To mark the 150th anniversary of Treaty Six, I’m editing a series for @nichecanada.bsky.social and @skhistoryfolklore.bsky.social on its environmental impact. Proposals are due by June 30th! Full CFP here: niche-canada.org/2026/04/09/c... #envhist #cdnhist #indigenoushistory #treatysix

The EPA Wants to Rescind Four Forever Chemical Limits in Drinking Water www.notus.org/climate-envi...

🚨🚨 According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, Trump’s “Golden Dome” project is going to cost us more than $1.2 TRILLION DOLLARS.

U.S. media outlets were crucial in helping Israel sell the Gaza genocide to the American public.

Call for proposals: $10,000 seed grants for research about religion in the U.S. https://www.ssrc.org/programs/religion-and-the-public-sphere/innovation-in-religion-and-spirituality-seed-grants/ Great opportunity!

As Coal Rebounds, More Toxic Mercury Is in the Air www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/c...

I also work with students there and nothing has been more satisfying and enriching. Incredible project and terrific team there!

I’m a huge fan of everything Rob Newton writes and how he thinks.

In a little more than a year, Lee Zeldin has transformed the E.P.A. from an agency devoted to protecting human health and the environment into one that, more or less openly, sides with polluters, Elizabeth Kolbert reports. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/LtoxjN

One reason, according to me, is because doctors still don’t believe us. After reviewing my medical records recently, I am wild with anger about some notes and my “alleged” pain www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

NEW: Trump Exempted Some of the Nation’s Biggest Polluters From Air Quality Rules. All It Took Was an Email.

What!?

Susan Collins declines to say if she supports $1B request for Trump’s ballroom

“While Mayor, I was often asked ‘how have you been able to afford this in Copenhagen🇩🇰?’ I’d reply, ‘how have you been able to NOT afford it?’ 25 years ago we were a few days away from going bankrupt. So the city invested in the cheapest infrastructure..bicycling.”~ Morten Kabell

👋Hi! I’m Jessica Lussenhop, and for the last 4 years, I served as ProPublica’s first Minnesota-based reporter. But now I’ve got big news: On May 14, ProPublica is launching a brand new podcast! It’s called “Paper Trail,” and I’ll be your host. Thread 🧵

Perhaps you too need to watch the Denali puppy cam www.nps.gov/dena/learn/p...

Just going to pin this to my profile so I can remind myself, whenever I’m having a crisis of confidence (which is often), that if you just keep doing the damn work, you might end up a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

“A 32-year-old woman with no history of plastic surgery presented to doctors with distended lips, eyelid discoloration, and severe cheek swelling. Subsequent contact tracing determined the patient had contracted Mar-a-Lago face via a brief exposure to respiratory droplets from Kimberly Guilfoyle.”

Time and Water trailer premier! www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oR0...

‘The whole is not just more than the sum of the parts: it is also different.’ This Essay takes you on a deep dive into the most elementary parts of our Universe to question whether it is really made from its smallest constituents

Come and work with me!!!

This could not happen to a better guy— and someone with one of the sharpest minds!! Go Mark! Congratulations @mlamster.bsky.social !!! www.dallasnews.com/arts-enterta...

James Comey has been keeping busy waiting for his upcoming trial.

DENVER INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

This is so beautiful.

Y'all, I have a new story just out in the second ever issue of the magazine Elastic, as do many, other fabulous people. www.elasticmag.com/issues/p/no2-interspecies

This has been happening in northern Maine for quite some time.

My friend and former Harvard roomie just published what is being called "the most comprehensive account of ancient Greek international law published in English in a century". As an early reader, I agree! Beautifully written and fascinating. academic.oup.com/book/62388 @academic.oup.com

Glad I left fidelity. You should too. Sycophants.

Also the word “insurgent” is wildly editorial

Happy day! Janet Mills Bows Out of Maine Senate Race as an Insurgent Democrat Rises www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/u...

Some time since President Donald Trump’s second term began, the White House removed a reference to April’s Arab American Heritage Month from its website. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/04/27/r...

Did any journalist see it happen?

“Publishing is a terrifying business precisely because mistakes are inevitable. The feeling of realizing that you’ve printed something wrong is a distinctively leaden panic, like a torsal blow from a Le Creuset.” —@jolivingstone.bsky.social

Pollution levels in Paris after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.

President Donald Trump is looking to eliminate funding in fiscal 2027 for the agency that serves as the primary federal funding source for libraries and museums nationwide. wisconsinexaminer.com/2026/04/24/r...

Trump refers to Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson as "that new, Low IQ person"

It’s salt. Saltwater is intruding into groundwater both because oceans are rising and because decreasing rainfall is disabling the capacity of coastal aquifers to hold the encroaching seawater at bay —> salinity of drinking water increases. insideclimatenews.org/news/2104202...

As multitudes of Mainers roll their eyes at you. fiftyplusone.news/polls/senate... He has held numerous town halls and Mills has attempted to cash in on his 10 year old ill-considered comments through negative ads. That’s when she faded big time in the polls. Maybe time to let Mainers decide …

NEW: "Is there even such a thing as working class in 2026?" That's one of the questions we asked during a year-long project looking at class and the #climate movement. Check out my latest column for the full story. www.edp24.co.uk/news/2600431...

End the bloodline inheritance system www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/a... @lemonde.fr @thomaspiketty.bsky.social

Yes

Next US election is either for autocracy or democracy. It’s no longer about left or right or any political party.

Janet Mills suggests she would have voted with John Fetterman against a Democratic resolution to restrict weapons aid to Israel

The appetite for public degradation in this admin is off the charts

My new favourite follow

France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces. Equals 10 nuclear reactors Reduces heat island, shades cars The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight. Why aren't we doing this?

'Coal ash is laced with arsenic, lead, radium...linked to health harms, including cancer, heart disease + brain damage... '91% of 265 coal plants across the US contaminate groundwater above levels considered safe.' Trump's EPA wants to loosen regs on storing it: share.google/dNJDeNUrDRZi...

So many wonderful writers and thinkers on this list -congrats to all but esp @ievajusionyte.bsky.social ❤️❤️❤️ www.gf.org/stories/anno...