Pope Leo XIV on Monday urged countries at UN climate talks to take “concrete actions” to stop climate change that is threatening the planet, telling them humans are failing in their response to global warming and that God’s creation “is crying out in floods, droughts, storms and relentless heat.”

A haunted house but an open mic where every poet reads past their time.

My “October” poem: imagejournal.org/article/octo...

A 14-word replacement for most op-eds, substacks, etc about this moment. The GOP could stop ALL of this, right now—if a handful of Sens or Reps could step outside the cult. It would take four in the Senate, four (maybe five) in the House, to change history. Until then, they're all to blame.

What better place to spend your Saturday than in a bookshop? If you're an #IndieBookshop why not tell us something about yourself, any upcoming events, where you're based, what your speciality is if any, show us around! #SaturdayInABookshop #BookSky 📚💙 #Bookshop #BrowseABookshop alt text please

The amount is meaningless — less than one day of salary. But the principle is important: once the armed services are paid by the oligarchs, they become a private militia, and we no longer have a country. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

​BREAKING: Today, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum opened all 1.56 million acres of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge’s Coastal Plain to oil and gas leasing. These lands are sacred to the Gwich’in Nation, home to irreplaceable wildlife and wilderness, and have never seen industrialization.

This is beyond awful. WORDS MATTER! www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Many thanks to @wapress.bsky.social for all their support!

I’m totally watching Baby Boom this weekend. #rip #dianekeaton

Ninety-three farm bankruptcies in Q2 — nearly double the number from the end of 2024. @fortune.com fortune.com/2025/10/04/f...

Apart from helping Comey's selective prosecution defense, this also means the president of the United States uses direct messages on Truth Social to communicate with cabinet officials. I didn't know that, but we can be sure intelligence agencies all over the planet already did.

The science is in: COVID boosters are worth it, even if you've been vaccinated and/or infected before. Stay safe out there, friends!: 🧪 🛟 www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-...

We’re almost at the October full moon. Earlier sunsets, chillier nights. Here we go.

Being under a deadline and out on submission at the same time is a new kind of anxiety. #amwriting #writinglife

harvest time ✨

I'd start informing your friends and loved ones they're going to need to get off of TikTok it's indisputably going to be converted into yet another right wing surveillance and propaganda machine

Keep your submissions coming!

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

I was cheering for both Amanda and Naomi! What a match! 🔥🎾🗽

In an address on Sunday, Pope Leo responded the the horrific shooting at a Catholic church and school in Minnesota: “Stop the pandemic of arms”

Is there a way that both Taylor Townsend and Venus Williams can win doubles today? #usopen #tennis

New Mexico is overriding the federal government on the topic of COVID19 vaccines to ensure their residents can access them. States hold a tremendous amount of public health power. They should use it.

“Keep the main thing, the main thing.” -Taylor Townsend

Multiple CDC leaders have resigned in the wake of layoffs and a shooting at the agency’s headquarters this month.

“Give your kids an extra hug and kiss today.” Jesse Merkel spoke at a news conference outside Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis, where his 8-year-old son, Fletcher, was one of two children fatally shot at a back-to-school Mass on Wednesday. Read more: nyti.ms/45HBSKN

New essay in SPARK! www.humanities.org/spark/in-def...

New Deadline! October 15th!

The most corrupt White House in history. Here is an account of what people are paying, directly to a PAC called MAGA Inc, in order to meet the president, get pardons, change policy www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/u...

Firing the BLS Commissioner — the wonk in charge of the statisticians who track economic reality — is an authoritarian four alarm fire. It will also backfire: You can't bend economic reality, but you can break the trust of markets. And biased data yields worse policy.

We told you they were going to do project 2025 and it’s 2025 and they’re doing project 2025

The audiobook of my memoir came out in April. Available on Audiobrary and Libro! Free preview in comments. Narrated by the amazing Julia Whelan! #memoir #audiobook

Five under the radar things Trump snuck into his "Big Beautiful Bill": - Delivers tax breaks to Big Oil - Defunds Planned Parenthood - Raises drug prices for seniors (Big Pharma giveaway) - Hikes monthly student loan payments - Makes ICE the biggest federal law enforcement agency

Some thoughts a decade into motherhood… www.seattletimes.com/opinion/recl...

Mood.

First dahlia of the season:

New Deadline! October 15th!

Coming up this month!

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A few thoughts… herdeepestecologies.substack.com/p/what-is-a-...

Exciting news! herdeepestecologies.substack.com/p/a-little-b...

A National Park Service web page about the Underground Railroad appeared to have been restored on Monday to prominently show the abolitionist leader Harriet Tubman, after it had been changed in recent months to remove a large photo and quotes from her.

The entire permanent staff of the Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice was laid off. This division addresses issues such as asthma and air pollution, climate change and health, childhood lead poisoning, and cancer clusters.

“By contrast, it is the billionaire tech women who have shown steely spines and higher principles.”

NOAA’s office of Oceanic Atmospheric Research has had IT and other support contracts canceled in the last day or so that will fundamentally affect its operation. One source there said “It will seriously hurt our ability to improve weather forecasting and climate projections.”