"The trauma I experienced taught me first-hand how acts of human violence cultivate isolation, shame and fear. It also taught me the value of a community in one’s healing. My friends and community gave back more than what others sought to take." www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

“Joy in ordinary things, in each other, in embodied life, and the language with which to value it, is essential to this resistance, which is resistance to dehumanisation.” www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

PT Vale Indonesia, operator of the country’s longest-running nickel mine, plans to expand as EV battery demand surges. But in Sulawesi, farmers fear the move could swallow forests and farmlands rich in endemic wildlife.

Trump to speed permits for deep-sea mining in international waters reut.rs/3Zqekpy

A gift from @hollyhaworth.bsky.social on how to sustain our writing practices: open.substack.com/pub/earthspe...

Legislators in New York and Hawaiʻi are considering bills that allow their attorneys general to sue fossil fuel companies if climate-related disasters cause residents’ property insurance premiums to rise. Aloha.

I can't stop thinking about anthropologist Michael Taussig's book about the terror of the rubber trade in Colombia. In it, he describes how colonizers wantonly tortured Putumayo workers, with violence becoming a culture in itself, for its own sake. Like it was a sunk cost they couldn't escape

"Behind the perfect peaches on social media feeds puppeteered by corporate algorithms are exploited farmworkers passing out from heatstroke...The question is whether those realities can coexist in our consciousness, or whether our fractured landscape will keep them separate."

Bernie Wagenblast, best known as the “please stand away from the closing doors” voice is the announcer for Mamdani’s inauguration.

"The arts remind us that none of the current truisms are absolutes—that there are other ways of living, existing, and being." www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-...

Much of the ocean lies beyond national borders, where governance lagged as industry advanced. Over two decades, Kristina Maria Gjerde helped turn scattered warnings into the 2023 High Seas Treaty, proving that protecting the high seas is built on law, coalitions, and patient institutional work.

One of the most significant climate lawsuits to date was filed against Shell last Thursday to mark the anniversary of Super Typhoon Odette, a catastrophic storm that hit the Philippines in 2021. I spoke to Trixy Elle, a survivor, for @drilledmedia.bsky.social. Read about the case here:

New Jersey’s incoming governor hasn’t said whether she’ll maintain a state directive limiting cooperation between local law enforcement and federal immigration agents. Advocates want legislators to pass a bill enshrining this policy into law.

You African Studies majors out there: you too can become mayor of New York City!!!

In a series of experiments, chimpanzees revised their beliefs based on new evidence, shedding light on the evolutionary origins of rational thought. 🔗 www.404media.co/chimps-are-c...

The deadly toll of wildfire is widely known. The lasting psychological effect? Less so. Here’s how farmworkers are grappling with the costs of doing business in the age of accelerating wildfires.

Research shows that wildfires are superspreader events for anxiety, depression, PTSD—directly causing challenges that need psychological treatment. For Sierra Magazine, I dug into what this means for farmworkers disproportionately exposed to wildfire smoke. www.sierraclub.org/sierra/wildf...

"Community organizing is both a science and an art — a science because it is grounded in a systematic understanding of power and oppression, an art because it demands creativity, empathy, and adaptability in order to build relationships and trust." - James Forman

Latest article in our Brazil shark meat series

Hot Summer and affordability, in Atmos atmos.earth/its-going-to...

The 110 St-Central Park North subway station has been officially renamed to honor one of Harlem’s greats: El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, known to all as Malcolm X. Read more here: https://amsterdamnews.com/news/2025/08/14/harlems-110-st-subway-station-finally-renamed-for-malcolm/

📣 🎙️ Coming up in the final episode of ‘Muslim Life – and Death – in Modi’s India’ with Harsh Mander, writer Zeyad Masroor Khan on growing up in a Muslim ghetto in Aligarh, resistance to communal division in India, and more

Every South Asian 90s kid transported to Lucky Ali’s O Sanam memories after this interview! www.thenation.com/article/poli...

"What began as a modest effort by a few members of a small congregation to reach out to migrants would evolve into a deep experiment in solidarity..." our new issue of @hammerandhope.bsky.social is out! today I want to highlight this article by Benji Hart hammerandhope.org/article/chic...

