Love this kicker. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/a...

My latest for @theappeal.org Women imprisoned in AZ went on hunger strike for more than 2 weeks, issuing 21 polite requests: theappeal.org/arizona-perr...

“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

🇵🇸 Next to the historic Great Omari Mosque in #Gaza, a library that once held around 20,000 books now stands in ruins, ravaged by the war. Volunteers are working carefully to salvage what remains, determined to preserve Gaza’s ancient cultural #heritage 👇

Extraordinary. longreads.com/2026/02/19/b...

Nearly half of L.A County’s pavement may be unnecessary, new map finds. Via Meg Tanaka. www.latimes.com/environment/...

When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.

5/ “I have already spent more than 60 days waking up eating the same repetitive meals…going to the doctor and that the only thing they tell you is to drink more water and the worst thing is that it seems like the water is what makes people sick here…” From 12-year-old Ender, detained 60+ days

What's that? You say you want to learn more about Puerto Rico's electricity grid?

Heartened to see it in better shape now, a world of change since last year. In a kinder world, it would become a state or national monument, open for tours and inspiration. www.archpaper.com/2026/02/kapp...

Literally conceptualized as a “living room for residents” tons of free supplies for art and crafts projects free courses free places to host things just incredible and huge oodihelsinki.fi/en/

ICE has shrouded entire neighborhoods in Minneapolis in a toxic cloud of chemicals. Last year, I commissioned this story on @thexylom.com on the aftermath of Nepal's Gen-Z protests, where something similar happened. There are likely long term public health impacts in both cities for years to come:

🔴 Three journalists were killed by an Israeli strike in Gaza on Wednesday, the Palestinian territory's civil defence agency said. Israel has been the biggest killer of journalists for three years running, Reporters Without Borders data shows: https://go.france24.com/VpW

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

NY Cares needs hands this week to sort winter coats for immediate distribution. Two volunteer shifts avail each day, the midtown warehouse is WARM. Sign-up takes 20 mins (a virtual orientation). Schools are sending lists of the coats their kids need asap. This works! www.newyorkcares.org/volunteers

“The water is the scariest part. They’re asking for 2.5 million gallons per day." www.404media.co/project-mata...

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

The Department of Homeland Security appears to be moving ahead with a new immigrant detention facility to hold as many as 1,500 detainees in Chester, New York — just over an hour from New York City.

“These universities say over and over again, ‘These deals do not compromise our autonomy, our independence, our academic freedom.’ Of course that’s not true.” www.chronicle.com/article/rand...

Around 9 p.m., federal agents shot rubber bullets and released gas canisters in north Minneapolis as protesters gathered after a federal agent shot a man in the leg. 📸: Susan Du

It’s here! 90th & West End Ave. Not to be picky but it could use a door and a dial tone.

Wildest of the year. www.dezeen.com/2025/03/31/m...

Again, from Michael Grynbaum, here is Sharyn Alfonsi's full email. It must be read:

do leaders of the top investigative newsroom in the country not understand what makes their journalism valuable??????

“…even in the midst of chaos and violence, we can remain compassionate and fearless.” -Tuan Andrew Nguyen www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/a...

We're thrilled to announce that Nina Lakhani will be joining Drilled as senior global climate justice reporter in January, based in Mexico City. We've long admired her incredible ability to tell the human stories of the climate crisis and can't wait to collaborate!

Officials in Washington State are especially concerned about the Skagit and Snohomish Rivers, which were rising on Thursday and expected to crest at record levels by Friday. But it could be days before the full extent of damage from the floods is known. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/w...

Or if you're more of an audio person: drilled.media/investigatio...

Here's a little goldmine: recordings of author talks/interviews at Shakespeare & Co. in Paris. (I'm a huge fan of Francesca Wade's new Gertrude Stein bio, and this interview!)

This Hanya Yanagihara quote feels bullseye to me: "But perhaps Gen X's greatest contribution...is not the irony or apathy with which we're popularly associated but our against-all-rationality dedication to making things our way—even when the world is hostile, even when it seems no one cares."

Amazing that Paul Goldberger (who wrote Gehry's biography) had just yesterday written about the firm's latest project...the day before Gehry passed away at age 96. It's such a beautiful case for never retiring. www.architecturaldigest.com/story/archit...

The writing in this New Yorker at 100 Netflix thing is so, so bad...."he quipped."

Gift link. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved. Don't look up!

Northwestern throws trans women under the bus to please the Trump administration (while also paying off the Trump administration).

And one more other thing I’m seeing now, that Northwestern unsurprisingly didn’t mention in its statement, effectively banning gender affirming care at NU school of medicine

Free spirited joy from E.B.White, responding to a U.S. Dept of Ag bulletin re: bees resisting breeding... "Man is meddlesome, man is dull, Man is busy instead of idle, Man is alarmingly suicidal... I am a bee, I know about love: You go upstairs, you go above..." www.badbeekeeping.com/ebwhite.htm

"I don’t know what kind of impervious boor you have to be not to notice that everything in France looks better than things look anywhere else. There is some sort of atavistic aestheticism embedded in the French soul. The smallest objects of daily use are touched with beauty." -Janet Malcolm

“Israel has destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in areas of Gaza that have remained under its control since the ceasefire. “Many of the razed buildings did not appear to be damaged prior to being destroyed. There were houses with gardens, trees and some small orchards.” www.bbc.com/news/article...

"...her writing, which is often called journalism, is in fact some other wholly original form of art, some singular admixture of reporting, biography, literary criticism, psychoanalysis, and the nineteenth-century novel—English and Russian both." www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6...

“If we drive the carbon cycle far enough from equilibrium, it will respond in kind, no matter how hard we try to subordinate it to the market, or tame it with panicked legislation.” - @peterbrannen.bsky.social (quote from Peter’s excellent new book)

Delhi’s pollution is a crisis of democracy as much as public health, citizens say

"Emissions appear to have stayed nearly flat in China and Europe, but rose significantly in the United States and much of the rest of the world." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/c...

I've posted before about how much I enjoy the random and detailed pedantry of fact-checking. Just off a call that required watching YouTube clips to parse the correctness of a simile involving the way Imperial Walkers fall over in Star Wars.

A siege-breaking snowstorm followed by the strongest aurora in living memory is proof that Chicago has the Mandate of Heaven and its enemies will die by her sword

“Climate-related disasters forcibly displaced 250 million people globally over the past decade, the equivalent of 70,000 displacements every day, according to a report by the UN refugee agency.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"Fossil demand has been flat for industrial energy since 2014, for buildings since 2018, for road transport since 2019, & may peak for electricity this year. 2/3 of countries have already seen peak fossil demand in end-use sectors, & half the world has seen a peak in fossil fuels for electricity."

Marvelous family…they found me Janet Flanner’s postwar love letters…for $26 including shipping. 🙌 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/n...

Adaptation 🤝 Mitigation