Russian Tuapse looks like Mordor tonight 🔥

Virginia: early voting for the redistricting amendment is happening now through April 18.

Protect your voting power and help level the playing field ahead of the midterm elections by voting YES today or on Election Day, April 21.

If you attend the White House Correspondents Dinner this year, you should be legally barred from using the term "journalist" to describe yourself from that point on.

Ukraine Hits Russia’s Only Black Sea Refinery-Export Hub in Tuapse - www.kyivpost.com/post/74287

If half of this true, Tuapse has taken some devastating hits & won't easily recover.

Trump administration begins refunding more than $166bn in tariffs Claims system launches months after supreme court ruled Trump had no legal authority to impose tariffs

So you and I and everyone else are in effect now refunding American corporations for import tariffs, although we paid for most of them in the form of higher prices — which they won’t now lower because they have monopoly power to keep prices high.

The Art of the Deal.

"It is one of the biggest oil terminals on the Black Sea and serves as a hub for crude oil deliveries to places beyond. The terminal, which commenced operations in 2005 belongs to the Russian oil giant Rosneft."

Can we finally agree that burning wood for energy is a terrible idea and won't be carbon neutral, let alone carbon negative, in our lifetimes? BECCS using wood certainly shouldn't qualify as CO₂ removal (CDR).

Not a dime of taxpayer money or govt contracts should go to Palantir.

The EU will consider the issue of unlocking a €90 billion credit for Ukraine in the coming days.

Global warming is making the strongest hurricanes stronger » Yale Climate Connections Recent studies link human-caused warming to more powerful, more destructive storms worldwide.

‪Prof. Eliot Jacobson‬
‪@climatecasino.net‬
Your 'moment of doom' for Apr. 16, 2026 ~ a hard wind

"... we now need a 'Category 6' rating for hurricanes with winds of 193 mph (311 km/h) or greater, because global warming is expected to cause significant increases in maximum potential intensity."

Israeli Strikes Are Destroying Farmland in Southern Lebanon

More war crimes.

e360.yale.edu/digest/leban...

Rusting Rivers: Alarm Grows Over Uptick in Acidic Arctic Waters Climate change has thawed permafrost and increased rainfall in the Far North, producing sulfuric acid that is turning rivers and lakes yellow or rusty orange. Scientists are scrambling to parse the im...

More climate related changes threaten our wild rivers & the wildlife depending on them.

e360.yale.edu/features/rus...

The Trump-appointed chairman of the panel approving his planned fascist arch turns out to be an architect who restores palaces in Russia, lectures in Russia, and publishes in Russia: Rodney Mims Cook Jr., son of a famous GA politician, now a cartoonishly pretentious monument builder. 1/

Just surreal

the idea is simple: turn the national lands over to states because states, especially red states, are less likely to care about protecting public land. If you look at public lands through the eyes of a logging or mining lobbyist, states are good and federal research and civil servants are bad.

‘It’s just madness’: Trump administration to close three-quarters of Forest Service research stations Between funding cuts, facility closures, and the inevitable resignations that will follow, there’s virtually no way for the Forest Service to continue to do research at its current level or quality, w...

My big takeaway from reporting this story is that it's not JUST about the Forest Service.

The closure of these stations threatens to upend a delicate system of mutually beneficial collaboration and resource sharing, and the impacts will ripple out far beyond the Forest Service itself.

A tweet quoting Senator Andy Kim criticizing being denied a briefing on the Iran war, with a video still of him speaking at a press conference alongside other officials.

It's so bad they won't even brief Congress.

Cancel the White House Correspondents’ Dinner Trump will be guest of honor at the “nerd prom,” with journalists serving as suck-ups

One job of journalism is to identify changing circumstances that require changes in policy. So when the first-ever convicted-felon president assaults the free press, why would reporters honor him at a dinner just because “that’s what we always do”?
Wake up. Cancel the Correspondents’ Dinner.

Happy tax day to all those who celebrate!

Couldn’t be more excited to be in New York on this day to discuss the global fight to tax the super rich with Mayor @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and @josephestiglitz.bsky.social

Voices: How Trump is opening up federal land for ranchers in Utah and across the country “This MOU affirms what America’s ranchers have always known: They are essential partners in stewarding our public lands,” write U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins and U.S. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum in an op-ed.

After two centuries of overgrazing and rangeland decline, the plan is to expand grazing on federal lands. There isn’t much left.

“Milk a mouse” seems about right.

In a drying West, we’re prioritizing cattle over the systems that sustain both wildlife and people.

Satellites reveal city methane emissions are rising faster than official estimates Urban emissions of methane—a potent greenhouse gas—are rising faster than bottom-up accounting estimates anticipated, according to a study led by University of Michigan Engineering. The discrepancy wa...

Satellites reveal city methane emissions are rising faster than official estimates
Overall, global urban methane emissions in 2023 were 6% higher than 2019 levels and 10% higher than 2020 levels

phys.org/news/2026-04...

Any government that isn't right now accelerating plans to transition to 100% clean, renewable energy is either:

a. Incompetent
b. In the pockets of people who'd rather they didn't
c. a & b

While annual inflation is usually a good measure, it fails to accurately reflect sudden changes, such as the price surge caused by Trump's war in Iran, since the previous 11 months of data serve to mask the sudden spike. So, here is a graph of month-on-month inflation for the past three years.

So the Trump administration’s two goals in peace talks with Iran are:

1. A commitment by Iran not to develop a nuke (This was part of the Obama deal that Trump canceled)

2. Opening the Strait of Hormuz. (Was open before war.)

Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers.

What are we doing here? It’s not journalism, whatever it is.

Again there's simply no comparison between the scope, scale, & tone of the JOE BIDEN EPICALLY AND INCOMPETENTLY FAILED IN AFGHANISTAN coverage of August/September 2021 & the "just the facts, very measured" reporting of what's going on with Iran & Trump now.

A new era of industrial logging looms - High Country News Mapping the possible impacts of the Roadless Rule overhaul

The roadless rule that has for decades protected 58 million acres of wildest national forest lands in America has been removed by Trump
Americans do not realize their forests are going to be destroyed for profit
Millions of acres of forest and eco systems will be gone
www.hcn.org/articles/a-n...

Old-Growth Trees in Tongass National Forest Protecting America's largest national forest

One of last great forests Trump is targeting
Tongass National Forest in southeast Alaska is world's largest remaining intact coastal temperate rain forest
At almost 17 million acres, this unique area houses some of oldest trees in nation—many over 800 years old
www.audubon.org/conservation...

5 Takeaways From the U.S. Push Against the Far Left

Because the Time's app has a terrible search function, I can't find the article I just read in today's print edition. This seems to be much the same though.

"...the administration is further down the path of... going after political opponents than people realize."

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/u...