Journalist. Author of GASLIGHT: THE ATLANTIC COAST PIPELINE AND THE FIGHT FOR AMERICA'S ENERGY FUTURE (2024) + FIRE AND ICE (2015). bluesky: https://xitter.cf/t.co/rVBF45bSVD
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Really honored to be recognized as a finalist for the NYPL's Helen Bernstein Book Award for my book GASLIGHT. And humbled to even be considered alongside these other authors.
This kind of journalism has never been more important. I'm grateful to @nypl for recognizing this work.
NYPL is pleased to announce the finalists for the 38th annual Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism. Congratulations to @VinceBeiser, @Mike_Hixenbaugh, Layal Liverpool, @AbrahmL, and Jonathan Mingle!
→ Meet the 2025 Finalists: on.nypl.org/3Q2ptZf
Jonathan Mingle retweeted
Really honored to be recognized as a finalist for the NYPL's Helen Bernstein Book Award for my book GASLIGHT. And humbled to even be considered alongside these other authors.
This kind of journalism has never been more important. I'm grateful to @nypl for recognizing this work.
NYPL is pleased to announce the finalists for the 38th annual Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism. Congratulations to @VinceBeiser, @Mike_Hixenbaugh, Layal Liverpool, @AbrahmL, and Jonathan Mingle!
→ Meet the 2025 Finalists: on.nypl.org/3Q2ptZf
Here's @bentarnoff brilliantly diagnosing our political moment in @nybooks.
And channeling St Exupery, too:
“To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery.”
―Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars
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Following Trump's first-term, the share of academic papers written about Earth Science topics hit a 20-year low in the USA.
The drop in this category over the last five years was the largest of any category tracked by the NSF.
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For the first time since WWII, every governing party facing election in a developed country this year lost vote share, via @jburnmurdoch
2024 Democrats are the red dot.
Absolutely critical context to any postmortem.
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Have the Russian bomb threats targeted any Republican-majority polling places? or only Democratic ones?
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this 10,000 percent. right in the open. treated as a given now that trump/gops just accept the help. dog bites man.
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BREAKING - Over 40 different fake bomb threats have now been called into Democratic-leaning polling places
And they're coming from RUSSIA
This should literally be THE story right now -- it is blatant and brazen election interference to steal the election for Trump
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The biggest story of the night is Russia calling multiple bomb threats into Democratic strongholds across the country. This should shock every American to the core.
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BREAKING: Vermont Gov. Phil Scott votes for Kamala Harris for president #vtpoli #election2024 buff.ly/4ff1e4L
Yeah well this reinforcing feedback scenario has been keeping me up at night for roughly last 5 years, since I first wrote about the methane spike.
(Occupational hazard of being a climate reporter.)
Which is why I had to get it off my chest in final pages of my book GASLIGHT:
“Wetlands will emit more methane as temperatures warm,” Jackson said. “This may be the start of a reinforcing feedback, that higher temperatures release more methane from natural ecosystems.” washingtonpost.com/climate-e…
Election Day self-care strategy:
Step 1: eat jalapeno cheddar muffin from the bake sale at my town hall polling place (after voting)
Step 2: read this feel-good story on a new solar electric school bus pilot project in Brooklyn from @CanaryMediaInc
canarymedia.com/articles/ev-…
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Under Trump, EPA scientists say managers encouraged them to delete evidence of chemicals’ harms, including cancer, miscarriage & neurological problems, from their reports — and in some cases, they said, their managers deleted the information themselves.
propublica.org/article/epa-s…
If you want a (not at all soothing) break from the electoral map, here's one for you.
48 out of 50 states in drought last month.
Never happened before.
Climate change in a landslide.
nytimes.com/2024/11/04/clima…
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Experts wondered whether voter turnout would slump in the two swing states battered by Hurricane Helene. The opposite is happening: voter enthusiasm is surging. grist.org/politics/voter-tur…
