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From a FOIA perspective, "the entire federal workforce should write down and email what they did last week" is extremely funny

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"The program costs US taxpayers more than $20 million annually, and in return it protects a multibillion-dollar fishery from an eel-like invader that entered the Great Lakes on manmade shipping canals more than a century ago." Also mentions EPA layoffs, likely resulting in more pollution.

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If you still have a local newspaper, write a letter to the editor on a current topic. You'll be surprised how often a good, short, timely letter will get accepted.

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EPA asks to miss key California deadline, blames ‘budget and staffing’ #cawater @kurtisalexander.bsky.social @sfchronicle.com gift article www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...

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This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

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NEW: The Trump administration has locked Minnesota out of $200 million in federal food and climate grants awarded last summer. Projects breaking ground this year were depending on that money. minnesotareformer.com/2025/02/21/t...

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The entire business model of American R1 universities is not viable without restoration of federal funding, & every individual institution pretending it can solve this problem alone is also not viable. University presidents need to be speaking out, collectively & loudly about this, in DC, right now.

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This is what obeying in advance looks like. The NSF fires 10% of its total staff in a move that went beyond what was requested by the current regime. The NSF is the flagship of US basic research infrastructure. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🔋 www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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Although the majority of people around the world are worried about climate change, most still feel it is a future issue or one that only affects the natural environment. They couldn’t be more wrong: climate change is already affecting what’s on our kitchen counter!

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Climate change is the biggest crisis humanity faces in the 21st century and just because they are trying to eliminate all mentions of the word “climate“ doesn’t actually solve anything.

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holy crap .... Another Town Hall(s) Goes Off the Rails – Oregon 2nd District Edition talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/anoth...

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Tom Krause is in charge of both a sensitive government payment system and a company that has millions of dollars’ worth of active contracts with various federal agencies through distribution partners, a WIRED review finds. Conflicts posed by this are unprecedented in the modern era, experts say.

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🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

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Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

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Shutting down already installed infrastructure isn't "efficiency," it's sabotage electrek.co/2025/02/21/t...

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Great article from @dventon.bsky.social on the impacts of federal layoffs on the wildland fire situation. Good discussion of how non-fire roles impact fire outcomes. Interesting that the Congressional Reps who serve the impacted areas have no comment. www.kqed.org/news/1202791...

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Today's call to @liccardo.house.gov thanked him for joining the Rapid Response Task Force & Litigation Working Group & asked him to push back on ways Trump is refusing to restart funding. Ex: Not allowing NIH advisory council or study section mtgs to be posted in the federal register & firing staff

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"Arizona is also a hub for electric vehicle manufacturing… and the elimination of IRA incentives could jeopardize around 64,000 jobs throughout the state." Climate Cabinet Education’s AZ state director @nickarnold.info laying out how cutting clean energy funding will hurt Arizona families.

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It takes more than making electric school buses available in Republican-leaning areas to make me happy. We need to actually phase out fossil fuels entirely. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

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Of course, never do this. Explicitly avoid doing this, using this very diagram.

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ny times, the most well financed, praised news source on the planet, able to influence govts, institutions, etc: "here's some lie, dont fact check it, just trust us" me, who failed high school geometry, googling while waiting for a burger: "yeah, that's not true." www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

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The underlying problem here is that US rooftop solar is something like 4x the cost in the rest of the world. I'd prefer to see incentives designed to fix that, rather than simply tossing the subsidy. Gift link www.sfchronicle.com/climate/arti...

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Very basic question: DOGE is made up a few dozen people most of whom aren't drawing salaries. What could $40 million be going toward? Could it be data storage outside government servers? talkingpointsmemo.com/news/doge-co...

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This is getting at why I appreciate #TeslaTakeDown - wagingnonviolence.org/ipra/2025/02...

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Also just now, NIH intranet was updated re its communications pause. NIH scientists can now resume travel to and participation in conferences. The pause on updating the Federal Register remains in place -- which means grant-making is effectively frozen, in violation of court orders.

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This is a very bad idea. Cutting methane emissions is a key “emergency brake” to help stop climate change. Plus, it improves air quality and improves energy security and safety.

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An idle high-voltage transmission line is suspected of sparking the deadly Eaton Fire near Los Angeles. As it turns out, California doesn't know how many more of these unused lines are strung up across the fire-prone state. A big risk hiding in plain sight. 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Next Friday (2/21) at Columbia Law, an all day colloquium on "The New Climate Fiduciaries," about investment fiduciary duties related to climate risk, adaptation, and developments in corporate and transnational law (also on zoom!) www.ecgi.global/events/the-n...

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The only reason to do the Nazi salute is because you’re a Nazi. I still see people saying- oh it’s for media, it’s trolling- and that minimizes the real threat we are facing. Do you know what you call someone cosplaying as a Nazi? A Nazi.

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🟡 NEW 🟡 Anti-Climate Attacks Heat Up Before Critical German Elections Delay and denial have clouded debate on green issues, with potentially devastating impacts for Europe’s energy transition 📝 New analysis by @katharinawecker.bsky.social & Edward Donnelly 👇 www.desmog.com/2025/02/21/a...

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It's nearly 5am and Republicans just rammed through their pro-billionaire, anti-middle class budget blueprint. In order to pass massive tax giveaways for billionaires, they're going to defund Medicaid, slash veterans benefits, & force kids to go hungry. Make sure everyone knows it.

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The Trump administration orders the federal General Services Administration to shut down 22 electric vehicle charging stations on its Denver-area campus. 🔌💡 www.cpr.org/2025/02/20/d...

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Get arrested preventing DOGE goons from entering public buildings, get arrested going into public buildings to find out what DOGE goons are doing, get arrested on the floor during confirmation votes to protest the rubber stamping of unqualified candidates

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This definitely is true based on my experience as USFS wildland firefighter in my misspent youth. abcnews.go.com/US/fired-us-...

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These stories showing up nonstop on local TV news youtu.be/N23KVyaSoLw?...

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A sheriff in Central New York released a man who’d served his sentence. Now the Trump administration, eager to force local officials to collaborate, is coming for the sheriff. New this morning in Bolts and New York Focus: boltsmag.org/new-yor...

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More than 80% of the planned $129 billion clean energy factory buildout — and tens of thousands of jobs — would go to Republican congressional districts. Learn more in the #ChartOfTheWeek: https://buff.ly/4i9T0fy Canary thanks Clean Energy Council for their support of this column.

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Remember stuff like this when they talk about cost effectiveness.

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Absolutely shocking and very worrying from NOAA www.newscientist.com/article/2469...

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"The Trump administration fired several FAA lawyers tasked with helping keep reckless and drunk pilots out of the skies" I feel safer

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Larry Diamond is arguably the world’s foremost expert on democracy and one of the most well-respected members of the Stanford faculty. Larry is not prone to hysterics; here he brings a sober (and damning) analysis of the state of American democracy. www.persuasion.community/p/the-crisis...

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Republicans are taking an axe to your housing, health care, and education, all to give tax cuts to billionaires. They are literally stealing from the poor to give to the rich.

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ICYMI, last week we published an interactive map of more than $300 billion worth of Inflation Reduction Act and bipartisan infrastructure law funding. Enter your ZIP code or city and a search radius and find projects in your area: grist.org/accountabili...

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