For those who actually care about evidence-based city-making, there’s a ton of evidence that decongestion pricing has been a massive success in New York City, by every measure of success, and many ways that can’t be measured.

The administration of US President Donald Trump intends to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), a world-leading Earth-science centre in Boulder, Colorado. go.nature.com/4pjzUqB

And now we know that the volume of #Arctic sea ice also dropped to a record low in October (zacklabe.com/archive-2025/). It's been a historic fall in the #Arctic, which is already a season of rapid climate change. Not good.

I've read some powerful critiques on the themes of diplomacy v. war, social democracy v. fascism, feudalism, production & exploitation, but in all my anthropology studies, none incorporated dinosaurs and aliens. Kudos to @peterclines.bsky.social for managing it spectacularly in "God's Junk Drawer."

I'd like to lobby @apstylebook.com to ban all uses of the word "aim" and all of its conjugations unless a story mentions aiming a weapon.

Evergreen.

By me: ‘Deeply demoralizing’: how Trump derailed coal country’s clean-energy revival www.theguardian.com/environment/...

If there’s a better metaphor this week for anything than COP 30 catching on fire, I don’t know what it is.

We need to do better in the Pyrocene age: At 176 California homes, "most had little compulsory or recommended mitigations completed. Participants struggled with hazards that required frequent maintenance, including woodpiles, propane tanks, trees and shrubs, roof and gutter and deck debris."

They’ve arrived (via specialty delivery)! As usual, my household gets his and hers copies to prevent domestic disputes over first dibs. I hear @peterclines.bsky.social is on a West Coast book signing tour as I write this, so you can hunt him down in the wild.

True nightmare fuel: Scientists just confirmed the first known death from a severe meat allergy caused by a tick bite. The man, who died in 2024 after eating a burger, had alpha-gal syndrome, a bizarre disease triggered by tick bites. www.scientificamerican.com/article/man-...

I’m pretending it’s winter in L.A.

The hits just keep right on coming in LA this year.

I can’t recall now just how many of my sources in the sciences have told me this was their biggest concern this year.

Are you or someone you know a SNAP/Cal-Fresh recipient in the Los Angeles area? I’d like to talk with you for a story. Please reach out if interested.

There are at least 50k street vendors in L.A. County, likely thousands more than that since the count has not been updated in more than a decade. Extreme heat is hammering their incomes and health. A novel insurance scheme might help them with losses. www.climateresilience.org/blazing-real...

FOOD BANK DIRECTOR: “For every meal a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides 9. There’s no way we can meet that gap. We were not built to do this.” (@TNDemocrats are imploring @GovBillLee to fund SNAP with the billions in reserves as other states are, but he refuses)

This Saturday, October 18, millions of people will take to the streets at more than 2,700 peaceful protests across the country to condemn the Trump administration’s escalating abuses of power. Read more Know Your Rights resources at aclu.org/deployment_kyr

I’m Rachel Parsons. The closest I’ve ever come to missing a flight, while sitting AT THE GATE, was because I was reading one of this man’s books. He has a new one coming next month.

Which level of hell was the one with premature Christmas decorations?

You're going to have a lot of expectations about what your life is supposed to be like at any given point. Have this figured out by *now*, have that established by *then* Pretty much all of these are nonsense. Other people's yardsticks. Don't worry about any of them. Your life, your pace.

No.

Anyone taken a gander at a government website today? This is on hud.gov

The Energy Department adds “climate change,” “green” and “decarbonization” to its restricted list.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com A.I. is no magic trick. It’s a new industrial revolution with real environmental costs. Our latest Opinion Video follows the researcher Kate Crawford as she maps the hidden effects of A.I.

More men have been deported from the US than women under Trump’s crackdown, but when women are, the immediate consequences are sometimes more profound. My latest for @contextnewsroom.bsky.social - www.context.news/socioeconomi...

NJ PBS shutting down next summer. “15yrs ago Gov. Christie ended 4 decades of state funding for public TV, forcing them to find a new funder. The state cut $750k in funding this yr, but that was hardly the fatal blow; that came from the end of federal funds.” newjerseyglobe.com/media/new-je...

