President Trump is holding bipartisan housing legislation hostage, just to advance his harmful attempts to undermine voting rights. edition.cnn.com/2026/06/24/p...

Live updates: Trump suddenly refuses to sign landmark housing bill, citing his stalled elections legislation | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump canceled plans to sign a landmark housing affordability bill until he gets action on his controversial elections overhaul legislation, as he heads to Capitol Hill to meet with t...

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I think about this a lot.

Boy oh boy do companies love to pollute Louisiana. Especially the places where all the Black folks live.

Justin Hendrix@justinhendrix.bsky.social · 8mo ago

"It seems like a marvel of financial engineering: Meta is building a $27 billion data center in Louisiana, financed with debt, and neither the data center nor the debt will be on its own balance sheet."

Who’s surprised? #DHS Sec. #KristiNoem changes draft FEMA review council report. Former #FEMA head Cameron Hamilton asks blunt Q. “What degree of confidence do you have that the report that you submit to DHS will be what is submitted to the president?” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Noem at odds with Trump-appointed panel over future of FEMA

Instead of further shrinking and dismantling FEMA, the FEMA Review Council wants to make it more independent.

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Revealed: >300 Big Agriculture lobbyists have participated at this year’s UN climate talks taking place in the Brazilian Amazon, where the industry is the leading cause of deforestation, a new investigation by me and @rachelsherrington.bsky.social has found. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

More than 300 big agriculture lobbyists have taken part in Cop30, investigation finds

Lobbyists representing industry responsible for a quarter to a third of global emissions participated in key talks at the UN climate summit

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Murmurs from this admin about nuclear testing are not new, which is why earlier this year, we published this piece in the @thebulletin.org on why a rapid test as a show of force is a BAD, BAD idea.

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists@thebulletin.org · 9mo ago

Donald Trump has reportedly told the Pentagon to resume nuclear tests (though it's unclear if he refers to explosive or missile tests). Here's a thread of relevant Bulletin articles, beginning with this 2025 piece by Sulgiye Park, Jennifer Knox, and @dkspaulding.bsky.social. ⬇️

New START is the last remaining arms control agreement between the US and Russia. Extending it would keep sensible limits on nuclear weapons while further reductions and limits are negotiated. The US should reciprocate and get to work on a follow up to New START.

Putin offers Trump a temporary nuclear arms control deal that would extend status quo by one year

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that he was ready to extend by one year the last arms control treaty between Washington and Moscow that limits the number of nuclear weapons each side has if U.S. President Donald Trump does the same.

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seeing too many headlines that New Mexico is about to make child care universal and free. that's not what it's doing. the gov. announced that as of November 1 all families can compete for the same limited # of child care slots and subsidies. the goal of universal is commendable, but NM isn't there

Industrial meat & poultry plants dump tons of pollution into our waters—our research shows how much Tyson alone released in just 5 years. Yet the Trump #EPA won’t update weak, outdated effluent rules, again putting Industrial Ag profits over your right to #cleanwater 🧪 bit.ly/4p19Lh0

Waste Deep

Water pollutants from Tyson Foods' meat processing plants pose a risk to both people and the environment.

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Drivers are not being "slammed." They are speeding and they are being fined for breaking the law.

Balu Puppy@balupuppy.bsky.social · 11mo ago

David and Alden like drivers who don’t know how to drive the speed limit. chicago.suntimes.com/transportati...

Thanks, @winkie.bsky.social at @usatoday.com for reporting on our analysis of plutonium pit production. Lots to unpack here, so here's a short thread (1/n)

USA TODAY@usatoday.com · 11mo ago

The NNSA's push to build new warhead cores is its "largest and most complex" effort since the end of the Manhattan Project, a former leader has said.

@dkspaulding.bsky.social, 'a nuclear security expert for the @ucs.org, argued in a May report that NNSA's two-site approach for pit production is "questionable" and has unnecessarily driven up costs for reasons that are "likely more political than technical."'

USA TODAY@usatoday.com · 11mo ago

The NNSA's push to build new warhead cores is its "largest and most complex" effort since the end of the Manhattan Project, a former leader has said.

Longstanding contamination at a nuclear weapons site has produced a radioactive wasp nest. Now DOE wants to repurpose the site to produce new nuclear bomb cores without dealing with this legacy waste first. Sounds like they have their priorities in order…

Dylan Spaulding@dkspaulding.bsky.social · last yr.

"The discovery of additional radioactive nests, he added, “indicate that much greater effort must be made to assess the possible risks and hazards of what appears to be a significant source of radioactive pollutants."

