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Investigative reporter at Sentient Media based in Durham, North Carolina www.greymoran.com grey@sentientmedia.org, DM for Signal

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 12h
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I just saw a film about the AI-enabled apocalypse. Only it's not science fiction. It's not even in the future. It's in the present. The film is called NAZA. See it. @theguardian.com @us.theguardian.com youtu.be/98xLCdc7t7E
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Apocalypse is here
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Grey Moran @greymoran.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Big congrats to all winners! It was a joy serving as a judge for the @coveringclimatenow.org awards. It feels especially meaningful to see so many awe-inspiring articles about climate change, as this coverage is being deprioritized across many newsrooms coveringclimatenow.org/projects/the...
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The 2026 Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards — Covering Climate Now
Covering Climate Now is proud to announce the winners of the 2026 CCNow Journalism Awards. Our awards program, now in its sixth year, honors excellent reporting on many critical dimensions of the clim...
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 20/09/2026
Exactly. I’ve been saying this since I started the tracker last year, and it’s why I don’t call them deportations. gillianbrockell.com/tracking-all...
I am using the term "third-country removals" instead of "third-country deportations" here, because the latter is a legal process in which a migrant is resettled in a safe third country. What is actually happening, in nearly all cases, more closely resembles chain refoulement, rendition, or kidnapping - and may violate U.S. and
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Covering Climate Now @coveringclimatenow.org · 17/09/2026
📣 CCNow is thrilled to announce the winners of the 2026 CCNow Journalism Awards! Our awards program honors excellent reporting on many critical dimensions of the climate story. Together, their work constitutes the leading edge of climate storytelling. ...🧵↓
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Caitlin McGlade @caitmcglade.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Please consider helping us out a little if you're able. Thank you so much for your support. www.gofundme.com/f/help-charl...
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Donate to Help Charlotte Observer Journalists Through Job Loss, organized by Caitlin McGlade
Nearly 10 talented Charlotte Observer journalists committed to br… Caitlin McGlade needs your support for Help Charlotte Observer Journalists Through Job Loss
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
amazing stuff
"This government hates us and wants us dead," Kathleen Hanna remarked during Bikini
Kill's set. "They don't give a shit about anybody's healthcare. They don't care if we're dying in parking lots of curable illnesses.
They don't give a shit. They don't care if our rights are taken away. They're ripping people off the streets. I'm not gonna tell you all the bad things! But I am gonna say it makes it hard for me in my body sometimes to have a good time. 'Cause it's hard to turn it off. And I was thinking that on the way here. I was like,
'What a gift.' What a gift we have to be able to play for you. What a gift Olivia has given all of us to do this festival.
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 28/08/2026
PinkNews faced a choice: serve the community or chase mass-produced, uncontroversial content. Its decision to cave to the algorithm has left it in reputational and financial tatters.
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Metric anxiety is fueling a dangerous decline in quality queer journalism
Why so many articles about queer people focus on celebs, rely on pics of hypermasculine guys and use rage-bait misinformation
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molly taft @mollytaft.com · 25/08/2026
NEW: gas power in development in the US explicitly for data centers have nearly doubled in less than a year, soaring from 97GW at the end of 2025 to more than 189GW mid-2026, according to shocking new figures from @globalenergymon.bsky.social that's up from just 4 GW in 2024:
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Data Centers Are Driving an Alarming Gas Power Expansion in the US
There’s no clearer sign of the data center boom than rampant gas projects that have been proposed or that are already under construction.
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Nina B. Elkadi @ninaelkadi.com · 24/08/2026
"There are now approximately 1,720 total OSHA inspectors responsible for covering 144 million workers across many industries—meaning each inspector is responsible for the health and safety of 84,000 workers on 11.6 million worksites."
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
An ICE agent directed Emilio, a Venezuelan Deaf man, to get onto a bus. He asked for an interpreter and didn’t get one. When he saw a Mexican flag, he realized he was being deported to Mexico, sans passport. My latest for @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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How Trump’s deportation machine deprives Deaf people of their humanity
An extra layer of cruelty is added by limiting communication access for Deaf people.
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Grey Moran @greymoran.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Across the country, JBS and Cargill plants have been offering unions identical wage proposals, or just mere nickels part. Union leaders allege that the two major meatpacking companies are working together to set a wage standard across the industry. sentientmedia.org/how-an-alleg...
