I just learned that "yotta" is 10 to the 24th power. And there are a whole bunch of these fun little words ... exa, peta, ronna, zetta, quetta. These would make excellent baby names, if you are an engineer or a mathematician.

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

All those "my pet died recently" people are bots. If you look at their bios and see what they are selling, you will ... uh ... see what I mean. 😬

ICYMI - Samuel L. Jackson (!!) narrated this powerful video for Saturday's No Kings rally about the strength of Minnesotans protesting ICE: "When your neighbors are being attacked and your communities are being targeted, you don't give up. You don't look away. You don't back down. You showed up."

Minnetonka, Minnesota, looks like it had very good turn out. 👍 #NoKings

The regime had no idea what it was going up against when Trump decided to invade Minnesota. #NoKings

Big, big crowds arriving at the #NoKings rally in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Also live music, free t-shirts, and lots of good vibes! 😊

Wow. I have been to a lot of protests o'er the years - a LOT. And this is by far the largest protest I have ever been to. This is crazy! #NoKings #SaintPaul #Minnesota

We are estimating more than 200,000 people at the flagship No Kings rally in the Twin Cities. #NoKings

The government knows I'm a citizen. They know where I live, my employer, my filing status, my birthday, my parents, my car, etc. They know I am not a convicted felon. Why do I need to register to exercise my right to vote? Why isn't it automatic? Why do I need to pay for GOVT documents to do so?

Climate driven extremes aren’t coming, they’re here…

We The People. 💪

Whoa. 😳

Sometimes I will be writing an email and I will use a word I have never heard before. But then I Google the definition... and it's somehow exactly what I meant. 📚

It is being reported on the ground in Cuba that everyone on a ventilator at this hospital died overnight. As a Cuban, I'm devastated.

Sea surface temperatures off Southern California are at June levels.

We’ve gone straight from winter to climate anxiety.

The world is adding 1 GW of solar every HALF DAY. In 2004, that same 1 GW took a whole YEAR. That’s exponential S-curve disruption. Next up: 🔋 Storage explodes 🚗 EVs accelerate 🛢️ Fossil demand gets squeezed Sales tell you what’s happening. Capacity tells you what wins.

Even in a world of extremes, some events still stand out to me. This is one. All-time monthly records are being shattered. The size of this ridge across the western U.S. is truly striking for March, and we see a very clear climate change connection. Explore: csi.climatecentral.org/climate-shif...

Fair to say that the Western U.S. heatwave has reached record-shattering status, with dozens of locations breaking all-time March monthly heat records & some now approaching *April* records. Swath of record heat extends clear from Pacific to Great Plains, & from Canada to Mexico.

🥵 Astonishing heat in the West this week as arguably the most abnormal #heatwave we’ve encountered in the Spring historical record breaks monthly March records by leaps and bounds! Take a look at the forecast max temps this week vs the current March records (bottom). Breaking by remarkable margins!

Shout out to Friends of the Boundary Waters, who bought ad space on Stinky and Binky. Money well spent! @bwca.bsky.social 🐶🐾

Jesus. Paying a French company a billion dollars *not* to build a wind farm.

Old enough to remember when Nova Scotia didn’t really HAVE a “wildfire season” 🙃

This is such a beautiful song. youtu.be/GY_S0Xoo02A?...

Alarm bells are ringing in the Horn of Africa. Farms are no longer yielding, pests are spreading, and tropical diseases are emerging. Climate change is real, and it’s destroying lives. #ClimateCrisis #GlobalAction

Any time soon they'll be embracing 15 minute cities

The U.S. war on Iran is now estimated to cost $1 billion per day. Meanwhile Americans are told there’s no money for healthcare, hospitals, or basic social programs.

Despite everything going on in the US right now, climate change is still a thing. www.accuweather.com/en/weather-n...

"Birds in the United States are not only declining, but they are declining faster, especially in areas with intensive agriculture...Overall drops in bird population, measured from 1987 to 2021, were sharpest in warm and warming areas, suggesting that climate change may play a role." Gift link

This is about political retribution. Trump is weaponizing the federal government to punish states like Minnesota that didn’t vote for him — ripping away funds from pregnant women, seniors, and people with disabilities. You don’t fight “fraud” by hurting the most vulnerable.

Whoa. I just learned that Tettegouche State Park is pronounced "tetta-GOOSH" and not "tetta-GOO-chee." And it's French for rendezvous. As a Minnesotan my mind is blown.

You won’t find cleaner waters than the Boundary Waters. Think endless streams of water filled with bass, walleye, trout and northern pike – total wilderness, only accessible by canoe. Why would we let a Chilean mining company pollute these public lands, take our minerals and ship them off to China?

"You are here. We've breached 430 ppm CO₂" - @petergleick.bsky.social (up from 352 ppm CO₂, when Taylor Swift was born, 1989 😬) "Also shown is the emergence of Homo sapiens around 200,000 years ago - so CO₂ levels are higher than we've ever experienced." #ClimateCrisis

TOMORROW (2/21) 11AM at Whittier Park in Minneapolis ICE is not gone, far from it. We march for the lives that have been lost. We march against the collaborators in local law enforcement. We march in solidarity with our friends and neighbors.

Things I learned today - language in the Clean Air Act explicitly defines "air pollutant" to include anything with adverse effects on weather and climate www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...

so we paid the tariffs and now the corporations that passed the costs on to me and you are the ones that are going to be reimbursed, do i have that correct

CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.

Doug and Josh. You lit a fire in me with your song collaboration. I just did a collaboration with my brother and this is what we came up with. I wrote the song. He sang it and played his guitar. youtu.be/wl6BX11WEYY?...

This is something the Nazis used to do to Jewish children in the camps. It happened to a man I knew when he was a child in Auschwitz. The camp guards thought it was funny as hell.

this is repugnant and horrific on a human/moral level, obviously, but also seems to me colossal financial mismanagement. immigrants boost economic activity, so we're spending vast sums ($38 billion is more than the total annual spending for 22 states) to injure the economy. cruelty is expensive

Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps. If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

My commute home from work is littered with abandoned cars. Just sitting there, in the middle of the road. Windows broken out. Lives scooped up and taken away. Just like that.

Concentration camps: “For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."

This is such a great story. These gamers decided to play it safe by aiming to raise $30,000. Within the first 15 minutes they had already raised $50,000. By the end of the livestream, they raised over a quarter million dollars. www.mprnews.org/story

We’ve paid rent for over 270 households so far in February and we currently have a waitlist that totals over $30,000. We distributed rents one by one. We can’t even think about March rent yet. You can help us here: gofund.me/5d4d1a571

Wow, people are going to be in shorts tomorrow. 👀