April Alvarez

WELCOME TO A NEW PODCAST, THE SUITCASE: DISCOVERING ELY GREEN

Just casually need to know who had an ESPRIT shirt in the before times…👋

Data centers have contaminated ground water in Oregon. They've released smog into the air in Memphis. And they've contributed to electricity bill spikes — all while receiving millions of dollars in tax breaks. Is it any wonder why a nationwide backlash against AI data centers is brewing?

They are pigeon proofing the porch of my office today and legit I’m pretty sad. We don’t have a ton of pigeons here. I’m on the second floor so I spent last spring seeing them raise their babies at eye level.

People can have different political opinions about immigration policy. Political differences are fine, healthy for a democracy. But if you’re okay with this, that’s not a political opinion. That is a moral failing. 27/

My story:

Time creeping and all www.nytimes.com/2002/08/04/m...

A gorgeously-written book about wolves & caribou & cold and warming & indigeneity & how to ask questions & when not to & how to see loss & how to witness the beautiful. I knew Neil just a bit years ago, & know his brilliant prose, too hidden, I thought, in Nat Geo. Here is the work unfiltered.

Rest in peace Jim Hunt. I always wondered what would have happened if he’d been President.

In 1988 the National Geographic Society celebrated its 100 year anniversary. There was a huge celebration out on its property in Maryland, and one of the events was a geo-cache game. Barry Bishop was on my team and we won, so I’m a little sad to find out he lost a nuclear device in India:

CanNOT stop watching this doc

“Unemployed! In Greenland?” Greatest holiday movie lol

Why is Larry Summers employed?

Southern Nights, Northern Lights

This week’s cover story: Examining Tennessee’s relationship with CoreCivic, one of the country’s largest for-profit private prison companies.

I loved many things about working at Nat Geo. I learned my favorite business saying there: When the elephants are running through the forest, stand behind a tree. 🌳🐘

I remembered the time the editor of a national magazine turned down my request to attend a conference but 2 days later said I had nice legs in front of a photographer in an elevator. 1993.

I love risotto in the fall.

Episode 1 on Apple and Spotify! The Suitcase: Discovering Ely Green about the biracial author, soldier, boxer and bootlegger available now. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Maybe don’t spend all your money on inauguration party bribes and fancy coffees.

And this is why the corporate class shut down Teen Vogue.

Paris, Texas contains the seed of the plot of every movie made for the next 40 years.

Hearing Trio and also the bar formerly known as Fox and Hounds is closing in DC. End of an era. Breaks my little hungover French toast eating happy hour heart.

Heartbreaking. Better solutions are out there: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Walter frigging Moseley out here banging out amazing episodes of The Lowdown that’s what

>700,000 Tennesseans used SNAP benefits last fiscal year.

JUST RELEASED: our 2nd primer on how communities can respond to data center proposals—and what questions are helpful to ask. The first one focused on questions about water. (See below.) This one focuses on questions about the electricity and the grid. www.sehn.org/sehn/2025/10...

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.

🧪 NEW STUDY: Parkinson’s disease is linked to exposure to a common solvent, trichloroethylene, formerly used as a dry cleaning fluid and as an anesthetic gas, and to degrease metal parts and which now contaminates up to 50% of US drinking water sources. 1/2 www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/...

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

Thinking of my NG colleagues and the DC teachers and students who perished on 9/11 on Flight 77.

We’re letting our firefighters die. We can figure this out and do better. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/u...

Will spend entire evening selecting generationally appropriate celebratory meme, good night

My old neighborhood. Breaks my heart.

Jfc

I guess I should go get my overdue tetanus shot before RFKjr tells us to shove rusty nails in our hands

Free DC! This is so fucked up.

Idk but I think normal people are calling the extortion plan like, an extortion plan, which is because it is extortion

Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations. The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.