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The detention of Mahmoud Khalil puts all Americans fundamental rights at risk. And if you can’t see that because you oppose his politics, well that’s exactly the reaction Trump and his cronies are counting on. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 1 day ago • 104 comments

Good crowd at NIH today supporting the scientists and researchers whose work saves lives in the US and around the world. Thanks to @vanhollen.senate.gov and @raskin.house.gov for being there today and every day.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

"Energy Secretary Chris Wright sold coal as the solution to a widespread lack of energy access in Africa on Friday, dismissing the challenge posed by climate change." These people are insane. No, truly. They are unwell.

submitted 5 days ago • 12 comments

Trump’s murderous freezing of aid that Congress enacted a law to send to Ukraine unconstitutionally usurps the power of the purse, violates the 1974 Impoundment Act, and is an impeachable “high crime and misdemeanor” akin to the extortion for which the Senate should have convicted Trump in 2020.

submitted 9 days ago • 273 comments

As someone who spends a lot time thinking about the values I want to teach my kid (besides PLEASE DON’T EAT DIRT), the thing I keep coming back to is this: I want him to believe that the strongest, bravest thing he can do is give a shit about other people—especially ones who aren’t like him at all.

submitted 10 days ago • 769 comments

HEY EVERYONE REMEMBER WHEN TRUMP WAS IMPEACHED FOR DENYING AID TO UKRAINE BECAUSE HE WANTED ZELENSKY TO LIE AND SAY BAD THINGS ABOUT BIDEN AND ZELENKSY WOULDN’T DO IT? Maybe literally one fucking American newspapers could mention this in their, “think pieces,” about what happened yesterday.

submitted 11 days ago • 433 comments

This vote was to start the process of the cuts. It WILL come back for a final vote. There are some chances to slow or potentially stop it. Need constant pressure on GOP Focus on GOP swing seats & key committees. Energy & Commerce is where the Medicaid fight will go down. Ways&Means for tax fight.

submitted 15 days ago • 1234 comments

Let's be clear about what this means: Donald Trump is hand-picking the reporters that cover him and his administration. This is straight out of the Kremlin playbook of intimidating reporters and manipulating press coverage and it should alarm every American.

submitted 15 days ago • 31 comments

Maybe corny but it was helpful for me to hear Henry Rollins saying "this is not time to be dismayed, this is punk rock time, this is what Joe Strummer trained you for... You can be thunderous in your own life, to the eight people around you. That rubs off... Goodness is viral"

submitted 17 days ago • 214 comments

This is the ultimate dick boss move from Musk - except he isn’t even the boss, he’s just a dick.

submitted 18 days ago • 1014 comments

I'd like to bring this multimillion-dollar photo-op to the attention of Elon Musk and DOGE. Instead of firing food inspectors and air traffic controllers and cancelling critical medical research at NIH, stop this outrageous waste of our people's tax dollars!

submitted 20 days ago • 119 comments

Judge: State of Minnesota's lawsuit to hold Exxon, Koch, and American Petroleum Institute accountable for knowingly and deliberately deceiving people about climate change can move forward in state court. www.ag.state.mn.us/Office/Commu...

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Just more proof that this Administration doesn’t care if we survive it…

submitted 20 days ago • 145 comments

In light of Trump’s anti-DEI Orders today, remember that February 16, 1847, MO’s legislature prohibited “Negroes and mulattoes” from learning to read and write and assembling freely for worship. Forbade free Black people to the state. Penalty: $5,000 fine ($180,000 today), 6 months jail.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

He who talks like this is un-American.

submitted 25 days ago • 13 comments

Total tin ear by Homan--just announcing a quid pro quo “If he doesn’t come through, I’ll be back in New York City,” Mr. Homan said. “And we won’t be sitting on a couch. I’ll be in his office, up his butt, saying where the hell is the agreement we came to?”

submitted 26 days ago • 143 comments

Cool news of the day: We helped save Grizz from getting killed by BNSF trains along 206 miles of railroad in the Northern Continental Divide. 🐻🧸🐻🧸🐻 #GoBears

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million. How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65 Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?

submitted 28 days ago • 905 comments

I’m trying to imagine any scenario where the GOP and media don’t completely lose their minds if a woman brought her kid into the Oval Office for a press briefing and held him on her shoulders while answering questions next to the President. And, I just can’t.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Nine paragraphs into today's NYT story on the situation with the Gaza ceasefire, readers are informed that Israeli officials and international mediators "said that Hamas’s claims were accurate."

submitted 30 days ago • 7 comments

“Why do I need NOAA? I’ve got a weather app.” Is equivalent to asking “Why do I need farms? I can go to the supermarket.” www.noaa.gov/about-our-ag...

submitted 32 days ago • 51 comments

It gets worse: Trump's Treasury Dept has a new letter spinning Musk's access to payment data as a mere "audit" that expands on work done during Biden admin. It's a sham. The letter simply ignores the biggest questions about this scandal. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1911...

submitted 35 days ago • 54 comments

They are seeking to criminalize integration efforts across public life. We must be clear eyed and direct about what’s happening here. We have not witnessed this blatant of a comprehensive governmental attack on integration since the Civil Rights Movement. slate.com/news-and-pol...

submitted 35 days ago • 170 comments

This is the most corrupt bargain we've ever seen in American history: Elon Musk gave millions to fund Trump's campaign, and now Trump has given him the keys to our government. We are fighting this in Congress, in the courts, and in the streets. We will not back down.

submitted 36 days ago • 38 comments

We sure went from “the president can’t be charged with crimes” to “people working for the president don’t have to follow the law” awfully quickly.

submitted 37 days ago • 4 comments

Hearing that Trump has fired all the attorneys from the Law and Policy Section of DOJ’s Environment & Natural Resources Division. Reassignments already have been reported from the division that enforces our clean air and clean water laws, but this seems to go even further.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

i think an important thing for people outside the US to understand is that elon musk seized control of the government today and most americans don’t even realize it happened.

submitted 40 days ago • 448 comments

He's investigating whether their ads violate federal laws, pretty clear attempt to hit them financially. The irony here is that NPR and PBS do more advertising for industry's Trump is aligned with (particularly oil and gas) than anyone else www.npr.org/2025/01/30/n...

submitted 41 days ago • 10 comments

Bankers and policymakers simply don't understand that we risk a 50% GDP loss in our children's lifetimes due to #ClimateChange, because current economic climate models are not even "roughly right," but "precisely wrong." My latest for @newrepublic.com: newrepublic.com/article/1905...

submitted 47 days ago • 8 comments

Who needs FEMA when you have President PaperTowels?

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Hackers targeted climate activists and there's an allegation that a lobbying firm working for ExxonMobil ordered the attack. This week, there was a new turn in the yearslong case. From @michaelcopley1.bsky.social on @npr.org's climate desk. www.npr.org/2025/01/24/n...

submitted 48 days ago • 6 comments

“Oil and Gas Companies Should Pay for the Los Angeles Fires” www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/o... Dave Jones, director of the Climate Risk Initiative at UC Berkeley’s Center for Law, Energy & the Environment, via @nytopinion.nytimes.com

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"

submitted 50 days ago • 1573 comments

I assume most people know this, but seems important to point out basic truths at this moment in time. There is no energy emergency in the U.S. The U.S. is the world's top producer of oil and gas at the moment, and the top exporter of gas, and U.S. oil and gas producers are making record profits.

submitted 51 days ago • 36 comments

Still trying to work out how Trump's proclamation of an energy emergency is consistent with his efforts to cut back on wind energy.

submitted 51 days ago • 2 comments