The White House has reconstituted the U.S. Global Change Research Program, which tracks climate change and produces the National Climate Assessment. The Trump version will focus on "positive" climate effects and be used to protect fossil fuel companies from lawsuits. www.politico.com/news/2026/07...

Urgent: Israeli soldiers are beating Dr Hussam Abu Safiya to death with a hammer. 'They brought me here to kill me,' he told his lawyer, who barely recognised the paediatrician because of the torture inflicted on him for refusing to abandon his patients.

Drilled is hiring an experienced print story editor for a 6-month contract. We're a small but mighty team comitted to climate justice. Job is remote, Spanish proficiency and climate beat experience a plus @drilledmedia.bsky.social @amywestervelt.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/44...

Forever a Knicks fan after catching all the collective feels! <3

Folks even Joyce Carol Oates is writing about the Knicks

Catching this Knicks/World Cup/soon to come U.S. Open summer fever!! #lfgk

In his first interview since being kicked out of the US, FIFA referee Omar Artan tells’s the NYT’s Matt Bigg that the biggest dream of his professional life has been shattered. The World Cup ref was questioned for 11 hours, held in a cell and then dumped on a plane. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/w...

Community health workers fill the gaps in places without enough doctors and nurses. Trump’s budget cuts are costing them their jobs, putting untold clients at risk.

Breaking: A comprehensive United Nations assessment of ocean health has a dire prognosis: the world faces a “deepening crisis” as climate change, pollution, overfishing and biodiversity loss threaten marine ecosystems crucial to human survival. Free link www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

“I will never regret going on strike.” After the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette strike, @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social reports former staffers are building PAPER, the Pittsburgh Alliance for People-Empowered Reporting, to preserve local journalism in the city.

How Documented is reinventing immigration coverage. Ethar El-Katatney joins @greenwell.bsky.social on The Kicker. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

this is not true, and this guy doesn't speak for me! nymag.com/intelligence...

As family homelessness hits record highs, school districts are offering parking lots as safe sites for students and their families to sleep at night

I really, really hate to sharing this, but last week, we @biographic.bsky.social learned that the California Academy of Sciences will no longer be providing the magazine with financial support, including money we were expecting to receive this year. We're in a real bind.

The NYT bureau chief who was caught using a fake AI quote makes about as much money annually as bioGraphic is losing. Funding does not follow quality. What a world we could live in if it did. Support independent, human journalism and publishing.

"To work on rescuing something that almost survived, amidst the execution of culture and the burning of libraries, gives you hope in the middle of suffocating pain," she says. www.newarab.com/features/ins...

The Canadian Mining Journal retracted a lengthy article that quoted made-up people and cited made-up facts about deep-sea mining. Observers aren't surprised.

While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.

For @jewishcurrents.bsky.social I wrote about the decimation of the right to asylum. I went into the history of asylum, how it was formalized post the World Wars, how it was never properly implemented, and how its destruction paves the path for authoritarianism. jewishcurrents.org/the-death-of...

“Why would HHS want to take a program that is working — a program that places hundreds of U.S. trained international physicians in highly underserved parts of the country every year — and slow-walk it into non-existence,” Jennifer Minear, a Virginia-based health workforce immigration lawyer, said.

From extreme heat on the job to flooding at home, working-class people are on the frontlines of the climate crisis. In Chicago, unions and tenant organizers are pushing a “green economic populism” that tackles climate and affordability together.

A Sumatran orangutan has been filmed for the first time crossing a man-made canopy bridge constructed to help the endangered animals bypass a tarred road on the Indonesian island, an NGO says u.afp.com/SacB

My morning inspiration for the day. "Martinez makes visible the difficult labor and onerous conditions of the “American farmworker,” itself a compromised piece of language owing to the industry’s conspicuous use of undocumented workers." orionmagazine.org/article/amer...

In my first piece for The Baffler, I traveled to Ukraine to report on the growing power of agribusiness. More than four years into Russia's full-scale invasion, farmers, activists & academics are raising the alarm about the transformation of farmland, which is flying largely under the radar:

Joan Semmel's boldly colorful, intimate paintings have radically shifted perspective from the male gaze toward a woman’s view. At age 93, after more than 60 years as an artist, she believes her most recent paintings are among the best she has ever made.

