Umair Irfan
@umairfan
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Staff writer at @Voxdotcom covering climate, energy, and other stuff. DMs open. Yes, I saw your email.
Joined August 2010
Cooking with gas. Well-oiled machine. Burning the midnight oil. Step on the gas. Too many everyday expressions reek of fossil fuels. Help me come up with cleaner alternatives, please! I'm taking suggestions at Climate-Colored Goggles:
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Too many expressions reek of fossil fuels. Let's stop "cooking with gas" and come up with cleaner alternatives.
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The ridiculous status quo that should be called out is that it’s cheaper to fly between DC and NYC than it is to book Amtrak last minute
Q: Why did you fly here? Aren't trains greener? MAMDANI: I will use every form of transit and I want to make sure they are all affordable in NYC TRUMP: That's a lot quicker too, in all fairness. I'll stick up for you.
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until quite recently, I had never thought much about fish, but now they're all I think about Please read my piece about FISH MINDS! the great fish pain debate, and what it tells us about science and ourselves. gift link in reply!
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if you are into making policy-focused video, apply for this ASAP! the GOAT @JerusalemDemsas is saying "in DC" but tbh even if you just live within easy train distance of DC, you should try. i managed to convince @voxdotcom to allow this back in the day, paying it fwd
HIRING >> @TheArgumentMag is a small, scrappy media startup making sharp, data-driven, actually-persuasive content about politics, culture, and policy. We’re looking for someone **in DC** who wants to help us turn great conversations into must-watch, must-share video and
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Meet the newly uninsured: https://t.co/Ggk2Sl0jDt I spoke with 4 people who are seriously considering going uninsured after logging onto the ACA markets last week and seeing their new premiums
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Millions of Americans will soon go without insurance. We spoke with some of them.
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"Señor Feijóo, usted manda menos en la Comunidad de Madrid que Jar Jar Binks en el Senado Galáctico". 😂😂😂😂😂😂
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In retrospect DOGEing half of the Virginia electorate may not have been the wisest move for the GOP’s political strategy
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This isn't even a brown person thing. I grew up in midwest. If you didn't refer to your parents' relatives (or friends) as "auntie" or "uncle," you were in the minority.
Zohran Mamdani is pressed on La Mega Radio if he lied when he said his aunt stopped taking the subway after the Sept. 11 attacks. Mamdani said: "It's not a lie. My father's cousin is my aunt." He said that was how he referred to her growing up.
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And China is dominating another technology class, one that was supposed to have inherent western advantages . Open link to source article https://t.co/lsbKOzzaLr
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🚨Just launched: @voxdotcom's most ambitious biodiversity project of the year. @BenjiSJones went to Madagascar to find out what it takes to save one of the world’s most unique ecosystems — and learned that the answer begins with putting people first. https://t.co/WGMqkx1GWh
vox.com
The only way to save them is to put people first.
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"Faith in the AI boom has recently been rattled by research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which showed that 95% of organisations are getting zero return from their investments in generative AI." https://t.co/4lS5w8CdRf
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Possibility of ‘sharp market correction has increased’, says Bank’s financial policy committee
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The Texas Quote of the Day is a fabulous 1835 account of one of the evils of Texas. The author has already mentioned bears, wolves etc .. but then he gets to the evillest of all evils! "But last, although not least, in the list of evils, is the ever active moscheto. In the flat
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Apparently people in San Francisco get very annoyed if you call it "San Fran"
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In Bangladesh, there is a concept called খাবার (“food”) where people খাওন খাই (“eat food”), it is a ancient tradition passed down throughout generations that makes it so people are খিদা লাগে না (“Not hungry”). This tradition is a sacred one that many Westerners do not know exist
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Labor Department staffers who took DOGE’s “Fork in the Road” offer earlier this year have returned to the agency as full-time workers after collecting their full pay and benefits for months without performing their job duties.
news.bloomberglaw.com
Staffers who opted into the Trump administration’s deferred resignation program, voluntarily taking paid administrative leave with the expectation of leaving their jobs, are returning to the US Labor...
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