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I still believe in the Replacements and the Bill of Rights
“Last year was a bonkers, crazy warming year—that's the technical term,” Abraham joked to me. “The peer-reviewed scientific term is ‘bonkers’.”
www.wired.com/story/the-oc...
www.wired.com/story/the-oc...
The Oceans Just Keep Getting Hotter
For the eighth year in a row, the world’s oceans absorbed a record-breaking amount of heat in 2025. It was equivalent to the energy it would take to boil 2 billion Olympic swimming pools.
www.wired.com
January 10, 2026 at 7:10 PM
“Last year was a bonkers, crazy warming year—that's the technical term,” Abraham joked to me. “The peer-reviewed scientific term is ‘bonkers’.”
www.wired.com/story/the-oc...
www.wired.com/story/the-oc...
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Copy editors and all other headline writers should have bylines so people can scream at whoever actually wrote the headline instead of the reporter(s) who wrote the story
January 10, 2026 at 4:59 PM
Copy editors and all other headline writers should have bylines so people can scream at whoever actually wrote the headline instead of the reporter(s) who wrote the story
On repeat this morning - isolated vocal track for Under Pressure. So so good.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMQb...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMQb...
Under Pressure (A-Capella) - Only Vocals
YouTube video by MisteRhapsody
www.youtube.com
January 9, 2026 at 7:40 PM
On repeat this morning - isolated vocal track for Under Pressure. So so good.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMQb...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMQb...
Congrats to Chuck and TNC California. DFW Director is one of the hardest jobs in state government and Chuck always managed it with a strong and steady hand. TNC is a good fit for him, and vice versa.
Big shakeup: The head of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife is stepping down. Chuck Bonham is the longest-serving director of the agency that's at the center of heated debates over how to manage salmon and wolves. www.latimes.com/environment/...
California's longest-tenured wildlife department chief steps down after 15 years
Charlton "Chuck" Bonham is leaving the top post at the California Department of Fish and Wildlife at the end of the month to join the Nature Conservancy. He departs as the state contends with mounting...
www.latimes.com
January 5, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Congrats to Chuck and TNC California. DFW Director is one of the hardest jobs in state government and Chuck always managed it with a strong and steady hand. TNC is a good fit for him, and vice versa.
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The rate of global mean sea level rise has increased from ~2.1 mm/year in 1993 to ~4.5 mm/year in 2023. www.nature.com/articles/s43...
The rate of global sea level rise doubled during the past three decades - Communications Earth & Environment
Global mean sea level rise amounted to 4.5 mm per year as a result of warming oceans and melting land ice, more than twice the rate of 2.1 mm/year observed at the start of satellite data in 1993, base...
www.nature.com
January 3, 2026 at 9:18 PM
The rate of global mean sea level rise has increased from ~2.1 mm/year in 1993 to ~4.5 mm/year in 2023. www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Yo La Tengo and Luna together last night. They played ‘till midnight and left us with a great poster. Good evening and welcome to the Fillmore
December 30, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Yo La Tengo and Luna together last night. They played ‘till midnight and left us with a great poster. Good evening and welcome to the Fillmore
Someone asked for 90s records
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www.teenbeat.net/images/items...
December 29, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Someone asked for 90s records
www.teenbeat.net/images/items...
www.teenbeat.net/images/items...
Here are 81 songs I loved in 2025.
