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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!!

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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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...

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.”

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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Cruising through a landscape

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megan hernbroth @meganhernbroth.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The fifth and final installment of the Greenland expedition saga is now live, featuring the best and worst paddling conditions of the trip, a happy accident, and many bergs meganhernbroth.substack.com/p/the-journe...

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The journey of a lifetime

Our final days in East Greenland

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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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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. ❤️

KEXP - Where the Music Matters

KEXP is a nonprofit arts organization serving music lovers through in-person, broadcast and online programming.

megan hernbroth @meganhernbroth.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

i am distraught!!

megan hernbroth @meganhernbroth.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

And if you want to start from the beginning, here’s last week’s essay covering some of the logistics of getting to East Greenland, how we decided to go on an adventure of this magnitude, and what it took to get there mentally/physically: meganhernbroth.substack.com/p/one-thousa...

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One thousand lives lived

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megan hernbroth @meganhernbroth.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

There’s something about taking big (managed and assessed) risks somewhere so indescribably wild that really gets under my skin and rolls around my brain. This is a result of that, so please enjoy

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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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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...

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...

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

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

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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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

megan hernbroth @meganhernbroth.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

A meditation on our obsession with “busyness,” how we try to counteract relentless productivity culture, and the eternal opponent that is time. At the risk of being earnest on main, I really love writing these essays. Any new readers would mean the world to meganhernbroth.substack.com/p/time-flies

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Be sure not to waste it

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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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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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When you've lost your tether

megan hernbroth @meganhernbroth.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

One of the most beautiful parts of being human is the ability to feel incredibly small in the face of things so much older and bigger than we are. It’s what gives me hope that humanity, broadly, is still capable of goodness even in dark times meganhernbroth.substack.com/p/float-on

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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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When you've lost your tether

megan hernbroth @meganhernbroth.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Real Time Rescue

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

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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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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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

megan hernbroth @meganhernbroth.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

and enforcing a reign of cruelty to remind us all of our place subordinate to them.

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megan hernbroth @meganhernbroth.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

The politics and power of retribution is a *very* interesting lens through which I’m viewing AI/tech these days. These men didn’t want anyone to tell them what to do! They structured their companies with permanent leadership in mind. And now, they’re trying to codify permanent leadership over it all

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megan hernbroth @meganhernbroth.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

There’s an inherent cruelty to the way many companies have been handling layoffs since Jan that have little to do with cost reduction and a lot to do with intentionally tanking morale. It’s a pretty clear reminder for employees to know their place, and it’s grim

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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...

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

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/

megan hernbroth @meganhernbroth.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Not every living thing is a resource, regardless of what capitalism tells us. There is value that cannot be measured — and plenty that can! — in fostering healthy, in-tact lives for beings human and non.

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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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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.

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...

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

megan hernbroth @meganhernbroth.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

The jays are typically loud and quite obnoxious — their caws are distinct and usually result in my yelling back, asking what they’re upset about. But they’re quiet when nesting, easy to miss if you don’t know to look It’s the knowing, somehow, that becomes magical

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

megan hernbroth @meganhernbroth.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Also — and I mean this with my full chest — AI will never be able to create art the way humans can, because the act of creating art is so innately human that even a model trained on humans can’t come close. It’s in the work of writing that we come to understand, believe, and care.

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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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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

megan hernbroth @meganhernbroth.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

(This is also about flowers and why I just can’t seem to muster the excitement others can about annuals. Wildflowers or nothing, baby!)

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