Jacques Leslie
@jacquesleslie.bsky.social
LATimes contributing op-ed writer. Wrote Deep Water: The Epic Struggle Over Dams, Displaced People & the Environment. Expelled from two countries, evacuated from a third. Named Enemy of the Week by American Spectator. Riding out Trump catastrophe in VT.
My latest L.A. Times op-ed: the triumph of salmon vs. Trump's sabotage.
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Contributor: Salmon's comeback pits nature against Trump administration
The Trump administration is using illegal funding cuts and questionable regulatory sleight of hand to divert water to farmers and away from tribes.
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November 5, 2025 at 4:54 PM
My latest L.A. Times op-ed: the triumph of salmon vs. Trump's sabotage.
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Release of the complete Epstein file is to Trump what going to prison is for Netanyahu. Both prospects are so intensely resisted that making sure those things don't happen becomes the foundation of their policies. N. comes up with endless war; T. embraces a passel of harebrained schemes.
August 20, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Release of the complete Epstein file is to Trump what going to prison is for Netanyahu. Both prospects are so intensely resisted that making sure those things don't happen becomes the foundation of their policies. N. comes up with endless war; T. embraces a passel of harebrained schemes.
This prison is the ultimate embodiment of Trump's (and Bukele's) sadism, ineptitude, and ruthlessness.
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No One Was Supposed to Leave Alive
Venezuelans deported by the Trump administration say they were tortured during their four months in CECOT.
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July 24, 2025 at 1:13 PM
This prison is the ultimate embodiment of Trump's (and Bukele's) sadism, ineptitude, and ruthlessness.
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A piece about the Yurok tribe's lawyer that was a pleasure to write. He's a graduate of Boston College Law School; thus the story in the BC Law School Magazine. With brilliant photography by Jordan Gale.
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Boston College Law School Magazine | The Tribal Victory of the Century
With discretion and respect for Native Americans, a BC Law alum helps restore a river, its salmon, and its people to their rightful places.
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July 11, 2025 at 5:50 PM
A piece about the Yurok tribe's lawyer that was a pleasure to write. He's a graduate of Boston College Law School; thus the story in the BC Law School Magazine. With brilliant photography by Jordan Gale.
lawmagazine.bc.edu/2025/07/the-...
lawmagazine.bc.edu/2025/07/the-...
Fascinating, revealing conversation about the mostly unacknowledged conflict between agriculture of all kinds and a healthy climate and environment. We obviously need food to survive, but the way ag is conducted now won't work much longer.
I had a dream that my energy & climate hero @volts.wtf, who absolutely fucking hates talking about food & climate, would do an episode about WE ARE EATING THE EARTH. He did it!
It was so fun and I am so grateful.
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It was so fun and I am so grateful.
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Reducing the climate impacts of food and farming
Michael Grunwald joins me to discuss how to increase agriculture's output while reducing its carbon footprint.
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June 28, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Fascinating, revealing conversation about the mostly unacknowledged conflict between agriculture of all kinds and a healthy climate and environment. We obviously need food to survive, but the way ag is conducted now won't work much longer.
Here's my latest, a story about the Klamath River basin that, for a change, is upbeat. e360.yale.edu/features/kla...
A Win for Farmers and Tribes Brings New Hope to the Klamath
In the long-contentious Klamath River watershed, an experiment that turned a barley field into a wetland not only improved water quality. It also offered a path forward for restoring populations of tw...
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June 17, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Here's my latest, a story about the Klamath River basin that, for a change, is upbeat. e360.yale.edu/features/kla...
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The extraordinary elite propaganda effort on behalf of nuclear power has worked: public support for nuclear power is at record highs.
This took place during a period in which the only nuclear plant built in the US is 10s of billions over budget. Pretty impressive.
This took place during a period in which the only nuclear plant built in the US is 10s of billions over budget. Pretty impressive.
Nuclear Energy Support Near Record High in U.S.
Americans support nuclear energy and offer mixed views on fracking and offshore drilling, while a diminished majority prefer renewable energy development over more fossil fuel production.
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June 16, 2025 at 5:44 PM
The extraordinary elite propaganda effort on behalf of nuclear power has worked: public support for nuclear power is at record highs.
This took place during a period in which the only nuclear plant built in the US is 10s of billions over budget. Pretty impressive.
This took place during a period in which the only nuclear plant built in the US is 10s of billions over budget. Pretty impressive.
