We can map the world's existing forests with incredible accuracy now, but clearly we cannot (or will not) stop them from disappearing at rapid rates almost everywhere. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌎

Everything about this story is awesome. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/s...

When you feel depleted of enchantment, walk the wood. It is where magic lives loudly. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982

America:

The app Text With Jesus uses artificial intelligence and chatbots to offer spiritual guidance to users who are looking to connect with a higher power: on.nbc10.com/7XM8xrf

They’re calling her Megyn. R Kelly now.

Today is one of those days where you’re like hmm maybe I would be better off not being able to read

"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."

We absolutely need universal basic income as a secure floor below which no one can fall and everyone can build from. It should not be normalized for people to seek 2nd, 3rd, and 4th jobs in order to make enough money to survive or have a backup plan in case of unexpected job and income loss.

The Gallup poll finding that 4 in 10 (!) young women would like to move out of the U.S. is striking. But it's also probably a symptom of a deeper problem: a lack of confidence in the American system and its ability to self-correct. www.pbump.net/o/the-subtex...

🧵1/3 A Supreme Court case about a man’s dreadlocks might sound like a story about religion, but it could quietly change how Medicaid and other federal rights are enforced. It’s a reminder: small stories can signal big shifts in power and policy. www.vox.com/politics/468...

This is about women and children as objects and tools and how abuse of them is not just tolerated and ignored but facilitated and celebrated.

It all would have been much easier if, as would have happened if we were remotely a serious country, it all ended with the Access Hollywood interview.

I’m so tired of bad people getting away with doing bad things.

They convince you that you're ugly to sell you stuff

A great interview with Professor Mahmood Mamdani in which he discusses his new memoir, the shortcomings of the boycott as a political tool and its implementation in the anti colonial movement, academic freedom, libraries, and the relationship between scholarship and politics. No talk of Zohran!

Keep posting sky pictures, I like being reminded that we're all piles of carbon screaming through space on a rock and we're all just hanging on and hoping for the best.

Great piece on the FDA and menopause hormone therapy in @motherjones.com it is the most medically accurate coverage I have read from the press! www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

WhY arEN't pEOPlE hAVinG mORe kIDS?

"The Colorado River Indian Tribes have formally accorded personhood status to the Colorado River", making it the third river in North America to hold this status in Indigenous laws. www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...

Gift 🎁 link, because climate change mitigation & adaptation are critical to public health. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

🧵1/5 Article a few weeks old and no less devastating. It is *tragic*, morally repugnant, and simply *dangerous* that DOGE/this admin have fired the experts working on fighting outbreaks. We cannot protect ourselves if we remove the infrastructure and staff working tirelessly to keep us safe. 🎁🔗👇

Missouri is the only state in the nation to tax income, but not capital gains. We are also ranked 50th in the nation for education funding.

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."

If SNAP benefits vanished tomorrow, feeding 42 million Americans for a month would cost about $7.8 billion.That’s less than 1% of the combined net worth of the three richest men in the U.S. A reminder of how obscene inequality has become and how easily hunger could be solved if we chose to.

The U.S. is experiencing its highest wave of layoffs since 2020, with close to a million workers losing their jobs this year.

Once again urging archaeologists to critically assess the AI push into archaeology. There is a huge swath of problematic ethical issues that come with the AI tech & tech lords & we don't have to make it easier for them to insert themselves in archaeology by welcoming them in. Don't be complicit. 🏺

Wow so scandalous. Couldn’t possibly be a cultural thing

Prayers up for Jamaica. 🇯🇲

all my love to Jamaica

starving people a month before thanksgiving seems ill-advised but what do I know

Goodnight. 🖼️ Edna Eicke, New Yorker October 27, 1945.

Most people in the US don’t give diphtheria a passing thought if they’ve heard of it at all. We have decades of vaccines to thank for that, for now. But it’s surging in places like Somalia, where health systems have been weakened by war, and hit hard by USAID cuts. The cruelty is the point. 🎁🔗:

This is an important story in Iowa so I am gifting this story from the Washington Post. Click on this link to read it for free. wapo.st/3Le1yXo

Trick-or-treating the Gen X way.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Lynkuet, a new daily pill from Bayer that provides a non-hormonal option for treating hot flashes, common during menopause.

makes me weep to think of the gifts robbed from us because unaffordable housing has made it difficult for people to pursue their passions and hobbies

That’s no ballroom.

Smart people keep saying… “AI technologies severely impede humans’ ability to learn and retain skills… Rather than expanding our intellectual horizons, these technologies undermine the very conditions that allow us to think for ourselves.”

No kings -- but yes to Lady Ix Ch'ak Ch'een, the newly discovered Maya queen. 🧪🏺

ACA rates are ⬆️ing 30% for 17 million Americans, "by far the largest annual premium increases in recent years." Coupled with the expiration of pandemic-era subsidies, it means millions "will see their health insurance payments double or even triple in 2026." www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Gift link, worth a read: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/o...

So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube. Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X). *1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.” youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc

You need some new music - this cover of The Cure from Ozarks fiddler: