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Hi! I'm a reporter and would love to talk to you about this if you could send me a quick DM. Thanks!

Hi Bob! I'm a reporter - would you mind DMing me? Thanks!

Some background on Brad Lander’s arrest today by ICE agents at immigration court.

😂 highly classic

It's weird reporting on anything that happens to be Canadian from outside Canada.. have to suppress the embarrassing knee-jerk "hey did you see that's Canadian!!!" conditioning

Brooklyn Is Becoming a Sponge The country's most ambitious effort to deploy "sponge streets" as a flood mitigation tool is happening right here in New York City.

The technology of laying rain-soaking "sponge" underneath dozens of miles of the busiest urban streets. Only place in the USA to try this on such a big scale. hellgatenyc.com/brooklyn-spo...

A piece from last year that's relevant again now, about how AI is starting to help predict when/where wildfires will break out - even where lightning is likely to strike. t.co/GnDZNGlrb0

How Can My Valentine’s Flowers Show the Earth Love, Too?

Another from the same series on why there's actually one (but only one) kind of flower you can buy in North America in the dead of winter that's been grown locally and not flown in from Central America. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/c...

Which Cooking Oil Should I Use?

From this week, here's an explainer on which cooking oils are the least bad for the environment. No spoilers, but one actually acts as a carbon sink and is therefore *good* for the climate: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/c...

Hello! Still heavily tied up with children under 3 but I'm going to post my last few pieces here and thus inaugurate my Bluesky ✨