"As the sun rose over the mesas ... state and local police officers arrived, along with federal officials tasked with breaking up the protest so that ICE could move the children and their father to a detention center elsewhere. That’s when things got violent." www.hcn.org/articles/ice...

Political scientists argue our old models are failing. Recent elections reveal voting patterns don't match expectations. We need new frameworks to understand political identity in 2025 and why people vote the way they do.

In the U.S., about 1/3 of all food produced is wasted. When we waste food, “in many ways, we are throwing out a lot of water, a lot of land, a lot of fertilizer, natural habitat.” - @paul-west.bsky.social Check out the full article in @sentientmedia.org https://bit.ly/43KZxZa #foodwaste

In the United States, climate change is polarizing, but one environmental challenge draws rare bipartisan agreement: food waste. Read more in The Core: buff.ly/XPz5ZPK

Reducing food waste is one of the simplest, fastest ways to fight climate change — an “emergency brake” that can slash emissions right now, without waiting for new technology or complex fixes.

hey has anyone seen any takes on Mamdani and Jewish communities? I've gone like 30 seconds without one and have no idea what to think

An environmental group says Iowa officials quietly fast-tracked a settlement with meatpacker Agri Star Meat & Poultry LLC out of public view. The group argues the move undermines transparency in environmental enforcement. Read via @sentientmedia.org: investigatemidwest.o...

Wisconsin Corn association ad spotted at the airport

Longtime climate columnist and CCNow award winner @sammyroth.bsky.social has left the LA Times and launched a new Substack. This week, he takes a hard look at the paper's coverage of the LA fires, finding that only 13% of stories mentioned climate change in Jan and Feb 2025...

Cutting food waste is a huge potential climate win. Why are we ignoring it? NEW from Floodlight and @sentientmedia.org:

BREAKING: A deleted plan from the USDA website suggests the Trump administration had intended to release contingency funds to keep SNAP running during a government shutdown @greymoran.bsky.social has the story sentientmedia.org/usda-deletes...

I love the 51st but forget the struggle to discuss. We’ve got DC parents taken by ICE. The struggle is getting them out again.

We're representing @michiganimmigrant.bsky.social, who sued the state over denying undocumented workers their workers' comp. The state says that since they have gotten away with it for so long already, they should be able to get away with it indefinitely. @sentientmedia.org More ➡️ buff.ly/Roz05lc

Today, we remember the 11 innocent lives taken during the shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh. We honor the victims and commit to building a country free from antisemitism and hatred.

EA people at a conference give off ‘I can’t socialize because I need to prioritize new people.’ Just be human not an efficiency machine. Not a subtweet just life advice from your elder

In Michigan, your immigration status can prevent you from getting workers’ compensation. @ninaelkadi.com reports: sentientmedia.org/michigans-un...

Me all the time to everyone

Great to see @washingtonpost.com cover cancer rates in the Corn Belt but nitrate pollution is mentioned as an aside while glyphosate is the "center of the controversy." This ignores reporting from @sentientmedia.org @investigatemidwest.bsky.social & others and research from... wapo.st/3Le1yXo

We need less of the dividing and more of the engaging. There is a series at Adas called Brave conversations where a dozen or so congregants challenge each other to listen instead of react. It’s super hard and valuable and the opposite of what I often see on social media.

US Department of Agriculture says no food aid benefits will be issued next month reut.rs/3WohHMk

How do you find your saved posts bluesky people

Me when someone says “well-tested science out of 1940s Germany”

A new study proves that E. coli can be spread through factory farm air pollution, which may have caused the 2018 outbreak that killed 5 people and led to illness in 210. A huge loophole in the food safety system that prevents the FDA from investigating potential causes of illnesses on factory farms.

Dietary change is hard and often fails but here are a few kernels from the research on what helps some people cut back on meat. Great read if you’re headed to the Reducetarian conference (like me!) now! sentientmedia.org/want-to-cut-...

Iowa Assistant AG wrote to Agri Star counsel that he planned to file the consent decree late in the day, as “News organizations monitor filings and may publish something before the CD is entered by the Court.” My latest on the Agri Star water pollution case, which the state settled with a 50k fine.

EXCLUSIVE: Iowa Officials Quietly Fast-Tracked Legal Settlement With Major Meatpacker, Environmental Group Alleges. Read @ninaelkadi.com's reporting here: sentientmedia.org/iowa-officia...

Water affordability, water safety, Big Ag, and climate change are all connected. "Agricultural pollutants in Iowa water have led public water utilities to hike rates and enact lawn watering bans." @ninaelkadi.com writes for @sentientmedia.org 💧 sentientmedia.org/iowa-beach-a...

The Biden-era effort to crack down on meat companies selling product that doesn’t live up to the label — abx-free for instance — has been replaced by a push for better prices for farmers on feed and fertilizer. sentientmedia.org/trumps-usda-...

The transportation piece is super interesting, too, and I probably didn't do it justice with the release. Fortunately, though, Sophie Kevany did an excellent job for @sentientmedia.org. sentientmedia.org/meat-consump...

Now that's a headline. I think I no longer feel anything.

A new study measured emissions from eating beef, pork and chicken in 3,500 cities and found climate pollution equivalent to powering homes in those cities. The study also modeled a range of solutions, from swapping chicken for beef and expanding Meatless Mondays: sentientmedia.org/meat-consump...

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants to ditch recommendations from the Dietary Guidelines for Healthy Americans advisory committee. Could beans and ultra-processed foods be the reason why?

I’m a complete cynic about everything but the fact that three mass protests haven’t resulted in change does not suggest much of anything. Protest movements span decades and many fail. Activists show up anyway because they believe in the cause.

House of Guinness is kind of mediocre in lots of ways but still fun to watch.

What an image. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Food allergies in children dropped sharply in the years after new guidelines encouraged parents to introduce infants to peanuts, a new study found.

Well this was completely and utterly predictable: globalextremism.org/post/openais...

For the NYT, I wrote about Trump's crypto interests and the unprecedented form of corruption they enable. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/o...

11 groups are suing to end an exemption for factory farms sentientmedia.org/air-pollutio...

The Oklahoma Department of Education is rescinding a 2024 directive that required teachers to have the Christian Bible in every classroom and incorporate it into their lessons, which had been challenged as unconstitutional.

“Out of the nine offers, only Penn, Brown University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have rejected the proposal. Other schools – a mix of public and private universities – have either said they are reviewing the compact or haven’t commented publicly.”

As an AZ native, I've known this for years. And still. The madness never ceases to shock "In Arizona, 76 percent of water use goes toward agriculture. Mature alfalfa (hay) is largely used to feed cattle, and in Arizona, alfalfa is a commonly planted thirsty crop." sentientmedia.org/arizona-dese...

On the continuing horrors in Tigray [🎁 link]

There is actual antisemitism and there is also this dishonest use of the word to justify a range of policies. Both of these are troubling, and we do know the difference.

“There is a bleeding wound as long as there are mothers waiting to find the graves of their sons, wives waiting to find the graves of their husbands, and children waiting to find the graves of their fathers.” www.reuters.com/world/middle...

NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams

Years of elephant movement data reveal distinct routes the animals take to access food and water, but road building and new rail lines, towns, cities and fences are increasingly cutting off their ability to move across the landscape.