This playlist is mostly #indiemusic. Jazz & country/adjacent music go on other lists. Shoutout to #KEXP, #MPR The Current, #NPRMusic, and others who turned me on. #musicsky #bestof2025 Tidal & Spotify playlists in comments ->
This playlist is mostly #indiemusic. Jazz & country/adjacent music go on other lists. Shoutout to #KEXP, #MPR The Current, #NPRMusic, and others who turned me on. #musicsky #bestof2025 Tidal & Spotify playlists in comments ->
![Currents p3
Yalla Miku - Maximum Self-Care - Radio Edit
Chinese American Bear - Forever Lover (永远的爱人)
Dry Cleaning - Hit My Head All Day
Ecca Vandal - MOLLY
Ratboys - Anywhere
Packaging,cindygod - Running Through the Airport (feat. cindygod)
Sampa the Great,Mwanje - Can't Hold Us [Feat. Mwanjé]
bar italia - Cowbella
Cate Le Bon - Heaven Is No Feeling
SPELLLING - Portrait of My Heart
Bob Mould - Here We Go Crazy
Say She She - Cut & Rewind
Water From Your Eyes - Playing Classics
Lael Neale - I Am The River
Sudan Archives - DEAD
Geese - Au Pays du Cocaine
Dark Chisme - Desire My Soul
ROSALÍA,Björk,Yves Tumor - Berghain
Just Mustard - WE WERE JUST HERE
World News - Everything Is Coming up Roses
Kerala Dust - How The Light Gets In
Fcukers - I Like It Like That
The Hellp - Here I Am
Jay Som,Hayley Williams - Past Lives - feat. Hayley Williams
SPRINTS - Better](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kj74dvn4rcrxiqm64nuepymb/bafkreiehzkyijo5yxqwzkuh43qtj2wcfzuhax33lposejs2oa2i3iihpm4@jpeg)
December 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Here are 81 songs I loved in 2025.
This playlist is mostly #indiemusic. Jazz & country/adjacent music go on other lists. Shoutout to #KEXP, #MPR The Current, #NPRMusic, and others who turned me on. #musicsky #bestof2025 Tidal & Spotify playlists in comments ->
This playlist is mostly #indiemusic. Jazz & country/adjacent music go on other lists. Shoutout to #KEXP, #MPR The Current, #NPRMusic, and others who turned me on. #musicsky #bestof2025 Tidal & Spotify playlists in comments ->
Outdoor Life with a good explanation of what's at stake in the Clean Water Act rule making ->
www.outdoorlife.com/opinion/epa-...
www.outdoorlife.com/opinion/epa-...
'This Would Have Serious, Real-World Impacts.' Why the EPA's Rule Change on Water Protections Would Be a Disaster for Fish and Wildlife
Conservationists are sounding the alarm about the EPA's proposal to strip Clean Water Act protections from many of our streams and wetlands.
www.outdoorlife.com
December 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Outdoor Life with a good explanation of what's at stake in the Clean Water Act rule making ->
www.outdoorlife.com/opinion/epa-...
www.outdoorlife.com/opinion/epa-...
San Francisco just after dark. (Didn’t post earlier.) Pano view from Grandview Park toward downtown. I could see UCSF Parnassus and some car headlights.
December 21, 2025 at 6:25 AM
San Francisco just after dark. (Didn’t post earlier.) Pano view from Grandview Park toward downtown. I could see UCSF Parnassus and some car headlights.
Funny how the people who talk most about defending “Western Civilization“ also hate Europe and its most admirable ideas, like the universal rights of humankind. They’d keep the imperialism and ditch the Magna Carta
December 20, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Funny how the people who talk most about defending “Western Civilization“ also hate Europe and its most admirable ideas, like the universal rights of humankind. They’d keep the imperialism and ditch the Magna Carta
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An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth
December 17, 2025 at 2:52 AM
An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth
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Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
harpers.org/archive/1941...
Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson
harpers.org
October 1, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
harpers.org/archive/1941...
I’ll bet there’s an even dumber reason
Fox News’ Chief National Security Correspondent. We are about to go to war for oil, while citing a lie as justification. Again.
December 13, 2025 at 9:12 PM
I’ll bet there’s an even dumber reason
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In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites.
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
ICE Holding Chinese Man Who Documented Uyghur Camps
Heng Guan is awaiting an immigration hearing on Monday that could lead to his removal from the U.S. and ultimately land him back in China, according to his lawyer and a New York-based activist group.
www.wsj.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites.
