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Enemy of the Sun: Poetry of Palestinian Resistance Edited by Naseer Aruri and Edmund Ghareeb New Forward by Greg Thomas Yellow background with black sketch of bird, flowers, sun, and four people.

Preorder the newly reissued ENEMY OF THE SUN: POETRY OF PALESTINIAN RESISTANCE (Seven Stories Press) from us. All proceeds to Sameer.

It was originally published by Drum & Spear, the publishing arm of SNCC and is finally being reissued!

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The Losses: Of Archives and Arthropods Dead for centuries, the bees can help save their living descendants

"Without the work of curators and curatorial assistants like myself, the unknown will remain hidden for decades more, quietly disintegrating in the lonely darkness...even dead for centuries, the information they offer can help save their living descendants."

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I'm proofreading the intro, conclusion, and seven chapters of my first book manuscript. It's almost done 😭

Our governments are forcing us to watch Palestinians starve to death

A bipartisan endeavor

We kept saying genocide and it has been and also that can make it hard to appreciate this is a new level to it

Mass, irreversible starvation

Entrance of Fixing Our Broken Planet

Second stop (seems I can never go to just one museum/exhibition in a day…) was the Natural History Museum to see their new Fixing our broken planet exhibit.

Are Species Timeless?: Talking with Bathsheba Demuth About the Arctic “There was an interdependence that was very clear in the animal relationships in the Arctic.”

In an interview with Gabriel Rosenberg, @brdemuth.bsky.social asks: Are species timeless? Or do they change over time, as humans do?

“If you take seriously the idea that animals have culture,” Demuth argues, “then you have to assume that it was also changing.”

Opinion | A New Era of Hunger Has Begun

An estimated 47.4 million Americans suffered from hunger last year.

13.8 million were children.

Now this country is set to strip SNAP benefits from *two million* more people—while allocating over $100 billion to "help squads of men in masks" terrorize immigrants.

A searing essay by Tracy Kidder:

Every single story you are hearing from the Everglades Concentration Camp has been and is already taking place in hundreds of prisons and jails in the U.S. That's what PIC abolitionists have been trying to get the public to understand for decades.

If Russia India and the United States were building solar at the same rate as China the renewable energy transition would be over in no time. Unfortunately three of these countries are easily controlled by the interests of fossil fuel capitalists

Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic’s buildings from their 100-year flood map, loosening oversight as the camp operated and expanded in a dangerous flood plain in the years before rushing waters swept away children and counselors, a review by The Associated Press found. The Federal Emergency Management Agency included the prestigious girls’ summer camp in a “Special Flood Hazard Area” in its National Flood Insurance map for Kerr County in 2011, which means it was required to have flood insurance and faced tighter regulation on any future construction projects.

FEMA exempted buildings at old and new sites In response to an appeal, FEMA in 2013 amended the county’s flood map to remove 15 of the camp’s buildings from the hazard area. Records show that those buildings were part of the 99-year-old Camp Mystic Guadalupe, which was devastated by last week’s flood. After further appeals, FEMA removed 15 more Camp Mystic structures in 2019 and 2020 from the designation. Those buildings were located on nearby Camp Mystic Cypress Lake, a sister site that opened to campers in 2020 as part of a major expansion and suffered less damage in the flood.

This country won't get serious about climate change until we're honest about flood and fire risk and insurance to match.

Imagine if Camp Mystic had been required to carry liability insurance in the event that its campers were flood victims. Those cabins would have been moved years ago.

Who made this lmao

Exclusive: Hundreds at Alligator Alcatraz have no criminal charges, Miami Herald learns Descriptions of the Everglades detention center as a place for violent criminals tell only part of the story.

250 people detained in the Florida Everglades have no criminal convictions or pending charges.

Ex-farm worker here.

We need to talk about this whole "But a living wage for farm workers would spike the cost of food!" thing.

Not true AT ALL.

Y'all don't understand how fast experienced farm workers are.

The average tomato picker pulls 650lbs per hour.

