Lois Parshley

This precedent-setting policy to dismantle land management plans across the country just passed the Senate today. Read more about what that means for the public lands you care about @grist.org.

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
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Journalism Fail: This implies there is a donut shop aflame in Portland, Oregon right now but the photo is
1) Not Portland
2) Not 2025

It's a 33 YEAR OLD FILE PHOTO. You have to open the story & read the fine print to find out it's Los Angeles in 1992.

Come on @cnn.com. Do better.

this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)

USC sold dead bodies to U.S. military to train IDF medical personnel A review of seven years’ worth of contracts unveiled more than $860,000 to use cadavers in surgical trainings involving the Israeli Defense Forces.

I love when student journalists break a crazy story, especially about their own school. This one is extraordinarily macabre. www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/10/01/u...

White House cancels nearly $8B in clean energy projects in blue states The Trump administration has announced the cancellation of $7.6 billion in funding for clean energy projects across 16 states.

(1/3) Trump promised cheaper energy. But today his DOE is pulling $8B from projects that would lower costs and strengthen the grid, just as AI data center demand soars. That chills investment, slows construction, and leaves families & small businesses facing higher power bills and weaker reliability

GAO: Forest Service upgrades to wildfire communications and tracking imperiled by Trump’s workforce downsizing The U.S. Forest Service neither agreed nor disagreed with a recommendation to develop a strategic plan for upgrading systems to track wildfire fighting resources, instead taking issue with the title o...

GAO: Forest Service upgrades to wildfire communications and tracking imperiled by Trump’s workforce downsizing www.govexec.com/oversight/20... via @GovExec

Taking The Climate Killers To Court As deaths mount from extreme heat and other climate disasters, legal and scientific experts are joining forces on a bold new tactic: Charging polluters with homicide.

You can read it here: www.levernews.com/taking-the-c... You can also hear directly the daughter trying to hold oil companies accountable after record-breaking floods in France killed her mother - and my own 2021 heat dome experience - in this companion podcast: www.levernews.com/when-will-th...

Coming soon! The Best American Science & Nature Writing 2025 Discover the 2025 Best American Science & Nature Writing anthology, curated by Susan Orlean and featuring exceptional science writing that explores the wonders of our natural world.

Thrilled to have my reporting on how fossil fuel companies are starting to be tried for murder in this year's Best American Science and Nature Writing "Notables." It's wonderful to be included with writers I’ve looked up to for years, and still learn from all the time!

In Alaska, a graphite mine races toward approval without the required tribal consent A project in Alaska is being fast-tracked in a process that has not yet included legally required consultations with Inupiaq communities.

Your electric car needs graphite. Do you know where it comes from? This story explores how the push for climate solutions is colliding with Indigenous rights, as a proposed mine in Alaska advances without tribal consultation. grist.org/indigenous/i...

In Alaska, a graphite mine races toward approval without the required tribal consent A project in Alaska is being fast-tracked in a process that has not yet included legally required consultations with Inupiaq communities.

That speed raises red flags, and reduces public input. It could set precedent for Indigenous rights and federal oversight across the American West. As one tribal leader summed up his concerns: “After the fact doesn’t count.”

Read more @grist.org : grist.org/indigenous/i...

A massive Alaskan graphite mine is being fast-tracked—even though federally required tribal consultations haven’t been held with local Inupiaq communities. The acceleration is tied to Trump-era moves to streamline federal permitting. Some environmental reviews could be done in as little as 30 days.

According to Oregon, Trump got the idea that Portland is on fire because Fox News illustrated a September 5 story on protests of ICE with video from the George Floyd riots in 2020.

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The Story of DOGE, as Told by Federal Workers WIRED spoke with more than 200 federal workers in dozens of agencies to learn what happened as the Department of Government Efficiency tore through their offices.

NEW

WIRED led the way in reporting on Elon Musk's efforts to dismantle the US government. My colleagues and I spoke to 100s of employees at dozens of agencies to understand what happened.

