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Featherstone

@featherstone.bsky.social
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Writer/photographer: Harper’s, NYT Mag, New Republic, etc. Currently outdoors reporter for Syracuse.com

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Featherstone @featherstone.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I published essays 25 years ago in McSweeney's about witnessing 9/11 from Jersey City. I went back recently to retrace my steps for this essay, illustrated with never before published photos I took on that awful day. Gift link below: www.syracuse.com/news/2026/09...
syracuse.com
Retracing my steps on 9/11, it still makes no sense
A Syracuse reporter who lived in New York City during 9/11 revisits his former home, and grapples with the aftermath.
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Featherstone @featherstone.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
advice from a successful old swinger www.newyorkupstate.com/nys-fair/202...
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How to pick up chicks at the NYS Fair
Outdoors reporter Steve Featherstone reveals his secrets to scoring with chicks at the fair.
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Featherstone @featherstone.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
caught my first Adirondack backcountry brook trout: www.newyorkupstate.com/outdoors/202...
newyorkupstate.com
Inside New York’s mission to inventory hundreds of remote Adirondack trout ponds
Steve Featherstone accompanies anglers who bushwhack into remote Adirondack waters to gather critical data on brook trout populations.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/06/2026
NEW: At the time of Alice Sebold’s rape, the system was broken in Syracuse. Police brushed off rapes. Prosecutors bungled confessions. Judges overlooked irregularities. The university seemed more intent on suppressing news of a rape epidemic than solving it.
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The Wrong Man: The Bestselling Author, the Exoneration and the Rape Crisis the Police Ignored
Five years after Anthony Broadwater was belatedly cleared for the sexual assault of Alice Sebold, the questions of how he came to be wrongly convicted and how one or more serial rapists operated for y...
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Featherstone @featherstone.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
I love this little gem of an essay written by a guy I met more than a decade ago while on assignment for NYT Mag (which I botched) in Ukraine. It's about the unspoken communication between strangers during wartime. The haircut looks great, Peter. open.substack.com/pub/abdymok/...
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Day 1496
Despite their leaders
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Featherstone @featherstone.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Kirkville N.Y., 2 a.m., processing deer from city culling program.
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Featherstone @featherstone.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Hi. Do you like salamanders with big yellow spots? You will like this story and video. www.newyorkupstate.com/outdoors/202...
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Featherstone @featherstone.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
It's the 15th anniversary of the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan on March 11. I went to #Fukushima in 2013 with scientists studying the impact of radioactive fallout. Fukushima was virtually intact, as if people had left just left hours before I got there.
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Featherstone @featherstone.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Syracuse killed the Easter bunny
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Featherstone @featherstone.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Absolute centrism so pure it obliterates all conscious thought.
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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Actual LOL #birds
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Featherstone @featherstone.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
This lady got lucky with a meteor streaking through her 20 sec exposure of northern lights on a cloudy night in upstate NY near the St. Lawrence River
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Featherstone @featherstone.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
This is a picture of the northern lights in Central New York recently, taken from a suburb of Syracuse. Really crazy mix of light sources.
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Featherstone @featherstone.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
This is one of the best news stories you will read anywhere about ICE raids and how ordinary people helped one man barely escape a one way trip to some godawful detention center. www.syracuse.com/news/2025/11...
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When ICE came for Jeremy, Syracuse’s underground railroad helped him escape the country
Friends and family helped a well-known Syracuse man elude detention and flee to France
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Featherstone @featherstone.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
'Featherstone' is bourgeois folderol. It's spelled 'Fetherstonhaugh,' you ignorant peasant. featherstone.university
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Featherstone University
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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
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Featherstone @featherstone.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
So this guy who's been fishing the Salmon River in upstate NY since there's been salmon in it catches a rare record-breaking pink salmon over Labor Day weekend, but DEC won't recognize it because they 'retired' the record last year. Wot?
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This super-sized salmon just obliterated the New York State record—so why isn’t a state record?