At $20/hr, that's $0.03/lb for labor.

Our first farm day was cute af.

‘Positive cascades could help accelerate change’: social tipping points expert on fixing climate crisis The world has been too optimistic about the risk to humanity and planet – but devastation can still be avoided, says Timothy Lenton

Climate tipping points:

"As a rule, the more we learn, the closer we think the tipping points are"

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I have literally never seen a graph like this once in all my years of being an election sicko

18-24 always lags, always, it’s just a natural law of politics

and this is the guy they want to throw out of the party?!

Associate Professor in Environmental History (281801) | University of Stavanger Job title: Associate Professor in Environmental History (281801), Employer: University of Stavanger, Deadline: Thursday, August 7, 2025

Important news for the #envhist crowd: We are hiring an Associate Professor of Environmental History!

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Application deadline is August 7.

Some tips for those interested from abroad in thread 👇

CPS School Board establishes green schools pilot program A resolution approved Thursday directs the school district to look for energy efficient ways to make needed repairs. The board unanimously approved the proposal.

Our @ctulocal1.bsky.social Environmental Justice Freedom School students were featured in the Chicago Sun Times for giving speeches at a CPS Board meeting to demand they support the Green Schools Resolution. It passed unanimously!
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Thank you!! I played a very small role. Cheers to the editors!!

Forthcoming November 2025!

Congratulations to @roguechieftan.bsky.social and all of the authors!!

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I just sat down with Noel Didla of the Mississippi Food Policy Council, and I'm not sure I've been this inspired by one person's work in a while. What a humble and generous rockstar. Honored by her time, care, and example.

In Winona, MS for a Fannie Lou Hamer and Emmett Till Tour. This is the old train depot where Till got off in 1955. He got round trip tickets from Chicago to Winona but, as to know, he never got back on. Never got home.

Sesame Plots What do sesame seeds tell us about the environmental histories of the African diaspora? How does a historian know where to start?

What a time to be a black environmental writer! I love to see so much great environmental work focused on us. You can check out my latest "Sesame Plots" here. Coming soon: a black environmental history of mules and arrieros (muleteers) in the US & Mexico. www.sciencehistory.org/stories/maga...

White and yellow daisies from above

My entire strategy for dealing with These Times is ripping up sod and planting wildflowers, and the Sinners soundtrack. And dogs.

Thank you so much!!

Little Caribbean Last Lap - Brooklyn Botanic Garden Celebrate Brooklyn’s West Indian community with a Tuesday Night Fête at the Garden featuring a live DJ.

🎉 Little Caribbean Last Lap

Tuesday, August 26

Celebrate Brooklyn's West Indian community with a fête at the Garden featuring a live DJ.

Free with Garden admission.

Three performers in festive shirts play instruments (congas, bongos, steel drums, keyboards, and more) in a green outdoor area seen from somewhat far away, playing in front of a tall green tree cascading with green foliage.

A person on stilts wearing a clown outfit and makeup walks amidst a group of excited people who stand on a path inbetween a planting of summer plants illuminated by small lights and a water feature.

Many people sit on blankets on a lawn edged by trees looking at a musical performance in the center of the lawn under several tents.

Mark your calendar! 🗓️ Summer evenings at BBG are filled with fun.

Here’s some of the special happenings at the Garden in the coming months. 🧵👇

Social impacts of glacier loss More than three-quarters of global glacier mass is projected to disappear under present-day policies

Just had our piece come out in Science! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Plants as Teachers and Witnesses One plant biologist reflects on seasonal re-pacing in a culture of constant action, as a gift learned from her study subjects.

www.americanscientist.org/article/plan...

The Influential Black Herbalists Who Inspire Practitioners Today - Brooklyn Botanic Garden The stories of Harriet Tubman, Doctor Caesar, and Emma Dupree remind us that herbal knowledge has always been part of the Black experience.

The Influential Black Herbalists Who Inspire Practitioners Today - Brooklyn Botanic Garden www.bbg.org/article/blac...