For 30 years, Rosa Sauceda has lived in Laredo, TX, and boiled her water more times than she can count. She, like many across the country, are struggling to access #SafeAffordableWater. This #HumanRightsDay, watch the mini-doc from the #WECRCaucus below ⬇️ app.sosha.ai/s/fUUVmQzN

Need a break from the news? Here are a few quiet moments from our shoot in Laredo, Texas. We’ve been working on a new documentary about water, community, and the infrastructure that shapes life along the border.  More soon, but for now enjoy the zen!

Any other SoCal people loving this rain?

It’s been rainy in SoCal, so of course Penny is wearing her zarape.

Buffalo Hunter Hunter was so tragic, well-written, grotesque, and creative. Do recommend for anyone who hasn’t read any Stephen Graham Jones yet and would enjoy a Native take on a vampire story.

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

Join us next week!

Dr. Jane Goodall’s passing has hit me hard. It feels so dark here right now and she was fierce in her conviction to keep hope at the center. I’m so grateful I had the opportunity to do an event with her ages ago. She was a real one.

I’m traveling to Montana and Minnesota in October. It might be the most autumnal experience I’ve ever had to date. In SoCal our trees have two seasons: leaves and no leaves. Very excited for crisp air, water, mountains, and beautiful amber and vermillion foliage 🍁

But I took some breaths and learned about gay animals on a queer ecology walk today with Friends of the LA River and @jasonjourneyman.bsky.social so there’s that. Despite the horrors we persist.

Another day, another dumpster fire.

Such a mess. I’m ready to get off the ride.

A once rutted lot is now a green space that offers flood protection & ecosystem benefits. We spoke with Dr. Angela Chalk, founder of Healthy Community Services, about this community project managing 35K gallons of runoff in NOLA’s 7th Ward. Watch more ⬇️ #ClimateSolutions #NationalRiversMonth

Liberation Stories is almost here! So honored to co-author a chapter next to some of the sharpest storytellers, comms strategists, and best troublemakers across movements. We're having a virtual celebration next week. Join me! www.eventbrite.com/e/liberation...

Hey, look. It's us! Follow the RadComms community for cross-movement narrative, digital, and comms folks doing good work.

Trying to follow all the raids in my little LA suburb has been exhausting. In case folks are curious, this is how widespread it was… today. And it’s not all of LA even pictured here. This is just the east part of the County in my neck of the woods.

Anti-trans disinfo runs on fossil fuels, and hating on Trans people is the new "climate is a hoax". An independent analysis of 45 right-wing groups advocating against trans rights found that 80% have received donations from fossil fuel companies or billionaires. heated.world/p/fossil-fue...

Hina Shamsi of @aclu.org: “President Trump’s deployment of federalized National Guard troops in response to protests is unnecessary, inflammatory, and an abuse of power." www.latimes.com/california/s...

ICE has been infesting LA communities the past two days. National guard on their way and threats from garbage person Hegseth to send marines. Tomorrow there are reports of raids coming right to my front door here in Whittier. State sanctioned terrorism. This is America.

“Palestinians are not allowed to develop their water resources, either groundwater or surface water... Rainwater harvesting is a source of water, but you cannot rely only on rainwater."- Anan Jayyousi, An-Najah National University Powerful storytelling from @yessfun.com atmos.earth/surviving-is...

The jacarandas really turned out today 🫶🏻

Happy Pride Month 2025 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Be gay do crow stuff #pridemonth #pridecrows

Still pretty stoked I got to see swamp puppies on my little kayaking tour this month in Louisiana.

I’m such a nerd with how excited I am to see Bring Her Back. It’s like pulling a handbrake in an otherwise normal conversation. One minute, we’re talking weather, the next, my eyes are ablaze and my hands shake as I ramble on about a niche, disturbing A24 horror film. Yes, I am well-adjusted 🤗

#Groundwater is doing heavy lifting in the #ColoradoRiver Basin, but we’re using more than we replenish. New data shows most water loss is now underground. Managing it better could help protect food, farms, and future supply. 📰 @ianjames.bsky.social for @latimes.com: www.latimes.com/environment/...

From Ari Aster’s LA Times interview on his upcoming film, “Eddington” 🎯 “We have no control and we feel totally powerless and we’re being led by people who do not believe in the future. So we’re living in an atmosphere of total despair.”

Stained glass fam goes to the county fair

Water unites 🇺🇸💧 In fact, 88% of voters agree that #SafeAffordableWater is a human right. No matter your zipcode, age, or income, we’re #AllInForWater. Learn more: bit.ly/4iEMSvI

our policies are popular we should keep saying they are popular. people, especially people in power, need to hear it

This big boi is now a fountain regular and it makes my day every time. Twin flames 🥰🐦‍⬛

Local work is so satisfying. Grateful to be learning and doing some stuff outside of my usual enviro spaces for my little community and neighbors.

Spooky and Onyx conspire every afternoon in this chair. Class is in session.

Movement people: Ashley is incredible. I always learn from her and am inspired by everything she does. Hire her!

#EarthDay 📣#ColorOfWater members defend equity efforts in a new statement. "It is in our collective long-term interest to continue to foster a movement that shows up for each other and future generations." Read: colorofwater.waterhub.org/dei-statement/

“We should want to stay in a place we call home and not fear our relationship around water.” For #WaterWeek2025, watch this documentary from the #WECRCaucus sharing stories from Martin County, KY & their fight for #AffordableWaterForAll ⬇️ 📽️ Full film on the site! app.sosha.ai/s/ByOFbAuo

April marks 4 years since the City of Houston sewage consent decree—a $2B commitment to address sewer overflows + failing infrastructure. We’re with @bayoucitywk.bsky.social in advocating for clean water for our communities. #JusticeInTheSewers👏 🔗 bayoucitywaterkeeper.org/justice-in-t...

Water affordability & quality are two sides of the same coin. In Martin County, KY, residents pay the 2nd highest water rate in the state—even as the system fails. For #WorldWaterDay, learn from Mary in upcoming #WECRCaucus doc on the fight for clean water: climatewaterequity.org/martin-county

It’s Friday and the goodest girl is recovering from cataract surgery today. We’re with you, Penny and salute you for doing your best. An icon for the people.

🎯 1/ "If the most powerful and wealthiest parts of society will not form the vanguard of the resistance, who will?... regular people are where the resistance has to happen... bolster fearful institutions into joining the fight." - @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-more-y...

Applied to a vacant seat for my city’s Parks, Recreation and Community Services Commission. IRL local civic work sounds healing. I usually write about this stuff and pull digital levers on the interwebz. Our trees are in developers’ crosshairs. Plus, maybe we can have more ✨green infrastructure✨

At least the hills are green right now. It really is the small things sometimes.

It’s Friday and we’re alive

“Death is seen as an enemy only by those who set themselves in opposition to nature.” -June Singer Exploring Jungian philosophy as a coping mechanism. Do recommend!

Real talk: We live in a #disinfo media hellscape. To make sense of it, and how we can spot fake facts as water and climate comms people, I chatted with @caadcoalition.bsky.social's @phenominal.bsky.social and @mmfa.bsky.social's @abbierichards.bsky.social last week: waterhub.org/countering-w...

I’ll take it

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To fight against climate + water dis/misinfo, we need to build trust & shape the bigger story instead of chasing every falsehood. Join us, Philip Newell (@caadcoalition.bsky.social), and @abbierichards.bsky.social for our March 5 roundtable to discuss strategy: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

NOAA staff members have been told to search their existing grants for terms that include “climate science,” “climate crisis,” “clean energy,” “environmental quality” and “pollution.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/c... @nytimes.com