Looking forward to this conversation!

Such a powerful story.

Plans for a border wall through the remote Big Bend region of West Texas are causing residents and elected officials to speak out. The barrier would cut through ranchland and small towns as well as a state and national park.

Just snagged last 2 skeins of red worsted.

The Girl Writing (@ellenpcampbell.bsky.social) has a better idea for presidential libraries. We can hope this catches on before Trump builds his out of fake gold plate. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/bid... #books

Stay tuned for the National Book Critics Circle Award finalists announcement this Tuesday

Can't resist tilting at some windmills. Thanks, @wirobooks

Museo del Arte de Ciudad Juarez

Memories the best leftovers.

Must read! Down&dirty, and important resistance.

Thanks, New Door!

Miss Jean Brodie & her creator...too close for comfort? Thanks @wirobooks.bsky.social

Other than that, she's a peach. Enjoyed the read!

There is Nothing Like a Dame, New Door!

Miss Jean Brodie & her creator...too close for comfort? Thanks @wirobooks.bsky.social

A new United Nations report shows the gap between climate targets and climate policies is narrowing, but not fast enough to avert catastrophic warming of more than 2 degrees Celsius.

To a man of Peace. Uppsala, Sweden.

NBCC member Julia M. Klein reviewed Sam Wachman's "The Sunflower Boys" for the Forward:

Now this is what I call a Reading List! No! A Curriculum!

My latest blog...Dare to read about Dare!

www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/let... My latest blog. Dare to read about Dare!

Join Riah Butler at @busboysandpoets.bsky.social in DC today at 5:45 p.m. for "The Write Stuff: Making Haikus and Understanding Environmental Justice." It's our Spotlight Event! www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/the... #Booksky

Thanks @WIROB. Still unpacking AL trip.

Officials in a rural school district voted on Tuesday to begin developing a tax break agreement intended to draw Exxon to their stretch of the Gulf Coast north of Corpus Christi www.texastribune.org/2025/05/01/t...

Advocates for people held in an immigration detention center in Estancia, N.M. say sewage is again backing up into their cells, and they do not have access to clean drinking water, leaving them unable to flush toilets or take showers and exacerbating illnesses and hygiene issues/

Texas Oil Drillers Can Bury Toxic Waste on Private Property Without Telling the Landowner. A New Bill Seeks to Change That insideclimatenews.org/news/1504202...

MAAC just opened in El Paso. Viva Borderland Arts!

Best seat in the house, for 60 years

Best seat in the house!

PA & TX are not so far apart Thanks @insideclimatenews.org

Cats 9 lives Author? Sequel?

An important issue, critical resource. Thanks for covering

A salute to the first one to speak out.

“No statute, regulation or anything else gives any federal agency power to unilaterally refuse to spend congressionally appropriated funds”: Pennsylvania is the latest state to sue the Trump administration over its funding freeze.

To meet the growing demand from data centers, South Carolina is looking to give nuclear energy another try. Will it be cost-effective?

Advocates worry environmental justice will be on the chopping block under the new EPA administrator in charge of Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas and 66 Tribal Nations.

I finished the first part of Robert Caro’s LBJ biography. My favorite parts were the descriptions of how grueling life was in the Hill Country and LBJ’s time at Texas State (go bobcats).

With appreciation to Bishop Budde, and my grandmother

New research on the Greenland Ice Sheet shows that crevasses are expanding more quickly than previously detected, which will likely speed up ice loss and global sea level rise.

All members of the Environmental Protection Agency’s boards of outside advisers on science and clean air were dismissed in a letter emailed late Tuesday, an unusual step the Trump administration said was aimed at depoliticizing the panels.

The fire at the Moss Landing Energy Storage Facility in California is likely to be used to oppose battery energy storage just about everywhere.

From planting 5 million trees to zero-emission heating, Maryland agencies lay out ambitious plans for 2025. But staffing shortages and funding uncertainties loom.

Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde Hero.

“No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until ‘justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.’” Martin Luther King Jr.

Thanks for going where no one seems to tread