Lyndsey Layton

Text excerpt from NYT article linked in second skeet saying: “Most of the profits are flowing to the very affluent Americans, who are not subject to this cost-of-living crisis anyway because they’re so rich. They’re getting richer, and everyone else is dealing with inflation,” said Gregor Semieniuk, associate professor of University of Massachusetts Amherst who led the study. The United Kingdom responded to fossil fuel companies’ bumper year by adding a windfall tax designed to capture some of the excess profits and use the money to ease the burden on households facing higher bills. Semieniuk’s team calculated what would have happened if the U.S. government redistributed the portion of the fossil fuel industry’s 2022 profits that exceeded its 2021 returns. They found that the move would send $1,715 to every American household, which, they argued, could have helped ease the burden of inflation on lower-income households.

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Who stands to profit as energy prices are rising due to the escalating war in the Middle East? NYT and FT quoting our research on the 2022 energy crisis! Spoiler: in the West it's mainly affluent shareholders.
High time to dust off the discussions on excess profit taxes & strategic price controls.

New York Times runs in-house ad asking listeners to “support any news organization dedicated to original reporting” The New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger has voiced a new ad encouraging listeners to support any news organization dedicated to original reporting — even if it's not the Times. It's Sulzberger's...

Subscribe to real journalism, says NYT publisher A.G. Sulzberger — even if it isn’t us. A classy ad. www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/new-...

Not including this person's handle because I don't want to start a big pile-on but there is such a deep media literacy problem on the left. "The New York Times" is not "supporting" any of the things linked; individual writers on their *opinion* pages are making the case for these positions.

Oil Prices Jump 10% After Iran Attack, Pointing to Economic Risks

Oil prices rise 10% as markets open, underscoring the economic risks of the widening conflict in the Middle East. @rfelliott.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/b...

Birds Aren’t Just Declining. They’re Declining Faster, a New Study Finds.

“The American dream turns into the American nightmare as we start to look at what we’re doing to biodiversity and systems that we depend on as humans."

The National Reporting award goes to The New York Times for relentless and unflinching coverage of a White House that defied standards and norms in expanding executive power, issuing Presidential pardons, extracting lucrative profits from governmental action, withholding funds to punish localities and institutions deemed politically unfriendly, criminally prosecuting perceived enemies, abandoning environmental and public health safeguards, curtailing scientific research and regularly misleading courts and the public about initiatives like deportation of supposed felons and gang members or bombing of Venezuelan boats to curb drug trafficking.

The NYT won three Polk awards, including this one. I’m sure it will make some heads explode, but it’s not wrong.

To Stay in Her Home, She Let In an A.I. Robot

Does anybody out there write with as much heart and immersive detail as Eli Saslow? One of my favorite writers when he was at the Washington Post, and kicking ass at the @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/u...

Literally cannot stress enough that if I, a climate scientist, were running a scam it would be a lot more fun than this

Climate Change Is Erased From a Manual for Federal Judges

The Federal Judicial Center deleted a chapter on climate science from a reference manual for judges. I spoke to one of the authors of the chapter. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/c...

Yes! THIS is how it's done, New York Times Much more blunt truth-telling, please

Another good one from @sulliview.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/margaret...

Deep Inside an Antarctic Glacier, a Mission Collapses at Its Final Step

Science will break your heart. But there's so much heroism in the trying. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/c...

This one really worries me. People want to know the facts about climate change, but last year there was even less media coverage than the previous year. Thanks to @lyndseylayton.bsky.social of @nytimes.com for pointing out that reader interest is actually on the rise.

We had twice that many in Fairfax alone back in the day. And it mattered. Reporters are the eyes and ears of the community, keeping tabs on people in power. We were there for every supervisors meeting and every school board meeting. We pored through planning commission documents and campaign filings

Opinion | A Lament for the Washington Post The most powerful capital in the world has no major fully functioning newspaper. That’s a huge absence.