Most of these jobs are driven by LANL's new production mission to make plutonium pits while funding is eliminated from exploratory science that has historically drawn young talent into the labs. Despite the growth, this doesn't bode well for the future of innovation in national security.

Los Alamos National Lab announces plans to hire up to 1,000 workers

While one of New Mexico’s national laboratories prepares for workforce reductions, another is gearing up for a hiring surge.

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"The discovery of additional radioactive nests, he added, “indicate that much greater effort must be made to assess the possible risks and hazards of what appears to be a significant source of radioactive pollutants."

‘Hot Wasps’ Found at Nuclear Facility in South Carolina

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"Though large family farms — those making $1 million or more annually — and corporate farms amounted to less than 8 percent of all farms in the United States, they received about 47 percent of subsidy payments and 67 percent of crop insurance payments in 2024" www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/u...

Trump’s Tax Bill Expands Farm Subsidies. Not All Farmers Will Benefit.

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"...the threat of deportation by abusive spouses is louder than ever and allows abusers to wield greater power and control over their victims." www.cbsnews.com/news/alleged...

She married a U.S. citizen for love. After she alleged abuse, he threatened deportation.

There has been a rise in the threat of deportations by abusers, said Esther Limb, Immigration Practice Director at Her Justice in New York City.

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Here we go. As if the inhumanity of ICE raids (and treatment of people protesting them) weren't bad enough, now we may face food system disruption because of them. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

US immigration officials raid meat production plant in Omaha, dozens detained

An immigration raid on Tuesday at a meat production plant in Omaha, Nebraska was the "largest worksite enforcement operation" in the state during the Trump presidency, the Homeland Security Department said.

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Laura Grego of @ucs.org on Golden Dome: "I can hardly imagine potential adversaries just sitting still, not developing the ways to counter such a system." www.axios.com/2025/05/28/t...

Beltway bloat could doom Trump's Golden Dome

Realizing even the most basic form in three years will require intense coordination.

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"Nuclear weapons workers don’t grow on trees, nor do the federal experts who oversee them." www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Nuclear weapons woes: Understaffed nuke agency hit by DOGE and safety worries

The consequences of DOGE's disruptions at the National Nuclear Security Administration could be far-reaching, experts say.

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what i mean is: most people who utilize medicaid — who are not children, the elderly or americans with severe disabilities — work! you can’t live off of medicaid because it is health insurance! these people are just mindlessly repeating anti-welfare language from the 1990s

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Great blog by my colleague Dr. Chanese Forté on severe harm done to the Navajo Nation by the US nuclear weapons program. While the current admin seeks to accelerate uranium mining, frontline communities are still undercompensated and under-supported by the government. blog.ucs.org/chanese-fort...

US Uranium Mining Legacy Still Harms the Navajo Nation

The United States needs to redress the wrongs done to the Navajo Nation as a result of uranium mining to build nuclear weapons.

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"A concerted and well-funded effort is needed to mediate the harms caused by the nuclear weapons life cycle."

US Uranium Mining Legacy Still Harms the Navajo Nation

The United States needs to redress the wrongs done to the Navajo Nation as a result of uranium mining to build nuclear weapons.

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“...at best it comes down to mismanagement and incompetence, and at worst, an intentional effort to downplay the complexities and challenges of the Sentinel program to make it appear like it would be the cheaper, easier option," www.defenseone.com/technology/2...

Sentinel ICBM program needs brand-new silos, Air Force says

One expert says the revelation smacks of “mismanagement and incompetence.”

defenseone.com

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“The past 100 days have been devastating but also clarifying,” writes Kate Anderson, director of the Food & Environment Program at the @ucsusa.bsky.social. “We have to move boldly toward the food and farm future we know is possible.”

Op-ed: Trump’s Disastrous First 100 Days for Food, Farming, and Fairness

A look back on this notable benchmark as the Trump Administration cuts funding for critical programs across the food system.

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My colleague Dr. Chanese Forté appeared on the Travis Smiley show discussing her work on the impacts of nuclear weapons production, testing & development all too easily lead to exposure to harmful radiation, which happens all to often to indigenous communities. Listen here: youtu.be/zH3DWGv2D9s?...

Tavis Smiley LIVE 10am

YouTube video by KBLA 1580

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Shocked. Just shocked. "All three companies were founded by entrepreneurs who have been major political supporters of Trump. Musk has donated more than a quarter of a billion dollars to help elect Trump, and now serves as a special adviser," www.reuters.com/business/aer...

Exclusive: Musk's SpaceX is frontrunner to build Trump's Golden Dome missile shield

Elon Musk's SpaceX and two partners have emerged as frontrunners to win a crucial part of President Donald Trump's "Golden Dome" missile defense shield, six people familiar with the matter said.

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