🔴 NEW 🔴 ‘Chilling’ Surveillance of Activists by Meat and Dairy Industry The Animal Agriculture Alliance, which briefs the FBI, has tracked over 2,400 individuals linked to animal welfare and environmental groups. 📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social

My new book is published today, and my cats highly recommend it. www.penguin.co.uk/books/462676...

Sentient’s Editor-in-Chief @jennysplitter.bsky.social will be speaking to journalism fellows in Green Queen Media's Climate Feed Fellowship, the first-ever program designed to empower the next generation of journalists to spotlight the critical link between food and climate.

Well, my morning surge of energy has elapsed, but a 27-minute workday sounds reasonable, right?

I urge you to read this entire piece by @arashtehran.bsky.social, but if you refuse to do that, at least read this little bit rather than shooting from the hip based on the text of the post below alone.

New research from China suggests that oysters can be good at removing carbon dioxide from oceans, making the bivalves both an important food source and a potential tool in the fight against climate change and ocean acidification.

10 environmental groups filed suit against the EPA late last night, petitioning the Ninth Circuit to review an agency decision to withdraw proposed rules aimed at cleaning up slaughterhouse pollution.

Thanks to @undark.org for republishing this great reporting from @greymoran.bsky.social on the data privacy issues stymieing avian flu researchers. undark.org/2025/09/16/a...

If you see this quote with the energy you bring to Bluesky

LinkedIn is unhinged actually. Like, everyone posts in "thought leader"-ese.

Oh hell yes, this:

Did a rare stint on the health desk and wrote about a complication of measles that can lead to a fatal brain disorder years after the infection, underscoring why widespread vaccination is so important. The child that died was too young to be vaccinated when the contracted measles. 🧪

My secret to a good back to school night: set your expectations low.

CIWF was in touch with @gaeacabico.bsky.social regarding a Welfare Footprint Institute report highlighting that slower-growing chicken breeds suffer much less than those bred to grow unnaturally fast. Full story from @sentientmedia.org: sentientmedia.org/slower-growi...

We're close to reaching a chilling moment; the first time in history where the single largest group of people arrested by ICE in the interior and held in detention are people with no criminal record. The gap is now down to fewer than 300 people.

Bluesky is perfect. Let’s never do any introspection!

For years, Seaboard Triumph Foods, a hog slaughtering facility, emitted sulfur dioxide into the Sioux City air. They were later cited by @iowadnr.bsky.social for nearly 2,000 hours of air quality violations. @ninaelkadi.com discusses her investigation into the pork plant on @iowapublicradio.org.

DC folks! I’ll be speaking at Third Way tomorrow morning and Center for American Progress (with Senator Heitkamp) tomorrow at noon. RSVP details below - CAP event is also online.

JBS is the largest meatpacker in America; it is also dependent on refugees and asylum seekers. That unexpected reality emerged after the Swift Raids of 2006 deported a significant portion of the company’s workforce.

Yup

Scientists studying avian flu are often denied access to on-farm data that could help them develop better surveillance tools. The reason? Government agencies cite privacy protections for farms and producers. Fascinating story by @greymoran.bsky.social sentientmedia.org/data-from-fa...

Poll of Palestinian opinion by Zogby. Please note -The universal revulsion towards Hamas in Gaza (92% hold them responsible for the "situation") -Low support for armed struggle (only 4% in Gaza) -Low support for "one democratic state" - around 13% institute.global/insights/geo...

Shifting to meat production systems that are better for animal welfare can often increase land use & GHG emissions. So to simultaneously meet environmental goals, need to eat less meat. Also note there is no agreed definition of “regenerative” chicken. Good to ask what such labels actually mean.

I have seen students who are not especially anti-Zionist afraid to talk about Israel-Palestine or Zionism in class, for fear of saying the wrong thing and being reported. I wrote about it. forward.com/opinion/7663...

Time for a #BeanNewDeal? @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social

Apparently there is a whole bean army on TikTok and they're sharing this sentientmedia.org/dietary-guid...

Hello Jews of Bluesky. If you would like to be included in the new JewSky Plus feed repost this! And if you ever want to be removed from it, undo the repost! https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:24atmhsxslaeuvf2gcmv7fh3/feed/jewsky-plus

When the EPA added seven Iowa river segments to the state’s impaired waters list last year, it seemed like a meaningful step toward addressing water pollution. Now, the agency has rescinded its order, upending the progress of clean water advocates. @gaeacabico.bsky.social reports:

This awful news. In this just-published open access paper I argue we need MORE information about farm labor, not less. Coupled with the recent USDA decision to do away with the Socially Disadvantaged farmers category, the result is we will know less about critical and vulnerable ag stakeholders.

Don't know where I'm supposed to go.

I'm a journalist. If you're struggling to access a COVID vaccine, I'm interested in hearing from you. Particularly if you're chronically ill or disabled, please reach out. Contact info in my bio. RTs appreciated.

When people think Muslims and Jews burst into flames at the sight of bacon 🤦‍♀️

RIP Graham Greene. Every time he popped up on screen when I was a kid, my mom would excitedly point him out for being an actual Native on the screen. Able to be deadly serious and infinitely hilarious (even in smaller roles like Last of Us), he ate up the screen. Nʌki’wah brother.

Michelle Obama: "please I'm begging you feed kids just one (1) vegetable" RFK: "some children deserve to die. there's a healthy way to eat deep fried burgers" Media: "these are the same, to me"

I love my vivid pink, red and orange flowers right now but I’m also obsessed with these light pink fuchsia plants. 😍

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9 past CDC directors condemn Kennedy's destruction of the agency. Gift link.

“Black women lost 319,000 jobs between February and July of this year, the only major female demographic to experience significant job losses during this five-month period… Ms. Roy said that with the exception of the pandemic, Black women have never seen such staggering losses in employment”

A lot of people on the extremely online left right now seem to interpret "Anti-Zionism is not antisemitism" to mean "all antisemitism is actually fine if you just say it's anti-Zionism."

Guess what word is blacked out in the 4chan post Lorenz is promoting here? If you answered “Jews”, well, let’s just say you’re *almost* right….

Gut shabbos, folks!

We published this great piece by @jesslsr.bsky.social on what a switch from factory farm chicken to regenerative might look like (models looked at organic & free range). Americans would have to go from eating 100 lbs per year to 63. But what if people were willing? sentientmedia.org/could-the-us...

The remarkable thing here is that in April they reinstated a ruling from his first term that unintentional killing of migratory birds (e.g., by oil & gas) doesn't violate the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. So now the only way to shut down wind farms via the MBTA is to say they kill birds intentionally.

A switch from factory farmed chicken to chicken from higher welfare and more environmentally-friendly systems can only be feasible, modeling suggests, if we reduce the amount of chicken we eat to a little over half of what we eat now. @jesslsr.bsky.social reports:

I haven’t fully processed this yet but it’s so bleak that trusted community spaces are not safe. We go through a metal detector before shul each Saturday. Obviously there are school shootings too and there was a shooting in my city outside a Jewish museum. We should try to listen more to each other.

Some of these top CDC officials being pushed out had bullet holes in their office windows

CDC is no longer surveilling outbreaks caused by campylobacter, cyclospora, listeria, shigella, vibrio and Yersinia. What could go wrong?

I feel like I have big "get off my lawn" energy these days but I also want more people hanging out on my actual lawn, so it's weird.

Seeking science journalists: @quantamagazine.bsky.social is hiring a physics editor! A rare opportunity to join this great team and lead coverage of this foundational vertical. Please reach out with any questions and share widely simonsfoundation.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/simons...