Imagine claiming to be a Christian, waking up on Easter Sunday, and tweeting this. 25th Amendment now!

“It’s war. We’re in war,” says the president. Meanwhile, congressional Republicans continue to treat it as a non-war to avoid holding a vote on declaring war, as is required by the Constitution. www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/l...

This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.

Starting to wonder whether Trump is really the Christian he claims to be.

Should students use AI programs to help write their college admissions essays? Here's a piece by an admissions counselor who thinks so. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

"Pam Bondi leaves a catastrophic legacy. The Department of Justice no longer functions as an effective law enforcement agency." www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

"During one session, a student had her mom run her supplemental essay for her application to Cornell University through ChatGPT. When I read it, I had to admit that it was better than the version I had worked on with the student." www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

So now Trump's personal lawyer is interim Attorney General of the United States.

Alex Jones on Trump: "He does look sick. He does babble and sound like the brain's not doing too hot. And so, we just cut bait on Trump, and we just mobilize against the Democrats."

Pam Bondi's mistake? Keeping the Epstein story alive and letting it implicate Trump.

FOX CONFIRMS PAM BONDI OUT AS AG TODD BLANCHE TO BE INTERIM AG

From the Editorial Board: Schools wouldn’t think twice about telling a kid not to bring a Nintendo Switch to math class; for some reason we haven’t yet figured out that cellphones are just as bad, if not worse, for disrupting learning. But we’re getting closer.

Breaking News: Mortgage rates climbed for the fifth straight week as the war in Iran weighed on the U.S. housing market.

Cherry Blossoms 🌸 Sakura Season in Japan 🇯🇵

Here is what the dismal snowpack means for California's water (present and future). Op-ed from me. (Gift link) #climate #climatechange www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

Hey, the stock market is in positive territory again, so I guess Trump is a genius and the war is good for business.

When you go up to the Sierra Nevada to do the last seasonal snowpack depth measurement and there isn't any snow. #climate #climatechange #water

"This year, however, the Trump administration scrapped the park’s reservation system, which was put in place to help manage crowds and to protect the park’s natural beauty." www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

Well, I do have some good news to report: yesterday's weather system "overperformed" somewhat in NorCal! Convective activity and even some stronger thunderstorms developed in the unusually warm/moist/unstable airmass, bringing some more widespread downpours than expected.

They should do hot pockets next.

Both of Marco Rubio’s parents were born in Cuba. Marco Rubio was born in Miami in 1971, before they became US citizens. He is a US citizen because he was born in the US under birthright citizenship. #Hypocrites

Every year, hundreds of people walk silently through the streets of Minneapolis… looking at the windows of the houses. It's the Wedge Cat Tour: the residents put the cats in the window and the crowd stops to admire them. Yes. This exists. 😹

TRUMP CANNOT LEAVE NATO. Three years ago Congress passed a law that the president cannot leave NATO without Congress' blessing. It takes 2/3 of rte Senate to vote to end US relationship. It's unfortunate that the lame-ass media doesn't confirm info before they run with it

13 minutes 🤡 @nytimes.com

🚨🚨🚨 March 2026 was the warmest March on record according to Prism climate data (1895-present). Previously, 2012 was far and away the warmest March, but this March beat 2012 by about half a degree Fahrenheit. This map shows how March temperatures ranked compared to all other Marches.🔥🔥🔥

My latest opinion piece, at the San Francisco Chronicle, "Here’s what California’s dismal snowpack means for the state’s future..." "What we’re seeing is a clear signal of human-caused climate change." #climatechange #water Gift Link: www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

Experts have poo-pooed the idea, but the new Google Deepdoodoo seasonal hurricane forecast model, trained on poop data from sea turtles, outperforms the traditional models from CSU, NOAA, and TSR. I have the details: yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/04/ai-t...

A history of the top marginal tax rates on the wealthiest Americans: 1940: 81% 1950: 84% 1960: 91% 1970: 72% 1980: 70% 1990: 28% 2000: 40% 2010: 35% For 50 years, corporate backed politicians in Congress have slashed taxes to line the pockets of their wealthy donors.

