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Bad Bunny Was Always Political. His commentary from Krippy Kush era to the DTMF.

And I've since written some updates <3 mediamercado.substack.com/p/bad-bunny-...

The end of DOE’s grid work in Puerto Rico The Trump administration has canceled all eight of the remaining awards devoted to distributed energy on the island.

Just a few weeks ago, the administration cancelled all remaining department of energy grid resilience projects in Puerto Rico. All of them. www.latitudemedia.com/news/the-end...

Puerto Rico hasn't had reliable power in a decade.

The grid sends occasional surges through the wires that fry appliances.

Electricity rates are among the highest in the entire U.S.

Heat waves are getting intense in the summer, and outages mean A/C is no guarantee for an aging population.

I will eventually shut up about this but Bad Bunny’s use of the power lines is an outstanding example of how to communicate about climate and energy issues. Not about who is the smartest nerd in the room and spewing numbers but about people’s actual lives. Genius.

In 'El Apagón,' Bad Bunny Tackles Gentrification and Power Outages The Puerto Rican musician balances the pride and anger of Puerto Ricans in his new album, Un Verano Sin Ti .

Those power lines signified a lot in bad bunny’s halftime show, gonna cite the official bad bunny x climate correspondent @angelymercado.bsky.social gizmodo.com/bad-bunny-el...

ICE’s theater of war Camo and hats for jungle combat do not make sense in American cities. But they are key to dressing for the war ICE has imagined.

What do mirrors reflect back to ICE agents who dress up for war? When they outfit themselves in dramatic camo and hats for jungle warfare in...Minneapolis?

I wrote about the inherent theatrics in ICE's tunnel vision of violence and the real identities behind the body armor.

As D.C. chooses a new Mayor this year, a big question for their leadership should be whether or not they will fight for public ownership and local control of their electric utility, instead of leaving it under the control of a Chicago-based corporation, Exelon. Great outline of the issues.

Journo Request: I’m looking for people who have placed bets with Kalshi, on their climate markets. Get in touch (there’s a form on my website) if you have!

Just possibly it's the oil? A solar panel is the new peace sign

"Not for the first time, and not for the last, I’m going to make the observation that it’s going to be hard to figure out how to fight wars over sunshine," @billmckibben.bsky.social writes: billmckibben.substack.com/p/just-possi...

I just donated 🫶🏽

Trucks Move the Country’s Goods Through This County. As Even More Loom, People Are Pushing Back. - Inside Climate News Illinois’ Will County has North America’s largest inland intermodal transport hub. Residents worry about more traffic and pollution from a huge new warehouse complex.

ICYMI: I wrote about how trucks and warehouses are infringing on people’s quality of life and their health insideclimatenews.org/news/0611202...

‘MigraWatch’ trainings to ‘Whistlemania’ events: Chicagoans fight back against ICE raids Residents are organizing in response to raids across the city amid Trump’s wide-ranging ‘operation midway blitz’

There’s been a lot of stories about what Chicagoans have been enduring under ICE raids, here’s one about what they’re doing to fight back www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

11/5/25: On repacking your unpacked funeral clothes an obituary I couldn’t bring myself to volunteer to write; a walk through Chicano history; thoughts about grief and the government; photos from reporting trips.

In late September, my family and I lost our matriarch, my abuela. I've been a bit all over the place since. My abuela moved to our hometown in the 70s. She loved it even as one of the first Mexican families there.

It's been targeted every day by ICE. I wrote about it.
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Donate to Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover, organized by Lexi McMenamin More than half the team at Teen Vogue was laid off this week by our parent co… Lexi McMenamin needs your support for Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover

thank you for the outpouring of support!

those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.

Lex is the reason that so many young people have gotten a political grounding and education on lgbtq+ and trans rights, housing, labor, climate, politics itself. This is a monumental loss for the industry 💔

Scripps Research scientists launch new digital clinical trial to test repurposed drug for long COVID symptom relief

We've just launched the first large, site-less (home, direct to participant) randomized trial for treatment of #LongCovid, testing tirzepatide (a GLP-1 drug) vs placebo. Please help spread the word
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Tbh it requires a lot of resources and time to do deep, community-engaged work in places that don’t already have access to high-quality journalism but it’s worth it to prevent misinformation, particularly around climate, and something like the rollback of the IRA

I kept saying this, that despite it being so popular in climate circles, nobody outside of those circles knew what was going on (yes despite a lot of amazing journalists documenting it) part of reaching new audiences is to help increase public understanding of the good things and the bad things

We must keep Jamaica in the news and in our hearts and actions.

