Level 5 heat anomaly in Boise and across the West, and our current lost winter, is because we keep burning fossil fuels and going to war over them. Better tech and a better future (with snow!) exists.

Sen. Curtis R-Utah: Let the people decide on **proposed ICE facility in Salt Lake: “The decision to move forward with this facility via back-door negotiations — bypassing input from local leaders — is shortsighted and likely counterproductive..." www.deseret.com/politics/202...

Countries that *did* deploy a lot of renewables & electrification are already faring better than they otherwise would have . Here are some examples: 1/ Pakistan, still highly exposed to Gulf LNG supply crunch BUT estimated to save $12 billion due to solar boom: www.linkedin.com/posts/lauri-...

If you're not familiar, the format for a "truth sandwich" is: * start with a true statement * introduce the newsworthy lie or distortion * true statement again The idea is that the false claim should not be the first or last impression. It's useful when you think a lie should not be ignored.

This mofo really loves to play his guitar for folks.

People are never saying: the government needs less transparency when it comes to ethics violations

Gloom of night.

Dystopia²

Important post from Somali ma Maryan Sheikh Abdinur in Minneapolis in @hammerandhope.bsky.social "...You just got here. You’re still trying to eat, to heal, find the medicine. This was 2015, 2016. I was like, I did not know we could do this... I did not know we can demand our rights."

Another one of the helpers. Humanity built asylum laws for a reason. Great profile of Carlos Spector by @mdelbosque.bsky.social for @theborderchronicle.bsky.social. Que su memoría sea un bendición. www.theborderchronicle.com/whoever-save...

Idaho Senate **rejects** 287(g) mandate for local police, sheriffs. idahocapitalsun.com/2026/03/16/i...

I'm with Chalomet re: opera.

Another example where I just assumed/thought/read the vaccine rollbacks were a done deal BUT NO. They were illegal, immediately challenged in court, and overturned today. Keep suing and don't believe any of it.

So much of what these dunces are doing is straight up illegal. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/h...

It’s fascinating to see your city through someone else’s eyes. And be reminded that we have it pretty good here. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Buo9...

whoa. power couple. #nottheonion

BREAKING: 3,800 workers at Colorado’s JBS USA, the world’s largest meatpacker, are on strike. This is the largest meatpacking strike in 40 years.

"U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has already cited Colossal’s announcement as justification for weakening the Endangered Species Act." Also, #climatechange

Evergreen long read.

Revolution Wind is now powering New England, delivering another L for Trump and a win for all the rest of us apnews.com/article/trum...

The word up the holler is:

mom can you pick me up at the strait of hormuz, my friends are laughing at me and wont help

Gillian's work on ICE flights, including this latest, has been completely unmatched by news orgs with real budgets and support.

‘The Voice of Hind Rajab’ star Motaz Malhees said he can’t go to the Oscars as a result of Trump’s travel ban on Palestinians.

El equipo detrás de 'La Voz of Hind Rajab' habla sobre su decisión de usar chapas en la gala de los #Oscars pidiendo un "alto el fuego permanente" y recuerdan la ausencia del actor palestino Motaz Malhees, protagonista de la película porque EEUU denegó su visa.

"Up to 10 first team players have not been granted visas to travel to the United States, Paul Christie, the Mount Pleasant sporting director, said."

Nazeer was a 41 year old father of 6. He died less than 24 hours after ICE detained him, while in their custody. We need investigations now.

Afghan who fought for US forces dies in ICE custody as Trump on track for grim record www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

The kicker is good tho: “The market has been seeing the unprecedented closure of the strait as an aberration whereas oil historians are viewing this as a *structural change in the risk of oil*,” Sankey said.

Sinners should win everything.

"Plug-in solar advocates say that safety concerns about the new technology have been addressed and that utilities are really just worried about losing business, because every kilowatt-hour generated by a plug-in solar panel is one less the utility sells to a customer."

I cannot overstate how unprepared this administration has made us all to be able to respond to any kind of crisis. This is the most basic kind of disaster response that there is and they fucked it up. When we have something much bigger, or complicated... SMH. www.cnn.com/2026/03/13/p...

Last night was a big night for offshore wind: Vineyard Wind finished construction and Revolution Wind began sending power to the grid @wbur.org #energysky www.wbur.org/news/2026/03...

When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.

In the 1920s, there was an enormous Klan-aligned caucus in the House of Representatives that passed an immigration restriction bill designed to keep out Catholics and Jews because they supposedly posed an existential threat to American civilization. 100 years later, here we are.

Happy Increase System Font Size By 5% Day to me today.

It's absurd how much affirmative action conservatives need in the marketplace of ideas. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

AP: Does driving electric really save money? Also AP: Pretty much. "People who buy EVs have a 'really substantial' gas savings over the life of their vehicles even without government tax credits, said Peter Zalzal, an attorney with Environmental Defense Fund." apnews.com/article/clim...

This escalated fast, in a good way.

Trump tried to take these five offshore wind farms down. They’re all hitting huge operations and construction milestones this month.

The feds pulled $1.5B from tribal clean energy. Tribes are finding another way.

This is how I access Bluesky

17/ "Never start a bombing campaign that will completely halt shipping in the Strait of Hormuz" is right up there with "never get involved in a land war in Asia” in terms of the classic blunders. -- Nate Silver buttondown.com/polycrisisdi...

“working in the garden”? or an unsophisticated anarchist plot to meet one’s neighbors

I follow the news around local data center resistance fairly closely. This one stands out.

Really strong, spacious essay from john a. powell, director @obi-belonging.bsky.social on what we need to save from the "old world order" and some encouragement for getting us to the new one. belonging.berkeley.edu/my-mind-my-h...

• 75% of guns used by cartels come from the United States www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

"Sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach the earth None of them through the Strait of Hormuz" Top @billmckibben.bsky.social post here billmckibben.substack.com/p/sunlight-t...