Warmest March on record for the US! Prelim numbers show 2026 beat its nearest competitor (March 2012) by a big margin ~.5°F (March 2012) Some cities averaged 15° degrees above norm for March 2026. NOAA shows over 15,000 location heat records (max & mins), 3,000 were all-time monthly March records 1/

After the White House complained about an unflattering photo of Karoline Leavitt, it was removed from AFP and Getty’s systems. This is the photo in question. Please do not repost it. 👇

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Editing this thoughtful essay by @petergleick.bsky.social, @michaelemann.bsky.social, and John Holdren on the legacy of Paul Ehrlich gave me a reason to read excerpts of The Population Bomb, the book that made him famous. (At a later date, I would like to read the whole thing.)

As someone who studies politicization of democratic militaries this statement on X is a five- alarm fire. It creates an undeniable permission structure for overt partisan behavior by mil. It's part of a concerted effort by civilian leaders to turn the U.S. military into a partisan aligned force.

In today's @sfchronicle.com, @petergleick.bsky.social takes stock of this year's snowpack. "Without the snowpack, we will draw down our reservoirs earlier, cutting into our reserves and worsening the impact of the inevitable droughts we suffer." www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

The scientific consensus is that surface warming is linear in cumulative carbon emissions--there is no evidence of any "tipping point" behavior in global surface temperature (though some climate subsystems e.g. ice sheet may exhibit threshold behavior): www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

JUST IN: Judge Mehta advances theming-running civil lawsuit by lawmakers and cops against Trump over Jan. 6. He says Trump’s rally speech and call to Raffensperger (among other acts) are not plainly immune conduct and can advance toward trial. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

This is near my house. They are making a park that will connect the neighborhood with the shoreline. It's a win.

Trump moves to restrict mail-in voting. This is not a drill.

EXCEPTIONAL WARMTH IN ASIA Every single ASian country is breaking records from Russia all the way to Japan NORTH KOREA had its March warmest night in history is several stations,except Pyongyang which was broken last year. Expect an avalanche of records later today

Breaking news: A committee led by the interior secretary voted to exempt oil and gas companies from complying with the Endangered Species Act when drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, which could threaten species facing extinction.

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The graffiti artist and ‘Everybody’s Fly’ memoirist on his early art passion and friendships with Debbie Harry and Jean-Michel Basquiat. on.wsj.com/4s81VCN

MARCH 2026 MOST ANOMALOUS MONTH IN US HISTORY PREVIOUS RECORD WAS MARCH 1910 8.5F above 1881 1910 baseline That considring EACH OWN previous 30yrs baseline for every month. So GW is already discounted here. March 2026 wins anyway.

‘Assault on climate action’: Penn experts denounce greenhouse gas finding repeal | Article by Danna Cai in the @dailypenn.bsky.social: www.thedp.com/article/2026...

“As the mayor of the capital of Silicon Valley,” he responds, “they have seen what accountable leadership looks like, and they, like many other Californians, want a government that is more responsive, more efficient.” www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

Spain's defense minister says the country has closed its airspace to U.S. planes involved in the Iran war.

Fires 🔥 like Sunday’s in Hernando County are a harbinger of things to come this spring. This map shows 2/3rds of Florida under extreme drought, the highest since 2000 when record keeping began. There are spots that need nearly 20 inches of rain to get back to even!.. 1/

"Diablo Canyon, California’s last remaining nuclear facility, currently provides 17% of California’s clean, carbon-free electricity. That’s enough to meet the needs of 4 million residents every day." www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

In the contiguous US, for every 10 heat records, there are ~7 cold records, but between 2015 and 2025, this drops to just ~2 cold records for every 10 heat records. THIS chart 📊 is global #climatechange. #dataviz

"University of California admissions decisions are out. Some 200,000 applicants and their families are finally seeing the results of a process whose rules are unwritten, whose scoring is secret, and whose outcomes can be difficult to explain." www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...