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John R. Platt
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Editor, The Revelator @therevelator.org. Covering the extinction crisis, wildlife, climate change and environmental justice. https://linktr.ee/johnrplatt
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A Japanese artist made the print DHS lifted to spread anti-immigrant hate. Can't make this up.
Screenshot of a post by Alex Luck criticizing others while showing an auction listing for a painting. The image displays a beach scene artwork featuring palm trees, a pinkish car, ocean waves, and a bright blue sky. Below the artwork is text identifying the artist as Hiroshi Nagai and describing the piece. Beneath that, a quoted post from the Department of Homeland Security repeats the phrase, “The peace of a nation no longer besieged by the third world.”
January 2, 2026 at 11:24 PM
johnrplatt.bsky.social
Too cool:

‘I’m proud to be the first published Asháninka researcher’: Richar Antonio Demetrio on bees news.mongabay.com/2026/01/im-p...
‘I’m proud to be the first published Asháninka researcher’: Richar Antonio Demetrio on bees
In Indigenous Asháninka belief, bees were once spirits in human form. Stories tell of a woman who enjoyed making masato, a traditional Amazonian fermented beverage. Every day, she would boil and mash ...
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January 2, 2026 at 8:52 PM
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therevelator.org
Extreme Weather, Wildlife Trafficking, and Giraffes: 15 of Our Most Powerful Articles of 2025

New articles for 2026 start on Monday! https://therevelator.org/best-reporting-2025/
Extreme Weather, Wildlife Trafficking, and Giraffes: 15 of Our Most Powerful Articles of 2025 • The Revelator
Our reporters showcased the power and importance of journalism covering wildlife, climate change, and environmental justice.
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January 2, 2026 at 7:18 PM
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I'm normally the one *doing* the interviewing, but the here's a new interview with me: boldjourney.com/story-lesson...
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January 2, 2026 at 4:10 PM
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therevelator.org
Your resolution for 2026: Talk to your friends and neighbors about climate change. https://therevelator.org/talk-about-climate-change/
Yes, Your Friends and Neighbors Want to Talk to You About Climate Change • The Revelator
Really, they do — they just don’t think you want to talk about it. So stop being afraid of pushback, break the “climate silence,” and start a conversation.
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January 1, 2026 at 2:49 PM
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The Land Is an Ancestor We Refuse to Abandon: In the Shadows of the Hermosa Mine -- copublished with Crucial Comix https://therevelator.org/land-an-ancestor/
The Land Is an Ancestor We Refuse to Abandon: In the Shadows of the Hermosa Mine • The Revelator
A rural Arizona border town came together to do whatever they could to protect the land from becoming the site of a mine processing plant.
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December 31, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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The Curlew, the Cactus, and the Obliterated Whitefish: The Species We Lost in 2024 -- look for 2025's list soon https://therevelator.org/extinct-2024/
The Curlew, the Cactus, and the Obliterated Whitefish: The Species We Lost in 2024 • The Revelator
Scientists also declared several other extinctions, including the first documented plant extinction in New Hampshire.
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December 30, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Some of our most impactful journalism at @therevelator.org from the past year:

Extreme Weather, Wildlife Trafficking, and Giraffes: 15 of Our Most Powerful Articles of 2025 therevelator.org/best-reporti...
Extreme Weather, Wildlife Trafficking, and Giraffes: 15 of Our Most Powerful Articles of 2025 • The Revelator
Our reporters showcased the power and importance of journalism covering wildlife, climate change, and environmental justice.
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December 29, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Extreme Weather, Wildlife Trafficking, and Giraffes: 15 of Our Most Powerful Articles of 2025 https://therevelator.org/best-reporting-2025/
December 29, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Some of our most impactful journalism at @therevelator.org from the past year:

