April Fuels!

PRESENTED BY THE BLOOD-RED SKIES OF SHARK BAY

The official peak bloom of the cherry blossoms in the nation’s capital was Thursday, March 26, two weeks before the pre-Anthropocene norm. The price of Brent crude peaked at $108.

In the early hours of Friday, March 27th, Senate Republicans finally accepted the Democratic offer to fully fund almost all of the Department of Homeland Security, with a carve-out for ICE and CBP enforcement operations, which have about $100 billion in ongoing funding from last year’s One Big Brutal Bill Act. This was a political win for the Democratic caucus, in that they offered this deal at the beginning of the month and then stuck to it, but not a win for the American people, as ICE’s kidnap-and-murder squads remain unchecked.¹  

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La., no relation) claimed there was no way he would ever accept the deal. Temperatures hit 113° in Mexico. The skies of Shark Bay turned blood red. Oil surged to $115.

Saturday, March 28, was the third No Kings Day. In Washington, D.C., thousands marched across bridges towards the National Mall from both the southwest (Arlington National Cemetery) and the southeast (Anacostia). I joined the crowd marching past American Petroleum Institute propaganda and the military-compound residence of Stephen Miller, “the architect of Renee Good and Alex Pretti’s deaths.” Cyclone Narelle struck Australia for the fourth time.

On Palm Sunday, March 29, Pope Leo XIV castigated the U.S.-Israel’s Christianist-Zionist “preëmptive” war on Iran and Lebanon, preaching:

Monday, March 30: American Petroleum Institute and Trump DOJ lawyers argued that Vermont’s Climate Superfund law should be struck down. “Imagine an Iran that, instead of spending their wealth, billions of dollars, supporting terrorists or weapons, had spent that money helping the people of Iran,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said without irony. “You’d have a much different country.”

On Tuesday, March 31, the Trump regime gave Gulf of Mexico oil drillers the green light to drive the last 50 Rice’s whales to extinction. Oil hit $119.

Now it’s April first. Johnson (no relation) folded and ended his five-day pout about the Senate DHS deal. As expected, Republicans will go it alone with One Big Brutal Bill Two: Electric Bugaloo to protect Trump’s ICE-CBP murder squads from limits or oversight. Oh, and this happened:

April Fuels!

Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-N.Y.) has proposed a delay to the state’s landmark 2019 climate law. Stop her attack.

The fossil fuel-driven climate emergency is blowing up home insurance.

At least 23 American climate scientists have decamped to Norway.

“Trump’s stumped, hoist by his own petard, stuck between a rock and a hard place, and up the creek without a paddle. The creek in question is, of course, the strait of Hormuz.”

Somebody is coming out ahead on Op. Epic Fury: U.S. LNG exports have reached record highs.

The NCAR demolition continues: PIOMAS Arctic Sea Ice Volume Reanalysis has been terminated.

Michael E. Mann is in Cambridge tomorrow, April 2, to talk about Science Under Siege.

Thea Riofrancos is in Philly tomorrow, April 2 to talk Extraction, and she’s joining a murderer’s row of climate authors—Alyssa Battistoni, Billy Fleming, Tao Leigh Goffe, and Julian Hattem—in Baltimore on April 4th:

More than 20,000 troops have spent the past year occupying the United States as an active war zone. Funny how no elected officials or major news outlets seem to have noticed. So now I’m a paid subscriber to The Border Chronicle, since they and The War Horse have published the only investigation of the Joint Task Force-Southern Border obscenity (other than yours truly).

Save my beer.

1  There are some new reporting requirements for the hypertrophied DHS immigration operations in the appropriations deal.

2  Later in that verse:
“Your rulers are rebels, partners with thieves;
they all love bribes and chase after gifts.
They do not defend the cause of the fatherless;
the widow’s case does not come before them.” (Is. 1:23)