The US and China are vying for influence over deep sea mining in the Cook Islands. By ‪@jonherskovitz.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"The pen struggles against the sword, because it is not mightier, it is weaker, and it has to be used very skilfully if it’s going to defeat the superior force of arms..."

you've heard about the college kids who can't do anything without ChatGPT's help—but what about the students who oppose generative A.I. for myriad reasons and refuse to rely on it as a shortcut? well, I found and spoke with a few of them here: slate.com/life/2025/07...

Hakeem Jeffries' brother endorses Zohran Mamdani ––>

"Even with our coaxing, the wood will never be entirely still. Wood will move if you let it. It will tug on your perfect joints, or, if you’re good at what you do, expand into the hidden spaces you have left for it." orionmagazine.org/article/towa...

A new report from the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre (BHRRC) finds that more than half of the 95 energy transition-related lawsuits recorded globally since 2009 took place in Latin America and the Caribbean. Almost half of all cases were filed by Indigenous peoples.

ICYMI, @cityandstateny.bsky.social has been taking Zohran Mamdani and DSA seriously for years, even as other publications dismissed them as a powerless fringe group: www.cityandstateny.com/opinion/2025...

Tired: News outlets covering Mamdani’s win like there’s some special sauce on why Mamdani appealed to “regular people”. Wired: Reporters like Ryan Grim and others giving his candidacy the attention and seriousness he deserved from the get go.

Most people losing their shit over Mamdani's supposed lack of experience have ZERO problems supporting barely qualified, super PAC-backed candidates that support their political or foreign policy agendas.

This really was a case of organized people over organized money. prospect.org/politics/202...

25+ million dollars. A former president. Some of the richest people in the US. The entire liberal and conservative political establishment. And Zohran Mamdani — and all the people behind him — beat it all.

NYS Tenant Bloc out with a statement: “Tenants are the majority in New York. Zohran Mamdani understands that and he gave us something to vote for... Tonight’s results send a clear message to landlord-backed politicians like Andrew Cuomo: your time is over."

Outdoor Afro is offering scholarships to cover the costs of anyone, at any age, interested in learning how to swim: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

We are interrupting our regularly scheduled summer fundraising activities to ask for your support for our friends at @thexylom.com, who are facing an existential crisis. The Xylom needs to raise $7,500 this month to avoid shutting down operations. fundrazr.com/the_xylom?re...

Billionaires ke paas already sab kuchh hai. Ab, aapka time aageya. Billionaires already have everything. Now, your time has come.

BREAKING: New report from IRAP & Las Americas highlights the dangers of the Trump admin's anti-immigrant and anti-climate policies. The majority of interviewees identified environmental disasters as contributing factors in their decision to flee.

On Malcolm X’s 100th heavenly birthday, Ghana honored his legacy with a powerful statue. Sculptor and University of Winneba Prof. Theopilous Kwesi Mensah led the tribute — proof that Malcolm’s global impact still inspires the fight for Black liberation worldwide! ✊🏿

Found a baby songbird? Here's a newly updated chart!

On 100th Birthday of Malcolm X, Family Presses Trump to Release Gov't Files on Assassination

"‘To live in hearts that are left behind is not to die.’ Thus, Malcolm lives!” - Yuri Kochiyama

"Though vilified by the establishment and press, Malcolm challenged and exposed the immortality of the power structure; the illusion of the constitution and duplicity of the system; the impiety of the Christian conscience; the hypocrisy of the American dream..."

"It wasn’t the writing itself that was everything, it was sitting down to it every day that was everything. It’s the miserable daily effort that is everything. It is when I am honoring it that I become a woman still set on inhabiting a serious life." lux-magazine.com/article/psyc...

The Metals Company will no longer apply for a mining license from the International Seabed Authority in June as previously planned now that it's seeking US approval to mine the seabed in ISA-controlled waters, CEO Gerard Barron said on an earnings call today.

NEW: I spoke to a 19-year-old (no tattoos, criminal record — open immigration case) who was almost removed from the country and potentially to El Salvador’s brutal prison until SCOTUS intervened this month. theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

There’s so much happening right now, I thought I’d put together a running thread on the dismantling of #climate and research and knowledge infrastructure in the United States 🧵