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Executive Director @restorethedelta. Democracy always. Environmental, climate, social, economic justice. Green economy. Hiker. Cook. Writer. Gardener. Mom to young adult. Next gen coach. Community, 🌎.
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woah: “Nearly a dozen immigration officers and eight deportees are sick and stranded in a metal shipping container in the searing-hot East African nation of Djibouti, where they face the constant threat of malaria and rocket attacks from nearby Yemen…”

Heh

Democrats — don’t even think about taking money from Elon Musk. It’s blood money.

Raskin: This is a gangster state. This is not basically a legitimate government that is sometimes doing corrupt things. This is an essentially corrupt enterprise. It's like watching The Sopranos. Every day, they get up and they try to figure out how to plunder and pillage the people

that’s right

Phang: If you have to resort to deceit to get something done, that tells me what you’re doing is wrong. What’s happening is a dup-and-scoop: people are being duped into going to court, their cases get dismissed, and then they’re scooped up by ICE and deported under expedited removal.

🌊 Meet our new Climate Water Advocates! Help welcome Alexandra Y., Michelle M., and Kaley H. to the Restore the Delta team! These incredible interns will be supporting our efforts in monitoring and testing for harmful algal blooms (HABs) and overall water quality throughout the Delta! #CAwater

We need your help for the San Francisco Bay-Delta Estuary!

The Delta Tribal Environmental Coalition and allies urged CA lawmakers to reject Governor Newsom’s budget trailer bills, which fast-track the Delta Tunnel and gut key environmental reviews for the Bay-Delta Water Quality Plan. Read here: bit.ly/3FrBF3P #CAwater

Trump-esque. Trying to bypass dozens of economic and environmental planning laws like a bully. Gavin Newsom wants to be Trump.

🚨 BREAKING: Governor Gavin Newsom’s latest budget proposal part of his May Revise, includes an alarming effort to bypass legal, environmental, and public participation to fast-track the controversial Delta Conveyance Project. Read more: bit.ly/3YMIC6d #CAwater #Stopthetunnel #Environmentaljustice

Let’s hear it for present day Episcopal and Catholic Churches! Onward!

#ICYMI: In a new Capitol Weekly opinion piece, Bruce Reznik of Los Angeles Water Keeper urges the Metropolitan Water District to invest in local water solutions instead of outdated, costly projects like the Delta Tunnel and Sites Reservoir. 🔗 Read more: bit.ly/43o5PhB #CAwater

@gavinnewsom.bsky.social @governor.ca.gov is allowing ICE to operate in State buildings like @californiaepa.bsky.social without protecting those participating in environmental processes.

Mike Myers isn’t backing down from the political message he delivered during a recent Saturday Night Live appearance.

Restore the Delta is at Stockton’s #EarthDayFestival 🌎🌱 ! Join us and other organizations for celebrating the community and environment! Swing by our booth to learn about relevant resources and events all regarding the Delta such as our upcoming virtual community meeting on May 6th! #CAwater

Can we get a round of applause for the judges out there doing God’s work in standing up for people who deserve, ya know, the rights guaranteed under our constitution?

I don’t buy that he was “going to the back of his office where he could access a wifi signal. That office is a SCIF, the windows even have RF shielding films and mesh, a wifi signal won’t penetrate it. And you can’t exactly call Comcast to install a line, so if he had a “dirty” line, it’s Starlink.

📣 Join Restore the Delta's virtual community meeting on May 6th to learn how you can help stop the Delta Conveyance Project on May 19th! This harmful tunnel threatens California's water, health, wealth, and future, and we need your help to stop it. RSVP your attendance: bit.ly/4lAe29v #CAwater

🌟 We are officially 5 days away from this year’s #209Gives on April 29th! In less than a week, you’ll have the chance to make a real impact for our Delta communities and environment. Visit this link to learn more and give! bit.ly/3RmCpcZ. #209Gives #GiveBack #EnvironmentalJustice #Donate

@gavinnewsom.bsky.social ‘s Delta tunnel starts at $20.1 billion and doesn’t make any water for CA. In a recent poll, voters wanted local water projects over the tunnel almost 3 to 1.

