There it is. The very last BOOK WORLD. I’m still in shock that Jeff Bezos, the man who is everything he is today because of selling books, would abandon readers like this. I grieve for The Washington Post and everything that has been stripped from it.

Please correct this headline @apnews.com. All humans are primates. That’s a biology. What Trump posted was a depiction of the first Black U.S. president and First Lady as chimpanzees. That’s racist. (Please repost to get an AP editor’s attention on this.)

🌊I have a new gig. 🌊 Introducing: OCEAN EMPIRE, my new column about U.S ocean policy and foreign affairs for @sciencepolitics.bsky.social. We are a brand new online magazine housed at Georgetown University. I'm thrilled to bring in-depth news analysis about what's happening to 70% of our planet.

@fieseler.bsky.social has a new column in @sciencepolitics.bsky.social! Ocean Empire will bring an essay a month. "The U.S. — this ocean nation I call home — is an empire of political and cultural influence whose reach, at times, seems unlimited." sciencepolitics.org/2026/02/05/o...

Marty Weil is a legend. He was the last reporter remaining from the Watergate era at the Post. Just an phenomenal old-school metro reporter. They axed him too. Please read this story to honor his tenure at the Post. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...

A column to keep an eye on, folks sciencepolitics.org/2026/02/05/o...

🌊I have a new gig. 🌊 Introducing: OCEAN EMPIRE, my new column about U.S ocean policy and foreign affairs for @sciencepolitics.bsky.social. We are a brand new online magazine housed at Georgetown University. I'm thrilled to bring in-depth news analysis about what's happening to 70% of our planet.

The Post cutting its climate team is a textbook example of oligarchy hollowing out public institutions. You can suppress inconvenient truths, but physics, biology, and their consequences cast the final verdict. www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...

I really love reading the Post’s Books section in their Sunday print edition at my kitchen table every Sunday. I relish the reviews. Discover new books. It is a pure delight, completely void of the uppity tone of the NYT Book Review. The Post’s Books section has now been “Eliminated.”

I'm sad to hear this, but looking forward to what Clare does next. I find good energy journalists to be surprisingly rare. Especially ones that have good judgement and write meaningful stories, instead of chasing sensationalism.

✨PERSONAL NEWS✨ I was let go from my staff reporter role at @canarymedia.com. Sadly the philanthropic funds supporting my beat came to an end. I love the staff there and will continue to root for them. Please support nonprofit journalism! Meanwhile, my ocean reporting found a new home. Stay tuned.

For nearly a century, the @washingtonpost’s foreign correspondents have been on the ground for the world’s most pressing stories. Now, our desk is facing potential steep cuts. Washington needs us. The world needs us. If you read us and need us, please watch this video and share.

The Washington Post gave me my first newsroom job. And I’ve been a daily print subscriber for 8 years. Every morning, I open the door and reach down for the Post. My husband and kid read the headlines over oatmeal. Its reporting is intertwined with our daily lives. This feels like a gut punch.

The Washington Post gave me my first newsroom job. And I’ve been a daily print subscriber for 8 years. Every morning, I open the door and reach down for the Post. My husband and kid read the headlines over oatmeal. Its reporting is intertwined with our daily lives. This feels like a gut punch.

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Praying and singing in below freezing weather. Mostly clergy. A protest against ICE’s violence at the Minnesota airport.

Deep-sea mining CEOs testifying on Capitol Hill right now saying U.S. needs to mine the high seas now before China does. It's not true. China is waiting for an international frameworks to take shape. America is the one going rogue. And that's driving U.S. allies closer to China. My reporting 👇

Rep. Huffman: “I think there is a very tight connection between NOAA and your company right now … and I don’t think there is any effective oversight by NOAA. I think you guys are in bed together to go out here and mine in the high seas.” The Metals Company CEO: "I refute that sir." #deepseamining

No commercial deep-sea mining exists anywhere because international legal frameworks don't yet allow it. But The Metals Company CEO is here saying "it is our plan to be in commercial production by the end of next year 2027.” Rep. Huffman barks back "because the U.S. a potential loophole" for you.

Lots of chatter by two deep-sea mining CEOs on this panel about the urgency to mine seabed for stock piling & natural security purposes. Then @drandrewthaler.bsky.social comes in with.... "... and the cheapest place to stockpile a polymetallic nodule is to leave it on the seafloor.” 💥

I'm watching @drandrewthaler.bsky.social testify now in front of the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources. "While I have significant concerns about the long-term environmental harms that can result from mining the deep seafloor, I am not an absolutist against all forms of deep-sea mining."

I wrote about the deluge of AI slop that is gushing into scientific discourse www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...

The Trump administration issued a new rule to fast-track deep sea mining in international waters, consolidating a two-step permitting process—one for exploration and another for commercial recovery—into a single review. This reduces environmental oversight. www.reuters.com/world/trump-...

