“Scientists and civil society have been warning about the very fact that these kind of events might happen in the Himalayas. ...This is the result of the delayed global action to deal with climate change.”

Glacier Collapse: 2K Dead or Missing in Nepal-Tibet Flood Is “Glaring Example of Climate Injustice”

We get a report from Nepal, where at least 547 people are confirmed to have died and over 1,500 are still missing after a glacial collapse on Wednesday sent a wall of ice, mud and rock into a Himalaya...

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Gavin Newsom is trying to cap liability for utility companies that cause wildfires. A front group called "Wildfire Victims First" pushing for the bailout has "victim" members who get payouts from the industry and is run by Newsom's former comms director. Story by @jamesjbaratta.bsky.social.

Wildfire Survivors Push Back Against Newsom-Led Utility Bailout - The American Prospect

At the end of the legislative session, the Democratic governor and presidential hopeful wants to cap liability for power companies that start deadly fires.

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More than a billion people live downstream of Himalayan glaciers, and depend on the snowmelt for their water supply. Fossil fuel industry greed is causing devastating floods today, and will cause severe water scarcity in the not so distant future, unless this toxic industry is wiped out.

Gernot Wagner@gwagner.com · 6d ago

I'm old enough to remember when one @ipcc.bsky.social statement about Himalayan glaciers "disappearing" by 2035 was some major scandal. Meanwhile, this today, via @apnews.com. Yes, that's climate change; i.e. us dumping CO₂ into the atmospheric sewer. Hundreds dead.

Climate change made Nepal's horrifying disaster more likely, and this won't be the last time melting ice causes whole pieces of mountains to suddenly crush everything and everyone below Gift link to @davidfickling.bsky.social's column for @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

The World’s Mountains Are Ticking Time Bombs

From the Apostle Paul to Ira Gershwin, mountains have for millennia been a symbol of immovable stability. A warming planet is undermining that, leaving landslides, floods, and avalanches in its wake.

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Big Tech's favorite think tank wants Democrats to focus oversight on the Trump admin and avoid investigating corporate collaborators. The Taylor Farms cyclospora saga shows why that would be a big mistake—Congress can (and should) investigate both admin incompetence and corporate malfeasance.

Corruption is a Two-Way Street

The Taylor Farms Cyclospora Outbreak shows why Congress must Investigate both Trump and his Corporate Accomplices

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GROUNDWORK: “.. After adjusting for inflation, corporate profits have grown 52% since 2019. Wages have grown just 12%.” @groundwork.bsky.social

Good news: a state is suing home insurers for failing to pay claims. Strange news: that state is Oklahoma, hardly a bastion of strict regulation. If they can do it, any state can, and should, writes our friends at @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social. prospect.org/2026/08/26/c...

Cracking Down on Big Insurance in … Oklahoma? - The American Prospect

State Attorney General Gentner Drummond is leading a crackdown on Allstate and State Farm.

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If Oklahoma can do it, why aren't more states cracking down on Big Insurance? By challenging Allstate and State Farm's allegedly unfair claims handling practices, AG Gentner Drummond is opening the door to a broader crackdown. His counterparts elsewhere have no excuse to sit on the sidelines. 🧵⬇️

Cracking Down on Big Insurance in … Oklahoma? - The American Prospect

State Attorney General Gentner Drummond is leading a crackdown on Allstate and State Farm.

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Drummond recently filed lawsuits accusing Allstate and State Farm of unjustly denying or underpaying wind and hail-related claims. The AG is seeking to halt and dismantle both firms' alleged payout minimization schemes and compel the "disgorgement of illicit profits."

The scope of abuses alleged in Oklahoma's lawsuits against Allstate and State Farm exemplifies the need for robust regulatory and enforcement action throughout the United States. The suits provide a clear opening for other public officials to crack down on Big Insurance.

What OK's lawsuits against Allstate & State Farm reveal is two-fold: 1) Powerful insurance companies are impeding the ability of households to recover from extreme weather events; 2) They are obscuring the true scale of mounting climate risks and thus the magnitude of adaptation that's necessary.

Through investigations, enforcement actions, and lawsuits, public officials can help liberate useful information about worsening hazards and make it available to planners and others involved in reducing disaster risk at all levels of society.

Read the full piece by our @kennystancil.bsky.social in @prospect.org: prospect.org/2026/08/26/c...

Cracking Down on Big Insurance in … Oklahoma? - The American Prospect

State Attorney General Gentner Drummond is leading a crackdown on Allstate and State Farm.

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NEW: gas power in development in the US explicitly for data centers have nearly doubled in less than a year, soaring from 97GW at the end of 2025 to more than 189GW mid-2026, according to shocking new figures from @globalenergymon.bsky.social that's up from just 4 GW in 2024:

Data Centers Are Driving an Alarming Gas Power Expansion in the US

There’s no clearer sign of the data center boom than rampant gas projects that have been proposed or that are already under construction.

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Guy Who Sucks At Being A Person Sees Huge Potential In AI https://theonion.com/guy-who-sucks-at-being-a-person-sees-huge-potential-in-1850488022/

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.

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Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 2w 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 · 2w 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.

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Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 2w 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.

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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 · 4w 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.

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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.

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NOTUS@notus.com · 4w 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 ...

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💯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 · last mo.

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.

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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 · last mo.

“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 · last mo.

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.