"The California Department of Public Health has described silicosis as an epidemic, one primarily plaguing young Latino immigrants like Hernandez who work in shops that fabricate engineered stone." @kaylayup.bsky.social reports on the dangers of stoneworking. inthesetimes.com/article/deca...

"When I set sail on the MV NorSky in the summer of 2008 to probe the depths of Manus Basin off the coast of Papua New Guinea, I believed in the promise of deep-sea mining..." news.mongabay.com/2026/04/deep...

“To choose meanings out of the wild and waste of experience is the assaying work of poems. What the World Pear Collection job, or my life of scrappy jobs more generally, meant to the writing of poems—that, however, is an open question.”

When Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Rose took a job waiting tables in his home city of New Orleans, some former readers recognized him—but he wasn’t serving for a story. He’d taken the job to feed his family.

Our rare and beautiful planet. (gift article from The New York Times.)

How do I work through this unprecedented time I mutter to myself for the 20th time this year.

Opponents of fast-and-free buses argue that there is little to no evidence that free transit does much for reducing air pollution or carbon emissions. But is this a case of carbon tunnel vision? I explore the climate & environmental justice implications of free buses @thepolisproject.bsky.social

“We are not talking about stone and mortar,” Amiri said, gesturing to a mangled chandelier. “We are talking about the memory and history of a people. This stone represents who we are.” www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

Dedicated to the mercenary and the freelancer, Baffler no. 83 contemplates the gigification of American life and privatization of conflict around the world, with stories on private militaries, foreign capital, and the impossibility of making a living as a writer. thebaffler.com/issues/no-83

It's finally happening!

Some news: @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is opening an on-site child care facility inside the Dinkins Municipal Building that will be free to city workers. It's a model for the universal child care program that is on track to hit full capacity by the end of his first term. prospect.org/2026/03/30/m...

Just as most democratic governors are trying to lower utility bills by scaling cheap, renewable energy, NYs gov, Kathy Hochul, is trying to extend the life of oil and gas, which will lock New Yorker in the the most expensive fuel for years to come.

Scientists just discovered a new superfamily of species in the depths of the Pacific Ocean—an evolutionary leap they compare to “finding dogs” for the first time. But the U.S. is fast-tracking deep-sea mining permits in the very same waters.

I have a new essay in @bostonreview.bsky.social, a transnational look at how slavery and the policing of Black mobilities across Atlantic empires shapes contemporary border regimes, and how this informs how we conceive of abolition www.bostonreview.net/articles/hun...

You want to know about this app that turns normal words into LinkedIn speak. “I ate an apple.” translate.kagi.com?from=en&to=l...

The US Congress House Science Committee is holding a hearing on #DeepSeaMining this Thursday. You can watch the livestream from the website. More info here: science.house.gov/2026/3/envir...

I took a momentary break from science writing to write about how ICE raids are affecting my home neighborhood back in Staten Island for @documentedny.bsky.social documentedny.com/2026/03/23/i...

Utterly wrecked by this beautiful meditation by @leilastudiony.bsky.social for @hyperallergic.com: hyperallergic.com/flying-back-...

“Behind the subdued celebrations lies a landscape of loss: mothers mourning children killed in recent strikes, and others marking the holiday in silence, stripped of its rituals, navigating Eid with little more than memory.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

"I talked to four Black women...They are still unemployed and emotionally distraught from the chaos of the past year. Savings accounts are depleted, student loans languish, and their sense of self-worth crumbles." hammerandhope.org/article/trum...

NEW: Fossil fuel pollution and other toxic chemicals from the war in Iran will spread across the region and last for decades just as smoke from burning oil wells went as far as the Himalayas following the Gulf War 35 years ago FREE read on @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

International law is being tested in dozens of ways at the moment. @isabellakaminski.bsky.social shines a light on one: whether the UN will adopt a resolution welcoming the ICJ advisory opinion on climate or break under pressure from polluting countries drilled.media/news/un-icj

How do elephants experience time? Researcher Khatijah Rahmat argues that recognizing "animal temporality" could transform the field of conservation. In this week’s episode of the #Mongabay Newscast, @mikedigirolamo.bsky.social explores how animals’ “time” can reshape protection efforts.

NEW: for @nytimes.com, I wrote about a new study showing that queen bumblebees can breathe underwater, surviving submerged for a week the “remarkable” study stems from a lab snafu, when a co-author thought she accidentally drowned several bees—but later found that they were alive 🧪 gift link 🎁