Earlier this year, the USDA removed webpages that share climate risk maps used by farmers to prepare for extreme weather. After a lawsuit from environmental & farming groups, the agency agreed to release the data behind those maps.
📰 @fridagarza.bsky.social for @grist.org: grist.org/food-and-agr...
popped back onto twitter for a bit and everyone is arguing about mexican food. thankfully i'm blessed in the knowledge that mexicans are everywhere and mexican food is whatever we want it to be
"In a dreadful era for journalism jobs, the Post’s bloodbath stands out: last week may have been the biggest one-day wipeout of journalists in a generation."
washingtonian.com/2026/02/09/a...
as a lapsed musician who would not have survived K-12 education without music classes, I felt and recognized the power the inmates spoke about. A great essay from Alex and I'm glad Luke published it.
Setting aside that to be Puerto Rican is to have an inherently politicized identity, the show was full of political gestures.
www.thecut.com/article/bad-...
This x10000. If you’re an editor, commission Puerto Rican writers — there are many of us!!
One of the scariest aspects of the Trump administration is that they continue to make us vulnerable to an ever lengthening list of disasters that haven't happened yet but eventually will.
I miss Dan so much. I'm so glad we could celebrate his life together today.
One more comment on the Post debacle: this hurts journalism broadly. Good journalists will go do something else. The rest will be fighting for fewer jobs and everyone will earn less. Fewer people will take up the career. The damage done is to the ecosystem, as well as the paper.
Here's who the Washington Post just laid off.
NEWS: The cuts were so severe that at least one department head asked to leave The Post rather than be included in the planning.
Peter Finn, The Post's international editor, requested that he be laid off once he learned about the scope of the cuts to his section.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...
these are great ash
as a journalist, the gutting of wapo makes me anxious; as an american, it makes me terrified
Journalist Georgia Fort has been released from custody (video @fox9mn.bsky.social)
Here's an opportunity to support the other journalist arrested today; Georgia Fort, who will have far fewer resources available to her than Don Lemon.
some (rare) good news for the journalism industry: The Philadelphia Inquirer is profitable
www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
SCOOP: Palantir Defends Work With ICE to Staff Following Killing of Alex Pretti
WIRED obtained Slack conversations + an updated internal Palantir wiki defending the company's work for ICE to outraged workers.
More here:
www.wired.com/story/palant...
Voted for ICE funding
Wrote about COP30 with @fridagarza.bsky.social for @grist this week about what the protests mean in context of land tenure and deforestation grist.org/global-indig...
it happened to me: i bought a new shirt and i have worn it every day since
"Whatever the reason, the result is clear: By dismissing Wholf and her team, Ellison has effectively told CBS News it’s no longer responsible for keeping the public informed about climate change." heated.world/p/cbs-news-k...
megan i wish you were in charge of everything
condemnations of political violence are well taken but it does feel as if some
prominent political commentators are of the view that violence isn’t a part of the history of American politics and that is very much not true.
Hello friends, especially Chicago friends. Today for @grist.org, @wbez.org, and @insideclimatenews.org, we've published an investigation into Chicago's lead pipe crisis and an accompanying interactive map. You can read the story here: grist.org/accountabili...
A quick 🧵 follows.
Important reminder re: climate change from a @coveringclimatenow.org session this AM. This is a big reason behind our solutions journalism approach!
Last week, Border Patrol agents massed outside of a @governor.ca.gov news conference. They wound up arresting Angel Rodrigo Minguela Palacios, a strawberry delivery driver with no criminal record and just there to drop off fruit to a tea room.
This is his story
www.latimes.com/california/s...
I'll never be as good at writing as I want to be, but the process is the deeply absorbing and satisfying work I've loved most for my whole entire life
From @fridagarza.bsky.social: Trump's tariffs (of nearly 50%!) will make your morning coffee more expensive.
