“I feel that it’s important that Columbus says ... we want to keep you here. We want to show that we actually say what we mean when we do amazing and that we do amazing by our own people,” a supporter said. trib.al/r8mUKHh

Why is the Western drought so bad this year? And why are water shortages going to be a problem for decades to come? This #NPRShortWave episode answers that in 12 minutes (plus awesome archival sound) w/Emily Kwong Brit Hanson Rebecca Ramirez Gisèle Grayson npr.org/2021/06/22/100…

Thoughtful story from Nick Wooten on activists' decade-long petition of Columbus city government to properly memorialize and apologize for its role in the gruesome & unjust deaths of two Black men in 1865

#NewProfilePic PSA that I’m now a proud #CurlyGirl

"Today, I, and so many other young people, wake up enraged — the IPCC report is apocalyptic, catastrophic, and nothing we haven’t been screaming from the rooftops for years," the executive director of the Sunrise Movement said. trib.al/sBU2Cg3

lede of the day: "People who live in glass houses should get stoned. Especially when the glass house is a West Coast farm that grows cannabis on more than half-a-million square feet of space in the famous California sun." candidchronicle.com/graham-farrar-…

The Town Council chambers, for the evening, became a microcosm of the nation, which remains deeply divided over basic facts about the pandemic. The Island Packet/Report for America islandpacket.com/news/coronavir…

Just because apparently the city's giving away mosquito fish like they did after Katrina, re-upping this piece about climate change, skeeters and disease nola.com/news/environme…

I’m not sure people fully appreciate this. Hartford Courant newsroom over time: 1990s: ~400 people 2018, when I started: ~85 people Nov. 2019, when a certain hedge fund first invested: 72 people Today: 36 people

A beet salad changed my life tonight

When Black-owned bars in the city disappear, this not only deprives the Black community of a space to call home, but it also changes the cultural fabric of the city and puts Black history at risk of being forgotten. Check out my new story in Gambit nola.com/gambit/food_dr…

throwback to when emeril tweeted out my article/musings on food stuffed inside of other food

First Fat Tuesday since 2015 that I’m not covered in glitter and eating bbq on a curb somewhere along the parade route

Live at the U.S. Capitol.

Protestor’s signs outside the U.S. Capitol in the wake of Roe v. Wade’s overturn

FOIAed info on dinosaur fossils call that a redactydactyl