Nathaniel Hoffman

@paleomedia

#climate #migration #democracy / @amorandexile author / sometimes hunter/gatherer / perpetual hack

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Nathaniel Hoffman@paleomedia· 1d

Zoom into the Gulf or Lake --> Add/Edit Label

Screenshot of Google Maps showing the Gulf of Mexico detail pane and Edit Label button circled in pink highlighter

Nathaniel Hoffman@paleomedia· 2d

Love getting paper magazines in the mailbox, @jewishcurrents.bsky.social Fall 2026 Bund-pilled issue

Cover of latest Jewish Currents print issue, red and gray graphic on top of red chair.

Nathaniel Hoffman@paleomedia· 21d

Just perusing El-Sayed resume...

He graduated Phi Beta Kappa with Highest Distinction in 2007 with a bachelor's degree and delivered that year's commencement speech.[10] His speech was later noted as displaying his skill in public speaking.[11] Former US President Bill Clinton, whose commencement speech followed El-Sayed's, remarked, "I don't want to embarrass your senior speaker, but I wish every person in the world who believes that we are fated to have a clash of civilizations, and cannot reach across the religious divides, could have heard you speak today."[12] According to El-Sayed, Clinton approached him after the ceremony and encouraged him to consider public service.[12]

Nathaniel Hoffman@paleomedia· 23d

Idahoans' share of federal spending on Trump storm troopers and deportation regime: **$1,800 per taxpayer** check the methodology and see your state/city share of the tax burden: www.epi.org/deportation-...

Instead of spending
$1,116,116,338
or $1,800 per taxpayer, on mass deportations, Idaho taxpayers could fund
4,610
School Teachers
OR
5,074
Firefighters
OR
53,929
People on Medicaid
OR
24,240
Veterans' Medical Care
OR
19,907
Head Start Slots
OR
3,255
Registered Nurses
OR
518,358
SNAP Recipients
OR
106,383
Public Housing Units
OR
29,482
Parents with 12 weeks paid parental leave

Nathaniel Hoffman@paleomedia· Jul 23

Daily Mail Exclusive HED:

EXCLUSIVE: The World Cup’s dirty little secret: FIFA’s president wasn’t the only culprit to wind up in crosshairs over his gas-guzzling private jet travel…see the worst offenders

Nathaniel Hoffman@paleomedia· Jul 21

The @climatecentral.org Climate Shift Index shows today's heat in Boise is made at least 4 times more likely due to climate change - hotter and even worse to the east along Snake River Plain...

Heat map of heat map of southern idaho, showing bright red blotches for 4/5 on the Climate Shift Index from Boise east. Graphic from Climate Central.

Nathaniel Hoffman@paleomedia· Jul 2

Also @hammerandhope.bsky.social, The Declaration as a core text of Black studies:

The Declaration’s significance extends far beyond the aims of the American Revolution or an expression of American nationalism. For Black thinkers, captive and fugitive, it was a referendum on the definition of the human, a rhetorical weapon against America’s conceits of liberty and democracy, and an exhortation on the right to rebel. Black people did not need a document to justify revolt, but it came in handy. It is most powerful when the people it was never meant to represent grab hold of its language and toss it back like an undetonated grenade, whether those hands belong to Denmark Vesey, Nat Turner, Maria Stewart, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., or Ho Chi Minh of Vietnam. For these and other reasons, the Declaration should be read as a core text in Black studies.

Nathaniel Hoffman@paleomedia· Jun 26

Oh, look, a proper reflecting pool, like a mighty stream, with a dream.

Photo of MLK memorial site, ATL, brilliant BLUE reflecting pool.

Nathaniel Hoffman@paleomedia· Jun 13

Weekend read.

Since July 2025, the Export-Import Bank of the United States, the US International Development Finance Corporation, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Energy, and the Department of War have committed approximately $25 billion in financing to critical mining firms and projects in the US, the UK, Australia, Brazil, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, Korea, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Jamaica. In February 2026, Trump unveiled Project Vault, a $12 billion critical mineral stockpile, and JD Vance announced that the US is seeking to create a new critical minerals trading bloc “among allies and partners, one that guarantees American access to American industrial might while also expanding production across the entire zone.”

Nathaniel Hoffman@paleomedia· Jun 10

New WOTS out for summer '26, looking really good, with new design and even more arts focus. Got mine at downtown Y box. Keep up on happenings @ Interfaith Sanctuary Boise.

Front page of WOTS: Word On The Street, a newspaper from Interfaith Sanctuary in Boise, Idaho showing four beautiful paintings of shelter residents, 3 men and one woman and an announcement about the new design. Most of text blurred.

Nathaniel Hoffman@paleomedia· Jun 8

such strong writing, from today's newsletter:

At each stop, we will be spending time with African and Afro‑diasporic communities, treating them as protagonists with their own histories, class positions, and political arguments. These are the people who have turned America into places that feel as much global South as global North. They are the reason that watching Senegal in Harlem can feel, for ninety minutes, like watching Dakar watch itself. They are also often the first to feel the pressures that the rest of the world only encounters later: police attention, precarity, algorithmic sorting, the endless work of making lives across borders that were never designed for them. But they are not only its victims; from elected officials like Ilhan Omar and Zohran Mamdani to organizers and artists whose names are less known, they keep daring America either to live up to its promises or admit, publicly, that it never will.

Nathaniel Hoffman@paleomedia· Jun 8

Just ordered @africasacountry.bsky.social special issue on football, to know more: africasacountry.com/store/produc...

The World Cup is a sharp way of bringing these tensions into focus. On the one hand, it is meant to be a borderless party in which flags, shirts, songs, and languages are supposed to mix without friction. On the other hand, it will take place in and around hardened frontiers, militarized cities, and a thick atmosphere of suspicion directed at Black and brown crowds. This is Trump’s America as World Cup host: a state that talks about “the world’s game” while sending ICE to patrol the same borderlands where fans, workers, and players will be trying to move. The event will serve as a kind of test case. How does a late empire tell a story about unity when its everyday practice is separation?

Nathaniel Hoffman@paleomedia· May 1

fucking fascinating, via Politico newsletter

“Where there are high levels of adoption and enthusiasm, there also seems to be a high level of trust that their governments will protect them and regulate this technology effectively,” Sha Sajadieh, Stanford’s AI Index lead, tells Forecast. “In the U.S., not only is there not as much enthusiasm or adoption [of AI], but there's not as much trust in the government to regulate it in a way that might protect the public.”

Nathaniel Hoffman@paleomedia· Apr 29

A little Saharanism in my favorite Boise basement

Camel drawing under red light against vertical wood paneling

Seated camel lamp on table in front of dried flower arrangement

Nathaniel Hoffman@paleomedia· Apr 3

Idaho is one of the cheapest states to charge up an EV, based on per "gallon" equiv yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/04/what...

Choropleth map of US using shades of green with dollar amounts on each state: This map shows the cost of charging an EV by an amount equivalent to one gallon of gasoline.
Figures reflect electricity prices as of January 2026.

Nathaniel Hoffman@paleomedia· Mar 20

except that was a real thing that happened in 2024

Nathaniel Hoffman@paleomedia· Mar 20

I thought this whole thing was a joke yesterday, but here are 15 Democrats who shamefully voted for the “The Kristi Noem Canine Relief Act of 2025” yesterday. Kos has the write up from when it was in committee: www.dailykos.com/stories/2025... Quite literally a nativist dog whistle.

Nathaniel Hoffman@paleomedia· Mar 18

This mofo really loves to play his guitar for folks.

Jesse Welles in red tank playing guitar on stage in Boise Idaho March 17 2026

Nathaniel Hoffman@paleomedia· Mar 17

Important post from Somali ma Maryan Sheikh Abdinur in Minneapolis in @hammerandhope.bsky.social "...You just got here. You’re still trying to eat, to heal, find the medicine. This was 2015, 2016. I was like, I did not know we could do this... I did not know we can demand our rights."

"You can tell this person is not used to this weight of whatever weapons they’re wearing because there’s no stability. When I see videos of them I think, You are not supported in any way … and you’re so dependent on these weapons. There are magazines and canisters in the street, it seems like nothing is secure. Do you not know where to put it, what spot in your tactical gear it belongs in?"

