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The release of 1,500 Jan. 6 rioters is a pivot point, among other reasons because it obliterates the rule of law and frees a little army of insurrectionists. On the path to full-blown dictatorship, it is not Kristallnacht, but it is a step in that direction.

Trump’s Rhetoric Echoes Hitler theharvardpoliticalreview.com/trump-rhetoric… via Harvard University Political Review

nytimes.com/2025/01/27/wor… via @NYTimes

"Dumping water doesn’t just pose a flood risk to downstream communities, like the town of Porterville, which nearly flooded in 2023. It also reduces the amount of irrigation water available to farmers during the driest months of the year." politi.co/4hEDLuF via POLITICO

#ClimateChange is caused by human greenhouse gas emissions. We’re causing #globalwarming 100 times faster than past natural changes We are taking Earth’s climate beyond natural limits with carbon dioxide & temperatures levels not seen for 3 million years. #ActOnClimate

Great convincing piece that Trump is a foreign policy “sovereigntist,” with roots in groups like John Birch Society and WW2 America Firsters. nytimes.com/2025/02/02/opi… via @NYTOpinion

Trump's inane order to release water from two CA dams will do nothing to stop fires, and the water is likely to end up evaporating in Tulare Lake. latimes.com/environment/st…

This 2-year-old piece gets at an underlying cause of the Trumpian maelstrom: we are paying now for the disappearance of civics and govt from schools over the last generation in the susceptibility of Americans to scams, conmen, and harebrained ideas. lockhaven.com/opinion/column…

"While expelling nonwhite refugees [who are] here legally, Trump invites in white South Africans who say they don’t want to come." americanprospect.bluelena.io/index.php?acti…

Following LA fires, bond ratings are now being downgraded because of climate change. politi.co/4kcpebN via POLITICO

Here's my latest, an 1,800-word piece for the New York Times' opinion section about the consequences of the world's largest dam removal project in the Klamath basin and the calamity that the Trump administration has abruptly and unnecessarily caused there. nytimes.com/2025/03/13/opi…

Trump and Musk are edging towards Mao-Stalin-Hitler levels of killing. healthpolicy-watch.news/africa-cdc-aid…

"Hydro‑Québec’s main transmission line into New England, known as the Phase II line, stopped exporting any meaningful amount of power two days after President Donald Trump’s tariff on Canadian imports went into effect." Canary Media canarymedia.com/articles/hydro…

Paul Krugman: "Trump isn’t really trying to accomplish economic goals. This should all be seen as a dominance display, intended to shock and awe people and make them grovel, rather than policy in the normal sense."

Trump has always gravitated toward conspiracy theories and people who tell him others are trying to damage him. He is governing with that impulse fully now. Jonathan Swan Ken Bensinger me nytimes.com/2025/04/04/us/…

“Trump has already invoked the Alien Enemies Act, absurdly, against a Venezuelan gang. There is no reason to think Trump would hesitate to use his extraordinary powers to deploy the U.S. military on American soil to put down protests he doesn’t like.” trib.al/eOTL7uF

"The White House shifting its policies radically over a seven-day period and promising to change them again in three months will sap confidence more than the tariff pause will bolster it." theatlantic.com/economy/archiv…

Here's my latest L.A. Times op-ed, out today, on how the Trump administration's funding freezes and personnel layoffs have replaced hope and optimism in the Klamath basin with fear, uncertainty, and anger. latimes.com/opinion/story/…

The U.S. is now on the Civicus monitor watchlist of repressive regimes for "unprecedented executive orders designed to unravel democratic institutions, rule of law, and global cooperation." monitor.civicus.org/watchlist-marc…

The recent extreme flooding event that hit the Congolese “megacity” capital of Kinshasa and surrounding areas, killing at least several dozen, is part of a trend expected to repeat roughly every other year, likely due to climate change, a new report has found.