These patterns are cropping up in many close elections. Let's not let the horse-race fervor blind us to evidence of manipulations. TN Special Election Irregularities open.substack.com/pub/smartele...

This @nytimes.com story www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/n...

Was sorry to hear photographer #MartinParr's has died. @tonyeprile.bsky.social and I spent a week with him in Johannesburg in 1992. He was on assignment with Tony but intrigued enough with mine that he did mine. Via @nytimes.com archives timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine...

Ever wonder clouds' role in climate? Turns out they're key to climate regulation--and we can support natural processes that promote the formation of billowy, cooling clouds #Climate medium.com/@ecorestorat...

Imagine if rather than seeing said countries as somewhere to deport people, the US worked to protect the birds--who continually remind us that near or far, we are all connected. youtu.be/yrWMzKBV1wo?...

In war, nature always loses. These ecologists do essential work in difficult circumstances and at great risk.

This series on election anomalies is truly eye-opening--and we *really* need to keep our eyes open now! @smartelections.bsky.social

New essay, tracing the path of how I got here. judithdschwartz.substack.com/p/a-walk-in-...

Meanwhile, communities around the world are confronting environmental loss and bringing nature back. Be inspired-- www.decadeonrestoration.org/world-restor...

Water Is Never Lonely (part one) Lessons from the cloud forest open.substack.com/pub/judithds...

Huge respect for those who love the natural world enough to be present for wildlife amidst so much destruction and loss. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I too was at the Embracing Nature's Complexities conference in Munich and remember well that moment. I think it was a Silver Fir we lost that day. @racheldonald.bsky.social www.planetcritical.com/tangled-up/?...

Many of us have been calling Welch's office to encourage him to stand firm. @welch.senate.gov, do you hear us?

"And that detail—a surge of voters whose registrations vanished when they showed up—aligned uncomfortably with years of federal warnings about vulnerabilities in voter registration databases." My latest post👇 Is Russian Malware Still in our Registration Systems? open.substack.com/pub/itsuptou...

Let's learn to get along with lions and bears! @tonyeprile.bsky.social @wgbh.org @bio4climate.bsky.social @bengoldfarb.bsky.social @mongabay.com @erikhoffner.bsky.social www.wgbh.org/forum-networ...

If you believe fair, secure elections are essential for a functioning democracy, read this. @grassrootsspeak.bsky.social @smartelections.bsky.social Malware Can Erase Every Tenth Voter open.substack.com/pub/smartele...

I volunteer for @smartelections.bsky.social and can tell you that here you can make a difference.

Thanks, Rachel, for this glimpse of another way…

This is alarming--poll watchers are important to ensure electoral integrity and transparency. What is the recourse?

Big solar in #VT: We think we're slaying the dragon, but we're really just feeding the beast. @sanders.senate.gov @balint.house.gov @grousehollow.bsky.social @tonyeprile.bsky.social @bethsawin.bsky.social @grassrootsspeak.bsky.social My column: www.benningtonbanner.com/opinion/colu...

Let's bring our #ClimateChange focus to climate sensitivity, for this determines what we actually experience. Fortunately, there's a lot we can do to *lower* climate sensitivity. Here's a strong case for the science-literate r3genesis.substack.com/p/200-how-re...

Securing elections won't happen on its own. Join #CountTheVote and be part of the solution!

And the Earthworm does a happy wiggle. open.substack.com/pub/soilcent...

This is yeoman's work, folks. Let's get on it! youtu.be/qayqkHy_WAg?... @smartelections.bsky.social @grassrootsspeak.bsky.social @lulufriesdat.bsky.social

I've seen more and more women take up ranching--got a chapter on it in "The Reindeer Chronicles". Love it! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Thrilled you could join us up here!

My Route to Native Plants A glimpse of my summer as it wanes open.substack.com/pub/judithds...

Proud of how my community is stepping up. @vtdigger.bsky.social Vermont’s unique rural welcome of refugees vtdigger.org/2025/10/10/d...

AOC: I think there's two things that are happening at once: One, there absolutely is an unprecedented abuse of power, destruction of norms, erosion of our government and our democracy in order to prop up an authoritarian style of governance However, they are weaker than they look…

If you want to ensure integrity in the mid-term, be an "election protector"--TONIGHT! @smartelections.bsky.social smartelections.substack.com/p/only-you-c...

Over 150 people are signed up to take our election verification training for the #midterms Mon 9/29 5pm PT/8pm ET. We'll be teaching this to thousands, possibly tens of thousands of ppl. Get the training. Substack w/ more info here smartelections.substack.com/p/only-you-can-protect-the-midterms

Someone explain to me how cutting 40-plus acres of intact forest--with stands of healthy white ash--will help Vermont deal with climate change. Quoted and with a link to my @mongabay.com column. vtdigger.org/2025/09/21/v...

Study highlights that "management decisions..,can have more impact on vegetation cover than predicted climate change impacts. @willemferwerda.bsky.social @mongabay.com @erikhoffner.bsky.social news.mongabay.com/2025/09/putt...

NEW: (Gift) Follow the Money: Miami Herald, NYT seek to unseal Jeffrey Epstein estate records www.miamiherald.com/news/local/a...

What happens when CO2 is considered the sole cause of #ClimateChange: attribution gaps that mask key forcings. Highly recommend this series on how hydro dams concentrate heat. r3genesis.substack.com/p/190-arctic...

Lovely video on how water co-creates climate...and how the route to resilience is healing our relationship with water. waterbear.com/watch/how-wa...

Protecting lions, supporting communities: Great to see this @mongabay.com interview with Andrew Stein of CLAWS Botswana @erikhoffner.bsky.social news.mongabay.com/2025/08/lear...

So appreciate @rhettayersbutler.bsky.social's reflections on the bad news/hope paradox in environmental journalism: stories of regeneration don't dilute the truth--they *expand* it. @mongabay.com @erikhoffner.bsky.social @ericagies.bsky.social rhettayersbutler.substack.com/p/the-case-f...

If you're thinking "we just have to get to the mid-terms", read--or at least skim--this:

Clarifying thread. To sum up: No, our election system is far from secure, but not for the (dramatic, and therefore tantalizing) reasons posited in a viral post.

This is one amazing interview!

Everything you wanted to know about mini-forests...but didn't know to ask! miniforests.bio4climate.org

Love this thread...

New column: The Vining of New England @vtdigger.bsky.social vtdigger.org/2025/07/14/j...

Sign at our local weekly protest: "I Want the Democracy They Bombed Me For."

A fabulous guide to how nature creates climate, nuances absent from conventional climate conversations. To sum up in four words, "Forest is a Verb". Thx @robdelaet.bsky.social. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Connections between climate and how we manage land are getting stronger all the time—good news because this shows where we have agency. Great piece by @ericagies.bsky.social

You got it @jennycohn.bsky.social! Great thread.

Bennington, Vermont says "No Kings!" @wethepeopledissent.bsky.social