What's happening there right now in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa is nothing short of a humanitarian emergency and it requires an immediate international aid response.

CBS News just gutted its climate team Paramount and Bari Weiss aren't off to a great start. Here's why David Ellison should change course.

NEWS: CBS News gutted its climate team as part of the big Paramount layoffs this week. These journalists had been doing incredible reporting on extreme heat, flooding, clean energy investments and more.

I've got details for Climate-Colored Goggles: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/cbs-news-g...

The dangerous combination that made Melissa a monster hurricane Hurricane Melissa’s power was undeniable, intensifying faster than most storms on record.

My quote for today's WaPo story: "We’re going to be seeing a lot more Melissas in the future and we’re definitely not ready for it".

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Cook County Board Reapproves Contract with ICE-Linked Data Firm as Raids Sweep Chicago Four years after first being warned that a contract risked exposing immigrant data to ICE, Cook County approved another renewal—this time with advocates commissioners voicing frustration that stronger...

I’ve been tracking this contract since 2023, and last week, Cook County quietly renewed it. As ICE raids continue across Chicago, the board approved another $1M deal with a data broker tied to ICE. My latest for @southsideweekly.bsky.social

COVID Stole a Parent from Over 200,000 Children. Indian Country Lost the Most – MindSite News COVID was not an equal-opportunity destroyer. American Indian and Alaska Native children were orphaned at three times the rate of white children, and Black children at double the rate. Without support...

Highly recommend reading this @mindsitenews.bsky.social article on how Native kids were impacted by higher rates of parental death in the early Covid pandemic. mindsitenews.org/2025/03/12/c...

How do military strikes 'test' rather than 'end' a ceasefire? Make it make sense

Welcome to the Take, Teen Vogue’s politics newsletter, where we’ll keep you up-to-date on the organizers, politicians, and agents of change trying to save our world — or at least shift things for the better. I’m politics editor Lex McMenamin, and starting today, I’ll be explaining how we’re seeing current events, and sharing our coverage. On Saturday, an estimated 5 to 6 million people joined a No Kings rally in their area, likely becoming the largest recorded single-day action in the United States. But what does one day have to do with all the rest, if you're not sure how to sustain your resistance beyond an event? "Protest is a tactic; it is not a strategy on its own, and it should never be intended to stand on its own outside of a broader strategy," Indivisible’s Leah Greenberg, co-organizer of No Kings, told me the day before the rallies. So we’re sharing some key ways you can get involved in your community today, if you’re not sure where to start. Til the weekend! Lex

🥁 new @teenvogue.com

as politics editor, I'm now writing our newsletter The Take (with a refresh from our art team 😍)

first one focuses on plugging into organizing post-No Kings, from ICE watch to salting a workplace.

it is 100% free and sends Wed + Sat! sign up! www.teenvogue.com/newsletter/t...

Hurricane Melissa is now the strongest storm on the planet this year | CNN Melissa is about to deliver Jamaica its most devastating blow from a hurricane.

Melissa is a monster. Thinking of Jamaica tonight www.cnn.com/weather/live...

Hurricane Melissa which is en route to decimate Haiti and Jamaica rapidly intensified to category 4 storm. Rapid intensification is a hallmark of climate change, but that category is only a measure of its wind speed. It is also expected to bring up to 40 inches of rain

Is Shell to blame for a ‘super typhoon’? Philippines survivors to sue oil giant in legal first

Typhoon Rai killed more than 400, displaced nearly 3.2 million, and destroyed more than a million homes in 2021.
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The Last Columbia Protester in ICE Detention Leqaa Kordia, a Palestinian woman who has lived in the U.S. since 2016, has been detained in Texas for the past eight months.

Do you know the name, Leqaa Kordia? She’s the last Columbia protester in ICE detention. Read her story. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

If you really want an inside look at make sunsets…read shade by Sam Bloch