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Daniel Melling @danielmelling.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

At Dodger Stadium tonight for Max Muncy‘s 131 home run record. Eric Karros pictured live on the Jumbotron wearing a lime green tie and not looking happy. When the Dodgers lost the game in the 9th, guy in front of me reminisced on the days of Eric Gagne. The early 2000s are alive at Chavez Ravine

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Why is the climate changing? Fossil fuels are the biggest contributor, but we also have invisible ghosts of like 2 billion hectares of cleared forests hanging out up in the sky, so we can all eat (Land-use change is responsible for about 1/4-1/3 of total cumulative CO2 emissions since 1750)

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Daniel Melling @danielmelling.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I’ve been reading these books every year as they come out — excellent. Can’t wait for the series.

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Daniel Melling @danielmelling.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Saw The Odyssey last night at Universal CityWalk and extending my journey to the ancient world by driving past the Citadel Outlets

An outlet mall off the 5 freeway styled as an ancient Syrian palace

Assyrian engravings on the side of the Citadel Outlets, once a tire store

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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The year is 2048. Travel guides to the US note the abundance of hulking gas cars, a global oddity. "Renting one is an experience, but not cheap"

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Insane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.* Details in today's newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...

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Researchers used electric stoves to treat asthma. It worked.

The latest evidence that gas is bad for your health.

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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 20/07/2026

NEW: Big Oil and Gas created the myth that natural gas is "clean" — despite knowing the health and climate harms of methane decades earlier than previously reported. A major CCI investigation exposes how the gas industry deceived the public and policymakers into believing gas is a climate solution.

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The Fraud of “Clean” Natural Gas | Center for Climate Integrity

How Big Oil and Gas Created the Myth that Natural Gas is a Climate Solution

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 12/07/2026

Elon Musk’s cuts to U.S.A.I.D. led to some 700,000 deaths, Atul Gawande says. www.newyorker.com/news/the-new...

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The Human Cost of DOGE’s War on U.S.A.I.D.

Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and the “public man-made death” that they’ve caused.

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Franchise of Jackie Robinson won’t let one of its most beloved players say he’s not going to the White House because he doesn’t want to hang out with a racist who terrorized his city, forcing him to come up with a BS excuse instead. Really pathetic of the Dodgers. www.latimes.com/sports/dodge...

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Kiké Hernández on why he'll miss Dodgers' White House visit

Injured Dodgers utility player Kiké Hernández will not be with the team when it visits the White House later this month to celebrate its 2025 title.

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Daniel Melling @danielmelling.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

On Melrose Ave by Pacific Design Center, a large Minion has risen atop the Guess Jeans boutique.

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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Incredible chart from @propublica.org. If you don’t follow enviro stuff closely, your instinct might be that the hold-your-nose solution (carbon capture from fossil fuels) would be the “pragmatic” one versus covering Earth in solar panels, which seems utopian. In fact it’s the opposite

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Daniel Melling @danielmelling.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

An Iron Chef-style matchup between the Lindt chocolatier and the new Hershey Chocolate artisan

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

I would expect fire season across the interior West to kick into high gear quite soon, with at least 6 consecutive upcoming days or critical or near-critical fire weather (a mix of hot, dry, windy, plus some dry lightning) aligning with widespread severe to extreme drought.

Multi-panel map snapshot from NWS Storm Prediction Center highlighting widespread regions of elevated or critical fire weather conditions across the interior West (but NOT the West Coast) each day for at least the next 6 days.

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Joe Linton @lintonjoe.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

You thought #largeasphaltrepair was bad? Now L.A. city has inexplicably shifted to repaving streets already in good condition in rich neighborhoods... because where there are no sidewalks, there's no requirement for wheelchair ramps. #youcantmakethisshitup

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Evan George @evanlgeorge.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

When I posted this week that NPR is shrinking its climate reporting staff it got a big reaction on here. Please help me also share that there remain dozens of climate & energy reporters at LOCAL public media outlets all across the U.S. whose work deserves props and support. Here are 20. Plz repost!

