The Population Most Threatened By The Second Trump Administration? It Could Be Birds.

A collection of policies that may be adopted by the White House next year will imperil bird populations across the continent

In addition to serving as a hub for community around my work, and providing useful service for my readers, the thing I really want to achieve with this Substack newsletter/blog thingy is the ability to tell stories I think are important, free from overly cautious editors and pernicious advertisers. Here’s a story I pitched to Outside, the Washington Post, and Outdoor Life with no luck. As you’ll see, it might be an important one.

The reason they all said no was that I pieced all this together in late July, at the tail end of the craze around reporting on all the batshit insanity in Project 2025. By that time, Trump was distancing himself from that, people were believing him due to some sort of space-time distortion bubble within their memories, readers had fatigue from reading about stuff like the plan to privatize weather, and traffic was starting to fall off.

But fast forward to now,…