Back on ye ol’ @ijnr.bsky.social bus for the rest of this week to learn how this tumultuous time for federal funding is impacting the Great Lakes. Subscribe to burningrivernews.substack.com for stories to come!

If anyone was planning on participating in NANOWRIMO but isn't really jiving with their choices lately, join me at Thirty30 for a new November writing challenge! thirty30k.com

My husband was detained by ICE today Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away I have had zero contact or updates since #SOS @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

Over the last few months it has been difficult to show an enviro journalist. Things have felt futile and heavy and I keep asking myself “what’s the point?” Then I listen to or read amazing climate journalism like @drilledmedia.bsky.social and I am reinvigorated.

"The main challenge with data centers, and really any large industrial water user that’s connected to the municipal supply is that there is a lack of transparency around water usage," great story via @devinnunnari.bsky.social.

"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."

Cruel cuts to EPA & Midwest office closings undoes 30 years of environment work aiding low-income & minority communities in NE Ohio. @devinnunnari.bsky.social ky.social writes in Burning River News: bit.ly/4c0I9Cx @karenkasler.bsky.social @sustainableytown.bsky.social @cuyahogacounty.bsky.social

Yesterday at the grocery store a woman reached around me in the check out line saying “Ope sorry, just grabbin a pop” and while I miss Colorado in a lot of ways, I sure missed people saying “ope” and “pop”

If any cuyahoga valley national park employees who have been affected by the national park layoffs wants to chat with me for an article, I would love to hear how this is impacting you and our nation park as a whole. DMs are open!

Ohio’s first oil & gas explosion of 2025—100-ft flames at Gulfport’s Groh Well pad. Officials claim no impact, but with incidents every 1.5 days, how much do we really know? FracTracker’s Ted Auch: “This is a death by a thousand cuts.”

Check out my latest Burning River News article, where I highlight the environmental impacts of Fracking on Ohio communities.

“Because it does not include money funneled through dark-money groups – which do not have to reveal their donors – it is almost certainly a vast understatement”

One of the darkest, but less reported, aspects of Trump’s anti-trans order this week IMO is that he directed the DOJ to remove protections for trans prisoners from Prison Rape Elimination Act guidelines. Story at @theappeal.org today from @byadamrhodes.bsky.social: theappeal.org/trump-execut...

Earlier this week I finished knitting my first sweater! 🎉 My goal is to make most of my own clothes to bring myself closer to the labor it takes to make garments, to create a wardrobe of sustainable fibers, and to build new skill sets and patience.

Elon is now the richest person who has ever lived, even more than plutocrats who have plundered entire countries or the leaders of immense empires. This level of obscene wealth should not be tolerated.

President Trump announced today “we will drill, baby, drill,” but what does that look like for the health of Ohio citizens living in one of the most unregulated oil and gas states in the country? Subscribe to Burning River News to get the story in your email 1/28! wwwburningrivernews.substack.com

Global sea-ice extent ranked by month from 1979 through 2024. Nothing blue since since 2015! Within the recent nine years, every month has experienced a record-low extent. 🌊🧪⚒️📉

Excited to realize I can use my free will to not put chocolate chips in chocolate chip cookies #baking

I wonder if my dogs are sick of listening to my repeat performance of defying gravity

Same tree, different pups. Happy holidays from Picasso and Storm! 🎄

I have a multipoo & a husky that endlessly wrestle each other on my bed while I work in the other room. They ripped a hole in my duvet cover and it gave me the chance to adorn it with a patch of scrap fabric I had laying around. I kinda like the cover even more now and embrace more holes to come 🥰

An inordinate amount of my days recently have been consumed with the thought of learning to knit so I can make myself the most amazing sweater collection

First article for Burning River News is out now! Please please please, read, subscribe, comment, share! 💚 If there has ever been a time to support independent news, it is now! open.substack.com/pub/burningr...

In a couple weeks you're all going to meet the 16-year-old trans girl who's challenge to a ban on gender-affirming medical care is being heard at SCOTUS and I'm going to need you all to 1) be loud and thankful for how badass she's being and 2) fight for her like your life depends on it

Every time I have to file a FOIA request, this is who I imagine guarding the gates to all of the public information I need

Hi! I have only been a journo post little-blue-bird collapse, so I’m excited for the potential of the butterfly app! I am a freelance environmental journalist interested in all manner of topics related to our planet and our interaction with it. I would love to forge some new connections here!