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Daniel Melling @danielmelling.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

On the alumni listserv, an offer for two mid-tier seats to the USA v Paraguay group game for $2700

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Evan George @evanlgeorge.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

NPR is shrinking its newsroom through layoffs and buyouts and is reducing staff dedicated to covering both climate and science. "The climate desk no longer exists separately but has been folded into the National Desk," writes Neela Banerjee, who headed the climate desk but was just laid off.

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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 27/05/2026

I thought I'd get maybe 25 replies to this request and use two or three of them. We're now at 1400. The column, which is 4600 words long (blame yourselves), is finished, but this thread should be studied by future historians. No era has ever been as utterly annoyed, as molecularly fed up, as we are

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Daniel Melling @danielmelling.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I saw Rollins play at Royce Hall my freshman year at UCLA, in 2007. Even then the sax seemed too heavy for him as he came out hunched over, but as soon as he started playing he set the house ablaze. What a legend. RIP.

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Daniel Melling @danielmelling.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

PSA: “Where Eagles Dare” screening on TCM tomorrow for Memorial Day

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

When Disney promised to convert Autopia to electric vehicles, it wasn't just an act of corporate goodwill. Turns out California had issued an air quality "notice of violation" concerning modified engines. I've got exclusive details: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/disneyland...

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Exclusive: Disneyland's air quality mishap

The whole truth about Autopia.

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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

The rate at which Trump's war on Iran is fulfilling UN and Obama/Biden energy policy goals is just breathtaking. Check out the latest Zero pod with @akshatrathi.bsky.social 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Iran War Speeds Up the Trickiest Part of the Clean Energy Transition

Professor Emily Grubert joins the Zero podcast to discuss the difficulty of maintaining fossil-fuel supplies while clean energy is ramped up.

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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

"When Trump attacks democratic institutions, he does so in the manner of a car wreck — so flagrantly destructive as to command public attention. When SCOTUS undermines our democracy ... it feels more like a slow poisoning: the attacks may be harder to notice, but they are just as deadly."

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Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

She gave him a torch? SHE GAVE HIM ONE OF OUR TORCHES???

The fascist president of the United States, President Donald Trump, standing with LA Mayor Karen Bass, in the heavily-gilded Oval Office of the White House lined with presidential portraits, holding a Palisades flag and an Olympic torch which says Presented to President Trump from the City of Los Angeles. They both have huge smiles on their faces

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Evan George @evanlgeorge.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

UCLA’s STOP Methane Project reviewed public satellite data from Carbon Mapper showing 3,000 methane plumes from 700 waste sites worldwide to ID the highest methane emission rates detected in 2025. Each site is a huge chance for operators to fix mega-leaks. law.ucla.edu/news/spotlig...

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Ethan Elkind @ethanelkind.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

It’s worth noting that the Obama environmental policy that so frightened the chief justice into launching the “shadow docket” was actually so weak that the power sector ended up exceeding the clean energy targets even with the regulation on hold. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Remarkable SCOTUS reporting in the NYTimes, which pretty much confirms what observers have always assumed, but still astonishes. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

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The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

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Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

It has begun

Green juices with orange caps in bottles with LACMA branding and a tag that says Erewhon LACMA

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Happy Tax Day folks. As I pointed out here, the technical arguments about having free tax filing is over. Direct File proved it. What we are seeing now is just rent-seekers bribing policymakers to be allowed to keep extracting money from you. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-the-d...

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What the death of Direct File tells us about state capacity

We CAN have nice things - if we want them

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

US voters worried about high food prices in 2024. This admin has: 1) taxed food & fertilizer imports 2) deported farmworkers 3) canceled food/climate investments 4) started a war that spiked energy/fertilizer prices 5) increased crop-based biofuel mandates 6) released dietary guidance centering meat

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Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I just got new numbers for the Hollywood Bowl. In 2025, *41 percent* of the Hollywood Bowl audience arrived without a car, using only buses and shuttles. That's up from 36 percent in 2024. Something to think about as you try to get to Dodger Stadium this season 😇

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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

This is the issue I’ve become a middle-aged crank about

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Daniel Melling @danielmelling.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Scenes from the Amtrak Pacific Surfliner (San Diego > LA)

Black Hawk helicopters in Camp Pendleton

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Daniel Melling @danielmelling.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

My friends & colleagues @uclalawemmett.bsky.social have organized a timely and relevant symposium next Friday, 4/3 on energy and housing in California. Happy to see @liamjdillon.com and @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social on the panels. RSVP!

