Margaret Renkl
@margaretrenkl.bsky.social
Author, most recently, of The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year. Contributing opinion writer for The New York Times (appearing on the first and third Mondays of each month.)
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After 13 years, Mississippi Democrats have broken the Republican Party’s supermajority in the Mississippi Senate.
Democrats flipped two GOP-held Senate seats and one House seat in the special elections.
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Democrats flipped two GOP-held Senate seats and one House seat in the special elections.
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Mississippi Democrats Break Republican Senate Supermajority, Flipping 3 Legislative Seats
After 13 years, Mississippi Democrats broke the Republican Party's supermajority in the Mississippi Senate, flipping 3 legislative seats.
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November 5, 2025 at 7:33 AM
After 13 years, Mississippi Democrats have broken the Republican Party’s supermajority in the Mississippi Senate.
Democrats flipped two GOP-held Senate seats and one House seat in the special elections.
buff.ly/nTvLlFI
Democrats flipped two GOP-held Senate seats and one House seat in the special elections.
buff.ly/nTvLlFI
A few words about childhood and loneliness and the fragile, glimmering world. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/o...
Opinion | The Lovely Loneliness of Sunday Afternoons in Autumn
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November 3, 2025 at 1:59 PM
A few words about childhood and loneliness and the fragile, glimmering world. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/o...
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The price tag is becoming clear for the Trump administration’s effort to keep coal power alive. The Campbell coal plant in Michigan, which was supposed to retire in May, is running under a federal order at a cost of $80 million for Midwestern consumers.
Trump’s Order to Keep Michigan Coal Plant Running Has Cost $80 Million So Far - Inside Climate News
Midwestern electricity ratepayers will pay the still-mounting tab under a plan Consumers Energy reported to regulators and investors.
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November 1, 2025 at 12:14 AM
The price tag is becoming clear for the Trump administration’s effort to keep coal power alive. The Campbell coal plant in Michigan, which was supposed to retire in May, is running under a federal order at a cost of $80 million for Midwestern consumers.
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Hoping more people will see this Washington Post illustration by replying with it here. As usual, nobody who can is stopping nor even overseeing this.
October 25, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Hoping more people will see this Washington Post illustration by replying with it here. As usual, nobody who can is stopping nor even overseeing this.
I’ll take “Objective Correlatives” for $500, Ken.
October 23, 2025 at 12:29 AM
I’ll take “Objective Correlatives” for $500, Ken.
A few words about my mother, my writers’ group, how I came to write Late Migrations, and how a robot tried to steal it all. And then how Andrea Bartz, tilting at windmills, managed to achieve the unthinkable. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/o...
Opinion | My Trouble With Robots, Part 2
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October 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
A few words about my mother, my writers’ group, how I came to write Late Migrations, and how a robot tried to steal it all. And then how Andrea Bartz, tilting at windmills, managed to achieve the unthinkable. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/o...
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This is the sign that moved me most today. The simple message. The homemade lettering. She seemed tired, but resolute.
Saw so many people from that generation today. People whose parents lived through WWII, who know what fascism looks like, and who may not be around to see us get out of this.
Saw so many people from that generation today. People whose parents lived through WWII, who know what fascism looks like, and who may not be around to see us get out of this.
October 18, 2025 at 9:56 PM
This is the sign that moved me most today. The simple message. The homemade lettering. She seemed tired, but resolute.
Saw so many people from that generation today. People whose parents lived through WWII, who know what fascism looks like, and who may not be around to see us get out of this.
Saw so many people from that generation today. People whose parents lived through WWII, who know what fascism looks like, and who may not be around to see us get out of this.
We did this. Turns out we ALL know how to save a book festival. And we just have to keep saving them, and saving everything else, for as long as it takes. For every single minute it takes. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/o...
Opinion | What Ann Patchett Knows About Saving Book Festivals
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October 6, 2025 at 6:39 PM
We did this. Turns out we ALL know how to save a book festival. And we just have to keep saving them, and saving everything else, for as long as it takes. For every single minute it takes. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/o...
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JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
October 1, 2025 at 12:58 PM
JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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A shameful fact which tells its own story.
A majority of US children rely on Medicaid or CHIP, new study finds | via Nada Hassanein #ksleg
A majority of US children rely on Medicaid or CHIP, new study finds • Kansas Reflector
A majority of children in the United States rely on Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program at some point by their 18th birthday, and many experience periods of coverage loss, according to...
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September 28, 2025 at 12:37 AM
A shameful fact which tells its own story.
We can help. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/o...
Opinion | How to Count Butterflies
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September 15, 2025 at 2:03 PM
We can help. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/o...
