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Staff writer @grist covering climate impacts • Writing book about Kern County for @simonbooks • jbittle at grist dot org • No longer really using Twitter

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Joined December 2009

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Jake Bittle

27 days

I'm writing a book about Kern County, CA, the place that epitomizes the strange and messy climate transition starting to unfold in the US. Haven't used Twitter in months, and never will again, but if you know people in Kern, or have thoughts on the just transition, get in touch!

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6 years

Bro in cafe talking to his bro friends, verbatim: “Bro, come on, just don’t answer her. Put your phone down. Phones down, bros. It’s zen time. The bros are having some coffee together, we’re hanging out. Phones down. That icy goodness.”

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The Nets have now acquired all three types of Brooklyn guy; a weirdly skinny guy, a guy with a huge beard, and a guy who’s obsessed with astrology and conspiracy theories.

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Half the stories the NYT does about non-New York places are like: "CLEVELAND—In a city known for a hardscrabble charm that borders on barbarism, the locals—auto workers, mostly, and diner waitresses—were greeted by a surprising sight last week: the city's first artist, ever."

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Great that we’ve gotten to a point where every night we brace ourselves for images of the police beating innocent people and every morning we brace ourselves to hear the mayor and the governor deny that the beatings ever happened.

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People are saying this is wholesome—it wasn't. Later I discovered the girl was trying to get in touch with the bro because he had the keys to her apartment. He answered the phone and angrily denied that he was hanging out with his friends. Men still suck.

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An octogenarian half-blind senator dissecting a gored pigeon in the middle of Iowa while the entire world waits for his opinion on an arcane question of judicial procedure is the kind of thing the Coen Brothers have spent their whole careers trying to make up

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Accidentally was the first person to enter the reopened New York Public Library main branch

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Like so many police departments, the NYPD has gone rogue. It is not accountable to the people it serves or the politicians who oversee it. None of the department’s decisions tonight can be justified on the grounds of public safety—none. Enough is enough.

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When you're right you're right

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While thousands of protesters were trapped on a bridge, the NYPD shot someone in Crown Heights. This is what the mayor had to say about the situation as a whole.

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At Barclays Center now. Very calm situation. So far, the curfew is certainly helping, based on everything I’ve seen in Brooklyn and Manhattan over the last three hours.

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EXCLUSIVE from me for @guardian : Court documents allege that postmaster general Louis DeJoy forged bank accounts and concealed paperwork to oust his brother from the family’s logistics empire.

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Exclusive: Trump's postal chief ousted brother to win control of family firm, court files allege

Complaint filed by brother Dominick gives new insight into how Louis DeJoy came to control empire that made him rich

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Y’ALL READY FOR THIS NEW #DRAKE ALBUM? ITS THAT #SCORPION BINGO MORE CHUNES PON YA HEADTOP

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More than 80 confirmed cases. No masks or hand sanitizer. Understaffed stations working overtime. This is the reality at post offices around the country: an essential service is breaking down just when we need it most. New from me in @thenation :

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The Postal Service Is Breaking Down

Covid-19 has already begun to take its toll on the overextended USPS workforce.

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The other night I did some investigative reporting of my own about these fireworks. I went out of my building, walked up to the kids who were lighting them, and said hello. You'll never believe this, but they live on my block and bought the fireworks because they were bored.

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@johnedugan My dads freshman year roommate tried to cook a whole fish directly on a burner. With the skin on and everything. He wasn’t rich though he was just an idiot

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7 years

Everyone stop retweeting this I still need to eventually get a job at the Times

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4 years

More from this evening. The cops charged at and beat up peaceful protestors for no reason. There needs to be a reckoning.

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Was in the process of tweeting about the Tupac dance party in front of 100 cops when they decided to charge. At least one reporter was tackled. Several others arrested for standing in streets. This was the definition of a peaceful protest. Now we’ll see

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The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 lmfao whatever it takes man

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3 years

Tomorrow will mark one of the biggest milestones yet in the history of US climate change: the federal government will officially declare a water shortage on the Colorado River, triggering cuts next year to Nevada and Arizona’s water supplies.

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White Lotus creators were pretty smart for realizing that if you add a bunch of cool music and slow motion sunset shots to a murder mystery then people won’t notice if you mess up several foundational principles of the genre

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In Ohio's 'Factory Town,' Art Seeks a Place Amid Downturn's Victims

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*slaps side of building* This bad boy can fit so many nervous breakdowns in it

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Regenstein Library at the University of Chicago, a Brutalist hulk with a limestone skin, was designed by Walter Netsch, and opened in 1970—50 years ago.

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They gave me a little cheer when I walked in

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2 years

How is this real

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Living in Brooklyn in 2018 meant getting dressed up to go party, having a drink or two to pregame, and then standing on the train platform for 20 minutes staring at a poster that said “MR POLICEMAN, YOU COULD HAVE SAVED HER, I GAVE YOU ALL THE CLUES”

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Twitter should stop everyone from tweeting during high-volume cultural moments in the same way that a stock exchange suspends trading

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The casual viewer of this video might be forgiven for thinking at the start that the speaker is standing in front of the ocean on a rough day. In fact he's in California's landlocked Central Valley.

