My latest for @biographic.bsky.social! Despite ship traffic, trash, runoff, sediment, & roasting water temps, corals are thriving in the port of Miami. How do they do it? Researchers are trying to find out, and see if these resilient traits can be passed on: www.biographic.com/the-corals-t...

"The research also found that the US has more new pediatric asthma cases attributable to vehicle pollution annually than any other country. In 2024, US children accounted for one in 10 new pediatric asthma cases attributable to vehicle pollution globally."

New from @emmarjanssen.bsky.social @newrepublic.com: newrepublic.com/post/212447/...

"To send them back, knowing what’s going to happen to them—they’re not going to survive, they’re going to get killed." - A Haitian-born US citizen talking to @melodyschreiber.com about Trump's crusade against TPS, back in Feb. Context for today's SCOTUS ruling: newrepublic.com/article/2062...

the first episode of my new weekly show @theatlantic.com is out today! this week, @adamserwer.bsky.social joins me to talk about birthright citizenship and the Supreme Court youtu.be/mgDvW9GCxto?...

"The connection between narcissistic personality traits and wanting people in the office full time is not coincidental — it’s causal." www.nytimes.com/2026/06/22/o...

This is a pretty major shift from Mercola

Hard to stress how important screw worm eradication was for the Texas cattle industry modernization back in the 1960s and 1970s.

Job growth has started to rebound lately, but it's mostly benefitting men. So far this year more than 300,000 women have left the workforce, according to @nwlc.org

Parental leave should not be left to the whims of private employers. Without a federal policy that gives all parents access to paid leave, there’s little hope that the culture will shift. Even companies with paid leave discriminate against women & men who take it. www.fastcompany.com/91545980/the...

"The average person eats about six times as much chicken and twice as much pork as their grandparents’ generation did ... [Agriculture's] planet-heating emissions are forecast to rise by 7.6% over the next decade ... " www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I really like that this explores the ethical dynamics to using the name Patagonia beyond US trademark law.

There's nothing I cover in regard to climate change or extreme weather that doesn't personally matter or affect real people's lives. It's easy to become numb to story after story about heat or hurricanes or floods and the lives they destroy. But behind the headlines are real people, and they matter.

I worked hard on this story, it's important, & I want to share it. I'm also finding it difficult to put it out there without this context: Just as I wrapped up final edits last week, I got word that a friend vacationing in Arizona had died after overheating on a hike. www.eenews.net/articles/dea...

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"How the advent of widespread access to air conditioning in the twentieth century proves that losing your job to robots is fine, actually." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/o...

"Starbucks later said they 'take issue with the methodology' in this study." 🤨 www.theguardian.com/business/202...

OK, first off, how many times does this have to happen before we all understand that generative AI cannot be relied upon in this way? www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/b...

The price of USAID cuts... "At 38, she had lost four children to disease and hunger. Now, she cradled her newborn son, Noor Mohamed, against her chest. He had entered the world in a moment of extraordinary vulnerability." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/b...

A rare example of a quality full redesign of a street in Italy. Via Amedei, Mantova. First pic, how it was, i.e. the typical oversized street of postwar peripheries. Other 3 pics: how it's now, turned one-way, depaved and traffic-calmed.

"...She told an officer she had a 19-month-old who would be expecting her back home. 'The officer said my child and I could die for all he cared,' she said.... Hundreds of parents do not know when they will be able to hold their children again." www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Our society has a massive blind spot when it comes to how dangerous these giant trucks and SUVs are to everyone outside of them.

Don't miss the final paragraph.

Fighting doom with coral concerts: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Trump is screwing over farmers, and long-standing US farm policy has made them especially vulnerable to Trump's Middle East warmongering. newrepublic.com/article/2094...

You may have read about the growing fertilizer crisis. I asked experts what it would take to wean the U.S. off of this type of fertilizer and build a more resilient system. Unsurprisingly, a lot of the answers involved corn! newrepublic.com/article/2094...

Paris did this to huge success.

