Totally normal. Nothing to see here.

On the anniversary of the devastating Palisades & Eaton fires in Los Angeles, I wanted to share this @ichotiner.bsky.social Q&A published in the immediate aftermath. The lightly edited transcript reflects my initial reactions, but remains relevant even a year later.

And there ya have it… Officials from top Wall Street firms will be traveling to Venezuela to investigate “investment prospects” of the country. “The trip will feature about 20 officials from the finance, energy and defense sectors.”

"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

"Science is being destroyed across many agencies" say federal researchers. For my latest @nature.com piece, I spoke to 19 different scientists across EPA, NOAA, NIH, NASA, and USGS to document how science is being dismantled across US federal agencies.

In Chicago, a woman was driving to get coffee when a DHS vehicle fleeing an angry crowd crashed into her car. Armed agents jumped out of the vehicle, yanked her door open, pulled her by the legs out of her car at gunpoint, held her incommunicado for hours, then released her with no charges.

Slip slidin’…

From a crewmember on yesterday's Teal 74 mission into now-Category 5 Hurricane #Melissa. As clear of an eye as you will see in the Atlantic basin.

🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style. Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.

Ummm, wtf?

this shit is so embarrassing. the government used to have guys who like, built bridges. now it’s just a gaggle of bleary-eyed cave children jacking themselves off to porno deepfakes of AOC while posting “based meme edits” of reaper drone strikes on venezuelan children. quit gooning and fix a pothole

Despite Alligator Alcatraz’s shocking conditions and rampant “psychological warfare,” copycats are popping up around the country—everything from the “Cornhusker Clink” to the “Speedway Slammer”

Not shady at all. 😒

I wonder if my dog minds that his new(est) name is Pupparino Baby Pino Cappuccino. 🤔

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This ought to be engraved somewhere.

Indeed. Earlier this summer, the White House did this to me, as a scientific expert source in media, and issued a formal statement regarding my personal campaign contribution history in an attempt to discredit my commentary on wildfire, climate, and federal policy. Yet more alarm bells ringing...

“Wait but if they declared anti-fascists enemies of the state then they were basically admitting the state is actually fascist, no?” — some poor baffled student trying to study for their Fall of the American Empire history exam in the year 2525, probably

Can’t say I’m a fan of the trajectory that our growing understanding of microplastics has taken

I wonder what the mayors of Los Angeles, Baltimore, Chicago, New York, and New Orleans might all have in common. 🤔

I had NO IDEA that banana peels as a slip-and-fall trope had such a grim history explaining why. tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwik...

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... Deeper down the rabbit hole…

"extremism never triumphs on its own. It succeeds because others enable it—because of their ambition, because of their fear, or because they misjudge the dangers of small concessions." @dziblatt.bsky.social www.foreignaffairs.com/germany/hitl...

Wow.

Incredibly illuminating story from @billmckibben.bsky.social on unnecessary local permitting barriers -- highly specific to the U.S. -- that make rooftop solar far more expensive than it needs to be: www.motherjones.com/environment/...

Informative piece about why the there was no large Pacific-wide tsunami triggered by the Russian earthquake via @sciam.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...

Motherfucking wind farms…

Good morning everyone and Happy Bastille Day to all those who, like me, feel like storming something to take down the oligarchs like the sans culottes did in 1789...

This is genuinely the news every day

The first part of the documentary, originally released in the autumn of 2024, focuses on the bigger picture surrounding #ClimateChange and is still freely available for viewing on YouTube. youtu.be/U8pLrRkqbb0

Gore Vidal was cooking when he called us the United States of Amnesia

I'm going to try and communicate with my Republican colleagues in a new way.

I'll have an *evening* livestream on Thu, Jun 26 @ 5pm PT. It'll be a triple header: 1) this weekend's tragedy on Lake Tahoe, 2) Rising heat & monsoonal moisture in Southwest in early Jul, and 3) Another federal update (quite a lot has happened this week). www.youtube.com/live...

Is it too late to give Sacha Baron Cohen an Oscar for this? Not a damn lie told. 🇺🇸

Agami Heron, rear view. At Agami Island #CostaRica #birds #nature

just saw a group of masked men stuffing masked ICE agents into an unmarked car, who were saying "we're ICE we're ICE!" but the abductors shouted to the crowd "no we're ICE!" no one knew who was ICE, so no one in the crowd said anything.

“Over 250 million acres of public lands are eligible for sale in the bill, including local recreation areas, wilderness study areas and inventoried roadless areas.” www.wilderness.org/articles/med...

Last year, the final of four hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River were removed in the largest project of its kind in US history. The river that straddles the California-Oregon border has since been reborn.

Nations typically throw military parades to demonstrate their organizational prowess and national unity. So…uh… message received.

Spectacular timelapse of an aurora and Moon-rise over Earth from the International Space Station.

Trump Mouths Lyrics To ‘Happy Birthday’ While National Anthem Plays

Agami Heron, preening yesterday at Agami Island #costarica #birds #nature #wildlife #herons

The Department of the Interior is requiring the National Park Service to post signage nationwide by June 13, asking visitors for feedback on any information they feel misrepresents American history.

People are NOT understanding the gravity of what's going down right now. Normalcy bias is a hell of a drug.

INCREDIBLE !! Here we are... 😱😱😱 After days of overloading and cracks propagating, Birch Glacier collapsed today at 3.24 pm over Blatten and the dammed Lonza river... Devastating! 😭 www.letemps.ch/suisse/valai...

Rightfully, the cuts to Medicaid (over 10M people will lose their health care) and the tax cuts for the rich have been the story of the disastrous Republican budget bill. But I read the whole thing. And there are some hidden rats in there you need to know about. 1/ A quick🧵

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