Would rushing the Delta Tunnel save money for Californians, or set us up for disaster? The Delta Tunnel is a 45-mile long tunnel designed to divert water from Northern California’s Delta to Southern California, starting at a price tag of 20.1 billion dollars. Follow us here to learn more. #CAwater

Apple CEO Tim Cook, OpenAI's Sam Altman and Uber's Dara Khosrowshahi each gave $1mn, as did Nvidia, Google and Meta, according to federal filings. www.ft.com/content/7b0e...

Donald Trump's "border czar" Tom Homan refused to deny that people can be grabbed off the street and deported without a hearing during a chilling interview on Sunday morning.

James Carville wants a divorce. I’d be happy to give him one if it includes an order of protection against him identifying himself as a Democrat on Faux. He can have full custody of the Great & Infallible Triangulation Calculator. #DemVoice1

This is what I’ve been talking about - a lot of the GOP disagrees vehemently with what Trump is doing. They’re just too scared to do anything about it. Bunch of damn cowards.

We can fly Katy Perry to the moon, but we can’t bring a man back from El Salvador.

Stanford and Yale back Harvard in opposition to the Trump administration thehill.com/homenews/edu...

Get yourself a senator willing to rescue you in a foreign country after your messy president wrongfully deports you… …seems like a sentence I shouldn’t have to write in 2025 but here we are. Senator Chris Van Hollen leaves for El Salvador tomorrow to initiate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

Confession time. I was a sixteen-year-old who received social security. That was three-plus decades ago. My father had died. Babies receiving social security lost their parents.

AOC: I saw on Fox, Jeanine Pirro says that they found so many babies and two year olds and four year olds receiving social security. I got a notice for you Jeanine Pirro: those babies receive social security because their parents died. That’s not a waste. That’s humanity. That’s America.

Whew! Sen Chuck Grassley’s town hall should be a wake-up call for Trump & Republicans. Voters want Kilmar García brought home — and they’re pissed Trump’s thumbing his nose at a Supreme Court ruling. This isn’t “tough on crime,” it’s lawless, un-American trash — and folks know it. This is Iowa!

1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

Tax Day reminder that CEOs can write off their private jets and yachts as business expenses on their taxes, but you can’t write off the car you use to drive to work at their companies. This is what tax laws designed to benefit billionaires and corporations look like.

This is terrifying in America. ICE agents are showing up masked—these abductions must stop. If you’re going to detain someone, show your face, present a warrant, and proper ID. Disappearing people from their families without evidence or accountability isn’t law enforcement—it’s state-sponsored fear.

Exclusive: Days before masked ICE agents detained Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk to deport her, the State Department determined that the Trump administration had not produced any evidence showing that she engaged in antisemitic activities.

“Erik Prince wants to cut a deal to transport detainees from the US to El Salvador *** The proposal would “target ‘criminal illegal aliens’” and “attempt to avoid legal challenges by designating part of the prison…as American territory.” 4/11/25 1/

In the News: Last week, Restore the Delta’s Executive Director, Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, shared more insight on the growing opposition to the Delta Conveyance Project with @nbcbayarea.com. Watch the full video here: bit.ly/425l1Q9 #CAwater

🔥 Restore the Delta’s BBQ Benefit is just 5 days away! TICKET SALES END TODAY, Monday, April 7th! Support Restore the Delta. No tickets will be sold at the door so grab your tickets before it’s too late!🤠 🎟️ Purchase your tickets or donate today: givebutter.com/rtd_rodeo

🚜Calling all Delta emerging farmers and ag students! Ready to take your ag game to new heights? Join us at Restore the Delta’s FREE DELTA AG FLY training on May 22-23, 2025 for 2 full days of hands-on drone training & more! Scan the QR code or click the link to apply: bit.ly/DeltaAgFlyAp...

Rule of Law is in the rearview mirror.

#ICYMI: On Friday, April 4th, Restore the Delta released new polling data showing that California voters favor investing in affordable & sustainable local water solutions rather than the costly Delta Tunnel project. Read more about this article and polling findings here: bit.ly/43KoC7E #CAwater

As the economic news keeps coming out over the coming weeks keep one thing in mind: this is the fault of one man and didn’t need to happen.

Great news!