When it comes to fossil-fueled extreme weather, Trump has willingly increased the probability of adverse outcomes. Democrats should make Trump, Vought, and their Republican accomplices pay a steep political price for deliberately putting people in harm’s way.

Democrats Can’t Let Trump Off the Hook When the Next Big Hurricane Hits

The White House has relentlessly undermined disaster readiness and response capacity. When things go wrong, the opposition should make the president and his GOP accomplices pay a political price.

revolvingdoorproject.substack.com

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 5d ago

Trump has gutted nearly 20% of FEMA's workforce and dragged his feet in granting natural disaster relief to blue states. With hurricane season on the horizon, it's a perfect storm of sabotage and cruelty.

"We need systemic projects that guarantee a baseline level of news and information for all members of society, not just the privileged few who live in affluent neighborhoods." - @victorpickard.bsky.social

Revitalizing America’s News Deserts

The devastating loss of local news outlets is a crisis for democracy. We can still fix it.

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Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 3d ago

At an invitation-only gathering in Italy, white supremacists mapped out strategies to target rural America while local press coverage vanishes www.confrontthehate.com/p/white-nati...

Check out this eye-opening video report from @inequalitymedia.bsky.social. Featuring research from Revolving Door Project. For more details, see: 1) therevolvingdoorproject.org/how-trump-un... and 2) therevolvingdoorproject.org/trump-disast...

How Trump Undermined Our Hurricane Readiness and Response Capacity | Revolving Door Project

The White House’s reactionary policy choices are leaving our society ill-equipped to plan for, withstand, and bounce back from worsening extreme weather, including hurricanes.

therevolvingdoorproject.org

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 5d ago

Trump has gutted nearly 20% of FEMA's workforce and dragged his feet in granting natural disaster relief to blue states. With hurricane season on the horizon, it's a perfect storm of sabotage and cruelty.

Check out this excellent new mini-doc by @moreperfectunion.bsky.social featuring research from the Revolving Door Project, Public Citizen, and others.

We Uncovered Where Your Insurance Payments Are Really Going

YouTube video by More Perfect Union

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Today in @prospect.org, our @jeffhauser.bsky.social & @dylangyauchl.bsky.social explain why it's time to start thinking about an AI bailout--and realizing why it would be a huge mistake. Every bailout winds up strengthening industry elites who inevitably turn their wealth against progressive causes

An AI Bailout Will Be a ‘Which Side Are You On’ Moment - The American Prospect

If AI falls, Democrats can build an enduring political majority—but only if they reject handing a lifeline to Altman, Musk, and the rest of the industry.

prospect.org

There is an entire political movement and party that openly wishes to mug you, take things from you, rip food out of your children’s mouth, laugh at you, and if they feel like it which they often do, brutalize you and your family, and then go on tv and smear you or your memory. they want you to…

Truthout@truthout.org · 2w ago

US Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins bragged that the Trump administration has now “moved 5 million people off food stamps,” an outcome that she hailed as a significant victory even amid mounting reports of families with children struggling to afford groceries after losing federal assistance.

El Niño conditions are expected to temper tropical storm activity in the Atlantic basin for the rest of the season. But it only takes one landfalling hurricane to wreak havoc. If and when that happens, Democrats must make Trump and his GOP allies pay for deliberately putting people in harm's way.

Democrats Can’t Let Trump Off the Hook When the Next Big Hurricane Hits

The White House has relentlessly undermined disaster readiness and response capacity. When things go wrong, the opposition should make the president and his GOP accomplices pay a political price.

revolvingdoorproject.substack.com

New GAO report details how the Trump regime slashed FEMA's workforce with no regard for how it would affect disaster preparedness & response—incl. during the current hurricane season. For more on how Trump and Vought have left the U.S. vulnerable to catastrophic hurricane outcomes, see our report ⬇️

How Trump Undermined Our Hurricane Readiness and Response Capacity | Revolving Door Project

The White House’s reactionary policy choices are leaving our society ill-equipped to plan for, withstand, and bounce back from worsening extreme weather, including hurricanes.

therevolvingdoorproject.org

NOTUS@notus.com · 3w ago

The Trump administration cut FEMA’s workforce without a plan, a new GAO report found. https://www.notus.org/agencies/fema-cut-staff-without-planning-future-work-gao

WATCHDOG WEEKLY The ongoing cyclospora outbreak won't be solved by another round of questions for a Biden-era retiree. But Republicans don't want solutions; only to shift blame for—and from—an epidemic of their own making.

