"A broker for Pete Hegseth, the US defence secretary, attempted to make a big investment in major defence companies in the weeks leading up to the US-Israeli attack on Iran, according to three people familiar with the matter."

Once upon a time if an American president explicitly declared he was considering committing war crimes, there'd be a controversy.

Seattle is pretty excited about our light rail expansion

Faces and stories of some of the children killed in the Iran school bombing www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Cartoonish morning moment: I stopped to pet a golden retriever outside the bakery and he very calmly and sweetly stole a baguette from my bag.

"The full delivery took about 30 minutes. For hours afterward, pairs of whales held the baby above the water until it was able to swim…What struck the researchers was how many mother, sister & daughter whales united to support the new calf, even ones that weren’t related." apnews.com/article/sper...

Was working with a group of high school students yesterday and someone mentioned 2008 and the teacher said "Were any of you alive in 2008?" and I chortled at the absurdity of the question but, reader, they were not.

This is another one of those jump scare graphs, showing the number of 60°F days in Fort Collins, Colorado this winter compared to any prior season since the 1800s. More here: source.colostate.edu/colorado-rec... and via the @climate.colostate.edu.

536 miles of this

if you want to know the history of this kind of policy, I made a podcast two years ago that explained why these tests make no sense, how they were already used and eventually abandoned by the IOC in the 80's and 90's, and the devastating impacts they have on real athletes: www.tested-podcast.com

For those of us in the West, this is a horror show in the making. I'm honestly terrified of this summer's fire season.

>10,000 STEM PhDs have left federal service over the past year (including 30% of the federal colleagues with whom I’ve worked closely). Those still left are holding federal science together with duct tape. What an extraordinary act of sabotage against the American people.

Trump admin approved 89% of Republican states' disaster aid requests, compared to 23% for Democratic states www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

The Bourne Identity (2002) / The Hidalgo Legacy (2026)

Picked up my garden's biannual carload of (composted) giraffe, etc poop from the zoo today. Gorgeous sunny day to be one of a crowd of happy people shoveling shit.

"Europe’s excess spending on fossil fuels since the Russia-Ukraine War amounted to about 40% of the investment needed to transition its power system to clean energy, according to a 2023 study. 'In Europe, we learned the wrong lesson.'" apnews.com/article/midd...

"German utilities expressed many of the same concerns nearly a decade ago when plug-in solar started to become popular in Germany. But with more than a million systems installed, no safety incidents have been reported for customers who used the panels as instructed"

Not great, Bob.

Obligatory promo for @bengoldfarb.bsky.social's Eager, a fabulous and hopeful book of beavers

Been a year since I got an electric bike, and I really didn't anticipate how much it would change my relationship to the city. No need to worry about traffic, parking, sweat (Seattle is super hilly), bus schedules. Everything just feels so much closer.

Israeli police attacked a group of journalists outside the Old City of Jerusalem, including a CNN producer who suffered a fractured wrist in the violent incident. https://cnn.it/3PlH3u6

In what should be a surprise to no one, the US and Israeli attack on Iran has serious climate consequences. Our new analysis, covered in @theguardian.com this morning, tallies the climate costs of the first two weeks of the attacks.

Not once does this story mention that offering a federal job in exchange for a political favor is a crime

Record-shattering March temperatures in western North America virtually impossible without climate change, new research by @wwattribution.bsky.social reveals 🧵 ow.ly/isMt50YwL27

I've interviewed more than a dozen hydrologists and climatologists across the West the past 10 days. A sense of panic is starting to set in. Wildfires and water shortages will start mounting this summer. Adverse impacts are expected from not only this heat wave, but the historically warm winter.

Fair to say that the Western U.S. heatwave has reached record-shattering status, with dozens of locations breaking all-time March monthly heat records & some now approaching *April* records. Swath of record heat extends clear from Pacific to Great Plains, & from Canada to Mexico.

ICE agents detained a Texas father trying to deliver milk to his infant daughter in the neonatal intensive care unit, disregarding his status as a DACA recipient. trib.al/BOeMew3

The new $200 billion request is basically equivalent to the cost for universal free school breakfasts and lunches for all students across the United States for a decade

see? here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared

This is insane.

"We're not going to litigate whether the supposed need for this legislation that would contract voting access exists."

the ghost of Andrew Jackson, probably

Politico PM newsletter does a pretty good job of relating all the evidence from today's news conference that Trump has lots his marbles, but frames it as "the weave": www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Black rain in Iran Residents in Tehran say they have burning eyes and difficulty breathing when the dark and oily precipitation falls. By Tammy Webber @apnews.com apnews.com/article/iran...

Spring snow making the flowers look like cake frosting

Hey does anyone remember how we had like a decade of near zero interest rates? Thank god the USA spent that time investing in infrastructure! What a calamity if we had just squandered the last best chance of our lives

This eventually turns into a thoughtful look at the psychic toll on servicemembers forced to fight a war of retribution and rage. "You’re asking people to die for the ambitions of a president and a moral calculus that’s no greater than might makes right,” one vet says www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/u...

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

“Killing innocent people is not only a moral stain, but wastes government resources and makes Americans less safe.” -one of the many people who warned what could happen, back when Hesgeth eliminated the office of Trying to Kill Fewer Civilians last year www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/u...

Just out @propublica.org: How did the Pentagon make the horrible mistake that left more than 150 school children dead? Perhaps because it cancelled an effort to limit such harm in favor of Hegseth’s lust for “lethality.” www.propublica.org/article/trum...

ProPublica reporting is often cited by other outlets, but this is a particularly entertaining example: people.com/kristi-noem-...

let's all take a moment to consider the Thief Weevil and his outrageous pantaloons

RIP our hopes for an end-of-winter snowpack miracle.

I believe the phrase for this is “eating the seed corn.”

Elon Musk has already started plans to launch a million satellites. Yes. A MILLION. This is a colossally bad idea, and it's not too late to make your voice heard. I explain everything: www.scientificamerican.com/article/ramp... 🔭 🧪

Quite the headline from People.com people.com/trump-says-i...

People who changed "the Department of Defense" to "the Department of War" and call military members "warfighters" insist they would definitely not start a WAR www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...

The reason they’re called human rights is all human beings have them. If you’re talking about the supposed exclusive rights of the herrenvolk you should use another term or just switch to German entirely.

My latest, with @propublica.org + @nytimes.com: An Oklahoma law was supposed to help reduce the sentences of domestic violence survivors who fought back -- women who are serving long sentences for killing their abusers. Why are nearly all of them still in prison? www.propublica.org/article/okla...

A couple of years ago I wrote about how the idea of "sea level" has always been very, um, fluid. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...