Murphy Woodhouse
@murphywoodhouse.bsky.social
Dweller of deserts, high and low. Bike-based human. Mountain West News Bureau reporter at https://bsky.app/profile/boisestatepublicradio.org. Tell me something you think the public should know about wildfire: tinyurl.com/44kvjaah
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Mountain West News Bureau Homeowners Insurance Resources
The Mountain West News Bureau and Boise State Public Radio have been covering the growing homeowners insurance crisis in Idaho and across the region for well over a year. Here you’ll find interactive ...
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I worked with my @boisestatepublicradio.org colleague @katiekloppen.bsky.social to publish interactive maps of the latest Idaho homeowners insurance data, along with a number of other resources. It’s a hard problem, but seeing the scale of it is a start. www.boisestatepublicradio.org/mountain-wes...
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Important scoop from @haleaziz.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 14, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Important scoop from @haleaziz.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
December 14, 2025 at 9:49 PM
It will keep happening until we change our relationship with cars. Fewer, slower and smaller cars = safer.
December 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
It will keep happening until we change our relationship with cars. Fewer, slower and smaller cars = safer.
Hello #wildfire Bluesky! I would love some recommendations for foundational/classic/indispensable #fireecology books or papers. @afe-fireecology.bsky.social @amonthei.bsky.social @grumpyunclesean.bsky.social @firebobbc.bsky.social @jdaldern.bsky.social @mhurteau.bsky.social @dhhammond.bsky.social
December 13, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Hello #wildfire Bluesky! I would love some recommendations for foundational/classic/indispensable #fireecology books or papers. @afe-fireecology.bsky.social @amonthei.bsky.social @grumpyunclesean.bsky.social @firebobbc.bsky.social @jdaldern.bsky.social @mhurteau.bsky.social @dhhammond.bsky.social
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Ramirez to Noem: "You lied on the record and you lied to members of this committee. You violated court orders by not turning around deportation flights bound for El Salvador where we know that hundreds of people under your leadership reported they were raped, beaten, and nearly died."
December 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Ramirez to Noem: "You lied on the record and you lied to members of this committee. You violated court orders by not turning around deportation flights bound for El Salvador where we know that hundreds of people under your leadership reported they were raped, beaten, and nearly died."
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anyone have suggestions for fact checkers for non-fiction books in canada?
December 12, 2025 at 11:05 PM
anyone have suggestions for fact checkers for non-fiction books in canada?
Longtime Boise people, how rare is it for bogus to be this bare in mid December? Potentially disastrous season? Not that unusual?
December 12, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Longtime Boise people, how rare is it for bogus to be this bare in mid December? Potentially disastrous season? Not that unusual?
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ProPublica is hiring a copy editor!
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job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...
December 12, 2025 at 10:29 PM
ProPublica is hiring a copy editor!
job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...
job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...
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Under the previously undisclosed program, TSA provides a list to ICE of travelers who will be coming through airports. ICE can then match the list against its own database of people subject to deportation and send agents to the airport to detain those people. nyti.ms/4oUnl4J
December 12, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Under the previously undisclosed program, TSA provides a list to ICE of travelers who will be coming through airports. ICE can then match the list against its own database of people subject to deportation and send agents to the airport to detain those people. nyti.ms/4oUnl4J
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Shameful that @opb.org has 25 year employees having trouble making ends meet, while leadership make multiple six-figure salaries. How is this acceptable?
Allison shares her story for our “what our audience doesn’t know” series.
"In my time at OPB, my small, annual "merit" increases have rarely even covered the rate of inflation or other increases in cost of living. How they relate to the "merit" of my work is a mystery." -Allison Frost OPB producer
"In my time at OPB, my small, annual "merit" increases have rarely even covered the rate of inflation or other increases in cost of living. How they relate to the "merit" of my work is a mystery." -Allison Frost OPB producer
December 12, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Shameful that @opb.org has 25 year employees having trouble making ends meet, while leadership make multiple six-figure salaries. How is this acceptable?
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Newly Unsealed Batch Of Epstein Estate Photos Contains Rare Holographic Dershowitz
December 12, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Newly Unsealed Batch Of Epstein Estate Photos Contains Rare Holographic Dershowitz
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One of the many reasons I roll my eyes these days at all these silicon valley startups raising VC for vaporware products mixing AI and drones that are 'going to solve Wildland firefighting'.
No, they won't.
No, they won't.
December 12, 2025 at 8:22 PM
One of the many reasons I roll my eyes these days at all these silicon valley startups raising VC for vaporware products mixing AI and drones that are 'going to solve Wildland firefighting'.
No, they won't.
No, they won't.
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We had more resources on that one fire than any region has total these days and people thought we weren't doing enough... We were getting so much shit from the public...
Until you see these scorched earth mega fires up close, you just don't have context to understand how unstoppable they are.
Until you see these scorched earth mega fires up close, you just don't have context to understand how unstoppable they are.
December 12, 2025 at 8:22 PM
We had more resources on that one fire than any region has total these days and people thought we weren't doing enough... We were getting so much shit from the public...
Until you see these scorched earth mega fires up close, you just don't have context to understand how unstoppable they are.
Until you see these scorched earth mega fires up close, you just don't have context to understand how unstoppable they are.
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There have been numerous fires in Central Idaho over the past 30 years that 'all the kings horses and all the kings men' couldn't stop...
Clear Creek (2000) was my first. Had almost 10k people assigned, #1 priority in the nation, and it was still putting up 8 mile runs.
#IdahoFire
Clear Creek (2000) was my first. Had almost 10k people assigned, #1 priority in the nation, and it was still putting up 8 mile runs.