My new parenting hack is just collapsing face down on the ground and saying in a loud robot voice things like: “Warning! Mom de-activated. Warning! Mom de-activated. To reactivate Mom, do the thing she just asked you to do 34 times.” They break the sound barrier putting on those shoes. 🤖

My new parenting hack is just collapsing face down on the ground and saying in a loud robot voice things like: “Warning! Mom de-activated. Warning! Mom de-activated. To reactivate Mom, do the thing she just asked you to do 34 times.” They break the sound barrier putting on those shoes. 🤖

Trump is winning his bizarre war on “windmills.” But multiple experts have told me it’s inaccurate to call America’s offshore wind dreams ​“dead.” At least one described the state of affairs as a kind of hibernation — and as a key time for ​learning. Here are those lessons. My latest👇

I love writing the same story twice in a less than four months span like please let me keep doing this, legal system

NEW: Trump’s war on “windmills” just lost another court battle. Looks like this judge isn‘t buying the administration‘s latest justification for stopping Revolution Wind — “classified information” about national security. Construction is back on. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

NEW: I obtained internal emails from the Department of Energy's climate working group. They show the group plotting to produce a second misleading climate report, DOE officials avoiding public disclosure laws, DOE peer reviewers stating they weren't qualified: www.eenews.net/articles/doe...

Trump is winning his bizarre war on “windmills.” But multiple experts have told me it’s inaccurate to call America’s offshore wind dreams ​“dead.” At least one described the state of affairs as a kind of hibernation — and as a key time for ​learning. Here are those lessons. My latest👇

“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...” A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today. lithub.com/renee-nicole...

What the fuck are we doing?

I once came to blows with a comms director for a billion dollar company after I wrote a negative article. I worked for months repairing the relationship. He just called today to tell me that, of all the reporters he works with, I am his favorite. A good reminder to be both dogged — and kind. ❤️

It's such a weird little story and just highlights how much more we have left to discover before we can ever say with confidence that impacts to the deep seafloor are acceptable.

Woah.

Powerful reporting that gives voice to real people and real consequences 📰💔

"We’re a poor state. We need industry. To have a new industry that is unique to us, floating offshore wind, now targeted by the feds … It feels like a kick in the teeth." - Lincoln Varnum, former engineer at UMaine, laid off by Trump's cuts Thanks @mainemorningstar.com for republishing my story.

Twice as old as the dinosaurs, horseshoe crabs have been around for 450 million years. 🦖 But their numbers plummeted 70% in recent decades as Big Pharma harvested their blood for drug safety testing. Now, 25 groups are suing to get them protections.👇 www.biologicaldiversity.org/species/inve...

Here's the lawsuit filing against Trump administration for failing to decide on horseshoe crabs' petition for federal protection: biologicaldiversity.org/species/inve...

When you replaced all the writers and editors with AI:

Hello 👋 to all the new followers who stumbled upon my live-posting from the Moby Dick Marathon. I'm no Herman Melville. But I do a lot write a lot about the ocean. I've been covering Trump's bizarre war on ocean "windmills." Read about how he nuked the industry in 2025 — and what America lost.

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Twice as old as the dinosaurs, horseshoe crabs have been around for 450 million years. 🦖 But their numbers plummeted 70% in recent decades as Big Pharma harvested their blood for drug safety testing. Now, 25 groups are suing to get them protections.👇 www.biologicaldiversity.org/species/inve...

BONUS #MobyDick CONTENT: At the Moby Dick Marathon, I met a woman who brought her lawn chair and a cross stitch of the Pequod ship with the White Whale. She did it all night, listening to the readings over the museum speakers. (Not pictured: the guy who stitched a sweater with Moby Dick quotes!)

BONUS #MobyDick CONTENT: Anyone can sign up to read aloud infront of the lecture at the Moby Dick marathon. Most of the novel is read by everyday people. But there are exceptions! Chapter 40, Midnight on the Forecastle, is acted out in its entirety by local actors and musicians. It was so merry!

This concludes my live-posting of the annual Moby Dick reading marathon. Tune in this time next year. Stay true, New Bedford!

This concludes my live-posting of the annual Moby Dick reading marathon. Tune in this time next year. Stay true, New Bedford!

At 25 hours in, the final chapter of the Moby Dick marathon was read by actor Steven Weber (who I used to watch every week in WINGS). Gave me chills. This event drew 3,100 people. Hundreds stayed all 25 hours. And it’s free! Mark your calendar for January 9 & 10, 2027. 🔗 in threads for deets

One of the final readers of the Moby Dick marathon is a park ranger ❤️ I bet you didn’t know that we are reading this novel at a museum within the New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park, a NPS property!

We’ve officially reached 24 hours of the Moby Dick marathon. Just two chapters left. Perfect timing. It stopped snowing here in New Bedford and, from the reading room, we now can see the harbor — where both Herman Melville and his character Ishmael launched their respective whaling adventures.