More than 600 (likely homes) burned in and around Spokane County yesterday. The devastation is incomprehensible www.spokesman.com/stories/2026...
Wildfire in northwest Spokane destroys 640 structures
The Old Trails wildfire in northwest Spokane destroyed 640 structures Saturday, according to Cody Rohrbach, Spokane County Fire District 3 fire chief.
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The Fauci hearing was a disgrace. Here are some reminders of how it really went down in 2020. Never forget.
did the Bills lose the license to their own logos and colors
Denny Carter@dennycarter.bsky.social · 2w agoThe Bills’ alternate uniforms are somehow worse than other alternate uniforms, all of which are bad.
elon musk could have whatever movie he wanted made, as professionally as he wanted, starting pretty much whenever he might want. he could probably even direct it. that he has the imagination of your average gooner and just wants AI to have and realize an artistic vision for him is really revealing
it does actually sound like taylor farms and the white house teamed up to try and blame taco bell for the outbreak. unprecedented corruption
Jessica Nix@jessicanix.bsky.social · 3w agoNEW: As cyclosporiasis cases jumped, the company linked to the outbreak - Taylor Farms - effectively delayed a recall that mounted in consumer confusion. Gift link for @business www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
From my post last year, my 4 favorite sources of wildfire smoke forecasts: 1-3 day from NOAA: airquality.weather.gov?element=apm2... rapidrefresh.noaa.gov/hrrr/HRRRsmo... 3-day from Environment Canada: weather.gc.ca/firework/ 5-10-day from NASA: fluid.nccs.nasa.gov/wxmaps/chem2...
15 sources of wildfire smoke forecasts for North America » Yale Climate Connections
Forecasting wildfire smoke is hard. We review the best tools to help you predict when unhealthful levels of smoke are coming.
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The first big story I ever wrote in enviro journalism was about the secret lobbying push to destroy these monuments for resource extraction How time passes
jae holzman@jael.bsky.social · last mo.Trump to sign order as soon as Monday to dismantle Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments www.abc4.com/news/politic...
NEW: He was picking up a work crew to take them to construction site at 6 a.m. on Tuesday morning. ICE showed up. And now this small business owner, the father of three American citizens, is dead. www.thebulwark.com/p/he-lived-h...
He Lived Here for 35 Years. Put Three Kids in College. ICE Killed Him.
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was picking up a crew for a construction project when ICE shot him. It now claims he was the aggressor.
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Real haters don't leap. They wait and watch. They know the true reasons for hating will be Revealed
Compare Alito's description of Trump's racist statements (on the left) to Justice Kagan's anthology of Trump's racist statements (on the right). These are passages from this morning's opinions in Mullin v. Doe.
SCOOP from @by-cjewett.bsky.social & me: Markwayne Mullin urged the Department of Health and Human Service to remove warnings from the FDA website about the health risks of the gas station drug kratom. Mullin owns equity in a leading kratom company called Botanic Tonics that could have benefited.
How an Addictive Gas Station Drug Found Allies in Trump’s Cabinet
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I've reported on Musk for around 8 years. I've co-authored a book on him. I don't think folks understand the rate of his wealth accumulation. Shortly after he helped elect Donald Trump in Nov 2024, his net worth was around $350 billion. That net worth has nearly tripled in less than two years.
Gonna get a lot of use out of this one unfortunately
🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə)@timhenke.bsky.social · 2mo agoHow it started / how it's going
Breaking News: Sonny Rollins, a jazz great with a forceful and imaginative approach to the tenor saxophone, has died at 95.
Sonny Rollins, Giant of the Jazz Saxophone, Is Dead at 95
Even by the standards of a music that prizes individuality, he stood out, as both a musician and a personality.
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This is such blatant and offensive corruption. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/u...
I.R.S. Must Drop Audits of Trump and Family
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The thing about Patel — and everyone in this admin — is that they do the *absolute worst fucking thing possible* IN EVERY SCENARIO. Like, “Patel went to Hawaii and then did a luxury snorkel trip” -somewhere- would he corrupt, but expected. Why, of all places, at a sacred site?? That takes effort
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 3mo agoNYT confirms — with new details: Last year, Navy SEALs used two boats to escort Kash Patel and nine others on what a Pentagon email called a 'VIP Snorkel' next to one of the military's most sacred sites, the underwater tomb of the U.S.S. Arizona. One Navy vet called the swim "horrifying."
"The answer would remain secret for generations, legal experts predicted. “We’ll never know (at least, until our grandkids can read the justices’ internal papers from that time period)," "The New York Times has obtained those papers and is now publishing them," -- www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court
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This might be one of my favorites from Artemis II. A cinematic alignment of the Moon and Earth, each cradled within the warmth of sunbeams. Taken from behind the Moon on April 6th. flic.kr/p/2s6BABn
Front page of the print NYT: Trump Revels in Making Emphatic Threats to Commit War Crimes. He said he'll send Iran back to the "Stone Ages." Today he argued he can destroy Iran's civilian infrastructure to pressure the government because "they're animals." Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/05/u...
it's so funny that he started the term above water in popularity, this country really has the collective memory of a goldfish and it's small wonder it's getting this now bsky.app/profile/poll...
Poll Tracker 📊@polltracker.bsky.social · 5mo agoTrump approval poll (Ipsos) Approve 36% Disapprove 62% www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
I'm not a political consultant but i feel like dems could probably get a lot of leverage out of pushing for green technologies that would wean the us off being dependent on oil in this particular moment
SCOOP— Trump wants a 24k gold coin w/ his face on it for America 250, but an official at a late February coin advisory committee meeting called it something only done by "nations ruled by kings or dictators." After NYT reported the criticism, US Mint yanked online vid of the meeting w/o explanation.
US Mint takes down video of meeting criticizing proposed Trump 24K gold coin
A coin advisory committee called the design for the America 250 coin something only produced by "kings or dictators."
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the idea of Sportswashing is you, Evil Dictator, host The Olympics & show you can play nice. Now you're Olympics Dictator! Trump is doing the opposite. He sees the World Cup as a chance to show he won't stop the cruelty & hostility, even with everyone watching. It's Sportsdirtying. Sportsmuddying
So I don’t think a sitting president has ever threatened the life of a soccer team coming to their country’s World Cup?