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How an Alleged Wage-Fixing Scheme Is Fueling Historic Labor Uprisings
JBS and Cargill plants across the country are accused of pressuring unions into either accepting the same low wage structure, or mere nickels apart. The result? The largest strikes and lockouts in mor...
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Grey Moran @greymoran.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
"For 24 hours a day, for some three months, they burned the woods that were there,” said Lee Quick, who lives across from Amazon's data center under construction in Hamlet. "I had to purchase two car covers to keep ashes from falling on my car." @sentientmedia.org sentientmedia.org/amazon-data-...
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Amazon Data Center Slated for NC Town With Devastating Industrial History
In the North Carolina Sandhills, a sprawling data center project threatens to repeat the past, stirring memories of a chicken processing plant disaster.
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Nina B. Elkadi @ninaelkadi.com · 19/07/2026
Good morning from Turin, Iowa, RAGBRAI Day 1. Out today in Politico Magazine, @tomphilpott.bsky.social and I collabed to report a profile of Chris Jones, a Democrat running for secretary of agriculture in Iowa.
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‘Cancer Doesn't Care What Party You Belong To’: Poisoned Water Is Turning This Rural State Bluer
Democrats see an opening in rural states for the first time in decades. In Iowa, it’s about water.
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Eleanor Boyle @eleanorboyle.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
More great reporting from @greymoran.bsky.social and @sentientmedia.org. It's not just animals (and our hopes of mitigating climate change) that suffer under highly concentrated/mass-scale industrial animal agriculture, it's *people*.
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Grey Moran @greymoran.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Cargill has locked out over 1,700 meatpacking workers pushing for higher pay and protected bathroom breaks "We had three members since December, you know, essentially wet their pants under this one supervisor," a union rep told @sentientmedia.org sentientmedia.org/cargill-meat...
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Over 1,700 Cargill Meatpacking Workers Locked Out After Demanding Bathroom Breaks
The largest privately held company in the United States is refusing to concede to workers’ demands for more dignified workplace conditions, including protected bathroom breaks.
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Miriam Quick @miriamquick.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
At least 40% of USDA food recalls are for ready-to-eat meat: deli meats, hot dogs, pâté. Piece by @greymoran.bsky.social and me: sentientmedia.org/recall-these...
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Ready to Recall: These Meats Are Behind 40% of USDA Food Warnings
A Sentient analysis reveals that at least 40% of USDA food safety warnings over the past decade are linked to ready-to-eat meats, such as deli meats, hot dogs and pâté.
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Sentient @sentientmedia.org · 28/05/2026
Read Grey’s story and more in The Best American Food and Travel Writing 2026 from @marinerbooks.bsky.social: buff.ly/hqsjftb
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The Best American Food and Travel Writing 2026
A collection of the year’s best food and travel writing, selected by renowned chef and humanitarian José Andrés.The Best American series, launched in 1915, ...
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Sentient @sentientmedia.org · 28/05/2026
Big news! 🚨 @greymoran.bsky.social's Sentient feature, “In Vermont, Residents Are Fighting to Free Their Dairy Farmworker Neighbors,” has been named one of the Best American Food and Travel Writing pieces of 2026 by HarperCollins.
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Best American Food and Travel Writing 2026
In Vermont, Residents Are Fighting to Free Their Dairy Farmworker Neighbors
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
No it the fuck was not.
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Reign of Terror by Spencer Ackerman: 9781984879790 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A New York Times Critics’ Top Book of 2021   "An impressive combination of diligence and verve, deploying Ackerman’s deep stores of knowledge as a national security journalist to full...
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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 08/05/2026
via @keithlaw.bsky.social, it looks like a reader spotted this fabricated quote in the @nytimes.com on April 15, the day after the story was published & more than two weeks before the paper published a correction notice. hmm!!! bsky.app/profile/iris...
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Grey Moran @greymoran.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
400 pages of records back from the EPA, nearly everything redacted...
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
So uhhhh Reuters quietly shitcanned its climate team right around the same time WaPo did. Except maybe even more cowardly because they kept it under wraps. Not a great look given the abundance of oil money they take in between sponsored content and events. drilled.media/news/drilled...
