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megan hernbroth

@meganhernbroth.bsky.social
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recovering climate finance reporter, newly minted essayist | currently writing at meganhernbroth.substack.com | previously writing at axios, business insider

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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Just a few days left to apply!!
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megan hernbroth @meganhernbroth.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Better writers than I have already written thousands of words about the Cornell case, but the rage needed somewhere to live and so today, you get an essay about my time working in restaurants and the scars that come from invisible burns meganhernbroth.substack.com/p/burnt-ends
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Burnt ends
The harm of repeated exposure
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
do men understand the extent to which women are ready to burn it all down right now
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
incredible work by these reporters & editors. yes, “student journalists.” seems they can teach us a lot… www.thecut.com/article/corn...
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How Student Journalists Broke the ‘Cornell Seven’ Case
“Our coverage was absolutely completely raw from the lawsuit and nothing was concealed. At a minimum, that’s what we can do as the student newspaper.”
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megan hernbroth @meganhernbroth.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Some thoughts on what it means to move entirely under human power across a landscape that encompasses so much meganhernbroth.substack.com/p/speed-limits
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Speed limits
Cruising through a landscape
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megan hernbroth @meganhernbroth.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Part 4 of my Greenland expedition thoughts and feelings went live this weekend, and I think it might be the best one yet. An exploration of fear and comfort, and what it means to move through landscapes like these meganhernbroth.substack.com/p/what-it-ta...
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What it takes
Leaving fear behind
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Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
For a story: Is there a teenager in your life who would be up for keeping a screentime diary & being interviewed about it? The goal is to capture a week in teenagers' digital lives and center their experiences. Happy to answer questions. We will protect privacy! rainesford.alexandra@gmail.com or DM
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Seattle’s KEXP playing nonstop Dolly. ❤️
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KEXP - Where the Music Matters
KEXP is a nonprofit arts organization serving music lovers through in-person, broadcast and online programming.
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megan hernbroth @meganhernbroth.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
i am distraught!!
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megan hernbroth @meganhernbroth.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
ICYMI: I tried to recap my expedition to Greenland in last week’s essay, and only made it through Day One with my self-imposed word count. So here’s Day Two, also its own essay, as it deserves meganhernbroth.substack.com/p/gripped
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Gripped
Type Two Fun on Day Two
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megan hernbroth @meganhernbroth.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I spent two weeks in East Greenland on an expedition where we kayaked and climbed every day. The landscape itself was unbelievable, and I realized what draws me to places like it meganhernbroth.substack.com/p/a-treeless...
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A treeless land
Welcome to East Greenland
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
My editor asked me to write about what happened to summer:
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We launched a war on nature. Now we are in a climate warzone | Rebecca Solnit
Summer is not what it once was. We have been robbed of one of life’s great joys
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
If you haven’t read this in full it’s a gutwrenching account of both the sickening serial rape allegations against them and how many friends they have in the Trump administration: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Andrew Tate’s Empire of Abuse
How the defining figure of the manosphere built a fortune—and became a political force—by systematically exploiting women.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
if you shared this photo at any point, please consider a donation to bernita and her family: www.gofundme.com/f/support-be...
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Donate to Support Bernita and Her Family in Tough Times, organized by Paul Chosen one
I would like to get help for my sister and family she need ls she is a t… Paul Chosen one needs your support for Support Bernita and Her Family in Tough Times
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megan hernbroth @meganhernbroth.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Quick scroll check have you watched some birds today? meganhernbroth.substack.com/p/season-of-...
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Season of flight
Meet the raucous choir
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megan hernbroth @meganhernbroth.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
ah yes, the cherished american pastime of waking up before my family to work on a holiday weekend
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megan hernbroth @meganhernbroth.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
In better news, I got to spend the Solstice in the alpine and revel in a type of magic some people will never know meganhernbroth.substack.com/p/summer-air
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Summer air
Happy Summer Solstice
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megan hernbroth @meganhernbroth.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
got a very unpleasant reminder this weekend that not all mountaineers want women in their “sacred spaces” guess i didn’t realize that mountains only recognize a single gender
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megan hernbroth @meganhernbroth.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
What a privilege it is to put your mind to something and simply watch where it takes you. Mine took me around a 1.7 mile loop 30 times in 12 hours, a feat that feels remarkably sane and incredibly not at the same time. meganhernbroth.substack.com/p/magical-th...
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Magical thinking
Putting the mind to work
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megan hernbroth @meganhernbroth.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Even an empty calendar turns to the month ahead meganhernbroth.substack.com/p/time-flies
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Time flies
Be sure not to waste it
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megan hernbroth @meganhernbroth.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Felt apt to publish an essay on the grounding influence of being enveloped by the cosmos on a Blue Moon meganhernbroth.substack.com/p/float-on
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Float on
When you've lost your tether
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megan hernbroth @meganhernbroth.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Felt apt to publish an essay on the grounding influence of being enveloped by the cosmos on a Blue Moon meganhernbroth.substack.com/p/float-on
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Float on
When you've lost your tether
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megan hernbroth @meganhernbroth.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
There’s a non profit that helps unhoused people care for their pets that came out with a Pratt endorsement last week. Of all orgs to endorse him, one specifically serving the populations he’s demonizing is a master class in telling on yourself
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megan hernbroth @meganhernbroth.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
We had a bit of a bear encounter this week, and the reactions of my neighbors made for an interesting case study of who, exactly, is habituated to a comfortable, easy lifestyle (hint: it’s not the problem bear) meganhernbroth.substack.com/p/habituated
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Habituated
Products of our environments
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megan hernbroth @meganhernbroth.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
I’ve notched a handful of minor injuries as of late, but none have made me cry the way Florence Welch can in a stadium of thousands. That, my friends, is the human experience meganhernbroth.substack.com/p/sob-story
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Sob story
Watch where you step
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
my firm take is that any man loudly worried about fertility rates is a fucking creep
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megan hernbroth @meganhernbroth.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
We haven’t quite reckoned with the lengths tech moguls will go to to punish employees for the perceived power “imbalance” WFH and COVID introduced. Zuck et al will spend the remainder of their careers getting back at employees he felt beholden to in 2020-2022 sfstandard.com/pacific-stan...
