As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read. They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.

Autistic advocates and researchers: please be in my email inbox [email protected] to share what type of autism research could actually be helpful instead of trying to "eliminate autism"

The 80-percent-finished offshore wind farm Trump tried to kill for nebulous reasons can restart construction, according a judge

Such an honor to have my story on the Palestinian Heirloom Seed Library for @theguardian.com win a 2025 @coveringclimatenow.org award. Such heartbreak that the horrors that prompted me to write the story are still ongoing. I'm proud of many of my stories, but this one in particular means a lot.

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

all in all I obviously wouldn't say things are peachy right now but as you make your way through the shittiest discourses known to man on this website don't doomscroll your way into a feeling of inevitability and defeatedness that the current geopolitical situation doesn't actually warrant

Certainly looks like we scared the President away from Chicago. Fighting like hell works.

"Transit agencies have been warning for years that the twin problems of diminished ridership and rising costs could send entire public transportation systems into a tailspin. Now, some worry that day has come." A warming planet needs more public transit, not less: www.eenews.net/articles/bud...

Would you like to see something other than depressing news? Ok great cuz I found some good mushrooms this weekend

Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.

There's a formation in NYC where you can organize with others around our public libraries. NYC PLAN continues to demand that at least one-half of 1% (0.50%) of the total New York City expense budget be committed to our library systems. We also have two other goals. Join us. nycplan.org/faqs/

“Humans are not the virus” is apparently quite a hot take these days whitneybauck.substack.com/p/humans-are...

"I just want people to fight, I guess is the — I want people who believe in like decency and goodness and kindness and fairness to fight with the same passion that assholes fight." @volts.wtf www.volts.wtf/p/climate-ph...

Beautiful but… also invasive in much of North America I believe? Alas

"Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously headed for early success, but, rather, an ability to work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed."

Attended a pollinator webinar last night and learned that beetles are some of our oldest pollinators. And, most likely, bees and flowers evolved together. Our agastache foeniculum aka anise hyssop is doing heavy lifting for these bombus until the goldenrod blooms in a week or so. #nativeplants

It’s funny to hear Trump aides accuse wind and solar farms of overusing land, because the corn ethanol they love uses 100X as much land per unit of energy. Land is great at growing food and storing carbon; it sucks at growing fuel.

The moment that we are living through is urgent, but it also has been artificially compressed. It took a long time for us to get to where we are, and it will take a long time to find our way out.

Did you know that when a redwood dies and falls in the forest it can take over 500 years for the log to rot? For perspective, that is twice as long as the United States has been a country. There are rotting logs on forest floors that are older than our government.

If there is a sillier seedhead than western pasqueflower I would love to see it

😐 So ICE can get student loan forgiveness...

we don't talk enough about censorship within journalism — eg. which stories are killed for political reasons, which style guide standard language is considered neutral when otg it's quite charged.

we don't actually know what's going to *work* so we need to try many different kinds of things and that means that a lot of what people are trying will not be your choice of action.

Oh, what a time.

- "The scientific consensus on climate change is a global conspiracy" - Have you ever tried to get any 2 scientists to a) agree on anything b) follow directions

Yes, working-class New Yorkers are leaving New York City at significantly higher rates than wealthy residents. nysfocus.com/2025/07/29/a...

Claim: "Water vapor is a greenhouse gas!" Reality: Yes, and there's more of it in a warmer atmosphere -"CO2 is plant food!" -pretty hard to eat when you're on fire -"Climate has changed before!" -We know, we told you that -"Scientists don't know everything!" - doesn't mean we know *nothing*

If the city could help vendors transition to batteries it would be so huge. Cleaner, quieter, better for the climate — big wins all around

Smalls, the only Black flotilla member, appears to be the only one who has been treated this way

78% of NYC primary voters polled called Israel's destruction of Gaza genocide BEFORE RECENT NEWS ABOUT THE FAMINE.

It is an extraordinary loss of intellectual expertise that the American people invested millions in developing Every scientist who earns a graduate degree in the US is the product of an investment by the public This is like setting money on fire

I’m a journalist in a film. I live in New York, have never freelanced, and can afford an apartment I don’t share with roommates

Offering food to another as a sign of peace and love is so ingrained in living things that most animal species do a form of it

Could Zohran's proposal for public grocery stores actually work — and reduce food prices? The experts I spoke to told me there's more precedent than you might guess. My latest for @us.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Nearly one in three people in Gaza are going multiple days without eating, according to the UN. More than 1,000 have been killed by Israeli forces while trying to get food at aid sites. By continuing to supply Israel with military aid, the U.S. is complicit in this bloodbath.

A Monarch butterfly in Central Park. This species remains abundant in the park (in season) even though its population has declined in some parts of the United States.

Service Journalism - News you can use. The Big Bad Bill ends Federal tax credits for residential rooftop solar but if you install it by December 31, 2025 you can still get the 30% rebate for the project cost!

“To us, it sounded like a textbook example of the killing of speech and academic inquiry related to Palestine.” Some of these scholars have been laboring over these pieces as their students and colleagues are actively being killed. It’s not an abstract academic exercise for them.

Each of us has different lanes and different roles to play. I wish some people would get this through their heads.

10. US zoning codes need to start mitigating noise pollution in a big way. noise pollution is a massive public health crisis. germany builds moderately dense, family-friendly ecodistricts that are quieter than most urban single family neighborhoods bsky.app/profile/holz...

Just listen to how Stephen Colbert answered this question off the cuff.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

“If beekeepers fail, there is no backup plan for the pollination services they provide in US food production." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I'm a big mushroom nerd primarily for ecology reasons but this passion has meant I often share space with people who love mushrooms for other reasons – i.e. psychedelic ones. Really enjoyed getting to bring the two together in this fun little piece: themicrodose.substack.com/p/a-new-psyc...

And in turning sometimes-cyclists into way-more-frequent cyclists. Ebikes make such a huge difference in turning cycling into a real commuting option when you need to show up places and not be sweaty