#cowx #Boulder #cocorahs CO-BO-596 0.26” in rain, mostly overnight. We’re at 1.20” to date for the month, 109% of normal. 14.37” year to date, 98% of normal. 17.52” water year to date, 100% of normal. Raining lightly, more rain expected today. Hoping to end September above average.

This is what politicization of the Justice Department results in.

#ClimateActionNow can.app.link/MJ4vrlB1RWb

A piece in the New York Times brings up a “zombie” proposal to combat climate change — basically using smoke & mirrors to cool the planet. No matter how many times people kill the idea, it seems to come back to the headlines. Don’t let it. It’s not a good idea. globalecoguy.org/solar-geoeng...

Y'all understand what's happening now? 😳👇

Happy Earth Wind & Fire day! youtu.be/Gs069dndIYk?... Happy almost Equinox Day! Happy Sun Day! Sunday.earth

Do YOU remember “the 21st night of September?” Earth Wind & Fire’s co-writer Allee Willis said she told the band: “We can’t leave ‘baa-dee-ya’ in the chorus. That has to mean something.’” Maurice White replied: “No, that feels great. That’s what people are going to remember. We’re leaving it.”

Border Czar Tom Homan was caught by the FBI accepting bribes - on camera - to deliver government contracts in exchange for $50,000 in cash. Pam Bondi knew. Kash Patel knew. Emil Bove knew. And they made the investigation go away. A corrupt attempt to conceal brazen graft.

Climate activists often debate whether they should get involved in larger movements for justice, or whether it’s better to just “stay in their lane” of climate. The opposition to climate action is not having that debate.

Kirk, climate angle, from @Jane Mayer's excellent 2017 article on his organization: 'Turning Point distributed a guide for college students with a foreword by Kirk, titled “10 Ways Fossil Fuels Improve Our Daily Lives.”'

A protestor outside of Walt Disney Studios today after they suspended #JimmyKimmelLive “Did you even watch Andor?” (via westernwilder | TW)

I gave my heart and soul to that place. Built entire sections for journalists pushed out of their home countries. When the writer I hired, Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi Arabia, they paraded me around as a symbol for press freedom. I put MY LIFE on the line to defend journalism and WaPo.

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama. His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful. Now he is tweeting in support of me. This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*. Or used to work.

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

#Boulder #cowx #cocorahs CO-BO-596 0.24” of rain last night in several waves. 0.89” to date for September, 109% of normal. 14.06” for calendar year, 98% of normal. 17.21” for water year, 100% of normal. I’ll take it. Have done some late planting, and the rain helps.

If you feel like there’s nothing you can do to stop all of this, start by refusing to participate in fascist demands. And don’t ever justify the behaviors of people who capitulate. They can’t do any of this without cooperation. The main thing most people need to do is just refuse that cooperation.

Reading is what is saving my sanity right now. There’s not great stuff going on, and while yeah, I’m doing my activism, I’m also reading. Some recs on #books: @billmckibben.bsky.social ‘s Here Comes the Sun. Super interesting, compelling, optimistic, and a call to action. 1/x

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

Firing a Black woman for quoting Kirk’s horrific statements about Black women is insane. It seems the Washington Post would rather perform politeness (and demand that the people Kirk harmed do it too) that tell the truth: karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washin...

When the mallard ducks do this on South Boulder Creek, I call it having a convention. They really like this little stretch and the the grassy bank, and so many times, I have seen a group of them resting on the bank with heads under wings. #birds

There’s a reason wind & solar—now increasingly firmed with batteries—have seen such a meteoric rise over last decade. 🌞💨🔋 By 2025, around 84% of all new global power capacity investment is flowing into these three. Costs have collapsed, fossils stagnated, and the market has spoken. #EnergyTransition

#birds This beautiful creature (great horned owl) has been visiting my yard at twilight a lot frequently… there are several pairs in the area, and I hear them calling to each other. This owl was surveying the surrounding yards, hopefully for cottontail rabbits (take them, please! We have plenty!)

#Boulder #cowx #cocorahs CO-BO-596 0.32” of rain, which brings us to 0.64” for the month, 95% of normal. We’re at 13.81” for the year to date, 97% of normal. 16.96” for the water year, 99% of normal. Heat continues to be the main driver of dryness. With cooler temps and rain, plants benefiting.

