As long as I live, I will never understand how “it should be easier for multi-billion-dollar corporations to dump poison in the water my children drink” became popular politics with half the country. www.nbcnews.com/science/envi... 🌎🧪 - ThreadSky

whysharksmatter.bsky.social • 14 days ago

As long as I live, I will never understand how “it should be easier for multi-billion-dollar corporations to dump poison in the water my children drink” became popular politics with half the country.

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/epa-rollback-environmental-regulations-zeldin-rcna196112 🌎🧪

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phred369.bsky.social•14 days ago

EPA is our taxpayer funded program to protect our air, land, and water… from contamination by corrupt corporations

The republicans don’t care about the people. They support only corporations and billionaires

Fight back against the blatant corruption, pay for play, in the dtrumpf administration

phred369.bsky.social•14 days ago

Criminal behavior to knowingly allow our air, land, and water to be poisoned by corrupt corporations

EPA no longer works for the people

I am being taxed for programs and agencies that know longer do the jobs they were created

Taxation without representation

republicans do not represent us

rdangler.bsky.social•14 days ago

It is in big business's self interest to protect the environment.

timethreading.bsky.social•14 days ago

In the very early 70's, my family went to Big Bear, and looking out over the valley below, we could barely see anything because of the dense smog. When it rained in Orange County, we could see the mountains with snow for approximately an hour after it stopped. It's absurd, what they're doing to us.

overdone.bsky.social•14 days ago

I think we only hear the loud mouth pollutors opinion.

naturalguard.bsky.social•13 days ago

Propaganda is the answer you're looking for. What for-profit polluter has not used corporate media to lie to the general public?

sunnyjim.bsky.social•14 days ago

Because my American Exceptionalism is resistant to these toxins!! Just like it was against covid

galliformesguy.bsky.social•14 days ago

Awesome!!! AE is one of the longest running frauds.

pucci28.bsky.social•14 days ago

Shocked & stunned!! What country is this!?? Afghanistan!???

johnmbusher.bsky.social•14 days ago

It almost seems like they want large portions of the population to die.

amsandkms.bsky.social•14 days ago

Additionally 👇

"Trump’s EPA Is Trying to Claw Back Billions From Habitat for Humanity"

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-epa-is-trying-to-claw-back-billions-from-habitat-for-humanity/

ritamelindared.bsky.social•14 days ago

It didn't. That half just believes that life is a football game and we are on teams. They are ignorant to most of what their team actually does (even though many of them trumpet things they don't understand - not really - not long term consequences). That's why they are removing scientists.

ritamelindared.bsky.social•14 days ago

They don't want anyone around to explain what is *actually happening to their populace when it comes time to pay the piper.

nosheds.bsky.social•12 days ago

Because it's presented as "Tax Cuts", "Taxes are bad", "Government Spending is Bad", not as "Environmental ptotection keeps you safe but costs money"

But the people with the first messages have the money and the power.

zwirnm.bsky.social•14 days ago

https://theonion.com/epa-to-drop-e-p-from-name-1819567767/

jesrcerulean.bsky.social•14 days ago

His face is strangely unmarked: Botox, or sociopathy?

rulesdontwork.bsky.social•12 days ago

As far as I understand it all boils down to: voting for the racist and male-domination party against pesky blacks, browns, women and assorted queers, to put them all back in their places.
Made voters gobble up any amount and type of garbage. Now we all reap the dark harvest they sowed

toobigtofail.bsky.social•14 days ago

Corporations want as few encumbrances on their power as possible, so they've launched a half-century campaign to convince the public that the stagnation of real wages since the Oil Crisis in the early 70's is the result of "burdensome regulations" rather than de-unionization.

halgregory.bsky.social•14 days ago

It's all about the shareholders earnings... All of it... They don't care about anything else...

jamestmckraken.bsky.social•14 days ago

20 years of Fox News brainwashing.

creativemercury.bsky.social•14 days ago

it's the multi-billion dollars

ninam0.bsky.social•14 days ago

Corporations poisoning the Earth is worldwide terrorism.

ebroskie1234.bsky.social•14 days ago

Any hearing Zeldin goes to, should have water from Flint Michigan or East Palestine Ohio in his glass.

tovanish.kimdokja.company•13 days ago

a lot of people have forgotten how bad it used to be and could be again. so now they want to peel back all progress until we suffer the consequences and have to try to bring these policies back in likely worse political environments

pamnapo.bsky.social•14 days ago

They scream about mercury in the vaccines but are fine with it in the air and water.

michaelmattin.bsky.social•14 days ago

When people only drink branded bottled water they think is better than tap water they don’t care about keeping tap water safe
Part and parcel of the privatization process

gregorynorminton.bsky.social•14 days ago

It isn't popular with half the country, it's just that half the country is incapable of paying attention.

tpo-asd.bsky.social•14 days ago

📌

welshrarebit.bsky.social•14 days ago

Something to do with the national paranoia about communism, undiminished 35 years after the end of the Cold War. Capitalism is freedom, government regulation of toxins is tyranny.

doge-bag.bsky.social•14 days ago

They need to cut red tape (or in this case red-blooded bodies) 🤦‍♂️

islandofreil.bsky.social•14 days ago

Ultimately, this:

https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/jonathan-m-metzl/dying-of-whiteness/9781541644960/?lens=basic-books

kristinlowry.bsky.social•13 days ago

What a stupid man, they tried to roll back auto emissions during Trump's first term and the manufacturers said nope, can't do it, we're already set up to reduce emissions, so, sorry

johnathanlemons.bsky.social•14 days ago

Because half of Americans seem to think of themselves has temporary embarrassed billionaires and not a living creature inhabiting a planet in crisis. The EPA might hurt the future profits of a company they will never own...

