Holy moly: Seattle’s millionaire tax, passed last year, is expected to bring in $115 million in its 1st year, way more than the $50 million anticipated. The funds will go to the city’s new social housing developer publicola.com/2026/02/11/t... (Is NY Gov Hochul paying attention?)

"Fungal gummies’ core sell might be toward our impulse to domesticate wild things, to tame the untameable for personal profit." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/m...?

the US coal mining industry employees ~50k people. For some perspective, The Gap has about 82,000 employees

Climate win: In Naperville, IL, which gets its power in part from a coal plant that's one of the top 10 climate polluters in the country, city councilmembers just voted to stop negotiations w/ the agency keeping them hooked on coal. I first wrote about this here: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I reflexively flinched at this title but glad I clicked and read it - there are a whole bunch of good criticisms in here and I have probably been complicit in at least a few of these problems in my time

making a list of american institutions that are meeting this moment, and so far I've got burning man and paleontology down here... guess we're rebuilding society around the study of dinosaur bones and doing drugs in the desert

what we're cutting: health care food stamps preschool environmental protections international aid scientific research what we're buying:

I will eventually shut up about this but Bad Bunny’s use of the power lines is an outstanding example of how to communicate about climate and energy issues. Not about who is the smartest nerd in the room and spewing numbers but about people’s actual lives. Genius.

Bad Bunny is telling the world that the people in Puerto Rico are American citizens and deserve reliable and resilient electricity and infrastructure investment from the U.S. government.

Abigail Spanberger this afternoon ordered that all state agencies leave ICE's 287(g) program. This means that the state police (and some other agencies) will no longer be empowered to detain and arrest people for ICE. boltsmag.org/virginia-spa...

the Barbara Kruger mural the chase is happening in front of reads: "WHO IS BEYOND THE LAW? WHO IS BOUGHT AND SOLD? WHO IS FREE TO CHOOSE? WHO DOES THE TIME? WHO FOLLOWS ORDERS? WHO SALUTES LONGEST? WHO PRAYS LOUDEST? WHO DIES FIRST? WHO LAUGHS LAST?"

Climate reporters are some of the kindest, most selfless, and most hardworking people around. We need MORE of their work, not less. I'm grateful to everyone who has read and subscribed to support any kind of climate coverage over the years, ours or another newsroom's. Thanks for not turning away.

Hey writers! March 14 I'm bringing back From Research to Draft, where we'll talk strategies for organizing and writing from research that will make you a happier and better writer. Early bird pricing through 2/8! jaimegreen.net/classes

This is climate action. It’s still happening, even as climate seems to be fading from the national discourse

you’ll miss us when we’re gone

journalists are workers who deserve to be paid fairly for our labor and I think that far too few consumers of media recognize or even care about this fact

No, I do not want to be a “creator journalist” or “influencer” or run a newsletter by myself I want health insurance and a decent editor to work under and a team of comrades to work with, attend union meetings with, do good with Launch the billionaires into the sun and pass out their wealth

The federal gov is calling protestors—and ICE watchers who are killed in the street—"domestic terrorists." But as much as this approach seems to have ramped up under Trump, the criminalization of protest is as American as apple pie. New from me: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

This is about The Washington Post but it is also about the slow death of movie theaters, of book stores—the rapid integration of AI into schools—the Kennedy Center—the way so many people in power are afraid of art (and wow even sports) for the power it has to give people common language and cause.

“As an international organization, we know that the treatment of journalists is a leading indicator of the condition of a country’s democracy,” said CPJ CEO @jodieginsberg.bsky.social. Read more on the arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort: cpj.org/2026/01/cpj-...

Uber Eats, 2 other food delivery apps to pay $5M settlement over NYC minimum wage rules https://gothamist.com/news/uber-eats-2-other-food-delivery-apps-to-pay-5m-settlement-over-nyc-minimum-wage-rules

X is hiring a creative writing specialist at $40 an hour to make Grok better at writing and a true LOL at the qualifications

They are all Black journalists and Black politicians. Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are journalists. Trahern Jean Crews ran for Minnesota's House District 66B. Jamael Lydell Lundy is running for Minnesota Senate District 65.