Working on the Dead Hedge in my yard to: use up woody debris, create habitat, keep my dogs out of flower beds. And it’s looking like this so far: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_he... Anyone else doing this in their #habitatgardening or #nativeplant gardening? For any of my reasons?

So Matthew Dowd was right. Will MSNBC re-hire him?

The Groypers, sometimes called the Groyper Army, are a group of alt-right, white nationalist, and Christian nationalist[5] activists led by Nick Fuentes. Members of the group have attempted to introduce alt-right politics into mainstream conservatism in the US. open.substack.com/pub/muellers...

Last year, I received a grant to replace turf in my yard with #nativeplants which support #birds. I committed to documenting the birds which I could see/hear in/from my yard. I use Merlin, eBird, and binoculars. Most mornings, I start the day outside with a cup of tea, listening and watching. 1/x

#cowx #Boulder #cocorahs CO-BO-596 0.26”. That brings us to 0.27” to date for September, 47% of normal. 13.44” to date for 2025, 95% of normal. 16.59” to date for water year, 97% of normal. There’s a good chance of rain tomorrow, and I’m hoping we can catch up.

No, Ezra Klein, Charlie Kirk wasn't “practicing politics the right way.” He promoted racism, sexism, homophobia and xenophobia. Kirk had every right to express his political views, and his death is an outrage. But no one who believes in peace and love should praise what he was doing to our politics.

More meditations… I am sad about events in my state, in the neighboring state. Leaf mold for the win. I was listening to Bill McKibben’s new book, Here Comes the Sun, sieving leaf mold (and picking my compost worms out) and repeating my favorite activist slogan: love not hate makes America great.

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.

I know some bad shit has gone down today, so I’m going to share a little of what I think is an antidote. #nativeplants I go out and breathe with the plants and listen to the #birds every morning.

More of this.

People say Boston is a white city because they don’t know Boston is a city in a majority minority metro where the Taiwanese American mayor succeeds in part because she campaigns in Haitian Kreyòl

The US president trafficked & raped underage girls, the evidence is overwhelming, everyone knows it, and this country's elites & institutions are so broken, so insular, so decadent that we can't even bring ourselves to state it clearly, much less do anything about it. Contemptible & pathetic.

SCOTUS: We stopped Affirmative Action to ban targeting based on race, but we allow legacy admissions, white Afrikaaner "refugees," targeting of Latinos, over-policing Black communities, & bans on Afghan refugees and South Korean workers—because its okay to target based on race to help white people.

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

The country’s most powerful bank became a critical cog in Epstein’s massive sex trafficking operation. JPM processed more than $1 billion in transactions for the sex offender. Here’s our investigation. @davidenrich.bsky.social @mattgoldstein26.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/m...

Good and important piece by @gregsargent.bsky.social in @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/2000...

Wait isn’t this the war Grandpa Don dodged?

This is an actual exchange from a VP who took an oath to defend the constitution and, as a citizen, is expected to abide by the law. May we one day have accountability for the grotesque lawlessness of this regime.

Julie K. Brown has been on this story from the very beginning. www.npr.org/2024/01/04/1... [1/4/2024] @npr.org @jkbjournalist.bsky.social

What Epstein records have not been made public?

When even Rand Paul thinks you’re despicable.

Just spoke with my CDC sources. They said RFK Jr. has ordered officials to hide tuberculosis cases, even as three active TB cases were just reported in Maine. He’s also suppressing bird flu reports. Pandemics don’t start with viruses they start with secrecy. RFK Jr. must resign now!

The only thing more embarrassing than this lie, is that it took them this long to brainstorm this lie

Florida Decided There Were Too Many Children

Trump DOJ is looking at ways to ban trans Americans from owning guns. Since 2018: •4 trans shooters means 2A is null & void •4193 NON-trans shooters means 2A needs expansion Here's a better idea: Solo men commit 94.6% of all mass shootings. Let's ban firearms from solo men & see how it goes.

DOJ staffer caught on hot mic saying they’ll redact Republican names in the Epstein files. DOJ’s response? Crickets.