For the record, the piece I wrote answers the question, which was rhetorical; yes this country is being destroyed, yes the mainstream media by telling it all piecemeal and normalized is avoiding telling us.
Close-up image of an endangered red wolf known as Airplane Ears, in a natural setting, with text overlay from the Center for Biological Diversity stating, 'The Trump Administration is working to weaken the Endangered Species Act.' Photo courtesy of Wolf Jenkins.
Join us in standing up for the Endangered Species Act and all of the species this law protects.
By changing the meaning of a single word, the Trump administration could gut habitat protections for all endangered species. We can't let that happen.
Comment period closes on 5/19: biodiv.us/3YOLBe6
This language is eugenics-lite. If it is our “patriotic duty” to be healthy, does that mean people with chronic illnesses are unpatriotic? That they’re not worthy of the resources society spends on them?
Deeply troubling.
What is happening at FEMA? Instability, cuts, and a looming sense of dread have FEMA employees unsure the agency is ready for hurricanes, fires, and floods. “We are being set up for a really, really bad situation," says one.
THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM
My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social.
The governing ideology of the far right has become a
monstrous, supremacist survivalism.
Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
When you feel yourself becoming complacent or surrendering to hopelessness or apathy, remember that everything that exists today exists because someone(s) dreamt it up and decided to put in the work to make it a reality. We can create new ways of doing things, new ways of being, new worlds.
He’s telling you who he is everyday.
Tell me more about how we’re making America healthy again
Energy Transfer wins lawsuit against Greenpeace, threatens to bankrupt the org and put a chill on free speech
"...more than half the jurors selected to hear the case had ties to the fossil fuel industry"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
A screenshot of a paragraph that reads: “We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,” Vought said in one recording. “When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. We want their funding to be shut down so that the EPA can't do all of the rules against our energy industry because they have no bandwidth financially to do so. “We want to put them in trauma.”
This quote is from TWO YEARS AGO, from Project 2025 architect Russel Vought (who is now the White House budget director)
LAPD Surveilled Gaza Protests Using This Social Media Tool by @sambiddle.com
theintercept.com/2025/03/17/l...
Just saw on IG that Micah Bazant has recently learned they have ME/CFS. To support their work, you can order posters/inkjet prints of this & other works on their website. I just did! Please join me if you are able. www.micahbazant.com/buy-art
The Washington Post: EPA reverses course, reinstating dozens of environmental justice workers www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Americans Are Increasingly Aware That Climate Change Is Harming Their Health. Climate justice is health justice. Time to #ActonClimate now! - Inside Climate News insideclimatenews.org/news/0403202...
LA STUDENT STRIKE DAY 5 -
RIGHT NOW: Pasadena High School has just joined the dozens of other schools all over LA that have staged walkouts throughout this week.
This is the 6th straight day of anti-ICE, immigrations rights protests in LA.
Trump administration environmental justice removals cut across agencies. nearly 200 people placed on administrative leave as environmental justice programs are facing termination at the Justice and Energy departments and the Environmental Protection Agency.
www.govexec.com/workforce/20...
