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Sam Karlin

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journalist in New Orleans covering climate, infrastructure, etc. for @nolanews.bsky.social something need investigating? skarlin@theadvocate.com signal: samkarlin.94

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Tim Heidecker @timheidecker.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
These look really cool.
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Andrea Gallo @aegallo.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Excellent reporting out from @sam-karlin.bsky.social today about a utility pulling out of coastal Louisiana, leaving homes there literally in the dark. Does this portend what could be coming in other parts of state (and nation)? It appears to be 1st such case in US www.nola.com/news/louisia...
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These coastal Louisiana camps lost power when their utility pulled out. Others could be next.
What happens when an electric utility abandons a community? Camp owners in coastal Terrebonne Parish are finding out.
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Julie O'Donoghue @jsodonoghue.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
The number of people with homeowners' policies in Citizens, Louisiana's insurer of last resort, is still up 200% from prior to Hurricane Ida in 2021. Story from @sam-karlin.bsky.social #lalege #lagov www.nola.com/louisiana-ho...
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Their home insurer went bankrupt. These south Louisiana residents still have nowhere to go.
“We moved in here hoping this would be our forever home, this would be our last home,” Braud said. “Now, we’re really looking at that option of, do we need to move north of I-12, where presumably insu...
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Julie O'Donoghue @jsodonoghue.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Maj. Gen. Glenn Curtis, former head of the Louisiana National Guard, found relief from his PTSD and traumatic brain injury through psychedelic treatment in Mexico. He's formed a nonprofit to help veterans get the same help . Story from @sam-karlin.bsky.social www.nola.com/will-louisia...
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With support from veterans, will Louisiana become next to embrace psychedelic research?
“You get a new lease on life you never had before,” said retired Major General Glenn Curtis about ibogaine. “There’s so much peace and tranquility associated with it, it’s hard to even describe.”
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Andrea Gallo @aegallo.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Trees in New Orleans often carry memories of hurricane damage. But as @sam-karlin.bsky.social explores in his series on rising summer temps and heat deaths in Louisiana, trees can make a huge difference in cooling down cities. Still, our canopy is sparse www.nola.com/news/new-orl...
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Hurricane-prone New Orleans is lacking trees. They could help with rising heat.
A contractor cut down 107 trees in New Orleans that were planted by a nonprofit. Here's why it's emblematic of larger challenges in the fight against extreme heat.
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Andrea Gallo @aegallo.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
As summers in Louisiana get hotter, heat-related deaths are soaring. But it’s a quiet disaster, @sam-karlin.bsky.social reports in his new deep dive. No blue taped roofs or spray painted homes that show the true toll. Louisiana is doing little to prevent it. www.nola.com/news/environ...
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In Louisiana, heat-related deaths have soared. The quiet disaster is ‘going to get worse.’
Extreme heat is a silent threat, one that experts warn could become more deadly as temperatures continue to rise.
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Sam Karlin @sam-karlin.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
voting for mayor based on whether they can deliver this in downtown new orleans
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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
I believe my political ideology is increasingly that everyone should have access to a high quality Italian deli sandwich at a reasonable price for lunch every day, without fear of financial insecurity.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 15/05/2025
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Here are the raw vote totals for the winners in the key swing states. PA 2020: Biden 3,458,229 2024: Trump 3,543,308 WI 2020: Biden 1,630,866 2024: Trump 1,697,626 MI 2020: Biden 2,804,040 2024: Trump 2,816,636
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Andrea Gallo @aegallo.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Great story from @sam-karlin.bsky.social about just how many rural communities in Louisiana are facing water systems on the verge of a breakdown. Water is brown, murky and lots of federal $$$ still has not been enough to fix it. www.nola.com/news/louisia...
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As water runs brown in rural Louisiana, residents fear water systems are 'ticking time bomb'
In Hessmer, Mayor Robbie Dauzat said he “thanks God" every day without a water system breakdown. “Our whole system is just a ticking time bomb waiting for something to happen.”
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maple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Please don't put in the newspaper that 28 children laughed at me
Ernest S. Harbaugh, a Cybertruck owner from Ohio, states that 28 children laughed at his Cybertruck after a minor problem resulted in it being towed on a flatbed.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
You never like to have to do this sort of thing as an editor, but if you have to update and amend a story, "the pope is actually a White Sox fan, contradicting earlier reporting" is a pretty good reason. defector.com/well-they-ma...
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Well, They Made A Cubs Fan The Pope [UPDATE] | Defector
Update (5:55 p.m.) Contrary to the ABC News report, Chicago’s WGN-TV caught up with the new pope’s brother, who said that Robert Prevost actually grew up a White Sox fan, not a Cubs fan. The original ...
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Asked if he's experienced cognitive decline, Joe Biden says no and rambles on before being cut off by Jill Biden. JOE BIDEN: You know, one of the things that, that, well, I'm, I'm talking too long — JILL BIDEN: The people who wrote those books were not in the White House with us.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
I need the citizens of Bluesky to be ready to grieve together when it's not Pizzaballa
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Alex Harris @harrisalexc.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Read the whole story, the second installment in a @miamiherald.com series on real estate and sea level rise, here: www.miamiherald.com/news/local/e...
