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In case you missed it live last night, a recording of my presentation for the National Academy of Sciences' public lecture series is now available on YouTube. "Climate Change through the Lens of Increasing Hydroclimate Whiplash"
Climate Change through the Lens of Increasing Hydroclimate Whiplash
The past decade has brought episodes of exceptional and even historically unprecedented warmth, both in California and around the world. But perhaps even more disruptive than rising global average temperatures and record-breaking regional heatwaves have been the pronounced dry and wet extremes exper
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November 7, 2025 at 5:15 AM
In case you missed it live last night, a recording of my presentation for the National Academy of Sciences' public lecture series is now available on YouTube. "Climate Change through the Lens of Increasing Hydroclimate Whiplash"
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@lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com: Trump looking away from a man in need should be the portrait for his second term youtu.be/vtP8GvdDzcE?...
November 7, 2025 at 5:17 AM
@lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com: Trump looking away from a man in need should be the portrait for his second term youtu.be/vtP8GvdDzcE?...
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See some of the highest-scoring images from this year’s panoramic-photo competition:
Winners of the 2025 Epson International Pano Awards
Some of the highest-scoring images from this year’s panoramic-photo competition
bit.ly
November 7, 2025 at 6:15 AM
See some of the highest-scoring images from this year’s panoramic-photo competition:
Just started a new audio book. By Cory Doctorow
youtube.com/watch?v=P1EK...
youtube.com/watch?v=P1EK...
The Ensh*ttification of Everything with Cory Doctorow
YouTube video by Adam Conover
youtube.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Just started a new audio book. By Cory Doctorow
youtube.com/watch?v=P1EK...
youtube.com/watch?v=P1EK...
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ICE officers reportedly shot a 25-year-old named Carlos Jimenez.
He was shot after getting out of his car to tell the agents, who had pulled over a vehicle, that children would soon be gathering in that spot for the school bus.
He was shot after getting out of his car to tell the agents, who had pulled over a vehicle, that children would soon be gathering in that spot for the school bus.
Report: ICE shot a US citizen trying to help kids
According to his lawyer, immigration officers shot Carlos Jimenez after he warned them that children would soon gather for the bus where they had pulled over a vehicle.
www.motherjones.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:30 AM
ICE officers reportedly shot a 25-year-old named Carlos Jimenez.
He was shot after getting out of his car to tell the agents, who had pulled over a vehicle, that children would soon be gathering in that spot for the school bus.
He was shot after getting out of his car to tell the agents, who had pulled over a vehicle, that children would soon be gathering in that spot for the school bus.
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Cheap (not sustainable whistles) and locally-printed ones. Both are VERY loud. Do recommend ear plugs in whistle brigade kits.
November 4, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Cheap (not sustainable whistles) and locally-printed ones. Both are VERY loud. Do recommend ear plugs in whistle brigade kits.
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"The Cory Doctorow Doctrine
Why are big tech products getting worse and worse? The critic has some answers about the origins of “enshittification.” "
Highly recommended!
Why are big tech products getting worse and worse? The critic has some answers about the origins of “enshittification.” "
Highly recommended!
October 31, 2025 at 8:26 PM
"The Cory Doctorow Doctrine
Why are big tech products getting worse and worse? The critic has some answers about the origins of “enshittification.” "
Highly recommended!
Why are big tech products getting worse and worse? The critic has some answers about the origins of “enshittification.” "
Highly recommended!
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Enshittification is a term coined by Cory Doctorow in 2022. In his new book, Doctorow lays out how tech companies have made our lives progressively worse, finds Matthew Sparkes
Has life today been enshittified? Cory Doctorow's new book explores
Enshittification is a term coined by Cory Doctorow in 2022. In his new book, Doctorow lays out how tech companies have made our lives progressively worse, finds Matthew Sparkes
www.newscientist.com
November 2, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Enshittification is a term coined by Cory Doctorow in 2022. In his new book, Doctorow lays out how tech companies have made our lives progressively worse, finds Matthew Sparkes
📚 It’s Banned Books Week. Book bans don’t protect kids — they censor them. Stand with libraries, stand with readers, stand for the #FreedomToRead. ✊ #BannedBooksWeek #StopBookBans Sign the pledge today! via @everylibrary.bsky.social
action.everylibrary.org/bookbanpledge
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Pledge to Protect the Freedom to Read
This Banned Books Week (October 5–11, 2025), join EveryLibrary and We Believe in standing up for every reader’s right to read and access every story.
action.everylibrary.org
October 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
📚 It’s Banned Books Week. Book bans don’t protect kids — they censor them. Stand with libraries, stand with readers, stand for the #FreedomToRead. ✊ #BannedBooksWeek #StopBookBans Sign the pledge today! via @everylibrary.bsky.social
action.everylibrary.org/bookbanpledge
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"Living through the rise of a dictatorship just means inhabiting a space that is gradually shrinking. There’s no point in resisting, not at first. You just make do with whatever breathing room you still have—until you lose that too."
