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So, this lawsuit filed on Saturday did get a little attention, rightly on the merits — about a climate group suing over money the Trump administration is trying to keep from them — but it's important for at least two other reasons. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/c...

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

Not an exaggeration to say this was pound-for-pound the most effective piece of US public diplomacy in China. Twitter was blocked, but U.S. embassy pollution tweets forced Beijing to start publishing its own pollution data, which fed public outrage. Result: millions breathing vastly less toxic air

submitted 7 days ago • 18 comments

A clear summary of the deteriorating operating context in the US, which also applies to non-profit organizations and foundations.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

We're at the "French University is offering grants to refugee scientists censored by the regime" stage of our country www.404media.co/french-unive...

submitted 6 days ago • 24 comments

Atlanta Fed Q1 GDP tracker was -1.5% on Friday. Today it’s -2.8%. 🇺🇸 www.atlantafed.org/cqer/researc...

submitted 8 days ago • 87 comments

Beautiful trouble! Distress flags hung from iconic sites in National Parks across the country including Arches, Yosemite, Joshua Tree, and Rocky Mountain, as part of a US-wide day of action to protest reckless cuts and firing of federal employees at National Parks.

submitted 9 days ago • 10 comments

How it started / How it’s going.

submitted 9 days ago • 13 comments

Kudos to @jpalfrey.bsky.social and the MacArthur Foundation for stepping up at this critical moment. Increasing foundation giving to fill the gap left by the broken promises and breached contracts of federal funding shows true leadership and compassion. #belovedcommunity apnews.com/article/maca...

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

Imagine deliberately taking away civil rights protections from your own constituents, the people you were elected to serve and protect.

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Seeing piece after piece in the DC sheets about mounting economic uncertainty. They're saying it implicitly by what they're discussing. But note that the editors are really struggling with the fact they can't bring themselves to say that Trump is tanking the economy.

submitted 12 days ago • 73 comments

WASHINGTON (AP) - Most drastic cut in spending by US consumers in three years last month despite decline in inflation.

submitted 11 days ago • 385 comments

For comparison, Atlanta's prior forecast was +2.3%.

submitted 11 days ago • 49 comments

“While career prosecutors in two U.S. attorney offices and a U.S. judge balked at a court-ordered freeze, Citibank has locked down billions without explanation” www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

actual lol: "the officers disclosed their jobs to the couple.... The couple joked that they could not find any information online about the officers, and continued talking"

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NEW: Indiana already has stringent voter ID rules... & the GOP is advancing a bill right now to strip university IDs from the list of options you can use. This would make it much harder for students to vote. At polling site at IU Bloomington, 2/3rds of voters in November used their student IDs.

submitted 13 days ago • 57 comments

Economists worry a Trumpcession is on the way www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

submitted 13 days ago • 132 comments

A former Goldman Sachs analyst and son of a private equity billionaire has ambitions to control some of USAID’s roughly $40 billion budget and apply more of a “pro-market” approach to supporting development in other countries.

submitted 13 days ago • 57 comments

Last week, the WaPo “editorial board” used my reporting without crediting me to argue for an offshore wind project that will feed data centers in Virginia, a key growth region for Amazon/AWS

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

NEW: Trump says that EPA Secretary Lee Zeldin plans to cut 65% of the workforce there. The EPA has roughly 16,000 employeees. Cutting 65% would be more than 10,000 positions.

submitted 13 days ago • 19 comments

Impact: @mongabay.bsky.social reporter @nandawenzel.bsky.social suspected fraud in 2 Brazilian carbon projects & investigated for a year By shining a light on this crime, Mongabay’s award-winning 🏆 #nonprofit #journalism continues to protect the Amazon via greater scrutiny of global carbon markets:

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Most of EPA's IRA grant programs are unfrozen now. We were just about to publish a piece saying that only the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund programs were still inaccessible when I heard from Solar for All recipients that they were able to draw down their grants. Anybody know what happened?

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

new fire at moss landing battery plant www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/e...

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

California wildlife officials captured and collared another dozen gray wolves, bringing the total number being tracked by satellite to 16. An important step in guiding the endangered predator's continued recovery: www.latimes.com/environment/... via @lilaseidman.bsky.social

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

As they should www.reuters.com/world/us/sen...

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

www.eenews.net/articles/tru... President Donald Trump wants to “unleash” American energy. The problem: U.S. oil production growth is starting to dwindle Nice read from @mikesoraghan.bsky.social

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The top criminal prosecutor in the U.S. attorney's office in Washington quit today, citing pressure by the Trump administration to open what she viewed as an improper criminal probe of a federal contract. ca.news.yahoo.com/senior-u-pro...

submitted 21 days ago • 168 comments

The DOJ is trying to freeze the assets of an EPA grant program, something they can only do in the event of criminal activity

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

1/ I am seeing a lot of comments on the slashing of NIH support along the lines of “universities should just spend their huge endowments.” I’m the last person to cheer on the institutional stratification rising endowments have contributed to. But let me explain why this is not a solution.

submitted 21 days ago • 46 comments

SCOOP @bloomberg.com: Top officials at the US Department of Homeland Security received a memo from Sec. Kristi Noem on Friday ordering an immediate stop to work connected to climate change and the elimination of climate-related terms across the agency. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 23 days ago • 62 comments

Haskell has been operating in my hometown since 1884. Nearly a quarter of its staff are being fired with no notice or separation pay. It’s crushing.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

BREAKING: A federal judge has determined that the Trump administration is violating his order lifting the blanket spending freeze on federal grant programs. He is orderin gthe administration to immediately unfreeze funds, including for NIH and the IRA. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 29 days ago • 465 comments

On changes to #NIH indirect rates, there is a law in place that prohibits NIH from making such changes without the approval of Congress. See Division D, Title II Section 224 of The Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 (Public Law No: 118-47) grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

submitted 32 days ago • 82 comments

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

submitted 32 days ago • 270 comments

This is a de facto massive budget cut to research universities. We are talking Great Recession size impacts.

submitted 32 days ago • 96 comments

You can bet tax exempt status will be next

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Senator Ed Markey being turned away from EPA headquarters. He’s leading a protest opposing a spending freeze at the agency.

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

The memo references a Trump EO that listed non-profits, foundations, and universities in addition to corporations.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Journalist Gerald Flynn was barred from Cambodia on January 5th, 2025, despite having a valid visa and work permit. Flynn’s deportation appears to be retaliation for his journalistic work, particularly his reporting on environmental issues. news.mongabay.com/2025/02/camb...

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

I know that Trans Youth Emergency Project could use donations. Perhaps they even need some volunteers. southernequality.org/tyep/

submitted 41 days ago • 11 comments

Trump orders USDA to take down websites referencing climate crisis - as farmers increasingly struggle to cope with drought, heat and floods www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Among the websites purged by the Trump administration today: the National Park Service's website for the National Japanese American Memorial in D.C., which acknowledges the "grave injustice" of the internment of roughly 120,000 Japanese Americans www.nps.gov/places/japan...

submitted 39 days ago • 6 comments

I ran $100 billion in Infrastructure and IRA programs at EPA. We obligated over $70 billion onto signed awards and contracts to protect public health and the environment. All that funding is currently frozen. Here are the facts… 🔌💡 1/X

submitted 39 days ago • 44 comments

This is devastating

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