I used to run with the wolves. Recovering texan, New Mexican by choice. Belly dancer for biodiversity. Secular animist. Forest stan. Reader. Known by a dozen dozen other names. If we don't cool the planet, nothing else matters much.
The Arctic Circle just reached a temperature that once seemed almost impossible for such a frozen region: above 100°F, or 38°C … a shocking first … fragile regions are rapidly changing. Sometimes one number can tell a much bigger story … climate change is no longer distant. It’s here. It’s now.
What the US government is doing to Dr. Fauci is the embodiment of what they are doing to scientific infrastructure overall.
Her concern with landscapes and living creatures was passionate. This concern, feebly called, “the love of nature” seemed to Shevek to be something much broader than love.
“You don’t have to have a full pantry or a stocked fridge when everything you need for a tasty dish is right there beneath your skin,” said Robert F. Kennedy Jr., searing his left kidney in a skillet as several of his elbow ligaments roasted in the oven.
RFK Jr. Cooking Show Features Easy Weeknight Meals Using Ingredients Already In Own BodyWASHINGTON—Saying the convenience of the quick but nutritious entrees could not be beat, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. showed viewers of his new cooking show Friday how the...theonion.com
State Property Tax Cuts Will Decimate Libraries Up to 13 different US states are considering tax reforms that would decimate local public goods, including public libraries. That, plus this week's book censorship news roundup: bookriot.com/state-proper...
State Property Tax Cuts Will Decimate Libraries: Book Censorship News, July 31, 2026Up to 13 different US states are considering tax reforms that would decimate local public goods, including public libraries.bookriot.com
Your tax $$ at work, ladies and gentlemen!
Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01)While you were over here trying to figure out how you were going to cover the rent and food—this guy was over there using $5.1 million in taxpayer money YOU paid into the system to cover these statues in 23 karat gold. Yeah, he did that.
"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."
Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John WashingtonI’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilitieswww.theguardian.com
Yeah so NYT asked me ~2 yrs ago to write an op-ed about how the Colorado is running dry, & what we should do to keep this exact thing from happening. I said "There's only one real answer. Bill farmers by how much water they use. Duh." NYT editorial staff freaked tf out & cancelled the piece.
Elias Thornesaw an article today about an az politician saying how great it was that we're now in emergency drought conditions because the farmers get automatic bailouts and I feel like way more Professional Rural Understanders just breeze by sentences like that. www.paysonroundup.com/news/arizona...
Corporations are not people. AI data centers don't drink the water or eat the food our land produces Money will not sustain life if the land & water are contaminated For decades you have poisoned our land with nuclear testing, oil drilling, uranium mining - We are not your dumping ground ☠️
Project Jupiter Data Center Unmasks Big Tech’s PlaybookThe Project Jupiter data center in New Mexico is a blueprint for how Big Tech is ramming dirty data centers into our communities.www.foodandwaterwatch.orgRep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01)New Mexicans' voices must be heard! What happened last night in the Doña Ana County Commission hearing over Project Jupiter is unacceptable. New Mexicans have been clear: they don’t want their public lands, waters, and taxpayer dollars going to unchecked and unregulated data centers.
New Mexico's state constitution provides even greater protections than the U.S. constitution when it comes to law enforcement & ICE needing a warrant to enter your home 🏡 Last I checked we are the only state that still requires a warrant to search your vehicle 🚗 🎨 John Deering
GeClefchicago.suntimes.com/crime/2026/0... I love this lawsuit. I hate what ICE did. But this is a brilliant lawsuit and could change things, if we get lucky.
The Sky World & Air - the breath All Life needs to live, is Sacred #space. The govt & it's industrial agencies (FAA, EPA, DOJ, DHS etc) "claim of plenary power" to pollute the air, lands, waters, food, #space, etc ....is govt approved ecocide = genocide, & keeps us in forever lawsuits.
Center for Biological DiversityTrump’s FAA announced today that it intends to exempt #space launches and spacecraft reentries from complying with environmental laws like the #EndangeredSpeciesAct. This will put untold species directly in harm’s way. You can be sure we’ll fight this obscene giveaway to special interests 🚀🚀
Turns out that food companies were only checking their food because the government told them to, which is exactly why we need government regulations.
“The problem with climate change reporting is that sometimes it feels like you’re intellectualizing something that doesn’t actually need to be intellectualized. This is pretty simple. It’s fossil fuel companies destroying our future for a quick buck. That’s all you need to say.” @emorwee.bsky.social
Emily Atkin Is Not an OptimistThe founder of HEATED on fossil fuel advertising, billionaires taking over media, and what removing plastic from her life is teaching her about systems change.buff.ly
I'm reposting this because today's absolute bullshit with Dr. Fauci - a genuine hero - really has me feeling it.
Kurt WeldonI always acknowledged the possibility that this nation's decline could happen within the lifetime of my children. But I really did not think it would happen within the lifetime of my cats.
I just took action with @theactionnetwork.bsky.social: Sign On Now to Protect Chaco Canyon from Big Oil and Gas.. Take action here: actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-o...
Sign On Now to Protect Chaco Canyon from Big Oil and Gas.The Trump administration’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is attacking Native sacred places in and around Chaco Canyon in New Mexico, and we only have a few days to act.
For over a decade, Diné a...actionnetwork.org
More evil fu(kery from the folks burning down the planet for profit.
Moms Clean Air ForceEPA exempts data center power plants from pollution limits seeking to prevent acid rain thehill.com/policy/energ...
The world fascists envision is nothing but concrete prisons and endless layers of walls. What happened today is an abomination.
Andrea HoerrAnd the last Grandmother Cottonwood is down. I am devastated. Still have people on the ground. #tucson @peccarynotpig.bsky.social @laikenjordahl.bsky.social @90milesfromneedles.com @aweiss.bsky.social
What’s happening this morning is that Trump admin/DHS contracted construction crews are destroying ancient 100-feet tall Cottonwood trees filled with life in Lochiel, AZ for the grotesque, ever expanding border wall. Protesters are trying to hold the destruction back but need help.
Andrea Hoerr🚨Last stand at Lochiel AZ for 200 year old cottonwoods - HAPPENING NOW. If you can drive down & support activists on the ground bearing witness you are most welcome. Border wall violence comes to a serene ghost town.
Listen, i work in historic preservation and conservation and this headline is misleadingly skipping the key point: this specifically and pointedly destroys the protections for Native American sacred sites. built heritage matters but not as much as the rights of indigenous folk.
NPRA council packed with Trump appointees is poised to rewrite historic preservation rules. Critics say that could help him build his D.C. arch faster — and endanger important sites across the country.