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This is such an important new report from @prisonpolicy. The solution to inhuman conditions in prisons and jails--for staff as well as incarcerated people--is decarceration, not just hiring more and more staff (which is impossible, in any case). prisonpolicy.org/blog/2024/12/0…

READ: Lili Sierra, current fellow and Ph.D. candidate at UCSB Bren School, discusses how the Blue Economy is failing small-scale fishers in our latest essay with Environmental Health News. Read it here: ehn.org/blue-justice-o…

Massive snowball fight in DC right now

#PalisadesFire from a flight arriving into LAX

NEW: "Toxic prisons teach us that environmental justice needs abolition." Prisons, jails and detention centers are placed in locations where environmental hazards such as toxic landfills, floods and extreme heat are the norm. ehn.org/fight-toxic-pr…

Pretty incredible before-and-during satellite shots from the California fires. This is Altadena. Credit Google/MAXAR. #cawx

got $5? here’s a document full of gofundmes for Black families that have been displaced in la. it’s ordered by which fundraisers still need the most support and is updated hourly. pick one and donate docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

This country is a hellscape: Imprisoned teenage boys & young men 18 to 24 are being used to battle the wildfires. 95% are Black, Latino, or Filipino; earn between $2.20 & $4 per hour, plus an additional $1 an hour when they’re actively fighting fires teenvogue.com/story/wildfire…

One of the most important skills I teach my students&postdocs is how to communicate their research. Last week at NSF, I gave a keynote to (mostly) junior faculty on how to pitch their work. The talk resonated with many folks, so I'm sharing it publicly: mit.edu/~fadel/papers/…

Attn: Target we are done!!! Black folks, do not spend a dime here. Do not spend money where you will not be hired—or where they will not carry your products. Target is spitting in your face!

Less than three days after CEJST was taken offline, EDGI and fellow members of Public Environmental Data Partners (PEDP) stood up an unofficial but functional copy, restoring public access. envirodatagov.org/trump-removes-…

READ: @timisneat, assistant professor at CSU Channel Islands, writes about putting communities at the heart of plastic pollution initiatives in our latest essay with Environmental Health News. Read it here: ehn.org/communities-pl…

America built on the backs of Black people... For those who didn't get the message. Kendrick is a true poet.

In just the week before Trump took power, CFPB: - ordered Equifax to pay $15M - ordered a major auto lender to return $10M to customers - ordered CashApp to refund $120M to customers - sued Capital One for cheating people out of interest payments This week it's closed.

I am recruiting for postdoctoral and technician positions at UCSD. If anyone with relevant skills/interests has lost funding due to the anti-DEI jihad or the NIH purge, I’m open to discussion of ways we can try to help out.

Staggering details from this story: - After TX banned abortion, rate of sepsis shot up more than 50% for women hospitalized when they lost their pregnancies in the 2nd trimester - The rate of maternal deaths in TX rose 33% btwn 2019 + 2023 even as national rate fell by 7.5%

This is just about the most heartbreaking thing you will read today Kiah should still be a shining light in this world

All those black folk jumping around with Donald Trump cheesing yesterday while the Dept. of Agriculture suspended the 1890 Scholars program. It’s full tuition for students from rural and underserved communities that study Agriculture. Tim Scott Byron Donalds Wesley Hunt John James

You can’t use the words “clean” or “runoff” or “pollution” when writing reports at the USDA now.