investigating healthcare + pharma @hntrbrkmedia | former @Capitol_Forum @jhunewsletter | Minnesotan in DC
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Beyond excited and grateful to finally share this with the world!
I am honored and humbled to be part of telling this story. THANK U Leo, members of the Cass Lake community, and @SammyKoppelman @nbhorwitz + co for taking a chance on a whole new medium!
New documentary out now: Killing Cass Lake pairs never-before-seen archival footage with new reporting on a Minnesota tribal community's decades-long fight with International Paper over a toxic Superfund site.
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Deeply humbled and grateful for how the local community has responded to and engaged with our film.
Huge thx @KAXE for having Leo + I on — check out their article kaxe.org/show/91-7-kaxe-90-5…
And if you haven’t yet, WATCH KILLING CASS LAKE!
New documentary out now: Killing Cass Lake pairs never-before-seen archival footage with new reporting on a Minnesota tribal community's decades-long fight with International Paper over a toxic Superfund site.
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Everyone knows about Nvidia’s circular obligations. We wanted to build the first, comprehensive living guide to the Bank of Nvidia.
All the $NVDA commitments and guarantees, presented in one place:
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Is this corporate power?
Breaking: Google will turn off web search for schools that opt out of A.I. for kids.
nytimes.com/2026/11/03/us/go…
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UPDATE: Remember when Bloom claimed its supply chain is “not dependent on China” after Hunterbrook’s reporting?
New trade records show $BE seems to have quietly restarted a Chinese supply route for scandium-containing fuel cell parts.
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KAXE/KBXE radio had Laura Wadsten and Leo Anderson on this morning to talk about Hunterbrook’s new documentary, Killing Cass Lake.
They discussed the film, the Superfund site’s effects on the town, why it remains contaminated today, and what Leo and Laura hope people take away.
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New powerful reporting in Minnesota ⬇️ by the intrepid @LWadsten
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Our documentary Killing Cass Lake drops Tomorrow, Oct. 26th. Watch on HNTRBRK.com, YouTube, and X.
This is the latest investigation in the Hunterbrook Media series Poisoned USA.
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A stunning, devastating film
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KILLING CASS LAKE
The first documentary from @hntrbrkmedia
— & latest investigation in our Poisoned USA series spanning from Texas to Hawaii
Stay tuned for the drop 4pm Mon! 👀
👀 Sneak peek of the never-before-seen footage in Hunterbrook's first ever documentary film investigation!
So excited to share this with the world!
Hunterbrook’s first documentary out Monday.
Decades of contamination. Families displaced. A neighborhood erased. Tribal lifeways disrupted. Alarming public health data led us to a 20-year-old documentary film project that was never finished — until now.
Killing Cass Lake drops Monday.
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Scorpions kill thousands of people every year, mostly kids in regions pharma doesn’t prioritize.
Claude designed novel toxin-binding molecules within days. Then we waited two months on actual lab work.
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Can Claude actually help create new medicines?
Hunterbrook joined @Citrini at Anthropic, where we hunted for a new antivenom using an unreleased model without all its usual biosecurity guardrails.
We then tested its designs in two labs.
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Outsourcing AI regulation to a voluntary "pledge" conceived by Mark Zuckerberg and endorsed by tech CEOs over a private White House lunch is a recipe for disaster.
"Self-regulation" by tech giants is a proven failure. The last time Meta promised to police itself, turned out it was hiding evidence that its platforms actively harm kids. Repeating this mistake with AI leaves the public dangerously exposed.
AI companies are already bound by existing laws, but the White House has generally stopped enforcing laws against the wealthy and powerful. State AGs should step up, halt lawbreaking, and promote real deterrence, including through holding individual executives accountable.
Congress also needs to legislate. We have a long history of regulating risky, transformative industries like banking, pharmaceuticals, and nuclear power. These tools include mandatory testing, truly independent supervision, and break-ups that end conflicts of interest.
Ultimately, reckoning with AI will also require reckoning with our broader crisis of governance. All three branches have become severely deformed. Against this backdrop it might be tempting to outsource regulation to these private actors, but it would be a serious mistake.
Our public institutions must decide the trajectory of these powerful technologies, not the firms whose breakneck pace and financial conflicts brought us here.
My piece in @nytopinion: nytimes.com/2026/09/30/opini…
teapaw.org/semaforben/status/2105…
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The First Amendment Right to Fix Prices:
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BREAKING: Muse AI can leverage Facebook data to build lists of people in vulnerable groups on request for ordinary users, a Hunterbrook investigation has found.
