Oliver Darcy got the audio of the heated 60 Minutes meeting where Scott Pelley dressed Nick Bilton down! "You know what was rude? Black Thursday. That was the absolute definition of rudeness. Telling Tanya Simon she had to be out of here at five o'clock." www.status.news/p/scott-pell...

That's a shmear campaign

Amazing addtl detail about Scott Pelley telling off Nick Bilton (via NY post) “You wouldn’t do very well in a ’60 Minutes’ interview," Pelley said. "Scott, I’m not intimidated by you,” a ticked-off Bilton said in response. “Enjoy the bagels,” Bilton added before getting up and leaving the room.

Congrats everyone: thanks to the AI boom, the US is now investing more in fossil fuel power than China, a country with four times the population.

The DOE's new home energy rebate guidance will "block the vast majority of upgrades the program was designed to fund" according to Evergreen

"Bari loves this institution," Bilton told staffers at one point during the highly contentious meeting. "She loves '60 Minutes.'" "She's murdering '60 Minutes,'" Pelley countered. "She does not love this place. She was brought in to kill it—and she's doing exactly that."

"The vast majority of fish collected Saturday were carp... Crews also found dead channel catfish, brown bullhead, pumpkinseed sunfish, blue gill and redside shiners." Unmentioned by the Times: none of those fish, except redside shiners, are native to WA. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Average bird counts across Seattle dropped by 21% from 2005 to 2023, according to a new study from Birds Connect Seattle.

"At what point does it make sense to ditch a gas car for an EV?" NPR listener Guadalupe Higuera of Phoenix asked this question and worked with Climate Desk reporter Jeff Brady to answer it. n.pr/49xli1G

It's tough, but the truth sandwich is a good way to manage this. Say what's true, acknowledge the falsities in quote if need be, say why that's false or why what's true is true. It's been studied to be better than other attempts www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"Some scientists are horrified, saying the proposal from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) would replace peer review with the judgment of nonexpert political appointees sworn to carry out the wishes of President Donald Trump."

Washington ranks dead last in clean energy growth in the U.S. Faced with a backlog of projects, lawmakers and energy developers are looking for new ways to move forward. Some say the answers might come from Texas.

I enjoyed this tale of “frosties”—a charismatic li’l species I’d never heard of before.

@gijn.org debunks 10 myths about adaptation in an excerpt from “Climate Adaptation: Guide for Journalists and Newsrooms,” a new guide from Instituto Talanoa, a Brazil-based climate policy think tank.

As a #climate scientist I cannot overstate how angry I am it's not 100%. But it's the fault of the GOP & relentless fossil-fuel propaganda. Only "48% (of Americans) say that Earth is getting warmer mostly because of human activity, such as burning fossil fuels." www.pewresearch.org/science/2026...

Not something you see every day: a BNSF locomotive towing an Amtrak Cascades train. I wonder why? This was southbound today in Shoreline, Washington. #railfans #foamers

I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”

In his latest post @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social has a line that should be engraved and mounted on the walls of newsrooms (or reporters' home offices) across the land: "Journalism—real journalism—is, above everything else, allergic to bullshit. Bullshit is the mortal enemy of journalism."

A long-awaited light rail line to Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood was set aside by the Sound Transit board on Thursday as the agency tried to balance a $34.5 billion shortfall.

New: Climate change literacy has not budged in years. Largely the result of a huge coordinated disinformation campaign. The science is crystal clear: ALL of the warming is due to humans… 1/

The judge wrote in his 94-page ruling that it was "crystal clear" that the arts complex was named for the late president John F. Kennedy. He also ruled that the center could not wind down its programming and close for two years of renovations – at least for now.

This is what Trump's done to the people's house: A third of it is rubble. Another third is a cage match. What a metaphor.

1/ The sustainability transition doesn’t just advance from the top down and the bottom up – change also happens in the middle, and that’s where most of us can make a real difference Quick thread on a great new paper showing how *everyone* has an influential role to play 🧵

"fewer people believe it now than when the same question was asked in 2019 and 2022" 🤔 I wonder if this has anything to do with this travesty? ##EndClimateSilence

Of all the harm this administration has done to US science, today's proposed changes to the way federal grants are awarded and administered is the most damaging yet. The text of the federal register document is impenetrably tedious by design, so here's an excellent summary of what it says.

