NEW: Income isn’t supposed to play a role in how much housing assistance FEMA gives families. But in some North Carolina counties, the highest-income homeowners received two to three times as much money after Hurricane Helene as those with lower incomes. With @theassemblync.bsky.social

🦑 Our September newsletter is out and announcing our new Ocean Biodiversity portfolio, a poetry virtual event, and more: mailchi.mp/blueconverge...

Please do reach out and find Dom and Sarah at #WIOMSA2025! Learn more about the work of @blue-convergence.bsky.social!

🦑 Our approach: Listen. Support. Engage. We will mobilize community voices in regions of the U.S., issue open funding opportunities to generate solutions, and conduct strategic outreach to build momentum behind their use. We will develop use cases to share across regions.

Jimmy Kimmel's Monologue now has 14.3 MILLION VIEWS on YouTube. It would be a shame for you to share it www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tj...

I'm so excited to do this - join us if you can, we all need a little poetry right now.

A child in Los Angeles has died from SSPE, a rare but fatal brain disorder that can appear years after measles infection. The case underscores the deadly risks of falling vaccination rates. buff.ly/QPOOYSx #vaccineswork

With all the insanity we miss the real stories… this is horrendous. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

🦑 These events will be so informative. We've learned a ton from these projects about how you can adapt MPAs to climate change. Join for both if you can!

🦑 Working through new poems today and going back to others for inspiration. I had my poem String Lights in the online gallery for The Nature of Our Times. natureofourtimes.poetsforscience.org/string-lights/

Dude just fell out of his bed.

I know we keep focusing on Colbert and Kimmel as we should, but we also need to remember there are hundreds of people who work for these shows who also just lost their jobs because of this bullshit, and most of them are probably not millionaires.

There are people fighting. It's just not the national level establishment. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/n...

🦑 So excited to be part of this anthology, it's out now: natureofourtimes.poetsforscience.org

🦑 Climate change touches everything - energy, environment, economy, national security - it will be great for so many sectors to come together. We often live in our siloes... if you're coming to #ClimateWeekNYC, connect with my boss, @charlotteghudson.bsky.social!

In the wake of Jimmy Kimmel, this is getting missed... this is also a free speech travesty and incredibly cruel at that. I don't care if you don't like his opinions, he's a legal resident and a husband and father of US citizens: www.yahoo.com/news/article... Free Palestine.

So if Jimmy Kimmel had just suggested killing homeless people by involuntary lethal injection, like Brian Kilmeade did on Fox, he’d still have a job?

If you’re scared of what comedians have to say about you… You’re weak.

Every major talent that works for ABC and Disney should refuse to show up for work until Jimmy Kimmel is reinstated. Marvel movies need to shutdown. Ditto the sitcoms. Collective boycott. Corporations love money more than anything,& this will harm them and force them to do the right thing.

Honestly folks. The bluster & bullying & “how dare they say that?,” & silencing, & censoring? It’s weakness x 10. If you’re really strong, jokes don’t matter. Only if you’re banking on fear to give you power do jokes matter. That’s why authoritarians HATE being poked fun at. No fear=no power.

🦑 If you're going to Mombasa for WIOMSA 2025, be sure to talk with Dom and Sarah about our work in climate resilient fisheries!

🦑 The speakers that will be featured have been working the past few years have been working in communities all over the world to develop knowledge and lay the groundwork for co-governance of MPAs. It will yield great lessons learned on a critical topic!

“Looping out into the world we thread / and return.” Arthur Sze, announced by the Library of Congress as our 25th US Poet Laureate: www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/160592...

Firing a Black woman for quoting Kirk’s horrific statements about Black women is insane. It seems the Washington Post would rather perform politeness (and demand that the people Kirk harmed do it too) that tell the truth: karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washin...

Thinking about Robert Frost when he said "the only way out is through." Be kind to yourselves on this blessed Sunday, y'all.

Glad this columnist is speaking up. “To speak of Kirk as a champion of reasoned discussion is also to ignore his frequent calls for the state suppression of his political opponents.”

🦑 My copy came! I’m so excited to be in this! Available for preorder now: bookshop.org/p/books/the-... 🪼🪼🪼🪼

As someone who spent many hours listening to Kirk’s show on AM radio, I would say that he made Rush Limbaugh seem like Walter Cronkite by comparison, in terms of rhetorical tone and empirical rigor. The subtext of every show was “You don’t hate the left enough.”

Listening to Green Day's 21 Century Breakdown (a Gen X band classic), which came out in 2009 - the title song includes the apparently prophetic line "Homeland Security could kill us all..." Shoulda listened... www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4ZK...

For today's song... this is one I'm feeling. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtVy...

This is TMI but my cat can get runny poops and it often leads to pancreatitis... so I went to the vet and found a new food that helps... at this time I'd like to announce that Mel just pooped the most perfect Lincoln log but now I'm alarmed that my life is such that this is what makes my whole day.

🦑 So. Many. Responses. Literally from all over the world... at a time when it's hard to feel good about a lot of things know that people are out there fighting for climate resilient fisheries and they're not giving up.

I wish the media would stop calling what Trump is doing "a crackdown on illegal immigration." It's a crackdown on immigrants. That's it. Call a spade a spade for once.

I love DC... I just wish we had a leader to stick up for us or some form of representation. We're just stuck with whatever they want to do to us. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

🦑 @blue-convergence.bsky.social just released our Aug newsletter - register to join an important webinar series on Managing Protected Areas in a Changing Ocean: mailchi.mp/blueconverge...

The Wednesday Night Massacre at #CDC. Key leaders depart after firing of Director. #RFKJr #Vought & #Trump have now destroyed the agency. Their acts will kill people. They have blood on their hands. www.statnews.com/2025/08/27/c...

🦑 I'm excited to share my poem Chrysaora quinquecirrha will appear The Nature of Our Times anthology - available for preorder now! natureofourtimes.poetsforscience.org

Wow, Tim Burchett is missing out on a great, vibrant city... I spent half my day on Saturday just walking across this beautiful place... one end to the other and back.

Looking for something inspiring to read this week? Check out 2017 fiction alum @emipasbeck.bsky.social's essay "How to Safely Transport Your Wurlitzer" in the anthology SNAPSHOTS. www.bloomsbury.com/us/snapshots...

I’m so ashamed of what we’re doing to people.

Welcome Mohammed Alhammami and @emilyknight.bsky.social to our team! Mohammed will oversee the life cycle of our grants and build our operational systems while Emily will lead organizational communications. Learn more about both them in our latest newsletter: mailchi.mp/blueconverge... 🦑

🦑 Check out our July newsletter from @blue-convergence.bsky.social. We have an informational webinar about our Climate-Resilient Fisheries Request for Proposals on July 31. mailchi.mp/blueconverge...

So proud to graduate from Warren Wilson Program for Writers… so many new poems, annotations of poetry, a semester dedicated to a long essay on Sheryl St Germaine and WS Merwin, and full manuscript…

Meet @emilyknight.bsky.social, a poet who's thankful for the program's cross-genre focus. 1/2

That florida concentration camp doesn't appear to have air conditioning and well putting people in temps in florida heat in summer is a recipe for death.

Denaturalization is a tactic that was heavily used during the McCarthy era of the late 1940s and the early 1950s and one that was expanded during the Obama administration and grew further during President Trump's first term. www.npr.org/2025/06/30/n...

We are collapsing ourselves over grievance and entitlement. I don't even know what to say. So many people are going to be hurt. I can't stand it.

Anyone still quibbling that this isn't fascism?