Please let us not try to overthrow the Iran regime, however odious it is. The U.S. might succeed in pulling off a coup, but it would lose the aftermath. Most people don't like having foreigners pick their governments for them. Whatever govt. emerges would be stained by its association with the U.S.
June 16, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Please let us not try to overthrow the Iran regime, however odious it is. The U.S. might succeed in pulling off a coup, but it would lose the aftermath. Most people don't like having foreigners pick their governments for them. Whatever govt. emerges would be stained by its association with the U.S.
"Our stadiums are monuments to the poverty of our civic ambitions and our inability to summon the collective will to use the land we have for the things we need. They are distractions from our inability to build anything else." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/o...
Opinion | Sports Stadiums Are Monuments to the Poverty of Our Ambitions
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June 1, 2025 at 11:29 PM
"Our stadiums are monuments to the poverty of our civic ambitions and our inability to summon the collective will to use the land we have for the things we need. They are distractions from our inability to build anything else." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/o...
The Trump admin is gambling that its laughably ill-suited but creepily telegenic cabinet members will not deliver up a catastrophe such as an epidemic fueled by lack of vaccinnation, an undetected hurricane, a gruesome plane crash... Not a bet I would take. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/o...
Opinion | A Hurricane Season Like No Other
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May 31, 2025 at 6:18 PM
The Trump admin is gambling that its laughably ill-suited but creepily telegenic cabinet members will not deliver up a catastrophe such as an epidemic fueled by lack of vaccinnation, an undetected hurricane, a gruesome plane crash... Not a bet I would take. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/o...
The #Trump admin's assault on Harvest is meant to show that if it can destroy Harvard, it can take down any other university. Leaders of other fields, particularly those Trump considers insufficiently supportive, such as, say, The New York Times, would be wise to get prepared.
May 28, 2025 at 9:43 PM
The #Trump admin's assault on Harvest is meant to show that if it can destroy Harvard, it can take down any other university. Leaders of other fields, particularly those Trump considers insufficiently supportive, such as, say, The New York Times, would be wise to get prepared.
"Half of Yemen’s children under 5 are malnourished — 'a statistic that is almost unparalleled across the world,' UNICEF says." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/o...
Opinion | The $7 Billion We Wasted Bombing a Country We Couldn’t Find on a Map
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May 18, 2025 at 4:41 PM
"Half of Yemen’s children under 5 are malnourished — 'a statistic that is almost unparalleled across the world,' UNICEF says." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/o...
The indispensable Naomi Klein passes on some insights about our global predicament. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Naomi Klein: 'What They Want Is Absolutely Everything'
The ‘Shock Doctrine’ author explains the dark logic of Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s path of destruction and why billionaire oligarchs are so angry.
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May 7, 2025 at 10:26 PM
The indispensable Naomi Klein passes on some insights about our global predicament. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
The U.S. is now on the Civicus monitor watchlist of repressive regimes for "unprecedented executive orders designed to unravel democratic institutions, rule of law, and global cooperation." monitor.civicus.org/watchlist-ma...
Watchlist March 2025 - Civicus Monitor
CIVICUS Monitor Watchlist: 5 countries where there has been a decline in civic freedoms
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April 14, 2025 at 3:15 PM
The U.S. is now on the Civicus monitor watchlist of repressive regimes for "unprecedented executive orders designed to unravel democratic institutions, rule of law, and global cooperation." monitor.civicus.org/watchlist-ma...
Here's my latest L.A. Times op-ed, out today, on how the Trump administration's funding freezes and personnel layoffs have replaced hope and optimism in the Klamath basin with fear, uncertainty, and anger.
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Contributor: DOGE and Trump quash a Klamath River basin comeback
The president's slash-and-burn funding cuts are betraying California and Oregon tribes, farmers and salmon along the Klamath River.
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April 10, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Here's my latest L.A. Times op-ed, out today, on how the Trump administration's funding freezes and personnel layoffs have replaced hope and optimism in the Klamath basin with fear, uncertainty, and anger.
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
#Trump will insist over and over that his tariffs are permanent right up until the moment when he decides they aren't. The current situation is so volatile that tariffs aren't likely to stay in place-- too many forces will align against Trump, including, I can even imagine, some elected Republicans.
April 7, 2025 at 7:25 PM
#Trump will insist over and over that his tariffs are permanent right up until the moment when he decides they aren't. The current situation is so volatile that tariffs aren't likely to stay in place-- too many forces will align against Trump, including, I can even imagine, some elected Republicans.
"Hydro‑Québec’s main transmission line into New England stopped exporting any meaningful amount of power two days after President Donald Trump’s tariff on Canadian imports went into effect." www.canarymedia.com/articles/hyd...
