Rebecca Stefoff
@rstefoff.bsky.social
Writer published by Simon & Schuster, Oxford Univ Press, Seven Stories, Harlequin, more. Nonfiction rep: Anthony Arnove, ROAM Agency. www.stefoff.com, rstefoff on IG. Portland, OR.
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Rebecca Stefoff
@rstefoff.bsky.social
· Oct 10
Adapting Ned Blackhawk's National Book Award winner for young readers has been both an honor and a pleasure. I learned a lot while writing the adaptation, and I am looking forward to sharing this book with the world in Fall 2026.
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Here’s a great story about the Chicago Nighthawk Project and the birds people have come to think of as their neighborhood birds:
blockclubchicago.org/2025/06/27/g...
blockclubchicago.org/2025/06/27/g...
'Goatsucker' Nighthawks Are Vanishing. These Chicagoans Are Trying To Find Out Why
Populations of common nighthawks, sometimes called goatsuckers, are dropping across North America. A group of volunteers wants to make Chicago a safe haven for the species.
blockclubchicago.org
June 27, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Here’s a great story about the Chicago Nighthawk Project and the birds people have come to think of as their neighborhood birds:
blockclubchicago.org/2025/06/27/g...
blockclubchicago.org/2025/06/27/g...
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Good news! I’ll be giving a virtual nighthawk talk for the Olympia Bird Alliance 11/13/25, 7pm. Registration is here: southsoundbirds.org/event/novemb...
November 1, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Good news! I’ll be giving a virtual nighthawk talk for the Olympia Bird Alliance 11/13/25, 7pm. Registration is here: southsoundbirds.org/event/novemb...
Rockwell, Verbinski, time travel? I know what I'll be doing on Feb 13.
November 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Rockwell, Verbinski, time travel? I know what I'll be doing on Feb 13.
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Oregonians living in the Portland metro area now have access to a climate dashboard that looks at how the changing environment is impacting their health.
Portland metro counties release updated regional climate dashboard
Multnomah, Washington and Clackamas counties released an updated regional climate dashboard that includes five health areas impacted by climate change.
www.opb.org
November 11, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Oregonians living in the Portland metro area now have access to a climate dashboard that looks at how the changing environment is impacting their health.
Big thanks to Wendy Wagner @wnwagner.bsky.social for organizing last night's fun storytelling benefit at the Rose City Book Pub. We got to hear readings from Caitlin Starling, Danger Slater, Gretchen Newberry, and more--all while raising money for the Oregon Food Bank.
November 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Big thanks to Wendy Wagner @wnwagner.bsky.social for organizing last night's fun storytelling benefit at the Rose City Book Pub. We got to hear readings from Caitlin Starling, Danger Slater, Gretchen Newberry, and more--all while raising money for the Oregon Food Bank.
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Just need everyone to Google the name "Rosalind Franklin" at this moment.
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Just need everyone to Google the name "Rosalind Franklin" at this moment.
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The #FindThatLizard Scholarship is accepting applications until 12/10.
We fund girls, women, and gender non conforming persons pursuing herpetology🦎🐍🐸🐢
I can’t wait to read your application! earynmcgee.com/findthatliza...
We fund girls, women, and gender non conforming persons pursuing herpetology🦎🐍🐸🐢
I can’t wait to read your application! earynmcgee.com/findthatliza...
November 5, 2025 at 2:37 PM
The #FindThatLizard Scholarship is accepting applications until 12/10.
We fund girls, women, and gender non conforming persons pursuing herpetology🦎🐍🐸🐢
I can’t wait to read your application! earynmcgee.com/findthatliza...
We fund girls, women, and gender non conforming persons pursuing herpetology🦎🐍🐸🐢
I can’t wait to read your application! earynmcgee.com/findthatliza...
Seems very NYT.
This NYT story about how Mamdani dealt with the opposition by the city's elites fails to mention one particular elite institution: The NYT editorial page, which last June railed against him as "uniquely unsuited to the city’s challenges... lacks political savvy"
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/n...