A few words about purple martins—how to help them, how to help all migratory birds, how to help birds that don’t migrate—in this week’s essay. Gift link via @nytopinion: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Opinion | One Way the Earthbound Can Take Flight
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September 1, 2025 at 5:39 PM
A few words about purple martins—how to help them, how to help all migratory birds, how to help birds that don’t migrate—in this week’s essay. Gift link via @nytopinion: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
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I put this on every single elected official that continues to offer thoughts and prayers while human beings bleed to death from gunshot wounds in churches, schools, concerts, night clubs, community parades, and the list goes on.
It’s Republicans that blocked the laws. Don’t put this on Democrats.
August 27, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I put this on every single elected official that continues to offer thoughts and prayers while human beings bleed to death from gunshot wounds in churches, schools, concerts, night clubs, community parades, and the list goes on.
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You can add up all the enjoyable pursuits of LLMs and the work productivity hacks and none of them, separately or together, will be more important than AI’s ecological costs or political disruption.
“We” is more important here.
“We” is more important here.
August 23, 2025 at 7:02 PM
You can add up all the enjoyable pursuits of LLMs and the work productivity hacks and none of them, separately or together, will be more important than AI’s ecological costs or political disruption.
“We” is more important here.
“We” is more important here.
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this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
August 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
A few words about rain. And extravagant vines. And the undeserved protection of trees. Gift link via @nytopinion: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/o...
Opinion | Making Do in the Dog Days (and the Frog Days, Too)
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August 18, 2025 at 2:36 PM
A few words about rain. And extravagant vines. And the undeserved protection of trees. Gift link via @nytopinion: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/o...
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Once again, I am ded. 🪶
August 17, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Once again, I am ded. 🪶
Sometimes you get lucky, even in a time when it’s hard to believe in luck anymore. I got lucky last week and saw Tyler Childers playing in the shadow of a giant T-Rex on the side of a highway. I was so happy on the way home I didn’t even think about my bitin’ list. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/o...
Opinion | The Heart-Lifting Magic of a Pop-up Concert
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August 4, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Sometimes you get lucky, even in a time when it’s hard to believe in luck anymore. I got lucky last week and saw Tyler Childers playing in the shadow of a giant T-Rex on the side of a highway. I was so happy on the way home I didn’t even think about my bitin’ list. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/o...
Finally. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/o...
Opinion | For Once, Some Good News About a Fragile Ecosystem
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July 21, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Finally. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/o...
“It’s a plague. It’s everywhere.” @kristenarnett.bsky.social speaks the truth. lithub.com/if-you-use-a...
If You Use AI in Your Writing YOU Are the Literary Asshole
Well, hello there! Welcome back! I think we all know what time it is: Am I the Literary Asshole O’Clock! That’s right, the world’s drunkest advice column that also would like to give you a book rec…
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July 11, 2025 at 4:55 PM
“It’s a plague. It’s everywhere.” @kristenarnett.bsky.social speaks the truth. lithub.com/if-you-use-a...
The avian drama is off the charts this year. (Gift link via The New York Times Opinion Section.) www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/o...
Opinion | The Questions Started With the Wren
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July 7, 2025 at 12:13 PM
The avian drama is off the charts this year. (Gift link via The New York Times Opinion Section.) www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/o...
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North Carolina senators are pushing a bill they say will save Duke Energy customers billions of dollars by letting the utility build new gas and nuclear plants.
A new analysis shows the opposite is true.
A new analysis shows the opposite is true.
Bill to delay N.C. climate law would slow energy buildout as demand…
North Carolina’s governor faces pressure to veto legislation that would cause Duke Energy to build less of almost every form of energy, from solar to…
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July 2, 2025 at 8:56 PM
North Carolina senators are pushing a bill they say will save Duke Energy customers billions of dollars by letting the utility build new gas and nuclear plants.
A new analysis shows the opposite is true.
A new analysis shows the opposite is true.
Just in case you aren’t disheartened enough by this horror show.
From @anitawadhwani.bsky.social: About 85,000 acres of backcountry in Tennessee could be opened for road construction, mining and logging under a Trump administration plan to remove protections from the most remote and untouched portions of U.S. national forests. #FederalFallout
85,000 acres of Tennessee's national forests open for logging under Trump administration plan • Tennessee Lookout
About 85,000 acres of backcountry in Tennessee could be opened for road construction, mining and logging under a Trump administration plan.
tennesseelookout.com
June 30, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Just in case you aren’t disheartened enough by this horror show.
A small bit of news on this hot summer morning: My first picture book, THE WEEDY GARDEN, will be out next February. I hope it will be a reminder that how we manage the bits of soil under our care can be a crucial way to help our wild neighbors thrive.
June 23, 2025 at 4:43 PM
A small bit of news on this hot summer morning: My first picture book, THE WEEDY GARDEN, will be out next February. I hope it will be a reminder that how we manage the bits of soil under our care can be a crucial way to help our wild neighbors thrive.