Climate change is ravaging gray whales on the West Coast. My latest for Inside Climate News. insideclimatenews.org/news/2405202...

Trump admin gives a twilight-zone twist to grazing law for bison. If they're being raised to conserve the prairie, they're banned from public lands. If they're being raised to be eaten, they're welcome. The ruling targets a single bison operation in Montana. My latest for ICN.

My latest for Inside Climate News: A measure of justice for tribes tormented by the hydro dams that helped make Seattle rich.

Like windmills and EVs, American buffalo are targets of Trump 2.0. My latest for Inside Climate News. insideclimatenews.org/news/0504202...

Texas charges out front in large-scale solar. Screw ideology; look at bottom line. Solar is cheaper and easier to build at industrial scale. Excellent analysis from Dan Gearino at Inside Climate News. insideclimatenews.org/news/0503202...

Trump lays waste to America’s national parks, firing scientists, fiddling with history and denying climate change.

Some personal news. I've joined Inside Climate News, covering the Pacific Northwest, and my first story just went live.

Bezos-owned WaPo boldly opines in favor of not taxing the rich. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Seattle reigns supreme in slice of population with a college degree—seven out of ten.

“It’s as if a longtime friend suddenly stabbed us in the back for no reason.” So says a Canadian about Trump's America

Rich city news: Seattle trails only San Francisco in individual earnings; Washington DC comes in third.

“It is stories, more than theories, that help humans comprehend tyranny,” the Economist writes this week. “And as the mighty fill the world’s small screens with falsehoods, someone needs to tell true tales.”

On a day that Telsa stock falls 15 percent, Seattle police investigate apparent torching of 4 Cybertrucks.

Pacific Northwest big cities proudly godless, more or less. Seattle ties as the least religious U.S. metro area in new study www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

The Economist says it's dark and will get much darker, as the deluded authoritarian has become used to getting his way.

This from David Maraniss, whose brilliant work for and loyalty to the WaPo has been constant half a century, is worth paying attention to.

The cartoon that The Washington Post editorial page editor wouldn't print, leading to the resignation of Pulitzer-winning cartoonist @anntelnaes.bsky.social

Elon Musk—and his poodle, Donald J Trump—have failed this time in closing down the federal government. More to come.

Fastest selling book of the year. Only at Target. Full of typos.

In a dark and brilliant essay on Trump 2.0, Fintan O'Toole argues in the NY Review of Books that Americans are willing collaborators. They have a growing appetite for the "sadistic pleasures" that will be served as part of the Second Coming. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...