“In my experience, every kind of writing requires some kind of self-soothing Jedi mind trick.” (Also, Zadie doesn’t have a smartphone.) www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

“or pay monthly fines” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A pretty good definition of journalism is “not doing this”

The journalist who has been in an immigration prison is just...going to be deported. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

California isn't backing down on offshore wind. Five ocean leases have already been granted to energy companies, and the state's plan calls for eventually putting enough turbines offshore to generate clean power for 25 million homes. @hayleysmith.bsky.social www.latimes.com/environment/...

Pollution from fires, intensified by rising temperatures, is on track to become one of America’s deadliest climate disasters www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/c...

“The way out of AI hell is not to regroup around our treasured flaws and beautiful frailties, but to launch a frontal assault. AI, not the human mind, is the weak, narrow, crude machine.” www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

New in @newsweek.com: As China embraces clean energy, the US retreats to fossils. "America's going to be like a Colonial Williamsburg of internal combustion, where the rest of the world comes to gawk at how people used to live," @billmckibben.bsky.social said. www.newsweek.com/2025/09/26/c...

“You’re from the U.S. of A. and you are seeking after employment.” ✨✨

The loss of Redford reminding me that Dylan is alive with us still, performing in Noblesville, Indiana, night after next.

Being able to search YouTube or ask ChatGPT for answers has also really conditioned people to believe not only that everything can be solved quickly, but that research has no real value. It's fast and free, right?! But imho deep reporting still has value and we ought to give it time to steep.

Wow, this Scandinavi-surrealist SET. And check out Melena Ryzik's superb NYT feature: Keanu saw the 1988 Godot at Lincoln Center w/ Robin Williams + Steve Martin. This go-round was his idea: "It came from the universe, and when it struck me it rang a gleeful bell."

NYC folks, if you’re traveling up to the Hudson Valley, DO NOT go in the Hudson River or let your dogs swim in the river right now. There is a historically huge blue algae bloom that is extremely deadly. More here: www.caryinstitute.org/news-insight...

Can't set limits on emissions if you don't know how much polluters are emitting... www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/c...

UC Berkeley gives the Trump admin the names of 160 faculty + students for a federal investigation into “alleged antisemitic incidents.” Judith Butler, one of the targeted scholars, tells me: "It is an enormous breach of trust... It's shocking. Did you consider not complying with this request?”

Local & regional paper-maps in the glovebox would have come in really handy today. It’s a good item to add to the adaptation kit. 9to5google.com/2025/09/11/g...

While traveling through Manhattan, an NYU expert uncovers troubling air pollution levels in places you wouldn’t expect.

Fair review of Amtrak’s “NextGen”…I’m on it now for first time. No seating in cafe car, the former best place to flirt on the East Coast. I fear a generation of babies will be lost. www.reddit.com/r/Amtrak/com...

This is a typically superb Hannah Dreier piece that’s another appalling reminder that our health care system runs on two principles: your money or your life.

Such a breathtaking confluence of societal failures in this Hannah Dreier story. You've got crippling healthcare costs, lack of worker protections, worsening climate-fueled wildfires, poverty, lack of opportunity for young men... www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/u...

“This has been the second-worst fire season in Canadian history (across the Atlantic, Europe just had its worst).” www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/05/o...

Note the skill in this response to the U.S. President from Putin's spokesman: "No one has the desire or time for this."

“We stand firm in our joy and in our belonging even through the storm.” - Klie, @imaginewaterworks.org I’m excited to share a new article I contributed to! Thank you to the wonderful @audreygray.bsky.social for lifting up these stories! insideclimatenews.org/news/2007202...

bleak: The Federal Emergency Management Agency on Tuesday suspended around 30 employees after those workers wrote to Congress warning that the Trump administration had gutted the nation’s ability to handle hurricanes, floods and other extreme weather disasters. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/c...

“so much of the experience shines…the angelfish kisses your hand twice, to replenish your life force” (I love this review by Harold Goldberg) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/a...

This warning from FEMA employees: "abandonment of the American people" www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

Kappe’s beauty! archinect.com/news/article...

“Witnesses said the second strike took place after rescue workers, journalists and other people had rushed to the site of the initial attack.” www.reuters.com/world/middle...

To prove it's possible, a region of Germany cut itself off from the national grid & ran its own regional standalone grid purely on renewable energy & batteries. No nuclear, no fossils.

“This spring, it was not uncommon to see a truck pass by every 10 seconds on Calabasas’ main streets. Residents noticed a difference in the air. ‘We feel it,’ said Michal Keswick, whose son was having coughing fits. ‘We know what’s happening.’” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/m...

"...climate change is warming Europe at more than twice the global average." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/w...

"At 5 am, Manhattan is a town of tired trumpet players...This is Manhattan's mellowest hour. Most night people are out of sight—but the day people have not yet appeared. Truck drivers and cabs are alert, yet they do not disturb the mood." -Talese, 1961, f/m "A Town Without Time"

Walked a full mile’s worth of Village bodegas & drugstores this morning before I could find the Sunday papers. The man at Christopher St newsstand had strong opinions about which 4 I bought (he’s a WSJ guy, put down the pink one!) and I was so grateful to hear every word of those critiques.

“Americans have seen enough wreckage now to understand two things: the government is not swooping in to save you or your stuff, & if you are vulnerable in some way before the storm hits, you’re going to have a rougher time recovering.” #ClimateSky

Member Scholar Michael Méndez @mikemendezphd.bsky.social of UC Irvine was quoted in an Inside Climate News article about LGBTQ+ Americans organizing for climate justice and extreme weather disaster protections. Excellent piece by climate writer @audreygray.bsky.social !

Really thoughtful piece about what coal itself was, and how we abused nature (including each other) instead of learning from its laws. So much to learn here!

This is not “widely overlooked“ just bc u didn’t report on it @nytimes.com —we all noticed it instantly…. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/n...

“…one of the top 10 largest in recorded Arizona history. Getting around it would be roughly like driving from New York City to Washington DC.”

Went to the Andy Goldsworthy exhibition at the Royal Scottish Academy. It’s wonderful. Even the information panels are a knock-out.

Tolstoy can do anything. This is mowing... "Sliced down with a succulent sound and smelling of spice, the grass lay in high swaths."

Following the 2018 Camp fire, California required cities to analyze whether they could quickly and safely evacuate their residents. L.A. never complied. My latest for @latimes.com: www.latimes.com/environment/...

The student journalists reporting with more context and clarity than anyone, once again. www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/07...

If I was a Columbia librarian, I’d begin quietly arranging long-term loans of important historical materials to other places for safekeeping.

Bracing analysis from Columbia Law School’s David Pozen about the significance and implications of Columbia’s settlement with Trump. balkin.blogspot.com/2025/07/regu...

LGBTQ+ Americans are organizing disaster protection for each other as political weather worsens.

Studies on how the human brain responds to words... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"I can get all up in my head when I'm writing. But if I read a bit of Paley just before I open the document I feel some of that wildness and openheartedness enter me." www.newyorker.com/magazine/tak...