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Can fire-resistant homes be sexy? 'You be the judge,' says this Palisades architect A new home built in Pacific Palisades is designed for fire resistance without sacrificing architectural beauty.

Pacific Palisades Architect Builds Fire-Resistant Home Like A Sexy Tank

@nohaggerty.bsky.social reports for the @latimes.com with photography by Caroline Brehman

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🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran reportedly hit U.S. military's Camp Victory near Baghdad International Airport

Anxiety #13.

An excerpt from Jesse Jackson’s powerful speech to the Democratic National Convention on July 19, 1988.

May he rest in peace.

Renewable Energy and National Security The wind and the sun don’t need to transit the Strait of Hormuz

Trump's Iran war makes the case for the energy transition to renewables for most countries much clearer and immediate. @pkrugman.bsky.social 1/

The intensity of the Israeli bombardments in Beirut’s southern suburbs....
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New flag?
The latest from "America's Newsroom" (#FoxNews)

Costco Says It Will Use Potential Tariff Refunds To Lower Prices It is unclear whether the wholesaler will receive tariff refunds, though it is one of several companies suing the Trump administration for the refunds.

Costco: if we succeed in getting tariff refunds, we will pass them back to our members. Sets the standard for others. www.forbes.com/sites/antoni...

While you were blinking,

Here’s how Doug Ford’s ban on American booze in Ontario has impacted distilleries one year later It’s officially been one year since Ontario’s liquor aisles turned into the unlikely battlegrounds in a trade fight with the United States.

"More than 3,600 American-made alcohol products were pulled from LCBO shelves and taken off the menus at restaurants and bars across the province, marking an “enormous hit” to U.S. producers as Ontario said it had sold $965 million worth of their alcohol annually." www.cp24.com/local/toront...

Read more about what this case means for press freedom in this op-ed by @seth-stern.bsky.social in @theintercept.com, published in Nov.

Bernard LaFayette, Selma voting rights organizer, has died Voting rights organizer Bernard LaFayette has died. LaFayette's son says his father died Thursday morning of a heart attack. He was 85.

Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died.

COPE Councillor Considering Next Steps After Mayor’s False Drug Accusations | The Tyee Ken Sim wrongly accused Sean Orr of dealing illegal drugs and initially let another councillor take the blame.

Within this story from @kehyslop.bsky.social and @jenstden.bsky.social: Former Green councillor Adrianne Carr says she resigned in 2025 in part because of remarks Sim made to her during an in-camera meeting
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Scoop: FEMA Cancels All Emergency Manager Trainings

Scoop: FEMA Cancels All Emergency Manager Trainings #Climate

Meanwhile, in the land of the living:

Israel and America rain bombs on Iran and Lebanon - as thousand flee Beirut YouTube video by Channel 4 News

=1,000= ships with $25 billion in cargo are now trapped in the Gulf of Hormuz per Lloyds:
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Google pledges roughly three hours of its annual profit to fight climate change Google and others are committing $100 million to combat climate change.

The perfect headline doesn’t exi…

Listen to what American and Israeli leaders are saying - in public. Bye.

[Exit Murderer.]

Hard disagree

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US Sen. Ron Wyden wants answers from Trump administration on wildfire preparedness Lawmakers across the West are nervous about a potentially destructive wildfire season at a time when federal firefighting agencies are strained.

Oregon's snowpack is meager so far, and fears are growing that this summer's wildfire conditions will be dire. With about half of the state's land managed by the federal government, Sen. Ron Wyden is pushing the Trump administration to provide some answers on its plans to do to prepare.

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Platform 9.5?

We can do this!
#EnergyTransition

Tell me this isn't JudeoChristian holy war:
"Assassinating #Khameini during #Ramadan is about as subtle as murdering the Pope on the steps of St. Peter's in Holy Week. It will inflame the Shiite world." - Former #NATO Dep Supreme Commander Allied Forces Europe #IranIsraelWar
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❗️Iran has struck the BAPCO refinery in Bahrain with ballistic missiles.

I detect a pattern . . .

Bloomberg NEF's Vagneur-Jones: “When a technology becomes cost competitive, you get to a tipping point on adoption.”

Pacific Ocean Floor by MARIE THARP, Bruce Heezan, and Heinrich Berann, *as published in* the National Geographic. There, fixed it.😉