An issue that will impact most of us living in the West. 🔥💨😷 How Did This Family End Up Back in a Toxic House? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

My position on taking action. And on the important space between everything and nothing.

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Climate change threatens at least 144 Native Alaskan villages. FEMA and EPA programs slated to assist threatened villages were cancelled by the #47 Regime. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/c...

“The focus on young women was intentional… young women are too often left on the sidelines of conversations surrounding our buffalo relatives and land-based practices.” 🦬🤎✋🏾https://nativenewsonline.net/sovereignty/meet-your-prayer-halfway-women-led-bison-harvests-bring-tribal-food-sovereignty

“The philanthropist MacKenzie Scott is funneling tens of millions of dollars into tribal higher education, months after the Trump administration sought to cut one of the system’s most essential funding sources” • MacKenzie Scott Expands Giving Spree to Tribal Colleges www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...

“CSIRO has announced it will slash up to 350 jobs as the national science agency grapples with long-term financial challenges … with current funding failing to keep pace with the rising costs of running a modern science agency.” Not “challenges”. They’re choices. 😡

SCIENCE!! “By about 10,000 years ago, half of all the variation that we see today was already present in dog populations,” said Carly Ameen, a bioarchaeologist at the University of Exeter and one of the lead authors of the analysis. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/s...

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This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to fund food stamps in full for roughly 42 million low-income Americans, after admonishing the government for delaying aid during the shutdown. Thank you, Judge John J. McConnell Jr.!

“In a free society, all are involved in what some are doing,” said Abraham Joshua Heschel, an American rabbi who opposed the Vietnam War and participated in the civil rights movement. “Some are guilty; all are responsible.” How to Be a Good Citizen of a Bad Country www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/o...

“Celebrating war crimes is not patriotic.” nativenewsonline.net/opinion/pete...

300+ Lakota people (Pine Ridge Indian Reservation ancestors) were killed by US Army soldiers on 12/29/1890, one of the deadliest attacks by the US military. The #47Regime calls the killers heroes. Hegseth Says Honors for Soldiers in Wounded Knee Massacre Will Remain www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/u...

“The Trump administration has ordered the removal of signs and other materials that state that the land once belonged to Native American tribes.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/c...

Arata ni Noni O’oanaha, the duty of past and present generations to protect the environment for future generations = the legal principle of intergenerational equity. “Climate change is undermining our ability to uphold this sacred contract.” — Cynthia Houniuhi www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/m...

In a powerful video detailing the rise of #authoritarianism in the #USA, @ezraklein.bsky.social asks, are we totally screwed or not? See you on the streets Oct. 18th. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...

The Global Sumud Flotilla departed from Genoa & Barcelona ports on 8/31 and will eventually number around 50 vessels, 500 activists, politicians + volunteers from 44 countries attempting to bring aid to Gaza in “the largest civilian-led humanitarian mission in history”. newint.org/action/2025/...

Any Senators here? I’m a biomedical scientist with immunology, cancer, infectious disease expertise. RFK Jr lied to you in his confirmation hearings. Repeatedly. Provably. He’s lied to EVERYONE for 30+ years. Repeatedly. Provably. He WILL lie today. Repeatedly. Provably. 1/

We’ve been on a bit of a hiatus, but we’re back—and have money to give away to 1-2 enterprising science writers! Want to go to a conference? Learn a new skill? Applications are open for two Career Development Awards of up to $1,000 from August 29th to September 26th, 2025. 💰🤑

IT’S ALL NATIVE LAND!

“If you think science and public health are expensive, try ignorance and pandemics.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

The most recent labor statistics show that nationwide between Feb-July 2025: - Black women lost 319,000 jobs in the public & private sectors - White women gained 142,000 jobs - Hispanic women gained 176,000 - White men saw the largest increase, gaining 365,000 jobs. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...