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I think Trollope somehow, in the year 1871, dragged every white leftist podcast host in Brooklyn

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I can’t lie this is cool as hell lol

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JB Pritzker getting elected governor and turning out to be pretty good at it is one of the funniest things that has happened in American politics this century

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I’m thrilled to say next week will be my first as a staff writer at @grist , where I’ll be covering climate impacts and adaptation. I’m so excited to be joining such an intelligent and accomplished team. If you have tips, you can reach me at jbittle @grist .org 🙂

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LMFAO

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Bernie Sanders has launched an investigation into workplace protection for postal workers, citing my article in @thenation and reporting by @ProPublica . This is great news.

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Goodreads would become the new Tinder in a matter of months if they hired even a mildly competent website designer

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I'm dying that they all spent the afternoon crouched under desks writing little speeches about their favorite moments in U.S. history

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Social distancing in full effect at Franklin Park

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Please note Trump did not appoint DeJoy: He was appointed by the USPS board of governors with input from Steven Mnuchin. The current governors though were all appointed by Trump.

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Best era of my career was being a fact-checker at the start of the Trump administration. I'd call people up and introduce myself and they'd say "thank you so much for the heroic things you do" and I'd be like "anyway in what month of the year did your lotion brand first launch"

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Even an imbecile could see that the police violence that ends each night’s protest is what motivates everyone to go out the next day. Several people told me that tonight. With every day the police injure and maim more people, they give the protestors another reason to march.

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Anyone who went to University of Chicago will recognize Mayor Pete for what he is: a That Kid.

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6 years

How dare those DSA activists deprive Kirstjen Nielsen of her opportunity to be SPOTTED in tomorrow’s Politico Playbook

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@LobsterPosture @whet I don’t want to reveal the professional background of this person’s parents but trust me, it wasn’t

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For the cost of the border wall we could fund the National Endowment for the Arts until the year 2138

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None of them can beat Mitch McConnell because this country operates on a system designed by eighteenth-century slaveholders. Thank you.

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NEW: FEMA has paused $2.8 billion in disaster recovery spending as the agency runs out of money. This funding freeze has left communities across the country in limbo as they wait on federal help to rebuild after floods and fires.

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Disaster recovery projects stall nationwide as FEMA runs out of money

The agency has paused $2.8 billion in spending as it braces for a looming government shutdown.

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Don’t worry, this is just the mandatory two hours of debate over the electoral votes from the state of Arizona

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Gorsuch reallllly grilling the US government lawyer over his claim that the US doesn't have a treaty obligation to provide Navajo Nation with water from the Colorado mainstem

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Today at SCOTUS: At 10 a.m. EST, the justices will hear oral argument in Arizona v. Navajo Nation. The case is a decades-old dispute between three western states, the federal government, and the Navajo Nation over water rights.

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Jake Bittle

4 years

I’m writing a book for @simonschuster about climate migration in the United States. If you have tips or thoughts about floods, fires, FEMA, etc., please get in touch. Okay, getting off Twitter now!

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What?

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4 years

Here's my attempt to craft a progressive message on what this means: Oil is bad, we should not use it

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Just buy some melatonin and turn that Phoebe Bridgers up a little louder, Jesus

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Deleted that UChicago tweet...people started to reach out to me asking me to coach them or their children on their applications.

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I would give my life’s savings to sit down with T.S. Eliot, show him the trailer for the live-action “Cats,” and watch his reaction when his own name appeared in the credits.

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The USPS delivers the Amazon packages you’re ordering in quarantine, your medicine, and the relief checks Congress passed. Its workers are first responders—they do welfare checks on elderly customers. This pandemic is what the agency was meant for.

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It’s so funny that if you want to drive into the largest city in the richest country in the world you have to follow a crumbling road beneath a labyrinthine series of rotting rail bridges and then spend an hour inside a narrow tunnel where the lights are always flickering

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2 years

Read @grist and get your news three months early!

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4 years

Here’s my weirdest story ever: the tale of a man in rural Louisiana who has made millions of dollars selling dogs to the government. For @GENmag , a fable about how it pays to be a military middleman:

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This Man Makes Millions Selling Dogs to the Government

The story of one canine entrepreneur shows that it pays to be a military middleman

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I wrote a book about climate migration for Simon & Schuster. It won't be out until next year (thank you supply chain) but you can preorder it right now. I'm very proud of it and I can't wait for it to be out in the world.

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The Great Displacement

Shortlisted for the 2024 Carnegie Medal for Excellence The “closely observed, compassionate, and far-sighted” (Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize–wi...

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The mayor just dismissed @jangelooff ’s very detailed question about police beating protestors by saying ““I believe that you believe what you’re saying.” This is insane.

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Cops have been working 12-hour shifts with no breaks. They’re getting ornery. It would be simple enough to solve this: the mayor reduces officer details so as to monitor only looting, which has largely stopped now anyway. Protestors get to march, and cops get to go home.

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I'm excited to say I'm now a contributing writer at @grist , one of my favorite magazines and favorite places to freelance. You can expect to see my byline there a lot more in the coming months as I continue to cover climate impacts and adaptation.

