The Israeli Supreme Court gave the government an extension in responding to a petition brought by journalists seeking access to the Gaza Strip, the ninth such delay since the case was filed in September 2024.

New: A California state agency won’t meet Governor Gavin Newsom’s year-end deadline to finish long-delayed regulations to protect homes from wildfires, rules that experts say could have limited the destruction of the January Los Angeles firestorms. Free link. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

An abbreviated history of California taking wildfire safety very seriously, or not... 1.) Following devastating fires in Wine Country and Paradise, the state legislature approves a bill in 2020 to enforce a safety buffer around homes, an area of 5 feet resistant to embers. It's called "Zone 0"

And Trump is preparing an executive order—a piece of paper pretending to have the force of law—to preempt and ban state laws just like these. The Trump administration backs AI data centers over you—raising your electricity bills and consuming millions of gallons of your community’s drinking water.

NEW: Chemical industry lobbyists have long pushed the government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the cancer risk from chemicals, one that would help ease regulations on companies that make or use them. They finally got their wish.

426.75 parts per million (ppm) CO2 in air 04-Dec-2025 keelingcurve.ucsd.edu

In a joint statement, the Writers Guild of America West and Writers Guild of America East urged that the Netflix-Warner Bros. merger be blocked.

I would simply walk into the darkest wood after this, never to return

Ok, I agree this is brilliant. However, in college I was friends with a vegan who was kinda an asshole about it (but was overall great).

“The goal is to take Guerneville’s superpower of getting a ton of people here and having a great time and diverting that energy towards a climate goal,” says Nick Schwanz of Solar Punk Farms. “Our near-term goal is to feel like every year’s better than the past.” 🏳️‍🌈🌲💕

It's time for my highly personal "best things I saw and didn't write about" list of 2025, which includes Dynasty Handbag, an impressive outlet, two shows about cities and a slight cheat for an exhibition in NYC. www.kqed.org/arts/1398419...

Highly recommend setting aside some time to read the full investigation into Oregon's AI-fueled toxic drinking water crisis by @rollingstone.com and @thefern.org It’s one of the most important pieces of accountability reporting I’ve seen this year

Have 2 lengthy layovers in LAX next week. Who has recommendations for good spots for lunch/coffee/hang? No I have no lounge access what do I look like

In honor of Larry Summers, I asked the female members of my college class (1987) to say if they had any experiences with sexual harassment by teachers/professors, back when this was tolerated as, I dunno, the cost of attending college, and OH MY GOD.

Now that’s a lede. Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social. Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Join our #ClimateRide team! @climateride.bsky.social delivers millions of $ in grants each year to nonprofits in bike advocacy, conservation, & climate solutions. Registration for the fast-selling Green Fondo ride opens soon, Dec 1. Add your name to the interest list so you can ride with us!

Continuing my brief foray into arts reviewing: Grizzly Bear’s show last night at the Fox in Oakland was a sleepy bore. Allegedly is their last and the band sure seems like they are ready to stop

DHS agents investigating sexual crimes against children have been redeployed to the immigrant crackdown. A probe into the black market for Iranian oil sold to finance terrorism has been slowed down because of the shift. And efforts to combat human smuggling have languished.

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

I realize no one follows me for opera hot takes . . . BUT . . . For everyone in the Bay Area, the Monkey King @sfopera.bsky.social is lush, gorgeous, goosebump-giving and funny. Killer costumes, puppets & performances. Story based on the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West. 2 thumbs up

It's all connected. Healthy animals = healthy ecosystems = healthy humans. 🌍🦟🐸👨‍🍼

Finally, national coverage on the loss of 9 seismic stations in #AK going dark this month due to #NOAA funding cuts. This leaves #tsunami forecasters without vital data used to determine if an #earthquake will send tsunami waves toward the #US West Coast. www.nbcnews.com/science/tsun... #EM #greysky

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

Very excited to be attending the #goodfire #tendingnativelands press preview at Oakland’s Museum of California

Who has an incredible chili recipe, or two? Having folks over Sat and looking for a classic banger and a great vegetarian option

hire all the fired political teen vogue writers and make a new magazine call teen rogue. we’ll all subscribe en masse

This magazine just fired all of their politics staffers

For any unfamiliar with the quality of journalism at Teen Vogue, it's well known for hard-hitting stories on "politically sensitive" topics including climate. Then there's CBS: the only major network to increase climate coverage in the last few years. They just axed nearly their whole climate team.