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Fair to say that the Western U.S. heatwave has reached record-shattering status, with dozens of locations breaking all-time March monthly heat records & some now approaching *April* records. Swath of record heat extends clear from Pacific to Great Plains, & from Canada to Mexico.

Map of U.S., from coolwx.com, showing locations currently experiencing record-breaking temperatures. There are countless such locations in the Western U.S., with hundreds of red dots (locations breaking daily record highs) and dozens of pink dots (locations breaking March monthly record highs). The region of record heat extends from the Pacific Coast to the Great Plains, and from Canada to Mexico.

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Hayes Davenport @hayesdavenport.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

For about a year I've been working with some of the best reporters and editors in L.A. to build a brand new city news outlet. It launches tomorrow. Is it possible to operate a sustainable local journalism business in 2026? Let me know! lamaterial.com

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Home | L.A. Material

News for Los Angeles.

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Andrew Freedman @afreedma.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

"Meteorologists are reaching for superlatives to describe an oncoming heat wave so intense and rare for this time of year that it could leave some locations shattering their all-time temperature records for April before that month has even begun." www.cnn.com/2026/03/17/w...

Map of the Lower 48 states showing a heat dome covering the Western U.S. in reddish, orange hues. The dome extends across the entire region.

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Kimberly Clausing @kclausing.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

(1/2) Your daily reminder that Congress has the power of the purse. They control these delegations of authority, and they have the ability to curb/end them. SCOTUS has done their job standing up for separation of powers. It's time for Congress to do theirs. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/b...

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U.S. Accuses 16 Trading Partners of Unfair Practices and Opens Investigation

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Evan George @evanlgeorge.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

It's early March but winter in the west is over and we're about to see an “unprecedented” heat wave. “We are in a fairly serious situation," @weatherwest.bsky.social said in his office hours this week. So, no, I'm not loving the idea of a “super El Niño.” legal-planet.org/2026/03/11/u...

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An "Unprecedented" Heatwave is Just the Start - Legal Planet

A record-breaking heat wave in early March? The Drain is a weekly roundup of environmental and climate news from Legal Planet.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 07/03/2026

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

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At Largest ICE Detention Camp, Staff Bet on Detainee Suicides, AP Reports

Camp East Montana has received several 911 calls in the span of five months about immigrants trying to harm themselves.

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Daniel Melling @danielmelling.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Coreopsis maritima coming to life! This was just the dry stem component for months and the green shot out in just the last couple weeks

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Streetsblog L.A. @streetsblogla.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Take the subway from #BeverlyHills to #DTLA in 20 minutes, starting Friday May 8!! 4 new miles, 3 new stations!

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Daniel Melling @danielmelling.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

30yrs after the movie VOLCANO depicted Beverly Hills residents protesting a new subway stop … the subway is coming to Beverly Hills in May!

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Liam Dillon @liamjdillon.com · 25/02/2026

Not sure how I didn't know before today that @metrolosangeles.bsky.social has a creepy, vertically eyed mascot named Rude Dude

"Rude Dude" riding an LA Metro escalator

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

In theory, we know this is true. But "struck down" doesn't quite capture it. These tariffs were obviously and transparently illegal. They were knowingly illegal. It is a stain on the Court that something so obviously illegal was allowed to stand for a year. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/scotus-...

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SCOTUS Blocks Trump’s IEEPA Tariffs in 6-3 Decision

The Supreme Court blocked President Donald Trump’s signature economic and foreign policy...

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BART @bart.gov · 19/02/2026

Congrats to BART rider and Oakland legend Alysa Liu on winning a gold medal at the Olympics and making the Bay Area proud!

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Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Melrose was supposed to undergo a complete streets makeover from Highland to Fairfax that would have installed stormwater gardens to mitigate flooding, among other critical safety improvements. The previous councilmember killed the project

A glorious rendering showing a Melrose with bike lanes, shade trees, crosswalks and wide sidewalks

Another perspective showing bike lanes, crosswalks, shade trees and happy people strolling Melrose

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