Over the years I have read about treesits being used for a lot of different purposes—to save forests and halt pipelines and block new highways and stop coal mining. But using it to stop construction of the border wall is a first! ✊ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Protesters occupy 200-year-old tree at US-Mexico border to stop its destruction: ‘She’s our Statue of Liberty’

Demonstrators stage ‘tree sit’ in Arizona town to stop felling of ancient cottonwood grove to make way for border wall

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'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)

In my book I talk about how one of Trump’s most surprising traits is that he loves trees. Specifically, he loves driving around in a limo, buying old trees from people’s yards, and them transplanting them on his golf courses. (Which is *the* most Trumpy way to love a tree, if you think about it…)

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Trump: "Look at the blue cities. What do they have in common? They're all dirty. They're filthy dirty. Their streets are dirty. Their streets smell. Their storefronts are broken. Their trees are all gross. Everything about the place is dirty. It's really all of them."

this is going to turn me into the joker

Hey check that out. In Trees, in Dutch!

Kevin Prenger@kevinprenger.bsky.social · last wk.

Met dit fantastische boek van @robertmoor.com kom ik de hitte wel door! Wat lezen jullie?

this is absolutely excellent and essential, clear, as hopeful as it is urgent, and we should all demand that — to win our votes, and a future for our species — McKibben’s message here becomes core to the platform of every person in, or running for, public office: energy from heaven not from hell

Bill McKibben@billmckibben.bsky.social · last wk.

So, I finally did a TED talk, and it got released today. I seem to have been quite intense, but I'm grateful they left in my Trump joke. www.ted.com/talks/bill_m...

TOSS YOUR PHONE INTO THE SEA

with out

The phrase "'time goes by'... is profoundly misleading. It implies that time rushes past like the wind, leaving no trace. It would be truer to say that time accretes. It gnarls, and then it gnarls around its gnarls, endlessly." @robertmoor.com's In Trees keeps giving w/ each close read. A delight.

Hard core fans of the book will be relieved to know I’ve recently been informed that Smiley’s cat, Moogins, was adopted into a loving home, and now has a brand new “catio” to hang out in as well.

Had such a blast discussing @robertmoor.com's fantastic new book In Trees at Kingston's Rough Draft bookstore last evening ...

It’s always wild to go to primary sources and realize how much of the surreal otherness of history is lost in the transition to secondary Like, in the annals of the south plains Coronado expedition, theres an offhand mention of a querecho buffalo hunter sharpening a flint with his teeth What!?

Kinda love the painterly texture of this fluke shot I took through my windshield with my phone, of the peculiar confluence of wildfire smoke and monsoon rains. (Zoom in.)

Some wild scenes here on the Long Island Expressway, as monsoon rains lash through the apocalyptic haze of wildfire smoke and infrastructure built for a bygone climate visibly fails.

Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”

A beautiful set of branches of Archaeopteris, one of the first globally distributed trees, it's ideal for #FossilFriday!

And a reminder that while the smoke is serious, it's also just a byproduct of the main story: these fires aren't burning only in wilderness areas, they are taking people's homes.

Luke LeBrun@lukelebrun.ca · 3w ago

These photos of FNs community members fleeing their homes by boat are genuinely apocalyptic (Photo via Wayne Wastaken of Collins, Ontario, who says his “hometown is gone”) www.facebook.com/share/r/1ArN...

Wrote about what I, cribbing from Baudrillard, call the "hologram"—the easily summarized subject of a book, rather than the text itself. Increasingly, instead of reading books, we are consuming holograms. This problem keeps getting worse. And with the rise of AI, it could soon become cataclysmic.

Lit Hub@literaryhub.bsky.social · 3w ago

“Put simply, people don’t buy books. They buy holograms, and they hope the book matches up.” What happens when the idea of a book supersedes the book itself in the eyes of readers.

An excellent review of an excellent book!

Nathan K. Hensley@nathankhensley.bsky.social · 3w ago

“To the extent that the ELF was a political project, it did not give much thought to long-term goals or building power. Its focus was action… but its members’ eventual disillusionment with their own tactics—& failure to achieve lasting change—seems to speak for itself.” Bleak, important review here

Trump just shrunk Bears Ears by 91% and Grand Staircase-Escalante by 90%. Bears Ears was the first national monument co-managed by tribes. Five tribes spent years building that partnership. It's been walked back. 100,000+ archeological sites now exposed to mining and drilling.

OMG, it's happening! Today is the official publication date of my new book, The Earth Said Remember Me: How to Revive Our Memories and Restore the Planet

Writer David Wallace-Wells recommends IN TREES by @robertmoor.com on the @nytimes.com Opinions Podcast! Listen here: www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

‘Platner Is Vile.’ McConnell Is Missing. Welcome to American Politics. | 'The Opinions' Podcast

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Scan your local news today. How many stories are about something climate change is making worse...without saying so? I counted 8 of those in my feed today, vs just 1 that named climate change directly. Why does this matter? Research shows that making this connection changes how people see it.

This is so good. “When you plant a tree, it does not matter who you are or where you came from. Your hands are in the soil, and you belong to the planet as a human being. We don’t just plant trees. We plant belonging, and we plant purpose.”

New School of the Anthropocene@nsota.bsky.social · 3w ago

A brilliant, life-affirming scheme.

Wonder what Rene Descartes would think about the fact that the cover of his book on the nature of consciousness was designed by a machine that is imitating, and feigning, human consciousness

We dropped by Stephen King’s old house in Bangor, and nearby someone has posted missing posters for a dog named Ghost

The exception to this is @robertmoor.com’s In Trees, which I get to talk to him about on Sunday at RiffRaff in Providence, a glorious deviation from o-rings, hideous ideology, or bad decisions

The other is that I'm going to be doing @robertmoor.com's Kingston, NY event at the excellent Rough Draft bookstore ... Looking forward to chatting with him about trees and thinking like trees ... Folks in the Catskills / Hudson Valley, I hope you'll maybe join: www.roughdraftny.com/events/2026/...

Robert Moor (IN TREES) in conversation with Sandy Ernest Allen — Rough Draft Bar & Books

We’re excited to welcome Robert Moor ( On Trails ) to discuss his new book In Trees with the Hudson Valley’s own Sandy Ernest Allen! Join us for a lively summer evening of arboreal wonder and natura...

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Excited to announce the (very swiftly) upcoming tour dates for the East Coast leg of my book tour! Can't wait to talk with all of these brilliant folks—including @brdemuth.bsky.social and @sandyernestallen.bsky.social—about tree-climbing and 'tree-thinking'.

Agreed. And honored to be in this esteemed company.

Andrew Hipp@andrewlhipp.bsky.social · last mo.

Writing clearly matters, changes what we think and care about and spend time on. Pay attention to it. If it is worth committing to paper or the screen, do it clearly and well. (to myself, not sermonizing) Take in great sentences by: Anne Fadiman, Mary Oliver, Zadie Smith, @robertmoor.com ...&&&...