The best days are burn days. At the briefing for Maidu Cal-TREX training event in Berry Creek. Excited to see good fire help restore this land affected by the ‘21 North Complex fire

We need 18 episode seasons, at least

Doing some reading of 'We Talk, You Listen' (1970, Vine Deloria Jr.) and a lovely, striking thing is how clear and simple it is, in contrast to a lot of modern cultural criticism that is so filled with jargony academic terms you can't grasp the author's point

I love seeing people throw climate parties. 🌍💕 For example, this looks like a neat event in SF 11/8 focusing on community-driven climate action: luma.com/wp9bbre7

"For every halloween joke you make in a headline you have to buy your editor one candy bar" <-- editor is starting to lay down the law @kqedscience.bsky.social

To understand the climate connection to Hurricane Melissa, check out our real-time attribution page at @climatecentral.org: www.climatecentral.org/tropical-cyc... "Climate change made the ocean temperatures along Melissa's path 500 to 900 times more likely."

The family all agreed we would like Shohei to win, but the Dodgers to lose

Timber trade experts allege the Forest Stewardship Council lacks the ability to proactively detect fraud throughout its global supply chains. They hope the body will change, with a vote on whether to lay the groundwork for a new volume tracking system slated for this coming week.

Severance Season 2, should I hang in there or no?

Hot paper alert. I'm not knocking it, though I am finding it hilarious: Conjuring and Calming Anxiety: CrossFit and Whiteness in Contemporary America anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... The upshot: CrossFit workout grounds existential anxiety experienced by elite, white Americans

A “fire expert’s” lament. Coverage of the veto of SB326 by KQEDs @dventon.bsky.social featuring Senator Josh Becker, the bills author, and me. omny.fm/shows/kqed-s...

Were you or someone you know fired from NASA JPL? Would you be interested in speaking to me for a segment on KQED's California Report? Signal: DVenton.09; dventon AT KQED DOT org

Yes, I was among those surprised

Here's the thing I don't understand. You can't as much as sneeze near a historic site in Washington without like 14 commissions, councils, and advisory boards giving you the okay. And everybody now is like...yup, fine with us? wtf?

“It is also the starkest example yet of potential ethical conflicts created by installing the president’s former lawyers atop the Justice Department.”

We need to find a way to get the state thinking like both insurers and utilities do, about ruthless assessment against loss reduction. Spending X dollars on grants is not a success. Reducing expected losses by y% is. That’s how we need to measure if we want to make progress.

The current approaches are not focussed nearly enough on reducing the outcomes we don’t want - large loss fires that occur (almost by definition) when firefighting is not going to be effective and so structure and community preparation is the only recipe for success.

Yup. Both the fact that the modeling was “too expensive” and that we also lost the opportunity to lock in zone zero at a subset of existing homes right away instead of in 3 years. Go figure.

Other states do long-term strategic planning for predictable natural disasters, but not California, not for wildfires. “Where we are is not OK. It should not be acceptable to any Californian.” www.kqed.org/science/1998... via @kqedscience.bsky.social @dventon.bsky.social

1/ 🧵 California is under pressure to rethink wildfire planning. Experts argue the state’s current approach is reactive, not strategic. A wee thread: www.kqed.org/science/1998...

Inspiring story here. Kudos @jeffbradynews.bsky.social www.npr.org/2025/09/20/n...

Update: On Saturday Governor Newsom issued a notification that he was vetoing SB 326 by Senator Josh Becker (D Menlo Park). In his veto message he said the required planning would cost too much money.