A Year in History: 1975 Timeline Step into 1975, a year of spectacle and shifting power. U.S. forces flee Saigon. Cambodia’s capital surrenders. Patty Hearst goes on trial. President Ford faces scrutiny, and meets world leaders amid ...

For the city of brotherly love…
1975.
www.historic-newspapers.com/blogs/timeli...

F.B.I. Said to Have Investigated Times Reporter After Article on Patel’s Girlfriend

Patel and Drumpf 🤝 Hoover and Nixon

F.B.I. Said to Have Investigated Times Reporter After Article on Patel’s Girlfriend www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...

In honor of Earth Day: a thread of environmental wins

Geography.
Of 8.5 million Virginians, only 70% are registered to vote.
Of the registered voters, only 53% voted on 21 April 2026.
Millennial and Gen Z are the largest voting block....yet..

Engage the disengaged, folks.
Sources: NYTimes and VPAP.org

There’s a reason it’s reduce first, reuse second, and then recycle.
Recycling should be the last option.

For the record: The Washington Post is run by partisan hacks who think we won't remember that they took the *exact* opposite stance when it was Republicans pushing their own gerrymandering grab in Texas last year -- *without* putting it up for a vote.

America: Guns don’t kill people ChatGPT kills people.
Absolute lunacy.

Everyone loves the Earth (to)Day!

What about the other 364 days?

This Earth Day, It’s time to express concern and to demand more from our leaders, to pull focus and see the wider picture.

As Carl Sagan put it: "That's here. That's home. That's us."

#SeeTheBigPicture #EarthDay2026 #ArtemisII

Remember, Democrats have repeatedly advanced measures to ban partisan gerrymandering and Republicans have voted against them time after time.

This is the game Republicans wanted to play. OK, then.

Fire with fire.
Maybe we can have serious discussion about gerrymandering after 2026.

Virginia redistricting: Voters approve amendment to redraw congressional maps Virginia voters have approved a constitutional amendment that will redraw the state's congressional districts before November's midterms.

Virginia voters approve redistricting amendment, paving way for four new Democratic-leaning districts in response to Trump-led redrawing efforts in other states.

Yes
Yes
Yes?

American combat deaths in World War I: 54,000.
American soldiers killed by flu in World War I: 45,000.
They would have given anything for a flu vaccine.

Nice day to vote, Virginia….

Going on the road, at least Crosby thrives on “Crosby Sucks” chants?…. 😳

Remembering Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and being bound together Each year, the Billie Holiday Center for Liberation Arts sponsors a free public lecture. The most recent lecture covered Frances Ellen Watkins Harper in celebration of her 200th birthday. Harper was t...

Baltimore did right by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, marking her 200th! Thanks to Dr. Ida Jones, Dr. Lawrence Jackson, the team at Hard Histories, and the many others who made these celebrations possible.

www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2026...

Convinced if Baltimore City enforced (or implemented) red light cameras, we’d have new schools and perfectly paved roads.

Assessing Community Resilience Estimates for Heat Using the Virginia Heat Mapping Campaigns

Exposure, risk, & vulnerability vary across jurisdiction. More interdisciplinary, cross-agency work is needed.

cc @jeremyscience.bsky.social @sciencedjv.bsky.social

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In 2019, I led a Norfolk, Virginia heat-mapping campaign supported by the Virginia Department of Forestry. That work, integrating newly developed Community Resilience Estimates for Heat and exploring heat across Virginia was finally published in Weather, Climate, and Society.

Wanted: Recommendations for NHL playoff bars in Baltimore.
Also, have you ever seen Philly win a cup?
LGP

I can’t imagine why Baltimore’s ‘Peninsula’ is struggling….

Fun fact.
Heat records far outpace cold records.

Climate contrarians always seem to disappear when summer arrives…

From Data to Decisions: Hazards and Climate Action in Maryland.
events.towson.edu/event/from-d...

Climate Change: Simple, Serious, Solvable

Some @towsonu.bsky.social Climate Teach-In events: events.towson.edu/event/climat... @marylandeducators.bsky.social

GitHub - aedessler/pydlnm: python version of R package DLNM from Gaspirrini et al. (https://github.com/gasparrini/dlnm) python version of R package DLNM from Gaspirrini et al. (https://github.com/gasparrini/dlnm) - aedessler/pydlnm

If you use the R package DLNM to estimate excess risk attributable to environmental conditions (e.g., heat/cold), I've rewritten the package in python: github.com/aedessler/py...

Cartoon by Gábor Pápai, a well-known Hungarian political cartoonist.

@tynergeog.bsky.social

Welcome back to Earth, Artemis II!

Surreal. Truly.

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“Meteorologists are always wrong” as I look forward to next week’s (mid-April) forecast of 90 degrees F 👀