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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis

@kendrawrites.com

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Climate journalist based in NYC. Only speaking for myself. If the NYT has no haters I'm dead. Tips? Reach me on Signal kendrawrites.04

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · Sep 13

Taking a page from Darth and taking a social media break for awhile.

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Natasha Bertrand @natashabertrand.bsky.social · 2h

Breaking: At least one US military strike in the Caribbean targeted Colombians on a boat leaving from Colombia, sources tell us.

The deliberate targeting of Colombians suggests the US military’s campaign is wider than previously believed www.cnn.com/2025/10/15/p...

At least one US military strike on alleged drug trafficking boat in Caribbean targeted Colombians | CNN Politics

At least one US military strike in the Caribbean over the last two months targeted Colombian nationals on a boat that had left from Colombia, according to two people briefed by the Pentagon about the ...

www.cnn.com

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 10m

I asked Border Patrol why they used a Michael Jackson song with antisemitic lyrics, highlighted this morning by @paleofuture.bsky.social. You're not gonna believe this but they did not answer my questions: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Border Patrol won’t say why it used a Michael Jackson song with antisemitic lyrics

The video was live on Facebook and Instagram for two months.

www.motherjones.com

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 7m

Debt, family money, or higher salaries than you think. But also lol yes budgeting and saving.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 9m

If the smithsonian is still up or the library of congress try searching their photo archives directly

🎃scarecrowcialism👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 11m

the death of search sucks because i have cause to create a sign and i would honestly love to do something in an old school hand-lettered style but good fucking luck looking on al gore's internet for authentic examples of, like, 1950s delivery truck lettering

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Nina Metz @ninametz.bsky.social · 11m

This is an image from the story. According to Wikipedia, principal photography began on the film in Jan 2024 — less than a yr ago

It's not uncommon to see BTS production photos of people wearing masks. It's important to know this still happens. If you were thinking about masking again, do it!

Nia DaCosta is seeing directing Tessa Thompson (wearing a gray evening dress, elbow-length white gloves and a choker necklace) on the set of "Hedda."

DaCosta is wearing a white KN95 mask.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 11m

Yesssss or even more disposable money to spend on the things you want to do like travel, or eat really lovely meals.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 12m

sorry public access TV not radio.

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 13m

A friend who grew up in Austin said he had been kind of a fixture of Austin public radio as a local weirdo before he blew up. I'm guessing Linklater was thinking the same thing people were thinking casting Trump repeatedly despite him being awful from the jump. Or Elon in Iron Man 3.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 14m

Yeah but I assume people know that.

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 15m

The upshot of a shitty paying job is you can always snag another shitting paying job.

The rise in housing costs in particular on top of everything has deprived young people of that period of exploration.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 16m

This man made like 4-5x more a year than I did and yet he felt too poor to take chances and have fun. Did being broke suck? Yes. But I used to lay on my desk asking my office mate, "if we died here how long would think it would take for them to find our bodies" so quitting was an improvement

How America’s elite colleges breed high-status careers—and misery

“They funneled the shit out of me.”

www.motherjones.com

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 18m

I've shared this article before, but this has been my exact experience. When I was in my early 20s, I had a low paying job which made it easy to quit and run to France to teach English for almost a year. When I was back in the US a *finance* dude told me he wished he could afford to travel more.

While an initial do-gooder experience profoundly affects attitudes and career choices, Yavaş argues that a first job in finance or consulting can lock someone into those careers even more strongly. It’s difficult for young people to break free of their golden handcuffs and jump off the high-status hamster wheel “even if they hate their jobs,” Yavaş said. “If they don’t feel like they have a safety net, they put up with alienation.”

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 24m

Every day I remember that Ben Shapiro is a bad screenwriter and rather than accept he's a terrible writer and that's why Hollywood rejected him he blames it on Hollywood being woke

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 26m

They kept showing up on my FYP so I needed to see what they were about, and I was like ohhhh go ahead and radicalize the other white ladies. I'm worried as always of people getting milkshake ducked and like I haven't listened to every episode so not you know swearing fealty.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 29m

I'm NOT their target audience and their vibe is not quite for me but I dip in and out periodically.

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 29m

Have you listened to their podcast? I'm not sure what radicalized them but they're always like this. And they're in Oklahoma I think.

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · 30m

nice to see white ladies call out the "purity test" and "circular firing squad" rhetoric as total bullshit

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 16h

"What do you have to say about the capitulation that you participated in?"

Cory Booker clearly wasn't expecting the pushback he got from @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social

Full interview: youtu.be/HLfzsOVjlxc

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 31m

No shame is a basic human emotion like sadness and joy that we've helped to keep communities together for a very very long time.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 33m

American democracy shouldn't be at the mercy of people afraid that leaving office will age them.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 34m

Which is why you come up with an exit plan?

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 37m

Schumer.

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 38m

I hope he finds a way back to you.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1h

ICE just arrested a singing giraffe in Portland.

Robby Roadsteamer @roadsteamer.bsky.social · 3h

🚨 *Breaking News* Robby Roadsteamer has been detained by ICE Portland after singing Rod Stewart with the Portland Frog! We need your help!

Please support Robby's campaign and lawyer fees at robbyroadsteamer.com link on bio 💙🦒🦒🦒

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 41m

One of the things that piece breaks down is how to effectively shame people and it's based on this book

Is Shame Necessary? New Uses for an Old Tool by Jennifer Jacquet

This debut from NYU Environmental Studies assistant professor Jacquet puts forward the thesis that shame can be harnessed as an ...

www.publishersweekly.com

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 42m

It's why MAGA is losing their mind at family members cutting them off, while those doing the cutting mostly feel relief with some sadness. Families (chosen or not) are great vehicles for shame. So is losing your job after being publicly, aggressively racist. So is refusing to date people on apps

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