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The Guardian •

‘Like watching your house burn down’: Americans in Britain on the shock of Trump’s victory

Just before Donald Trump was elected in 2016, Kristin Tadlock-Hunter, 31, moved to London with her British spouse. She did a lot of canvassing for Hillary Clinton before she left. This time, all she could do was vote remotely. So, as the US went to the polls, she felt powerless.And when the result came in? “Devastated doesn’t cover it,” she says. “Really heartbroken. I think it’s a unique experience, to be an immigrant watching it from afar. It feels like you’re watching your house burn down fro...
Now Then Sheffield •

Investigation: Yorkshire Post ties to controversial Drax power plant draw accusations of media ‘greenwashing’

What happens to the credibility of a local paper when it takes sponsorship and advertising money from a “renewable” power plant whose green credentials have been widely questioned?

The Yorkshire Post Magazine’s readers could be forgiven for mistaking June’s congratulatory headline feature about Drax power plant, “Drax at 50: From titan of coal to greenest beacon,” for a real article.
The confusion starts with the magazine’s cover photo: a yellow-jacketed, helmeted Drax employee gazing up...
Sheffield Wire •

South Yorkshire sees 650% spike in antisemitic attacks

A charity that provides security for Jewish groups has reported a 650% increase in antisemitic incidents in South Yorkshire since the 7 October Hamas attack on Israeli civilians.

The incidents, reported by charity Community Security Trust UK (CST UK), include eggs thrown at the car of a visibly Jewish man while he was inside, shouts of “f****** Jew”, a Nazi flag on display in a window, and a grotesque online death threat.

The organisation reports that they responded to thirty antisemitic incid
Sheffield Wire •

“Black hole” wait times for trans healthcare may be as high as 22 years at Sheffield’s gender identity clinic

A Sheffield trans woman fears she will “more likely die first” than receive the treatment she desperately needs from Sheffield’s gender clinic to fully transition to female.

Newly-released information has revealed that fewer than 1% of people on the trans healthcare waiting list for Sheffield’s Porterbrook Gender Identity Clinic were seen last month.

Amber, 45, made a freedom of information request that showed only eight of the 2,302 trans people on the clinic’s waiting list got appointments b
Ecopsychepedia •

Ecopsychepedia Entry: Solastalgia

When you feel homesick for a home you never left, that’s solastalgia.

Solastalgia is when you feel as if the comfort, or solace, you get from feeling at home in a place has been taken from you, causing algia, which means pain in Latin.

With solastalgia, you are still living in the place you call home, but the environment has changed so much that it doesn’t feel like the same home anymore. When experiencing this uncanny, home-but-not-home feeling, a complex mix of emotions can arise—including grief, sadness, loss of identity, and anxiety.

Anything that changes a place and is outside the control of inhabitants can cause feelings of solastalgia.
Climate Psychology Alliance North America •

The rural mental health crisis in drought-stricken Klamath Basin is coming for the entire West

The last time conditions were as dry in the American West as they are in June 2022, it was at least 800 A.D., and possibly earlier. Charlemagne was king of the Franks. The Maori people were migrating on their earliest canoes to New Zealand. To vastly understate—the West Coast is parched, and (due to global warming) the parching trends towards permanence. Aquifers are draining down, and waterways are disappearing. At the end of March, the US federal government informed the agricultural communitie
Extinction Resilience •

Extinction Rebellion's Action Wellbeing, A.K.A. The People Holding Your Hand While You’re Locked To A Bathtub

LONDON–It takes only two minutes following Claire, a member of Trafalgar Square’s Action Wellbeing team, before we encounter an arrestee in need.

I never learn this young woman’s name. Within an hour, however, it is hard to imagine that she isn’t my niece, or the neighbor’s college-bound daughter. We find her lying, propped on a sleeping bag on the pavement, with her right arm locked via a wide metal tube to