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
One of my pet theories is that the 2000 recount era is the Rosetta Stone for 21st Century American politics. I wrote about it today.
(Trigger warning: apologies if this is traumatic for any of my friends. I still have nightmares about election night.)
open.substack.com/pub/brianjay...
(Trigger warning: apologies if this is traumatic for any of my friends. I still have nightmares about election night.)
open.substack.com/pub/brianjay...
December 13, 2025 at 1:51 AM
One of my pet theories is that the 2000 recount era is the Rosetta Stone for 21st Century American politics. I wrote about it today.
(Trigger warning: apologies if this is traumatic for any of my friends. I still have nightmares about election night.)
open.substack.com/pub/brianjay...
(Trigger warning: apologies if this is traumatic for any of my friends. I still have nightmares about election night.)
open.substack.com/pub/brianjay...
“Mr President, can you tell us more about that amazing cognitive test? It sounds *very* impressive.”
I guess the president just announced he recently took his latest in a series of cognitive tests, this one in front of a room full of medical personnel observing him?
December 10, 2025 at 7:41 AM
“Mr President, can you tell us more about that amazing cognitive test? It sounds *very* impressive.”
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It appears that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has, within the past week, scrubbed a large amount of climate change content from its official website, as well as *removed human-caused warming* from the discussion on its "causes of climate change" page.
December 8, 2025 at 5:50 PM
It appears that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has, within the past week, scrubbed a large amount of climate change content from its official website, as well as *removed human-caused warming* from the discussion on its "causes of climate change" page.
Has anyone calculated the cost per deported criminal?
December 4, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Has anyone calculated the cost per deported criminal?
This is a well-reported article describing a complicated situation that a lot of good people are working to resolve ->
With PG&E advancing plans to remove Scott Dam, Mendocino County's Potter Valley faces critical water storage challenges. Officials are exploring new options, from storage ponds to groundwater recharge, to sustain the region's $35M agricultural output. #cawater www.pressdemocrat.com/2025/11/28/w...
Water storage options floated for Mendocino County’s Potter Valley as Pacific Gas and Electric advances dam removal
Officials in Mendocino and Sonoma counties have been working on backup storage options to sustain Potter Valley’s farm economy once Pacific Gas and Electric Co. gets federal approval to tear …
www.pressdemocrat.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:23 PM
This is a well-reported article describing a complicated situation that a lot of good people are working to resolve ->
“and their descendants“ … FFS
this is just gutter racism
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 5:59 PM
“and their descendants“ … FFS
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Milestone in the revitalization of Battle Creek was achieved through River Partners’ acquisition of Battle Creek Ranch in Tehama County, marking a concrete step toward restoring one of California’s most important salmon-bearing waterways #cawater mavensnotebook.com/2025/11/21/p...
PRESS RELEASE: Landmark Battle Creek revitalization launches with acquisition of historic Tehama County Ranch
Press release from River Partners Today, a major milestone in the revitalization of Battle Creek was achieved through River Partners’ acquisition of the historic 1,721-acre Battle Creek Ranch in Teham...
mavensnotebook.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Milestone in the revitalization of Battle Creek was achieved through River Partners’ acquisition of Battle Creek Ranch in Tehama County, marking a concrete step toward restoring one of California’s most important salmon-bearing waterways #cawater mavensnotebook.com/2025/11/21/p...
Welcome focus on “we” and “resolve”
“that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom”
“that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom”
"Amid the most divisive period in American history, Lincoln’s pronouns were unifying....Great leaders do not shrink the circle of citizenship; they widen it. They remind us that the first word of our Constitution—We—is both promise and responsibility."
‘The Great Task Remaining Before Us’: Lincoln’s Vision at Gettysburg
On the anniversary of his address, a reminder that democracy requires dedication.
www.thebulwark.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Welcome focus on “we” and “resolve”
“that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom”
“that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom”