The intermountain west is accelerating desertification with climate change at an alarming rate.

This #Idaho POS nutcase #DougWilson is much admired and followed by many Republicans, including #Hegseth. #WeToldYa

There's an OMB rule change that would require political oversight of scientific grants, and could pull any that don't "reflect presidential priorities" Another country has tried this before! It was the USSR and it was called Lysenkoism. By @thsaey.bsky.social www.sciencenews.org/article/omb-...

I don't believe this is going to the Venezuelans. Who gets cuts from the money?

As a follow up to my post regarding Idaho's dire water situation, El Nino promises another warm dry winter to the PNW. And this look like El Nino on acid. Idaho is going to really regret not refilling our naturally made water storage area known as the SE Idaho Aquifer. #idpol

Eurostar has specified that its new fleet of trains must be able to withstand sweltering temperatures of 131 degrees Fahrenheit, as it gears up for a radically altered European climate over the coming decades. https://cnn.it/4f2XxjW

Cops are taught not to shoot into cars. ICE keeps doing it anyway.

Found this…. finance.yahoo.com/technology/a...

Meta spokesperson, "When the board shared that it found a substance in the city’s wastewater - not public drinking water - Fortis immediately stopped discharging industrial wastewater and began hauling it offsite." Begs the question, hauling if offsite to where? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Switzerland put solar panels in the unused space between train tracks. They are removeable, so you can still work on the tracks. And it's working!

Exclusive: Senator Ed Markey on why he has proposed legislation aimed at curbing datacenters, automated hiring systems and harm to children

Warning! ⚠️ Things are going to be bad this midterm election. The Trump administration has fired the remaining commissioners of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC), leaving the independent bipartisan agency without any sitting commissioners.

Following the killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, DHS is using a familiar playbook: they are blaming Salgado for his own death by asserting he “weaponized his vehicle.” It’s a narrative that law enforcement agencies frequently employ to justify fatally shooting of unarmed motorists.

Five facts that you should know about the current Cyclospora outbreak.

The ICE murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo deserves the same fury as Renee Good and Alex Pretti

There were three others in the van with the man shot by ICE in Houston this week. A representative for the families tells TNR that the government is pressuring these potential witnesses to self-deport. trib.al/22P6M2J

“We shouldn’t have to give so many reasons why these cameras are a bad idea. The ability to not be constantly surveilled by the government is clearly a right given by the Fourth Amendment.” - Caldwell resident Heather Larson #idpol www.idahopress.com/news/local/f...

New Mexico says US Justice Dept hindering probe of former Epstein ranch - www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

If it ain't broke, mess it up. Y'all will march on the White House with pitchforks and torches after it is way too late. "Trump Takes Up Another White House Project: The Front Columns" www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/u...

New York sues 3M, DuPont and other companies over so-called forever chemicals apnews.com/article/fore...

Outrage in Houston: ICE profiled & detained US citizen Miguel Angel Ponce. Officials claim they drove him home and apologized, but Ponce states that NEVER occurred. This is a terrifying case of wrongful detention and a cover-up. Know your rights!

I think @govandybeshear.bsky.social should just appoint a Dem to fill McConnell’s seat. It would force proof of life, and the state law that stripped him of that power should be challenged in court. I’m sure Thune would refuse to seat the appointee, but I think it’s a fight worth having. BE BOLD!

Hard to pave roads with tax breaks for the rich.

Thought I'd give Claude some feedback. "Your limit is reached." It sure is, Claude, it sure is.

Signed up to Claude, because sometimes I do worry I'm being overly critical and maybe when people say "I use Claude for research; it's great!" that I've missed something and should test it out. It is - I cannot emphasise this enough - shit at summarising literature. Because of course it is.