tbmccudden.bsky.social•14 days ago

Dumping poison in the water, dumping lies into the discourse, it’s all the same idea. Makes me think some day they’ll argue that pouring poison into streams is actually a protected form of speach.

scaryboots.bsky.social•14 days ago

UK edition: 'we should let water companies spill sewage into the waterways, so they can pay shareholders'

What.

seantbres.bsky.social•14 days ago

Read/watch Merchants of Doubt @naomioreskes.bsky.social & One Nation Under God @kevinmkruse.bsky.social. Decades of propaganda from big business, selling idea to public + churches that free market enterprise is indistinguishably important for individual liberty as freedom of speech, etc. is how.

buglady.bsky.social•14 days ago

"As long as they're also poisoning the people I hate, I'm in". Also, "poison and struggle makes you stronger, I don't want weak kids, give us more pollution!".

virtuistic.bsky.social•14 days ago

The anti-science death cults are gonna ... ☠️

randipumpkin.bsky.social•14 days ago

Add this Zeldin asshole to the crew of the next spacex flight

monkchips.com•14 days ago

brain rot

vchapman.bsky.social•14 days ago

Negative partisanship is a helluva drug.

guitargirlnyc.bsky.social•14 days ago

Who voted for this?

kjellf.bsky.social•14 days ago

naturalwanderer.bsky.social•14 days ago

That is because it should never be. It is shortsighted greed and ignorance.

araquiel.bsky.social•14 days ago

The GOP pretends we're just one bootstrap lift away from being billionaires ourselves, so the rubes fancy themselves aligned with the wealthy rather than the working guy. They argue that these regulations just get in the way of companies making money and the rubes see themselves in those companies.

randyhermanlaw.com•14 days ago

They have been convinced that environmental protections are just there to increase prices

maggyw.bsky.social•14 days ago

Sometimes I moan and groan about having a well and living rural. Right now it seems safer.

browder2neustadt.bsky.social•14 days ago

Make American Greed Almighty

infojunkie33.bsky.social•14 days ago

Cheaper to pollute. Takes years and $$$ to prove u are being harmed.

gsjphd.bsky.social•14 days ago

perhaps if I let them poison my children they'll give me a coupon for 10% off my electricity bill

(they won't)

sweatybikedad.bsky.social•14 days ago

So when it comes to AQI, 100 will be the new 50? Asking for everyone in Salt Lake City.

antibunny.bsky.social•14 days ago

The inventor of leaded gasoline drank a glass of the stuff on stage to prove it was safe. He would later die in agony from repeated lead poisoning, but we had to deal with breathing lead for 3 decades. That's the willingness to hurt yourself as bad or worse that we're dealing with here.

ricecp.bsky.social•14 days ago

STAND UP!
WE'RE HERE FOR THE RUMBLE.

It's a time of fierce compassion. Be fierce, do one activity everyday. It's self care.

Be the rain, the howling wind, and the mountainous wave. Be the storm. Be the broken record.

AND WATCH THE VIDEOS.

Pass it on.

ricecp.bsky.social•14 days ago

RAIN, RAIN ON THE MAGA-DOGE PARADE

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/21-doge-staffers-resign-saying-refuse-compromise-core-government-syste-rcna193622

https://wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/02/21/republican-lawmakers-no-show-as-western-wisconsin-farmers-complain-of-trump-chaos-disruption/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

https://bsky.app/profile/marisakabas.bsky.social/post/3liwlwvvq6k2s

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/georgia-republican-rich-mccormick-town-hall-doge-trump-federal-cuts-rcna193095?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

https://x.com/aaronparnas/status/1893350788233105739?s=46&t=38dkbiTLOtgXqtUehWpnZg&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

https://www.rawstory.com/video-marshall-town-hall-boo/

ricecp.bsky.social•14 days ago

AND THE WIND BEGINS TO HOWL

https://bsky.app/profile/mommamia.bsky.social/post/3lj27jx7yqs2b

https://bsky.app/profile/apsphysiology.bsky.social/post/3lj6llbksvc2p

https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-wired-doge-trump-1f3988a459d39f39e7be6c598aa3d710

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/02/27/us/politics/doge-staff-list.html

https://www.science.org/content/article/science-trump-latest-news?utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ScienceAdviser&utm_content=quotable&et_rid=299453821&et_cid=5544821

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-republicans-town-halls-blowback-trump-cuts-rcna193766

https://www.politicususa.com/p/jd-vance-flees-to-undisclosed-location

ricecp.bsky.social•14 days ago

AND IT HOWLS...

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/01/business/tesla-takedown-musk-doge/index.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=blueskyCNN&utm_content=2025-03-02T00%3A18%3A53

https://bsky.app/profile/norabeckermd.bsky.social/post/3ljedi4fqe224

https://www.rawstory.com/keith-self-town-hall-boo/

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-rebuke-lisa-murkowski-putin/

https://www.newsweek.com/hundreds-protest-jd-vance-during-family-ski-trip-2038280?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1740867248-2

https://bsky.app/profile/newrepublic.com/post/3ljleihk3kk2f

https://bsky.app/profile/newrepublic.com/post/3ljq6ymame62c

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notgoingback-cat.bsky.social•14 days ago

Keep up the good work! You are not alone 💙

lyledal.bsky.social•14 days ago

Because it isn't *their* children that are going to be poisoned.

rdwdlvr.bsky.social•14 days ago

Every single time one side says we’re going to “roll back regulations” the other side needs to say we’re “giving up protections” because that’s what is really happening.

chillychalupa.bsky.social•14 days ago

Go blame your local chamber of commerce who poisons the minds of legislators that lower regulatory hurdles = a better, thriving economy that helps everyone.

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