BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students. Follow AP for live updates.

Mamdani cracks 1M votes, the first NYC mayor to do so since John Lindsay in 1969

Harold's Auto Center, Spring Hill, Florida, 1965 Unknown photographer, but I love it so much.

A good news story from the Lake Tahoe area, where Hope and her cub Bounce were going to be euthanized as nuisance bears, hemmed in by development and necessity. But the community wouldn't let it happen, keeping watch, & working hard to retrain the bears. Now they seem to be out of danger for awhile.

Can’t imagine anything spookier than throwing away your vote in the NY mayoral race. New Yorkers, let’s get to the polls!

Last chance to turn it off. On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default. To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

If you're completely oblivious to the world of hunting influencers and their political power, this is a fascinating read ryandbusse.substack.com/p/maga-is-a-...?

Illinois will effectively eliminate parking minimum requirements in ~all of Chicago and much of its suburbs thanks to the transit funding bill that passed last night.

This is right -- and, to add my personal two cents of experience, independent work is more inefficient. In a well-staffed newsroom, you have story editors, writers, social strategists, fact-checkers, copy editors, and so on, each honed on their skill. On your own, you're on on your own.

I am interested in starting to hear from care workers on SNAP about your concerns. I'm @motherjones.com's disability reporter. Please be in touch. My email is [email protected] and my Signal is juliametraux.49. Reposts are appreciated.

A stat we don't talk about enough: Newspapers have lost 77% of their jobs over the last 20 year, more than any of the 532 other industries tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Serendipitous timeline juxtaposition

New Yorkers: What are the best explainer(s) you've seen on props 1-6? (From media orgs, advocacy groups, whomever. Just curious to see who people think has explained these props and what's at stake in them well for lay people)

It's hard to overstate how fully engaged Chicago and the surrounding suburbs are in this ICE madness. There are neighborhood watch alerts, spontaneous crowds gathering outside schools at pick up & drop off plus madly blowing whistles and honking car horns, this city is fighting back and hard.

One of the biggest rights of nature developments this year will happen in November. That's when Ecuadorians will decide whether to allow their Trump-allied president to rewrite the constitution, potentially gutting the charter's protection for nature's rights insideclimatenews.org/news/2310202...

not post-adjacent but when i read things like this it's so funny to remember that 10 years ago espn had something called a "magazine" and "grantland" that were described as "loss leaders" because they were meaningful endeavors. esquire rebooted its features department. buzzfeed had a huge newsroom.

Holy cow.

Uhhhhh: "36% of US GDP growth since 2000 is related to climate disasters."

Great story from @hammerandhope.bsky.social on how Black organizers noticed gaps in the Zohran campaign's strategy for reaching Black voters—and then set out to do something about it by canvassing in Black neighborhoods, hosting their own outreach events, and more. hammerandhope.org/article/zohr...

"You can get the drivers on the street to show up to a meeting because they’re going to lose three parking spaces. But you can’t get the 300 people an hour who might bike down that street if it were safe to show up to the meeting." @volts.wtf x @thewaroncars.bsky.social www.volts.wtf/p/yes-you-we...

My friend Todd’s paper on cassowary casques was published in @amornith.bsky.social’s journal Ornithology, “Species-specific casque shapes in the genus Casuarius and implications for visual display.” He had me do the scientific illustrations for the paper 😊 academic.oup.com/auk/advance-...

The thing about solar geoengineering is that once you start you cannot stop *ever* unless somehow you have already removed all the multi-billions of tons of carbon emitted since the day you started. If you stop at the higher CO2 concentration you get virtually instantaneous catastrophic heating.

People helped pack more than 17,000 whistle kits in Chicago, used to alert their neighbors about ICE. “We’re showing them in deeds and actions that we care about them, that the city of Chicago and our neighbors care about these individuals, even if the federal government doesn’t."

Aftonbladet's interview with Greta Thunberg is now available in English - it raises many serious questions, not least about the Swedish govt. effectively abandoning its citizens to torture because it doesn't agree with their politics. A thundering disgrace. www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

There are a tremendous number of ICE watchers out in Rogers Park this afternoon after some early morning abductions. People are guarding churches and patrolling alleyways. Ran into Alderperson Hadden. First timers tell us they're primed and ready to use their whistles.

Fully internalizing the statement "genre is marketing" will set you free

If you’re in New Jersey and not yet registered to vote, do it today! Voters have until the end of the day to register in time to help choose the state’s next governor.

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

I first wrote about Denver’s ebike rebate program in 2022 and it’s been very cool to watch the trajectory since www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

“Living car-free is the most impactful behavior by far in terms of reducing emissions.”

I have never heard of "sporror" before — creepy books with a fungal focus — but it feels a fitting moniker considering how many authors take inspiration from mushrooms. reactormag.com/creeping-fun...

New burrowing owl behavior for me today-- taking a bath in the rain! So cool! 🪶

"Social media platforms face significantly less regulation and legal accountability than traditional news sources, which makes them more vulnerable to misinformation" — and yet more and more people are coming to rely on social media for their news climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications...

It seems there are two main reasons things haven’t gone completely to shit in the US: 1. Lawyers and the courts; 2. Journalists and the media. Most of us can’t do anything about the first, but we can support journalism. Stop complaining about paywalls and subscribe to news & donate to public media.

"This election might as well have been designed in a lab to test whether the national climate movement can rally attention and support around a key state race."

Obviously, these charts can't be equal (it's important to cover big events) -- but I know so many underemployed science journalists, so it's not as if there aren't reporters who could make these charts more aligned

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

Jason contributed a story to print for every issue I edited at Atmos, and he was always an absolute JOY to edit—his ideas are creative, he files clean and timely copy, he's responsive to edits and fact-checking notes, and he's just all around a pleasure to work with. Hire + commission him!!!!

Everybody makes money out of academic authors except the authors...News. Wiley is the latest academic publisher to reach a multi-million deal to allow access to its content to AI developers, with no opt out, let alone payment, for the authors who created that content.

“Last year was our biggest year ever for the citizen science surveys,” said Dr Aileen Baird. “People’s interest in fungi is definitely growing, and we wouldn’t have found these new locations without them.” Community science 4ever: www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

My latest Eco Files post features work by @whitneybauck.bsky.social @dell.bsky.social @katiesurma.bsky.social @josephvlee.bsky.social @sumauma.com @ninalakhani.bsky.social @globalwitness.org & Jia Zhang-ke alleenbrown.ghost.io/eco-roundup-5/ consider supporting my journalism w/ a paid subscription

"You literally are really bad at being alive,” Stewart jokingly told the ungainly saguaro before him. “But the fungi are helping." Love to see fungi highlighted in climate stories! This one by @wyattmyskow.bsky.social insideclimatenews.org/news/2206202...

Jane Goodall in 2024: “Let us pray for the end of conflict, especially the genocide of the people of Gaza. And for those risking their lives to help the wounded and feed the hungry and care for the animals suffering as a result of human violence, cruelty and war.” www.salon.com/2025/10/01/j...

What a legacy. She loved the creatures she worked with so much that the rest of us learned to love them too

god protect train operators who give little pep talks and greetings when they get on the loudspeaker. I love you all so much for real

Tickled to be named a finalist for @sciencewriters.org's 2025 Science Reporting award. The piece being honored is one I reported for @theguardian.com about bats, the threats they face, and the crucial role they play in our food system: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important