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www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/n...
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How Zohran Mamdani Beat Back New York’s Elite and Was Elected Mayor
www.nytimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Seems very NYT.
Sounds like a great way to spend Monday!
PDX peeps! What are you doing next Monday? How about attending STORYTELLING AGAINST HUNGER, a 5-hour marathon of author readings & open mic fun that's a fundraiser for the @oregonfoodbank.bsky.social ????
Rose City Book Pub, 4 pm - 9pm. bit.ly/43i9s8D
Rose City Book Pub, 4 pm - 9pm. bit.ly/43i9s8D
November 4, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Sounds like a great way to spend Monday!
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Why are bird populations declining? Scientists usually point to habitat loss, but two new studies point to extreme weather fueled by climate change. Rebecca Heisman reports: https://therevelator.org/climate-change-bird-declines/
Studies: Extreme Weather Fueled by Climate Change Is Adding to Bird Declines • The Revelator
Scientists have typically pointed to habitat loss as the key factor behind the worldwide drop in bird populations worldwide, but climate change poses a second, closely linked threat.
therevelator.org
November 3, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Why are bird populations declining? Scientists usually point to habitat loss, but two new studies point to extreme weather fueled by climate change. Rebecca Heisman reports: https://therevelator.org/climate-change-bird-declines/
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“I’m a law-abiding citizen who never thought I’d be of such interest that the U.S. government would use my tax dollars & yours to try to send me to prison…[after being] manhandled by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent trying to remove my phone from my hand.”
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | A jury of my peers agreed that the feds wrongly charged me for watching ICE
I believe that filming what federal agents were doing that day counted as basic human decency.
www.msnbc.com
November 2, 2025 at 4:45 PM
“I’m a law-abiding citizen who never thought I’d be of such interest that the U.S. government would use my tax dollars & yours to try to send me to prison…[after being] manhandled by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent trying to remove my phone from my hand.”
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Bird-loving or bird-curious folks, here's a chance to learn more about nighthawks. The very cool aerial insectivores, that is, not the 1981 Sylvester Stallone film.
Good news! I’ll be giving a virtual nighthawk talk for the Olympia Bird Alliance 11/13/25, 7pm. Registration is here: southsoundbirds.org/event/novemb...
November 1, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Bird-loving or bird-curious folks, here's a chance to learn more about nighthawks. The very cool aerial insectivores, that is, not the 1981 Sylvester Stallone film.
Reposted by Rebecca Stefoff
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The Revelator has a terrific article today about the role cemeteries are playing in conservation!
therevelator.org/cemeteries-p...
therevelator.org/cemeteries-p...
Cemeteries: How the Dead Protect the Wild • The Revelator
From wildly popular to nearly forgotten, some of our cemeteries play an unexpected role in fostering biodiversity — and may provide climate solutions, too.
therevelator.org
October 30, 2025 at 3:46 PM
The Revelator has a terrific article today about the role cemeteries are playing in conservation!
therevelator.org/cemeteries-p...
therevelator.org/cemeteries-p...
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If one of the appliances in your home, say your cooker or fridge, ran using ten times the power of a normal one, you‘d replace it as fast as possible and never go near that manufacturer again, because you’d think they were catastrophically bad at making stuff.
But it’d be cool if it talked, right?
But it’d be cool if it talked, right?
"Goldman Sachs has estimated that the average ChatGPT query uses nearly 10 times as much energy as a Google search."
"A midsized data center uses as much water in a day as 1,000 American households, about 300,000 gallons, one research scientist told NPR."
More: share.google/BOXHTwok4Ltr...
"A midsized data center uses as much water in a day as 1,000 American households, about 300,000 gallons, one research scientist told NPR."
More: share.google/BOXHTwok4Ltr...