I still maintain there’s a commercially viable way to cover climate change - as a news and business story that is happening now and affecting people. It’s not about polar bears on shrinking u e floes in 2066. It’s about heat domes and EVs surpassing gas worldwide and how utilities stymie solar.

The full announcement from Banerjee. A terrible loss for NPR and the nation. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Simple solution to the publishing AI crisis. We just need a law saying any passage, quote, or other text produced by AI or with AI assistance must prominently include the words "Bleep blorp."

Awful.

!!! Trump appointees at Treasury push for $250 bill with his face on it. Director of Bureau of Printing & Engraving, who resisted the effort, said she was involuntarily reassigned last month. “The buck stopped here,” she wrote in her goodbye. wapo.st/4fM4Hei

E. Jean Carroll didn't just "accuse" Trump of sexual assault. She won a civil lawsuit against Trump for sexual assault. A jury found that Trump sexually assaulted her. She deserves for us to call it what it is.

Wow. Talk about Profiles in Courage. Santiago Campos, recipient of the $10,000 Mike Wallace Scholarship, tells the uncomfortable truth about what CBS has become. Good in ya, son. You will be a credit to the profession.

Sad to see these departures (a mix of buyouts and layoffs) of very talented journalists.

Two dead. Another nine missing and likely dead at Longview paper mill. That expected toll exceeds the 2010 Tesoro refinery blast that killed 7 in Anacortes. It would make the Nippon Dynawave implosion Washington's deadliest industrial accident in nearly a century. www.kuow.org/stories/no-c...

It was the fucking aroundest of times, it was the finding outest of times.

This is Good Actually! Although Americans often like a flashy story of US innovation - news media folks especially - it's much easier in practice to deploy a boring old technology that was proven out long ago. Low risk, clear financials.

🚨Fed up with the "individual vs. system change" debate?🚨 We've got you covered. 🙌 In our new paper in Nature Climate Change, we endeavour to move beyond that binary by introducing the agency frame (a-frame), a practical lens for identifying and intervening on high-impact climate behaviours. (1/n)

Exclusive: Unionized tech workers at the New York Times have filed grievances accusing management of using AI-powered performance tools to track and discipline staff. The Tech Guild says recent disciplinary notices appear to be generated using one of the tools. 🎁 www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

The murders continue. 1 more dead, 2 missing at sea. 195 civilians killed overall.

Photos: Mark Zuckerberg’s superyacht arrives in Seattle the same day Meta discloses 1,400 local job cuts https://www.geekwire.com/2026/photos-mark-zuckerbergs-superyacht-arrives-in-seattle-the-same-day-meta-discloses-1400-local-job-cuts/

Good summary of recent findings. Actually presented in a way that even the most ignorant policiticians should understand

The Trump Department of Justice purged government news releases with information about prosecutions of rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol and assaulted law enforcement on Jan. 6, 2021. n.pr/4dyiOmb

This is a real picture with a real chyron and completely embarrassing.

Update from @opb.org: At least one person is dead and at least 9 injured after an 80,000-gallon "white liquor" chemical vat imploded at the Nippon Dynawave paper mill in Longview, Washington. www.opb.org/article/2026...

No word yet how many people were injured at the Nippon Dynawave paper mill in Longview, Wash. The mill makes paper for six billion liter-sized cartons of milk a year and has ~550 employees.

Cannot 👏 emphasize 👏 this 👏 enough

Incredible yet real

A San Francisco man who sailed his 45' wooden yacht, the Above Board, from Seattle to B.C., where he allegedly set 1,600 acres of a protected island on fire with his beach trash fire, then fled, has to pay a C$2.35M fine. Not so above board eh. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

INBOX: Journalists at the five McClatchy newspapers in Washington and Idaho (the Idaho Statesman, Bellingham Herald, Tri-City Herald, Tacoma News Tribune and The Olympian) are calling a one-day strike today over wages and AI protections. That means no clicking on any links to their sites for today.