Yanno what else goes through this White House? A backhoe, apparently.

Reviving California’s Kelp Forests, One Dive at a Time

Jeez, I knew that cold knocked me on my ass, but how did I miss this?

Hey sky-folk, gimme your best tips or remedies for bringing your brain back in from the pasture after getting over a flu/cold.

🎶St. Peter dont'cha call me 'cause I can't goooooo🎵

Thanks so much to @emilypont.bsky.social for covering what might be the most underrated climate battlefield there is. As I say in the piece, in the Trump era, there is no clearer opportunity for state and local elected officials to make a tangible difference on climate than saving transit.

Another interesting CA weather week, though not nearly as dramatic as the last! Tue-Wed, a sneaky cut-off low (boosted a bit by warm ocean temps) will move from SW to NE inland over Central Coast into Sierra Nevada, bringing some isolated thunderstorms S of SF and N of LA. #CAwx

Reminder: We spent YEARS reading thousands and thousands of articles on the Tea Party and how it was a true expression of the American people's will, and it never mounted anything nearly as big as Saturday's No Kings rallies. [1/3]

No Kings. Great to see the crowds out there. Wish I could be out there, feels like I've got glass shards in my throat.

Do your part! Block the Mouth of Sauron!

We're not going to tech solve our way out of climate change by removing the carbon we emit after emitting it. Direct carbon capture is like mopping the floor under an overflowing sink; turn the fucking faucet off.

lmfaooooooo

I’m not sure enough folks realize that the PFAS plume from Travis AFB extends for 5 miles and apparently includes the highest PFAS concentrations that have been measured so far in CA groundwater. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

A major political party in the US loudly and clearly says it no longer believes in telling the truth, and supporters of that party no longer require truth from their elected officials. Bring back shame. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Really sucks that in the government affairs world right now that federal advocacy feels more and more like we're living in a one party state.

Mouth of Sauron reference is as magnificent as it is accurate.

Nice weather here today in the Heart of Darkness.

Our carbon capture plan. . .

Historic win for nature and climate! Today, at the IUCN World Conservation Congress, the world’s largest environmental network of governments, civil society, and Indigenous Peoples voted to recognise fossil fuels as a root cause of the biodiversity and climate crises for the first time in history.

"And yet Táíwò’s own position misses something fundamental about the world we now inhabit. Shame does not operate in a vacuum...today, the sturdy ground that once formed shame’s foundation has collapsed." Helpful response by @eric-reinhart.com in @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/2015...

Russ Vought is a legit Christian national extremist and his wholly unconstitutional disregard for Congressional authority, in full agreement with Trump and Miller, is the reason for this shutdown. This is the Project 2025 Shutdown.

These folks do terrific work, and while community service and restorative justice are a great combination, anyone whos ever been out on the fireline knows that its hard work even when you're getting paid. I'm so happy to see these guys getting minimum dignity for their work.

Happy First NCFR day to all those who celebrate!

GC BD BWR NW Princess Donut the Queen Anne Chonk. Obviously, Carl...

An unusually cold and strong early season storm will affect most of California over next 2 days. As rain sweeps southward, expect mountain snow, locally gusty winds, and a progressively higher chance of thunderstorms from north to south from SF Bay Area to LA region. #CAwx

For sure no one is paying me to tell this guy to get fucked. I do that on my own time and for my own pleasure, because I'm a policy professional who is profoundly fucking sick of having to fight to uphold both "normal process" and fend off fascies and enabling normies who think this is all a lark.

Sunday reading: I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves. This week’s piece:

Speaker Hairdo (R-NewsMax) has no idea how to actually govern, which is the entire point. He gets his talking points, farts into a camera, and then shuffles into early retirement. FedCo is shut down because dick-pilled Rs think governing is evil sissy stuff and want King Daddy to own the libs.

Slight mash-up of Graeme MacKay's now-famed comic... [There should also be a 'Fascism' wave in the middle]

Next week is looking quite active in CA as a high-amplitude flow pattern develops over North Pacific in downstream response to perturbation of jet stream by West Pacific #TyphoonHalong. NorCal looks quite wet & stormy (rain & iso. tstms/mtn snow); SoCal impacts TBD. #CAwx #CAfire

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show. She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms. (Published June)

The Cook Strait giant wētā (Deinacrida rugosa) is an anostostomatid from New Zealand. It's one of the largest insects in the world! Major threats to this cutie include land clearing and predation by rats. It's listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List. #EverydayEnsifera 📸: d_kluza (iNaturalist)

Happy World Cephalopod Day! 🐙This sucker for adventure feels its way through the world! With thousands of chemical receptors and millions of texture receptors packed into each sucker, the giant Pacific octopus has a real sense for exploration.

New blog post out just before my 3pm PT YouTube livestream! Hurricane Priscilla moisture to bring big rain event to AZ/SE CA later this week, but significant NorCal rain event also possible next week (blame recurving West Pacific typhoon!). #CAwx #CAfire

lmfao, don't forget to say "wheeee" as the need for Vigorous Government to make up for this wholly avoidable fart-huffing bubble drives our Very Sane and Normal Administration to send the 82nd Airborne into like Ecuador for some bullshit reason or another.

After another fairly hot and dry spell across California, cooler and more active weather will once again return later this week as remnant moisture from then-former #HurricanePriscilla interacts with an offshore low pressure system. [1/3] #CAwx #CAfire

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Californians: County elections officials have begun mailing ballots for the November 4th Special Election.  Check your mailboxes and make a plan to vote early.

Summary of US public policy, October 2025: government that keeps people alive - shutdown government that fuckin kills people - open for business

Week 3 of grad school and I just caught myself fist-pumping that I have class tomorrow, so thats a good sign.

Two of the most common climate misconceptions I see, even among knowledgeable folks, are that (1) most people aren't worried about climate change, and (2) if they were, they'd act. Not true! Data show (1) most people are worried, but (2) they won’t act if they don’t know what to do-and most don’t.

❄️ A glacier-free Sierra Nevada is unprecedented New evidence shows that glaciers in California’s Sierra Nevada disappearance would be the first in recorded geological time. 🔗 doi.org/10.1126/scia... #SciComm #ClimateCrisis 🧪

I wonder how the Supreme Court is gonna turn some random spot lawsuit into a reason to declare the Hatch Act unconstitutional...

Refineries explode with regularity, but somehow its solar and wind seen as unreliable. Makes total sense.

What a magnificent thread, funny and useful for picking apart bad stats.

Today marks 1 year of a free-flowing Klamath! 🎉 We celebrate this restoration project for its benefits for people and wildlife! The 4 dams blocked salmon and trout from reaching more than 400mi of habitat, harmed Indigenous cultures, and more. www.americanrivers.org/dam-removal-on-the-klamath-river/

Jack Black serenading JD Vance: 🎵You don't always have to fuck your couch...🎵

if politics/policy/government affairs is too heavy for folks right now, I definitely recommend an up-to-date course on climate change impacts to keep things light