NEW: Trump’s coziness with AI oligarchs is a defining feature of his admin. But the AI companies reshaping our lives are also betting on the support of Democrats. We tracked close to 100 former Biden officials to their new jobs working in the AI industry:

Tracking the Revolving Door Between AI and Former Biden Officials | Revolving Door Project

This tracker was last updated on August 3, 2026.  The artificial intelligence industry is rapidly reshaping every facet of life, from the popularity of chatbots and disruption of the workplace to the ...

therevolvingdoorproject.org

💯Trump's vindictive rejections of blue state requests for major disaster declarations are jeopardizing people's lives and municipal budgets. Under any other circumstances, these requests would have yielded federal aid, but Trump has turned disaster relief into a political weapon. Indefensible.

FEMA’s Summer Snowpocalypse - The American Prospect

The Trump administration’s partisan warfare leaves the emergency management agency skidding into bureaucratic snowbanks and confronting angry Democratic lawmakers.

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David Roberts@volts.wtf · 3w ago

This is morally monstrous behavior. These are ordinary, innocent people that Trump is condemning to suffering & death out of political vindictiveness. Every decent human being, regardless of political party, should condemn it. Where is the fucking *anger*? From the press? From civic leaders? Pols?

Today is the last day of public comment on a rule that would force cancer and HIV patients to prove "significant impairment" so they can keep their exemption to Medicaid work requirements. This "will kill people, I’m literally living proof of that," said one patient with a brain tumor.

Trump to HIV and Cancer Patients: Get Back to Work - The American Prospect

A surprise rule added to the Big Beautiful Bill could disrupt access to Medicaid for people with serious illnesses who thought they were exempted from work requirements.

prospect.org

Trump's political weaponization of federal disaster assistance is a life-threatening abomination. The president has punitively denied relief to one blue state after another. Trump, Vought, and other administration officials refuse to answer questions about it. More details in this tracker ⬇️

Map: Trump Has Often Delayed or Denied Disaster Aid | Revolving Door Project

The Trump administration has refused to allocate federal disaster aid in a timely manner. Check out our interactive map for more details on the White House's careless approach to major disaster declar...

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Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social · 3w ago

“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

keep thinking about the evil of this. It's not just destroying the physical books, bad as that is. They are trying to remove the underpinnings of knowledge, destroy all the accumulated wisdom - and silliness, and creativity, and whatever else humans have thought worthy of writing down.

Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · 4w ago

No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.

Agree with @jamellebouie.net that it's pretty clear Elon Musk wanted to eviscerate USAID *for the purpose of killing as many African people as possible.* Mass death wasn't an accidental byproduct of his "deep state" paranoia; it was a key mission of DOGE. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o...

Meta’s Hyperion data center project is a stunning example of what the state is willing to trade away in backroom deals—tax revenue for public goods, stable rents, affordable electricity, and environmental safety. Our report on AI shows what Big Tech wins in the absence of democratic planning:

AI First: How the Federal Government is Prioritizing AI Over People and Planet

The data center boom shows that world-altering infrastructure can rapidly expand when the interests of state and capital are aligned.

stopgreedbuildgreen.climateandcommunity.org

Justin Hendrix@justinhendrix.bsky.social · 4w ago

"The secrecy was agreed to by nearly everyone involved, from utility executives to the governor’s office to a local elected official who knew about the talks with Meta and sold 300 acres of his own property for the project."

Yes, and we called it six months ago: "The prices of many essential goods are already rising as a result of the anti-democratic rush to build hyperscale data centers and the growing use of AI programs in numerous sectors."

AI Is Making Your Life More Expensive

Big Tech is driving up the costs of necessities—now and in the future.

revolvingdoorproject.substack.com

More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 4w ago

AI is making everyone's life more expensive, according to CNN. "Households must spend just over $375 more to purchase the same goods and services as they did this time last year due to AI’s inflationary impact,” Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, says. www.cnn.com/2026/07/28/e...

On Saturday, our community and the world lost Dr. Sarah Knuth, one of the foremost thinkers on energy, climate, and just transitions. She was the driving intellectual force behind so much of CCI’s research. We will miss her desperately.

