WASHINGTON (AP) — Abdul El-Sayed wins Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Michigan.
Nicole Chung
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author of A LIVING REMEDY (a New York Times Notable Book) and the national bestseller ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW • words in NYT Magazine, Time, Esquire, Washington Post &c. • linktr.ee/nicolesjchung • loyaltybookstores.com/nicolechung
Immigrant Held at Delaney Detention Center Has Died, Officials Say The mayor of Newark identified the dead man as Edwin Lopez-Cornejo. The federal New Jersey center has been the focus of intense scrutiny for its treatment of detainees. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/n...
Immigrant Held at Delaney Detention Center Has Died, Officials Say
The mayor of Newark identified the dead man as Edwin Lopez-Cornejo. The New Jersey center has been the focus of intense scrutiny for its treatment of detainees.
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I'm getting so many lovely responses to ALL MY DEAD CATS now that it's out in the world and people are reading! Many thanks to everyone who preordered, picked up a copy last week, requested from the library, and shared with friends!
All My Dead Cats and Other Losses: Practicing Good Grief in a Culture That Fears Mourning
"Both a grief book that doesn't read like a clinician's notes and a memoir wrapped around a bigger subject, All My Dead Cats takes grief from the taboo to the universal." — BooklistHave you suffered a...
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The Bench Fire tore through the Warms Springs Reservation, burning at least six homes and forcing hundreds to evacuate as roads closed and the air filled with thick smoke. The fire is now about one-third contained, but it will likely take years for the tribe to recover from the disaster.
Warm Springs Reservation faces years of recovery after Bench Fire sweeps through
Thousands in the Warm Springs reservation have been without power or clean water for nearly a week. As the government reopens they’re faced with rebuilding — even while the fire still burns.
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“‘I would never dream this would happen,’ Brodnax said. ‘I thought I was in about the safest place – no earthquakes, no water – how could I possibly be in a dangerous fire situation? I’m in the middle of town.’”
'The top fire in our nation': Old Trails destroys 640 structures as 'potential for lives to be lost' remains
The Old Trails wildfire in northwest Spokane destroyed 640 structures Saturday and overnight into Sunday, and officials are "still assessing the potential for lives to be lost."
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The Arctic is warming four times faster than anywhere else. Reindeer are starving. Sámi culture is at risk. For decades, Indigenous nations have demanded a real seat at the UN, not NGO status. Their land, culture, and climate are at stake. ictnews.org/news/as-clim...
As climate change threatens their lands, Indigenous nations demand more power at the UN - ICT
From the Arctic to the Pacific, Indigenous advocates say their voices are too often ignored.
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My latest piece for @theatlantic.com is about animal narrators in fiction, with particular attention to Paul Yoon's extraordinary new novel, Etna, which Homer and/or Nolan heads will be happy to learn is another version of The Odyssey. Here's a gift link: www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/0...
Why Animal Narrators Are All the Rage
A new novel helps explain why so many storytellers enlist animal narrators to explore humanity.
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So much of Oregon is on fire. More than 6,200 people under evacuation. About 12,000 firefighters are on the line. And it could get worse: We might get more thunderstorms on Thursday. www.opb.org/article/2026...
Live updates: Oregon wildfires explode with no signs of slowing down
People on the Warm Springs Reservation have evacuated, and other communities in Central and Eastern Oregon are threatened as more than 1 million acres in Oregon have been consumed by wildfires.
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larger implications aside it’s always funny when an LRB piece breaks containment because it’s like a crowd shows up with machetes on your porch and you are. an old Man whittling whistles or making cups out of willow bark
“As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Nolan has read at least the first line of my translation of The Odyssey” d y i n g (I will definitely see the movie soon, and I enjoyed this immensely)
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · last wk.This review is like being Chotiner’d: “Unlike some of Nolan’s other films, The Odysseyis not boring, thanks to the source material, which is impossible to mess up entirely.” First paragraph, I’m dying www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
standing next to Trump is CBS correspondent Weijia Jiang, who was harassed by Trump in 2020 with a racial slur suggesting she was not loyal to the US www.bbc.com/news/av/worl... Now the WHCA chairperson, she went "the show must go on" and said nothing critical of Trump at the dinner
Trump spars with Asian American reporter over 'nasty question'
CBS reporter Weijia Jiang asked Mr Trump why testing is a contest to him. He said she should ask China.
