It happens infrequently enough that I don't think I will ever not initially feel like I'm hallucinating when I see giraffe heads poking over the zoo walls while I'm riding by on the greenbelt.
Murphy Woodhouse
@murphywoodhouse.bsky.social
Dweller of deserts, high and low. Bike-based human. Mountain West News Bureau reporter at https://bsky.app/profile/boisestatepublicradio.org. Tell me something you think the public should know about wildfire: tinyurl.com/44kvjaah
Great post-fire insurance story from the @denverpost.com's @thenoellephillips.bsky.social www.denverpost.com/2026/08/16/c...
Aspen Acres fire, flooding are one of first big tests of Colorado’s insurance reforms: ‘How much more can a person handle?’
Officials do not yet know how many of the more than 300 homes destroyed by the Aspen Acres fire were uninsured.
denverpost.com
BREAKING: The union of Starbucks workers is officially calling for a boycott of the chain. @sbworkersunited.org has over 12,000 unionized baristas, and they're calling on customers to stop visiting Starbucks until they get a fair union contract.
AI does eventually have to start, you know, working for (gestures at hundreds of billions of dollars of debt-financed infrastructure) all this to pay off, right? www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Snagged some shots of the windmill fire in Montana on my road trip
My latest www.boisestatepublicradio.org/news/2026-08...
Amid intense U.S. fire season, Australia and New Zealand send largest ever contingent of firefighters to help
The three countries have a years-long practice of sharing wildfire resources during each other's often intense seasons, which mostly don't overlap.
boisestatepublicradio.org
the Texas GOP's attacks on Islam and Muslims, from the highest levels not just the fringe, have been astonishing over the last few years www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott takes aim at Muslim washing stations in airports
Legal experts dispute Abbott’s claims that the ritual washing stations are discriminatory, with some saying his attack fits a pattern of anti-Muslim actions and rhetoric.
washingtonpost.com
This is horrifying. Someone plowed into a college cycling team when they were out riding, killing 2 and injuring 7. When I first opened the story the top comment blamed the cyclists--just for having the audacity to use bikes on a road--but it seems to have been deleted. apnews.com/article/mill...
2 college cyclists killed and 7 injured in Tennessee car crash
Two members of a university cycling team have been killed and seven others were injured in a car crash in northeastern Tennessee.
apnews.com
you simply must see the this Township meeting
404 Media@404media.co · last wk.Ypsilanti Township in Michigan passed a six month moratorium on “major electric utility infrastructure” as a delaying tactic, the latest in the Township’s long fight to stop the construction of a $1.2 billion data center. @mjgault.bsky.social reports. Read more: www.404media.co/township-fig...
Using the trusty @waybackmachine.bsky.social, I was able to add a few more years to the year-to-date burned acreage comparison range. Now we can say that this is the most acres burned thru Aug. 19 since 2011. www.nifc.gov/fire-informa... & web.archive.org/web/20210820...
There is a punchy little quote about conspiracy theories that I’ve been trying to remember whose idea is something like: conspiracy theories are flattery of power disguised as critique. Anyone? Thanks!
This story affirms the sense that many wildland firefighters have: that this is a killing season, and the fire is moving in dangerous ways www.reuters.com/business/env...
In record US wildfire season, firefighter entrapments hit 20-year high
U.S. firefighting personnel are being overrun by wildfires at the highest rate in two decades, leading to six deaths and dozens of injuries this year, federal data showed, a grim count during a record...
reuters.com
Missed this, very important wildfire story www.reuters.com/business/env...
In record US wildfire season, firefighter entrapments hit 20-year high
U.S. firefighting personnel are being overrun by wildfires at the highest rate in two decades, leading to six deaths and dozens of injuries this year, federal data showed, a grim count during a record...
reuters.com
Nearly a week after the revelations about Trump’s secret plane switch that treated the WH press pool like a decoy, there’s been no press briefing; no serious acknowledgment of the deception; no commitment to handle it differently if there’s a next time... www.cnn.com/newsletters/...
@gilduran.com said something that kind of blew my mind “Why would anyone trust tech oligarchs to share in abundance when they claim it will happen? We already have abundance. Have they shared that?”
Exclusive: Michael Boren, a tech billionaire who oversees the U.S. Forest Service as a Trump appointee, asked agency staff to escalate the amount of aircraft at a fire that started near his ranch in Idaho, according to two officials. https://wapo.st/4cInG79
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I love not being able to remember the last time I turned my car on.
Big wildfire scoop from @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...
Top Trump official asked for more aircraft to fight a small fire near his Idaho ranch
Michael Boren, who oversees the U.S. Forest Service, asked for more resources to contain a seven-acre blaze last month, officials said.
washingtonpost.com
Really proud of Pocatello for making this happen. Seems like a really promising project www.idahostatejournal.com/news/local/p...
Pocatello breaks ground on its first community garden Friday
POCATELLO — For years, the patch of city-owned land directly north of the Water Department on Arthur Avenue has sat empty, flat, unremarkable and largely ignored. No crops. No flowers.
idahostatejournal.com
I’m really grateful to Jessica for sharing her perspective as a friend and colleague of these two brave men www.boisestatepublicradio.org/environment/...
As wildland firefighter deaths add up, colleague remembers pilots killed in Utah as ‘badass,’ ‘amazing’ men
Friends and family are sharing what they’ll miss about Chris Andersen and Miles Elliott. Their deaths have also further shaken the wildland fire community, which has lost a number of firefighters duri...
boisestatepublicradio.org
From @nffe.bsky.social, firefighters will now get hazard pay on prescribed fires. This is a huge deal in the fire world.
How do billionaire team owners not only pay a lower tax rate than some of their superstar players, but also a lower rate than the people who sell concessions at the games? Revisit our 2021 investigation from "The Secret IRS Files":
The Billionaire Playbook: How Sports Owners Use Their Teams to Avoid Millions in Taxes
Owners like Steve Ballmer can take the kinds of deductions on team assets — everything from media deals to player contracts — that industrialists take on factory equipment. That helps them pay lower t...
propublica.org