ICYMI, state transmission authority may happen in #waleg this year (i.e., today or tomorrow), after all!
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ICYMI, state transmission authority may happen in #waleg this year (i.e., today or tomorrow), after all!
www.seattletimes.com/opinion/edit...
This is what ecocide looks like.
They're going to poison a city with 17 million people
Reuters Exclusive
"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."
"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the βMiddle East."
Come for the great explainer on a better voting system.
Stay for the satisfying clatter of animated marbles.
New @sightline.org report w/ @emilymoore.bsky.social!π₯ Policy tools to β¬οΈ #wildfire risk in the PNW: steer development away from risky areas, strengthen building codes, rebuild safer post-disaster, disclose hazard to renters/buyers & price insurance accurately. www.sightline.org/fire-hazard-...
People are pissed off about the rising cost of home insurance, understand that climate change-driven extreme weather disasters are making things more expensive, and support holding Big Oil accountable for those costs rather than everyday Americans. climateintegrity.org/news/view/ha...
"I had to punch that guy because I could tell he was going to hit me back once we jumped him" is just a description of jumping a guy
"There was no imminent threat from Iran to the United States before the bombing campaign, said Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, the top Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, on exiting a classified briefing on the war."
Reminder that *projections* about AI data centers causing sky-high electricity demand are not the same as AI data centers *already* having driven up electricity demand.
(Yes there are hot spots where the latter has actually happened, but not yet nationwide)
www.canarymedia.com/articles/dat...
Let's do for wildfires what weβve done for floods: stopping sprawl to risky areas, retrofitting homes to withstand fire, and rebuilding in places less likely to burn.
@rpelai.bsky.social @emilymoore.bsky.social
Today should be your 38th birthday.. When you lose your son you lose more than a child you lose a piece of your heart and your joy. Life is forever altered, and nothing can ever fill that space. Yet in my soul, he remains, my precious boy, forever loved. His laughter, his smile, and his love are woven into who I am. My love for him will never fade. Yor are my pride and my joy - you've made a change that cannot be broken..
Alex's mom on his 38th birthday.
This is one of the videos the NYT has verified and links to in their reporting.
NYT: "Video verified by [NYT] showed ... rescuers digging through the rubble with building cranes and shovels, and piles of bloodied, dusty backpacks."
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/w...
I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministryβs casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable.
Biden himself said they were fabricated!
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
During the U.S. and Israel attack in Iran on Saturday, dozens of people, most of them likely children, were killed when a strike hit a girlsβ elementary school in Minab and a high school in Tehran, according to Iranian health officials, state media and a human rights group.
The article does note this, to be clear! But the headline obscures them.
Important to note that many of these are unlikely to be built though. 100 GW in development sounds more certain than it is.
"Two-thirds of the projects tracked worldwide by the Global Energy Monitor do not yet have turbine manufacturers attached to them."
They dropped off Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a blind refugee who didn't speak English, at a CLOSED Tim Hortons.
5 miles away from his home.
He never made it.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
I first thought "there aren't words" when I first saw this story. but there are
It actually got harder to build data centers in 2025: www.latimes.com/business/sto...
Oh that's great I look forward to reading. Unfortunately in WA we still don't have anything that resembles advanced planning for refinery closures.
Yes good point. That is another of the big challenges to any sort of widespread managed retreat from WF hazard zones.
Yeah... You probably saw we roughly estimated the cost of buying out 30% of high hazard properties in the PNW. It would be at least $15B, far more than FEMA has ever spent to buy-out flood prone properties. I agree this won't work at any type of scale.
Thanks for your engagement. In terms of rebuilding in high hazard areas, it seems we need to at least somehow make it easier for people to relocate elsewhere if they want to. So many people are tied down to their properties by a mortgage or other circumstances.
Interesting. It still seems to me it'd be better to not rebuild in such high risk places, though that's a hard pill to swallow. We just put out a new @sightline.org report making the case for some of these less popular ideas in the PNW.
www.sightline.org/fire-hazard-...
The Northwest is growing into wildfire areas. In fact, high-hazard regions are where the population is growing *fastest.*
As of 2023, almost 1.6m people in the NW lived in wildfire hazard areas, an 8% increase since 2018.
Timely reading given this winterβs record snow drought. β¬οΈ
Sprawl isnβt just dangerous for the high wildfire risk, but it *actively causes* wildfires.
This is why the Growth Management Act is so essential, and why we need to do more to expand and grow our cities, not our rural tract subdivisions.
My colleague @rpelai.bsky.social and I are out with a new @sightline.org report on wildfires. The PNW is continuing to expand into high-hazard areas, risky choices that all of us (no matter where we live) are paying for in one way or another.
www.sightline.org/fire-hazard-...
