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Lois Parshley

@loisparshley.bsky.social
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Lois Parshley @loisparshley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“Following Bremer’s declaration that Iraq was “open for business”…Iraqi farmers had no choice but to buy into Western agribusinesses and their patented seed technology.”
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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
America.gov launched today--a DOGE initiative to use AI to deliver public services. Child lying facedown on a frozen lake as the image accompanying the question: "How can I invest in my child's future" is just incredible. Way to go AI
Image of a child lying facedown on a froze lake.  above is the portal where you ask AI questions about government services.  the question matching this image is:  "How can I invest in my child's future?"
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Lois Parshley @loisparshley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Excited and grateful to be included in this year’s awards, and inspired by this incredible collection of climate reporting!
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 16/09/2026
🚨 "Trump Has Made More Trades Than All of Congress Combined" Gregory Korte, Adrienne Tong for @bloomberg.com
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Trump Made 29,000 Securities Trades, More Than All of Congress
Donald Trump made nearly 29,000 securities trades in 17 months — more than every member of Congress combined. The stock-purchasing ban he’s pushing would leave him exempt
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Paula Schaap @redsonja.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
This is an amazing essay: www.equator.org/articles/the...
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The Gods Are Still Crazy • EQUATOR
Separating truth from fiction in the most successful African movie of all time
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Jim LaPorta @jimlaporta.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Scoop: Pentagon moves to fire publisher and editor of Stars and Stripes. The notices, delivered Friday, gave publisher Max Lederer and editor in chief Erik Slavin five days to appeal their dismissals. www.cbsnews.com/news/stars-a...
cbsnews.com
Pentagon moves to fire publisher and editor of Stars and Stripes
The Pentagon has given separation notices to both the publisher and the editor in chief of Stars and Stripes, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Rick Thoman @alaskawx.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Devastating news for Arctic environmental monitoring today: NOAA pulls support for the Arctic Report Card, effective immediately. #Arctic #Climate
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Lois Parshley @loisparshley.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The fascinating thing about this round of COVID revisionism is that it was clear very early the trauma would be collectively memory-holed, and how many people warned that would create future political and cultural problems. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/cl...
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Cleave | Broadcast
How will we remember Covid-19?
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Alaska Beacon @alaskabeacon.com · 29/07/2026
In a news analysis for, @loisparshley.bsky.social considers Alaska’s energy paradox. Via American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Read more at @alaskabeacon.com alaskabeacon.com/2026/07/29/a...
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Alaska’s energy paradox | Alaska Beacon
After decades organized around fossil fuel extraction, the state is having the kind of argument societies tend to have when the foundations of an old economic order start to wobble.
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Lois Parshley @loisparshley.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Enjoyed the opportunity to contribute to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences 250th collection, on what role energy plays in independence. "The history of Alaska, like that of much of the country, is of people still fighting to secure freedoms that were celebrated long before they were shared."
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Alaska's oil history looms over hopes for its energy future
After decades organized around fossil fuel extraction, Alaska is having the kind of argument societies tend to have when the foundations of an old economic order start to wobble. Who controls a territ...
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Ken Vogel @kenvogel.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Donald Trump Jr had never managed a venture fund before 1789 Capital. It has bought shares in coveted private companies before many went public, including SpaceX & Anduril, often by leveraging connections to secure a stake or to help boost the sales. 1789's main fund has generated returns of ~200%
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Investment Firm Posts Staggering Returns of 200% (Gift Article)
The fledgling firm, run by the president’s oldest son and his partner Omeed Malik, has made investments in A.I. and defense technology that have tripled in value in just months.
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Lois Parshley @loisparshley.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
From over a year ago: “institutions once trusted to provide objective oversight and data are being reshaped to serve the president’s goals.” grist.org/politics/the...
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The Trump administration's assault on science feels eerily Soviet
The United States is drifting ever further away from science and climate reality. So why does life seem so normal?
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Jed Brown @jedbrown.org · 21/07/2026
Important context to the Medicaid hostage-taking: on May 21, HHS announced a new program to use ChatGPT to scan financial compliance reports. It violated normal rulemaking procedure and did not publish error rates or validation, nor did it create an appeals process.
techtimes.com
ChatGPT Now Threatens Medicaid Funding for Hospitals Nationwide: Error Rate Unpublished
HHS ChatGPT audit program AERO is now scanning five years of Medicaid compliance records across all 50 states and can freeze federal funding for hospitals, nonprofits, and universities — but the gover...
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Lois Parshley @loisparshley.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
I hear we’re talking about wildfire smoke and the boreal forest again. The boreal’s changes are unraveling global relationships: “Avian lungs take in air even during their exhalations, which makes birds more susceptible to air pollution, the origin of the idiom “canary in the coal mine.”
motherjones.com
Alaska's vast boreal forest and its species face a reckoning
“We’re at the trailing edge of a biome shift."
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Lois Parshley @loisparshley.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
This is a gorgeous cover. Excited to read!
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Jeff Colgan @jeffcolgan.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
We are closing in on $70 BILLION dollars that Americans have had to pay in extra fuel costs since Feb 28 due to Trump's war on Iran. For context, the entirety of all federal support for research (thru NIH, NSF etc) costs $65B per year. A war for nothing but waste. iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu
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Iran War Energy Cost Tracker
Tracks the extra cost paid by U.S. consumers for gasoline and diesel since the Iran conflict began on February 28, 2026, compared against a no-war counterfactual baseline.
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Virginia Gewin @virginiagewin.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Scientists--if your funding was cut over the last year (for research on climate, global health, DEI, LGBTQ or womens health, etc) but you managed to keep the research going, I want to talk to you for an upcoming article! Plz contact me: gewin at me dot com. Re-posts appreciated!
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Lois Parshley @loisparshley.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
You can read more about the extinctions today's change will cause here: www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
theatlantic.com
How Close Are Manatees to Extinction?
Close enough that proposed changes to protections for endangered species could doom them.
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Lois Parshley @loisparshley.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Pete Hegseth, for example, claimed litigation in the Gulf of Mexico against oil and gas drilling presented a “national security threat.” Shortly afterward, the 'God Squad,' a rarely used authority, granted a broad exemption from ESA protections for Gulf of Mexico drilling.
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Lois Parshley @loisparshley.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
For many species, scientists don’t have enough data to know what the tipping point for their survival might be. This is part of a broader effort to systematically rollback protections — from how agencies evaluate threats to species to how exemptions are granted.
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Lois Parshley @loisparshley.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
For half a century, the law has prohibited actions that damage or degrade habitat in ways that injure wildlife — not just the direct killing or capture of animals. That's important because habitat loss is one of the primary drivers of extinction, especially as climate change adds stress.
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Lois Parshley @loisparshley.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Today, the Trump administration finalized its rollback of the Endangered Species Act’s definition of “harm” — allowing the destruction of habitat these species rely on. My previous reporting @theatlantic.com found this could cause the extinction of 49 species. www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
theatlantic.com
How Close Are Manatees to Extinction?
Close enough that proposed changes to protections for endangered species could doom them.
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Michael Morisy @morisy.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
California is considering absolutely gutting changes to its public records laws. FAC's David Snyder has an op-ed on the five-alarm fire: www.latimes.com/opinion/stor... #FOIA
latimes.com
Contributor: A proposed law would let California government escape accountability
AB 1821 would allow any state or local agency to sue members of the public for the simple act of filing a public records request.
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
A travesty. Springer Nature offloads SciAm—the most storied science magazine in the US—onto a content mill consortium, LabX, during an almost certainly successful union vote. LabX now says it will lay off 15 people, over 1/3rd of the unit and 60% of the bargaining committee. Pure union busting.
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Rachel Santarsiero @rsanta.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Devastating and also so worrisome to see @eenews.bsky.social shut down. On top of its stellar energy reporting, E&E News has been a big resource of mine in generating FOIA ideas to government agencies. www.semafor.com/article/06/0...
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Exclusive: Politico folds E&E News ahead of broader energy push
In September, Politico plans to launch a series of energy-focused newsletters.
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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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Lois Parshley @loisparshley.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Got an interesting email today from FedEx, retroactively charging tariffs on a package I ordered in December that's already delivered. Since the Supreme Court overturned IEEPA tariffs, and FedEx is suing to get its own money back, is there actually any legal basis for them to bill for this?
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Lois Parshley @loisparshley.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Throw the whole Internet away.
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Mia Sato @miasato.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
New: Prediction markets are trying to cut deals with reporters, offering hundreds of dollars per story that uses their data. Rick Ellis, and independent entertainment reporter, tells me why he said no (gift link): www.theverge.com/news/897388/...
theverge.com
Prediction markets are trying to lure journalists with partnership deals
“I didn’t feel like I could live with myself.”
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Paul Voosen @voosen.me · 16/03/2026
Lots of previously unreported allegations in the lawsuit, including how NOAA also terminated a cooperative agreement with UCAR at the same time as the NCAR news, and how NSF demanded individual cost accounting for every UCAR employee that attended AMS with only 6 days to turn it around.
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Lois Parshley @loisparshley.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
It is so critical to document just how much Trump 2.0-era corruption is being laundered by mainstream institutions, who have the ability if not the desire to make different choices.
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Lois Parshley @loisparshley.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
This makes me feel despair. www.livemint.com/market/polym...
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Prediction markets find war profitable — $529 million traded on US-Iran bets, insider trading suspected by some accounts | Stock Market News
Polymarket saw $529 million traded on contracts related to US strikes on Iran, with some wallets gaining $1 million. Analysts suspect insider trading as some of the big gainers included new accounts t...
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Dylan Williams @dylanwilliams.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Iranian authorities and Red Crescent Society officials report that more than 100 people, most of them girls, were killed at a primary school during joint U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran. Let’s be clear: Slaughtering children in a school is an atrocity and a war crime. www.ft.com/content/055d...
ft.com
Strike on Iranian primary school kills 108, authorities say
Girls’ education facility hit as US and Israel launch joint military operation
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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
The Supreme Court has decided to hear a major climate case against fossil fuel companies Alito has not recused himself, despite owning nearly $200,000 in fossil fuel stocks—including in Phillips 66 and ConocoPhillips, which are being sued in cases that would be directly affected by a SCOTUS ruling
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Sam Alito has an oil money problem
30 percent of Alito’s individual stock portfolio is directly tied to fossil fuels.
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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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Lois Parshley @loisparshley.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
There's a late stage-capitalism answer: mortgage servicers typically get paid fees by the owner of your loan. When rates go up, so does the value of the service contract, because the loan is less likely to pay off. Lenders haven't been doing well, need more cash, so sell off their servicing rights.
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Lois Parshley @loisparshley.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Oh and Brontë? She survived—cleaning and cauterizing the bite could have helped—only to die at 30 of tuberculosis, another preventable disease now seeing a resurgence, including in the concentration camps we're building. www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healt...
washingtonexaminer.com
California school closes over tuberculosis outbreak
In-person classes at Archbishop Riordan High School in San Francisco have been suspended through at least Feb. 9 over a tuberculosis outbreak.
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Lois Parshley @loisparshley.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Vaccines are miracles. But undermining public health leaves populations exposed to now thankfully preventable disease. Joseph survived to become caretaker of the Pasteur Institute. When the Nazis occupied Paris, he took his own life. Science is only as strong as the society practicing it.
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Lois Parshley @loisparshley.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Joseph miraculously survived, laying the foundations for many other vaccines and saving millions of lives. Today, rabies isn't gone, and its distribution is changing with warmer winters, shifting habitats and animal migration patterns. www.nbclosangeles.com/news/nationa...
nbclosangeles.com
Outbreaks of rabies seem to be rising across the U.S., CDC surveillance shows
Outbreaks of rabies seem to be rising across the U.S., CDC surveillance shows.
