And note that the lede reporter on the Homan scoop ended her 25-year career at the Washpost just last month, decamping to NBC News. Will Lewis, the Post’s CEO, had urged people to leave if they didn’t “feel aligned” w/ the company’s “significant reinvention journey” www.thewrap.com/carol-leonni...

we wrote about this WH tactic recently. they’re asking journalists for expert source names and then using them to look up political donations in FEC records to try to discredit those sources as biased. www.npr.org/2025/08/18/n...

For the record. My posts were not even about Kirk directly, but about America's apathy towards political violence, and the coddling of white male shooters and hate peddlers. I was fired because I mentioned race: white men and violence-- that was my "gross misconduct."

Do you like hiking on public lands? You’re going to want to know what Congress is voting on this week👇

Remember the public lands giveaway fight this spring? It’s quietly happening again. Republicans are using the Congressional Review Act to permanently undo federal land management plans—overturning public process and opening millions of acres to drilling & mining.

The Trump administration is asking a court to kill drinking water limits on four types of PFAS. They are part of the Biden-era rule that set the EPA's first enforceable limits on PFAS in drinking water.

This data adds fuel to upcoming climate homicide litigation.

Holy shit: Stateline spoke to nearly a dozen firefighters, agency staffers and contractors, who said that top officials assigned to the fire deployed the crews to a remote location under false pretenses so federal agents could check their immigration status. www.hcn.org/articles/fir...

Wild story on the stillborn death of a baby via surrogate, which truly has it all—capitalism run amok, America's unregulated surrogacy industry, maternal mortality crisis, VC hubris, class conflict, weaponization of fetal personhood laws, Facebook echo chambers. www.wired.com/story/the-ba...

Reminder: the financial situation for rural Alaska public radio stations remains dire. These stations provide vital, even lifesaving info. For example, KOTZ is the only radio for Northwest Arctic Borough, which is larger than the state of Maine. Please donate if you can. #AlaskaSky www.kotz.org

"The first wave of grocery-price increases will likely hit this winter. Roberson predicted produce prices could rise 50% to 100% by early next year as inventories clear and new contracts kick in." fortune.com/2025/08/28/t...

I’ve wondered if any Canadian/other foreign crews being exported stateside to help fight American wildfires would get hassled or even detained at the border; I seriously did not ever imagine this scenario.

If you're wondering, "Why is Trump so obsessed with Greenland?" my reporting this winter dove into his top donors' financial interests -- and sometimes even personnel -- involved in mining there. www.levernews.com/trumps-tech-...

What could go wrong?

I'm incredibly honored to have my work recognized here. Climate reporting isn’t just about weather or science—it’s about people. As the Trump admin dismisses experts, buries research, and ignores perils, media has to keep holding leaders accountable and centering the people policies leave behind.

After firing too many people this spring, NOAA is now re-hiring. Like other federal hires since May, the application requires people to discuss their loyalty and willingness to advance the President's policies. Critics warn they act as political litmus tests.

When I heard the Trump administration was making big changes to the Endangered Species Act this spring, I wanted to know what difference it might make for species already on the verge of extinction. Often, these policy shifts make headlines, but it's hard to quantify the consequences.

This morning, thinking about a recent conversation with a professor of post-Soviet politics at Columbia University. He told me, “It’s usually not the case that there’s one point in time when you can point and say, ‘Ah, this is when we became an autocracy.’”

The Florida panther, whooping crane, and manatee are some of America’s most vulnerable species, Lois Parshley reports. Now the Trump administration's proposed changes may drive them to extinction.

“During this time in El Salvador, each of the men were not only losing time, they were losing loved ones. They were missing major life moments that can never be recovered. Not only did the men say they were tortured during these four months; their families said they were too.”

“On Tuesday, the government announced a “nationally significant” water shortage in England, which means the whole country is at risk of running out if the dry weather continues” www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

"Naming the collapse is the first step toward resistance. The question is whether we can see the failure clearly enough to imagine what comes next. “I don’t know what else to do but keep trying,” Sadai said."

Hurricane Erin intensified into a Category 5 in less than a day, according to satellites and research programs the Trump admin is trying to cut. Without them, “We could wake up the next day, the hurricane could be right next to the coast,” an expert told me. More @nautil.us nautil.us/they-came-fo...

This is like asking the fire department not to study flames. There's a term for when a society keeps pretending its broken systems are normal, even though everyone knows they aren’t: hypernormalization.

The Trump administration’s assault on science feels eerily Soviet | grist.org/politics/the...

Dishonesty is a feature of this administration, not a bug. That's apparent from the way they talk about climate change.

