Jeva Lange 🫎

My mom has the radio on and the hosts are debating the worth of legacy and local journalism and this might be my Joker moment

Pinned lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Aug 19, 2021 Almost three years ago, my editor called me early one November morning. A wildfire had sparked near a town called Paradise, he said. Could I go? (1/13) 0:02 / 0:10 lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · 47m I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated. Quote lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Jan 25 Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

NFL offensive players: i just think we need to stop picking people from new mexico. i mean nobody any disrespect but football is an american sport.

NFL defensive players: carly rae jepsen is mother

Oh man, this movie always hits something really raw in me! I cry like every time.

whoops tagging broke but that's @fcardamenis.bsky.social

The Birth of a Nation (D.W. Griffith, 1915) Or, form vs. content on the occasion of America's semiquincentennial.

.@fcardamenis.bsky.social on why BIRTH OF A NATION was successful in its odious message—because it *is* accomplished dramatically & artistically—has got me thinking about how there is no Griffith or Riefenstahl of the MAGA movement. Instead, they've outsourced their propaganda to AI and it sucks lol

PSE sent us a ranking of the most efficient homes in our area and where our household falls and this is brilliant because I am competitive and now want to defeat all my neighbors. It’s like Strava’s Local Legend but for turning on your heat.

Maybe???

The Grid Survived The Storm. Now Comes The Cold. With historic lows projected for the next two weeks — and more snow potentially on the way — the big strain may be yet to come.

Here's @jeva.bsky.social and @zeitlin.bsky.social with your grid forecast for the next couple weeks:

heatmap.news/energy/winte...

Don't know what happened, but in the last 12 hours, my FB feed has been flooded with right-wing engagement bait ("reply 'Amen' if you believe Jesus has saved your life," feel-good police department posts, Newsmax, "I don't care if I offend the libs" x-posts from Twitter, weirder-than-normal AI slop)

Mike Trout: The nuances of the European model are not properly explained by your average meteorologist

Bryce Harper: CLOUDSEEDING

Someone is shooting off fireworks lol

SUPER BOWL

"First launched in 1974, Ciclovía is a program that shuts down city streets to cars once a week, on Sundays, and opens them to people walking and biking... In a city of 9 million, some 2 million residents of the city participate every week."

I saw it in IMAX and my hands got so sweaty that I was wiping them on my pants when I walked out of the theater

I would pay good money to never have to watch or think about Alex Honnold climbing a building on live TV

Climate Change Won’t Make Winter Storms Less Deadly In some ways, fossil fuels make snowstorms like the one currently bearing down on the U.S. even more dangerous.

It gonna be cold out there this weekend in much of the U.S.

While you're huddled up inside, read @jeva.bsky.social's story about why warmer winters might not make us safer:

heatmap.news/climate/wint...

It’s always Marketplace somewhere

Have you noticed how when you turn on NPR, Marketplace is always on

It’s crazy that so much has happened that I’d completely forgotten we bailed out Argentina

The Ground Truth Government-issued maps are a public trust, a promise to help us explore America’s public lands safely. Yet they no longer reflect the reality of our nation’s trails.

"Thanks to climate change, natural disasters, wildfire, and a chronic lack of resources, our trails are vanishing faster than our ability to maintain public land." Cool visual partnership between @highcountrynews.org and REPUBLIC: www.republic.land/the-ground-t...

Venezuela’s Oil Is Only Part of Its Climate Story The country is already suffering the effects of climate change. A lack of data makes it that much more difficult to adapt.

The U.S. oil takeover in Venezuela is bad for the planet, of course. But we don’t know exactly the ways in which it’ll be bad for *Venezuela* because the region is yet another blind spot for science in the Global South. heatmap.news/climate/vene...

Another for the list: "Wellwater: Poems" by Karen Solie, out May 5 and exploring "the cultural, economic, and personal ideas of 'value,' addressing housing, economic and environmental crises, and aging and its incumbent losses."

Good company — definitely want to read the Salt Lakes book!

Got another one to add to the list in the mail today! “How Flowers Made Our World” by David George Haskell, out March 24. Thanks @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social, @vikingbooks.bsky.social!

Jeva! Thank you so much for including NIGHTFARING on your list of anticipated environment books this year. I am honored and delighted to be included among a really wonderful list. Lots to put on my own reading list...🌌

"Ecocivilization: Making a World that Works for All," by @jeremylent.bsky.social (May 26)

"Ghost-Eye," by @amitav.bsky.social (June 16)

"Unprecedented Times," by Malavika Kannan (August 18)

"Nightfaring: In Search of the Disappearing Darkness," by @meganeaves.com (March 31)

"In Trees: An Exploration," by @robertmoor.com (April 7)

"Little Apocalypses: Essays on Motherhood, Climate Change, and Hope at the End of the World," by Kaitlyn Teer (April 14)

"Horses: Poems," by Jake Skeets (March 24)

"The Power of Life: The Invention of Biology and the Revolutionary Science of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck," by Jessica Riskin (March 24)

"The Westerners: Mythmaking and Belonging on the American Frontier," by @mkn.bsky.social (March 31)

"Hotwired: How the Hidden Power of Heat Makes Us Stronger," by @billgifford.bsky.social (March 17)

"Salt Lakes: An Unnatural History," by @cetracey.bsky.social (March 17)

"The Feather Wars: And the Great Crusade to Save America's Birds," by James H. McCommons (March 17)