Do you live in Idaho's First Congressional District? Come meet your candidate for Congress! www.mobilize.us/kayleeforcon... #Congress #KayleePeterson #IdahoAFL-CIO

Alberta’s new Meta #DataCentre will require more electricity than the entire city of Calgary — and with current policy has pushed it to be powered by natural gas. Other jurisdictions are pairing data centres with #renewables, but AB is focused on locking in increased gas usage. buff.ly/vkunKyg

Mayor Zohran Mamdani signed an executive order barring ICE from entering New York City schools, hospitals, shelters, parking lots, and other city property without a judicial warrant. Sanctuary protections strengthened. Immigrant rights defended. NYC is standing its ground. 🗽✊🏽

The Nez Perce Tribe placed a gillnet in the Snake River near the mouth of the Tucannon River. In one short set they caught 58 nonnative walleye, 8 of which had juvenile PIT tagged salmon in their stomachs and three of those were from endangered Snake River sockeye. www.lmtribune.com/outdoors/wal...

It simultaneously makes sense (this is colonized land, after all) & blows my mind that Boise's foothills have such a large area of potentially unexploded ordinance doing whatever unexploded ordinance does underground, like the insects churning away at the beginning of David Lynch's _Blue Velvet_.

On Wednesday of last week, Trump gave disaster relief funds to red states. On Friday, he denied disaster relief funds to blue states. If you’re wondering why a lot of us are up in arms about the proposed OMB rule that will require political litmus tests for grant funding, THIS IS WHY.

I swear, the man wakes up and chooses every horseman of the apocalypse before breakfast.

#ScienceSky #TechSky #EngineeringSky #MedSky #MathSky #Greensky 🧪🦠

This is fascinating “curiosity puts the entire brain into a mode of heightened receptivity — not just for the specific thing you want to know, but also for everything around it. Curiosity opens a window, and while the window is open, learning deepens across the board.”🧪

🧪 “The ethical issue is the non-disclosure and the intent behind it, not the existence of an editing aid” or in other words guns are not the problem, gun users are the problem... www.nature.com/articles/d41...

librarians once again showing they’re heroes of the community

Dutch government will host special tribunal to prosecute Russian leadership for the international crime of launching a war of aggression, saying Russian aggression against Ukraine can't go unpunished. The term "crime of aggression" was coined to prosecute Nazis for WW2 #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

Entering the time of night where The Discourse stretches its ghastly phantasmal hands to lure in unwitting digital sailors

What a superlative baddie Paxton really is

“To follow the pipeline as it makes this crossing is to see fossil capital make its violent, often unlawful way through the landscapes surrounding one of the most unequal borders in the world.”

NEW: USPS asked a court to temporarily allow it to move forward with implementing Trump's order directing it to only deliver mail ballots to states that share voter lists with the federal government. Democrats warn the order will make it harder for states to smoothly administer the midterms.

An investigation by Mother Jones confirms that the FBI used software from the Israeli firm Cellebrite to secretly extract data from the phones of at least a dozen other protesters.

What author and poet Victoria Chang learned from trees

Trump's "personal vendetta" against wind is messing with American livelihoods [via @theguardian.com]

More than 1,200 former Justice Department employees have signed a letter urging senators to reject Todd Blanche's nomination for attorney general, a roster of names so long it fills 59 pages.

A family travelling between Golden and Revelstoke came across the Tesla on Highway 1 and started recording, according to a Castanet report. The witness, identified as Carleigh, said the driver was “fast asleep” and visibly slumped to the side while the car continued at roughly 100 km/h. /1

“Reasonable people can disagree about how best to manage our public lands, but burning down the rules makes the problem worse, not better,” John Ruple writes in an op-ed.

ICE has intimidated people for Instagram posts, tried to unmask anonymous Internet users, and investigated people just for being critical of their actions online. In case the Trump administration forgot: Criticizing ICE is protected by the First Amendment.

JB Pritzker: “The White House is intentionally breaking our American system of government so they can rebuild it in their own image. They’re taking food and medicine away from families in poverty. They’ve shut down cancer research and HIV prevention. They’ve eliminated drinking water and clean