15 percent of American homes lacked indoor plumbing in 1960. The idea that everyone in 1955 America lived in a split-level suburban home with two cars and three kids and one income is, quite simply, a fantasy borne of media consumption.

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

here for the antifa meeting

I don’t really understand much about our federal courts system (not my specialty! sorry, I’m a wetland restoration engineer!) but this is a very helpful explainer of what Justice Jackson did tonight:

If we had more architects and builders who embraced ornamentation, we might have fewer planners demanding complex, highly-articulated building envelopes. Here's a simple five-story box with terra-cotta ornament in #Watsonville, California. It contains 100 homes over ground-floor shops.

King tides and storm surge give us a glimpse of the future with sea level rise.

Parks and Rec isn't a hill to die on, but one thing it gets right is this whole government thing rests on the shoulders of people you will never know, caring a lot about jobs you've never heard of, fighting challenges thrown at them from every angle just to make life a little better for everyone.

“Tens or hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer-funded NASA property and laboratories are at risk of either being discarded, mishandled, or out-of-commission for significant time periods.” 🔭🧪 www.gesta-goddard.org/blog/gestas-...

Redds on redds. Salmon returning as geomorphological force, instantly recontouring creeks they haven’t seen in a century.

Hundreds of salmon currently stacked up in skinny Spencer Creek, a groundwater-fed tributary to the Klamath. These guys are ragged with decay but determined to fulfill the spawning imperative, zombies who outlived Halloween. Resilience embodied.

Grateful to spend two days on the Klamath watching chinook, liberated by dam removal, return to streams from which they’d been precluded since the Titanic sank. Fish are everywhere, in numbers that stagger the mind & locations that biologists figured would take years to repopulate. Too beautiful.

I swore an oath to the Constitution in service to the American people. I come to work each day in a green-and-gray uniform with a gold-plated badge pinned over my heart. I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

Does anyone here have any connections with the binocular brand Nocs? I have a question re: non-profit donations.

The fact that a lot of leftists despise Parks and Rec - one of the best and most sympathetic depictions of non-cop government in modern media - is a symptom of the fact that a lot of the left has no idea how to actually implement the policy proposals they want to enact.

A new website provides scientists, policymakers, and the public with an up-to-date look at which Bay Area bird populations are thriving and which are declining, and what that says about the health of San Francisco Bay’s wetlands and waters. #cawater www.kqed.org/science/1999...

lol Ocean County

The Goddard center hosts the largest single concentration of researchers in NASA, including the Science Mission Directorate and Engineering and Technology Directorate. Nearly 10,000 scientists and engineers work at Goddard, around 7,000 of whom are contractors.

Goddard is very tight with the aerospace engineering department at UMD; this is infuriating.

We have government officials directing armed militias who believe they are perfectly entitled to arrest anyone opposed to them.

"Science is being destroyed across many agencies" say federal researchers. For my latest @nature.com piece, I spoke to 19 different scientists across EPA, NOAA, NIH, NASA, and USGS to document how science is being dismantled across US federal agencies.

I'm so proud of the result and hope that it is indeed helpful as a reference for a broad array of stakeholders. drive.google.com/file/d/19n-q...

The report details key outcome variables like area burned at high severity, structure loss and smoke days; the economic impacts of these outcomes in electricity and insurance rates; and the inputs to solving the problem including state, federal and electric utility spending.

My team has been working on a report that provides policymakers with clear situational awareness on the wildfire situation in California. I'm so proud of the work product we have produced.

Forrest Smith, the only National Park Service engineer cleaning up abandoned oil and gas wells, lost his contract, leaving 93 orphaned wells on park lands unmanaged. These leaking wells release methane and toxins, threatening human health and the environment.

happy birthday to me 🎂 grateful for 45 trips around the sun ❤️

Tonight's Dodgers World Series victory is a reminder to America that the moment to save us from the nightmare we live in now passed a long time ago. There is no one coming to save us. There is no fork in the road to spare us from the destination. This is it.

dammit.

You’re never gonna guess what Will Smith just did

“36 feeling like he’s 96” the announcers are choosing violence

Any Philadelphian sports fan watching literally any game between 2 non-Philadelphian teams in any sport:

Note: while not unprecedented, it’s actually pretty rare for a sitting Catholic bishop to participate in a demonstration. It’s just not generally what Catholic bishops do. Thus: Getting the hierarchy involved in this protest outside an ICE facility is no small thing.

EPA's reorganization doesn't just rearrange deck chairs. It throws overboard the staff and expertise for curbing dangerous climate pollution. How is this “making sure we are prepared to respond to today’s environmental threats and tomorrow’s challenges”? subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

a kid dressed up as Saquon Barkley at my daughter’s school’s Halloween costume parade, so of course I had to give him a hearty GO BIRDS!!! 🦅 at which point he gave me a look like he wanted to throw me into a lake 😆

Out of the sea there rise storms and monsters, but no evil powers: evil is of earth. And there is no sea, no running of river or spring, in the dark land where once Ged had gone. Death is the dry place.

Thanks @climatedaddykqed.bsky.social for highlighting the SF Estuary Wetlands Regional Monitoring Program for @kqednews.kqed.org!! www.kqed.org/science/1998...

The latest recon pass recorded a staggering 173 kt (199 mph) peak flight-level wind... while this measurement is quite far aloft, parts of western Jamaica in the path of its ferocious core are over 500-1000m elevation & will experience stronger winds than at sea level.

892 mb and 185 mph. Very few places in the world in modern history have ever experienced what Jamaica is experiencing right now. Hurricanes of this magnitude directly hitting a major land mass are exceptionally rare.

They earlier abducted a dad taking his kids to school in a raid so violent the kids needed medical attention. And then the dad was deported in the middle of the night. Fuck these fucking ghouls, traumatizing children and breaking up families. Love and power to everyone holding them accountable

The number of forecasts issued by @nws.noaa.gov Sacramento office, which watches for winter storms across the Northern Sierra, has plummeted. The forecasts contain critical information that doesn’t exist elsewhere, @weatherwest.bsky.social @ucanr.edu tells @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social

Colorado City is an FLDS town; their EMS is one of a few in the region that provides services for the Red Bull Rampage mountain biking event, which just wrapped up last weekend and attracts thousands of visitors to southern Utah. Lots of those visitors visit Zion NP while they’re in the area.

VFA-22 out of Lemoore NAS; that’s one of the squadrons with whom my dad was especially close. 😣

reading slaughterhouse 5 for the first time and i was absolutely knocked senseless by this passage, which is so true and relevant that it feels like it was pulled from a history book

These artists built a light installation that activates at high tide, showing future sea levels and demonstrating the climate brittleness of the art center that commissioned it, currently sited in a building near the...

Easily one of the most dystopian things the NYT has ever published for years military/veteran communities have disdained that police were becoming visually uniformed similarly to the armed forces & for good reason It used to be just swat and srt, now it’s all of them Uniforms & gear matter

I had church stuff all morning, so I turned on the Eagles game as if it was a 1 PM (west coast) game, and omg SAQUON!!!

i’m just so mad because if we absolutely had to elect an unqualified media personality to be president we should have gone with either of the guys from CAR TALK

It's getting tough to put into words how bad this looks for Jamaica. Here's my futile attempt this evening.

gonna be a week or two of hero dirt out there, get it while the gettin’s good! 🚵🏻‍♀️

Went to a prayer service tonight at St. Mary of the Lake, where they have cardboard cutouts throughout the church representing parishioners afraid to come to Mass because of ICE.