“The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.”

Turns out, we *really* needed that last decade of lost climate action that Trump has wasted. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Heat pumps are the most efficient heating technology ever invented. They harvest and compress pre existing heat in the air, ground or water and transport it where it is needed. That energy is all around us. And it does not have to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.

I will add, this is very true in news deserts across the West and most people just haven't noticed yet. In Columbia County, people are starting to pick up that when legitimate watchdog media dies, corruption thrives. Hoping we are at or near the bottom of this cycle. It's bad!

The man with the nuclear codes www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/u...

Been busy today and legit thought this was part of an SNL cold open

you can't control your circumstances, but you can control how you feel about them.

We'll do almost anything to avoid building actual trains.

Blothar The Berserker Of GWAR Explains How Independent Journalism Is The Only Force As Powerful As GWAR. Subscribe to The Onion at membership.theonion.com.

Great heatwave thread!

France 🇫🇷 doubles electrification support to €10bn/year through 2030 — EVs, heat pumps, industry. The reason? The Strait of Hormuz crisis making fossil fuel dependence impossible to ignore. Geopolitical shocks don’t just raise prices. They change what’s politically possible.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Every day, I dread this summer more and more.

"The agency is shutting down 50 of its 70 research stations. More than 200 people work in the Northwest research stations that are closing. The Forest Service says researchers at shuttered stations won’t lose their jobs, but they will have to relocate." Wildfires are gonna suck worse this year. 😵‍💫

The U.S. Forest Service is shutting down research stations around the country, including centers in Portland, Seattle, and Wenatchee, Washington.

A national tragedy. Local news IS the news.

Though much of the stations’ research is long-term, some fire experts say the cuts could hamper firefighting efforts as soon as this summer. www.kuow.org/stories/fore...

19% of trips in Berlin were by bike in 2023. (In Seattle, for commute trips, it's about 3%.)

The acting head of the CDC delayed publication of a report showing that the Covid vaccine significantly reduced the likelihood of hospitalizations and emergency visits last winter. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/h...

Hall of fame FT correction

Unprecedented corruption

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I have said it before and I'll say it again: Oregon's news climate has been absolutely decimated. This leaves Douglas County with no newspaper in an area of the state that already had very few reporters. www.oregonlive.com/business/202...

Drought a huge concern this summer. Palmer drought severity index (PDSI) by state for March 2026 had 6 states with their worst drought on record, with 22 others experiencing a top-10 worst drought. Only Michigan had an above-average lack of drought. From: www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monit...

In March, renewables produced more than a third of US electricity for the first time ever, even overtaking gas generation! Wind and solar combined reached over a quarter (26%) for the first time.

March smashes record as most abnormally hot month for continental U.S., federal meteorologists say

Paltry snowpack means high risk of wildfire could come to eastern Washington and eastern Oregon as early as June. www.kuow.org/stories/nort...

Analysis from Wood Mackenzie: The Middle East war could cut global oil + gas import dependence by 20% + 10%, respectively, compared to pre-war expectations. HOWEVER "Energy systems become more domestic and diversified but also more costly, while near-term emissions rise due to increased coal use"

Putting aside Sam Altman just continuing to emit huge lies constantly, this is an amazing example of what I mean when I talk about how GenAI is replacing *extremely low energy* digital tasks with *WAY WAY HIGHER ENERGY* replacements that *do not even work* Why TF is anyone using ChatGPT as a timer!

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As the news cycle moves aggressively forward, let's not forget that time the President Donald Trump threatened to annihilate 93 million people.

Symbiotic relationship, a definition : - For the zoanthid coral : acquire mobility, can feed on different areas - For the hermit crab : a cool hat

First unalloyed pushback from a Senate Republican is, unsurprisingly, from Lisa Murkowski.

If you think this is exhausting, imagine being Iranian.

listen folks if you're going to get mad that I, a reporter, convey information without always making my views about it explicit, that's an instant block -- you do not understand the function of journalism-as-fact-surfacing & you are part of the decay of our overall media ecosystem

DYK Seattle’s Lake Washington is on the rise, due to low snowpack?

“I love you, sir.”

On Tuesday, Washington’s snowpack was 51% of normal levels. Oregon’s was just 14% of normal.

Donald Trump threatening the destruction of an entire civilization is madness. He is completely unfit to serve as President of the United States. Invoke the 25th Amendment. Or Republicans must stand up with us to impeach him. We cannot allow him to set fire to the world.

This is real

Climate scientists have tried for decades to communicate the insanity of nuclear war: there's no winning, even if a conflict somehow doesn't escalate. A limited exchange would still trigger mass starvation worldwide. www.cpr.org/2020/01/09/a...

Who are these 23% of Americans who approve of a person in charge of nuclear missiles saying "a civilization will die tonight"??

US ocean-regulating agencies to be merged:

must-read from @rogoway.bsky.social about the environmental impact of data centers

i feel like a lot of people are dissociating and not reacting to the threat of nuclear war with an appropriate level of alarm?

There is some MAGA opposition to Trump's "whole civilization will die" plans: • Alex Jones: "🚨🚨WAR CRIME ALERT!!🚨🚨" • Marjorie Taylor Greene: "This is evil and madness" • Joe Kent: "reckless rage and destruction" • Candace Owens: "The 25th amendment needs to be invoked."

These are the rantings of a bloodthirsty lunatic. It is sick beyond measure to threaten to wipe out an entire civilization. This is not what the American people want. It is well past time for the Republican Congress to join Democrats and put an end to this war.

Completely unstable and perilous. The House must bring up impeachment articles, and the Senate needs to remove a president who wants to commit war crimes. We cannot sit idly by as Donald Trump threatens to end an entire civilization.

I'm seeing a lot of people saying "no US president has ever threatened genocide before," and I would like to please remind those people of the existence of Andrew Jackson.

Must read & share by fmr NYT public editor @sulliview.bsky.social w/suggestions for journalists, editors & news orgs. “The press, b/c of its own conventions…normalizes him…Ten years of sane-washing have had their effect. He remains in power, reelected, undeterred.” open.substack.com/pub/margaret...

Correct and straightforward @sulliview.bsky.social, as always. margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/how-the-me...