Adorbs... and yet that looks like a lot of single-use (plastic?) "souvenir" packaging. (Is that even legal in Seattle anymore? "Single-use food service packaging that is not recyclable or compostable is banned under SMC 21.36.086.")
“I’ve actually been enjoying walking and using public transit more instead, all thanks to legendary environmental activist Donald J. Trump.”
This week: heavy mountain snow (yay!)
Next week: heavy mountain rain (not so yay!)
#wawx
Ah, NEXT week! That explains the big difference 🤦♂️
Official map from NOAA depicting the relative rank of winter 2025-2026 temperatures at a county level across the contiguous U.S. Many counties in the western and central U.S. are depicted in dark red color, signifying record-warmest winter. All other counties in the west and central U.S. are depicted in dark orange colors, signifying a "near record warm" rank.
The official NOAA stats out this week confirm that winter 2025-26 was the warmest on record across a huge portion of the western and central U.S., which has contributed to extremely low mountain snowpack & worsened the CO River crisis. Meanwhile, record March heat is in forecast.
Hm. NWS is forecasting freezing levels of 1,000-4,000 ft. for central WA Cascades, not 8,000.
President Donald Trump waving outside while wearing a red MAGA hat
Environmental Hero Makes Fossil Fuels Too Expensive for Anyone to Keep Using: tinyurl.com/yc6m5fzk
Even though I'm an economist, I wish there was more focus on the human suffering from this war and less focus on the economic consequences. Hundreds of little girls are dead, and we're worried about oil prices.
If gas prices remain high, consumers will shift more to EVs. But at the moment, many legacy automakers are throttling their supply to produce more gas guzzlers, potentially missing the market opportunity.
NEW: We just published a deep dive into just how much billionaires are now dominating U.S. politics.
We found 300 billionaire families accounted for 19% of federal donations in 2024. The deluge was even larger in many state and local races.
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Rep. Andy Ogles' social media post is the latest in a series of Islamophobic statements from House Republicans. n.pr/46P9gPM
you rubes. you complete and utter fools. anyone with a brain can see this is a multidimensional, metaphysical conflict. a conceptual battlefield. we've only barely begun to end the start of this thing.
Yepp. Too many folks pretend that the underlying unscientific thinking that drives anti-vaccine sentiments doesn't also drive their nutrition sentiments: appeal to nature+ cherry picking data + prioritizing handwavey mechanisms over clinical evidence.
On the day multiple media organizations reported on a video showing a U.S. Tomahawk missile killing dozens of children in an Iranian elementary school, the White House's meme strategists posted a missile video soundtracked by Nelly's "Here Comes the Boom" wapo.st/3NhffGm
We are a secular democracy. If you don't like the freedom of religion, you are welcome to move somewhere else.
In America, you can be Christian, Muslim, Jewish, or anything else. It's written into our Constitution. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Get lost with this garbage.
Authoritarian leaders constantly demand loyalty displays from their underlings
Headline and subhead: U.S. Tomahawk Hit Naval Base Beside Iranian School, Video Shows The evidence contradicts President Trump’s claim that Iran was responsible for a strike at the school that killed 175 people, most of them children.
Good for the hed/dek writers at @nytimes.com just now:
Not "appears to contradict" or "is at odds with" or "may give rise to suspicions that."
Flat out: "Contradicts." "Video shows." About the US blowing up a school full of little girls.
And of course, terrible for the world.
POV: life comes at you at 2026 speed
Montana Republican Tim Sheehy voted to scrap solar tax credits after installing panels and battery storage at his Bozeman home.
Trump canceled a major scientific report on the health of the natural world. The scientists are finishing it anyway. Yay scientists! www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/c...
Atmospheric CO2 concentration graphed from 1957 to present, showing a continuous increase to current 429 parts per million. The annual natural cycle of slight ups and downs can also be seen. Measurements are taken hourly at the top of Mauna Loa, Hawaii
The latest update from the Mauna Loa CO2 observatory, shows current #carbondioxide concentrations continue to accelerate upward. The latest reading? 429.1 parts per million. Pre-industrial concentrations were under 280 ppm.
#climatechange
#climate
Excellent analysis showing how state funding mechanisms are used to deepen the state's ideological control, much akin to what happened in Hungary under Orbán.
Historian here history first time as tragedy the second time as farce.
Brandon Straka: I’m at the Pentagon this morning for a briefing with @SecWar @PeteHegseth on the Iran strikes. Session starts in 10 minutes.
Here's a Jan. 6 rioter posing with a press pass before Pete Hegseth's press conference, just to give you a sense of the type of "journalists" who were in the Pentagon briefing room this morning.
BBC Verify reporter parsing fact from fiction (a difficult, important job, especially in wartime)
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Top lawmakers were notified about the operation shortly before it was launched, but the White House did not seek authorization from Congress to carry out the strikes. n.pr/4l12c8B
Update: Israel and the U.S. launched strikes against Iran, and Iran retaliated with attacks on Israel and several Gulf countries.
Trump has dismissed Vice Admiral Fred Kacher, deputy director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, for issuing warnings to him about what might go wrong in a new war against Iran, Reuters report. www.reuters.com/world/us/pen...
Congress must return immediately and vote to put an end to this war.
Every Senator should be on the record—the American people deserve to know which of their leaders supports another potentially bloody and costly war in the Middle East.
No war with Iran.