The great Peggy Noonan on the demise of the @washingtonpost.com: "The capital of the most powerful nation on earth appears to be without a vital, fully functioning newspaper to cover it. That isn’t the occasion of jokes, it’s a disaster." www.wsj.com/opinion/a-la...

Washington Post C.E.O. Will Lewis Steps Down After Stormy Tenure

Boom. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/t...

Opinion | An Elegy for My Washington Post

The amazing Carlos Lozada reminds us of Eugene Meyer's seven principles for the Post and asks if they will survive. "I hope that The Post will endure, even thrive, as a business, but I worry that it may do so at the cost of its essence, its heart, its core."
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/o...

He Was Laid Off at The Washington Post After Working There 60 Years

Sixty years of excellent work at the Washington Post; a beloved figure there. The Bezos team just laid him off. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...

Donate to Washington Post 2026 layoff fund, organized by Rachel Siegel On Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026, The Washington Post laid off hundreds of journalists. We ar… Rachel Siegel needs your support for Washington Post 2026 layoff fund

I have so many thoughts about what was unleashed on @washingtonpost.com and many of my @postguild.bsky.social siblings yesterday.

The most productive thought is to support them.

Please give generously with me to help these dedicated journalists who are paying the price for others’ cowardice.

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.

Democracy dies in oligarchy.

The Murder of The Washington Post Today’s layoffs are the latest attempt to kill what makes the paper special.

"The Post is all of our “we”—the journalists fighting for it, the ones competing against it, those of us in the diaspora, and especially the community that counts on it and the nation that turns to it." Thank you @ashleyrparker.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

TincherSealedWitnessDec012426.PDF

JUST IN: Lawyers file declaration in federal court from first-hand witness to immigration agents' shooting of a US citizen onlookers today. Minneapolis Mayor Frey said details would be used to bolster case for ousting ICE from city. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

#109 in Tincher v. Noem (D. Minnesota, 0:25-cv-04669) – CourtListener.com DECLARATION of Witness No. 2 re 108 Declaration in Support by John Biestman, Alan Crenshaw, Janet Lee, Abdikadir Noor, Susan Tincher, Lucia Webb . (Fisher, Caitlinrose) (Entered: 01/24/2026)

And another declaration from a medical doctor who was on scene and attempted to treat the man who was shot. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Skies Clear, and a New Outpost Springs Up at the Bottom of the World

The beauty of this, the riskiness, the audaciousness of the science are all breathtaking. @zhonggg.bsky.social and Chang W. Lee are doing amazing reporting from Antarctica www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/c...

From Seal Meat to Ice Sheets: A Century of Reporting From Antarctica

The NYT has a reporter & a photographer aboard an expedition in Antarctica, part of a long tradition of reporting from the frozen continent www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/c...

How Wall Street Turned Its Back on Climate Change

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/c...

E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution

E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution: In a reversal, the agency plans to calculate only the cost to industry when setting pollution limits, and not the monetary value of saving human lives, documents show.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...

Portraits of the Thwaites Glacier

This ICE, I love. Portraits of the Thwaites glacier by the incredible Chang Lee. And a dateline to die for: "Aboard the icebreaker Araon in the Amundsen Sea" www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/c...

The Icebreaker Reaches the Thwaites Glacier, and the Science Begins

"Thwaites’s undoing could act like a cork being pulled from a bottle, causing the neighboring glaciers that make up the West Antarctic ice sheet to disintegrate as well. That could add 10 to 15 feet to sea-level rise over the course of several centuries."

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/c...

For those who can't access the online story through the paywall, here's the piece about our efforts to retrace Thoreau's footsteps on Cape cod's National Seashore.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/19/l...

Clean, Limitless Energy Exists. China Is Going Big in the Race to Harness It.

The joke is that fusion is always 10 years away. But recent moves by China suggest that it might finally be around the corner. Clean, limitless energy that could change civilization. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/c...