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New: How Florida real estate developers used a technique known as “dredge-and-fill” to turn dense swamps into valuable waterfront property, creating the conditions that led to Hurricane Ian’s devastation.

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Real estate developers made coastal Florida cities vulnerable to Hurricane Ian's force.

'Dredge-and-fill' created thousands of homes vulnerable to storm surge.

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The GOP had two years to create a conservative answer to the Squad and they came up with a pathological liar who looks up to Hitler, a restaurant owner who aspires to gun down her colleagues, and a CrossFit owner who believes John Podesta is a lizard

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“It’s time to go inside the world of business” -Me, opening an article on Business Insider

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As a journalist I’m not supposed to have opinions but in this case the abysmally stupid quality of our political leadership leads me to believe I should offer a short term policy proposal of my own.

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I’m on scene at Church and Flatbush where two officers were shot. Apparently 9 rounds fired, both cops rushed to hospital. Apparently not connected with protests, per officer I spoke with.

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THE GREAT DISPLACEMENT is out today. You can get a copy wherever you buy your books. This project began in a Houston neighborhood called Woodland Trails, one of the first places where the federal government tested giving people money to move away from flooded areas.

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This doesn’t even require the bravery involved in defunding or disbanding the police, or even reforming them. Lift the curfew, call off the cops, let people march. If you keep beating them, this will never end. It will only get worse.

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These get worse literally by the minute

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The Intercept, Politico, Axios, The Hill

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I wrote about climate change and infrastructure for The New York Times. We need to spend a lot of money, now.

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They’re here!

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Joe Manchin doesn’t follow me, but I want to repeat what I wrote in July about this bill: it is literally more expensive not to pass it than it is to pass it. That’s not a metaphor, it’s a statement of fact.

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After covering climate change for almost half a decade, this week I am embarking on my biggest investigation yet: attempting to figure out what “Climate Week” is

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Say what you will about Brady, but his postgame speech was beautiful. He’s obviously really committed to Tampa Bay.

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Freelancing during an economic collapse has me feeling like an Okie in The Grapes of Wrath man... “Have ya heard about any work in the area?” “Yeah, got wind of a job a few towns over, heard they’re giving a solid rate for a few days’ work”

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HAHAHHAAHH...HAHAHAH....HA HA HA... HAHAHA HAHAHAHA...HAHHAHAH ....HAHAAHH....HAHAHAHAAHHA

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Oh my god

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Succession Drama Grips Scholastic: CEO’s Sudden Death, an Office Romance and a Surprise Will

When Richard Robinson died he left behind a surprising succession plan. He didn’t give control of the $1.2 billion publisher to either of his two sons, or his siblings, or his ex-wife, but to Iole...

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It is really funny to watch national pundits attempt to graft their takes about the Democratic electorate onto the candidacy of Eric Adams, one of the weirdest and most idiosyncratic people ever to walk the earth

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Come on now 😭😭😭

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. @NYCMayor can you please let us through the barricade on the Manhattan Bridge. I really need to pee.

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It's real 😁😁😁

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So does every rich family have a Roman and a Connor?

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Here's the table of contents for The Great Displacement. Just a few weeks until we have advance copies, and less than five months until we hit shelves. I'm so excited to share this with you.

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THE GREAT DISPLACEMENT has been named one of "the best books out now" by a New York-based magazine that I understand is mostly known for its cartoons.

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NEW: The Biden administration today identified two plans for resolving the Colorado River crisis. One plan would dry up Arizona to preserve California's strong water rights; the other would spread cuts among the states and risk litigation from California.

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Feds’ Colorado River choice: California’s rights or Arizona’s future?

For the Biden administration to stabilize the Colorado River with mandatory water cuts, one of the two states will have to lose big.

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@OsitaNwanevu Reminds me of the guy who came into the basement of Alpha Delt wearing a Google Glass prototype and people pushed him over on the dance floor and broke the glasses

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The new economics of climate change, summed up in a single sentence from an insurance executive: “we cannot charge an adequate price for the risk.”

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WSJ News Exclusive | Wildfire Risk in California Drives Insurers to Pull Policies for Pricey Homes

Concerned about wildfire exposure and frustrated by regulations, insurers in the state already had been cutting back on their homeowner businesses.

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Nobody: Not a single soul: Neon sign in a trendy Brooklyn restaurant: h e l l o g o r g e o u s Notorious BIG playing in the background: It was all a dream!

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The NY Mag party reporter going to an event at the Verso loft and being scandalized that people there were having full conversations about political topics is so fucking funny lmfao

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Cotton has taken “owning the libs” to an entirely new level here. Curry-esque impact on the game.

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A black woman public defender and Bernie supporter, @JCarrollFoy , seems headed for a blowout victory in what was a safe GOP district two years ago.

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Today @grist published the first story in a huge project about "Fortress Conservation," examining how nature conservation projects often result in violence against Indigenous peoples. We're launching with a comic exploring the history of this practice.

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Fortress Conservation: A Legacy of Violence

From California to the Congo, policymakers have long sacrificed Indigenous people in the name of conservation.

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