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Autocracy & cruelty are actually illegal in the United States. It’s time for every judge, state & local government, lawmaker & Cabinet official to keep in mind: That is the default position on any “legally untested” theory of executive power. the-ctzn.org/2025/07/27/t...
Happy Labor Day everyone! A reminder that Trump has just about decimated the federal workforce. Nearly 10% of all federal workers forced out of their jobs since Jan. "We’re seeing the arson of our government." www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Federal appeals court upholds lower court ruling that POTUS does not have authority to impose most tariffs. Article 1 of the Constitution gives sole taxation & tariff authority to Congress. Also, there is no “trade emergency”. apple.news/As0aTF8p3SXW...
There have been 285 mass shootings in the United States in the first 8 months of this year. Since the start of 2015, 445,363 Americans have been killed by guns. And yes, combat weapons kill more people faster. Combat weapons make us all less free. www.gunviolencearchive.org
CBO analysis of the One Big Beautiful Bill and how it impacts different parts of the income spectrum: —A net resource increase of $13,600, on average, for the top one-tenth of U.S. earners. —A net resource decrease of $1,200, on average, for the bottom one-tenth of U.S. earners.
Isn’t his sabotage of vaccine science evidence that he lied under oath to the Senate?
On the new acting CDC director. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Every judge & every federal official owes their loyalty to the Constitution, which was specifically designed to prevent military dictatorship. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
Gun violence is the #1 cause of death among children in this country. This is a policy choice made by people who hypocritically profess to be “pro-life,” the same people who have increased maternal mortality and refuse to feed children or provide them healthcare. We don’t have to live like this.
Corruption at EPA as industry insider seeks to scrap regulation that requires polluters to clean up “forever chemicals” that have serious negative impacts on human health. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/c...
Let’s all remember: Only 22% of Americans voted for Trump. 32% of eligible voters. He puts this creepy pedophile portrait everywhere & acts tough bc nearly everyone is disgusted by him. We are still a country of free people who reject despots & thugs. #NoKings
Trump reported to be using the presidency to force other countries to abandon climate action & promote pollution, despite the devastating cost & existential danger of that pollution. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/c...
One of the strongest, clearest increases in likelihood & intensity, attributable to climate change, I've seen in a complex index like fire weather - the more intense & frequent events in Greece & Türkiye are already outpacing efforts to adapt. www.worldweatherattribution.org/weather-cond...
While more than 20 new reactors are in development & admin officials call nuclear energy “critical for unlocking AI”, Trump is purging the Nuclear Regulatory Commission of experienced leaders & experts he claims are too “risk averse”. on.ft.com/46aeAx3
Trump’s assault on US nuclear watchdog raises safety concerns on.ft.com/3HXAavs
CDC Director’s lawyers say RFK Jr is “weaponizing public health for political gain and putting millions of American lives at risk.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/h...
This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
The President’s actions are legitimate only when they reflect established law & honorably serve the American people & all who live on the U.S., in good faith, in recognition of universal human rights. We are not the property or servants of any king. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/o...
If you won't end the evil of easy access to deadly weapons, you do not care about America, freedom, life, or the right of anyone to be safe. The 2nd Amendment was not meant to do this. #EndMassShootings #EndGunViolence www.kare11.com/article/news...
A federal-state partnership that monitors for foodborne illnesses quietly scaled back its operations nearly two months ago. As of July 1, the critical surveillance program is monitoring for only two pathogens instead of the usual eight, a spokesperson for the CDC says.
Stories of inhuman conditions akin to torture in Florida’s extralegal detention center suggest a deliberate effort to strip people of Constitutional rights & subject them to cruel & unusual punishment, while denying due process. #CrueltyIsCrime www.cnn.com/2025/07/25/p...
Wow. On NPR, @gbrumfiel.bsky.social reports a Social Security official “copied the Social Security numbers, names and birthdays of over 300 million Americans to a private section of the agency's cloud.” The source is a whistleblower, who is named: Charles Borges, SSN chief data officer.
“He saw himself as defending America’s character… for he considered it the imperative of every citizen who loves this country to treat all people fairly.” - Barack Obama on John McCain youtu.be/eLIlOQuzTnU?...
The brazen ignorance of Trump is astounding & dangerous. The reason Defense is a better department title than War is to note the success of concluding a 2nd World War & beginning to build an enduring peace. Changing the name back signals failure. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...
