@lelanargi
Environmental journalist covering food + ag systems/food + water insecurity/climate science #SEJ Kids science author repped by @essiewhite.bsky.social #scbwi Clumsy on land https://lelanargi.com/ Signal: LelaNargi.67
The Clean Water Act has allowed states and tribes to derail some high-profile projects. That power will be diminished with the Trump administration's new rule, environmental advocates say.
I used Iowa to take a look at the nationwide push from right wing groups to link abortion drugs to water quality issues. It's an organized effort that has no basis in actual science. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/pseudos...
Best story of the month imo
www.nj.com/food/2026/03...
The Massachusetts Department of Correction has been fighting me for months, trying to withhold data about its collaboration with ICE.
Yesterday, I won that fight, and obtained records showing that the state has transferred more than 2,000 people into ICE custody since 2009.
A quick thread:
After remaining silent for almost a year about the U.S. measles outbreak, NIH/CDC poseur Jay Bhattacharya is now recommending measles vaccines.
And this is where he gets to see the impact of the destruction of trust in public health and vaccines, for which he is partially responsible.
i love them
"Pelican-za"? Is that something?
These are very good pelicans
Not a duck but I did see Eurasian coots on a trip to Denmark and they are extremely weird (and adorable)
📈Oil prices are spiking after escalation around Iran.
🥣 Food prices likely next.
1/2 the world’s calories depend on synthetic fertilizer made from fossil #gas – 1/4 of that trade passes through the Strait of Hormuz.
This is a food access issue.
👉 #FuelToFork
ipes-food.org/report/fuel-...
Trump plans to increase livestock grazing on public lands, ostensibly to bolster the beef industry. Critics say w 87% of Western lands already dedicated to this + a concurrent deactivation of enviro protections, there are a lot of ways this could go sideways. My latest for Offrange:
bit.ly/4rQpLUc
It’s very cool that the American news outlet with perhaps the most robust reporting on Iran, The Washington Post, fired everyone at its Middle East desk 3 weeks ago.
Because of new USPS rules, voters who mail registration forms near the deadline may risk being left off the rolls. One solution: requesting a manual postmark at the retail counter of a post office.
Key elements of the Trump administration’s arguments this week for another military campaign against Iran are either false or unproven. Here's a fact-check. nyti.ms/46tj8P5
They dropped off Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a blind refugee who didn't speak English, at a CLOSED Tim Hortons.
5 miles away from his home.
He never made it.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Eva Woods is a tireless community leader in Los Angeles who has, for years, spearheaded care for our neighbors in MacArthur Park. She was recently assaulted and needs help to pay for extensive medical bills. If you can support, friends have organized a GoFundMe: www.gofundme.com/f/support-a-...
Trump says this is not happening. Which is why he spent his State of the Union speech honoring sports teams and awarding military medals.
BREAKING: Protests have erupted at Columbia University after the school says DHS agents detained a student after making "misrepresentations to gain entry" to building.
Ah the spork — crap at being a spoon, worse at being a fork... but maybe one of my favorite words in the English language?
NEW: Guards have taken away crayons, colored pencils & paper during recent room searches at Dilley, according to detainees and others. After one inspection, the children just “cried and cried and cried,” a mother said. The facility denies the claims.
By @mckenziefunk.com @micarosenberg.bsky.social
Seems...bad? ambrook.com/offrange/lan...
In the weeks before their son was shot by NYPD officers, the Chakraborty family did everything they could to get him treatment. They were forsaken at every turn.
My latest, with @propublica.org + @nytimes.com:
An Oklahoma law was supposed to help reduce the sentences of domestic violence survivors who fought back -- women who are serving long sentences for killing their abusers. Why are nearly all of them still in prison?
www.propublica.org/article/okla...
Reading this story—about how the Pentagon has been given so much extra money it's struggling to spend it all—while thinking about the formerly homeless tenants I've spoken with in recent weeks whose housing vouchers are being discontinued for "lack of funds."
What it would look like if fisheries managers favored a whole-ecosystem approach to harvesting the ocean, favoring local fishers, Indigenous expertise + wellbeing economies? My latest for @foodprintorg.bsky.social foodprint.org/blog/improvi...
A small crowd stands around a woman with a megaphone holding a sign that reads "ProPublica Workers: READY TO STRIKE"
A group of six people in winter clothes on the sidewalk smile at the camera. They are holding signs that read "ProPublica Workers Love a Fair Contract" and "ProPublica Workers: READY TO STRIKE"
A man holds a megaphone on a snowy sidewalk next a large inflatable rat. Several people stand near him holding signs that say "ProPublica Workers Deserve Fair Pay"
1/ ICYMI: We are ready to strike if necessary to win the contract we deserve, complete with job security, guardrails around AI and fair wages. Yesterday, we practiced picketing outside @propublica.org offices.
One of the Minnesotans who stood up was Gust Johnson, a Vietnam war vet and nurse
He went to scene after Alex Pretti was killed
Agents repeatedly sprayed him in face
They tackled him (knocking out hearing aid and cutting arm)
They shackled him.
They held him ten hours.
They kept his phone.
Some children in Dilley were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, parents told ProPublica.
They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick.
Amidst all the atrocities taking place in the U.S., please don't forget the imminent threat of being robbed of our public lands. Once this happens, to paraphrase Heather Cox Richardson, we will never get them back. (Sample letter to U.S. senators included in article.)
