I am really loving Katherine Larson’s THE WEDDING OF THE FOXES. She references so many authors and texts I’m not familiar with (a huge plus) and the looseness and space in the essays gives me a lot of time to think. Have any of you read it? @milkweededitions.bsky.social #booksky

A few sweet photos I took at Bonneville Dam of fish who may or may not be Herman the famous sturgeon. www.earthisland.org/journal/inde...

Here in Oregon there’s a sturgeon exhibit where a fish named Herman has been on display for generations. I was honored to get to write about his strange history for @earthislandjournal.bsky.social www.earthisland.org/journal/inde...

What's the first bird you saw this year? Take it as a sign. From @tkdano.bsky.social: "People have been using birds to divine the future for centuries... The origin of the word auspicious [—auspicium—] means to 'look at birds.'" orionmagazine.org/article/firs...

Exclusive: I obtained testimony from the Dec. trial where Jonathan Ross, the ICE officer who killed Renee Good in Minneapolis, describes an incident in June where he smashed a car window, is dragged 100 yards, and tased a Guatemalan man 10 times. "I feared for my life," he said.

This month's Patreon wallpaper is chickens. www.patreon.com/c/Shaenon

My least favorite easy chore to do is putting air in the car tires. I would easily pay $30 not to do this 5 minute task.

I find learning about wildlife and wildlife rehab to be immensely fulfilling. Spent part of my day with a group of people who all came out to rescue this bald eagle and take him to the local care facility.

It took me years to place this feature about mysterious cattle deaths in the west and the conspiracies that sprung up to explain it. So glad it found a home in Orion’s latest issue. I hope you’ll give it a read. orionmagazine.org/article/ghos... @longreads.com

i love this energy holy shit

We said goodbye to the MetroCard but we must also say goodbye to the existential, slightly depressed "Add Value/Add Time" meme that will no longer make the rounds 🫡 nygroove.nyc/add-value-ad...

Not me alternating between coffee and electrolyte drink this am. Happy 2026!

My favorite books I read in 2025. Maybe someone smarter than me can figure out what they have in common! tovedanovich.substack.com/p/the-25-boo...

Emma Pattee’s TILT is out in paperback today and I fully expect it to become a NYT bestseller! On the surface it’s a page-turner about a 8 month pregnant woman trying to find her husband after The Big One hits PDX. But it’s so much more than that. Highly recommend! Go read immediately! #booksky

If a random adult man shows up unannounced to a daycare demanding to see other people’s children, you might assume he’d be arrested, and yet

The first bird you see in a new year can set the tone for the year ahead. I wrote this essay about my favorite birding tradition (superstition?) for Orion a year ago and wanted to reshare. I want to hear about your first birds! Don’t forget to look. orionmagazine.org/article/firs...

This is New England's version of the Louvre heist. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

In America, where irony is dead, a hotel chain uses a policy denying shelter to local people, for fear of accidentally housing homeless persons… To deny a reservation to the author of a much-lauded book on how American economic unfairness forces working people into homelessness.

The @nytimes.com Lost Science series continues. Here's my Q&A with a scientist who was studying how wildfire smoke threatens human health when the EPA decided that her research was no longer a funding priority. Gift link: nyti.ms/4jhpw14

When it comes to development projects & Native American sites,wetlands,endangered species,designated historic sites, etc,it’s a “rule” rather than an exception the resource loses GOV higher ups are nearly always hard wired to approve projects not slow down or stop them www.hcn.org/articles/was...

Got my new copy of @orionmagazine.bsky.social and am thrilled to be in this issue with writers I know and love like @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social @k-e-c.bsky.social and J. Drew Lanham. Can’t wait to dig in!

Disgusting

I’m reading the book The Secret Garden and Mary Lennox is the most autistic coded child I’ve ever come across.

Just as in the case of Jimmy Kimmel's suspension, a consumer backlash is now underway: CBS fans are hearing about the "60 Minutes" imbroglio and calling/emailing local CBS stations to register their concerns. "We have no real support," a reporter at one of those stations told me.

Nothing is on sale at the grocery store and the sticker prices are wild. Merry Christmas!

I’m trying to actually use my camera more. These photos of a hawk being mobbed by crows was too blurry (a lesson to double check shutter speed!) but I still like the drama of it.

My mom was part of a successful class action lawsuit against Home Depot in the 1990s for gender discrimination. They’ve always been bad.

There is this guy Manny Rutinell running to unseat a republican congressman in Colorado and I keep seeing his ads on Instagram and … he is like… movie star handsome. Like???

If you read @bengoldfarb.bsky.social's terrific book "Crossings" or heard him discuss it on our podcast, news.mongabay.com/podcast/2023... ...you'll see the value in this And it's proof of bipartisan will in the US gov't to do things for the environment 👀 Bill would provide funding through 2031:

Well I have cry face after watching episode 5 of Heated Rivalry

I just emailed my senators urging them to vote against HR 845, disingenuously referred to as the “pet and livestock” act. It would federally delist the grey wolf and allow states to “manage” the species how they want. This would be a free-for-all in any state with livestock interests.

I started the sexy hockey show and it’s so good. It’s what I wanted movies like Babygirl to be. The consent plus hotness factor and how the 🌶️ scenes plays into the development of the relationship between the leads is so well done.

I can’t decide who would do this pop song but it’s definitely a hit.

I think it’s time for “Judy” to make a comeback as a first name.

Imagine what the news cycle would be like if people hadn’t elected them again.

Everything is vindictiveness and revenge for these people. Everything. Human beings cannot sustain decent societies based on retribution and cruelty.

This whole interview is great

Holy fuck

SCOOP: The Trump administration plans to ramp up efforts to strip some naturalized Americans of their citizenship, according to internal guidance obtained by The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...

One thing I would actually use AI for is a filter that moves all emails written with AI straight to spam.

@kennytorrella.bsky.social is the only one covering this very important story! I know Americans really like to eat meat but allowing the meat industry to contribute to the ruin of miracle antibiotics really strikes me as an irrational trade.

I really need Justin from Muv fitness to stop texting me. It’s been 3-4 years since I toured your gym. It’s not going to happen.

The way to restart the idea machine is PAY CREATIVES FOR THEIR WORK

I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot

I’ve written essays for Orion, Emergence, Washington Post, The Guardian, NPR, and many others. It’s my favorite form! If you need to assign an essay or want a new writer—particularly for nature and environment stories—please send me an email.

I miss having newspapers that aren’t so terrible to read I can’t even bring myself to submit work to them.

I just finished Sarah Waters’ AFFINITY and was blown away. Slow-burn gothic historical fiction set in Victorian England about a lady who starts visiting an inmate at a women’s prison. There are Spiritualists. Romantic obsessions. Secrets. I’m going to stay up thinking about this one. #booksky

The Washington Post, everyone

"All of a sudden, my social media feed has been taken over by pigeons," writes Tove Danovich. "It was enough to make me look more closely at these birds and what I found delighted me." spr.ly/63325CEDsF