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"It is time for the Basin States and Federal Government to acknowledge there is no painless strategy...both Basins, including all seven states, must negotiate an enforceable agreement to reduce their total consumptive uses...to level equal to or less than the amount of water nature is providing."

#westwater #ColoradoRiver Click on the URL to be taken to a new white paper by Eric Kuhn, Anne Castle, John Fleck, Kathryn Sorensen, Jack Schmidt, and Katherine Tara introduced by John Fleck www.inkstain.net/2025/10/the-...

Frustrated with weather forecasts in S.F.? Here’s why temperatures are so hard to predict www.sfchronicle.com/weather/arti...

MAGA cabinet heads using their departments for political messaging is a blatant violation of the #HatchAct. Problem with stopping it is that complaints go to the US Office of Special Counsel, whose non-partisan leadership was taken out by Trump in February. Links below www.wired.com/story/govern...

"Israeli forces have repeatedly evacuated, raided and struck hospitals, accusing Hamas of using them for protection. Fewer than half of Gaza’s 36 hospitals are partly functional, the World Health Organization says."

Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger: "The state of emergency is in AMERICA, not Chicago. It's birthed from this president and his admin's reign of terror." ( ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social )

Reverend Barber: "We are at a point of a moral emergency."

"Six of the songs are from a wife’s perspective, six from a husband’s. 'Songs such as Pick Up The Tempo, Bloody Mary Morning, and It’s Not Supposed To Be This Way have become standards,' Himes notes, 'because they capture the sound of spouses under stress with such accuracy.'" tinyurl.com/4dkywx9b

From the Kaiser Family Foundation:

we lost a queen 👑

“I thought someone should make a story like ‘Poltergeist’ but it’s just the dog’s movie” - director Ben Leonberg, who w/ producer Kari Fischer spent 400 days in a NJ house on principal photography w/ their dog, Indy. Human voiceovers done in post production. Gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/m...

"In the weeks after the removal of the final [Klamath] dam, adult salmon passed the dam site that had blocked their migration for the previous 60 years and found and recognized their historic habitats." #cawater californiawaterblog.com/2025/10/05/c...

Judge Blocks Trump’s Deployment of National Guard in Portland, Ore. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/u...

Under Trump, the EPA, the overarching federal force behind a multi-state plan to improve the Chesapeake's water quality, is stripping the plan of attainment standards

Important, and true.

“... do you want to subsidize E-bike lanes in Portlandia?” well…yes

As smart as it is scary, this sign of the times. Proud to support ProPublica

Interesting 'river density' map of the contiguous USA, by Olivia Champoux: ochampoux.wordpress.com

Heavy rain and flooding is forecast along the East Coast of Florida into the coastal Southeast today through the weekend due to onshore flow.

But does the 1st best behavior pup have two-toned ears and a wrap-around smile?

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/h... RFK, Jr is gutting NIAID of outstanding leadership by firing Dr Marrazzo. Will Whistle-Blower status (by Marrazzo) be enough for the courts to punish RFK's for his corrupt management?

My good Baltimore council member Mark Conway is considering a run against my good congressman Kweisi Mfume. Why should he? Because Rep Mfume is 76 and devastating GOP spending bills keep passing by razor-thin margins while 3 House Dems have died in office this year www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...

Daniel Gerber's 'Shad Fishery,' (1943) depicts townsfolk gathered on the riverbank at Cuttalossa, a Pennsylvanian hamlet tucked into a bend in the Delaware River, armed with nets to catch shad (a herring like fish) as they swim upstream.

Moving house, literally. #Altadena #Eatonfire www.dwell.com/article/alta...

Mr. Rogers has an adoption listing: please share with anyone in the Baltimore-Washington area who needs a big sweet boy! www.adoptapet.com/pet/45135778...

Shop window #WindowsonWednesday #EastCoastKin #PhotographersofBluesky

so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff www.404media.co/iceblock-own...

DHS posted their response on X: “To be clear: We will NOT comply with Gavin Newsom’s unconstitutional mask ban." LAPD has kept quiet, following several L.A. TACO requests for comment. By Aisha Wallace-Palomares The full story: lataco.com/masked-law-e...

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

"When the snowpack is gone by late summer, the glaciers that remain, often in the shadows of peaks, release meltwater that keeps streams flowing at the driest times of year. This water from glaciers serves as a stabilizing force that can sustain mountain streams through droughts." #cawater

Proposed cuts include: eliminating NOAA climate research, weather & air chemistry research, and the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, habitat conservation & research along with ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes research.

They didn't like it, but they did let Nezza finish the anthem in Spanish. Months later, it would really be something if they invited her back for the NLDS (as a bookend to Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl). bsky.app/profile/dbon...

We are so far gone that if someone joked that the President of the United States ordered the alphabet to be re-arranged because T wasn't the first letter, there would be a rush to fact-check it. Or it would be taken as true.

Getting vaccinated against the flu, COVID, and a handful of other diseases is about taking responsibility and protecting your family from harmful and life-threatening illnesses.   Our Administration is committed to sharing accurate information so that you can make the best decisions for your health.

With the “Rec Rollout” program in full swing, some of the city’s celebrated and unsung heroes reflect on the inherent value of those sacred spaces. baltimorebeat.com/the-rec-cent...

This is extortion. Faculty, students, staff, alumni across the country need to get to their Presidents & Trustees today. Just say no. This blackmail only works if most everyone folds. Capitulation now means the end of American higher education for a generation. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

“The goal seems to be to remove the expertise and the experience necessary to implement our federal environmental protection laws, and so as long as there are people there who know how to do that, I think the goal is to strip that out as much as possible."

DAILY MEMO: At Least 246 People Confirmed Taken by Federal Agents In Southern California During September If you appreciate reporting like this, please consider becoming a monthly or yearly member of L.A. TACO so we can continue to bring you this vital information. @eltragon.bsky.social

New York dog people - meet Perseus 😍

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

Trump administration backs off 100% pharma tariffs threatened to start today www.statnews.com/2025/10/01/t... via @statnews.com

Pope Leo Calls for Unity on Climate at a Divided Moment www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/w...

RIP Gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...