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Douglas Main

@dmain.bsky.social

Environmental journalist, writer, artist, naturalist. Bylines: The Guardian, The Atlantic, NYT, Tech Review. Former senior editor/writer at Nat Geo. http://www.dougmain.com https://venmo.com/u/DouglasMain

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Coach Finstock@coachfinstock.bsky.social · 4d ago

He dumped water we needed in LA to fight the Palisades wildfires into the Central Valley just to fuck us over and it wasted water they needed for the grow season. No one remembers this either. It's insane.

Stephen Judkins@stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 4d ago

It's pretty infuriating that Trump is denying disaster aid to Oregon for political reasons and I have barely heard anything about it, while Biden was falsely accused of doing the exact same thing to North Carolina and millions of people believed that

Douglas Main@dmain.bsky.social · 2w ago

Construction of a second border wall threatens a sacred spring in Arizona. One 30ft barrier was already built there in 2020, and another 30ft wall is going up next to it. Madness. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

‘Total chaos’: the biological wonderland threatened by Trump’s border wall

Environmental groups are sounding the alarm over plans that threaten a desert spring that’s home to rare fish and turtles and sacred to the O’odham people

theguardian.com

Douglas Main@dmain.bsky.social · 2w ago

Have a story in @theguardian.com today, please read or share if you have a minute: Border wall threatens Quitobaquito Springs, home to an Indigenous cemetery and three extremely rare species — two of which live nowhere else on Earth www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

‘Total chaos’: the biological wonderland threatened by Trump’s border wall

Environmental groups are sounding the alarm over plans that threaten a desert spring that’s home to rare fish and turtles and sacred to the O’odham people

theguardian.com

Douglas Main@dmain.bsky.social · 2w ago

Construction of a second border wall threatens a sacred spring in Arizona. One 30ft barrier was already built there in 2020, and another 30ft wall is going up next to it. Madness. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

‘Total chaos’: the biological wonderland threatened by Trump’s border wall

Environmental groups are sounding the alarm over plans that threaten a desert spring that’s home to rare fish and turtles and sacred to the O’odham people

theguardian.com

Douglas Main@dmain.bsky.social · 4w ago

Everything about this is the worst of America: 7 measles cases confirmed at an Arizona ICE detention center, run by for-profit prison company CoreCivic, prompting quarantines / visitation restrictions. Advocates say clients aren't receiving adequate medical care. tucson.com/news/local/b...

Measles outbreak confirmed at Arizona immigration detention center

Federal officials confirm seven active cases of measles at an Arizona immigration detention center, prompting quarantines and restrictions on visitation.

tucson.com

Judd Legum@juddlegum.bsky.social · 4w ago

1. The Pentagon has refused to provide an accurate accounting of the costs of the Iran War, so Popular Information crunched the numbers. The DIRECT COSTS are at least $103 BILLION in the first 120 days. This is $73 billion more than the latest official estimate.

The real cost of the Iran War: $103 billion in 120 days

Testifying before the House Appropriations Committee last week, Director of the Office of Management and Budget Russell Vought said the US had spent $30 billion on the Iran War.

popular.info

jamelle@jamellebouie.net · last mo.

this is absolutely wild. where does roberts think these agencies come from?!? who invested them with authority to act? whose mandate are they designed to execute? the president is the chief EXECUTive. his job is executing the will of Congress as it spells out in its duly-passed laws!

Aubrey Gilleran@aubreygilleran.bsky.social · last mo.

Yes, Congress should be able to do these things. A court this contemptuous of Congress deserves to be packed by Congress, not only to correct these disastrous precedents but also because Congress needs to show both Article II and Article III who’s boss.

“On her view, Congress could commandeer the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Education, the Department of Health and Human Ser-vices, most (if not all) of the Department of Justice, and a number of other agencies besides. Indeed, if Slaughter were correct, then it is not clear why Congress would need to allow the President any say in firings at all”