Michael Allen

Tornado Warning expired.
Back to my regularly scheduled local tv hiatus.

We might be talking about a different hail record than just the Illinois state record…

Local media driving through tornado warning area…. While telling viewers to stay home. 🤡
Irony is dead.
#Baltimore

Swirling rain @ Cold Spring Ln.

Sky is nasty to the north.
Lightning. Some rotation.
Local TV stations chasing 😳🙄

Tornado warning.
Baltimore County.
Northern Baltimore City

US military spent $9 million on crab legs and lobster in the months before Iran war Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth also authorized the $100,000 purchase of a Steinway & Sons grand piano for the Air Force chief of staff’s home, according to a watchdog report

Crabs for me but not for thee.
Probably not even local crabs to support Chesapeake Bay (or Gulf) communities.
Hashtag grifters.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Tornado watch in Maryland 👀

White House plan to break up iconic U.S. climate lab moves forward Bidders have lined up to take over pieces of the National Center for Atmospheric Research

You scatch my back, er commune my friend's criminal record, I'll scratch yours...
Drumpf admin plans to break up NCAR unless....
www.science.org/content/arti...

“But it’s cold” climate crowd always disappears when it’s 84F in early March.

Mid-July temps.

In 2025, solar and wind produced more electricity than fossil fuels in the European Union Just a decade ago, almost three times as much electricity in the European Union was coming from fossil fuels as from solar and wind.

Make Fossil Fuels Fossils again.
Renewables surpass fossil fuels in EU.
More work to do, but climate solutions exist, if you look.
ourworldindata.org/data-insight...

Rand Paul is right about military budget.

As transit, healthcare, and educational systems scrape the barrel… Curious if he or others have the appetite to challenge the status quo.

Where’s the “How will we pay for it?” crowd?

Reminder.
It’s March.
Proceed with caution.

We just had the second-warmest winter in U.S. history, despite icy blasts » Yale Climate Connections Record-smashing Western warmth far outperformed a memorable Eastern stretch of cold waves and winter storms.

Boiled out west, brisk out east.
U.S. experiences second warmest winter on record.
Cue “but it was cold outside” experts.
yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/03/we-j...

Who else is old enough to remember….

Denmark responded to 1973 oil crisis by reducing car-dependency. Let's do that now. - Streetsblog Chicago "The government had to introduce car-free Sundays. And then people realized that the car-free Sunday was the best day of the week."

“The [Copenhagen] modal split in 1970 was about 10% biking. But then we got the oil crisis…So that was the changing point and now there’s more than a 30% bike modal split.”

We can change our cities. Because of the high price of gas, or just because it’s clearly the smart thing to do. #UrbanTruth

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Watching the NFL deals go down while the @pittsburghsteeler.bsky.social debate bringing back a 42 years old QB is...

Solar for me,
But not for thee.

U.S. Senator representing Montana runs on green energy.

Iran's FM condemns US attack on Qeshm's freshwater desalination plant, warns of grave consequences US President Donald Trump announced that Iran promised not to attack its neighbours anymore

Multiple news outlets are reporting a US attack on an Iranian #desalination plant.
If verified, this violates international law protecting #water systems during wars, and it sets a dangerous precedent, given intense dependence of Gulf countries on desalination.
timesofoman.com/article/1691...

Runners at Los Angeles Marathon Can Get a Finisher Medal After Only 18 Miles The decision to award medals to runners who do not complete the entire 26.2-mile race comes as temperatures are set to reach into the 80s on Sunday. Some marathoners disagreed with the change.

Los Angeles Marathon organizers, citing expected high heat, announced that runners who reach mile 18 could still collect a finisher medal for the 26.2-mile race on Sunday. The change, which only applies to this year’s event, has drawn pushback.

Listen, if Ravens don’t win Super Bowl, I will laugh to the bank. Crosby

Last 14 months of Biden's term:

+1.74m jobs

First 14 months of Trump's term:

150,000 jobs

(total! for the whole 14 months!)

www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

$3.49

Hard take: Shared mobility without safe transit corridors is a doomed recipe.
I say this as someone who has cycled 98% of the City.
Need safe roadways (void or separate of cars)

Fight over climate law looms as New York energy costs soar

Broken record here: Energy costs soar because of lack of cheap renewables generation, not because of it.

And no, Iran doesn't help. The answer to fossil price spikes every time a leader blows a fuse? Get off fossil fuels.

The war in Iran shows us another cost of our fossil-fuel economy our reliance on fossil fuels makes us less safe

On The Climate Brink, my latest post is on what the war in Iran tells us about the hidden costs of fossil fuels

Alexa.
Who confirms cabinet nominees?

Journalism needs a civics lesson.

The Shield of the Americas.

Word salad re: small government.

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Is every jury summons experience as inefficient as Baltimore City?
First time serving and I have questions….

I ask this as a privileged white dude who cycles (almost) everywhere.