Donald Trump’s quest to seize control of the Federal Reserve Bank is a threat to the economic stability & national security of the United States. He does not understand central bank functions or why they are often not aligned with the desires of politicians.
A new website is up reporting the impacts of federal cuts on the field of evolution and ecology. This survey was developed by @drk-lo.bsky.social following discussions within @asn-amnat.bsky.social ASN, joined by other societies. This is an important insight into the morale & future of our field.
The Trump administration is committing crimes against the Constitution & against every American when they detain people in violation of court orders & summarily sentence them to be deported to countries where they have no connections. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
A federal judge has ordered the migrant detention camp constructied hastily in Florida's sensitive Everglades be closed & dismantled, finding the facility’s construction violated federal law. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/u...
How odd that in the Everglades & virtually everywhere, Trump is ignoring or trying to void regulatory review requirements, but for offshore wind, he is weaponizing it. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The warrantless detention of a man lawfully in the country, married to an American citizen, who has no criminal record & was awaiting his green card, is an attempt to overthrow the Constitution & scrap the Bill of Rights. If this stands, no American’s rights are safe. www.opb.org/article/2025...
The Bill of Rights makes clear due process can NEVER be denied lawfully & the military cannot occupy American communities or seek to control them or punish dissent. Unlawful orders are crimes.
My god this is depressing. 35 year in to the climate movement, "reduce, reuse, recycle" is the top solution that comes to mind.
Summarily sentencing people without due process to confinement in foreign prisons was one of the heinous inhuman crimes the American Revolution was intended to make impossible. the-ctzn.org/2025/07/05/s...
Democracy works, because those who wield the powers of public office do so 1) at the will of voters, 2) temporarily, 3) with always active and irreducible accountability to the rule of law. the-ctzn.org/2025/07/05/s...
There is zero legal authority for any agency of government to use chemical toxins to subvert the work of the free press or to deprive any person of any of their transcendent, irreducible human rights.
The Russian regime is run by delusional authoritarians who believe they can commit crimes with impunity & dictate the terms for others to be free from their lawless terror. A just & enduring peace depends on war criminals being held accountable.
🇺🇸 National Guard soldier speaks out: “I swore an oath to defend our constitution… seeking refuge is not an act of violence. Locking people up for it is.”
Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov admits to the regime’s intent to continue committing war crimes in Ukraine, even after a peace, saying “To discuss security guarantees seriously without Russia is a road to nowhere.” apple.news/A6mSJvQBlRJe...
They don’t care about crime. Period.
My all-purpose AI reform is banning computers from pretending they are human. Having names, saying "I," pretending to have feelings, representing what they emit as "advice," etc. That's where much of the mischief starts.
Every time Trump or any other official gives an order that armed agents should invade communities, use paramilitary force, or seize people without authorization from a judge based on probable cause, it is a crime against all of the people of the United States. Every time.
My governor is right. Trump will certainly order National Guard to occupy polling places in Election Day. 🇺🇸 @governor.ca.gov
Coverage dismissing the fact that National Guard are “just patrolling safe tourist areas” is missing the point. The very nature of a presence patrol — I did hundreds of these in Iraq — is to project strength. That’s to embolden your allies. And to threaten your enemies.
A lot of companies want the EPA in charge of setting national climate regulations because it helps shield them from lawsuits and creates a predictable environment in which to make investments.
Authoritarianism is failure. Only incompetent thugs who have nothing of value to offer to real human beings want to act like authoritarians. Trump is failing & the American people are seeing that more clearly by the day.
You can probably identify every single thing he is doing that is unlawful, immoral, antithetical to patriotism, or just incompetent, by rephrasing his lies.
Yet more lies from Trump. 1) There is no crime emergency in DC. 2) Trump has no lawful authority to militarily occupy a city without an actual invasion (by foreign military forces). 3) The city is not seeing more people go to restaurants; he is kiling the city. www.washingtonpost.com/food/2025/08...
Nowhere in the Constitution is the President authorized to "void judges' decisions" or to reinstate a breach of Constitutional process that a judge found needed to be corrected. apple.news/AOcfigPWWSBq...
In case anyone is wondering who in politics stands up for their freedoms, it is not the party that normalizes police-state tactics, nullifcation of due process, or threats & penalties against institutions or individuals for "improper ideology".
Trump only thinks about what benefits him. So, he thinks it is "corrupt" for anyone else to come out ahead. Today, in the Oval Office, he admitted to a coordinated plot to rig elections to benefit his party. (Though... Republicans depend on mail-in votes, too.)
The acting NASA administrator has zero legal authority to terminate NASA's Earth science mission, which is part of its founding legal mandate. It is also disturbing that any government official believes it is possible to advance exploration of the Solar System without planetary science.
Seems Duffy cannot read, has no real idea what NASA is & no respect for the law or for national security, planetary science, or any genuine effort at exploration of the solar system. He should be forced to resign.
If all Russia has “conceded” is to ask for full control of four of the five Ukrainian regions it seeks to seize, instead of all five, that is NOT “territorial concessions” but an overt attempt to institutionalize its terror state as a reward for war crimes. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/w...
This is a criminal plot against the fundamental rights & liberties of all Americans. Every judge & lawyer knows it, every lawmaker knows it. There is zero constitutional exception to due process, ever, period.
Not having the right immigration papers is a misdemeanor paperwork violation. The violent assault carried out by these political extremists posing as federal agents is a felony. These men are not law enforcement; they are criminals. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Courageous firefighters battling wildfires to protect entire towns, cities & regions deserve to have the best safety equipment including masks to prevent toxic effects of smoke inhalation. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/u...
We live inside Earth’s climate system. Not understanding it precisely is costly and unwise, and could lead to major legal liability. activv.net/2025/07/26/e...
Sean Duffy’s attempt to usurp NASA’s mission, funding & capabilities & ignore the law, will undermine national security & fiscal stability for generations to come, putting lives at risk, to destroy evidence to protect polluters. It is unlawful to follow these orders. thehill.com/policy/energ...
The recent DOE climate science report misrepresents the work of many researchers. Carbon Brief asked those cited to review the parts of the report where their work was used, and we collectively found 100+ misleading or false statements: interactive.carbonbr...
DC will retain control of its police department after suing to block federal takeover. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
earth science at NASA includes improving hurricane and wildfire prediction, just so you know
If there were some kind of cooperative security terms discussed, the American people need to know what those terms were & the Congress needs to be involved in determining whether they meet constitutional criteria. the-ctzn.org/2025/08/15/a...
There were several bizarre moments today, but the odd moment where Putin seemed bewildered by press questions stood out: He is clearly unaccustomed to having anyone challenge him directly & demand answers to big moral & legal questions such as ‘Will you stop killing civilians?’
Putin blundered by suggesting a deal had been reached when Trump would moments later say otherwise. That suggests a man lost in the wilderness of his own delusion & seemingly confident he can handhold Trump into sacrificing Ukraine, which he may not agree to.
Trump also clearly understands Putin is not trusted or believed by anyone outside this summit & for good reason. Trump seems to also see the value in acknowledging that it isn’t just opponents who revile Putin. His own supporters want Ukraine to be free & secure.
The strange, stilted, insinuating language from Putin & Trump suggests: 1) Putin refuses to stop killing Ukrainians; 2) Putin demands land be handed over; 3) Trump recognizes that would be shameful to even say out loud; 4) Putin feels emboldened; 5) there is no sign of Putin being held accountable.
Trump’s “acting NASA chief” is attempting to kill all Earth science in order to suppress evidence of the costs of fossil fuel pollution. This is actually criminal. arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...
Smothering the E.V. industry might have been merely a regrettable mistake for a Republican to make 10 years ago. Today, it is economic idiocy. 🎁
Pure corruption & lawless abuse of office. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/o...
My new @science.org editorial on the role of scientists in defending democracy is out today. As authoritarianism takes hold in the US, we must fight for the democratic principles that enable a free society and scientists have a key role. I hope you'll join us. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
"The ability to tell the truth…is an essential prerequisite for a free society." 🔥
🚨BREAKING: D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb announced Friday his office is suing the federal government over President Donald Trump’s attempt to take control of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD). www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Wildfires rage across Southern Europe - fueled by #globalheating. Vote out politicians who downplay and ignore the climate crisis. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
Short piece by Tobias Ide on how horribly wrong AI bots are when asked to analyze research, in this case around climate security. I found when dealing with environmental security, it keeps referring back to ideas from the 1990s, most long since discredited www.newsecuritybeat.org/2025/08/hall...
Donald Trump has zero power of taxation. Zero. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/t...
Trump is ignoring the Bill of Rights & trying to end freedom of speech & information in the U.S.
