"there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue."

For any unfamiliar with the quality of journalism at Teen Vogue, it's well known for hard-hitting stories on "politically sensitive" topics including climate. Then there's CBS: the only major network to increase climate coverage in the last few years. They just axed nearly their whole climate team.

Here’s a bonus post about my recent road trip.

Wins the internet

So far, the administration's Alaska agenda is still a lot of bluster and not a lot of action. Great reporting from @loisparshley.bsky.social for @grist.org

It's tempting to think that none of this makes sense. @sarahkendzior.bsky.social shows us that it makes complete sense. We just have to shift our frame of reference from governance to organized crime.

That's no ballroom

i pulled up this guy's video and it's wild seeing him get some pretty massive sponsorships (another's T-Mobile) doing exclusively these kinda videos too, apparently not all big corporate money is scared

"I've told the story of Akromiya for 20 years. I’m telling it again now, because today is No King’s Day, and I am afraid that 'Antifa' is the American Akromiya: a fabricated entity made by state propagandists to persecute anyone who opposes the government." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/inventing-...

One media outlet has not ended remote work, and in fact went remote in order to cover our region better back in 2019. That media outlet is @highcountrynews.org and if you aren’t subscribed, you are missing out on amazing journalism from all the places big media outlets overlook. www.hcn.org

Leaving home Why would someone leave their home, their friends, their family, everything they've ever known, and walk away?

UC Berkeley has given the Trump administration names of 160 students, faculty and staff, and information about their "potential connection to reports of alleged antisemitism." www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti... @sfchronicle.com

Groundbreaking news! And cake!

"It never does any good to suck up to an autocrat. He will screw you over anyway. You should preserve your integrity and your dignity if he's going to try to steal everything else." www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CaI...

I was supposed to be taking a much-needed break this week but my HVAC died and the repair set me back over 10K, so back to work I go. Anyone who wants to support my writing and research and make sure I don’t lose my house, subscribe here: sarahkendzior.substack.com

It’s been almost forty years since Ronald Reagan, in a press conference on August 12, 1986, uttered the words “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help.” Despite this administration’s best efforts to make it so, it remains untrue.

An Imperfect Storm Part Three If you live near the coast, this is for you.

This feels personal After telling you last time that there was a lot going on but none of it was ready to be written up, this week everything has landed at once, as well as a new story.

A bonus podcast episode and coming attractions. I'm a podcast guest!

HUGE SALE! My book THEY KNEW is on sale for $2.99 on Kindle and other ebook vendors: Kindle: www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B09N... Kobo: www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/... B & N: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/they-knew-...

Green shoots Things that give me hope

Years ago, I heard about a tunnel under Mt. San Jacinto that brought water to Southern California, and I was intrigued. I finally had an opportunity to see this tunnel. I wrote about its history and how this feat of engineering and grit makes life as we know it in Southern California possible.

California in Twelve Songs With a playlist!

Observation New post!

We're away in California for a few weeks. I've spent almost a week watching the waves and the air surfing pelicans and pondering this very question. How do we show up in this world? johnlovie.substack.com/p/how-do-we-...

Here's a rare piece of good #PFAS news: Yesterday, after nearly a decade of fighting, Hoosick Falls, NY finally got a clean source of drinking water. Not merely a treatment system that removes some PFAS while letting others slip through, as most large-scale system do. 1/ youtu.be/czUifvfuHtE?...

New interview! On our current political crises, how we got here, and my new book, THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2l4...

The Southwest -- esp. Arizona, New Mexico, parts of adjacent states -- is likely to see a very active spring in terms of wildfire, potential for large events is high. Fuels are exceptionally dry and ready to burn. Recent cuts in firefighting capacity will make things worse.

if you've ever gleaned a nugget about craft from a TON piece, used a TON resource in your class, or recommended it to a colleague: please join me as a member of the Page Turners Collective so @theopennotebook.bsky.social can continue its important work! www.theopennotebook.com/the-page-tur...

"This somewhat Frankensteinian thing we call the American experiment was probably doomed from the start because it conceived a democracy adulterated by property rights, i.e., capitalism."

This is a corporate attempt to put an end to climate protest and *particularly* to Indigenous led climate protest. Massive 1A assault. Pretty shocking that our little outlet was one of maybe 3 or 4 that had a reporter there every day of the trial (one of the others was a fake newspaper 🙃)

Spending cuts hurt communities, economies and public lands.

From an essay I wrote in 2020 about becoming a citizen. "So why now did I want to become a US Citizen? Perhaps because in Donald Trump’s America my definition of freedom of speech or right of assembly might at some point intersect with the Administration’s definition of felony."

Schumer is one of the worst, he's been in the Trump/Roy Cohn circle since the 1970s and he said that God appointed him to the Senate to guard Israel. Absolute lunacy: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/bearing-wi...

It's down to the States As federal environmental and health responses crumble, Washington State understands the assignment

The perfect metaphor for what the Supreme Court did to this country with Citizens United v. FEC.

Covered a pro-Ukraine protest today and this was definitely my favorite sign

Just got an email from Social Security letting me know that it’s Slam the Scam Day. It says: "... we give you the tools to recognize Social Security-related scams and stop scammers from stealing your money and personal information." Well, I feel much better now.

New post up on Substack. I wish I was writing "The Regime Underwater"...

Brilliant but devastating editorial in the Financial Times. “In the past 10 days, he [Trump] has all but incinerated 80 years of postwar American leadership. If you are not at the table, you are on the menu. America has turned.”

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It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

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