Climate change is here. NZ isn't ready Analysis: A serious approach to climate adaptation requires reckoning with the grim reality the future holds: more storms, more floods, more heat.

Sobering, essential reading from the ever-excellent @marcdaalder.bsky.social #nz 🧪 newsroom.co.nz/2026/02/18/c...

What does “Dow 50,000” actually tell you—anything about the economy, or just that a number got bigger? Dow 50,000 is a milestone, not a measurement. The level of the Dow is basically arbitrary: it’s… "Dow 50,000" Sound Nice. Until Justin Wolfers Shows You That U.S. Markets Are Coming 21st Out of 23.

Dow 50,000 seems like an extraordinary headline, until... you add some context.

The aggregate stock market return during the second Trump presidency ranks as 21st out of 23 developed countries.

Here's my youtube-splaination.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYL5...

never get involved in a land war in Minnesota

In California:

This is superb, from Sen. Kelly.
Please watch.
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Insider note: First sentence of Kelly's presentation is uncannily powerful echo of my favorite TV ad ever. "Imported from Detroit," 15 yrs ago

Serendipity? Embedded memory by Kelly people? Perfect for both.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNIQ...

Top of the fold.

@washingtonpost.com

Wins 2025 hands down

FLORIDA — Woman in scrubs: “I’m a U.S. citizen! Why are you doing this to me??”

Quiet, piggy.

It’s been 45 days since Adelita Grijalva was elected by the people of Arizona.

Mike Johnson is still refusing to swear her in because she’s the final vote for the discharge petition to release the Epstein files.

Photo of a a scantily dressed young woman in a martini glass chair who was a featured performer at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago “Great Gatsby party.

This performer at Trump’s Great Gatsby party should clear up any suspicions about whether or not he’s in the Epstein Files.

Good morning! How’s the serenity?

Here are your 3 minutes of peace & calm.

(No 10-min version today.)

#OceanDevotion

Deborah Sandidge photography
Roseate Spoonbill

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social if Trump doesn't fire Kennedy, start impeachment proceedings Tuesday morning. Republicans can't stop you. Force them to vote! @normornstein.bsky.social

This would handicap The
RepubliKKKans and Chump from
Buying Elections,that is,If We Have
Any More......

This Osprey is so majestic…. 🥰
And in the bird world this is considered a sick move….

A bird with smooth, layered blue and teal plumage perches on a branch facing away. Its long, pale blue crest feathers drape down the back of its head, and its elegant tail feathers taper into a sharp point.

Agami Heron, rear view.

At Agami Island #CostaRica

#birds #nature

A reminder of how the number of centrifuges in Iran soared after Trump’s 2018 JCPOA withdrawal.

@brendannyhan.bsky.social

Oh, Canada.

Giving garbage a bad name☹️

“We've arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces.”

~ Carl Sagan

Larry David with a clear, concise explanation of how all sane, decent human beings view Trump—and everyone who supports him.

nice!

CN Subscribe Trump officials fired nuclear staff not realizing what they do The administration officials didn't seem to know the agency oversees the country's nuclear weapons, sources say • CNN Exclusive: FEMA firings reveal roiling tension and confusion within the Department of Homeland Security

Roses are red
Violets are blue