I love when my biases are confirmed

Unusually active April weather pattern to continue this week, and possibly beyond, as subtropical northeastern Pacific waters reach record warmth - Weather West April 19, 2026 - Daniel Swain - Milder temperatures in April than March, with much more precipitation; snowpack, however, remains extremely low What a strange Water Year it has been in 2025-2026! We started the WY with record rainfall during Oct-Dec across much of the central and south coast, including the wettest Oct-Dec period ever observed in Santa Barbara, Ventura, Kern, and #

New Weather West post out this evening: "Unusually active April weather pattern to continue this week, and possibly beyond, as subtropical northeastern Pacific waters reach record warmth."

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FYI if you live in the NWS Sacramento county warning area (including the Sacramento Valley, northern San Joaquin Valley, the delta and west slope of the Sierra Nevada) your warning forecast zone just changed. You can read more about the changes here:
www.weather.gov/sto/ZoneChan...

The baffling ecological disaster that’s killing America’s freshwater mussels Biologists are racing to save America’s freshwater mussels—the water-filtering keystone species that once filled the country’s rivers and streams—from extinction

Biologists are racing to save America’s freshwater mussels—the water-filtering keystone species that once filled the country’s rivers and streams—from extinction

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Again: for any big liberal donor who wants to funnel millions into fixing this country's politics, the ROI on buying any struggling paper and simply tasking it with doing real reporting on local news is vastly higher than the same $$ given to some group that does mass ad buys every election year.

As alarming as this is, and as important as it is to pay attention to things like this, it bears repeating that the President's Budget is just a request. From what I am hearing its a dead letter in Congress. FY27 looks to be a cut and paste of FY26, with a very high chance of a broad CR.

Water is essential. It should be affordable for everyone. Yet, 1 in 7 people in the U.S. have unaffordable water bills.

During #WaterWeek, the Water Equity & Climate Resilience Caucus (#WECRCaucus) is calling for federal action. Congress must act to make water affordability a national priority.

bruh what the fuck

a man in a suit is sitting in front of a wall with floral wallpaper ALT: a man in a suit is sitting in front of a wall with floral wallpaper

Me realizing its the movie and not the series:

a man with long white hair and a beard wears a brown vest Alt: a man with long white hair and a beard wears a brown vest

If any more awful men wish to file their resignation from Congress, for heaven’s sake, send them in. I’m quite at my leisure.

Its a good day for accountability, but it could be better

These handsome devils with their fancy crowns appear to be Charaxes sempronius, the Tailed Emperor butterfly.

They're native to Australia where they feed on kurrajong or bottletree shrub leaves.

They're also famous for getting drunk & fighting on hilltops.

Let's talk about these tiny dragons.

A powerful man sexually pursuing a young woman who works for him is oppressive. It immediately limits and reshapes her future to her detriment, whether she is physically forced into it or not. It’s coercion either way, and that is why it’s so wrong. It’s an abuse of power.

Still expecting an unusually strong cold frontal passage (by NorCal April standards) later this PM. Expect a period of intense rainfall & embedded thunderstorms with gusty wind at lower elevs (locally severe near SF Bay), plus a burst of heavy & accumulating Sierra snowfall. #CAwx

Man, EIRs really should come with expiration dates...

*yoink*

Constitutional amendment by Prop for that would be hilarious 😂

Little late to start getting signatures for that Prop, but I'd sign the shit out of that petition.

Brown was and is the shit and is the metric against which I measure most other administrations. Brown 2 at least, I wasn't there for the first one 😂

Shes gotta run a state; you have to have someone out there that wants to work for you. Her threat as gov is that eight years later we have no bench.

The choice between Steyer and Porter is the least exciting primary choice I've ever seen in my life.

Swalwell and the most horrific way to narrow down the candidates for CA Governor.

Nice outflow boundary coming off the cells that exited the bay area across the delta towards Sac and then collapsed:

@phaneritic.bsky.social You might have a friend in the area:

BlueSky was created specifically to market games like this to millenials.

Mamdani out here completely rewriting the political communications game. Love it.