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NorCal cat helping the environment, loudly talking about climate, following experts so I know what is going on. What is going on?
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This shi* is bananas B*A*N*A*N*A www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kgjk...

For years, I've long said that climate.gov's team of remarkable communicators (& their amazing blogs, which were accessible but did not "dumb down" the science!) was NOAA's best (& most cost effective!) public-facing extreme #weather / #climate education effort to date. This will be a huge loss.

How spring weather affects wildfire season →

Facebook decided to suspend my account because of a piece (below) I wrote Monday about violence which in no way advocates for it (but does point out who is violent in the current ruckus).

Fun fact: they're the "southern" Baptist because they split from the baptist church. The Southern Baptists wanted slavery.

More scenes from the “big insurrection” in Los Angeles

The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.

Every time I remember Greta Thunberg exists, every time I see how young she is, how many battles she has become embroiled in, how completely reasonable and fair the things are says are, I think of how fucked her media treatment has been. The way people comment on her alone should have ended careers.

in my city which is apparently in a state of extended military occupation due to extreme and widespread unrest a really kind sanitation worker saw me sitting out front with my kids and gave them free toy trash cans and we talked about recycling

Deploying the military on U.S. soil against Americans was on page 555 of Project 2025. This was always their plan, and people voted for it anyway. America failed an open book test.

If you're a Marine or other service member being mobilized to Los Angeles and you'd like to apply for conscientious objector status, call the GI Rights Hotline to get some guidance on your options: 1-877-447-4487

If you’re feeling overwhelmed, stop for a moment and watch this little roadrunner utterly ecstatic to show his mama the treasure he found 🥹🥹🥹

The thing is, when there is no penalty for lying to Congress, serial liars are going to lie to Congress.

3 reasons why to pay attention to tropical weather even at the beginning of the driest time of year for us. @nbcbayarea #surf #fireweather

Elon Musk perfectly laying out the case against privatization in a single tweet

Look what bloomed overnight! The native leopard lily I bought at the plant sale I wasn't going to go to. Silly me

Excited to learn that we all get to become experts in the National Guard's authorizing statutes

Hell of a photo

Boom! 💥Good Night and Good Luck was exactly what I needed to watch this afternoon.

Must watch tv 'Good Night, and Good Luck' brings its knock-out punch to CNN from Broadway www.npr.org/2025/06/06/n...

"less lethal munitions" is a hell of a term

This stuff really pisses off vets.

“This is one way to understand the steady increase in fossil fuel-enhanced weather disasters: these floods, fires, heat waves, and intensifying storms are the Bank of Nature’s repo men coming to collect on that debt — “repossessing” our homes, our cars, our towns, even our very lives.”

Thing is, if they occur, these cuts are going to blow a giant hole in the CSU-UC opportunity machine for CA’s (and many other state’s) young people. They would be anti-future, anti-working families, anti-young people. That is what this will do. I truly hope the President doesn’t do it.

The transfer of a sacred site to a copper mine is delayed once again #Climate

"It's a scary thought to think our society is at the point that we are tracking homeless people with drones." One day, we will come to our senses and instead provide universal basic income and housing, but until then, take a good look at our dystopia.

Elder care is a shit show and trying to manage it from thousands of miles away is worse particularly when i'm in CA and they're in AL. Helpful suggestions from friends and family in blue states don't apply to the sitch there

Day39 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution The concept of an armored protozoan you can see with the naked eye may be unsettling, but the fusilinids can't hurt our H. sapiens! #foramfriday #fossilfriday 🧪

Daily drawing cures most ailments. I restarted at the end of May. #dailydrawing #charcoaldrawing #sktechpad #martincoxstudio

Meanwhile, in shorter term, there is much higher confidence in a major heatwave across the Pacific Northwest interior and Great Basin (extending into interior NorCal) next week (Jun ~8-10). A significant uptick in fire activity is possible during this period. #CAwx #ORwx #WAwx

Bluesky right now:

NPR: This afternoon, Trump threatened to cancel all of Musk’s government contracts, Steve Bannon called for the deportation of Musk, and Musk said Trump is in the Epstein files and called for Trump’s impeachment. 😂🤡😂 One has all our private data and the other has the nuclear launch codes. AYFKM?

If this was Biden, media would be going crazy saying he has no clue what is going on.

I was talking about this with my students yesterday—throughout Western Europe, Nazism is treated in public spaces and memorials as a nightmare, as horror that must never be repeated. If slavery and Jim Crow received the same commemoration in the US, we'd be a very different country.

I got no popcorn left at this point.

There’s almost nothing cooler than seeing a massive strangler fig in a primary rainforest. Strangler figs can be a number of species of Ficus; they germinate on other trees up in the canopy, then grow downward and eventually root. If the host tree dies, it leaves a hollow scaffolding like this. 🌿

Does it seem like they’ve been more fires lately? Here’s a look at where things stand to start the month of June.

In case you missed it yesterday: this "double-header" session-- focused on both recent federal developments regarding #weather, #climate, and #disaster response--plus the (alarming) fire season outlook for the Western U.S. and Canada--was recorded as is available at the link below. #CAfire #CAwater

Check out our new white paper that (for the first time) systematically counts the wildland fire workforce: What Color is your Nomex? by Abigail Varner et al. Varner provides interesting insights into growing privatization of the workforce in the US. drive.google.com/file/d/1RcRO...

Near surface smoke forecast for the CONUS area. Model run: 20250604T22:00 UTC Data from NOAA's HRRR CONUS (https://rapidrefresh.noaa.gov/hrrr/) Note that this product comes with absolutely no guarantee of availability, accuracy or completeness. #Wildfires #Smoke #Manitoba #AirQuality

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Slow-moving thunderstorms present a flash flood threat with rainfall rates up to 1.5 in/hr in Southern California, Southern Nevada and Northwestern Arizona this afternoon. Local accumulations of 2-3" are possible, according to the Weather Prediction Center. www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/metwatch/met...

In the face of unprecedented attacks on science in America, have at least the courage of a South Florida weatherman.