please forward to your networks, esp any University of Maryland students.
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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Oh my God. Just demolished by JRM of all people
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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Thinking about my trip to Australia earlier this year and one thing that surprised me, given that people were so chill, was the hyperefficient customer service. Coffee drinks and cocktails prepared in 30-60 seconds. Part of the culture or just my experience?
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weathersullivan.bsky.social @weathersullivan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I like to think rivers are eternal, but I know they're not. The Neponset this afternoon. This stretch of the river was actually moved from its original bed to make way for an interchange on I 95.
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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Someone who knows how to spend a rainy Saturday
Calico cat sprawled on an armchair
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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The guy on Bake Off who’s kind of an affectless gym bro but also really good at cakes, for reasons he can’t explain: fascinating
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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Under a proposed new rule, companies could take credit for the carbon in trees growing next to the trees they cut down. The math works for them; the climate, not so much www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/o...
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Opinion | The Latest Corporate Climate Ruse (Gift Article)
Making deforestation look climate-friendly will encourage a lot more deforestation.
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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I still can’t believe the Sbarro at Union Station is gone. I was sure it would outlive us all
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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pretty big jump from Question 1 to Question 2 here
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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Why is the DC government website so dysfunctional as well as looking like it’s from 2009
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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Major u-turn from Justice Alito as Supreme Court reveals he will no longer participate in the big climate change case being argued next week. Previously, the court told NBC News there was no reason for him to step aside despite his earlier recusal in same case.
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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I let my son talk me into buying the Zizek tickets. Recommendations for intro Zizek readings welcome (essays > books because I have a lot of deadlines rn)
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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This former tradwife influencer was the family breadwinner with the $2,500/month she earned from content, and now that she’s out she pays child support to her loser ex. Incredible but bet she’s not the only one holding it all down while preaching subservience www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/s...
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Her Brand Was Tradwife. Now She’s Divorced. (Gift Article)
What happens when a trad influencer leaves her husband, questions her beliefs, stops selling anti-feminism T-shirts — and still needs to make a living online?
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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
DC folks: THE SCORE at the Shakespeare Theatre is fantastic, one of the best productions I’ve seen there over many years
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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It would be amusing if the endangerment finding repeal bit them in the butt but I don’t see it happening, feels like we’ll settle into a nihilistic, self-contradictory status quo
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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Person enraged that Trump stopped minting pennies
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“She nearly lost her home to foreclosure and her teenage daughter was entrusted with running her household. Her college-age son left a football scholarship to return home and help with costs around the home. Mason has three children and also raised four of her brother’s children.”
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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Even if he’s lying, I think it’s bad that the richest and most powerful people in the world aspire to be babies functionally
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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Feeling too grizzled for this message tbh
Ad on a NYC newsstand: “Welcome to the climate economy”
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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Kamikwasi!
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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I’m at the cocktail bar attached to my hotel and it’s one of those places where every drink on the menu is a riff on a classic cocktail, ie, more fussy and less appealing
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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
In which Isaac Chotiner proves as formidable a book reviewer as he is an interviewer www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Is Zionism’s Moral Crisis About Roads Not Taken—or Original Sin?
Where Benjamin Moser replaces one story of Jewish exceptionalism with another, Omer Bartov shows what’s lost when polemic takes the place of history.
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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The people criticizing NHJ for not organizing the other parents would probably call her arrogant and overbearing if she had tried to
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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is a wild yarn and worth reading as such, but it also nails the weird incestuousness and power dynamics of the dressage world. Employees who depend on their boss for a place to live, “stars” who expect deference but can’t afford to fire a client, etc. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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She Made Me Do It
A prominent dressage trainer shot an annoying student—and now maintains that he’s the real victim.
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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I have to moderate a panel and the organizers have been fantastic in terms of logistics and prep, even drafting suggested questions that tee up each speaker’s expertise. It is a godsend and should be common practice
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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Sure, Jan
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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
WTF is wrong with people
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Scott 𐚁 🦇 Cave 🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I know there’s a savvy take that being attached to the east wing or the kennedy center is a sort of west wing lame-o attachment to the symbols of power and on the other hand he fucking bulldozed our collective property
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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“At the very top of the market, climate risk could be acknowledged because the buyer presumably had enough money … Everywhere else, the risk kept getting moved just out of frame.” Great piece and I love that it nods to Sarah Miller’s banger on the same topic
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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Very sad story. The last graf is a gut punch
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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I didn’t know anything about Hyrox so thought the criticism of the athlete who pooped herself was harsh, since that’s not rare, but the competitors share equipment? They should have had rules about it already
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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is stirring old-school rhetoric and criticizing “rebuke” is taking it too literally/narrowly, in my opinion
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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Uh oh. The falcon cannot hear the falconer
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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
ExxonMobil projects warming of 2.5-3C by 2050, pointing the finger at coal (conveniently) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Exxon Sounds Alarm on Worsening Global Warming on Coal Pollution
ExxonMobil Holdings Corp. says the world is on course for rapid global temperature increases as coal use persists, pushing emissions beyond mid-century climate goals.
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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The coffee shop is playing back-to-back Billy Joel, I am being tested this morning
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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Don’t really know what to make of this but the model asserting the primacy of nature “over the artificial constructs of human civilization” is chilling and I say that as an environmental journalist
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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Never expected to encounter the phrase “in solidarity with Macklemore” before this week
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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
She saved this one up for YEARS, mad respect
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Attracta Mooney @attractamooney.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
SCOOP: At least two multilateral development banks, the Inter-American Development Bank and the Asian Development Bank, are in discussions about scrapping climate finance targets, people familiar with talks said. It follows a similar move by the World Bank during the summer as.ft.com/r/5799b285-6...
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US pressure on development banks to scrap climate finance goals
Multilateral lenders expected to follow the World Bank in ditching lending targets
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