Just a guy on a bike feeling smug waiting for the other people in his party to find parking.

Strong kicker casting doubt on claims that ICE agents were harmed at the taco shop where they maced Rep Grijalva: “DHS officials have not identified any officers who were injured, nor provided any information about injuries — but one of them was seen tripping and falling down.”

Take a breath and ask: “do I really need to drive?”

A crisp and perfect December afternoon in Boise

Spontaneous run/rollerskate/e-bike with my nephew and his folks on the greenbelt. It’s easy to have a good time outside with your people in Boise.

Check out Star photographer Mamta Popat's powerful photos of yesterday's chaotic clash between anti-ICE protesters and federal agents, amid a homeland security operation at Taco Giro on Grande Avenue. @tucson.com tucson.com/news/local/c...

ICE assaulted and maced Rep Grijalva at a local taco shop.

A gripping and disturbing read about aggressive federal tactics towards protestors and the press in Tucson from @pmingram.tucsonsentinel.com www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report...

Thank you, that’s a very mediocre question, like most of them.

I believe that it is possible for us to have a positive relationship with fire for a very simple reason: our current broken and anti-ecological relationship is an outlier in a millenia-long history of active communion with flame. we have lived well with fire far longer than living poorly with it.

On the day that @opb.org CEO Rachel Smolkin posted this video, saying OPB’s funding gap of $5 million was closed, I was also told by the Chief Content Officer that Hush was canceled. Eighty percent of my income, and my health insurance - gone. I was given no reason for the cancellation. 1/x

Trump Admin Lawyers Now Warn Boat Strike May Be Illegal, as Hegseth Passes the Buck: ‘If the Washington Post is right, then a crime was committed,’ a Trump admin lawyer tells Zeteo, as Pete Hegseth tries to pass the buck. zeteo.com/p/trump-hegs...

A new investigation from @propublica.org & @highcountrynews.org finds that government programs for grazing on public lands help the wealthiest of ranchers while harming the environment. www.propublica.org/article/graz...

An important @propublica.org and @highcountrynews.org investigation that adds a lot of evidence to the often heard argument that Western ranching is a welfare program that principally benefits the biggest operators www.hcn.org/issues/57-12...

being an Irish person who thinks immigrants are bad is like being...sorry I don't have something for that, it's just really cruel and stupid!

Well said. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

So Noem just admitted to knowingly and personally violating/ordering the violation of a judge’s order. Going to be an interesting hearing

Border Patrol has raided the @nomoredeaths.bsky.social humanitarian aid camp several times in the past, but this is the first time volunteers have witnessed agents enter structures without a warrant, marking a significant escalation in the agency’s cruel and illegal conduct at the border.

1/3 In our new peer-reviewed paper, we estimate that aboveground forest carbon storage is projected to decrease by 18% (796 Tg C) under +2°C climate warming in the western US. 🧪🌍 This has big implications for carbon offset programs! Next slide, please ...

We found that the BLM skipped environmental review on 75% of its grazing land. Our new @propublica.org story explains the ”loophole” that allows BLM to bypass enviro reviews. www.propublica.org/article/graz...

Maybe some consititional law folks would care to comment on this www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report...

I’m stoked to attend the 11th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress, share/learn about the latest fire science, and reconnect/connect with my fire science colleagues! #FireCon2025 🔥

"I am not convinced that the current set of known technologies gets us to AGI." CEO of IBM volunteers that language is not intelligence on Decoder and throws cold water on LLMs alone getting to AGI. A good one! -> www.theverge.com/podcast/8298...

Energy transitions can happen faster than we think: In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels. In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.

Department of Defense Law of War Manual, Sec. 18.3.2.1 states the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders. What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."

CALLOUT: I am looking to interview individuals who have sought health care at crisis pregnancy centers, whether intentionally or unintentionally, and want to talk about their experience. The center can be located anywhere. If you or someone you know might be interested, please email or send me a DM.

I like using generative text for my messages to people because, more than anything that I want to explicitly convey, I want the recipient to understand that I put the least possible thought into it. It's just more meaningful that way.

sad news but the committee met over the holidays and announced that you can no longer just add "bros" to the end of things you don't like

Everyone is getting upset about the data centers. They pollute a lot and use a lot of energy and will eventually be very ugly/huge vacant buildings. And I understand being mad about that. Until you consider the state of the lazer tag industry at this moment, and how much help that sector needs.

Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved. Don't look up!

Chief Bovino is not a political appointee. He is a civil servant, subject to the same requirements to be nonpartisan as any other employee. These messages are being broadcast from an official government account.

The solution here is not no information, as the realtors would apparently prefer. It is better information about risk for home buyers. The information will come to light anyway as soon as the buyer tries to get insurance. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...

Loving couples ripped apart while a convicted cocaine trafficker who used the Honduran presidency to enrich himself is pardoned. A @nytimes.com front page for our strange times.

So profoundly cruel. Not far off from arresting someone at the altar. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

this is just gutter racism

Reading an interesting paper for my reporting (link below), and found a compelling way to talk about suppression's relationship to wildfire risk: it is not means of eliminating risk, but rather a means of "transferring risk forward in time." www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Christmas is coming, and the Black Friday sales signal we’re in peak gift-buying season. When you’re picking out gifts for friends and family this year, there’s a whole slew of tech products that are better to avoid. I put together a guide to help you through it.

when its definitely not a hostage situation

You pull yourself up by your boostraps. Me? I DESERVE free money from the government, and so do my rich friends bsky.app/profile/cwar...

Operation Stonegarden, which allows DHS to pay local police to patrol with the Border Patrol, got $450 billion in additional funding in the big beautiful bill

EPSTEIN BOMBSHELL: my staff is releasing a new report showing JPMorgan Chase executives – all the way to the top – enabled Epstein's sex trafficking operation. You're going to want to read this.

@npr.org is doing a deep dive on the climate change-driven homeowners insurance crisis. @lsommer.bsky.social’s dispatch from California is particularly relevant for us in the wildfire-threatened West one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5570...

Rank anti-Muslim bigotry www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...

A man who ordered the dismemberment of a journalist is a guest in the White House today.

My position on cars isn’t anti, it’s slower, fewer and smaller. Moving in those directions will save many lives.

ICE's Enforcement Blitz in Chicago Shows Familiar Pattern: 78% of Arrests are "Low Risk" According to Government's Own Data. Chicago’s immigration crackdown overwhelmingly targeted people who pose little to no public safety risk. austinkocher.substack.com/p/ices-enfor...

Here's hoping deep, instinctive skepticism is the journalistic posture toward Silicon Valley moving forward...not a great track record though.

Olivia Nuzzi—who has allegedly has sex with two of her sources—has a job and a book deal. Meanwhile, I am begging people on the Internet to subscribe to my indie publication so I don’t go bankrupt. (it’s @autonomynews.co)