Called the sheriff on someone taking a photo on a public road. “This was sabotage. This was a hit.”

mavensnotebook.com/2025/10/14/s...

So funny how the Republican Party pretends to be anti-establishment when all their takes are lifted from Mr. Burns.

The water board's Statewide Restoration General Order is major progress on cutting green tape!

www.ppic.org/blog/environ...

Modern China reminds me of Victorian England - an aristocratic hierarchy trying to manage a capitalist economy while keeping democracy at bay. Was wondering if anyone else sees it that way and found this gem.

www.ft.com/content/f160...

Wildlife science is a big one for this too. Paying for work experience and working for free or for a small weekly stipend is distressingly common. Many entry level paid jobs are barely living wage

Very excited that California's Department of Water Resources is using out product (GRAT) for watershed planning.

Explains why everybody thought we live on a turtle

Motherfucking wind farms…

Usually I prefer Star Trek, but there is one thing Star Wars does better. Aliens aren’t just humans with eyebrow ridges. Aliens are puppets. Or at least humans in cloaks/fur suits. And you gotta have strange little robots running around everywhere. Star Wars has better aliens and better robots.

Whisteblower jailed despite committing no crime

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/e...

You can spend time arguing over the difference between shutting down FEMA & rebranding it but the reality is that the Trump admin has already dismantled FEMA to the point that it could not efficiently respond to a relatively small disaster in a state with a relatively large capacity EM system.

"Pakistan wasn’t expecting to do this for at least 10 or 20 years. But Global South countries can be leaders of the energy transition."

e360.yale.edu/features/pak...

I spoke with three high school classmates of Zohran Mamdani who told me on the record that they witnessed him jumping the turnstiles to get on the subway.

If you can't beat 'em, have your dog eat 'em? A Chicago-based company is using invasive silver carp from the Mississippi River to make dog treats abc7chicago.com/post/chicago...

Deep dive into the modern (!) world of dowsing.

www.sfgate.com/northcoast/a...

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USA hurricane forecasting capabilities diminished because cuts to an important data source stream.

I guess we will see how it goes this summer.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

They've stopped giving even flimsy justification for the wholesale destruction of our critical infrastructure

thinc.blog/2025/06/26/p...

“The group estimated that reducing the operating budget by $900 million, as the Trump administration wants to do, would require closing 350 of the 433 parks, monuments, historic sites and other locations overseen by the Park Service… we would be witnessing the dismantling of a century-old system”

If you live in California, call your rep to suppor the PFAS ban!

capitolweekly.net/california-m...

You're too late, internet stranger! I’ve already depicted you as saying "this sucks actually" and the thing you're talking about as the coolest thing ever.

I just created a quick map depicting which portions of the United States are now (as of today) or will imminently be (by early June) without 24/7 local National Weather Service coverage (per Washington Post reporting). #CAwx #CAfire #CAwater #ORwx #AKwx #WYwx #KSwx