It’s hard to fathom that sometime right about now 17 years ago, I left LA on the first of several international travels that ultimately became The Peregrine Dame and led to a much more fulfilling life and career than I could have imagined. #solotravel #publictelevision

A CDC advisory panel is meeting today and tomorrow to discuss changes to the vaccine schedule for MMRV, Hep B and COVID vaccines. Here's how it could threaten vaccine protection, by @meghanbartels.bsky.social and @andreatamayo.bsky.social: www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

Here's the link to the full NAS report: nap.nationalacademies.org/initiative/c...

With the #COP30 on the horizon, we are doubling down on our commitment to in-depth journalism and civic engagement as a crucial step for enhancing public understanding of climate change. Explore our curation of journalism, events, and key resources! 👉 bit.ly/COP30pc

This morning I had a potential source, a university professor, tell me that they could not give me a comment rebutting something a U.S. official said because they were afraid of retaliation.

The EPA stopping collection of GHG emissions data from power plants will result in Americans having more illness, greater risk of costly climate disasters, less effective clean innovation strategies, and an overall more wasteful economy. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/c...

I was in grade school in the 1980s *in Texas* and I still was not encouraged to bring guns to school.

I know these things take time but California’s roll out isn’t fast enough. I’ll remember this the next time I have to interview someone terrified to leave their home, including to go to the doctor, when I show up without a fresh vax in the middle of a Covid surge at put them at risk.

Hola, Bluesky en español. ¿Cuáles son sus expresiones idiomáticas favoritas?

After wildfires tore through LA, thousands of undocumented families lost their everything. Many who lost their homes in the fire now live in neighborhoods where ICE raids are more frequent, according to county officials. ✍️ @racheldparsons.bsky.social reports 🔗 www.context.news/socioeconomi...

I run into this occasionally with interviewees, so I hope it helps those of you who are on the receiving end of interview requests if you aren't already aware. If you say "off the record," and keep talking, it is not off the record. That is not how off the record comments work. 🧵

As terrified as much of L.A.’s immigrant community is because of ICE, one group in particular is still reeling from the last disaster to hit them; the Eaton fire in Altadena. The double whammy is too much for many to bear. My latest for @contextnewsroom.bsky.social www.context.news/socioeconomi...

Our comment on the DOE CWG report is done. It tips the scales at 439 pages, approx. 3x longer than the DOE report. This is related to Brandolini's law: The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it. Example: refuting one sentence.

The American Meteorological Society's formal response to "foundationally flawed" DOE mis/disinformation report on #ClimateChange is excellent & timely. Frankly, I have been more impressed w/@ametsoc.org's ability to effectively meet the moment this year than other scientific professional societies.

Although the neighborhood citizen patrols tracking ICE raids throughout Los Angeles got a lot of coverage this summer, a subset of those volunteers quietly began responding to a related but different cry for help, delivering groceries to people afraid to leave their homes. My latest:

Trump rounded out a week of going after wind farms by hitting Ørsted with a stop-work order for its Rhode Island offshore project.

Why don't migrants fix their own countries? Check out this @pulitzercenter.org look at how the US defunded a commission in Guatemala to strengthen law & fight corruption. The US also pushed Guatemala to help w/ deportations. Marco Rubio was involved in both. pulitzercenter.org/stories/guat...

Although the neighborhood citizen patrols tracking ICE raids throughout Los Angeles got a lot of coverage this summer, a subset of those volunteers quietly began responding to a related but different cry for help, delivering groceries to people afraid to leave their homes. My latest:

The U.S. Forest Service has spent decades blocking efforts to better protect its wildfire fighters, sending crews into smoke without masks or warnings about the health risks, a New York Times investigation found. nyti.ms/4mm9oMr

Good thing forecasters got a 13-month reprieve from losing a huge amount of microwave satellite data starting this month. #Erin www.context.news/climate-risk...

Unbelievable footage from NOAA’s Hurricane Hunters inside the eye of Hurricane Erin. Simply incredible.