Jon Jarvis, a former director of the National Park Service, said he sees the ban as a badge of honor. “I guess your story in SFGATE hit a nerve back in DC,” he wrote in an email. “It was accurate and detailed and therefore, not surprisingly, your [news site] got blacklisted. You should be proud.”

0.8 inches of April showers after a hot dry summery March brought out the banananana slugs and newts

🟡 M5.1 #earthquake detected 1 km NNE of Brookdale, California at 4/2/2026 1:41:25 AM PDT This reflects data from the U.S. Geological Survey that is subject to change. Visit the USGS page linked below for the latest #quake information

🚨TRUMP ORDERS SHASTA DAM RAZE -- E.O. No. 0401🚨

Our Malicious March (opposite of a Miracle March) took above-average precipitation (103% thanks to a wet fall) and made it almost impossible to reach average (now 87%). Average Apr-Sep precip is 4", record was 7.6" in 2019 (since 2012), we need 9" to get to average by October 1st. Was 131% Jan 1st.

March had 16 days at least 80F (previous record: 3 days). 10 of those days were earlier than before (since I've been keeping records starting in 2012). Median March hi temp was 80--prior to this year it was 69. My peak summer heat metric (days between 7 days in a row <84) already exceeded last year.

Drought has these California farmers turning toward a new crop: “We’re harvesting the sun and producing electricity.”

Today, one year ago, the devastating Mw 7.7 Myanmar #earthquake produced the first-ever surface rupture footage, caught on a building's webcam. It shows the exact moment this section of the Sangain Fault ruptured in a right lateral strike-slip movement. 🧪⚒️ youtu.be/77ubC4bcgRM?...

Omg! Huge shoutout to San Francisco, CA! Ocean Beach, you crushed it! 🌊

BTW waterfalls peak flow FOR THE YEAR might be happening now. Sharing pics for those who couldn't/didn't go to Yosemite because of MAGA policies (that are also making our snow melt a month early). BTW, 3000 cfs in Yosemite Valley is only 200 cfs where the Merced River barely reaches the San Joaquin.

Yesterday I went to Yosemite Valley. I never thought I'd have to answer the question "Are you a citizen?" to get into the Park.

It hit 93 degrees in Inverness today. In March. That’s not good.

We now have had four days in the 80s this March, and it is still 5 days until the earliest 80s from a previous year. Looks like the next 3 days will continue to set records and we'll end up with 7 days in the 80s this March earlier than ever before.

"the strongest mid-tropospheric ridge ever observed in the southwestern U.S. in March is expected to develop by Friday, and then will probably go on to break that new record (set this week) when it re-organizes into an even broader and stronger ridge next week."

Yesterday we hit 80 F the earliest day ever in my weather records. March 80s only happened 4 times in late March, all since 2018, previous earliest was March 22, 2022. And our last freeze was in January (for the third time). Our latest freeze ever was March 15, 2021--not in this week's forecast.

"Once the site of an internment camp for Japanese Americans during World War II, Camp East Montana is..." We literally reopened concentration camps

$2M tomahawk missles remind me of a Chris Rock bit about how you could stop gun violence by making bullets really expensive: I'm not shooting you cause you're not worth it.

Today's short-term forecast had the worst performance that I've ever seen. 10% of our annual precipitation just disappeared. This morning's forecast said we were to get 2 inches of rain today, and up to 4 inches Monday night through Wednesday morning. Instead: overcast, less than 1/10 inch earlier.

Trump's ultimate goal, the one consistency between all his actions that will last into the future, is to make libertarians out of us. You don't want a police state selectively enforcing any more laws than you have to have. Kill our trust in government and the insurrublicans win... their long game.

I finally figured out why Trump threatened Greenland. It was to draw NATO troops west and spread them more thinly, benefitting Putin. Putin always seems to invade right after the Winter Olympics are over. I hope I'm wrong about this.

AI hallucinations represented not a temporary engineering challenge, but a permanent mathematical reality requiring new governance frameworks and risk management strategies.

Community Voices: Bakersfield has promised a flowing Kern River for nearly 50 years. Now is the moment to keep that promise.

Nearly 800 people signed on to echo our call for the rematriation of Felix Cove. We only need 200 more signatures. www.alliance4felixcove.org/vision-plan#...

Bruce Springsteen - Streets of Minneapolis youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w?...

“They’re looking for credit for something they’re already required to do,” said Greg Reis, a hydrologist with the group Friends of the River.

"These agents, and the president who sent them, are no one’s heroes, no one’s saviors—just men with guns who have to hide their faces to shoot a mom in the face, and a nurse in the back."

Congrats to Alex, free soloing tallest building in the world. Announcers weren't that bad, though lots of talk of death. This is the opposite--it is about life. Think of something you do better than almost anyone else, that gives you joy, that requires perfection. And it is about my fav JMuir quote

Federal agents shot at civilians in their cars at least 15 times since July. We tracked each case. In every instance, feds claimed drivers tried to ram agents. But the claim often falls apart under scrutiny. Crucial investigation by David Noriega for @ms.now www.ms.now/news/federal...

Children screaming and crying can be heard as a possible uprising is underway at the ICE Children's Concentration Camp in Dilley, TX (1/24/26).

An accurate summary Of three key points.

Morrison: "Congress cannot be complicit in facilitating these lethal operations & occupation of our cities. We're standing here as a united front today, pleading for our Republican colleagues who control the Congress & who took the same oath to defend the Constitution we did to stand up & stop this"

“Minnesota has had it. This is sickening. The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.”

There's something happening here What it is ain't exactly clear There's a man with a gun over there A-telling me I got to beware I think it's time we stop Children, what's that sound? Everybody look what's going down

First time in the 25 yr career of MN state police chief they have been denied access to provide an independent investigation of a crime scene. Fed agency investigating its own shooting concluded it was justified before completing investigation. Yeah that unprofessional agency rly inspires confidence

Texas- 2.1mil undocumented people. Florida -1.6mil undocumented people. Minnesota -130,000 undocumented people. It's not about undocumented people.

At this point it is clear that Trump enabled by his Supreme Court is using ICE as his Jan 6th squad to try to steal the midterm elections in heavily-Democrat cities. What is a good model of resistance to this violent government takeover? The people in these cities need more support from state govts.

The Supreme Court only cleared the way for Kavanaugh Stops four months ago and ICE now openly engages in violent racial profiling, snatching anyone who looks non-white and treating them as presumptively guilty of a crime. Remarkable how quickly our liberties can be crushed when courts go along.

Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"

Self-care and social retreat under neoliberalism. Tell Me It’s Going to be OK thebaffler.com/salvos/tell-...

The whole affair seemed almost cartoonishly Californian. Last Herd on Earth thebaffler.com/salvos/last-...