"What and whom, in other words, is all this stuff actually for?" From @katearonoff.bsky.social: newrepublic.com/article/2089...

For more than a week, Amazon has managed to keep a death at its Troutdale, Oregon, facility out of public view. Workers I spoke to are pissed.

Under the second Trump administration's immigration crackdown, far more people are having to pony up bond money to get out of detention--and the amounts they have to cobble together have absolutely skyrocketed talkingpointsmemo.com/news/under-t...

"Critics question the need for these bills and some have panned them as potentially market-disrupting measures that could ultimately provide tax havens for the wealthy. But proponents say they can help bring gold to the masses..."

"Four of the five known emperor penguin breeding sites in the Bellingshausen Sea collapsed in 2022, with the loss of thousands of chicks." God, this is so grim. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

If I was a member of the cabinet or Congress. I would be asking myself what I would say to my grandchildren when they asked, “what did you do when the president of the United States threatened to destroy a whole civilization?”

"Perhaps the problem is that you don't like how humans perceive you." Oh boy. I'm so glad I didn't have this line from @marisakabas.bsky.social in my head yet during some recent convos. The temptation to haul it out and drop it like a live snake into a tea party would have been *huge.*

"U.S. Customs& Border Protection have awarded a contract to build 34 miles of border wall through the Rio Grande Valley, including the National Butterfly Center, and other areas that previously had been exempted by Congress..." www.valleycentral.com/border-repor...

"Ohio has seen a 58% rise in the firearm death rate, which was 2.6 per 100,000 children between 2015 and 2019, then rose to 4.1 per 100,000 children between 2020 and 2024."

also, the idea phase is the most fun part of the work and the most rewarding. Why would you give up the greatest reward of the work? "Hell yeah, here's the machine that gets massages for me and eats ice cream for me and watches the sunrise for me, and in exchange it destroys the earth"

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

Today's Politico poll (www.politico.com/news/2026/03...) confirms what Jane Black outlined in a prescient piece for @newrepublic.com & @thefern.org last month: MAHA votes are up for grabs in 2026. Dems could peel away a vital segment of the Trump coalition. newrepublic.com/article/2065...

I've seen it argued that personal how-to guides distract from the need for policy reform. BUT this particular one is so overwhelming it's practically a political rallying cry. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/w...

The earnings gap between men and women slightly widened last year, according to a new analysis published Thursday showing women last year earned 18.6% less than men per hour on average ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/03/23/r...

I wrote about James Talarico's blasphemy against meat and barbeque revival on the Texas campaign trail. newrepublic.com/article/2080...

NEWS: The rumors are true, @maustermuhle.bsky.social reports 👇 The National Park Service is removing a popular section of the 15th Street NW protected bike lane, saying that it will cause more traffic during cherry blossom season.

Call me naive, but I genuinely didn't expect the Epstein cameo in this one.

The timeline of MAGA pro-solar statements is pretty weird. So I took a look at state-by-state solar development numbers. newrepublic.com/post/207978/...

NEW: To dramatically increase the amount of energy available to power artificial intelligence, the Trump administration is rewriting thousands of pages of nuclear power regulations while downplaying safety issues and focusing on industry incentives.

Paging all toddlers-at-heart... this thread is wild.

Big Oil is no longer trying to convince us they want to preserve a safe & stable climate Now, they're focused on convincing us that the world is only safe & stable if they're in charge That's the thesis of a new @cleancreatives.bsky.social report analyzing 2000 oil ads, exclusively in HEATED today

"There’s no crisis in the world that causes me as much existential anguish as this one, and yet I barely ever speak about it, post about it, write about it." @aaronregunberg.bsky.social writes about the experience of watching Hoppers with his animal-loving kid newrepublic.com/article/2078...

“At four schools studied, the program decreased overall vehicle use for drop-offs and pick-ups by 35 per cent, vehicle emissions by 31 per cent and related ambient air pollution in school boundaries by 93 per cent." - @utoronto.ca h/t @greencommunities.bsky.social www.utoronto.ca/news/do-scho...