Yeah there's an interesting alt lit scene in LA.. some of it's weird and conservative from what i hear, but I first got interested in a whole branch of it that's into kind of low brow sleaze, and they can blur together at parties
pete hegseth is so bad at his job that we're like one tick away from the gray zone being like "actually, pete hegseth is good, because he effectively stands against american imperialism"
We're hiring editorial fellows in SF and DC. Great gig that has launched hundreds of media careers:
www.motherjones.com/careers/fell...
We've updated our back of the envelope calculation! Only 86 more members to go!
Dillon is a particular expert on our National Forests & the Forest Service, which he partnered with on trail maintenance for public access for years. His book, Trail Work, digs into the history of the tug of war between conservation and extraction on public lands: www.heydaybooks.com/catalog/trai...
Poster for "No Place to Grow Old" documentary screening on April 22, 6pm. Shows an outdoor shelter made of tarps and salvaged materials. Free event with panel discussion hosted by League of Women Voters SF and other organizations.
Where will San Francisco's seniors live as they age?
Join us for a free screening of the documentary "No Place to Grow Old" & a panel discussion with local advocates working on solutions.
📅 April 22
🕠 Doors 5:30 PM
📍 Internet Archive, 300 Funston Ave, SF
🎟️ luma.com/lrtq1eg5
@lwvsf.bsky.social
EXEMPLARY HUMANS by Juliana Leite, translated from the Portuguese by @zoeperry.bsky.social, is out today from @twolinespress.com. It's a rare bird of a novel, and I sing its praises in this review published in @commonmag.bsky.social www.thecommononline.org/book-review-...
Tomorrow in San Francisco, join @patagonia.com, Protect Our Winters, & @heydaybooks.com author Dillon Osleger for an earth day exploration of how outdoor adventure & conservation can work together to bring responsibility, stewardship & connection into recreation. events.blackthorn.io/en/4P1dRZ97/...
just bourbon refills....
This is 6000 words of calendar. You're welcome.
I hope every writer fired from there recovers or rediscovers their voice. That's a gift to all of us.
We published a new investigative report that is best explored through our new interactive maps. Co-published with @HighCountryNews, "The Ground Truth" by Dillon Osleger shows how America’s public trails are disappearing, even as official maps lag behind.
🔗 www.republic.land/the-ground-t...
For the last 25 years the Roadless Rule was a boundary that defined where industrialization stopped and where nature began. But as 𝙏𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙡 𝙒𝙤𝙧𝙠 author Dillon Osleger reports, it's under threat from a federal directive to extract timber, despite overwhelming public opposition.
As you should. Are any of them the cute ones where they're so hot they just splay out tummy down on a branch and relax for a while?
Exactly, right on the panhandle!
Coyote crossing Oak in the rain. Wow: my first SF urban coyote sighting
Join @berkeleyca.gov at its Arbor Day Tree Planting at the waterfront! 🌳 🌲
Saturday, April 25 | 9:30 am - 1 pm
Shorebird Nature Center
160 University Avenue
Register: berkeleyca.gov/community-re...
Woohoo, here's my essay with my fav co-author on 30,000 fellowship wins across the Guggenheim, Stanford CASBS, NAEd, National Humanities Center, RSF visiting scholar, and Harvard Radcliffe.
Spoiler: it's the people working at prestigious universities
www.publicbooks.org/who-gets-gug...
"female birds set the ever-changing trends in songbird songs, with research showing that males who sing in the latest style are rewarded with the best territories and mates."
Karaoke battles are the only real dating game.
"Female birds sing for territorial displays, to ward off other females and to attract extra males" YES, love this for them. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Also, am FASCINATED that the author is also the founder of LUSH.
I am cited in The American Journal of Medicine in a piece about a woman experiencing “skibidi chest pain.”
only error was we're not in our 30s anymore 😩
California governor election update - Betty Yee is ending her campaign. While she was polling low, this may be significant as it frees up a lot of organizations and political leaders to endorse someone else - she had been one of the first to run.
calmatters.org/politics/202...
great teacher and editor here!
ICE has been purchasing people’s addresses, car registrations, and ethnicity details from data broker Thomson Reuters. Internal whistleblowers say company databases were used to track license plates and more in Minnesota this January. www.404media.co/how-thomson-...
Pack it up, we found the perfect Nextdoor post
If you threw chump change at @oaklandreviewofbooks.org us, you would already have the week's calendar in your inbox. I invented a whole day purely for money: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org#/portal/sign...
less than 100 paying subscribers to go until to meet our arbitrary goal!
This feels Stein-y, is she the S?