DEC rules six-pound pink salmon ineligible for state record it "retired" the category
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Featherstone @featherstone.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Aug. 2001, WTC as seen from my fifth floor walkup on Erie St. in downtown Jersey City.
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Featherstone @featherstone.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Big news www.newyorkupstate.com/nys-fair/202...
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Searching for bigfoot at the 2025 NYS Fair
An Upstate New York bigfoot hunter is exhibiting a bigfoot corpse in the Horticulture Building.
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Featherstone @featherstone.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
look at this insane native New York brookie... backcountry angling at its best www.newyorkupstate.com/outdoors/202...
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Adirondack angler’s behemoth brook trout breaks NY state record
NY state record brook trout
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Featherstone @featherstone.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
27 mins of me talking about being an outdoors reporter in CNY www.wrvo.org/podcast/camp...
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Steve Featherstone on the Campbell Conversations
Steve Featherstone, outdoors reporter for the Syracuse Post-Standard and syracuse.com talks about the stories and opportunities for fishing and nature in the Central New York region.
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Featherstone @featherstone.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Over here stocking your timeline with trout www.newyorkupstate.com/outdoors/202...
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Hatchery crews stock Onondaga County streams ahead of opening day of trout season (video)
Carpenter's Brook Fish Hatchery pumps 70,000+ trout into local streams each year, making Onondaga County one of NY's trout fishing meccas
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Featherstone @featherstone.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
oh yeah? you think your Valentine is hot? did they go out in blizzard to build you an igloo out of ice? www.newyorkupstate.com/outdoors/202...
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Central NY couple builds 8,000-pound igloo on Oneida Lake to fulfill childhood dream (video)
Noel McCarthy and Kimberly Bement teamed up to build a massive ice-block igloo on Oneida Lake.
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Featherstone @featherstone.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Psst… wanna see some winter steelhead? www.newyorkupstate.com/outdoors/202...
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Snow and suffering: Salmon River steelhead fishing isn’t for the faint of heart (video)
Meet Shane Muckey, a self-avowed steelhead addict with the Salmon River in his front yard.
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Featherstone @featherstone.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
syracuse.com
Here are the Central NYers who attacked the Capitol Jan. 6; Trump pardons the criminals
The attack led to the largest-ever investigation undertaken by the U.S. Department of Justice.
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Featherstone @featherstone.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
welp, we did it folks, we crossed the 1.5 degrees C threshold for one calendar year for the first time. www.semafor.com/article/01/1...
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2024 saw 1.5°C warming threshold breached | Semafor
The international 1.5°C target has not yet been missed, as this refers to a decades-long average, but last year’s record brings the world closer to doing so.
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Featherstone @featherstone.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
screen capped this from a crazy video of the Palisades fire
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AltYellostoneNatPar @altyellonatpark.org · 04/01/2025
The censorship algorithm on Twitter reduced our audience by roughly 95%, and seriously, who does that to a wildlife biology & advocacy group ? So we moved 😇 over here to BlueSky If you could, please help us regain our following Follow Retweet and Repeat ;-) Together we can change the world.
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Featherstone @featherstone.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
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Featherstone @featherstone.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
This is how my cat hunts
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Making a free cycling game @dfeldman.org · 09/12/2024
I kind of hate this widely-shared chart. While our life expectancy is too low and our health expenditure is too high, they are actually not particularly connected to each other. Most of the excess mortality is caused by cars, guns, and drugs - things that health expenditure has little to do with.
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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
I will never forget the time someone bought the domain name of Guy Fieri’s failed restaurant and posted this fever dream of a menu.
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Featherstone @featherstone.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
My colleague Darien Stevenson broke this story today. www.syracuse.com/news/2024/12...
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Syracuse judge refuses to perform marriage for same-sex couple: ‘It was real weird’
Felicia Pitts Davis performed a ceremony for a heterosexual couple but bailed out on two women waiting to be married, sources say.
