The people who cancelled Jimmy Kimmel after Charlie Kirk's assassination will now control television stations that reach 80% of Americans, twice that what was legally allowed before Trump's takeover. The state capture of network television is almost complete.

With records being shattered across the Southwest U.S. yet again today, I'm resharing some of the reporting I've done on #extremeheat for HERA. Today, a look at how street vendors are impacted both physically and financially when the streets they work on are blistering. heranow.org/locations/lo...

With heat records being shattered across the Southwest U.S. this week, I'm resharing reporting I've done on #extremeheat & how women in the Los Angeles area are affected. Today, it's a piece detailing how wfh women battle heat illness and low productivity. www.climateresilience.org/blazing-real...

Tonight, “The Alabama Solution,” a documentary that examines conditions inside Alabama’s prison system, is up for an Oscar. Here’s what three Prison Journalism Project writers had to say about what the nomination means for people in the state prison system.

It’s harvest day at my house. foodforward.org sent a lovely volunteer to pluck all my oranges off two trees this morning to send to a local food bank. Hundreds of pounds of fruit that would otherwise hang there and rot.

Known by various names, Salicornia thrives in high-saline environments, like coastal marshes, and has a lot of nutritional and medicinal properties. #salineag With generous support from the @pulitzercenter.org, my latest for @smithsonianmag.bsky.social. www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/a...

For all of L.A.’s bluster about becoming a sustainable city, this kind of development is springing up everywhere. No evidence of green walls nor green roofs, and since this building is taller than three stories, it’s not required to have solar. Satellite images aren’t new enough to show me. 1/

Anderson Cooper: “So it's more expensive to have a chronically homeless person living on the streets than it is to actually subsidize an apartment for them?” Answer: “Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing.” #HousingFirst #UrbanTruth

Skills not just for journalists; if you use social media at all, you should know these things.

It’s been many years since I worked in the fitness business, so perhaps the nutrition guidance has changed for bodybuilders. But if not, this recommendation would have all of us eating more protein in a day than a pro bodybuilder does. Hope you’ve all carved extra time out of your schedule to eat.

It’s that time of year: backyard fruit going to waste by the ton. I give mine (they’ll come harvest it) to foodforward.org in L.A., and they pass it on to food banks and other hunger relief orgs. Your city may have something similar.

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It’s that time of year again. I harvested my backyard lemons to give to Food Forward, a surplus food rescue organization in L.A. that redistributes food to hunger relief orgs. The lemons have gone to Our Story Is, a small op that does a free food box delivery service for folks who are food insecure.

Happy 200th birthday to one of my alma maters, @ucl.ac.uk. My experience there was bittersweet; I completed my master's programme during the pandemic and had no in-person classes. It was a difficult yet sublime year of learning and I'm proud to be a part of the institution and UCL Anthropology.

Heat protection laws for renters in the US are a hot mess. These Southern California women can attest. In my latest for Climate Resilience for All, a look at how those laws are developing in the region, or not. www.climateresilience.org/blazing-real...

I imagine I’m in the minority, but I dislike the new Unpaste formula.

Following my last post, this is the kind of work that @contextnewsroom.bsky.social does so well that's going to be lost. From my colleague David Sherfinski: www.context.news/climate-risk...

This is a hard blow. Context Newsroom (Thomson Reuters Foundation) punched well above its weight on international human rights and climate reporting. 1/3 www.thebaron.info/news/article...

Worth noting losses to federal science extend well beyond these programs, e.g., to Dept of Agriculture, Dept of the Interior, and elsewhere. We've lost 30% of our federal colleagues at the USGS National Climate Adaptation Science Center in the past year. Rebuilding will take decades.

❗️EXTRAORDINARY Records hot nights continue in the Gulf of Guinea: Minimum temperatures 26/29C all month: Absolutely insane in January Mins 29C in The Madagascar Channel Mins 28C in SW Oceania Mins 27C in The Caribbean All tropics are smashing record after record: Unprecedented.

This one is too relatable.

