Lois Parshley
@loisparshley.bsky.social
Investigative journalist and photographer. www.loisparshley.com Send me tips on Signal at LoisParshley.49
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More than 1 in 4 physicians surveyed by the AMA in December said that prior authorization had led to a serious adverse event for a patient in their care. And 8% responded that prior authorization led to a disability, birth defect, or death. #RSNA25
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After Series of Denials, His Insurer Approved Doctor-Recommended Cancer Care. It Was Too Late. - KFF Health News
Eric Tennant’s doctors recommended histotripsy, which would target, and potentially destroy, a cancerous tumor in his liver. But by the time his insurer approved the treatment, Tennant was no longer c...
kffhealthnews.org
November 24, 2025 at 3:30 AM
More than 1 in 4 physicians surveyed by the AMA in December said that prior authorization had led to a serious adverse event for a patient in their care. And 8% responded that prior authorization led to a disability, birth defect, or death. #RSNA25
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'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'
#Iran 🇮🇷
#Iran 🇮🇷
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
www.iranintl.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:52 AM
'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'
#Iran 🇮🇷
#Iran 🇮🇷
Fossil fuel companies have been doing this for years. grist.org/internationa...
November 22, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Fossil fuel companies have been doing this for years. grist.org/internationa...
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From @advaitarun.bsky.social's phenomenal data center report. Two interdependent factors decide which firms survive a bust:
1. Anticipated revenues are *deemed by investors* as insufficient to collateralize debt
2. Who seizes market share when the worst happens publicenterprise.org/report/bubbl...
1. Anticipated revenues are *deemed by investors* as insufficient to collateralize debt
2. Who seizes market share when the worst happens publicenterprise.org/report/bubbl...
Bubble or Nothing
Policymakers concerned about the deployment of clean energy and compute-focused infrastructure over the long term need a framework for managing the uncertainty in the AI sector's investment landscape—...
publicenterprise.org
November 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM
From @advaitarun.bsky.social's phenomenal data center report. Two interdependent factors decide which firms survive a bust:
1. Anticipated revenues are *deemed by investors* as insufficient to collateralize debt
2. Who seizes market share when the worst happens publicenterprise.org/report/bubbl...
1. Anticipated revenues are *deemed by investors* as insufficient to collateralize debt
2. Who seizes market share when the worst happens publicenterprise.org/report/bubbl...
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There are so many excellent reporters and magazine writers out there scraping by or leaving the industry altogether. But there's apparently always more money and attention for the people seemingly endeavoring to cross every moral and ethical line in the business
November 18, 2025 at 4:37 PM
There are so many excellent reporters and magazine writers out there scraping by or leaving the industry altogether. But there's apparently always more money and attention for the people seemingly endeavoring to cross every moral and ethical line in the business
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Jaw dropped. Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content
Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content - Oklahoma Watch
The Trump administration removed a congressionally mandated report on missing and murdered Native Americans from the DOJ website, citing compliance with an executive order against DEI. Senators who ch...
oklahomawatch.org
November 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Jaw dropped. Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content
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I'm sorry, I'm still having a hard time getting over that the owner of the NY Times is in the Epstein files thing and they haven't even acknowledged this in any reporting.
November 16, 2025 at 3:10 AM
I'm sorry, I'm still having a hard time getting over that the owner of the NY Times is in the Epstein files thing and they haven't even acknowledged this in any reporting.
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"Investors have been selling off the debt of US tech heavyweights, showing how jitters over Silicon Valley’s boom in spending on artificial intelligence have spilled into the bond market."
Investor angst over Big Tech’s AI spending spills into bond market
Debt issued by groups building data centres has been hit in recent weeks
www.ft.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
"Investors have been selling off the debt of US tech heavyweights, showing how jitters over Silicon Valley’s boom in spending on artificial intelligence have spilled into the bond market."