Read Gisela Salim-Peyer:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Read Gisela Salim-Peyer:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Authoritarianism Feels Surprisingly Normal—Until It Doesn’t
Life in Venezuela was deceptively mundane. Then everything collapsed.
www.theatlantic.com
September 27, 2025 at 2:13 PM
"Living through the rise of a dictatorship just means inhabiting a space that is gradually shrinking. There’s no point in resisting, not at first. You just make do with whatever breathing room you still have—until you lose that too."
Read Gisela Salim-Peyer:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Read Gisela Salim-Peyer:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Acclaimed Italian actor Claudia Cardinale, who starred in some of the most celebrated European films of the 1960s and 1970s, has died, AFP reported Tuesday. She was 87.
Claudia Cardinale, star of '8½' and 'The Leopard,' dies at 87
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September 24, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Acclaimed Italian actor Claudia Cardinale, who starred in some of the most celebrated European films of the 1960s and 1970s, has died, AFP reported Tuesday. She was 87.
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Avani Yaltho, this year's high school winner in NPR's Student Podcast Challenge, brought three generations of her family together to talk about their shared history.
A student's winning podcast looks back to a way of life she never knew
Avani Yaltho, this year's high school winner in NPR's Student Podcast Challenge, brought three generations of her family together to talk about their shared history.
n.pr
September 24, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Avani Yaltho, this year's high school winner in NPR's Student Podcast Challenge, brought three generations of her family together to talk about their shared history.
Coyotes are swimming all the way to San Francisco's Angel Island www.sfgate.com/local/articl...
Coyotes are swimming all the way to San Francisco's Angel Island
A recent video captured one of the animals paddling in San Francisco Bay.
www.sfgate.com
September 8, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Coyotes are swimming all the way to San Francisco's Angel Island www.sfgate.com/local/articl...
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The feral cats were skibbidy papping something in the yard.
I went to go chase them away in case I could save whatever bird it was.
Extremely angry bird.
Relocated to neighbors pond area
I went to go chase them away in case I could save whatever bird it was.
Extremely angry bird.
Relocated to neighbors pond area
June 9, 2025 at 9:51 PM
The feral cats were skibbidy papping something in the yard.
I went to go chase them away in case I could save whatever bird it was.
Extremely angry bird.
Relocated to neighbors pond area
I went to go chase them away in case I could save whatever bird it was.
Extremely angry bird.
Relocated to neighbors pond area
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Trump is shutting down Job Corps—kicking vulnerable young people out of housing, job training, and education programs with zero plan.
Don’t tell me this man gives a damn about the working class when he’s gutting the very programs that help folks get on their feet.
Don’t tell me this man gives a damn about the working class when he’s gutting the very programs that help folks get on their feet.
thehill.com
June 4, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Trump is shutting down Job Corps—kicking vulnerable young people out of housing, job training, and education programs with zero plan.
Don’t tell me this man gives a damn about the working class when he’s gutting the very programs that help folks get on their feet.
Don’t tell me this man gives a damn about the working class when he’s gutting the very programs that help folks get on their feet.
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After terminally ill patients tried a last-ditch blood cancer treatment, doctors are talking about a potential cure. https://trib.al/s1XkBk5
From No Hope to a Potential Cure for a Deadly Blood Cancer
Multiple myeloma is considered incurable, but a third of patients in a Johnson & Johnson clinical trial have lived without detectable cancer for years after facing certain death.
trib.al
June 4, 2025 at 12:20 AM
After terminally ill patients tried a last-ditch blood cancer treatment, doctors are talking about a potential cure. https://trib.al/s1XkBk5
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George Floyd should be alive today.
He should be raising his daughter, living his life.
5 years later, we owe him more than thoughts and hashtags.
His daughter said, “My daddy changed the world.”
Let’s stop failing her, and him.
Congress must pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act.
He should be raising his daughter, living his life.
5 years later, we owe him more than thoughts and hashtags.
His daughter said, “My daddy changed the world.”
Let’s stop failing her, and him.
Congress must pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act.
May 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
George Floyd should be alive today.
He should be raising his daughter, living his life.
5 years later, we owe him more than thoughts and hashtags.
His daughter said, “My daddy changed the world.”
Let’s stop failing her, and him.
Congress must pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act.
He should be raising his daughter, living his life.
5 years later, we owe him more than thoughts and hashtags.
His daughter said, “My daddy changed the world.”
Let’s stop failing her, and him.
Congress must pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act.
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HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?
NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country
HASSAN: That's incorrect
NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country
HASSAN: That's incorrect
May 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM
HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?
NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country
HASSAN: That's incorrect
NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country
HASSAN: That's incorrect
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Moody’s Ratings downgraded the United States’ credit rating, as the country’s debt soars and interest rates remain high.
The downgrade, from the highest rating to one notch below, comes as the president’s budget bill suffered a blow in Congress.
The downgrade, from the highest rating to one notch below, comes as the president’s budget bill suffered a blow in Congress.
Moody’s downgrades U.S. credit as Congress considers bill that could add to deficits
Moody’s knocked the government’s credit rating down a notch as debt soars.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 16, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Moody’s Ratings downgraded the United States’ credit rating, as the country’s debt soars and interest rates remain high.
The downgrade, from the highest rating to one notch below, comes as the president’s budget bill suffered a blow in Congress.
The downgrade, from the highest rating to one notch below, comes as the president’s budget bill suffered a blow in Congress.