In 1925, Trofim Lysenko arrives in Azerbaijan. The young scientist rejects the idea of genetics and thinks crops can be "educated" with freezing water, helping them sprout in winter. He claims oranges can grow in Siberia. Stalin's thrilled, and puts him in charge.

Much like climate change isn't a future problem, I wrote about how autocracy isn’t looming — it’s already here. Science and political journalism are often treated like separate beats, but I asked political scientists and historians how they're viewing this moment @grist.org grist.org/politics/the...

"You’ll be left with nothing but the sky itself to tell you what’s coming.” nautil.us/they-came-fo...

Less satellites. Fewer experts. Worse storms. For the last six months, climate specialist @alaskawx.bsky.social‬ has had a reluctant front-row seat to the Trump administration's attack on the United States' weather agency. “Some days it’s like, ‘Why the hell am I doing this?’ he says.

Pulled lifeless from a commercial fishing net off the Otago coast, the adult female yellow-eyed penguin had drowned in a silent, unseen death. She was the last known breeding-age female Hoiho from the Sandfly Bay colony. #NZOverFishing

The Department of Homeland Security is holding up more than $100 million preapproved dollars intended to help hurricane-battered North Carolina clean up storm damage and fix infrastructure, according to documents obtained by The Post.

Hermit crabs form a socialist system to trade shells, actually, so that would be an upgrade. Shells for all! Mutual growth!

Researchers can forecast what this will mean for patient care. As a direct result of losing coverage: 2.5 million people will no longer have a personal doctor. 1.6 million patients will take on medical debt. The lack of care will cause nearly 22,000 deaths annually. apnews.com/article/medi...

Sea stars—26 species—have been dying by the billions from Mexico to Alaska, their arms tearing off, their bodies dissolving, w/huge consequences for the sea. Experts finally figured out why— and gave @biographic.bsky.social exclusive access. Can we save them? www.biographic.com/unmasking-th...

Democrat Forrest Dunbar was on Nat Guard training in Poland and got personal leave, and bought his own ticket, to get back to AK and vote for the override. If you are wondering why the special session was scheduled when he was in Poland, well, I'm thinking no one imagined he would do what he did

Can protecting nature be nonpartisan? A conservative push for environmental stewardship clashes with federal policies that expand drilling, logging, and deregulation. grist.org/politics/nat... #Conservation #Conservative #RightWing #Climate #LeftWing #Republican #Democrat #Climate

“[P]ublic media is built around a mission statement, not the attempt to recoup an investment and profit. It’s built around an idea or a principle, and the principle is equal access to information.”

Last month, Trump signed an executive order called "Make America Beautiful Again." It creates a federal conservation commission—an idea that started with a 27-year-old conservative activist Benji Backer, who says he wants to make conservation a bipartisan issue. grist.org/politics/nat...

NEW: i spoke to nine (!) scientists across several disciplines whose work was cited in the new Department of Energy report that downplays the severity of climate change. all of them say their work was misrepresented, cherry picked, and/or lacked context —

Good thing we’ve just decimated the already stretched staff at NOAA’s tsunami warning centers and are gutting radio stations that serve as many communities’ primary warning systems!

"Trump Awards $1.26 Billion Contract to Build Biggest Immigrant Detention Center in US Tent camp with 5,000 beds would be the largest such facility in the country, fueling fears of advocates who say they often don’t meet basic needs" www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

How climate change is raising your grocery bill www.latimes.com/environment/...

New from 404 Media: hacked data we obtained reveal dozens of unknown people on deportation flights to El Salvador. No acknowledgement from DHS. "We have not heard from these people’s families, so I think perhaps even they don’t know." We are publishing the names here: www.404media.co/flight-manif...

Wow: shortly after Puerto Rico’s oversight board called for renegotiating a contract with the island’s gas provider and power plant operator, New Fortress, the company said it’d halt gas shipments over allegedly unpaid invoices —even though it could lead to blackouts. www.noticel.com/economia/top...

the times is reporting that fema let call center operator contracts expire on july 5, the day after the texas flood, and calls answered went from 99.7% that day to 36% the next to 16% the next www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...

IDK if you've seen these transcripts from Kerr County meetings yet, but apparently they didn't want to use ARPA money on warning systems because they hated Biden (and they didn't want to send it back because it might go to "values" they didn't agree with).... www.reddit.com/r/texas/comm...

Besides the timing error that suggest neither the writer or the editor had actually read the play, this scene is about how all of Macbeth's bloody deeds and his rise to power only led him to despair—continuing the trend of these assholes misreading the texts they draw from.

I’m mad too, but reveling in “you got what you voted for” erases the people working really hard to keep increasingly broken systems together, often at great cost to themselves, because they care.