A sign at California's Muir Woods National Monument explaining that redwoods soak up planet-warming greenhouse gases has been removed by the Trump administration. One of many ways the National Park Service is now silencing science and history: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/c...

New ESA and Klamath from @jacquesleslie.bsky.social dornsife.usc.edu/icw/2026/01/...

This must be the first time I've found a new band because I recognize their byline. Here’s the Paranoid Style theparanoidstyle.bandcamp.com with the music critic Elizabeth Nelson @paranoiacs.bsky.social as singer and lead songwriter.

Thomas Paine published Common Sense 250 years ago this week. I can't stop thinking about it so I compiled some quotes and added a little commentary. brianjayjohnson.substack.com/p/common-sen...

“Last year was a bonkers, crazy warming year—that's the technical term,” Abraham joked to me. “The peer-reviewed scientific term is ‘bonkers’.” www.wired.com/story/the-oc...

Copy editors and all other headline writers should have bylines so people can scream at whoever actually wrote the headline instead of the reporter(s) who wrote the story

On repeat this morning - isolated vocal track for Under Pressure. So so good. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMQb...

Congrats to Chuck and TNC California. DFW Director is one of the hardest jobs in state government and Chuck always managed it with a strong and steady hand. TNC is a good fit for him, and vice versa.

The rate of global mean sea level rise has increased from ~2.1 mm/year in 1993 to ~4.5 mm/year in 2023. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Yo La Tengo and Luna together last night. They played ‘till midnight and left us with a great poster. Good evening and welcome to the Fillmore

Someone asked for 90s records www.teenbeat.net/images/items...

Here are 81 songs I loved in 2025. This playlist is mostly #indiemusic. Jazz & country/adjacent music go on other lists. Shoutout to #KEXP, #MPR The Current, #NPRMusic, and others who turned me on. #musicsky #bestof2025 Tidal & Spotify playlists in comments ->

Outdoor Life with a good explanation of what's at stake in the Clean Water Act rule making -> www.outdoorlife.com/opinion/epa-...

San Francisco just after dark. (Didn’t post earlier.) Pano view from Grandview Park toward downtown. I could see UCSF Parnassus and some car headlights.

Funny how the people who talk most about defending “Western Civilization“ also hate Europe and its most admirable ideas, like the universal rights of humankind. They’d keep the imperialism and ditch the Magna Carta

An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later. harpers.org/archive/1941...

I’ll bet there’s an even dumber reason

In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites. He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him. www.wsj.com/world/china/...

One of my pet theories is that the 2000 recount era is the Rosetta Stone for 21st Century American politics. I wrote about it today. (Trigger warning: apologies if this is traumatic for any of my friends. I still have nightmares about election night.) open.substack.com/pub/brianjay...

“Mr President, can you tell us more about that amazing cognitive test? It sounds *very* impressive.”

It appears that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has, within the past week, scrubbed a large amount of climate change content from its official website, as well as *removed human-caused warming* from the discussion on its "causes of climate change" page.

So cool. Gift link -> www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...

Has anyone calculated the cost per deported criminal?

This is a well-reported article describing a complicated situation that a lot of good people are working to resolve ->

“and their descendants“ … FFS

Milestone in the revitalization of Battle Creek was achieved through River Partners’ acquisition of Battle Creek Ranch in Tehama County, marking a concrete step toward restoring one of California’s most important salmon-bearing waterways #cawater mavensnotebook.com/2025/11/21/p...

Welcome focus on “we” and “resolve” “that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom”

A little more than a year after the historic removal of four hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River, California Department of Fish and Wildlife scientists are seeing salmon reoccupying just about every corner of their historic habitat. #cawater mavensnotebook.com/2025/11/19/c...

🌊 In a Letter to the Editor, Dr. Jeanine Pfeiffer argues the Eel River’s century-old dams are unsafe, costly, and harming native fish — and says it’s time for removal. mendovoice.com/2025/11/lett... #mendocinocounty #mendocino #eelriver #environmentalism #california #environmentalism

Cool place for a club

Two Northern California tribes announced Wednesday that they signed a treaty last month, committing to jointly restore the Eel River and its fish populations. #cawater mendovoice.com/2025/11/nort...

@theatlantic.com cracks me up. Every week they publish a few insightful pieces by excellent writers, but also at least one thing that’s almost unreadable. Here’s today’s selection. Gift link for the good one by @cwarzel.bsky.social below.

"Please trust us now when we say that what is happening in the Chicago area is wrong *** It is not law enforcement; it is terror."

Billy Bragg is not in the Epstein Files

Here’s the full statement -> www.usccb.org/news/2025/us...

I tried to provide a simple guide to assessing which senators are ready and willing to battle back from Trumpist autocracy and which aren’t.

Hey, a lot of people are talking about changing affiliation from Democratic to Independent. Let me tell you why you shouldn’t do that in Colorado. One of the main ways to get a primary challenge candidate on a ballot is to caucus for your party. You need to be registered as a Dem to caucus.

Ours is going from $401 to $1951. I have no fucking idea what we are going to do.

My ACA current plan is going from $385/mo to $821/mo.

Two-thirds of California's power comes from clean energy. For 9 in 10 days so far this year, we were 100% powered for some part of the day by clean energy. The Golden State has become the world's fourth-largest economy because of our climate leadership, not in spite of it.

Anyone want a Belly ticket at Great American tonight? Short notice I know. DM me. Show is at 8:00

Sharon Begley was one of the best reporters I’ve ever worked with. This is special

it's really weird to have developed super specialized knowledge of the art industry and art crime for three years and then just suddenly stop developing it or reporting on it due to a layoff; but this happens to so many reporters and then I see discussions about declining public trust in the media

This is incredibly important. It's first principles for America.

Why are the social media teams getting paid during the shutdown?

Me too