This video from Taylor Lorenz about the potential collapse of journalism is deeply important. Especially over the past 48 hours “I don’t think people understand how bad the world would be without journalists” “I don’t want to live in a world where all of the news is delivered

The Joe Biden administration will pause approvals of new LNG export terminals! 🌻🙌 This comes after years of frontline community organizing in the Gulf South and beyond. theguardian.com/us-news/2024/j… by Oliver Milman #NoLNG

The Grist 50 is our annual list of emerging leaders in climate, sustainability, and equity. Click the link to nominate someone who is helping create a clean, green, just future: gristorg.typeform.com/g50nominations

Revealed: How the global oil industry is fueling Israel’s war on Gaza. Israeli jets and tanks bombarding Palestinians are being fueled by some of the world’s most profitable #FossilFuel companies – and US tax-payers. theguardian.com/world/2024/mar… by @ninalakhani

What’s the best narrative longform article you’ve read recently (or ever)? Looking for recs now that Longform doesn’t do best of roundups anymore 😢

Daniel Kahneman on the occupation of Palestine

Must-read Dylan Rodríguez piece in Truthout on how the funder-driven Stop Asian Hate movement is deliberately replicating ADL’s reactionary, carceral playbook of legitimizing the expansion of carceral+imperial power in the guise of a civil rights project: truthout.org/articles/why-i…

The 1882 Foundation in Washington, DC dedicated six memorial bricks at the Congressional Cemetery at the Chinese American Memorial. Photos by Jessica Xiao.

folks at the DC public library were begging me and others to help get WAMU to respond to their offer to help archive DCist. After I finally got the provost to bully WAMU into responding, WAMU leadership claimed to journalism faculty that they had brokered the meeting themselves

How are news outlets dedicating wall-to-wall coverage to campus protests, but not the discovery of mass graves in Gaza of people with their hands tied & clothing stripped? Why do we not know more? Where are the journalists and resources being dedicated to that story?

‼️ Major win‼️ After years of litigation and grassroots organizing, today, the U.S. EPA issued the CCR Surface Impoundment Rule, extending federal monitoring and cleanup requirements to hundreds of previously excluded inactive, older coal ash landfills and ponds…⬇️

🚨A growing number of open air and water marine geoengineering experiments pose threats to marine ecosystems and communities. 📑Read our statement expressing deep concerns about these experiments. #NoGeoengineering #NoFalseSolutions geoengineeringmonitor.org/2024/05/marine…

National organizations call out anti-Asian bigotry in Congress. A coalition of AAPI and other groups denounced what they consider the vilification of Chinese immigrants. asamnews.com/2024/06/03/org…

Mayor Parker confirms that the fiscal commitment to support Chinatown will still happen even though the community benefits agreement previously proposed fell through.

TODAY'S PRESS CONFERENCE IS A TOTAL 180 FROM THE DECEMBER PRESS CONFERENCE. THOSE WHO SUPPORTED THE 76ERS ARENA SHOULD FEEL GASLIGHTED RIGHT NOW BECAUSE THEY ARE LITERALLY HYPING UP EVERYTHING ABOUT THE 76ERS STAYING IN SOUTH PHILLY THAT WAS ALREADY TOLD TO THEM BEFORE THAT

THREAD: It is now safe to say that Mayor Parker tried to play the same playbook that Kenney did with the soda tax (union support, Black leaders, City Council) -- but it bombed because they didn't have the legitimate support of the community and were negotiating with billionaires

There's no kind way to say this, so I will make it plain: But this is literally the definition of selling out. The "spin" that City Council members keep trying to make is that they did what was necessary to keep the 76ers in Philly...but the gag is that they were never going to

This is a damning of democracy and they should be ashamed of themselves. Not one apology was given to Philadelphians from any of them. The arrogance and brovado displayed lacked the humanity and consideration that should be expected of our leaders. Real leadership demands of

Use your voice for communities today. Send a one-click email to Jane Nishida, Acting Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, to demand the release of #EnvironmentalJustice funds now. win.newmode.net/climatejustice…

Elon Musk's AI company xAI chose Memphis for a huge new data center, powered by 35 gas turbines that enviros estimate are a major producer of smog-forming pollution. It has no federal air permits. "Our lungs" are "on the auction block," a state rep says. By Ariel Wittenberg