#IdahoFire
An important idea I've heard from @amonthei.bsky.social is "unsuppressability." Many are possessed of the VERY mistaken notion that all wildfires CAN BE suppressed. But 4 a select few, there is no technology on Earth that can stop them. Humility is part of the path out of the wildfire crisis.
December 12, 2025 at 8:22 PM
There have been numerous fires in Central Idaho over the past 30 years that 'all the kings horses and all the kings men' couldn't stop...
Clear Creek (2000) was my first. Had almost 10k people assigned, #1 priority in the nation, and it was still putting up 8 mile runs.
#IdahoFire
Clear Creek (2000) was my first. Had almost 10k people assigned, #1 priority in the nation, and it was still putting up 8 mile runs.
#IdahoFire
An important idea I've heard from @amonthei.bsky.social is "unsuppressability." Many are possessed of the VERY mistaken notion that all wildfires CAN BE suppressed. But 4 a select few, there is no technology on Earth that can stop them. Humility is part of the path out of the wildfire crisis.
December 12, 2025 at 7:20 PM
An important idea I've heard from @amonthei.bsky.social is "unsuppressability." Many are possessed of the VERY mistaken notion that all wildfires CAN BE suppressed. But 4 a select few, there is no technology on Earth that can stop them. Humility is part of the path out of the wildfire crisis.
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Long, long, long ancestral practice. It's baked in the DNA at this point.
how do women not die of rage aneurysms every single day
December 11, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Long, long, long ancestral practice. It's baked in the DNA at this point.
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i think a (perhaps underappreciated) aspect of this whole situation is the extent to which every elite profession is filled with people who excel at drawing attention and want to be famous more than they want to do the actual job
December 11, 2025 at 2:18 PM
i think a (perhaps underappreciated) aspect of this whole situation is the extent to which every elite profession is filled with people who excel at drawing attention and want to be famous more than they want to do the actual job
Chief Fennessy is an interesting hire. He has REAL DEAL fire experience, including serious time and leadership roles on Type 1 wildland hand crews, along with decades w/ high-wildfire structure depts. At a minimum, he'll have the respect of the grunts. www.boisestatepublicradio.org/politics-gov...
Orange County Fire Chief picked as first head of U.S. Wildland Fire Service
Brian Fennessy has nearly 50 years of fire experience, which began in the late 1970s on elite federal hotshot crews and other wildfire teams.
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December 12, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Chief Fennessy is an interesting hire. He has REAL DEAL fire experience, including serious time and leadership roles on Type 1 wildland hand crews, along with decades w/ high-wildfire structure depts. At a minimum, he'll have the respect of the grunts. www.boisestatepublicradio.org/politics-gov...
So what's our name for this new season we seem to have created here in Boise with climate change? The Dog Days of Winter?
December 11, 2025 at 7:21 PM
So what's our name for this new season we seem to have created here in Boise with climate change? The Dog Days of Winter?
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the defensiveness and incredulity of a good chunk of the commentary class toward arguments about trump’s racism is, imho, downstream of the same impulse behind the endless trump voter safaris and self-flagellation about being out of touch with the heartland
Thinking back to how people were "hysterical" for calling trump white supremacist and now he's doing nordic theory on the campaign trail
December 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
the defensiveness and incredulity of a good chunk of the commentary class toward arguments about trump’s racism is, imho, downstream of the same impulse behind the endless trump voter safaris and self-flagellation about being out of touch with the heartland
Probably fine, don’t look up
December 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Probably fine, don’t look up
"The only long-term solution to preserve an insurable future is to transition from fossil fuels and other greenhouse-gas-emitting industries." -homeowners insurance guru Dave Jones
The insurance crisis is just one many climate crises. yalelawjournal.org/essay/the-un...
The insurance crisis is just one many climate crises. yalelawjournal.org/essay/the-un...
The Uninsurable Future: The Climate Threat to Property Insurance, and How to Stop It | Yale Law Journal
Property insurance availability is threatened by climate change. Deregulating insurance markets is not the solution. Stopping insurers’ financial...
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December 9, 2025 at 10:12 PM
"The only long-term solution to preserve an insurable future is to transition from fossil fuels and other greenhouse-gas-emitting industries." -homeowners insurance guru Dave Jones
The insurance crisis is just one many climate crises. yalelawjournal.org/essay/the-un...
The insurance crisis is just one many climate crises. yalelawjournal.org/essay/the-un...
Just a guy on a bike feeling smug waiting for the other people in his party to find parking.
December 7, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Just a guy on a bike feeling smug waiting for the other people in his party to find parking.
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Strong kicker casting doubt on claims that ICE agents were harmed at the taco shop where they maced Rep Grijalva:
“DHS officials have not identified any officers who were injured, nor provided any information about injuries — but one of them was seen tripping and falling down.”
“DHS officials have not identified any officers who were injured, nor provided any information about injuries — but one of them was seen tripping and falling down.”
Read @pmingram.tucsonsentinel.com's story about use of force by HSI agents at Taco Giro today. He got sprayed and managed to file a story that describes the use-of-force and provides some details about the federal operation throughout Southern Arizona today. www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report...
DHS agents pepper-spray Rep. Grijalva, Sentinel reporter during protest sparked by Tucson raid
An investigation into a Tucson restaurant chain turned chaotic on Wednesday morning as agents with the Department of Homeland Security used tear gas, pepper balls and smoke grenades against protestors...
www.tucsonsentinel.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Strong kicker casting doubt on claims that ICE agents were harmed at the taco shop where they maced Rep Grijalva:
“DHS officials have not identified any officers who were injured, nor provided any information about injuries — but one of them was seen tripping and falling down.”
“DHS officials have not identified any officers who were injured, nor provided any information about injuries — but one of them was seen tripping and falling down.”