Researchers issue warning on harmful side effect of using ChatGPT: 'It's a concern'
Tech executives have been frustratingly opaque.
share.google
October 27, 2025 at 12:37 PM
If one of the appliances in your home, say your cooker or fridge, ran using ten times the power of a normal one, you‘d replace it as fast as possible and never go near that manufacturer again, because you’d think they were catastrophically bad at making stuff.
But it’d be cool if it talked, right?
But it’d be cool if it talked, right?
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This alone is disqualifying. If this schmuck is gonna LEAVE THE CITY if he loses, he doesn't love the city enough to deserve to win.
October 26, 2025 at 9:23 PM
This alone is disqualifying. If this schmuck is gonna LEAVE THE CITY if he loses, he doesn't love the city enough to deserve to win.
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Another week, another Republican gerrymander rammed through at the expense of minority voters. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
This Week at Democracy Docket: Yet Another GOP Gerrymander, While DOJ Moves to Gain Control Over Elections
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
October 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Another week, another Republican gerrymander rammed through at the expense of minority voters. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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This absolutely unhinged quote from the president of the United States is in the 19th paragraph in this article. Barely remarkable! But also just astonishing.
October 24, 2025 at 11:50 PM
This absolutely unhinged quote from the president of the United States is in the 19th paragraph in this article. Barely remarkable! But also just astonishing.
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Feds have repeatedly claimed 115+ federal police (25% of force) had to be deployed to Portland over the summer to quell violence. Oregon lawyers found on discovery this was not true and are asking 9th Circuit to reverse Monday decision because feds lied:
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
October 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Feds have repeatedly claimed 115+ federal police (25% of force) had to be deployed to Portland over the summer to quell violence. Oregon lawyers found on discovery this was not true and are asking 9th Circuit to reverse Monday decision because feds lied:
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
I just found out that the guy I've lived with for 32 years has never seen Big Trouble in Little China. My pillars of heaven are shook.
October 24, 2025 at 2:18 AM
I just found out that the guy I've lived with for 32 years has never seen Big Trouble in Little China. My pillars of heaven are shook.
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Senator Merkley on the Senate floor should be getting much more attention. He and other Senators are breaking down all the different fronts of Trump's authoritarianism. Everyone should be watching this.
www.youtube.com/live/ymDt1Xe...
www.youtube.com/live/ymDt1Xe...
Merkley STILL Holding the Senate Floor to Protest Trump’s Threats to Democracy
YouTube video by Senator Jeff Merkley
www.youtube.com
October 22, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Senator Merkley on the Senate floor should be getting much more attention. He and other Senators are breaking down all the different fronts of Trump's authoritarianism. Everyone should be watching this.
www.youtube.com/live/ymDt1Xe...
www.youtube.com/live/ymDt1Xe...
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Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 79th day out of the last 91.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
October 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 79th day out of the last 91.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
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ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
October 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
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Okay, my obscure background as an erstwhile DC land use lawyer is finally relevant. There are several agencies that oversee any projects at the White House, including the Commission of Fine Arts, the Commission for the Preservation of the White House, the National Park Service, and the National 1/
October 20, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Okay, my obscure background as an erstwhile DC land use lawyer is finally relevant. There are several agencies that oversee any projects at the White House, including the Commission of Fine Arts, the Commission for the Preservation of the White House, the National Park Service, and the National 1/
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Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement.
Check out how tiny the crowds were:
Philly: 200
DC: "several hundred"
Boston: 500
Austin: 1,000
Houston: 2,000
Check out how tiny the crowds were:
Philly: 200
DC: "several hundred"
Boston: 500
Austin: 1,000
Houston: 2,000
Tax Day Is Met With Tea Parties (Published 2009)
www.nytimes.com
October 20, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement.
Check out how tiny the crowds were:
Philly: 200
DC: "several hundred"
Boston: 500
Austin: 1,000
Houston: 2,000
Check out how tiny the crowds were:
Philly: 200
DC: "several hundred"
Boston: 500
Austin: 1,000
Houston: 2,000