NYT: "Iran War Live Updates: Trump Says U.S. Will 'Blockade' Straight of Hormuz After No Peace Deal Reached"
Short-term winner: US and Russian oligarchs.
Long-term winner: China and renewables.
Loser: US economy, households
The Trump budget once again proposes to eliminate NOAA OAR, which brings you the CO₂ Keeling Curve. In this piece, I argued that the Keeling Curve is a treasure that belongs to humanity as the most poignant indication of our impact on the environment and as a testament to our ability to document it.
Elon Musk had DOGE defund USAID, the largest humanitarian organization in the world, causing HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of deaths from starvation and disease - and Trump GLEEFULLY approved it. It’s the single most evil act in US history. Cartoon by Mike Luckovich
The pain that consumers are feeling from the Iran war is real, and likely to get worse. But those short-term costs are only the tip of the economic iceberg, writes CI editor-in-chief @eamonka.bsky.social in a new commentary.
@centuryintl.bsky.social colleague @eamonka.bsky.social lays out how Trump's war on Iran – in addition to being monstrous and wrong – will also incur all kinds of second-order economic costs, making Americans' lives materially worse: tcf.org/content/comm...
Got to stretch my econ muscles and explain just how bad the Iran war is for the US economy—and it goes way beyond inflation. New commentary for @centuryintl.bsky.social tcf.org/content/comm...
Runaway war spending disfigures every aspect of the economy.
Americans will be paying the costs of Trump’s reckless war on Iran for generations.
@eamonka.bsky.social for @centuryintl.bsky.social
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The @cssl.bsky.social is reporting zero snow water equivalent this morning, with just a little snow left around the property. It’s the earliest melt out of the lab’s snowpack since 2015. Median March 30 snow water equivalent is 34 inches. #CAwx
I think often of a New York Times photo of a little Iraqi girl tending to her parakeets in a bombed house, probably from 20 years ago now. I will think of this man and his sweet dog often now too. People just want to love what they love, care for their little beings, and instead we do this to them
probably nothing
Line graph time series of 2026's daily Arctic sea ice extent compared to decadal averages from the 1980s to the 2010s. Additional scatter points show the maximum extents from 2000 to 2025. There is a long-term decreasing trend in ice extent for every day of the year.
Unless there's a sudden shift in weather conditions, preliminary estimates show that 2026 set another new record low maximum extent for #Arctic sea ice. This follows very closely with last year, which previously set the record. Not good!
Download graphic at zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
There are so many ways in which this war can still escalate much further.
“Bike lanes that greatly reduced crashes on National Mall set for removal”
10/10 hed, no notes. #bikedc
I dunno, man. I really just do not know what to say at this point.
Map of U.S., from coolwx.com, showing locations currently experiencing record-breaking temperatures. There are countless such locations in the Western U.S., with hundreds of red dots (locations breaking daily record highs) and countless pink dots (locations breaking March monthly record highs). The region of record heat extends from the Pacific Coast to the Mississippi River, and from Canada to Mexico. The region of red and pink dots is vastly larger even than yesterday's.
...And, again today, a huge swath of the continental United States clear across from the Pacific Coast to Mississippi River is experiencing all-time March monthly record heat. Some locations are so hot that they are actually exceeding *April* all-time record highs. Incredible.
I've interviewed more than a dozen hydrologists and climatologists across the West the past 10 days.
A sense of panic is starting to set in. Wildfires and water shortages will start mounting this summer. Adverse impacts are expected from not only this heat wave, but the historically warm winter.
This is true but also a very problematic framing that has been adopted by too many. The issue isn’t simply a lack of strategy, it is a lack of justification for launching the war in the first place.
After a series of fatal strikes involving civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan, Congress directed the Pentagon to reduce civilian casualties as part of a 2019 law. During the Biden administration, the Defense Department created the Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response initiative. The civilian mitigation teams – cut by 90% by Hegseth – work with military commanders on target planning, and making sure that targets are actually military sites. The teams help come up with "no strike" lists, including religious and cultural sites and schools
I knew that the Department of War shot a missile into a school & killed 175 civilians, mostly children.
This is learned today:
Secretary of War Hegseth had cut the teams assigned to prevent such tragedies by 90%.
www.npr.org/2026/03/11/n...
A rebooted global version of the neoconservative fervor of March 2003.
The U.S. and Israel – whose war of aggression you co-signed – are working to turn a vast swathe of the region into an ungoverned waste, from which millions of new refugees will flee to Europe
You absolute doofus
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The "forever war" paradigm doesn't really describe the Iran war, writes
@abujamajem.com.
This U.S.–Israeli attack is something more acute, and immediate—this is a war of aggression, chaotic and wild.
Hezbollah escalated a war with Israel that had never ended, despite a nominal ceasefire.
Renewed fighting will punish Lebanese civilians, but will probably also further weaken Hezbollah.
@abujamajem.com in new roundtable
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Hegseth: "The dumb, politically correct wars of the past were the opposite of what we're doing here. They had vague objections with restrictive, minimalist rules of engagement. No more."
NO!
Wednesday or Thursday is too late. You do not need to be briefed before voting on this. Troops should stop all military action now.
They are trying to drag us into war now.
We needed a vote on @rokhanna.bsky.social’s War Powers Resolution last week. Instead the war hawk caucus of the Dem Party delayed it, and now it may be too late.
This allows the Trump administration to literally condition citizenship on what it defines as acceptable speech
“This first independent population survey of mortality in the Gaza Strip shows that violent deaths have substantially exceeded official figures... women, children, and older people together comprised 56·2% of violent deaths” - Lancet
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Bloomberg says we've spent $3B on Trump's invasion of Venezuela.
Which is 6X more than the cancer, Alzheimer, diabetes, and heart disease cures they've cut to pay for it.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Anyone currently involved in federal immigration enforcement, every officer, every bureaucrat, every lawyer, every judge, is a member of the most evil group of people this country has seen since Reconstruction. Darkness personified, every one. Doing this to children is beyond depraved.
Excerpt from a book describing the inconsistency of climate denial
I am so tired
