This is cool and will count as promiscuous reading. I take a gadget into my classrooms that tells me when the air quality gets into the space where it’s beyond what I want to accept — 1200-1500 ppm. The only time it’s close to 800 ppm is when the temps are hot or cold outside affecting heating/air.

Reducing traffic reduces crime: see new study from Leeds. www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...

Jesus. This is the hotel from the @apnews.com story where the deportees were staying. Text translation in alt text. terremotovenezuela.com/edificio/0b1...

Been waiting for this story. ICE deports people to Venezuela three times a week, there are likely many more recent deportees with valid asylum claims in the rubble. Hope that GlobalX crew loses some sleep knowing they flew a planeload of shackled men & women, plus seven children, to their deaths.

We've hit the 3,000 mark in letters to Congress on the mad power-grab by Russell Vought at OMB to take over all federal grant making with a team of political commissars reporting to him. Let's get to 4,000 letters this week. Share. Share. Share. actionnetwork.org/letters/oppo...

ICE flights. Friday, June 26, 2026. At least 72 flights on 27 planes. At least nine removal flights. Big day for round-up flights, picking up newly captured people and sending them to the gulags in the South.

Let's finish the weekend with 5,000 letters to Congress on Russell Vought's mad power-grab to take over federal grant-making. It will take you two minutes to do this. Click on the link and it does it all for you. Share. Share. Share. actionnetwork.org/letters/oppo...

1000x this

This is also scary because it rolls up to the toes of people I know who could be harmed as violently as these folks

Please speak up. Record your objection. This is crucially important.

Here's the link to combat the new government rules:

Please read and call. Flood the zone.

We (@caramartamessina.com, @nobugsnous.bsky.social, and I) invite you to participate in a research project on writing studies, rhetoric, and composition instructors’ and administrators’ experiences with, perspectives on, and feelings about generative AI: bit.ly/WS_AI.

"The Reflecting Pool Is Green. Part of the Gulf Is Dying. Guess Which One Made the News" robverchick.substack.com/p/the-reflec...

OK, people. It takes 2 minutes to write a letter to Congress, a few extra if you personalize it. Russ Vought's attempt to take over ALL federal grant funding is anti-democratic and dangerous. We need MORE letters. Let's tip it over 2000 today. actionnetwork.org/letters/oppo...

This is the way. Thanks to Technical Communication Quarterly for taking this stance and requiring it of reviewers as well. I'm proud to be on their Editorial Board.

Russell Vought's one rule to rule them all isn't in effect yet. Write to Congress AND comment on the proposed rule by 13 July. WE CAN STOP IT. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-we-ne...

I like this study; I’ve often encountered many of the responses in the comments here when giving a talk at a conference.

Russell Vought is the director of the Office of Management & Budget. He is promulgating a new rule to install political control over ALL federal grant-making. Forget the experts. Russ is the decider-in-chief now. Write your members of Congress today. And share this. actionnetwork.org/letters/oppo...

ICE flights. Thursday, June 18, 2026. At least 80 flights, 13 removal stops, at least three of which were third-country removals. 28 planes.

Cancel the 5M gal/day typical use per data center - seems commonsense first response to historic drought conditions in Virginia. Our climate future will be very different from our climate past.

It's the end of the day here on the east coast and Russell Vought is still gunning for his personal take-over of all federal grant-making. The little dictator of the purse-strings is out-of-control. Write to you members of Congress and share, share, share. actionnetwork.org/letters/oppo...

If your vocational/work/academic/career path has been knocked sideways @sarahquinn.bsky.social are co-facilitating a by-donation workshop to breathe, collect ourselves, reconsider, and find peer support:

This is the most important thing you'll do today. Russell Vought wants to take OVER all federal grant making putting it under political control. Write to your members of Congress. Tell your friends to do so. And share, share, share. actionnetwork.org/letters/oppo...

Solar overtakes gas power in Asia for first time ever www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-sol...

Everytime I walk in my neighborhood, I imagine reworking the streets here for more safety. It took me a while to work out how these kinds of streets function, but when I saw them near the beach, full of bicyclists and people in cars, we stopped under shaded trees and watched.

Trial of 12mph bike lane speed limit grinds gears of Dutch cyclists

ICE flights. Thursday, June 11, 2026. At least 82 flights on 31 planes. At least 18 removal flights -- five to Mexico and four to Dominican Republic alone. One confirmed third-country removal to Costa Rica, two more likely TCRs to Ecuador and Honduras. (Republished, first post had 6/10's map)

File under: War Crimes

If you were listening to this interview just now where I mentioned the flight I was tracking to West Africa, it just landed in Ghana. This is the SEVENTEENTH ICE flight landing in Ghana since last September. The first four we know were third-country removals. Since then, Ghana has declined to say.

Space is open in the two upcoming co-resting cohorts for summer. If you need and/or want to rest and like the idea of practicing being in community gently, kindly, and in small doses, we meet online bi-weekly. More info here: www.co-resting.org #NEIS #ME/CFS #rest #MECFS #Fibromyalgia #LongCovid

Preach

THE DOG

ICE flights. Monday, June 8, 2026. At least 66 flights on 27 planes, at least 15 removal flights. After one of the slowest days in months yesterday, these MFers are back at it.

A lovely tribute to @raulpachecovega.bsky.social by @drhelenkara.bsky.social. Includes references to published work of Raul's on method and writing for those who want them. helenkara.com/2026/06/09/r...

Gift link. This is the most DAMNING indictment of who Bari Weiss is as an "editor" and "journalist"--two titles she is wholly unqualified to carry. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/m...

E-bikes must be licensed and insured

“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.” Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life. Common sense. Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.

A bike planner died on his community’s streets, and I wish that this was a unifying moment for the transpo practitioner community to come together to demand networks of all-ages facilities for people on bikes. Not ITS or robocars or bulbouts. All-ages bike facilities. RIP Riley O’Neil.

What could the U.S. do with the nearly $70 billion Senate Republicans just voted to give to ICE and Border Patrol (in addition to the $140 billion from last year): www.warnock.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...

"A developer plans to build a large data center complex in eastern Wythe County, off Interstate 81 near the Pulaski County line."

ICE flights. Saturday, June 6, 2026. At least 64 flights on 24 planes, including nine removal flights, two of which -- to Honduras and Poland -- were likely third-country removals. (Ukrainians to Poland, a probable violation of US and international law against chain refoulement to a warzone).

This “HR Lady” bullshit will not become a thing because I will not fucking have it. You don’t get watch women’s rights to medical care, pregnancy care, and interstate travel be restricted, Watch 1000’s of Black women unemployed And use “HR lady” as a Dem insult and think you are a decent man

For those of you mourning the passing of Raul Pacheco-Vega (@raulpachecovega.bsky.social) and not on LinkedIn, his brother Sigfrido posted the following. <Reposted here with permission>

Grad students, early career folks, non-historians, and practitioners in the field are very much encouraged to be a part of this issue! (As well as folks at any stage of their careers—we just want to especially encourage newer folks!)

Text within this petition and templated letter for anyone to use has been updated: 🌊 🦑

The experts on walking are the walkers. Their expertise, however, is seldom collected, studied or applied. In “Attitudes to Urban Walking in Tehran,” Seyed Mehdi Moeini reports the results of interviews of 423 people about their experiences, views and needs as walkers.