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For decades, coastal mangrove forests have been decimated by development. But just this past week, forty years of satellite data confirmed something remarkable... Read more in this week's edition of Talking Climate.

Loved this meditative short film about birding: youtu.be/2AkHHwoBD98?...

Gonna have to call in the Wu Tang Clan for an exorcism if we want USMNT to ever win a game again.

Good to know Walt’s having a hard time winding down after the England-Mexico game too.

Newly radicalized normies: end gerrymandering and expand the court! Liberal Currents: Yes! And: Strengthen the Inspector General Act and change the Amendment process and make DC into SEVEN states!

I had a lovely time reading every Francis Spufford novel I could get my hands on (thanks Flathead co library!) then writing this essay about his Christian humanist moral vision: open.substack.com/pub/theenthu...

in which we here at liberal currents and a wide variety of other scholars and thinkers did our best to imagine not just another iteration on slopulism or same old same old, but a genuine program of governance for rebuilding our fractured republic

I‘ve loved digfing into these essays. Fascinating and provocative. Lots to debate and consider.

The Reconstruction Papers provides an ambitious but achievable path forward beyond the Trump era, but also beyond the decades of institutional decay that preceded it. Help us spread the word by pre-ordering a print copy today buy.stripe.com/7sY28s9AJd79...

I did not realize there was anything we could do! Call your senators to get them to protect our Haitian neighbors! I am calling and leaving messages tomorrow and then will call Monday.

Climate.us is officially live! After NOAA ended Climate.gov’s day-to-day operations in 2025, former team members built Climate.us to carry that work forward. Their explanations and graphics have always stood out to me as clear, accessible, and transparent. I’m really looking forward to this reboot.

My theory: because Neal Stephenson put smartglasses in Seveneves. The whole tech industry seems dedicated to making dystopic versions of tech from Stephenson novels.

At the Reflecting Pool, and guys, this doesn’t look right.

Call me when the Potomac turns to blood.

Do elephants remember who was kind to them? Yes – and across decades. Our ex-orphans return to the stockades long after they've gone wild, recognise specific Keepers by name, and bring their wild-born calves home to introduce them. They even come back for help.

Fascinating paper about unconscionable policy.

It was funny when Milli Vanilli was on this list. It is 1000% funnier now that they‘ve refused.

🫡 done and done. Might be a step 2 I’m missing though…

This is delightful.

Enjoyed this conversation between @samforstag.bsky.social and @rrowrow.bsky.social. I’m leaning Sam’s way in the primary after hearing what he stands for. open.substack.com/pub/russellr...

hard to exaggerate how heroic these men were. they likely saved dozens of children's lives. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

At least once a year I send someone the Hark! A Vagrant 4th of July comic: www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=140

we all know I have no life, so:

“any human thing supposed to be complete, must for that very reason infallibly be faulty.” -Herman Melville #MobyDick #MelvilleQuotes #booksky

yes and they had the coolest latin name of any animal ever- Liyatan melvillei

“we are all killers, on land and on sea; Bonapartes and Sharks included.” -Herman Melville #MobyDick #MelvilleQuotes #booksky

“Though of real knowledge there be little, yet of books there are a plenty” -Herman Melville #MobyDick #MelvilleQuotes #booksky

"Heaven have mercy on us all—Presbyterians and Pagans alike—for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending." -Herman Mellvile #MobyDick #MelvilleQuotes #booksky

“Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.” -Herman Melville on late-night tweeting. #MelvilleQuotes #booksky #MobyDick

“So soon as I hear that such or such a man gives himself out for a philosopher, I conclude that, like the dyspeptic old woman, he must have “broken his digester”” -Herman Melville #MobyDick #MelvilleQuotes #booksky

“Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.” -Herman Melville #MobyDick #MelvilleQuotes #booksky

“very probably he had long since come to the sage and sensible conclusion that a man’s religion is one thing, and this practical world quite another. This worled pays dividends.” -Herman Melville, subtweeting JD Vance

Russell Rowland chatted with TEI's Jeff Mangan on The State of Montana podcast! Links below & on the DDM blog! Thanks Russell! disruptdarkmoney.feather.blog/the-state-o... russellrowland.substack.com/p/episode-5...

“Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope” -Herman Melville #MelvilleQuotes #MobyDick #booksky

“Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope” -Herman Melville #MelvilleQuotes #MobyDick #booksky

"Delight is to him—a far, far upward, and inward delight—who against the proud gods and commodores of this earth, ever stands forth his own inexorable self." -Herman Melville #MelvilleQuotes #MobyDick #LiberalCurrents

“Though in many of its aspects this visible world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in fright” -Herman Melville #MelvilleQuotes #MobyDick #artemis

I'm going to keep posting Melville quotes on here until I get famous. Perfect plan. Can't miss. #HermanMelville #MobyDick #MelvilleQuotes #booksky

"a good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more’s the pity. So, if any one man, in his own proper person, afford stuff for a good joke to anybody, let him not be backward, but let him cheerfully allow himself to spend and be spent in that way." -Herman Melville

“But when a man suspects any wrong, it sometimes happens that if he be already involved in the matter, he insensibly strives to cover up his suspicions even from himself.” -Herman Melville, Moby Dick

In the Great Bear Sea and surrounding coastal rainforest, Indigenous stewardship protects salmon, ocean habitats, forests and cultural traditions. Meet the Guardians behind this work: https://nature.ly/4tCx0zJ

Nobody needs me to tell them Moby Dick is great. But you guys, Moby Dick is really great! open.substack.com/pub/theenthu...

Montana has a long history of citizen's grassroots reform & fierce independence, particularly when it comes to money in politics, corruption, and the citizen's initiative process. #CampaignFinance #DarkMoney #TEI

Natural climate solutions can deliver a host of benefits for people + nature. So what’s holding them back? A new @science.nature.org-led global study analyzed >500 projects across 137 countries to identify 46 implementation barriers. Turns out, most aren’t scientific or ecological—they’re human!

Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.

This should upset EVERY SINGLE MONTANAN. Please find a I-194 Signature Gatherer & sign or visit sign.mttei.org. Tell those that would silence us, your voice is certainly as important as $$$, and we have the right to participate in our democracy! disruptdarkmoney.feather.blog/corporate-i...

Look around. The case for more, not less, liberal arts education is stronger than ever.

Like most right-thinking Americans I loathe the time change. Especially "spring forward." But I suspect we're stuck with it thanks to Arrow's Impossibility Theorem. Here's my guess as to the constituencies. #econsky what do you think?

Well, in more pleasant news, the Fish Doorbell is back... 🧪