Your Social Muscles Are Wasting Away. Here Is How to Retrain Them. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/o...

“It pulls the veil off decades of industry efforts to create a false narrative that glyphosate is safe” A Study Is Retracted, Renewing Concerns About the Weedkiller Roundup www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/c...

Ever relevant, this poem by Mary Oliver, especially today.

“Over the past decade, while the United States ramped up fossil fuel exports, China has focused on dominating renewables. Today, Chinese companies make so many of the world’s solar panels, electric vehicles and batteries that they are slashing prices and scrambling to find buyers.” Gift link:

The #ExoticPet trend is growing globally and setting off alarm bells among #WildlifeConservation experts. The U.S. is one of the biggest players in the exotic pet trade, and we published a report highlighting how this threatens global wildlife. Get the full report ➡️ bit.ly/4pT0Q1j

The president is eyeing another major project in the nation’s capital, planning to destroy some 13 historic buildings on the grounds of St. Elizabeths in order to expand facilities for the Department of Homeland Security. trib.al/IsC4L17

Tucson residents: I want to hear from you about how rising utility rates are affecting your community. Arizona families are already facing sky-high electricity bills, which is why I’m fighting APS and TEP’s pending rate cases. RSVP at bit.ly/1-13TucsonTownHall.

People love to hate wolves. They're the villain of old fairy tales — and today a bane for cattle ranchers But new research is helping rewrite the story of the big, bad wolf — with a surprise twist

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

the power of local news: "Steves said he learned about the hygiene center's impending closure by reading about it in a local online newspaper — just weeks before it was set to shut down." www.npr.org/2025/12/21/n...

What a crock of 💩

Yet another reminder that when billionaires take control of media, it’s not a win for free speech. It’s a win for oligarchy. The super-rich won't hesitate to sell out the American public if it means getting merger approvals or deregulation that helps their bottom line.

Evil shit.

Clean energy jobs continue to outpace fossil fuel jobs 👷🌎 Source: @worldresources.bsky.social / @iea.org

Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true

The Chandler City Council has voted unanimously to reject this AI data center that Kyrsten Sinema was paid to lobby for.

We must replace Thompson & Myers on the ACC. This article speaks volumes about their lack of credibility. When utility regulators celebrate proposals before review, Arizonans lose trust azmirror.com/2025/12/12/w... @nodesertdatacenter.com

Trump 0-3 on indicting Tish James and just had his ass handed to him by Indiana Republican legislators he threatened and bullied. Also new low in AP poll at 36% approval.

NEW: Massive Logging Project Next to Yellowstone National Park Blocked by U.S. Court biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press....

AI data centers are sucking up communities’ power & water. AI is being used by corporations to shaft consumers and is threatening young workers’ job prospects. So Trump wants to ram through a ban on state AI regulation — all to help out his Big Tech billionaire friends. See how this works?

Scoop: The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality has launched an investigation into South32’s proposed Hermosa mine over a contaminant its water discharge. The mine was the first added to the FAST-41 program, which essentially fast tracks projects. insideclimatenews.org/news/0912202...

#ICYMI: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detailed the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to an aid program. (Published Oct. 2025)

Kennedy v. Exxon et al. is a class-action lawsuit and the first of its kind to target fossil fuel companies over skyrocketing home insurance costs. Homeowners Sue Oil Companies as Climate Damage Drives up Insurance Rates. insideclimatenews.org/news/0512202...

How ranchers accused of breaking the rules dodge oversight Elected officials interfere with agency efforts to protect the land.

Rep. Adelita Grijalva pepper sprayed by federal agents who turned on protesters at Tucson immigration raid azluminaria.org/2025/12/05/t...

“The raids were part of a larger operation, including 16 search warrants, carried out in Southern Arizona Friday morning.” Feds raid Tucson restaurants in homeland security operation tucson.com/news/local/b...

My friend Joe has been missing for several days. With each passing day the likelihood that he was just on a long walkabout fades. In 1983 he found a 14K year old mammoth petroglyph, the first found in North America. Here's a short film about him and his sculpture. Brilliant. youtu.be/5t5jU0KzeZs?...

The Center today released video of detonations underway in the Huachuca Mountains -- in critical habitat for endangered jaguar and Mexican spotted owl -- for a double border wall that will block wildlife (but not people) moving between the U.S. and Mexico. Link to PR, video tinyurl.com/y752jz55

Amazing! #GoShirleen

NEW: A ProPublica and @highcountrynews.org investigation found that government programs supporting grazing on public lands prop up a wealthy few while harming the environment. The Trump administration is supercharging the system.

“measles is often the first disease to pop up when vaccination rates overall drop.”

At what point will the press corps, as a chorus, in unison, just shout back, “THATS NOT TRUE”! What are we doing?

Thousands of Starbucks workers are on strike for a living wage and better working conditions. Stand with them by boycotting Starbucks until it can strike a fair contract. sbworkersunited.org @sbworkersunited.org

This is heartbreakingly cruel and hypocritical. The same admin that has redefined refugee status to cover white South Africans is now going to drown thousands of refugees already approved for their status in red tape, potentially even seeking to strip some of their status and deport them.

Here’s a handy protocol to determine whether AI could be helpful with your problem or project.

“They are collecting mass amounts of information about who people are, where they go, what they do, and who they know … engaging in dragnet surveillance of Americans on the streets, on the highways, in their cities, in their communities” apnews.com/article/immi...

Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...

ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Bloomington sex trafficking sting, police say. "When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Hodges said during a press conference Tuesday. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."

Can't go a mile in Tucker County, WV, without seeing a "No Data Center" sign.

Breaking News: A Tennessee judge temporarily blocked the deployment of the National Guard in Memphis, which was ordered by the state’s Republican governor.

A new meditation app that embraces climate breakdown. Breathe in profit. Breathe out responsibility. If you’ve ever had problems with anxiety from being a fossil fuel executive, this is the app for you. Brought to you by @olifro.st

For Charlotte friends who want to prepare, we made our little whistle station with a plastic planter (drainage in the bottom in case it rains), zip ties, and no-heat lamination paper

What a photograph. “Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…” Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Not for nothing, all my Chicago group chats are asking how to help Charlotte.

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

🌵ACTION ALERT! Community members from across Arizona are gathering on Wednesday to send a CLEAR MESSAGE: NOT ONE DROP FOR DATA! Swipe for details, and be sure to RSVP at bit.ly/nddcc-in-phx

After Jamaica’s Disastrous Storm, Solar Power Is a Bright Spot www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/c...

BREAKING: 1st Circuit denies Trump administration request to stay judge's order forcing full payment of SNAP for November. Opinion by Rikelman (Biden), Joined by Barron (Obama), Gelpi (Biden). Order remains on hold for 48 hours per Justice Jackson. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...