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Reuters, New York Times Top List of Fossil Fuel Industry’s Favorite Media Partners
Taking a hard look at the media industry’s relationship with the fossil fuel industry.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 04/04/2026
Received the statement by WHO Director-General on Sudan conflict and humanitarian crisis, with request to share it with the readers
The World Health Organization urges the international community: do not ignore Sudan.
Sudan is confronting one of the gravest humanitarian and public health emergencies in the world today. More than 33.7 million people, over half of the nation's population, now require urgent, life-saving assistance.
The ongoing conflict has pushed the health system to the edge of complete collapse. Recent attacks on medical facilities have further deepened this crisis. On March 20, a drone strike on Al-Daein Teaching Hospital in East Darfur killed at least 64 people, among them patients and medical personnel, and left 89 others injured.
Just days later, on April 2, another drone attack struck Al-Jabalain Hospital in White Nile State, killing 10 medical and administrative staff, including the hospital's director while performing surgery, and injuring 22 people. On the same day, the Family Hospital in Al-Daein was looted, and patients and health workers assaulted and expelled from the facility leading to its suspension of work.
A hospital in the Blue Nile State city of Al-Kurmuk was looted on 25 March, the equipment were destroyed and staff and patients forced from the facility with one worker critically injured.
These incidents are stark reminders of the urgent need for renewed international solidarity and decisive political and humanitarian action. Sudan cannot endure this crisis alone.
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Kathryn Joyce @kathrynajoyce.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Delighted to announce that @alessandrabergamin.bsky.social's incredible @inthesetimes.com investigation, "The Death Squads Hunting Environmental Defenders," was recognized by @sejorg.bsky.social. Read the full story here: inthesetimes.com/article/bran...
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The Death Squads Hunting Environmental Defenders
Around the world, government forces regularly attack environmental activists with impunity—and U.S. support.
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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
NEW: Like many of you, I found the revelations about César Chávez’s sexual abuse of Dolores Huerta, Ana Murguia, and Debra Rojas absolutely devastating. For @prismreports.org, I wrote about the importance of grappling with Chávez’s true legacy—both as as a civil rights leader and a rapist.
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César Chávez’s shadow
Revelations that César Chávez sexually abused young girls and women has set off a bomb in Latino communities and movement spaces
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 25/03/2026
Just an extremely important piece from @emorwee.bsky.social in the Heated newsletter here. Oil prices have *ALWAYS* been fantastical and absurd, because it never factors in the shocking costs of what happens when you use it heated.world/p/the-true-p...
The war in Iran has everyone talking about the price of oil. But that number only reflects a small fraction of what oil actually costs.

While talking heads focus on oil's market price—shaped by supply disruptions, geopolitical risk, and expectations about future availability—millions are bearing the rest of the bill in ways that never show up at the pump: in the smoke and terror of war, in the heat and floods of a destabilized climate, and in the explosions and toxic fallout that come with living near oil infrastructure.

Support indy climate journalism

The flooding in Hawaii this weekend offers one of the clearest examples. Back-to-back Kona storms unleashed what Governor Josh Green called “the largest flood that we’ve had in Hawaii in 20 years,” submerging roads, destroying homes, and forcing hundreds of rescues across the islands. On the ground, officials described scenes of near-total devastation—families returning to find their homes flooded out, entire communities cut off, and more than 200 people pulled from rising water.Scientists have been warning for years that excessive fossil fuel burning will cause more catastrophic floods like this. That’s because fossil fuels release greenhouse gases, which warm the atmosphere, and a warmer atmosphere holds more moisture. That makes extreme rainfall more intense.

But these impacts never factor into the price of a barrel of oil. They’re pushed onto everyone else—through disaster cleanup, insurance losses, and taxpayer-funded relief. In Hawaii, the damage is already estimated to exceed $1 billion, with state officials asking the federal government to cover up to 90 percent of the recovery costs. Whether that aid comes through or not, the bill is being paid by the public, not the industry whose emissions made disasters like this more likely.
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Brian Barrett @brbarrett.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Oh so things are BAD bad. from @mollytaft.com
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Iran War Puts Global Energy Markets on the Brink of a Worst-Case Scenario
One expert says that the continued closure of the Strait of Hormuz would be not recessionary, but depressionary.