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Trump's dream of an Alaskan oil boom is feeling more like a bust
Donald Trump's dream of an Alaskan oil boom is feeling more like a bust
His team declared the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge "open for business." For now, nobody's buying.
www.motherjones.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Trump's dream of an Alaskan oil boom is feeling more like a bust
An excellent articulation of media criticism here that applies much more broadly than to New York’s mayoral race lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
November 8, 2025 at 6:58 PM
An excellent articulation of media criticism here that applies much more broadly than to New York’s mayoral race lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Medicare is about to start using AI to help determine prior authorization, even as companies like UnitedHealthcare face lawsuits about similar AI use.
Last year, I spoke to multiple families who had been wrongfully denied social services they qualified for because of algorithmic decisionmaking.
Last year, I spoke to multiple families who had been wrongfully denied social services they qualified for because of algorithmic decisionmaking.
November 7, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Medicare is about to start using AI to help determine prior authorization, even as companies like UnitedHealthcare face lawsuits about similar AI use.
Last year, I spoke to multiple families who had been wrongfully denied social services they qualified for because of algorithmic decisionmaking.
Last year, I spoke to multiple families who had been wrongfully denied social services they qualified for because of algorithmic decisionmaking.
Ecologist Patrick Sullivan was studying the slow advance of trees into what had been tundra, a sign of the Arctic's rapidly changing climate, when he discovered something far more surprising: Rivers across northern Alaska were turning a bright, toxic orange.
November 4, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Ecologist Patrick Sullivan was studying the slow advance of trees into what had been tundra, a sign of the Arctic's rapidly changing climate, when he discovered something far more surprising: Rivers across northern Alaska were turning a bright, toxic orange.
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Exxon funded thinktanks to spread climate denial in Latin America, documents obtained by @geoffdembicki.bsky.social reveal. The Texas-based fossil fuel company financed Atlas Network in attempt to derail UN-led climate treaty process.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Exxon funded thinktanks to spread climate denial in Latin America, documents reveal
Texas-based fossil fuel company financed Atlas Network in attempt to derail UN-led climate treaty process
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Exxon funded thinktanks to spread climate denial in Latin America, documents obtained by @geoffdembicki.bsky.social reveal. The Texas-based fossil fuel company financed Atlas Network in attempt to derail UN-led climate treaty process.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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So far, the administration's Alaska agenda is still a lot of bluster and not a lot of action. Great reporting from @loisparshley.bsky.social for @grist.org
Trump officials say Alaska is 'open for business.' So far, no one's buying.
The administration wants to drill in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Oil companies don’t, leaving Alaska to spend millions propping up the idea.
grist.org
October 31, 2025 at 6:43 PM
So far, the administration's Alaska agenda is still a lot of bluster and not a lot of action. Great reporting from @loisparshley.bsky.social for @grist.org
The Trump administration opened the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling last week. After drilling there drew little interest, the state’s own development agency has stepped in to buy leases and fund road projects to support private industry profits — spending $110 million of public funds.
October 31, 2025 at 4:10 PM
The Trump administration opened the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling last week. After drilling there drew little interest, the state’s own development agency has stepped in to buy leases and fund road projects to support private industry profits — spending $110 million of public funds.
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The financial crisis these guys building towards is going to make 2008 look like a lawn party with the Queen Mum.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Exclusive | Trump Administration Fires Fannie Mae Ethics Officials
The dismissals come after the chief ethics officer was recently pushed out, according to people familiar with the matter.
www.wsj.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:34 AM
The financial crisis these guys building towards is going to make 2008 look like a lawn party with the Queen Mum.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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This is right -- and, to add my personal two cents of experience, independent work is more inefficient. In a well-staffed newsroom, you have story editors, writers, social strategists, fact-checkers, copy editors, and so on, each honed on their skill. On your own, you're on on your own.
Patron-Supported Journalism Can’t Be the Future of News
Writing about the failure of patron-supported journalism is itself a kind of...
talkingpointsmemo.com
October 29, 2025 at 5:37 PM
This is right -- and, to add my personal two cents of experience, independent work is more inefficient. In a well-staffed newsroom, you have story editors, writers, social strategists, fact-checkers, copy editors, and so on, each honed on their skill. On your own, you're on on your own.