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Lois Parshley @loisparshley.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
His distraught mom begged him to save her son. Having recently created the first laboratory-produced vaccine (after losing 2 of his own daughters to typhoid), Pasteur injected Joseph daily with a series of spinal cords taken from rabies-infected rabbits, each containing a stronger dose.
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Lois Parshley @loisparshley.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Brontë faced a terrifying wait—it can take a year before symptoms appear. If she was infected, the inevitably fatal symptoms would progress from rage and an intense fear of water to seizures and paralysis. Several decades later, scientist Louis Pasteur faced a 9-year-old in similar straits.
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Lois Parshley @loisparshley.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
In today's "everything old comes back to bite": In 1848, Emily Brontë was attacked by a stray dog that was foaming at the mouth. At the time, the disease was spreading around Yorkshire, and there was no treatment. She took a red-hot poker and cauterized the wound herself.
Margot Robbie in a black veil on the Wuthering Heights set, contemplating what happens without vaccines.
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Jake Dye @jakecdye.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
When Carpenter Media bought three Alaska newspapers, they had nine journalists in the state. Next week, they will have one.
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Lois Parshley @loisparshley.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
As the Washington Post cut 300 journalists, I spoke to @wearehpr.bsky.social about a publisher rapidly taking over local newspapers and its similarly sweeping layoffs. It’s a timely look at political pushback against reporting, and why a free press matters to communities large and small.
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How a media censorship case in Alaska relates to Hawaiʻi newspapers
Journalist Lois Parshley spoke with HPR’s Maddie Bender about her recent publication in the Columbia Journalism Review.
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Fundamentally flawed economic models mean #climatecrisis could crash global economy, experts warn - Shocks from extreme weather disasters and tipping points are entirely missed by the current models used by governments and financial institutions Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
Flawed economic models mean climate crisis could crash global economy, experts warn
States and financial bodies using modelling that ignores shocks from extreme weather and climate tipping points
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Lois Parshley @loisparshley.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
As someone laid off from investigative reporting last year, today’s news feels bleak. Journalism works like a mycorrhizal network—sharing critical info and warnings for democracy. When it disappears, the whole system suffers. And it doesn't work in isolation. talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/patro...
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Patron-Supported Journalism Can’t Be the Future of News
Writing about the failure of patron-supported journalism is itself a kind of...
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Lois Parshley @loisparshley.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
This prompted allegations that Vance violated a ban on using gov. funds or assets for a non-legislative purpose, or in support of partisan political activity. The investigation is requesting the same communications between Vance and Carpenter Media that my FOIA request for was denied this fall.
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Lois Parshley @loisparshley.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Thrilled that @Longreads selected my Carpenter Media reporting as one of its Editor's Picks. Also, the Alaska State Legislature's ethics committee announced an investigation into Rep. Vance. As I reported, they say that Vance offered her opinion and urged corrective action on official letterhead.
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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 02/02/2026
People targeted by federal agents - for their skin color, accents, or immigration status - are afraid to seek healthcare; healthcare staff are fearful for their safety at work. Here's how Minnesota providers are responding to an unfolding crisis - my latest:
theguardian.com
Public health crisis unfolding in Minneapolis as residents avoid healthcare
Providers are arranging home visits and telehealth as neighbors pick up prescriptions, groceries and diapers
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Court Watch @courtwatch.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
We dropped our paywall for this new piece. Court Watch picked one of the largest ‘news deserts’ in the South and examined all the new court dockets that went unreported to tell a larger story about the need for local journalism ‘Dockets Die In Darkness’ www.courtwatch.news/p/the-rabbit...
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The Rabbit Hole: Dockets Die in Darkness
Among the 17 counties in Georgia that don’t have a single local news source, 12 of the counties are in the Middle District of Georgia’s jurisdiction. This week, we sought to highlight the dockets dyin...
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