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NPR@npr.org · 2w agoPresident Trump used his speech to attack his political opponents, members of the media and even members of his own cabinet.
maggie cheung and tony leung chiu wai in the mood for love
Dawn@502eire.bsky.social · 2w agothere is a recurring prompt around what’s the best that anyone has ever looked on camera and I never have an answer but I’m watching right now and I think it’s gotta be George Clooney in Ocean’s 11
Good reminder of how hard it is to access health insurance for people who are disabled by their conditions but in the waiting period for coverage for SSDI/Medicare. The mortality during the wait period for people with cancer (neoplasms) is nearly 40%. www.healthaffairs.org/doi/epdf/10....
I do this all the time and it makes me feel like a Patron of the Arts.
Sunny Moraine@dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 2w agoIf you want to read a book and your library doesn’t have it, it is truly a massive favor to an author to request that the library acquire it. It really and truly is
I feel very honored that I got to have this conversation with @ayoub.bsky.social!
elia ayoub@ayoub.bsky.social · 2w agoThe Fire These Times @thefirethesetimes.com is back! I had the one and only Chanda Prescod-Weinstein @chanda.blacksky.app on. Go listen to it. Now! Wherever you get your podcasts etc thefirethesetimes.com/2026/07/20/c... pod.link/1503094935/e... Video will be out soon too
I worked as a hydrologist on the Colorado for a bit. This is a river that has been used & abused for much of its recent history.
Ian James@ianjames.bsky.social · 2w agoICYMI ‘This is terrifying’: The Colorado River, a lifeline for seven states, is drying up at its source www.latimes.com/environment/...
what’s the Odyssey about? I’m so glad you asked
I am going to unapologetically post about this a million times a day for the next two weeks, first week sales are really important. Especially if you like my work and would like to see more books (like, say, something on disability culture 👁️) please support this one!
s. e. smith@sesmith.lol · 3w agoMy book on grief and loss under capitalism (and so much more!) comes out in two weeks, which is a wild thing to say. If you haven’t preordered yet, grab a copy from one of the two independent bookstores I’m partnering with, threaded below, so you can get a signed bookplate and other fun things!
loved getting to chat with @marketplace.org’s @reema.bsky.social about the emotional, practical, and financial costs of supporting ill & aging parents while caring for my own kids (+ trying to start/sustain a creative career, lolsob) link to episode: link.podtrac.com/in7gre3q
shared my screen just so everyone in the workshop could admire Peggy
“Superb, incendiary… each sentence is diamond cut… what is especially remarkable is Buntin’s audacity, her gutsy choices, her clarity.” hey just a few days left to preorder this gorgeous novel by my friend and hero @juliebuntin.bsky.social
Finding the line between abuse and complicity - The Boston Globe
How do we discern victimhood from complicity, especially when a very young woman is concerned? That is among the questions Julie Buntin wrestles with in her superb, incendiary second novel, “Famous Me...
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I had fun writing this piece for the summer issue of @orionmagazine.bsky.social about Moby-Dick, Star Trek, and #scicomm! ‘Viewers are forced to reckon with the possibility, vocalized by Spock, that “only human arrogance would assume [an alien] signal must be meant for mankind.”‘ 🐳🐋🧪
Planetary Kin - Orion Magazine
Learning from Star Trek’s space whales
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in 2020, i visited baja to report on a mysterious die-off of grey whales. people were only sort of worried then: this happened, sometimes. Seven years later, though, the whales keep dying — their entire population has nearly halved. And now we know why. my latest, for @orionmagazine.bsky.social. 🐋
Unusual Mortality Event - Orion Magazine
The mysterious die-off of eastern North Pacific gray whales
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loved getting to chat with @marketplace.org’s @reema.bsky.social about the emotional, practical, and financial costs of supporting ill & aging parents while caring for my own kids (+ trying to start/sustain a creative career, lolsob) link to episode: link.podtrac.com/in7gre3q
Buck up, US fans. The women’s World Cup is less than a year away.
“‘There’s an opportunity for us to set a new standard, to show America that we can restore, as humans, a watershed that’s been degraded for the last 100-plus years.’ He’s proud that tribal nations are leading the effort.” Great @btoastie.bsky.social story on Tribes returning salmon to the Klamath.
The Klamath Tribes couldn’t get federal dollars for salmon. Then the Yurok stepped in - High Country News
For more than 100 years, salmon had been absent from the Klamath Tribe’s lands — a fact that cut them off from funding sources to fix that.
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