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Climate change is coming for Florida’s real estate. Why don’t prices reflect it?
So far, property values have remained remarkably resilient to flood risks – more resilient than many of the actual homes.
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becca laurie @imbeccable.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
bill de blasio in park slope, ordering his breakfast sandwich as “mi sandwich especial” and quoting the onion headline omg www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Screenshot from The New Yorker: One morning a few weeks ago, I met de Blasio at his regular coffee shop in Park Slope. He had just come from the gym—the same one that he’d insisted on commuting to every morning from Gracie Mansion, no matter how much grief the press gave him for it—and was wearing sweats. He held forth among his fellow-patrons with a spirit of magnanimous, possibly unreciprocated camaraderie, greeting a startled man by the door with a familiar “How you doing, brother?” and ordering his breakfast (scrambled egg whites, cheddar, ham, and tomato on multigrain toast) as “mi sandwich especial.” These days, de Blasio most often makes the news for his love life or for such momentous moves as dyeing his salt-and-pepper crewcut. But he’s sensed a bit of de Blasio nostalgia creeping into town. “Since I left office, the No. 1 thing that people come up to me on the street and talk about is pre-K,” he told me, lacing his iced espresso with a heavy pour of simple syrup. “The No. 2 thing that people talk about is that Onion headline.” He quoted it for me, savoring every word: “Well, well, well, not so easy to find a mayor that doesn’t suck shit, huh?”
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Sam Karlin @sam-karlin.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Blue sky is constantly logging me out so when I come here I’m viewing a generic feed and it’s mostly Patton Oswalt (?)
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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
ALL FLEETWOOD MAC SONGS THAT DO NOT FEATURE A STEVIE NICKS LEAD VOCAL ARE NOW TARIFFED AT 250%
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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 25/04/2025
😲 “We built our last gas-fired facility in 2022, at $785/kW. If we wanted to build that same gas-fired combined cycle unit today…$2,400/kW" - NextEra CEO John Ketchum gasoutlook.com/analysis/cos... 🔌💡
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Costs to build gas plants triple, says CEO of NextEra Energy 
 - Gas Outlook
NextEra Energy’s CEO said that gas turbines have a multi-year backlog, leading to soaring costs for new gas-fired power plants.
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Sam Karlin @sam-karlin.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
A Louisiana lawmaker has introduced a bill to have the state government issue "catastrophe bonds" in a bid to inject more capital into the reinsurance market. I went to Bermuda last year to report on the growing cat bond market, where Wall Street cashes in on La. hurricane risk
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Melinda Deslatte @melindadeslatte.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Louisiana abruptly ends long-sought program to make homes more energy efficient www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/... via @sam-karlin.bsky.social #lalege
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Louisiana abruptly ends long-sought program to make homes more energy efficient
Despite years of efforts into funding the energy efficiency program to help residents save money, the Public Service Commission abruptly ended it.
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The Athletic @theathletic.com · 01/04/2025
Five weeks ago, Mary Kate Cornett was a first-year business major dating another Ole Miss student. Then a spurious claim about her and her boyfriend’s father spread — and was amplified by Pat McAfee, Barstool personalities and others. dlvr.it/TJtKS4
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
There's a whole cottage industry of baloney justifications for the plagiarism machine having one-way IP rights, but I simply do not see how "produce this work in the style of [specific artist] which you can do because you have their complete works in your training" can possibly be fair use.
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Lauren Theisen @laurentheisen.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
the 1919 Anaconda Standard was a little less respectful to baseball
OLD MAN BASEBALL
CRAWLS OUT OF
DUGOUT

The National League Séason |
Opens in Boston With Big |
Crowds Present.
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Andrea Gallo @aegallo.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Over 100 New Orleans biz owners have asked Louisiana not to go forward w/ nitrogen gas executions: "Executions — especially those by experimental and gruesome methods — don’t send the right message about Louisiana, our culture, and our people" they say www.nola.com/news/louisia...
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Chef, artists, business owners come out against Louisiana execution using nitrogen gas
After Louisiana scheduled its first nitrogen gas execution for March 18 -- currently being blocked by a federal judge -- business and faith leaders have complained.
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Sam Karlin @sam-karlin.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Stronger roofs, a key part of making Louisiana habitable in the face of climate change, are saving most homeowners more money in insurance premiums than they cost. Story: www.nola.com/news/louisia...
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Louisiana homes with fortified roofs often save residents over $1,000 a year, report says
Most people who have taken advantage of a state grant program to install a stronger roof have seen insurance premiums drop, according to a new report. The median recipient saw a 22% discount, saving t...
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Sam Karlin @sam-karlin.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
The Republican-dominated council of Louisiana's Jefferson Parish, which abuts the Gulf of Mexico, rejected a symbolic measure to rename it the Gulf of America on local maps, @laranicholson.bsky.social reports. www.nola.com/news/jeffers...