"Are you so disconnected that your body doesn’t know you? The contrast to that is they’re trying to detain people who have crossed rivers filled with crocodiles, who have dodged snakes in deserts, who have survived some of the most unimaginable conditions to bring their children in search of a better life here. And you are deeming yourself more worthy."

Nathaniel Hoffman@paleomedia· Mar 11

This escalated fast, in a good way.

US map show 28 states and DC considering plug in solar bills.

Nathaniel Hoffman@paleomedia· Mar 4

Itchy eyes can confirm, via @climatecentral.org www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt...

beige chart: longer growing season = longer allergy season

trend line up and to the right showing 55 additional allergy days from 1970 to 2025 in Boise, from Climate Central

Nathaniel Hoffman@paleomedia· Mar 3

Baby kales hatched.

Nathaniel Hoffman@paleomedia· Mar 1

Boise says NO WAR ON IRAN.

Crowd outside Boise City Hall at dusk, "male love not war" - "no war"

Nathaniel Hoffman@paleomedia· Feb 3

This graf is basically Bad Bunny's acceptance speech

Plaintiffs are five Haitian TPS holders. They are not, it emerges, “killers, leeches, or entitlement junkies.” They are instead: Fritz Emmanuel Lesly Miot, a neuroscientist researching Alzheimer’s disease, Dkt. 90 (Second Am. Compl. (SAC)) ¶ 1; Rudolph Civil, a software engineer at a national bank, id. ¶ 2; Marlene Gail Noble, a laboratory assistant in a toxicology department, id. ¶ 3; Marica Merline Laguerre, a college economics major, id. ¶ 4; and Vilbrun Dorsainvil, a full-time registered nurse, id. ¶ 5. They claim that Secretary Noem’s decision violates the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), 5 U.S.C. § 706(2), and the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The Government counters that the Court does not have jurisdiction, and, in any case, the Secretary did not violate the law.

Nathaniel Hoffman@paleomedia· Feb 2

Text thread cont.

Bad Bunny -NuevaToL (Video Oficial) LINK

Daddy is dancing!!!!( and sort of singing along!!) very cool. I am a fan 😃

Nathaniel Hoffman@paleomedia· Feb 2

texts from ma this AM www.youtube.com/watch?v=KU5V...

Text message screen grab:

Hola!!! What’s the story with Bad Bunny??? Just listened to some of his music in preparation for the Super Bowl😃😃😃

do you like it?

Yes! He has a good voice

Nathaniel Hoffman@paleomedia· Jan 31

This one church protest is breaking the third wall of Christian nationalism in the US. Se excerpt on City Church ties to Doug Wilson in Idaho.

Joe Rigney, one of Cities Church’s founders, has recently become a MAGA media darling because he, along with podcaster Allie Beth Stuckey, has been pushing the idea that empathy is a sin. He now serves as associate pastor at Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho, a congregation led by Doug Wilson, a pastor who has praised race relations under slavery and denounced women’s suffrage, to argue that people are “being manipulated by empathy.”

Nathaniel Hoffman@paleomedia· Jan 9

Dozens of white offshore wind turbines in the sea at Dabancheng wind farm in China's Xinjiang province with Chinese writing on the closest one, via https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2008/jul/25/renewableenergy.alternativeenergy

Large blue wind towers with white blades amidst lush green hills and dirt roads; 1 GW wind farm able to annually generate 3 TWh of electricity in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region via https://globalenergyprize.org/en/2022/07/07/china-puts-into-operation-the-largest-wind-farm-in-its-history/

Beautiful wind turbines glow in setting sun with powerlines in foreground at Gansu Wind Farm in China, largest wind farm in the world in 2020 via https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-Gansu-Wind-Farm-in-China-is-the-largest-wind-farm-in-the-world-with-a-target_fig14_316043707

Nathaniel Hoffman@paleomedia· Dec 15

black T-shirt with a Taco and the word TILF

Nathaniel Hoffman@paleomedia· Dec 3

This should be worth a tote bag or something @jewishcurrents.bsky.social I listened to more Bad Bunny tho, and also am planning to drop Spotify anyway.