How Trump turmoil is driving more people to the therapist’s office: ‘This is all upside down’ As ‘political depression’ enters public discourse, therapists are encouraging people to engage with their communities

What once might have been treated as background noise – the news, the election cycle, the culture war – is now the presenting problem itself

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El Nino may return in 2026 and make planet even hotter The warming El Niño weather phenomenon could form later this year, potentially pushing global temperatures to record heights.

Your 'moment of doom' for Mar. 2, 2026 ~ a greater sorrow.

"there is a risk of 2026 being the warmest year on record even without El Niño, due to the global warming trend"

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The boys’ club: How Epstein’s influence shaped the exclusion of women in STEM In one email, an AI researcher suggested it’s “hard to be brilliant if you are worrying if you look fat or why another woman hates you.”

In one email, an AI researcher suggested it’s “hard to be brilliant if you are worrying if you look fat or why another woman hates you.” 19thnews.org/2026/02/epst...

There is one word that explains how so many men can be in the Epstein files. So why is no one saying it? We talk endlessly about the factors that make rape easier, but never about the factors that cause rape in the first place.

“I’m not interested in a world where men really want to watch porn but resist because they’ve been shamed. I’m interested in a world where men are raised from birth with such an unshakable understanding of women as living human beings that they’re incapable of being aroused by their exploitation.”

The Climate 8-Ball is predicting the standard deviation for global sea-surface temperatures to go back over 5σ this year, so it's a good time to take stock of where we are.

As of Feb. 20, 2026, global sea-surface temperatures are 4.23σ above the 1982-2011 mean.

Nearly half of L.A. County’s pavement may be unnecessary, new map finds Researchers have released the first parcel-level analysis to map all paved surfaces across L.A. County. In particular, large parking lots are ripe for change, they say.

A new analysis finds that some 44% of Los Angeles County’s 312,000 acres of pavement may not be essential for roads, sidewalks or parking, and could be reconsidered.
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Definitely

Another fun-packed graphic:

In 2025, Earth experienced the planetary heating equivalent of about 379,000,000 (379 million) Hiroshima bombs, or about 23.9 zetajoules, the 4th highest gain on record.

The Climate 8-ball says: "whale oil beef hooked."

What Exactly Are Women Supposed to Do? The new MAGA pro-natalist strategy: Mock, judge, ostracize, and punish women who don't submit to a very strict life script.

There is not actually some secret surplus of decent men, or even enough moderately functional men for all of the even moderately functional women, let alone the really great ones. @jillfilipovic.bsky.social

The Plot Against American Women The Heritage Foundation plan to keep women uneducated, pregnant, and subservient.

Fewer women to college; push women to marry & start having babies very young; ban same-sex marriage; ban IVF; limit contraception; strip basic rights even to physical safety from children; penalize single mothers; impose conservative Christianity as national religion
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The Plot Against American Women The Heritage Foundation plan to keep women uneducated, pregnant, and subservient.

I am not exaggerating when I say that the forces of the New Right want to use the full force of the state to impose a national patriarchy. @jillfilipovic.bsky.social

Peter Attia appears to be staying at CBS News despite Epstein communications Staffers believe network has decided to retain Attia, who issued apology after inappropriate Epstein emails, as on-air analyst

As a physician let me tell you this is DISGUSTING

Ossoff: "Among today's false prophets are the election deniers who indulge this president's obsession with overturning the 2020 election. Hear me when I say this -- they tell a lie so absurd, and therefore so debasing, that the act of telling it proves the teller's total and humiliating submission."

Polk County water report pins unhealthy rivers on ag pollution • Iowa Capital Dispatch A long-awaited scientific report commissioned by Polk County says farm pollution threatens the ability to drink clean water and to safely interact with central Iowa streams, Iowa Capital Dispatch has ...

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UPDATE: Underdog Italy advances to the women's hockey quarterfinals for the first time ever with a 3-2 win over Japan. Meaning climate champion Jacqui Pierri will keep playing. www.newsday.com/sports/women...

Massie on Howard Lutnick: "He should just resign. Three people in Great Britain resigned for less than what we've seen Howard Lutnick lie about. He clearly went to the island, if we believe what's in these files. He was in business with Jeffrey Epstein."

In the Middle East, countries spend heavily to transform seawater into drinking water In Oman, cities get water from desalination plants. Could the Arabian Peninsula’s reliance on seawater offer a glimpse of the Southwest's future?

On the subject of desalination, I wrote this in 2019 about the Middle East. No other region on Earth desalinates so much water. Countries including Qatar, Oman and Saudi Arabia are burning increasing amounts of fossil fuels to run their giant and expanding plants. www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...

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There may be no turning back this climate crisis As warming breaches a critical threshold, scientists fear cascading consequences.

Proposed solutions like solar radiation would be like “turning on the air conditioning in response to a house fire,” a scientist says.
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There may be no turning back this climate crisis As warming breaches a critical threshold, scientists fear cascading consequences.

“We are seeing cracks in the resilience of the Earth’s systems,” concluded Johan Rockström, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. “Nature has so far balanced our abuse. This is coming to an end.”
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The real dirt on the Colorado River Here’s what you won’t read in the New York Times.

I talked with the lead Colorado River negotiators for California and Colorado. They (mostly) played nice, but it's not hard to figure out how they really feel.

Behind the scenes of the Western water crisis: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/real-dirt-...

Luke Ganger, Renee Good’s brother: “In the last few weeks, our family took some consolation thinking that perhaps ‘Nee’s death would bring about change in our country. It has not.”

Grids Are Surviving the Storm. But the Next 5 Years Could Be Rough.

Peak electricity demand during summers and winters is also expected to increase > 20% nationwide between now and 2035 due to data centers, EVs electric heat pumps. At the same time, more severe heat waves exacerbated by global warming or unusual cold snaps can put heavy strain on the grid.

S9, Ep3 | The Next Citizens United Will Be a Climate Case Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.

It’s the anniversary of Citizens United today so I’m back in my bullshit about the role of oil companies in the corporate free speech movement and how they are trying to expand it even further at the moment. We did a whole podcast season on it: drilled.media/podcasts/dri...

Accounting for methane from natural gas infrastructure in United States greenhouse gas emission estimates The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that United States net greenhouse gas emissions have declined over the last two decades and are no…

Methane pollution from US oil and gas infrastructure causes more climate change than the entire economies of all but seven nations on earth.

(This is with methane's climate impacts conservatively evaluated over a 100-year time frame. Evaluated over shorter time frames, methane's impacts are worse.)

So excited!

Not the most important aspect of this, I know, but just want to point out that this is a weird convo for a journalist to be having with anyone from their official work account. Even if he was a source she was trying to keep close, this is a weird exchange.

The real dirt on the Colorado River Here’s what you won’t read in the New York Times.

“Everybody has a way of devaluing the water use of other people,” he said. “You get this culture of hostility as everybody tries to defend their own water supplies, and it becomes really unpleasant.”

The real dirt on the Colorado River Here’s what you won’t read in the New York Times.

Instead of acknowledging that everyone must use less, he said, water users across the states are retreating into their corners, defending their own consumption and blaming everyone else: alfalfa growers, golf courses, households with grass lawns, etc. @sammyroth.bsky.social

Opinion | These Four States Are in Denial Over a Looming Water Crisis

There was never as much water in the river as negotiators assumed even back in 1922 — a fact scientists knew at the time. The states spent decades outrunning that original sin by finding creative ways to conserve water when drought struck. @sammyroth.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/o...