easy choice to skip today's #nytxw to support @NYTimesGuild members. Thanks to @TrudeauRoss for this fun solve and for acknowledging grad students striking for fair contracts too. #FairUCNow #UAWonStrike

Just in: State Water Project expects 0% water allocation for cities and farms next year (yes zero), the lowest initial projection ever due to dried-up reservoirs #drought

i highly recommend finding friends who write as beautifully and with such strength in vulnerability as @rachroobear. perhaps equally important: a friend who is willing to raid their own fridge on your behalf. https://t.co/Q7g1MOrxqp

This map shows clearly why California is bracing for an extreme 2021 wildfire season. https://t.co/zFGc2OM43G

it's an obvious point, but this is a good example of how the work of campus-based organizers to defund campus police depts can form part of a much broader project of abolition

This month, we will be featuring current and recently graduated @Scripps_Ocean students who are parents/caregivers. First up, recent physical oceanography PhD grad @ARod4Oceans. 1/9

https://t.co/eU0HnCnAoF relatedly, i haven't been able to stop thinking about this thread from @KendraWrites.

let's learn from the pandemic. we need to enact policies that mitigate future disasters and reform our institutions so that we are prepared when they occur.

for those who don't see a moral imperative to address climate change, perhaps acknowledging it as a national security issue will mobilize action. "the present has a lot of say over the future." @shaneharris https://t.co/TInvywZ79n

Drought. Drought. Drought. https://t.co/IT5EOny4uF @NorthBayNews @NWSBayArea #CAdrought

we need criminal justice reform now. thank you @rachroobear for amplifying important movements like @PrsnRenaissance and voices like Rahsaan Thomas'. there is indeed beauty inside him, and all of us.

This is tribal sovereignty. This is acknowledging our shared humanity. This is trusting science. This is Indigenous generosity despite 500+ years of colonization and violence.

I *strongly* encourage you to read Kameron Austin Collins's notes from tonight on Xword Info. It's a brutally honest and heartfelt critique about how we evaluate crosswords, especially those from underrepresented constructors. https://t.co/GASs8o4oYl #NYTXW

“We exist because of that river...our sole purpose here is to take care of that river and to keep that balance here in this world.” -Annelia Hillman, of the Yurok Tribe and Klamath Justice Coalition #UnDamtheKlamath

Just going to post this graph from a story @annehelen and I wrote a couple years ago for anyone who, I dunno, might find this information useful.

thanks I hate it 🙅‍♀️

Just did some rough math. It appears that we're closing in on 600,000 acres burned by lightning-sparked wildfires in Northern California *in just 7 days.* Nearly all such fires are still spreading rapidly. I'm truly at a loss for words. #CAwx #CAfires #CaliforniaWildfires

multiple songs on horse comanche by @chadwickstokes touch on seeing someone you care about suffer. we knew he couldn't talk to us about what was going on, but that album gave us a way to tell Tyler that we loved him. loudly.