In New England, Canadian hydropower has slowed to an ominous trickle
Whether due to drought, prices, or politics, the weekslong disappearance of Canadian hydropower from New England’s grid exposes risks for the region.
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March 31, 2025 at 4:36 PM
"Hydro‑Québec’s main transmission line into New England stopped exporting any meaningful amount of power two days after President Donald Trump’s tariff on Canadian imports went into effect." www.canarymedia.com/articles/hyd...
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If you ever wondered how the KGB manipulated foreigners and got them to repeat Soviet propaganda, spend some time listening to Steve Witkoff talk about his wonderful conversations with Vladimir Putin.
March 23, 2025 at 1:55 PM
If you ever wondered how the KGB manipulated foreigners and got them to repeat Soviet propaganda, spend some time listening to Steve Witkoff talk about his wonderful conversations with Vladimir Putin.
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You want to know how bad Canadian-US relations have become? There's a serious discussion in Canada about developing nuclear weapons.
This is one of the US's longest, closest, and best ally. And in one month, Trump has destroyed that relationship. Insane and reprehensible.
This is one of the US's longest, closest, and best ally. And in one month, Trump has destroyed that relationship. Insane and reprehensible.
March 23, 2025 at 10:05 PM
You want to know how bad Canadian-US relations have become? There's a serious discussion in Canada about developing nuclear weapons.
This is one of the US's longest, closest, and best ally. And in one month, Trump has destroyed that relationship. Insane and reprehensible.
This is one of the US's longest, closest, and best ally. And in one month, Trump has destroyed that relationship. Insane and reprehensible.
This is shameful.
If Putin said this NATO would be on alert
JD Vance, "Denmark is not being a good ally"
"If we need to take Greenland that is what President Trump will do because he doesn't care about what Europeans scream at us"
"If we need to take Greenland that is what President Trump will do because he doesn't care about what Europeans scream at us"
March 24, 2025 at 12:10 AM
This is shameful.
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If it isn't obvious, you aren't safe in this Trump Administration. Dictators come after anyone and everyone deemed a threat, including their former allies and loyalists.
Your white skin, American accent, Christian background, Rust Belt zip code, and/or GOP voting record won't save you.
Your white skin, American accent, Christian background, Rust Belt zip code, and/or GOP voting record won't save you.
March 23, 2025 at 11:01 PM
If it isn't obvious, you aren't safe in this Trump Administration. Dictators come after anyone and everyone deemed a threat, including their former allies and loyalists.
Your white skin, American accent, Christian background, Rust Belt zip code, and/or GOP voting record won't save you.
Your white skin, American accent, Christian background, Rust Belt zip code, and/or GOP voting record won't save you.
What an ugly, disagreeable, disreputable country we've become. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/u...
Canadian Who Was in an ‘American Pie’ Video Says ICE Held Her for 12 Days
Jasmine Mooney, 35, said she was put “in chains” after immigration enforcement officers flagged her visa application paperwork. The former actress was finally allowed to return to Vancouver.
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March 19, 2025 at 1:09 AM
What an ugly, disagreeable, disreputable country we've become. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/u...
Here's my latest, an 1,800-word piece for the New York Times' opinion section about the consequences of the world's largest dam removal project in the #Klamath basin and the calamity that the #Trump administration has abruptly and unnecessarily caused there.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/o...
Opinion | A Story About Salmon That Almost Had a Happy Ending
How tribal leaders, commercial fisherman and a few small environmental groups won an uphill campaign against dams.
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March 13, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Here's my latest, an 1,800-word piece for the New York Times' opinion section about the consequences of the world's largest dam removal project in the #Klamath basin and the calamity that the #Trump administration has abruptly and unnecessarily caused there.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/o...
Elon Musk told Joe Rogan, “The fundamental weakness of Western Civilization is empathy.”
All you need to know-- this guy should be kept a million miles from government.
All you need to know-- this guy should be kept a million miles from government.
March 7, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Elon Musk told Joe Rogan, “The fundamental weakness of Western Civilization is empathy.”
All you need to know-- this guy should be kept a million miles from government.
All you need to know-- this guy should be kept a million miles from government.
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Interesting statement on Russia and Ukraine from leadership at the George W Bush Presidential Center.
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America First should not put Russia second | George W. Bush Presidential Center
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March 3, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Interesting statement on Russia and Ukraine from leadership at the George W Bush Presidential Center.
www.bushcenter.org/publications...
www.bushcenter.org/publications...