🚨NEW: "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" just dropped its first response to ABC, FCC chair, and Disney firing Jimmy Kimmel. Trump ain't sleeping tonight. 🤣 This is a must-watch. 🔥

geotripper.blogspot.com/2025/09/what... If an earthquake were predicted to happen near you in the next few days, what would you do? But more importantly, why haven't you done it already? #greatshakeout #earthquake

NEW: No, Charlie Kirk was not practicing politics the right way. That's what Ezra Klein said. We can condemn this heinous assassination but also recognize that with his 2020 election denialism and extremist rhetoric, Kirk built his movement with falsehoods and in a wrong and divisive manner.

Imagine living in a country where far-right leaders are not above the law… 🤔

We cannot forget that there was also a shooting yesterday in aColorado High School. The shooter is dead. One of the victims is in stable condition. The other victim is in critical condition. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/u...

Decrying violence against political opponents rings a bit hollow when you pull Secret Service protection from your political opponents.

WTF? He really needs to leave all society and never show his face in public again.

The thing about the Epstein disgustingness that strikes me hardest is that hundreds of rich old men raped underage girls and the only person currently in jail for that vile behavior is a woman.

Just admit it: You love your guns more than your children. The first step is acknowledging the problem.

Little kids are having to use their bodies to shield friends from gunfire while armed soldiers are busy picking up trash.

Notification about the Kennedy Center Honors:

In the time when we all lived in caves, half of everyone born was dead by age 30. By 1840, half of everyone born was dead by 35. ( despite organic foods, clean air & water (etc) Today’s much long life expectancy is due to science - the meds, the vaccines etc Do not listen to RFK Jr

Mt St Helens was a bit bashful yesterday

Always a thrill to catch Mt. Rainier. We were here a month ago and never got even a glance in the gloomy skies. Today was different, even if it was 95⁰! #Volcano

geotripper.blogspot.com/2025/08/jour... Hey kids! Pack up, we're going to a national park! YAY! Are there mountains, lakes and rivers to play in? No. Are there trees? Yes, but they're all dead. What kind of a park is that?? #geology #fossils

One of my most hoped-for bird sightings this year! A Lazuli Bunting at Basso Bridge on the Tuolumne River. They're not totally rare, but I'm lucky to see one or two in a year.

The monitoring station on Mauna Loa provides the longest direct measurements of CO2 in the atmosphere. Trump wants to shut it down, which is like taking the batteries out of your screaming smoke alarm and pretending the house isn't on fire. #climatechange

The amazing thing about brave people speaking out is that it inspires others to do the same by creating a permission structure. Since I published this article 4 hours ago, I've heard from multiple sources confirming what's in it. www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-epstei...

You know, geology is great and meteorology is great, but when the two combine it can become a transcendent experience. This was our view in upper Pine Creek Canyon near our Honeymoon Lake camp on Wednesday. Rainbows and high elevation glacially-sculpted granites on #publiclands for the win!

Thrilled to see a native Gray Fox on the Tuolumne River Trail today! #Animalslover

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c... Elections have consequences. The republicans wanted to destroy our government institutions so they could say government doesn't work. And they certainly did it with FEMA. People are dying and suffering for their neglect.

An unforced error. Stupidity and ignorance. Par for the course for the fools running our country now. Scientific innovation has driven the success of the US for 70 years, and now they are dismantling it for no reason other than blatant racism. www.salon.com/2025/06/02/t...

Only ICE agents.

Prayer is not a hydrologic function. Prayer won't stop rising flood waters. But understanding how and why flooding occurs can save lives. Real-time, long-term river monitoring can save lives. Funding USGS & NOAA scientists & research can save lives. Functional emergency management can save lives.

You wouldn’t vacation in Dachau in 1935. Don’t vacation in Florida in 2025.

Please spread the word to the Marines in your network. They do not have to obey unlawful orders; there are other options. If they are asked to violate the constitutional rights of anyone on US soil, they can call the G.I. Rights Hotline: 1-877-447-4487 www.girightshotline.org

True. We can and we will. It took a long time to get to this point and there is now lots of work to do. But we'll do it again. Good people have been defeating Evil since the beginning of time. This Evil is certainly no stronger, smarter or more potent than any other. Good, however, has those assets.

Independence Day. I guess the Founding Fathers and Founding Mothers were able to free themselves from the world's most powerful king. Have faith that we'll defeat the petty tyrant of our day and his minions.

Heads-up! I just posted a new batch of Lawetlat’la (Mt St Helens), Tahoma (Mt Rainier) and Erebus (Antarctica) scale model 3D-printed volcano tissue box covers in my shop. This is the first time Tahoma has been offered in InSAR colors. phaneritic.etsy.com

I'm not feeling all that patriotic this year. We celebrate the defeat of a king while anointing a new one.

This is nauseating. And so very wrong. The fawning over trump is disgusting, in an official letter from the Social Security Administration. I guess Dear Leader must have his name glorified.

Leopard lilies in Del Norte Redwoods. One of my favorite flowers.

Take your masks off ICE, show us how proud you are adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/why-are-fe...

If Jeff Bezos can afford to rent Venice for a $50 million wedding, he can afford to pay his fair share in taxes.

I know my friends and family from the Pacific Northwest see these birds all the time, but it's quite a thrill for us CA folks to see them, as they are far rarer where we live. This one was at Lake Washington near Seattle. #birds

They bend every law, they break every law, they hack voting machines, they deploy roving gangs of thugs to steal people off the street, they openly embrace racism, they lie nonstop, they incite political violence, and much more. Their evil knows no limits. Then they claim to be followers of Jesus.

Shasta is an incredible volcano. Always a delightful sight on our northward travels #volcanoes

geotripper.blogspot.com/2025/06/jour... On day 2 we drove to the bottom of the Grand Canyon...wait, what? Oh, and did you know that more than one Grand Canyon has been carved through the Colorado Plateau? Our Journey in the Back of Beyond continues! #coloradoplateau #geology

Your regular reminder that most of our infrastructure was engineered for a different climate.

geotripper.blogspot.com/2025/06/jour... Summertime in a desert is normally hot and dry. And so it seemed to us at first. But a storm was brewing, which turned out to be the wildest my department has ever experienced! It was only the first day of our journey Back of Beyond! #coloradoplateau #geology

Just to be crystal clear: bombing Iran is completely illegal.

AOC: “It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.”

We have a madman in the White House who is actively trying to trigger total war. If Jeffries, Schumer, or any other Democratic leaders try to justify this, shrug indifferently, or write a strongly-worded letter and call it a day, they need to step down or be aggressively primaried.

That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress, or our allies, or fully explaining to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers. Reminder that Congress has the power to stop all of this. Where the hell are they? Hello?