Extreme Weather, Wildlife Trafficking, and Giraffes: 15 of Our Most Powerful Articles of 2025 therevelator.org/best-reporti...
Extreme Weather, Wildlife Trafficking, and Giraffes: 15 of Our Most Powerful Articles of 2025 • The Revelator
Our reporters showcased the power and importance of journalism covering wildlife, climate change, and environmental justice.
therevelator.org
December 29, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Who Heals the Earth’s Healers? Ways to Avert Burnout for Environmental Advocates https://therevelator.org/burnout-environmental-advocates/
Who Heals the Earth’s Healers? Ways to Avert Burnout for Environmental Advocates • The Revelator
You’re helping nature — but nature also has ways to help you, make you more resilient, and relieve the stress caused by environmental destruction.
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December 27, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Ghost Reefs of 2083: The Paleontology of Color (A Speculative ‘Fiction’) -- one of our favorite expert commentaries of 2025 https://therevelator.org/ghost-reefs/
Ghost Reefs of 2083: The Paleontology of Color (A Speculative ‘Fiction’) • The Revelator
What will the loss of coral reefs cost the planet — and humanity?
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December 28, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Saving America’s National Parks and Forests Means Shaking Off the Rust of Inaction (one of our favorite environmental commentaries of 2025) https://therevelator.org/saving-national-parks/
Saving America’s National Parks and Forests Means Shaking Off the Rust of Inaction • The Revelator
Getting started can feel like an insurmountable challenge. But the more you act, the better you’ll get — and the more of a difference you’ll make.
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December 26, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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These expert opinions address opportunities to make a difference — and point out a few of our failures. https://therevelator.org/environmental-commentaries-2025/
12 Environmental Commentaries That Defined Our Year in 2025 • The Revelator
These expert opinions address opportunities to make a difference — and point out a few of our failures.
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December 24, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Now that Bari Weiss pulled a segment telling the truth about Trump's deportations to let Stephen Miller have his say (i.e. spread propaganda), it's a good time to check out our deep dive into Miller's real worldview and agenda, which doesn't pull any punches:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State
He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and u...
newrepublic.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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The Last Breath of the Himalayas: Can We Stop the Collapse? (one of our favorite environmental commentaries of 2025) https://therevelator.org/himalayas-climate-change/
The Last Breath of the Himalayas: Can We Stop the Collapse? • The Revelator
Unchecked development is rapidly dismantling the life-support system for the entire North Indian subcontinent.
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December 23, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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timothysnyder.bsky.social
This struck me too. As Anne Applebaum doesn’t mention, she wrote a classic history of the Gulag.
anneapplebaum.bsky.social Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 11d
The CBS investigation portrays a modern concentration camp, similar to the Soviet GULAG (like CECOT, an acronym): sadistic guards, 24 hour lighting, isolation cells.
Americans once opposed this inhumane system.
The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.
bubbaprog.xyz Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 12d
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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I have about a million and one things to do before I shut down for the holiday season, but 999,999 of them will have to wait until January...
December 22, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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We’re honored to have our piece of speculative fiction on coral reefs of the future selected for The Revelator’s end-of-year list. A reminder that imagination is part of conservation, and that the futures we picture can shape the reefs we fight for. 🌊🪸
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December 22, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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12 Environmental Commentaries That Defined Our Year in 2025 -- by @jyunker.bsky.social @oceanhoptimism.org @authorhenderson.bsky.social @federicoholm.bsky.social & many others:
therevelator.org/environmenta...
12 Environmental Commentaries That Defined Our Year in 2025 • The Revelator
These expert opinions address opportunities to make a difference — and point out a few of our failures.
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December 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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"The study found that indirect water use can be up to four times higher than direct consumption, yet tech companies rarely disclose this metric." #AI - #DataCenters - #ClimateCrisis
www.euronews.com/next/2025/12...
How bad are AI data centres' carbon footprint?
AI systems could produce 80 million tons of CO₂ in 2025 and as much water as the world’s bottled water industry. But it’s hard to measure as tech companies do not release all of the details.
www.euronews.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Sometimes the no comment is the entire story!
alexshephard.bsky.social Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 12d
One explanation for Bari killing the story is that she did so as a public act of fealty to the administration. But another is that, as an inexperienced journalist, she doesn’t understand that a refusal to go on the record is a kind of comment in and of itself
December 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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This morning's Reliable Sources newsletter:

Inside the "60 Minutes" crisis

New reporting here: cnn.it/494W5dF
December 22, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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When I say WE ARE EATING THE EARTH, I mean agriculture is eating the earth. Farms cover 40% of our land, and they’re overrunning a soccer field worth of forest every six seconds. When you eat a burger, you’re eating the Amazon.
December 22, 2025 at 3:32 PM