“Items in high demand can be checked out for only a week, and include a grain mill for grinding fresh flour, a nut wizard to gather acorns and other nuts, and, this being Maine, a blueberry rake.” ll Why Shop? In Maine, the Library of Things Has It All (Almost) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/c...

Our wildlands fire 🔥 crews are dying from preventable particulate cancers. ☠️ Wildfire Fighters, Unmasked in Toxic Smoke, Are Getting Sick and Dying www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/u...

#Disasters #47Regime

“This program was probably one of a kind - we had strategies in place to target every reservation in the Midwest. Pulling this money out from under us isn’t just devastating to the tribes, but to the communities and regions where those tribes reside.” tribalbusinessnews.com/sections/ene...

California Dept. of Fish & Wildlife were adamantly opposed to bringing salmon back to the McCloud. Said it didn’t made sense. Said it could not be done. The Winnemen Wintu kept petitioning, dancing, praying, speaking up for the salmon, the Ancient Ones. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

ICYMI: specific tactics for how neighbors can protect neighbors from random armed & masked men in the former U. S. of A. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/o...

A brilliant, incisive, and soul-searching analysis of the perpetual Israeli war on Palestinians — as violence stemming from unhealed trauma, emulating abusers who were abused themselves —from an Ashkenazi Jew & granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6BQ4yMg/

Massive #Israeli #protests against #Gaza war; protestors forcilby removed by police. www.bbc.com/news/videos/...

Opossums + Ocelots Hanging Out Together 🐾🐾 (yet another previously undocumented ecological mutualism) ll Videos From the Amazon Reveal an Unexpected Animal Friendship www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/s...

“What I fear is that in the aftermath of the Gaza genocide, it will no longer be possible to continue teaching and researching the Holocaust in the same manner we did before.” 🖤 I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...

Regardless of where we live or how we vote, extreme weather puts us all at risk: and we know, without a shadow of a doubt, climate change is making it worse. To build resilience, we need more data, more expertise, more preparation, more communication to keep people safe—NOT LESS! More from me:

Scoop: Two days after floods hit Texas, FEMA did not answer nearly two-thirds of calls to its disaster assistance line, according to documents reviewed by @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...

Most plastics are not recyclable, largely because there is no market for materials labeled 3 through 7. from @grist.org via @climatedesk.org

Thank you to Mexico 🇲🇽 for stepping up and helping in Texas!

“Since January 2025, FEMA lost >20% of its most experienced, field-ready responders. Temporary staff contracts are running out & FEMA can’t replace them due to hiring restrictions. FEMA Corps, young Americans trained in response & recovery efforts, has been defunded.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/o...

The U.S. Senate is currently considering a budget reconciliation bill that quietly includes language that could devastate our public lands. It would: - Make over 250 million acres of public land eligible for sale - Mandate the sale of at least 2 million acres of Forest Service and BLM land

🌊🛍️ Bag bans work A new study shows that plastic bag bans and fees cut shoreline litter by up to 47% in the US. Citizen-science data from 45,000+ cleanups confirm: fewer bags, fewer risks to wildlife. Simple policies, real impact 🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #SciComm #PlasticPollution 🧪

Judge Young, a Reagan appointee with 40+ years as a federal judge, said he had “never seen government racial discrimination like this.” “I would be blind not to call it out,” he said. Judge Rules N.I.H. Grant Cuts Illegal and Orders Funds Restored www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

In response to an @nytimes.com essay on #domesticviolence support programs being underfunded, and the #47Regime prohibiting funding recipients from referring to #systemic social issues underlying #abuse a reader writes “The brutality is the point.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/o...

That any of us have to care about the messy breakup of these two massive narcissists — and that they both individually wield such massive power — is an indictment of our political system and further proves the poisonous influence of Big Money on our democracy.

Students. Female students. Black students. In Michigan, for f***s sake. “But on another level it … feels comedic … it’s so insane… [spending] millions of dollars to hire some goons to follow campus activists around. It’s just such a waste of money and time.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...