Opinion | ‘Easily the Worst President in U.S. History’

Yep 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...

Senate Votes to Allow Mining Near Minnesota Wilderness

Boundary Waters mining ban overturned in senate vote (50-49). Tillis and Collins join democrats, Hawley does not vote. A win for Twin Metals Minnesota, subsidiary of Chilean mining co Antofagasta. A big mistake.
Gift 🎁 article. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/c...

Opinion | I Almost Never Predict Supreme Court Outcomes. Trump Will Lose This Case.

Linda Greenhouse on Temporary Protected Status for Haitians and Syrians. Pending before SCOTUS.
Springfield, Ohio.
Gift article 🎁
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/o...

Gift 🎁 article
Haberman & Swan reporting the leaks of Vance & Rubio on how the US finds itself @ war w Iran. None of the accepted aspects of leadership will be found here. All of this enabled by Congress & by the reporters themselves.
Read and weep.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/u...

A New Geopolitical Reality Is Here America’s adversaries are uniting as its own coalition falls apart.

Two week cease fire announced in Iran war: the changing landscape that has crystallized over the past month.
Gift 🎁 article
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Dawn Staley isn’t here for the drama. She’s here to protect the game (Gift Article) After a heated exchange with UConn's Geno Auriemma, Staley refocused and put women's basketball first.

Gift 🎁 article
Addresses recent incident in Coach Staley's work life.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/717...

Why millions of seniors have suddenly lost health care coverage Elderly people are forced to hunt for options when Medicare Advantage plans withdraw from unprofitable markets.

Gift article
wapo.st/4rT1XOB

Dawn Staley is a Dolly-like figure.
Gift article. Have a nice day 😊
www.nytimes.com/athletic/713...

In Other Journals Editors’ selections from the current scientific literature

Editor's choice: the search for life on Mars must avoid contamination by life transported from Earth. Bischof et al. investigate the micro-organisms on and within spacecraft that landed on Mars. How long can they survive on the red planet? 🧪☄️🔭 #planetsci
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Well, it's not the universal declaration of human rights...
#unitednations
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights by Otávio Roth
artsandculture.google.com/story/the-un...

Map, from polarwx.com, of ECMWF model's forecast for 500mb heights later this week and their rank relative to the historical record for March over North America. A giant pink blob is visible over western North America, indicating an absurdly large area of record-breaking 500mb GPH.

The seasonal anomalousness, as well sheer spatial extent, of upcoming record-shattering Western U.S. heatwave is genuinely startling. This will be associated with, by far, the strongest ridge ever observed during (at least) any Nov-Mar month. #CAwx #AZwx #NMwx #NVwx #UTwx #COwx

An absolutely stunning view of a large haboob sweeping across Texas.

A view along US Route 550 near Silverton, Colorado.

#Scape #ForestFriday #Scenery #Landscape #RoadTrip #Colorado

Acceleration hotspots of North American birds’ decline are associated with agriculture Human activities might have accelerated declines of population abundance, but this acceleration remains underexplored. Using 1033 North American Breeding Bird Survey routes, we analyze abundance chang...

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Birds Aren’t Just Declining. They’re Declining Faster, a New Study Finds.

Decline in birds across southern US correlated with rising temperature and intensive agriculture. Gift 🎁 article.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/c...

What to Know About the E.P.A.’s Big Attack on Climate Regulation

Gift 🎁 article
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/c...

Map of the Atlantic Coastal Plain from Georgia to Virginia showing the position of the Orangeburg Scarp, the Mid-Pliocene shoreline from field sites and the literature. Rovere et al 2014, Fig 1. First line of Rovere et al's paper: “The last time in Earth's history that atmospheric CO2 levels were as high as today (~ 400 ppm, Pagani et al., 2009) was the mid-Pliocene (~3.3 to 2.9 Ma), a period that preceded the onset of extensive northern hemisphere glaciation and that was characterized by global mean temperatures as much as 3 °C warmer than the present (Raymo et al., 1996; Dowsett et al., 2009).” Rovere, A., Hearty, P.J., Austermann, J., Mitrovica, J.X., Gale, J., Moucha, R., Forte, A.M., and Raymo, M.E., 2015, Mid-Pliocene shorelines of the US Atlantic Coastal Plain— An improved elevation database with comparison to Earth model predictions: Earth-Science Reviews 145, 117–131.

The Orangeburg Scarp marks the Atlantic coastal plain shoreline during the Mid-Pliocene 3.3-2.9 million years ago, the last time atmospheric CO2 levels were as high as they are "now" (ca. 400 ppm).
From Rovere et al, 2014, Earth-Science Reviews.

Please see figure alt text.

The World Is Warming Up. And It’s Happening Faster.

Gift 🎁 article
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/c...

Atmospheric CO2:
Feb. 11, 2025 = 426.62 ppm
29% increase in the past 37 years, 330 ppm in 1989.
#Anti-Science

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/c...

Trump Is a Global ‘Wrecking Ball,’ European Security Experts Say

Gift article 🎁
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/w...

Dendrochronology and paleoclimatology of the Stradivari's violins:
"...the majority of soundboards were crafted from Norway spruce (Picea abies) that grew at very high elevations during the severe climatic conditions of the Maunder Minimum"
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #Geology #Climate

Because people asked, I want to point folks to some archiving resources that were circulated at the start of the admin's takedown of federal data at CDC, AskJAN, NIH, and discuss why keeping our data is so important.

A thread 🧵

Those Same Bright Stars | A Prairie Home Companion This week on A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor, it's a live broadcast performance from the City Bank Auditorium in Lubbock, Texas. With special guests, all-star West Texas troupe The Flat...

This broadcast of Prairie Home Companion from Lubbock includes all three Flatlanders, Peggy Sue Gerron, Travis Holley. Highly recommended.
www.prairiehome.org/shows/44842....

After my Dad read this review of the Flatlanders 2nd album, he asked me "you know these guys?"
www.wsj.com/articles/SB1...

I bought the last rush ticket (3rd row) for Prairie Home Companion w Joe Ely. He played two songs from Satisfied at Last, and the elevators in the Medical Arts bldg lobby figured in the long intro to Tomorrow is a Long Time. It all starts @ 44:14, ends @ 1:01:26

www.prairiehome.org/shows/56537....

Great maps and explanation of this Winter's weather by @bennollweather.bsky.social writing for @washingtonpost.com. My gas bill has been high.

Gift 🎁 article.
wapo.st/4qTVDqx

The FDA Let Substandard Factories Ship These Medications to the U.S. ProPublica identified more than 150 products that were exempted from import bans since 2013. Our list provides the names of the drugs or ingredients and their manufacturers, many of which are no longe...

The FDA never released a comprehensive list of the drugs it allowed into the U.S. even though they were made by banned factories.

So we made that list for you 👇

Bob Mondello's movie review of young musicologists spending a summer in the Maine woods a century ago morphed into a personal story about the discovery of long recording of his father's voice as a young man, after losing a short voice mail, is the BEST I've heard on NPR-ATC in many years
Thank you.

Move to Seize Ballots Thrusts F.B.I. Into Trump’s Election Conspiracy Claim

Gift article.
FBI raid Georgia (Fulton Co) Election Center.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/u...

I agree. Working on a new report on this right now. What happened in Atlanta today is significantly worse than it even appears on the surface. I daresay I no longer hold out much hope that this fall will be anything but utter—and scary—chaos.

A free and fair election increasingly feels unthinkable.