Watch journalist @alistairkitchen.bsky.social recount being detained for 12 hours, interrogated, his device searched at LAX in June, and later deported over his reporting. This is yet another sign that press freedom is under threat amid growing political repression and democratic decline in the US.
Armed Trump administration agents wearing masks just showed up outside of Gavin Newsom’s press conference. This is what rising fascism looks like.
Pew poll: Trump job approval 38% approve 60% disapprove Aug. 4-10, U.S. adults
The price of vegetables rose 38.9% in July.
"A report released Wednesday by the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen found that the Trump administration has halted or ended a third of misconduct investigations and enforcement actions targeting technology firms — including behemoths such as Meta, Tesla..." truthout.org/articles/tru...
Trump withdrew or suspended enforcement actions against 165 companies in just the first six months of his term. Big Tech was the biggest beneficiary.
How many judges aiding & abetting Trump’s unlawful power grabs testified under oath to the Senate that they believed in & would uphold strict limits on executive authority or “strict construction” or other code for opposing “government overreach”? How many lied under oath?
Installing heat pumps in factories could save $1.5 trillion and 77,000 lives. A new report finds that replacing conventional boilers with heat pumps could also avoid 33 million asthma attacks by 2050, thanks to improved air quality. grist.org/energy/insta... #Heatpumps #Climate #AC #Heat #Energy
DOGE is creating an AI-linked database of every American’s sensitive financial information. There is no reason for this, no law authorizing any government official to do this & no evidence of security measures sufficient to honor privacy rights protected by law. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/u...
Section 2 of the 14th Amendment requires “the whole number of persons in each state” to be counted in the census, for apportionment of Congressional seats. There is no way to change that without amending the Constitution & stripping all Americans of irreducible rights. the-ctzn.org/amendments-x...
Any person who thinks Americans should be crushed by military force for their views or location has zero love for freedom, democracy or those who sacrifice to serve & defend the United States. You cannot be a patriot if you support Trump’s tyrannical abuses. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
“President Donald Trump has expanded his military campaign against the United States…” is the only way we knew how to start this piece.
So a lot of laws were broken, hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people now have cause to sue & the whole lawless experiment achieved nothing it claimed it would. Other than helping to destroy US agencies created by Congress for the benefit of the people & our shared values & human rights.
Donald Trump does not have lawful authority to do anything not specifically prescribed by law. He cannot deny due process, ever; he is not in charge of spending; he has no taxation authority; he cannot reorganize private business or universities at his whim. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/o...
What do we lose by removing the human being from the process of discovering, sorting, and generating information distilled by experience? Do we ourselves become less relevant to the process of creation of the information we will then be asked to trust? activv.net/2025/08/13/w...
It is impossible to “cut costs” by eliminating these satellites. The costs of climate change already far exceed the costs of these missions & regulators warn failure to address climate breakdown will collapse the financial system. navigatornews.substack.com/p/can-you-av...
Here's a deep dive into the importance of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory missions, which have enough fuel left to stay in orbit until ~2040. Yet scientists are being told to plan for their imminent demise. www.cnn.com/2025/08/13/c... (3/3)
These include the Orbiting Carbon Observatory, Terra, Aqua and Aura. Also affected? Future missions. The administration says this is aimed at cutting costs, but scientists involved see a clear anti-climate science motive. (2/3)
The Trump administration is planning to terminate the missions of some of the U.S.' premier climate and Earth-observing satellites, possibly starting as soon as Oct. depending on congressional budget negotiations (1/3)
Trump’s misrepresentation of crime data to justify a military takeover of Washington DC is fraud. It removes any lawful premise for such an action & makes the actions that follow that unlawful order into criminal abuses of power. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/u...
All of us who love humanity, freedom, and democracy, must use our voices to say: No. America has #NoKings. We the people will choose our government, and that government will serve us and the law, and no one else. the-ctzn.org/2025/08/11/a...
It is extremely disturbing to read of officials claiming no hazardous materials leaked when the train is reported to have been carrying hazardous materials & emergency crews are treating it as a hazardous materials situation. Such false claims are a gross abdication of public responsibility.
Texas authorities need to immediately disclose every hazardous material the derailed train was carrying & ensure the public is materially protected from harm from any leaks, fires, or groundwater dispersal. www.wfaa.com/article/news...
Donald Trump is trying to brainwash America into believing his delusions are reality. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...