There are so many movies/books/video games (ie The Last of Us) about fungal zombies. No one is talking as thoughtfully about this genre—and tracing the surprisingly somber and racialized history of the zombie—like mycophile Maria Pinto. I reviewed her debut book: substack.com/home/post/p-...

"The relative fragility of Trump’s assault on bedrock environmental and climate laws could be a product of the president’s prioritization of political dominance over lasting change." Great and surprisingly encouraging piece by @zteirstein.bsky.social for @grist.org grist.org/politics/how...

If you came to me and asked me to teach you American history and how to engage with it while standing on one leg, I guess I would say this: "Powerful Americans have plundered, oppressed and terrorized. At every step, other Americans fought them. You can, too. The rest is commentary: go and do."

This photo will be everywhere for the next week. Pls credit prominently. Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Minnesota Star Tribune Every journalist covering ICE risks their lives. Tsong-Taatarii has been an NPPA Photographer of the Year, rec'd a World Press Photo award, and was on a team that won a Pulitzer.

Shout out to mushrooms for being so weird

People who were actually enslaved believed that chattel slavery would end one day. I'm sorry but to me that suggests that you [who are not enslaved in 2026] can also imagine an end to the current horrors.

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

big things happening

Ahead of time, you first have to turn on full encryption on your devices, it’s not that cumbersome—a good guide here:

Social media is so deeply broken and the implications for climate (hate speech, misinfo) and democracy (troll farms, election interference) are horrendous. We need to fix it. What if we did that by treating social media as a public good—managing it like we do libraries or the post office? 1/

just talked to a cousin who lives in minnesota. he's undocumented. he's scared and not going to work. this isn't sustainable for folks. he's got rent to pay. he's gotta buy food. sigh. i walk around with my passport b/c i'm scared. i'm a US citizen. born here. this is a nightmare.

It's exciting to follow a new field filled with scientists advancing understanding. Critique is normal and part of how science works. Good to publish critiques, but if you take this to mean "I guess there's no concerns about microplastics!" -- that's not quite right imho. /end

Interesting to see the Guardian's @dpcarrington.bsky.social weighing in on this. My take, as someone covering microplastics heavily for the past year (and currently sitting at a 200+ person conference with many of the scientists in question): www.theguardian.com/environment/...

So many things are Bad right now but tonight a friend and I went to a bar to listen to some scientists talk about bats and the room was full of people who still love and believe and support the work of scientists and that was pretty Good

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003 when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

"Often we as a society debate some of these smaller policy changes. If we’re going to have all of these battles over a small change, you might as well go big and try to win something that’s transformational."

"Protecting ecosystems without fungal networks is a half measure. Whole ecosystems could collapse." Such a great piece by Georgina Perreira in Nature Asia www.natureasia.com/en/nmiddleea...

"Oil can be more a curse than a blessing. Scholars and journalists have documented that most petrostates are plagued by blatant corruption and inequality. Elites grab the revenues; poverty engulfs the masses." From @coveringclimatenow.org's newsletter this week mailchi.mp/coveringclim...

This is the kind of thing where even most scientists and engineers are not cognizant of the field's vast importance and potential.

This got published over the holidays and I almost missed it as a result, but it's FASCINATING: we know fungi are important biofertilizers for crops, but most of the products on the market simply don't work. And the lab researching what DOES work may go under soon: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Reading about endlings (the last living individual in a species) always breaks my heart. Here's hoping there are more of these guys out there that we just haven't found yet www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/c...

"Stingless bees from the Amazon have become the first insects to be granted legal rights anywhere in the world... they will establish a mandate requiring policies for the bees’ survival." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“The mayor's office said New Yorkers will be able to testify about their biggest challenges as renters, from shoddy building conditions to hidden fees, during hearings in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island.”

The Inequality in Hollywood is SHAMEFUL.

not sure how to square ‘no one person can be reasonably expected to pay for every media subscription’ with ‘sorely underpaid writers need to make a living’ but my inclination is not to locate that problem with any of the broke ass people on either end of the complaint

"We had never operated ICE watch patrols, but we were able to do it. And here’s the great thing: you don’t have to do it alone. You don’t have to figure out all of this from scratch, because we’re here to support you.” My latest for the @us.theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...