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Grey Moran @greymoran.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
so honored to help guide some incredible reporting projects in the works🌼
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Greenberg Visa Law @asgvisalaw.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Poor communication of extension rules and delays in issuing documentation are what they do to hurt people when they can't terminate the status yet. That will undoubtedly happen in September since this administration has not extended a single TPS designation yet.
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Grey Moran @greymoran.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Update: Salvadoran TPS holders who received notices about losing their jobs at Tyson today have not been fired, according to a source. They continue to face the prospect of losing their jobs in September, when their TPS status is set to expire. sentientmedia.org/work-permit-...
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‘You Feel Like You’re Marked’: Salvadoran Workers at Tyson Foods Face Risks Due to Work Permit Delays
Longtime poultry plant workers are left uncertain and fearing job loss amid Tyson Foods’ confusion over immigrant Temporary Protected Status — despite their legal right to work.
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Julian A Nowogrodzki @plantnerd.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
"They followed all the rules." Salvadoran workers at Tyson's chicken processing plants in Arkansas have a legal right to work in the US. But Tyson is still leaving many workers in limbo. @greymoran.bsky.social reports: sentientmedia.org/work-permit-...
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‘You Feel Like You’re Marked’: Salvadoran Workers at Tyson Foods Face Risks Due to Work Permit Delays
Longtime poultry plant workers are left uncertain and fearing job loss amid Tyson Foods’ confusion over immigrant Temporary Protected Status — despite their legal right to work.
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Grey Moran @greymoran.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Salvadorans with TPS status have the right to work in the U.S. Yet they were told by Tyson Foods that they'd need to leave the company by March 9th, unless they presented work permits that many applied for a year ago but have yet to receive sentientmedia.org/work-permit-...
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‘You Feel Like You’re Marked’: Salvadoran Workers at Tyson Foods Face Risks Due to Work Permit Delays
Longtime poultry plant workers are left uncertain and fearing job loss amid Tyson Foods’ confusion over immigrant Temporary Protected Status — despite their legal right to work.
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Grey Moran @greymoran.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
wonderful opportunity for climate journalists!! I always love reading all the winners, which ends up serving as an incredible collection of climate journalism from around the world
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Sentient @sentientmedia.org · 24/02/2026
Tech company Palantir has made headlines for its lucrative contracts with the Trump administration. But did you know that Palantir is also used by Tyson Foods?
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Sentient @sentientmedia.org · 12/02/2026
As avian flu surges again, advocates in California believe it’s imperative that farmworkers receive more protective gear and training on the virus in their primary language. @greymoran.bsky.social reports:
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California’s Avian Flu Safety Rules Are Strong — Their Enforcement Isn’t.
As H5N1 infects over 70% of the state’s dairy herds, exposed farmworkers are left without PPE or mitigation training in their native language. And some aren’t informed of an outbreak at all.
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Sentient @sentientmedia.org · 19/01/2026
Public records requests are an invaluable tool for reporters. But knowing how to use them can be challenging. Join Sentient’s @ninaelkadi.com and @greymoran.bsky.social for this exclusive training by becoming a member of the Food and Farming Journalism Network: buff.ly/6UOsbbA
Food and Farming Journalism Network event:
From Public Records Request to Story
How to report stories from the records you get — and the ones you don’t.
Featuring Sentient’s Nina B. Elkadi and Grey Moran
Feb 6, 12:00 PM ET
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Julian A Nowogrodzki @plantnerd.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Trump slashed H-2A farmworkers' wages roughly in half, in what's been called "one of the largest wealth transfers from workers to employers in US agricultural history." The H-2A visa program was already prone to exploitation. The dairy and meat industries want in. @greymoran.bsky.social reports:
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Dairy and Meat Industries Push for Access to H-2A Farmworkers While the Trump Administration Slashes Their Pay
The H-2A visa program, which recruits farm laborers largely from Mexico, has been likened to indentured servitude. The dairy and meat industries want in.
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Sentient @sentientmedia.org · 16/01/2026
The H-2A visa program, which recruits farm laborers largely from Mexico, has been likened to indentured servitude. The dairy and meat industries want in. @greymoran.bsky.social reports:
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Dairy and Meat Industries Push for Access to H-2A Farmworkers While the Trump Administration Slashes Their Pay
The H-2A visa program, which recruits farm laborers largely from Mexico, has been likened to indentured servitude. The dairy and meat industries want in.