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Featherstone @featherstone.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
This place is getting serious. Been here since beta and my tiny follower count hasn't budged. Fine with me. More of a reader than a poster. But lately I've been getting tons of followers, so I changed my profile pic to the real me, replacing the pic of my spirit animal: 1980's-era Bryan Ferry.
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Featherstone @featherstone.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I wrote about the Onondaga Nation, one of the six Nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, getting back a sliver of their ancestral homelands.
newyorkupstate.com
Onondaga Nation plans a wild future for 1,000 acres of reclaimed land
Honeywell turns over land in Tully Valley to Onondaga Nation in the one of the largest land transfers ever to an Indigenous nation.
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 03/03/2024
The moon overhead is not the moon
She’s lying on the asphalt.
Her small belly, her chest,
her forehead, her hands,
her cold feet bare in the night.
A hungry cat paces.
Shrapnel rings
as it hits neighboring
houses already bombed.
The cat grows hungrier.
The cat sees the girl,
her wounds still warm.
Hungrier.
The girl’s father lies next to her
on his back. The backpack he wears
still has the girl’s favorite candy
and a small toy.
The girl was waiting
till they arrived
to eat her lollipop.
The cat gets close
to try the flesh;
a bomb pounds the street.
No flesh, no girl,
no father, no cat.
Nobody is hungry.
The moon overhead
is not the moon.
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Featherstone @featherstone.bsky.social · 05/02/2024
The most Syracuse story, ever www.syracuse.com/crime/2024/0...
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Featherstone @featherstone.bsky.social · 02/02/2024
It may come as a surprise to some that Devil’s Walking Stick tree branches do not make very good walking sticks unless you are, in fact, the devil
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Featherstone @featherstone.bsky.social · 16/01/2024
Fun to watch the fascist- curious 7% of Iowa’s voting population receive wall to wall coverage from national media acting like they’re covering a dog show
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Featherstone @featherstone.bsky.social · 21/11/2023
Big, old trees story, my fave www.newyorkupstate.com/outdoors/202...
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Featherstone @featherstone.bsky.social · 28/10/2023
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Megan Squire @megansquire.bsky.social · 18/10/2023
My 3Q crypto and finance report - $23m in money funneled from Vanguard, Fidelity, other "donor advised funds" to hate & extremist groups, $76k in BTC from a megadonor to an unlikely Cville-era recipient, and a Nazi clown rakes it in while in federal custody. Enjoy! www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/20...
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Featherstone @featherstone.bsky.social · 29/08/2023
crucial insights on the A.I. debate ‘Eggbert’ the talking egg vs. ChatGPT: A NYS Fair face-off - newyorkupstate.com
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Featherstone @featherstone.bsky.social · 24/08/2023
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Featherstone @featherstone.bsky.social · 21/08/2023
Dad, 83, asked today why internet sucks so much. Backhoe blew a tire, wanted to get it fixed, did a search, got a ton of unrelated ads. What’s going on? I say dad, it’s not you, search engines suck now. He was very happy to learn that he wasn’t becoming more senile, rather the internet sucks more.
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Featherstone @featherstone.bsky.social · 02/08/2023
Faithfully bringing you the latest in big tree news www.newyorkupstate.com/outdoors/202…
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Featherstone @featherstone.bsky.social · 24/06/2023
Like trees? Like functionally extinct trees? Like transgenic trees? You’ll like this story www.newyorkupstate.com/outdoors/202…
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A CNY scientist’s work could change the world. But he might not live long enough to see it happen
Bill Powell worked 30 years to create an American chestnut tree genetically modified to survive a deadly blight. Last year he was diagnosed with terminal cancer.
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Featherstone @featherstone.bsky.social · 15/05/2023
Nicest writing prize I ever got, a Eurasian teal. Sure beats a plaque.
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Featherstone @featherstone.bsky.social · 10/05/2023
Driving a dealership loaner with Sirius radio on permablast and now have heard Rocky Mountain High 3X in less than 24 hours and maybe 2 hours of driving.
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