The millionaire who tried (and failed) to repeal Washington's Climate Commitment Act now wants to try and repeal the state's new tax on its wealthiest residents

Let’s not dance around the issue: Washington is headed straight for a rough and dry summer. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

That layer of clean, white snow across Western Washington’s lowlands and mountaintops sure was nice while it lasted. But warm temperatures melted much of it away and now, for the fourth year in a row, we're headed into a severe drought. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

I mean this in the most clinical and professional way possible but where are Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s nipples?

Upper Colorado basin snowpack has deteriorated drastically in the week since I wrote this column. This is a massive problem for water availability in the months to come

Since 2021, global media coverage of climate change has dropped 38 percent, Grist reports. In my most Seattle Times Climate Lab Voice: Not around here, partner. plz subscribe: www.seattletimes.com/subscribe/si... grist.org/language/glo...

Straight. Chased with high fives

Linking carbon markets with California and Quebec is a long-sought way to inject stability and predictability into these uncertain times, state officials say.

While Jared Kushner is negotiating on behalf of the United States with governments in the Middle East, he is also soliciting investments in his private business ventures from the same governments www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/b...

This is a good lesson for journalists: Use plain language to state true things clearly.

Gas prices are spiking as the Trump administration escalates its war in Iran But here in Washington, the effort to wean ourselves off fossil fuels is chugging along faster than expected. WA, CA and Quebec have a draft agreement in place to merge carbon markets www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Sure, Washington's seeing some snowpack today (hopefully a lot). But that won't do us much good if this heatwave and the warmer-than-normal temps to follow start melting it away. Snowpack's just part of the equation. It's also got to stick around long enough to really be a meaningful event.

Here’s what I posted on Reddit in reply to someone asking if weather models are overdoing next week’s heat. I thought the same thing before the June 2021 heat wave in the Pacific Northwest. Humans have altered atmospheric chemistry, and there is a physical response. www.reddit.com/r/meteorolog...

Breaking: SC newspaper verifies portions of Trump accuser's story. Textbook journalism. Local journalism. Support your local news outlets. www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...

A trove of nearly 3,200 disclosure records, which ProPublica made public this week, reveals a web of financial ties between Trump officials and the industries they help regulate.

it's preemptively giving

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show. She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms. (Published June 2025)

A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.

NEW: Clemency for Tina Peters would be unprecedented, based on my analysis of Gov Polis' 25 commutations. Peters hasn't shown remorse, taken accountability, or sought to restore harm. No Polis commutation was for a harsh sentence alone and Peters' would be the shortest by 30+ yrs

I love the obvious behind-the-scenes discourse of PR folks for fast food chains telling their CEOs “Okay, all you have to do is take a bite out of our burgers and not visibly grimace”

Just to be clear, companies like Microsoft and Amazon are actively fighting regulations meant to do precisely this. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

The Massachusetts Department of Correction has been fighting me for months, trying to withhold data about its collaboration with ICE. Yesterday, I won that fight, and obtained records showing that the state has transferred more than 2,000 people into ICE custody since 2009. A quick thread:

Cliff Mass shot(s) and chaser

Really important context re: Jared Polis hinting at clemency for Tina Peters. If Polis is interested in people who were over-sentenced and/or are unjustly incarcerated, well, he’s had eight years to act on that. And he has lots of prime, non-Peters opportunities waiting now right in front of him:

For context, a series of atmospheric rivers hammered Washington in December, the devastating floods that followed caused an estimated $180m in damage to public infrastructure alone, prompting state and federally declared emergencies. Zuck’s new home is worth approximately one (1) natural disaster

hey good story just need to rework your lede a bit

A story in three words: Big Tech won. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Everything I know about MrBeast I know against my will. And now he's so big that I can't ignore this monstrosity. What hath we wrought

Too big to fail, too big to be regulated, too big to be asked to pay for their own electricity to spare the public from higher costs. washingtonstatestandard.com/2026/03/02/i...

From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.

Publicly, big tech companies like Microsoft and Amazon aggressively cultivate images as good neighbors and environmental stewards. Privately they fight — hard — against any new regulations on their booming data center industry www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

“I mean, billions of dollars of capital, right?” one tech lobbyist said, referencing all the money tech companies are pouring into the data centers. “You’re going to be protective of it.” www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

If not war, why war shaped?

Very little snow across the West during a winter that has brought record warmth Sierra Nevada: 66% of avg Upper Colorado River region: 66% Oregon: 34% "Projections show that our winters are going to look a lot more like this in the future." www.latimes.com/environment/... @coveringclimatenow.org

So ready for the next Gout Epidemic

and i’m right every time

We’re at our first @pwhltorrent.bsky.social game tonight and every man they show on the Jumbotron @kayah.bsky.social turns to me and says “that’s Macklemore”

@ DEA

that’s a first for me, please wish me congrafulations

A federal judge said the IRS broke the law by disclosing confidential taxpayer information ''approximately 42,695 times" to ICE.

i think we can just say it's a lie! that he's told literally dozens of times for the last several months!

Even after last week's wallop of winter snow, Upper Colorado River basin snowpack is still at a record low. The March forecast is looking warm and dry across the Southwest and southern Rockies. Wouldn't be surprised to see water supply forecasts approach record lows too.

had the weirdest dream last night

A MN protester accused of assaulting ICE officer had case dropped after vids showed no assault. LA protester accused of assaulting ICE w/ “hat” had case dropped; judge said govt acted in “bad faith” In Chicago, 92 ppl were arrested for assault/impeding ICE; 0 convicted DOJ keeps lying and losing:

Sorry, lower basin states (and the rest of us who depend on Colorado River water). This is very bad news for the West. .... Lake Powell forecast to reach critical lows, threatening hydropower generation coloradosun.com/2026/02/18/l...

NEW: Major, BFD action by blue states standing up to ICE. Maryland, on Tuesday, banned local law enforcement from being part of ICE's notorious 287(g) program.  That automatically forces *9* sheriffs out of their ICE contract! And New Mexico did the same last week:

The world has never needed climate journalism more than it does right now. Yet last year climate got less coverage than at any point since the pandemic www.colorado.edu/today/2026/0...

I don't know why you're all making fun of Kennedy's jeans here. This is a real affliction. I'm sorry it's not recognized here in the States but we know there are two members of German parliament. They're called nein wohlstandig nude.

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