2026-2027 @NovaForHealth Media Fellow; Climate/EJ reporter; 2024 @TEDTalks speaker; @NAHJ past president; @uproot_project founding member
Santa Barbara, CA
Joined June 2009
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🧵So I’ve been working on a little something that I never imagined I could do. A Ted Talk! My hope: that it can turn into a big something. And it just might, with your help. This happened thanks to a partnership between @RockefellerFdn @TEDTalks: shorturl.at/9zATP
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.@jamestalarico opens victory speech: "We just took back Texas. We just proved that all the money in the world is no match for the people of Texas... We just sent a message to every billionaire megadonor...every trillinoaire megadonor... in this state power belongs t the people."
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'In 1860, an enslaved man named Sheppard Peek was listed among the possessions of William Peek. His value was placed at $1400.
More than a century and a half later, Sheppard’s great-great-granddaughter, Keisha Lance Bottoms, was elected governor of GA' ajc.com/politics/2026/11/kei…
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Thank you, New Mexico! It is the honor of my lifetime to be elected your 33rd Governor.
Tonight, you made history. You chose a future where New Mexico comes first, where working families have a chance to get ahead, and where every New Mexican has a voice.
I know the challenges ahead are real. But I also know that New Mexicans have never backed down from a fight — and we are going to tackle these challenges together.
Whether you voted for me or not, I will always be your Governor, too. Because this campaign was about all of us, and the future we deserve.
Let’s keep New Mexico, New Mexico. Let’s build a brighter future for our families. And let’s get to work.
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California’s for-profit utilities are lobbying for legislation that would protect their shareholders from paying for future wildfires they cause. @MelodyPetersen @latimes latimes.com/business/story/2…
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Yet another extreme rainfall event is currently unfolding across Arizona and the Four Corners portion of AZ, NM, UT, and CO--and very serious major to locally catastrophic/record-breaking flooding is unfolding. Some areas will see *even worse* flooding than last week by tomorrow.
ALT Current snapshot of flood watches/warning and forecasts from NOAA's Water Prediction Center. It depicts numerous locations at or above predicted flood stage, with more than a few at or predicted to se "major" flooding.
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🚨NEW🚨We obtained nearly 200 pages of handwritten testimonies from men in ICE detention in Texas, denouncing allegations of abuse and conditions inside.
They include details of an aggressive ICE arrest, the beating of a man by private guards, substandard conditions, and labor “exploitation” inside.
The packet we reviewed also includes vivid drawings and songs:
theguardian.com/us-news/2026…
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Here it is: My big October update on the now near-record/record-strength El Niño event and the still-increasing likelihood of significant California impacts this winter. This deep-dive post is meant to accompany my Tuesday 1pm PT livestream. weatherwest.com/archives/441…
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We’ve stopped naming what is happening to us. Humans have seen this dynamic for at least 700 years. In Tales of Count Lucanor, no one will tell the king that he’s naked, too afraid of what telling the truth might cost them. And so we have silence from so many politicians and media outlets, even as our planet breaks another record, day after day, barreling toward an off-the-charts Super El Niño.
Entry #1 of my El Niño diary in today's Notes from the Electric Era newsletter.
electricnotes.news/p/el-nino…
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So I think it is fair to say that the warning lights are flashing--in California, and also beyond. This extreme El Niño event will have widespread global impacts. We've never seen an event this big before in the context of our rapidly warming climate. Expect some surprises.
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This kind of outlook is one reason why California's pre-emptive emergency declaration, I think, is justified. Disaster is not guaranteed! But with a forecast like this, it is hard to image ever having a clearer advanced warning of a potentially difficult winter ahead in CA.
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To be quite honest, this is a seriously concerning outlook. While it remains true that El Niño, even a very strong one, "tilts the odds" rather than guaranteeing outcomes, the current forecast suggests one heck of an odds tilt toward wet conditions--perhaps problematically so.
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Just did some number crunching using latest (Oct 1) ECMWF seasonal data, and I must say that I've never seen such high predictive confidence in a very wet California winter. This is a truly extraordinary forecast amid a record-strength El Niño event. [Thread: please read to end.]
ALT Model-relative sea surface temperature anomalies for November 2026–January 2027. The supplied grid is displayed without added smoothing or coastal filling. Beige marks land and gray marks missing ocean values. The main colour scale spans -2 to +10°F, with white at zero. Hot pink marks anomalies above +10°F. This map does not establish an operational ENSO category.
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🌞🌞🌞Scoop - Trump admin weighing 12 data center proposals for 17,600 acres of public land across six states
Far more than previously known
By @mara_hop & @jadelozada_
washingtonsun.com/climate-en…
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Breaking news: The Trump administration secretly obtained 6 months of phone records for a journalist without a search warrant or any judicial oversight, raising alarm over an obscure legal tool it is deploying theguardian.com/us-news/2026…
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SCOOP: Trump officials are pressuring the National Park Service to find a way to give a small piece of Yosemite to a private developer.
The land would be used for a road, to give the developer rare private access to the heart of the park.
notus.org/agencies/trump-adm…
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Gary, Indiana, which just had most of its power turned on after a 2 week blackout, is a story about structural neglect and racism, but also about the frontlines of climate change. My report from Gary on how the slow boil of climate chaos is accelerating prospect.org/2026/08/28/gary…
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"What’s clear is that no country is truly prepared for a major climate disaster, and the risks are changing," @peterprengaman writes. "As powerful as extreme weather events have already gotten, much worse is likely to come. It’s basic physics." apnews.com/article/climate-c…
Thrilled to share I've been named a @NovaForHealth media fellow! I'll be tackling climate issues I studied at @KSJatMIT. So grateful to my KSJ family for getting me here & for the warm embrace of everyone at Nova as I begin this next chapter with such an esteemed group of fellows
