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My reaction to the oral argument on Birthright Citizenship. I kept waiting for one of the Justices to ask, “So those children held in ICE custody—is it your position they are not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States?” Then why are we here? brianjayjohnson.substack.com/p/birthright...

For the second year in a row, President Trump is proposing to cut the budgets of major U.S. science agencies. Under the proposal, military spending would increase 44%. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

That's definitely an editor with a sense of humor winking at the NYT house style. And it perfectly matches the article's tongue in cheek style. Respect ->

I wrote about California's 1867 election and birthright citizenship because it's timely, but also because more people should understand this history. I've been asking around and no one even knows CA rejected the 14th Amendment. I didn't -- until I started researching this. Thanks @calmatters.org

Gift link: www.wsj.com/us-news/immi...

Does she get to keep the costumes?

A sign at California's Muir Woods National Monument explaining that redwoods soak up planet-warming greenhouse gases has been removed by the Trump administration. One of many ways the National Park Service is now silencing science and history: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/c...

New ESA and Klamath from @jacquesleslie.bsky.social dornsife.usc.edu/icw/2026/01/...

“Last year was a bonkers, crazy warming year—that's the technical term,” Abraham joked to me. “The peer-reviewed scientific term is ‘bonkers’.” www.wired.com/story/the-oc...

Congrats to Chuck and TNC California. DFW Director is one of the hardest jobs in state government and Chuck always managed it with a strong and steady hand. TNC is a good fit for him, and vice versa.

The rate of global mean sea level rise has increased from ~2.1 mm/year in 1993 to ~4.5 mm/year in 2023. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Yo La Tengo and Luna together last night. They played ‘till midnight and left us with a great poster. Good evening and welcome to the Fillmore

Someone asked for 90s records www.teenbeat.net/images/items...

Outdoor Life with a good explanation of what's at stake in the Clean Water Act rule making -> www.outdoorlife.com/opinion/epa-...

Funny how the people who talk most about defending “Western Civilization“ also hate Europe and its most admirable ideas, like the universal rights of humankind. They’d keep the imperialism and ditch the Magna Carta

An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later. harpers.org/archive/1941...

I’ll bet there’s an even dumber reason

In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites. He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him. www.wsj.com/world/china/...

One of my pet theories is that the 2000 recount era is the Rosetta Stone for 21st Century American politics. I wrote about it today. (Trigger warning: apologies if this is traumatic for any of my friends. I still have nightmares about election night.) open.substack.com/pub/brianjay...

“Mr President, can you tell us more about that amazing cognitive test? It sounds *very* impressive.”

It appears that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has, within the past week, scrubbed a large amount of climate change content from its official website, as well as *removed human-caused warming* from the discussion on its "causes of climate change" page.

So cool. Gift link -> www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...

Has anyone calculated the cost per deported criminal?

This is a well-reported article describing a complicated situation that a lot of good people are working to resolve ->

“and their descendants“ … FFS

Milestone in the revitalization of Battle Creek was achieved through River Partners’ acquisition of Battle Creek Ranch in Tehama County, marking a concrete step toward restoring one of California’s most important salmon-bearing waterways #cawater mavensnotebook.com/2025/11/21/p...

Welcome focus on “we” and “resolve” “that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom”

A little more than a year after the historic removal of four hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River, California Department of Fish and Wildlife scientists are seeing salmon reoccupying just about every corner of their historic habitat. #cawater mavensnotebook.com/2025/11/19/c...

🌊 In a Letter to the Editor, Dr. Jeanine Pfeiffer argues the Eel River’s century-old dams are unsafe, costly, and harming native fish — and says it’s time for removal. mendovoice.com/2025/11/lett... #mendocinocounty #mendocino #eelriver #environmentalism #california #environmentalism

Cool place for a club

Two Northern California tribes announced Wednesday that they signed a treaty last month, committing to jointly restore the Eel River and its fish populations. #cawater mendovoice.com/2025/11/nort...