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Jefferson Parish Council votes down 'divisive' Gulf of America resolution by Van Vrancken
The vote to adopt Trump's renamed Gulf of America failed six to one, even though most of the council members are Republican.
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Sam Karlin @sam-karlin.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
easily the most insane corporate press release I've ever read
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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Costco and Trader Joes are yin and yang. Together they form a harmonious balance. One sells big piles of normal food, the other sells small piles of weird food. These are the two food piles people need
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Joshua Benton @joshuabenton.com · 20/02/2025
This is the kind of SEO crap my childhood newspaper, the Lafayette Daily Advertiser, thinks it's worth sending a news alert out for. “Here’s what the murderers did"
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Andrea Gallo @aegallo.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Under the Biden administration, Louisiana started to pivot toward embracing clean energy jobs with several groundbreakings for battery plants, solar plants, etc. What happens now, with Trump saying he wants to embrace drilling again? Via @sam-karlin.bsky.social www.nola.com/news/louisia...
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Louisiana grasped for clean energy jobs. Then came the Trump administration funding pause.
Louisiana has welcomed everything from wind energy to controversial carbon capture projects as part of an effort to make the state a nexus in a new domestic supply chain for clean energy.
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jawnpaulsarte @jawnpaulsarte.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
stewart: you guys got anything other than platitudes? jeffries: nope, in fact here’s one of my favorite platitudes
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Sam Karlin @sam-karlin.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
looks like he's watching Derek Carr prepare to throw while blitzed
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Some dipshit is trying to go at Jon Krakauer and brother let me tell you I would never ever want to be the dude on the end of a 20 page Jon Krakauer rebuttal jonkrakauer.medium.com/the-youtuber...
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The YouTuber on a Mission to Trash My Book: Chapter One
A refutation of Michael Tracy’s obsessive campaign to impugn the veracity of “Into Thin Air”
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Sam Karlin @sam-karlin.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
The players in this draft class have never experienced an NFL season that doesn't include going to a Super Bowl.
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Sam Karlin @sam-karlin.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
miss him so much
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 04/02/2025
this is crazy. why would people pay for good journalism? I thought what people wanted was breaking news regurgitated with big images and a staff of 300 people that get laid off in two months
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Julie O'Donoghue @jsodonoghue.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
For Louisiana churches and houses of worship, the state's property insurance crisis means there are tough decisions for religious communities. Story by @sam-karlin.bsky.social www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/...
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For Louisiana churches, property insurance crisis prompts tough decisions, radical solutions
After a year of preaching under a tent in the parking lot after Hurricane Ida destroyed parts of Tulane Memorial Baptist Church, the Rev. Ross Johnson had a moment of
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 30/01/2025
Turns out, the United States did send $50 million for STD prevention to Gaza ($83 million to be exact). Just so happens, it was sent to the province of Gaza in Mozambique, the country located on the southeastern coast of Africa.
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James Karst @jameskarst.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
I talked to The Times-Picayune/Advocate about coastal restoration, which has bipartisan support in Louisiana and is made possible by funding from federal grants. These projects benefit everyone in our state — especially communities and industry.
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Trump's freeze on federal money puts Louisiana agencies, nonprofits on uncertain ground
Both government agencies and nonprofits in Louisiana scrambled to understand what Trump's order pausing federal grants and loans.
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 29/01/2025
somehow this is not an Onion article: OpenAI, which built its AI by stealing everything on the web with no credit, says that DeepSeek stole that pilfered work to make its own AI that's now eating OpenAI's lunch futurism.com/openai-deeps...
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OpenAI Says DeepSeek Used Its Work Without Permission to Create an AI That's Stealing Its Job
After spending years indiscriminately ripping off other people's work, OpenAI is trying to pin blame on Chinese AI startup DeepSeek.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/01/2025
Newsletter: The DeepSeek situation is a moment that should fill Silicon Valley with shame, a monument to the lack of vision and herd mentality of the American tech industry. OpenAI and Anthropic have no moat, no business, no innovation, and I believe no future. www.wheresyoured.at/deep-impact/
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Deep Impact
Soundtrack: The Hives — Hate To Say I Told You So In the last week or so, but especially over the weekend, the entire generative AI industry has been thrown into chaos. This won’t be a lengthy, tech...
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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
every book about baseball & every book about hockey
"every baseball book": A bright-coloured cover with a baseball, martini and old-time baseball player called "PLUNKED! Spitballs, Whiskey, and Other Tales of Baseball Malarkey from the Swingin' 1934 Cincinnati Reds". Keith Law calls it "In-depth!"

Every hockey book: A grim black&white closeup portrait of an aged, scarred face with the title "BATTLE BATTLER: My battles with fighting things." By JOHN "KNUCKLES" HOCKEY. Foreword by Stephen Brunt
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The Isaac Who Came In From the Butler @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Sure but if you’re an adult you should mostly read books for adults let’s be real here
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Sam Karlin @sam-karlin.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Indeed defector.com/patrick-maho...
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Sam Karlin @sam-karlin.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Entergy Corp, which recently landed a deal to build three huge gas plants to support a massive AI data center for Meta in north Louisiana, is down 5% today amid the AI selloff
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