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Editor-in-Chief of @sentientmedia.org, the only nonprofit, nonpartisan news outlet reporting on the impacts of factory farming, including climate change, animal welfare, water pollution, labor conditions and more.
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I thought this was Melanie Lynskey from Yellowjackets at first

Was happy to talk to @julietgrable.bsky.social, alongside Alex Hall of @uclaioes.bsky.social and others. Highlighting the ongoing complexity of getting accurate, compelling and actionable information to folks on the condition of their individual drinking water safety.

A reminder of the views of the guy who developed this startup and sold it to Occidental Petroleum bsky.app/profile/keta...

Amid rising immigration raids and bird flu spread, a farmworker group is training their members on how to stay safe. sentientmedia.org/immigrant-fa...

Would you look at that? The Atlantic has a pretty great slideshow of yesterday's pro-democracy rallies that took place nationwide www.theatlantic.com/photo/2025/0...

You mean those assurances were meaningless? Who could have predicted this?!

FDA Food chief on his decision to leave FDA: “The secretary’s comments impugning the integrity of the food staff, asserting they are corrupt based on falsities, is a disservice to everyone." Jim Jones had just hired food-chemical safety staff, who were laid off. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

USDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is trying to rehire them In a statement, an Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation." www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

A number of avian flu research projects are caught in the crosshairs of the Trump administration's review process, reports @greymoran.bsky.social. The timing couldn't be worse. sentientmedia.org/avian-flu-re...

I don't think I've ever had that happen with a FOIA request! www.cnn.com/2025/02/18/p...

Reupping this because I posted over the weekend. Any health policy journalists looking into this?

I'm a parent of a kid who takes some of the meds RFK Jr has taken aim at, and they are absolutely life-saving. Given the MAHA Commission will be reviewing antidepressants and other medications, what could the commission recommend that could actually happen, legally and practically?

J.D. Vance and his wife Usha go to Dachau concentration camp and make sad faces, and also meet with Alice Weidel, the extreme-right-wing leader of Alternative for Germany (AfD) and candidate for chancellor in this month’s elections in Germany. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/w...

If this reporting stands up (and it appears confirmed by multiple sources): devastating. The EIS is the front-line SWAT team of disease detection in the US and globally, and also the training ground for new generations of public health workers. No EIS, no boots on the ground for outbreaks. ->

This is heartbreakingly beautiful -- "Kiah is like sunshine, personified"

Trump admin muzzles reports and briefings on bird flu even as farm workers become infected. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

Stand with the @apnews.com 💪🏻 "Journalism is printing something that someone does not want printed. Everything else is public relations.” — George Orwell C/O @nberlat.bsky.social at Public Notice

It's hard to process the news I'm getting from my amazing federal government colleagues who work on climate and energy about their firing. We're definitely worse off as a result.

What has been interesting to me is how the researchers mentioned here brought together some odd allies — a mix of animal rights folks and GMO/pesticide critics with a dash of Mike Shellenberger for fun? Not sure how that's going anymore because X is so unusable. www.wired.com/story/reveng...

And now we said it: sentientmedia.org/rfks-raw-mil...

Bill Gates has slashed his global climate philanthropy as the billionaire makes a rumored switch to triage global health funding, @kbrigham.bsky.social reports: heatmap.news/climate-tech...

We can and should sneer at RFK, MAHA, and "wellness" influencers, but many publicly funded universities are knee deep in the evidence-free-zone of so called nutraceuticals or functional foods.

NEW: The Trump administration has flown about 100 immigrants from El Paso to Guantanamo Bay. The Tribune and ProPublica spoke to the relatives of three of them, who say that they have been left entirely in the dark about their loved ones.

Le sigh. Please do talk to Nina if you have expertise in this area, we really need to be informed about this stuff.

MAHA is happening. Looking to speak with some experts on how this could affect agriculture and our food systems - signal is ninaelkadi.64

🥁 It's that time of year again... We know you've all been waiting for it... Submissions are OPEN for the 2025 Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards! 🎉

It’s hard to rank the disasters of the moment, but this feels especially terrifying and tragic.

Nothing like starting your day with an email about some rando giving a Nazi salute and screaming outside where you used to go for shabbat services.