August: timesofsandiego.com/business/202...

"Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control. Wherever the cause of liberty is making its way, one of its highest accomplishments is the guarantee of the freedom of the press." Coolidge, 1925.

Speaker after speaker at this memorial is explicitly likening him to Jesus Christ. (Slain in early 30s, etc.) Don't know how this goes over with people raised in other faiths. Having been raised as a church-going Protestant Christian, I say: What the hell! This is not how Christians talk.

People used to joke that crime doesn't pay as much as politics. Here, they're rolled into one.

When I was in business school 30 years ago, our accounting class materials included a Ben&Jerry's annual report. I think it was considered relatively friendly in terms of layout and wording. You'll never pull the lever Because there's just one lever Only ever been one lever At Unilever

From 2009: www.nytimes.com/2009/09/03/o...

Only 40 days have passed since Democratic lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband were tragically killed by an unhinged Trump supporter, yet this story has largely faded from national awareness. We must not allow that to happen.

I realize one data point doesn't counter a general trend, but our weekly bulletin usually includes a page on "creation care" which includes climate. A diocese-wide event is tomorrow: sdcatholic.org/event/creati...

From the 1956 GOP platform: "District of Columbia. We favor self-government, national suffrage and representation in the Congress of the United States for residents of the District of Columbia." It's the 69 year-old version of " in about two weeks."

85+ climate experts reviewed the US government’s new climate report. Their conclusion: it is biased, full of errors, and not fit to inform policy making. FULL REVIEW: tinyurl.com/DOE-comment

Today's mail. That was fast.

After 12+ years, our elephant food plant is blooming for the first time. #blooms #photography

Satellite data gave us the heads up that #Erin was undergoing explosive rapid intensification. Hurricane hunter aircraft flew into Erin and captured the actual data to confirm what we suspected. Investment in NOAA. Investment in NASA. Investment in the USGS. Investment in science. It matters.

"The quality of ideas seems to play a minor role in mass movement leadership. What counts is the arrogant gesture, the complete disregard of the opinion of others, the singlehanded defiance of the world." Eric Hoffer, The True Believer.

For folks at #JSM and beyond isi-web.org/statement/st... #JSM2025 #JSM25

Eight years ago, it was the other side of the distorted coin: thehill.com/policy/finan...

Dear America, Please excuse President Trump from presidenting today. He is obsessed with me. Signed, Epstein's File

America! America! God mend thine every flaw, Confirm thy soul in self-control, Thy liberty in law!

"Claw back" is an odd term to me.

#photography Big Basin Redwoods State Park, June.

Big Basin Redwoods, June 2025.

With much help, we successfully delivered blessed copies of Laudato Si' to all 145 Catholic Members of Congress! Watch the prayer service that preceded the deliveries, learn more about the event, and sign up for future actions here: catholicclimatecovenant.salsalabs.org/summeradvoca... #EcoCatholic

An old story that seems relevant. www.pbssocal.org/history-soci...

In our contemporary Golden Age of Bitterness, this guy is a standout.

I haven't seen any other members of Congress taking about ICE (and whoever else is helping ICE) wearing masks and removing badges to hide their identity. Call your Rep &. Senators! Ask them to talk about why ICE / DHS are hiding their identities! 🚨(202) 224-3121

“We need this aid to enter now. It has to go to people who are desperate.” In this video, our colleague Louise Wateridge speaks from a UNRWA warehouse in Amman, Jordan, where supplies have been held up due to the 11-week-long siege.

This is extraordinary. The Secretary of Homeland Security doesn’t know what the right of habeas corpus is (the ancient right to go to court to challenge government detention) and offers an incoherent definition which suggests she thinks it’s a presidential power to deport people?

Just one of the many events that helped make my neighborhood what it is today. www.cbs8.com/article/news...

Raskin: Our chairman… How does one go from a libertarian railing about the deep state and the fbi and the doj coming down on the rights of the people to becoming a supine submissive authoritarian who votes against providing basic due process rights for the people against the government?

Looking for makeup artist with experience in masking a black eye. www.cbsnews.com/news/navy-us...

1988: www.latimes.com/archives/la-...

"Francis was very much a pragmatist, advised by excellent scientists and engineers...he had a clear technological preference: the rapid spread of solar power everywhere." 🧪 #scicomm #climate #science  🌎 🔬 ⚒️ #geosky #ClimateHealth #ClimateAction open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...

April 19, 2023. apnews.com/article/fox-...

Fourth of last nine birdcam videos today. I'm flooding the zone again. Nice closeup of Mr Cardinal. #birds

That the national spotlight is on a few Ivy League college students and associated resistance while CalState students are the bulk of the students that are getting deported or denied education tells you kind of all you need to know about higher education in America, and the attention of our media.

They are taking down a lot of data including earthquake catalogues, the global shoreline dataset, bathymetry, crustal thickness maps, and geothermal resource datasets.