Trump seems to be so worried about the midterms that he is looking for ways to manipulate the election process, rather than abandon the cruel policies that are making Republicans so unpopular:
https://bit.ly/4kBBX8J
Elizabeth, a 10-year-old Minnesota girl, spent a month detained at the ICE facility in Dilley, TX before her release last night w/ her mom.
Dilley now has a measles outbreak and hundreds of other kids remain detained. Elizabeth has flu-like symptoms and her mom has hives, a school official told me
lol they will try to flip it and reverse it, but decades of research continue to show that white people will get a callback for a job *just* because they're white.
Five-year-old Génesis Ester Gutiérrez Castellanos misses her cousins, classmates and kindergarten teachers in Austin, Texas.
Despite being a US citizen, she was deported on 11 January alongside her mother, Karen Guadalupe Gutiérrez Castellanos, to Honduras, a country Génesis had never known.
In recent months, federal immigration officers across the U.S. have shot and killed at least five people: - Silvio Villegas González - Isaias Sanchez Barboza - Keith Porter - Renee Good - Alex Pretti
The fatal shooting of Pretti wasn't the first time federal immigration officers have killed civilians under the Trump administration, and wasn’t the first time that officials spread misleading accounts about the victim.
www.themarshallproject.org/2026/01/26/i...
Trump’s government has unequivocally crossed a threshold now where even well -documented truth is irrelevant and the murder of US citizens by the state is formally sanctioned.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
‘This is what fascism looks like’: terror in Minneapolis reminiscent of civil war www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
The president asks ‘whatever happened to global warming?’
Well, it could be making our winter storms worse.
The average US household paid nearly $116 more for electricity in 2025 than the year before, a 6.7% increase, according to data from the Energy Information Administration
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Trump has comprehensively failed to meet a key election promise to slash Americans’ energy bills in half within the first year of his presidency, with power prices instead surging across the US.
‘It’s hell for us here’: Mumbai families suffer as datacentres keep the city hooked on coal
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
"As Latino communities ramp up air quality monitoring, Trump’s EPA moves to weaken pollution regulations." Uprooter @thaliajuarez.bsky.social for @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Between a "No Other Land" crew mate filming himself being killed by a settler, to a journalist being killed by airstrikes he was covering minutes earlier, I'm not sure how much more televised Israel's genocide can be
Israel’s killing of five Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza prompts global outrage and calls for accountability.
New York City's Governors Island is transforming into a living classroom and launchpad for bold climate solutions.
A 172-acre vision of what’s possible when a city commits to resilience, innovation, and environmental justice. ❤️ 🌎
"The findings suggest that if scientists want to increase public urgency around climate change, they should highlight clear, concrete shifts instead of slow-moving trends. That could include the loss of white Christmases or outdoor summer activities..."
grist.org/science/brea...
Nearly half of Americans are breathing in unsafe levels of air pollutants, a new report shows, a rise compared to a year ago and likely to increase in coming years due to the climate crisis and Trump admin environmental rollbacks
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... by @ninalakhani.bsky.social
US interior dept is fast-tracking fossil fuel and mining permits, citing Trump’s ‘energy emergency’ declaration that many experts say does not exist www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump admin kills a landmark civil rights settlement requiring Alabama to address raw sewage pollution in a majority-Black community www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The proposed cuts to NOAA cold have profound consequences not just for climate change, but for our national security and the entire economy. Here's what I learned: www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Jewish senators accuse Trump of exploiting antisemitism to target universities
If you’ve seen a Christian bemoaning the “sin of empathy” or Elon Musk talking about “suicidal empathy” and wondered what that was about, I have an essay for you
tldr version is that they are wrong but I think that the details etc are pretty interesting and scary and speak to our fascist moment
After 15 Palestinian medics and civil defence workers were killed by Israeli forces late last month, Israel began a familiar pattern of denial
by @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
By me and @andy-rowell.bsky.social
Revealed: Trump’s fossil-fuel donors to profit from data-center boom and regulatory rollbacks - bad news for the climate crisis, water shortages and consumers centershttps://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/03/trump-fossil-fuel-donors-data-centers
Scientists now estimate global temperatures will rise by 2.1C even if countries hit short-term and long-term climate targets.
A new Republican plan would exempt many new toxic Pfas or “forever chemicals” from health and safety review.
Dozens of EPA rollbacks have targeted regulations intended to save nearly 200,000 lives in the US by 2050, as well as prevent millions of asthma attacks, heart and respiratory problems and other public health harms.
by oliver milman & @dharna.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
"Taking this information down really erodes the nation’s ability to keep communities safe and curtails effective disaster response."
the trump admin removed this fema tool. my colleagues recreated it and you can now access it here v
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
