Ports across the country were planning to become economic hubs for the growing offshore wind industry. The Trump administration is cancelling grants to build the infrastructure for it.
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Ports across the country were planning to become economic hubs for the growing offshore wind industry. The Trump administration is cancelling grants to build the infrastructure for it.
(FT) - Hedge fund billionaire Ray Dalio has warned Donald Trump’s America is drifting into 1930s-style autocratic politics — and said other investors are too scared of the president to speak up. @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/b86b...
lost in translation, a series
www.fox13news.com/news/baby-se... Experts say small actions, like closing blinds and turning outdoor lighting can help.
And there they stand—miles of them—leagues.
After a summer of all plans being dashed and everything falling apart, September floats in with a late summer sun like a balm for a wounded soul. These are the moments that sustain.
If not for foresight of those that came before us and preserved few shoreline public parks, views like this would be reserved only for wealthy. Northbound Amtrak Cascades 15 May 2019, but today train doesn't take water lever route. Stielacoom, Titlow Beach parks maintain Olympic Mountain public view
separated at birth
the conqueror not emperor www.imdb.com/title/tt1477...
fair
jack is grilling at home—they call it I-5 because that’s the speed
discuss
see the documentary hollywood fallout, about howard hughes’ disastrous choice of st george utah for location to shoot The Emperor they killed john wayne
hell
wordlove: binnacle list
steel, grain and milk, fabric of a country
youtube.com/watch?v=6VpO...
lost in translation, a series
quiet history: In 2002, the Centers for Disease Control estimated that every American who has lived since 1951 has been exposed to nuclear fallout from atomic bomb tests, which collectively raised earth’s ambient radiation level worldwide. but cancer is a mystery.
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#LaborDay2025
he has no neck
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... Trump has consistently put corporate interests first in his second term as he has taken dozens of actions that hurt workers
If you enjoy… Weekends Safe working conditions Retirement benefits Paid vacations Breaks at work Sick leave Paid holidays … then you’re part of the labor movement. Happy Labor Day.
tourists spoil everything everywhere
Sunrise on the Cascade Range
new feature: lost in translation
youtube.com/watch?v=v8U3... lmao these incorrigible gun kooks
insideclimatenews.org/news/0208202...
Now watching The She Creature S8E8
MST3K therapy has helped me more than all the MS BS PhDs I’ve known. Put together.
Oh yah
good light today in the scenic 206
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everybody going for the bag
coyotes on mustang island stole my rain fly and sweater. pales in comparison.
nio sure, but here is a sweet page called Don’s Maps with more beauties and some museum cites www.donsmaps.com/canoesnwc.html
www.politico.com/news/2025/08... ready to push House Speaker Mike Johnson and the White House for transparency in the Jeffrey Trumpstein case
back to boats First Nations people of the Pacific Northwest are renowned for their elegantly engineered canoes. Ranging 3-20 meters, canoes were essential for travel, transport, hunting, and trade. Coastal communities developed distinctive styles to suit their particular needs. Here, a Haida build
now for something completely different
www.fws.gov/story/rainfo... Their dens have three things in common: they’re located in old growth, on elevated ground (an important consideration in such wet conditions) and within 100 meters of freshwater.
The Trump plan for Gaza includes the relocation of the entire population - 2 million people - a US “trusteeship” and the creation of a tourism and tech hub. Landowners get digital tokens worth $5,000 and rent subsidies. Investors are promised 4x return on $100 billion.
not paywalled, knucklehead
insideclimatenews.org/news/2808202... data centers are cooking the planet. “bad for consumers, bad for the environment and even bad for data centers.”
call me skipjack
axial.acs.org/earth-space-... 1971: The Year I Turned Angry. Research emerges showing remarkable levels of neurotoxic mercury in skipjack tuna.
youtube.com/watch?v=zI8x...
@angrywaterman.bsky.social
Jacques-Yves Cousteau and wife Simone with their beloved dog, Scaphandre, 1959
self-contained underwater breathing apparatus
we fondly recall the day Commandant Cousteau vanquished the Daleks
Hurricane forecasts are now much more accurate, 20 years on — largely because of federal government research.
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Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others. – Fyodor Dostoevsky
sunscreen
jack is not etsy
nypost.com/2025/08/29/u...
The midwife of Labor Day, PJ McGuire, American Federation of Labor
the cutest thing ever seen in boiling sulfur and arsenic. May be satan
Celebrating Organized Labor this weekend, Union Coffee, PJ McGuire and brats on the grill. More tk
so much time saying so little
"Dude, it’s Labor Day Weekend. Let it go." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-...
sink into a scalding bath of arsenic and hydrogen sulfide? that’s the self-care routine for Paralvinella hessleri, a deep sea worm that “is the only animal that colonizes the hottest part of deep-sea hydrothermal vents in the west pacific,” according to a new study./404media
reason.com/2025/08/27/i... it’s a fun read: “powerful figures around the globe, including American businessman Peter Thiel, the former director of Israeli signals intelligence, and 2 in Vladimir Putin's circle”
aww Blondie
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youtube.com/watch?v=cW5d... is it safe to go back in the water?
grist.org/accountabili... “I would love to be able to have him put a cup under the tap if he was thirsty.”
insideclimatenews.org/news/3008202... Amid rising repression of climate science domestically…
youtube.com/watch?v=Vtt2... the dying Med: too much plastic , too much heat, too much pollution
surely will
Sen. Joni Ernst, Republican of Iowa, we hardly knew ye.
Evergreen Voters please bug your goddam lawmakers, calls work.
Thank you my Boo💚
You cannot get even half-decent lunch at Jack in the Box for $7.25. Jack will have a cup of hot water and four ketchups please.
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This is some bullshit. $20 MINIMUM WAGE NOW
environmentamerica.org/washington/t... keep roadless public lands roadless
doctor junk