How did our electeds respond to the toxic smoke last week? While Trump and other Republicans threatened Canada with tariffs and sanctions, "climate hushing" Dems offered no counter-narrative, letting Trump's blame game define the moment. We have some ideas for what they could have done instead:

Talking About A World on Fire

While Trump threatened Canada over wildfire smoke, climate-hushing Democrats missed the moment.

revolvingdoorproject.substack.com

No state can handle disasters alone. "Devolution is a bad idea likely to exacerbate existing injustices," said our @kennystancil.bsky.social. "It probably means slashing school budgets and taking funding away from other essential public services." Great reporting from @gurleygg.bsky.social.

The American Prospect@prospect.org · last mo.

The Trump administration aims to reverse the expectation that the federal government is always going to come to the rescue. prospect.org?p=141202

Climate change-fueled disasters threaten the safety of our homes & insurance provides a financial safety net to help us recover. But current insurance systems are failing, leaving households high (& not dry). What can the federal government do? I've got a proposal: peri.umass.edu/publication/...

National Disaster Insurance for All: Single-Payer Disaster Insurance and Community Resilience Investments for Safer and More Affordable Housing

The Problem The climate crisis is fueling extreme weather and increasing disaster risk for households and housing providers across the country, representing collectives risks that no individual househ...

peri.umass.edu

If only a dedicated group of scientists had warned us about the record heat, torrential flooding, continental scale wildfires, and apocalyptic orange skies

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo should still be alive. They let him bleed out in the fucking street while he begged for help.

Defiance Dispatch@defiancedispatch.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The son of the man ICE murdered has called for an investigation into his fathers death. ICE uses the excuse of the victim weaponizing their vehicle when we have seen footage of ICE causing the issues! Credits: @nowthisimpact

NEW: Alphabet, Amazon, and Meta — 3 tech giants driving the data center boom across the United States — avoided *$50 billion in taxes* last year. New @cplusc.bsky.social report exposes how the federal government is actively facilitating the data center contagion:

$50 Billion in Taxes Avoided by Tech Giants Driving the Data Center Boom

A new report reveals how the Trump administration is actively facilitating the data center contagion sweeping the nation.

zeteo.com

Our new report on AI uncovers how Trump’s tax policy fueled Big Tech’s AI ambitions. In 2025, Alphabet, Amazon, and Meta received a $49.7B tax cut, paying an effective rate of just 4.9% rather than the statutory rate of 21%, increasing their cash reserves to rapidly scale AI infrastructure. Watch:

Less than 10 years ago, the corporate tax rate was 35%. In the middle of the 20th century, it was 52%. Those rates would have generated $93B and $145B respectively from Alphabet, Amazon, and Meta. More: stopgreedbuildgreen.climateandcommunity.org/posts/ai-first

AI First: How the Federal Government is Prioritizing AI Over People and Planet

The data center boom shows that world-altering infrastructure can rapidly expand when the interests of state and capital are aligned.

stopgreedbuildgreen.climateandcommunity.org

The fossil fuel-driven climate crisis is here. We need clean energy and cooling centers for people. Instead, gas-powered AI data centers are straining the grid. As millions endure extreme heat, the Trump admin's actions are making harm more likely.

Heat Kills. Trump Has Ensured There Will Be More Victims.

We should be slashing emissions and climate-proofing our cities. Instead, Republicans are turning up the carbon spew and stripping away heat protections — effectively condemning the poor to die under ...

jacobin.com

The board that governs it was concerned that homeless people were keeping themselves alive

Mississippi Free Press@mississippifreepress.org · 2mo ago

Water fountains disappeared from the Longleaf Trace in June as the board that governs it grew concerned about how homeless people were using its facilities. Runners and bikers who use the 44-mile trail fear the decision could have dire consequences in Mississippi's summer heat. buff.ly/pBXSvrI

genuinely curious about the worms in this guy’s brains. seriously beginning to wonder if he is entertaining election denialism.

Kyle Clark@kylec.bsky.social · 2mo ago

If there was any doubt that Gov Jared Polis’ legacy is freeing Tina Peters, the NYT reports Polis just fired the clemency board members who revealed he overruled their unanimous wishes www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/u...