Here's a delightful nod to the subtle beauty of camping with your family. How it strengthens bonds. How it alleviates the stress of the daily grind. How it forces you to look within. By @lacymjohnson.bsky.social for @texashighways.bsky.social. texashighways.com/culture/fost...

Fostering Family Bonds in the Piney Woods

Houstonians leave their worries behind on an East Texas camping trip

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Internet pals, I have a book coming out in March (my fifth) & I’d like to have a publishing experience that feels healthy, positive, celebratory, even joyful. I’d love any wisdom about what has felt good & healthy for you in the past, things you wish you’d done differently, etc. Thanks in advance!

Scrivener for Creative Writers is coming back Sunday, May 3. 90 minutes to learn how to make this overwhelming writing software work for you and your creative process. (Class will be recorded in case you can't make it live.) jaimegreen.net/classes

Silverio Villegas Gonzalez was shot & killed by ICE on Sept 12 ICE chased Jaime Alanis off the roof of a greenhouse; he broke his neck & died on July 12 ICE chased Roberto Carlos Montoya Valdez into traffic where he was hit & killed on Aug 14 Josué Castro Rivera was killed the same way on Oct 23

MPR News@mprnews.org · 7mo ago

Renee Good is at least the fifth death to result in an aggressive immigration crackdown by the Trump administration. Other cases include a person fatally shot by ICE outside Chicago and two people who died after being struck by vehicles while fleeing authorities.

At Rice we are hiring a Post-Doc in Public History and a Post-MFA (or PhD) in Creative Writing to work on a Sawyer Seminar, “Writing History, Righting Democracy.” Links to both positions in comments. Please share with your networks!

At Rice we are hiring a Post-Doc in Public History and a Post-MFA (or PhD) in Creative Writing to work on a Sawyer Seminar, “Writing History, Righting Democracy.” Links to both positions in comments. Please share with your networks!

My friend and colleague Timothy Morton is raising funds to help their in-laws recover from Hurricane Melissa in Jamaica. Please donate if you are able. Donate to send a Hurricane Recovery Kit to Jamaica: gofund.me/5e9d46592

Donate to Support Carol's Recovery and Community Aid, organized by Timothy Morton

Hello. I'm Tim Morton and Carol Balds is my wonderful Jamaican mother-in-law… Timothy Morton needs your support for Support Carol's Recovery and Community Aid

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Breaking News! Code UFB!!! The three-year running mean for the global surface temperature anomaly now exceeds 1.50°C over the pre-industrial baseline, as of November 8, 2025. Are you there, COP 30? It's me, the Paris Agreement.

NEW ANALYSIS: For the first time in history, the US has not sent any official delegates to the annual UN climate talks #COP30 Full details from my colleagues, below, inc that with 56,118 delegates registered, COP30 is provisionally 2nd-largest www.carbonbrief.org/...

We made a new MFA.

If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation. Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net

@sarahkendzior.bsky.social has been telling us that for more than a decade

Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others. Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla: “People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.” 1/3

Naomi Klein@naomiaklein.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Close to 65k watching the livefeed from the Global Sumud Flotilla off the coast of Gaza. Israel seems to be intercepting right now. All eyes needed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2...

A mass walkout of the UN General Assembly as Netanyahu prepares to speak.

A surprise find in the Etymonline entry for “migration”

EPA has ordered scientists in its Office of Water to immediately pause almost all research & stop publishing studies. Researchers were told that, unless scientific journals had already returned proofs, studies will be subject to an additional EPA review. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

EPA tells scientists to stop publishing studies, employees say

Staff from the EPA’s Office of Water were summoned to a town hall meeting this week and told to pause the publication of most research, pending a review.

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Excellent new video from PBS Terra about the long term climate change impact on the probability of death across the USA:

Did Scientists Just Figure Out Why People Die A DECADE Earlier in the Southeast US?

YouTube video by PBS Terra

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I am SO EXCITED about this! Many folks want to take personal action on climate change, but many resources treat people like monoliths. Enter SHIFT -- a collaboration between Dr. Kim Nicholas and Project Drawdown -- that tailors advice for YOU, using your climate superpowers. jointheshift.earth

SHIFT

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#FreeDC Mass march hitting the streets of DC now.

It’s important that the only cities Trump has sent (or is threatening to send) national guard troops to have Black mayors — LA, DC, now Baltimore, Chicago, and New Orleans. It’s NEVER been about crime. apnews.com/article/trum...

Trump suggests National Guard could go into New Orleans, a blue city in a red state

President Trump suggests New Orleans could be his next target for deploying the National Guard to fight crime.

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Survey of 8 countries including Spain and the US finds 82% of people support setting aside 30% land + sea for nature. All over the world, people WANT rewilding. Time our politicians started turning that clear wish into actual policy. Let's bring nature back!!! share.google/8lsJ5PfS2nau...

Public strongly backs aim of 30% of land and sea set aside for nature, poll finds

Survey of eight countries finds 82% of people support 30x30 biodiversity target, as progress stalls on protected areas

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Rice is hiring! "The Department of Art at Rice University is seeking to hire at the Assistant Professor rank a full-time, tenure-track artist and art educator with primary interests in the production of film, video, and/or new media forms…” apply.interfolio.com/171781

Come work with us! "Rice University … seeks applicants for a tenure- track assistant or associate professor position in Medical Humanities, specializing in narrative and/or digital humanities approaches to medicine and health in the 20th-21st centuries." apply.interfolio.com/172836

Come work with us! "Rice University … seeks applicants for a tenure- track assistant or associate professor position in Medical Humanities, specializing in narrative and/or digital humanities approaches to medicine and health in the 20th-21st centuries." apply.interfolio.com/172836

Rice is hiring! "The Department of Art at Rice University is seeking to hire at the Assistant Professor rank a full-time, tenure-track artist and art educator with primary interests in the production of film, video, and/or new media forms…” apply.interfolio.com/171781

re-order & get 25% off my new graphic novel A BETTER WORLD IS POSSIBLE: Global Youth Confront the Climate Crisis. Today through Friday (9/3 to 9/5) only, with ‪@barnesandnoble.com‬ preorder sale! *Link in bio* More exciting news: it was just chosen as a Junior Library Guild selection!

Greta Thunberg: “You do not kill journalists unless you have something to hide. “Israel is now deliberately targeting journalists. If that is not a sign of their genocidal intent then I don’t know what is”.

Not a single panel for 2026 AWP dedicated to writing about climate change, as far as I can tell. Some panels with climate lumped in with other issues, but none appear dedicated to climate as an issue. How does that happen, I wonder.

Signal boosting this!

Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD@lluaces.bsky.social · 12mo ago

ATTN: Robert Wood Johnson has money to support “canceled” research on racial-indigenous health equity www.rwjf.org/en/grants/ac...

Beautiful writing. Important message. From @brdemuth.bsky.social for @nybooks.com www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

Where the Dogs Run | Bathsheba Demuth

The best days to work a salmon net are dry and bright. Bankside willows tilt from summer green to autumn gold. Light wind, no longer warm, riffles the

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