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A Meta employee gets real about the horror of working there right now
Crying in the shower. Taking mental health leave. This is what it’s like to work at the tech giant during the AI job apocalypse.
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megan hernbroth @meganhernbroth.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
this is the end result of society speed running early-aughts culture
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megan hernbroth @meganhernbroth.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
If you thought people got weird about comparing having pets to having babies, may I recommend also giving your dog a top baby name for nearly a decade running? Oh yes, my Oliver was also top of his obedience class, where does yours go? etc.
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
I feel like we are living in the “Thiel and Andreessen Show”, and too many people have no idea. 1/
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megan hernbroth @meganhernbroth.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
I wrote about the Administration’s move to expand logging on federal and state lands meganhernbroth.substack.com/p/clearcut
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Clearcut
A resource of renewal
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 07/05/2026
Man the poor Devil's Hole pupfish, such a weird little guy just trying to live in this economy.
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As federal scientists faced turmoil, the Devils Hole pupfish reached a crisis point
The Devils hole pupfish lives in just one spot in Death Valley. Wildlife officials have managed this iconic fish for decades, and last spring, just as the Trump administration was laying off all kinds...
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megan hernbroth @meganhernbroth.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
pretty sure i’m in the minority of people watching the cocodona and met gala livestreams in tandem
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megan hernbroth @meganhernbroth.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
A pair of Steller’s jays decided to nest in a bush outside my office window, fulfilling a dream I’d barely remembered having meganhernbroth.substack.com/p/stellar-si...
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Stellar sightings
Knowing where to look
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megan hernbroth @meganhernbroth.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Hi. I’ve written 100 personal essays, as of this week. For this former journalist, it means a lot to be able to experiment with my writing, to try my hand at form and function, and see where we all end up. Thank you for reading, and here’s to 100 more meganhernbroth.substack.com/p/one-hundred
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One hundred
What I mean when I tell people I'm a writer
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megan hernbroth @meganhernbroth.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
I’ve lived with, among, and in conversations with coyotes for most of my life, but only recently have decided we’re both better off a little wild meganhernbroth.substack.com/p/formerly-w...
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Formerly wild things
A return to our wild selves
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megan hernbroth @meganhernbroth.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
I’ve lived with, among, and in conversations with coyotes for most of my life, but only recently have decided we’re both better off a little wild meganhernbroth.substack.com/p/formerly-w...
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Formerly wild things
A return to our wild selves
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megan hernbroth @meganhernbroth.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
The adage remains: Always read Caity Weaver’s restaurant endeavors
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 15/04/2026
Absolute perfection from @colsonwhitehead.com.
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Opinion | Don’t Use A.I. to Do This
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megan hernbroth @meganhernbroth.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Some reflections on adaptation and resiliency in the face of big, life-defining changes, from the perspective of one Very Good Dog. meganhernbroth.substack.com/p/dog-of-the...
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Dog of the forest
A year-long battle with the windshield wipers
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patrick @redford.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
I wrote about the end of the U.S. Forest Service and the arrogance of trying to kill something like a forest: defector.com/the-trump-ad...
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Washington State Department of Ecology @ecology.wa.gov · 08/04/2026
We just declared drought for the fourth year in a row. And this year, it’s statewide.
A map of Washington snowpack, showing many of the state's river basins below 50% of normal.
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megan hernbroth @meganhernbroth.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
The sun is back, and while the threat of looming wildfire season remains, for now, I’m doing my best to enjoy the light, the warmth, the energy that comes after a long, dark winter. meganhernbroth.substack.com/p/clear-the-...
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Clear the way
Creaks, groans, and stirrings at the little blue house
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megan hernbroth @meganhernbroth.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
The sun is back, and while the threat of looming wildfire season remains, for now, I’m doing my best to enjoy the light, the warmth, the energy that comes after a long, dark winter. meganhernbroth.substack.com/p/clear-the-...
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Clear the way
Creaks, groans, and stirrings at the little blue house
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megan hernbroth @meganhernbroth.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
“those who want their words remembered” vs “those who just want people to remember that they wrote” AI use isn’t inevitable in journalism. Anything but. @marisakabas.bsky.social www.thehandbasket.co/p/refusing-t...
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Refusing to accept big tech's AI-poisoned 'future of journalism'
Humans, however flawed, are
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megan hernbroth @meganhernbroth.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
this is the way
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megan hernbroth @meganhernbroth.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
I signed up to run 51 miles last spring. Here’s how it went meganhernbroth.substack.com/p/a-day-at-t...
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A day at the beach
The Badwater Cape Fear race report
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 16/03/2026
‘Kat is a force multiplier of strength. She just believes if you do good things, it will come back to you in return twice over. That kind of hope emanates like it’s visible, like it’s light.’ I needed to read a good thing about a good person today. This was it.
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megan hernbroth @meganhernbroth.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
There’s a certain type of intimacy created when you get to know a place on foot. It’s slow, methodical, and inefficient by design. As all the best relationships are, if you ask me meganhernbroth.substack.com/p/footfall-f...
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Footfall familiarity
A bit of a reintroduction
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