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New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
October 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
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ICYMI, in March the US pulled out of the new fund established by wealthy nations to compensate low-income countries for loss and damage due to climate change. Despite being the largest historical emitter, the US had pledged only $17.5 million.
Melissa alone will likely cause billions in damage.
Melissa alone will likely cause billions in damage.
US exits fund that compensates poorer countries for global heating
Trump pulls out of Cop28 loss and damage deal that recognises harms done by richer, polluting economies to vulnerable nations
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 4:02 AM
ICYMI, in March the US pulled out of the new fund established by wealthy nations to compensate low-income countries for loss and damage due to climate change. Despite being the largest historical emitter, the US had pledged only $17.5 million.
Melissa alone will likely cause billions in damage.
Melissa alone will likely cause billions in damage.
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More than 420 anti-science bills attacking longstanding public health protections — vaccines, milk safety and fluoride — have been introduced in statehouses across the U.S. this year.
www.statnews.com/2025/10/22/a...
www.statnews.com/2025/10/22/a...
Anti-science bills hit statehouses, stripping away public health protections built over a century
More than 420 anti-science bills attacking longstanding public health protections have been introduced in statehouses across the U.S. this year.
www.statnews.com
October 23, 2025 at 3:03 AM
More than 420 anti-science bills attacking longstanding public health protections — vaccines, milk safety and fluoride — have been introduced in statehouses across the U.S. this year.
www.statnews.com/2025/10/22/a...
www.statnews.com/2025/10/22/a...
I’m honored and excited to have my work included by @scicommexcellence.nationalacademies.org. It's a hard time to be a freelance science journalist, and yet the stakes couldn’t be higher.
Congratulations to the 2025 winners of the National Academies Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communications given by @nationalacademies.org in partnership with @schmidtsciences.bsky.social !
Learn more about the winners: www.nationalacademies.org/news/2025/10... #scicomm
Learn more about the winners: www.nationalacademies.org/news/2025/10... #scicomm
October 23, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I’m honored and excited to have my work included by @scicommexcellence.nationalacademies.org. It's a hard time to be a freelance science journalist, and yet the stakes couldn’t be higher.
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SNAP benefits to halt in some states amid government shutdown -- Jay O'Brien / ABC News abcnews.go.com/Politics/sta...
SNAP benefits to halt in some states amid government shutdown
SNAP serves roughly 42 million low-income Americans.
abcnews.go.com
October 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM
SNAP benefits to halt in some states amid government shutdown -- Jay O'Brien / ABC News abcnews.go.com/Politics/sta...
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Just asked the WH if they did an asbestos abatement before demolishing the East Wing -- a project Trump began without being formally approved by the National Capital Planning Commission + on a structure built in the early 1900s, expanded in the 1940s.
Not that I expect a response. But still. 😬
Not that I expect a response. But still. 😬
October 21, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Just asked the WH if they did an asbestos abatement before demolishing the East Wing -- a project Trump began without being formally approved by the National Capital Planning Commission + on a structure built in the early 1900s, expanded in the 1940s.
Not that I expect a response. But still. 😬
Not that I expect a response. But still. 😬
Sees your frogs, raises to Alaska’s megafauna.
October 18, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Sees your frogs, raises to Alaska’s megafauna.
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For the first time in more than 100 years, Chinook salmon have been spotted at the confluence of the Sprague and Williamson rivers in Chiloquin, the government seat of the Klamath Tribes in Southern Oregon.
Salmon clear last Klamath dams, reaching Williamson and Sprague rivers
Just a year after four dams were removed, a group of fall Chinook have migrated nearly 300 miles into the Upper Klamath Basin.
www.opb.org
October 18, 2025 at 3:30 AM
For the first time in more than 100 years, Chinook salmon have been spotted at the confluence of the Sprague and Williamson rivers in Chiloquin, the government seat of the Klamath Tribes in Southern Oregon.