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Sentient @sentientmedia.org · 30/12/2025
@greymoran.bsky.social: "There’s a common narrative that avian flu is decimating the poultry industry. This article revealed that the many of the largest poultry corporations are actually having bumper years, with the support of taxpayer-funded indemnity payments." buff.ly/GQGRzG0
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How U.S. Taxpayers Bailed Out the Poultry Industry, and Helped Entrench Avian Flu
The U.S. has failed to contain bird flu. The $1.46 billion industry bailout is one reason why.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 11/12/2025
This should infuriate you. A must-read from @monacharen.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/4q2uGju
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Kate Aronoff @katearonoff.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
I spent months talking to many, many people for this long post-mortem of the Inflation Reduction Act: What forces were responsible for creating it, and how could it be gutted so unceremoniously? What might come next? No easy answers ofc but hopefully a bit of clarity newrepublic.com/article/2027...
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The Quick and Shameful Death of Biden’s Biggest Policy
It was far too easy for Republicans to kill the Inflation Reduction Act. Where did those who crafted it go wrong?
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Grey Moran @greymoran.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Turkey industry workers make around $18 per hour, at great risk to their health. @miriamquick.bsky.social & I looked at the 351 injuries - from severed fingers to injured corneas - suffered by the workers who produce the turkey many will enjoy in the coming days sentientmedia.org/the-hidden-c...
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Heat Exhaustion, Amputated Fingers, Crushed Limbs: The Hidden Cost of American Turkey
Three charts reveal details of the 351 workplace injuries experienced by turkey industry workers in 2024, which include severed fingers, injured corneas and musculoskeletal disorders.
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Sentient @sentientmedia.org · 24/11/2025
Three charts reveal details of the 351 workplace injuries experienced by turkey industry workers in 2024, which include severed fingers, injured corneas and musculoskeletal disorders. @greymoran.bsky.social and @miriamquick.bsky.social report:
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Heat Exhaustion, Amputated Fingers, Crushed Limbs: The Hidden Cost of American Turkey
Three charts reveal details of the 351 workplace injuries experienced by turkey industry workers in 2024, which include severed fingers, injured corneas and musculoskeletal disorders.
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Grey Moran @greymoran.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
a workers' compensation attorney told me that he has been pleading with his clients to go to the doctor when injured at work but they're concerned about being apprehended by ICE at the doctor's office this includes his clients in the injury-prone meatpacking industry @sentientmedia.org
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Sentient @sentientmedia.org · 17/11/2025
“The land is producing the most that it has ever produced, but none of that wealth is staying there,” antitrust expert @austinfrerick.bsky.social tells @greymoran.bsky.social. “So we shouldn’t be shocked that we’re seeing the politics of rage fill that void.”
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How the Trump Administration Is Deepening Food Monopolies: A Q&A with Anti-Trust Expert Austin Frerick
“The land is producing the most that’s ever produced, but none of that wealth is staying there. So we shouldn’t be shocked that we’re seeing the politics of rage fill that void.”
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Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
A Congressional Select Subcommittee report (2022) found that Tyson’s legal department drafted the executive order Trump signed forcing meatpacking plants to stay open as Covid raged through plants. Tyson claimed in court it was shielded from responsibility for the deaths by the executive order.
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S. Kramer @libraryephemera.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Some of the most heartbreaking calls I took at the COVID info hotline were from meatpacking workers who wanted to know how to protect themselves at work from getting sick.
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Grey Moran @greymoran.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
During the height of the pandemic, Tyson used Palantir to predict Covid-19 infections among meatpacking workers down to a nearly exactly figure. But rather than using this data to increase worker protections, Tyson used it plan for labor shortages + plant closures My latest for @sentientmedia.org
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Sentient @sentientmedia.org · 13/11/2025
America's largest meat company, Tyson Foods, was an early adopter of Palantir, establishing a blueprint for how large food corporations can leverage the surveillance technology. @greymoran.bsky.social reports:
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How America’s Largest Meat Company Leverages Palantir's Surveillance Tech
Palantir’s controversial software platform is capable of integrating vast amounts of data — but at what risk?
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