This is the definitive story of DOGE as told by those who experienced it

www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

Carol Leonnig Exits Washington Post After 25 Years, Joins MSNBC as Senior Investigative Correspondent The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist is one of several who is leaving the Jeff Bezos-owned paper after buyouts.

And note that the lede reporter on the Homan scoop ended her 25-year career at the Washpost just last month, decamping to NBC News.

Will Lewis, the Post’s CEO, had urged people to leave if they didn’t “feel aligned” w/ the company’s “significant reinvention journey”

www.thewrap.com/carol-leonni...

we wrote about this WH tactic recently. they’re asking journalists for expert source names and then using them to look up political donations in FEC records to try to discredit those sources as biased.

www.npr.org/2025/08/18/n...

Genuinely never cease to be amazed at the bad media decisions.

Republicans are using an arcane oversight rule to permanently dismantle federal land protections Republican lawmakers want to use the Congressional Review Act to permanently erase federal land use plans in Alaska — and beyond.

Despite these unprecedented climate threats, Republicans just voted to permanently repeal Alaska’s land management plans — which ironically throws the region’s oil and mining leases into uncertainty. grist.org/politics/rep...

For the record.

My posts were not even about Kirk directly, but about America's apathy towards political violence, and the coddling of white male shooters and hate peddlers.

I was fired because I mentioned race: white men and violence-- that was my "gross misconduct."

Do you like hiking on public lands? You’re going to want to know what Congress is voting on this week👇

Republicans are using an arcane oversight rule to permanently dismantle federal land protections Republican lawmakers want to use the Congressional Review Act to permanently erase federal land use plans in Alaska — and beyond.

It has serious consequences for Alaskan food security. Karma Ulvi, chief of the Native Village of Eagle, said the repeal threatens the ability of tribes to have a meaningful voice in managing the lands they rely on. Read more @grist: grist.org/politics/rep...

It ignores a decade of public process for the purpose of development. “We are in uncharted territory here,” Representative Sarah Elfreth, a Democrat from Maryland. Experts called it a dangerous expansion of the CRA and other federal agencies could face challenges to long-standing regulations.

Congress passed the Congressional Review Act (CRA) in 1996 to let lawmakers overturn recent federal regulations/regulatory “rules.” For the first time, the House just voted to overturn the federal management plan for 13 million acres in Alaska—an area four times the size of New York—permanently.

Remember the public lands giveaway fight this spring? It’s quietly happening again. Republicans are using the Congressional Review Act to permanently undo federal land management plans—overturning public process and opening millions of acres to drilling & mining.

Trump admin asks court to kill 4 PFAS drinking water limits The prior administration failed to follow a procedural step in the Safe Drinking Water Act, EPA attorneys said in a new filing.

The Trump administration is asking a court to kill drinking water limits on four types of PFAS.

They are part of the Biden-era rule that set the EPA's first enforceable limits on PFAS in drinking water.

This data adds fuel to upcoming climate homicide litigation.

Firefighters question leaders’ role in ICE raid near Bear Gulch Fire - High Country News Firefighting veterans believe the management team overseeing fire crews played a key role in handing team members over to immigration authorities.

Holy shit:

Stateline spoke to nearly a dozen firefighters, agency staffers and contractors, who said that top officials assigned to the fire deployed the crews to a remote location under false pretenses so federal agents could check their immigration status.

www.hcn.org/articles/fir...

The Baby Died. Whose Fault Is It? When her son died in utero, a venture capitalist went to extremes to punish her surrogate.

Wild story on the stillborn death of a baby via surrogate, which truly has it all—capitalism run amok, America's unregulated surrogacy industry, maternal mortality crisis, VC hubris, class conflict, weaponization of fetal personhood laws, Facebook echo chambers.

www.wired.com/story/the-ba...

Reminder: the financial situation for rural Alaska public radio stations remains dire. These stations provide vital, even lifesaving info. For example, KOTZ is the only radio for Northwest Arctic Borough, which is larger than the state of Maine. Please donate if you can. #AlaskaSky
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