Le sigh (from Los Angeles).

Looks like this data was quietly updated in the fall for the latest numbers through 2024 - Annual Greenhouse Gas Index (AGGI) produced by NOAA... It is now up to a 54% increase in the influence of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere since 1990 (AGGI = 1.54; heat trapping)

I wish you all fortitude in the coming year. Take care of yourselves.

For those who actually care about evidence-based city-making, there’s a ton of evidence that decongestion pricing has been a massive success in New York City, by every measure of success, and many ways that can’t be measured.

The administration of US President Donald Trump intends to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), a world-leading Earth-science centre in Boulder, Colorado. go.nature.com/4pjzUqB

And now we know that the volume of #Arctic sea ice also dropped to a record low in October (zacklabe.com/archive-2025/). It's been a historic fall in the #Arctic, which is already a season of rapid climate change. Not good.

I've read some powerful critiques on the themes of diplomacy v. war, social democracy v. fascism, feudalism, production & exploitation, but in all my anthropology studies, none incorporated dinosaurs and aliens. Kudos to @peterclines.bsky.social for managing it spectacularly in "God's Junk Drawer."

I'd like to lobby @apstylebook.com to ban all uses of the word "aim" and all of its conjugations unless a story mentions aiming a weapon.

Evergreen.

By me: ‘Deeply demoralizing’: how Trump derailed coal country’s clean-energy revival www.theguardian.com/environment/...

If there’s a better metaphor this week for anything than COP 30 catching on fire, I don’t know what it is.

We need to do better in the Pyrocene age: At 176 California homes, "most had little compulsory or recommended mitigations completed. Participants struggled with hazards that required frequent maintenance, including woodpiles, propane tanks, trees and shrubs, roof and gutter and deck debris."

They’ve arrived (via specialty delivery)! As usual, my household gets his and hers copies to prevent domestic disputes over first dibs. I hear @peterclines.bsky.social is on a West Coast book signing tour as I write this, so you can hunt him down in the wild.

True nightmare fuel: Scientists just confirmed the first known death from a severe meat allergy caused by a tick bite. The man, who died in 2024 after eating a burger, had alpha-gal syndrome, a bizarre disease triggered by tick bites. www.scientificamerican.com/article/man-...

I’m pretending it’s winter in L.A.

The hits just keep right on coming in LA this year.

I can’t recall now just how many of my sources in the sciences have told me this was their biggest concern this year.

Are you or someone you know a SNAP/Cal-Fresh recipient in the Los Angeles area? I’d like to talk with you for a story. Please reach out if interested.

There are at least 50k street vendors in L.A. County, likely thousands more than that since the count has not been updated in more than a decade. Extreme heat is hammering their incomes and health. A novel insurance scheme might help them with losses. www.climateresilience.org/blazing-real...

FOOD BANK DIRECTOR: “For every meal a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides 9. There’s no way we can meet that gap. We were not built to do this.” (@TNDemocrats are imploring @GovBillLee to fund SNAP with the billions in reserves as other states are, but he refuses)

This Saturday, October 18, millions of people will take to the streets at more than 2,700 peaceful protests across the country to condemn the Trump administration’s escalating abuses of power. Read more Know Your Rights resources at aclu.org/deployment_kyr

I’m Rachel Parsons. The closest I’ve ever come to missing a flight, while sitting AT THE GATE, was because I was reading one of this man’s books. He has a new one coming next month.

Which level of hell was the one with premature Christmas decorations?

You're going to have a lot of expectations about what your life is supposed to be like at any given point. Have this figured out by *now*, have that established by *then* Pretty much all of these are nonsense. Other people's yardsticks. Don't worry about any of them. Your life, your pace.

No.

Anyone taken a gander at a government website today? This is on hud.gov

The Energy Department adds “climate change,” “green” and “decarbonization” to its restricted list.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com A.I. is no magic trick. It’s a new industrial revolution with real environmental costs. Our latest Opinion Video follows the researcher Kate Crawford as she maps the hidden effects of A.I.