Descartes was wrong. More of this, please: "The origin of consciousness is with feelings, not thoughts. Feelings are the language in which the body talks to the brain." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/m...

At stake in a Senate vote this week is an irreplaceable treasure—America’s most visited wilderness—and the thriving economy of northern Minnesota. We’ll lose both if the Senate votes to let a Chilean company to mine at the region’s edge. This is personal to my family. www.nrdc.org/stories/sena...

Air pollution from burning fossil fuels causes 100,000 to 200,000 avoidable American deaths per year. At the EPA's statistical value of life of $10 million, these deaths cost America $1 to $2 trillion per year, every year. These costs far outweigh the costs of transitioning off of fossil fuels.

Seahawks!!!

I’ll admit that I didn’t have “Hims and Hers” going full Luigi Mangione on my Super Bowl bingo card …

Also: I’ve always thought Hers and Him is creepy, but the Bernie Bro vibe of that ad was dope

I have to say, as someone who has spent some time in church, I really liked the Jesus ad with the eco overtone

That “get your handle now” AI ad made this whole room cringe…

I’ve seen enough: #Seahawks will win the Super Bowl

I’d like to know how many lost pets are “found daily” with those analog posters on neighborhood poles. I’ll bet you it’s more than the corporate surveillance company’s “one.”

Wait, wut?! That little boy Bad Bunny gave his Grammy to was Liam Ramos?

Man, I would’ve loved to see Stephen Miller’s face while watching #BadBunny and that ballsy show of Latino Pride.

Wait. Claude’s motto is “Keep Thinking”? … I believe what they mean to say is: “Outsource Your Thinking to Us.”

A wolf has come to Los Angeles County for the first time in more than a century www.latimes.com/environment/...

Thinking today of this statement Bezos made in 2019, when the National Enquirer tried to blackmail him with compromising photos. See the highlighted portion below, about his "unswerving" support of The Post's mission. medium.com/@jeffreypbez...

This chart. Wow. reportearth.substack.com/p/the-washin... via @chriscmooney.bsky.social

BREAKING: The Washington Post

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

Komo Kulshan (aka Mt Baker) never ceases to impress me… but there is waaay to little snow on those mountains for the first week of Feb!!

The cuts at The Washington Post are making me sick to my stomach… including but not limited to the axing of the Books section …

No struggling newspaper ever saved itself by becoming a worse and less essential product. But what's happening today at the @washingtonpost.com is not just the latest devastating contraction of the news industry; it's the gutting of an American institution vital for a healthy society

Trump's cuts to the Park Service are undermining one of the greatest habitat restoration projects in the Pacific Northwest. Here, folks I interviewed at the heart of this story give an eye-opening look at what it all really means: therevelator.org/elwha-trump-...

Intriguing news from the Salish Sea

I remember opening a city planning book from about 1910, and reading a recommendation to reclaim all the wetlands in Boston for city purposes because their only utility was for rich people to go bird hunting. Certainly an interesting take.

True, True

Just another Girl Dad here, reading this article with sweaty palms ... www.theatlantic.com/family/2026/...

I'll admit that I did *NOT* have "agreeing with Ammon Bundy about federal power" on my 2026 Bingo Card www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Full Bad Bunny speech

There are currently 69,000 people being held in ICE internment w

CNN in Minneapolis: We are seeing thousands and thousands of people, we've been standing on the corner here for the past ten minutes. This this crowd has not let up. It's just continuous.

Rainbow > ICE. A couple hundred students and community members showed up today for an anti-ICE rally at Western Washington University.

Yesterday my daughter was feeling nervous abt participating in today's National Shutdown (afraid of being the in the minority, embarrassed, etc.) Then she heard this NPR segment. This AM was making an anti-ICE sign for the school walk out www.npr.org/2026/01/29/n...

A staple of authoritarian states: using their executive power to arbitrarily revoke privileges & selectively punish political opponents, in this case for peaceful and lawful behaviour. The courts are failing under this broad assault on the rule of law.

What kind of a signal flag is “No Meaning” ?

THIS --> www.persuasion.community/p/reading-is...

UGH "Approximately 12,260 monarchs were recorded during the typical peak overwintering period from late Nov through early Dec 2025, when monarchs cluster together in groves of trees along California’s coast. This is the third-lowest tally since the count began in 1997. " xerces.org/press/wester...

Personally I think this is too much money for Donald trumps untrained heavily armed militia

Meanwhile, on Earth . . .

Even George Will is fed up: "Minneapolis is today’s Birmingham. ... The administration requires an addition to the typologies of government: loutocracy." www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

These folks are peak Minnesota-nice. Give this a lesson

It's a War on History and Memory: "At Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument in Montana, exhibit text that described the United States being “hungry for gold and land” and breaking promises to Native Americans was ordered changed or removed" www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Hell, yeah. Thanks, Boss!

Trump’s fundraisers are now using the threat of dispatching ICE against citizens as an email engagement tactic.

It's a War on History and Memory www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/c...

As we all learned in school, a bill becomes a law when the People’s Republic of China sends it to the U.S. President and he signs it.

This mid-afternoon Alex Pretti vigil at the Portland VA was not heavily promoted. But the crowd probably stretches a quarter mile or more. Americans are galvanized and grieving.

👀👀👀 www.desmog.com/2026/01/23/a...

Okay I think I've mapped out ICE politics as of Monday night

Oh, you know, just a metro daily newspaper running a service journalism roundup of munitions the government has used against its own people