Our @coldchrisfiles.bsky.social gets a little personal in explaining why changing Title IX to exclude LGBTQ kids is so deeply harmful. www.washingtonblade.com/2026/06/25/o...

Excellent new @billmckibben.bsky.social piece explains how fossil fuels are making life more expensive. While planet-heating pollution drives up the cost of living, climate action—e.g., accelerating the transition to clean, cheap energy—puts us on a path toward greater affordability.

Alaska has been trying to make an LNG pipeline work since the 1980s. Despite the state bending over backwards to cut taxes for it and tens of billions in federal subsidies, it's still not coming together. Our friends at @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social on a bridge fuel to nowhere:

Faced with a slow-motion ecological crisis at an Alaska-sized scale, politicians from Juneau to Washington are stuck in the mud of a tedious old dream: Alaska LNG. @hannahstoryb.bsky.social digs into the failure of imagination (and billions in subsidies) buoying this boondoggle for @prospect.org.

Wondering what we've been up to lately? This week's newsletter takes us from Silicon Valley to Trump's July 4th "vanity cringefest" to the halls of the Supreme Court. The common thread across these disparate stories is elite impunity: powerful people rigging the game without fear of consequences.

Dangerous heat is blanketing the United States. People are at greater risk of heat-related illness and death due to the cruel actions of Donald Trump, Russell Vought, and other admin officials. Things are even worse now as White House policy drives up the cost of electricity and other essentials.

The Trump administration has left America less prepared to deal with hurricanes and natural disasters.

The Trump admin has awarded nearly $103M in federal contracts and grants to a network of MAGA-friendly entities for the nation's 250th celebration.

Who's bending the knee to the AI lobby? Our friends at @demandprogress.bsky.social are following the money at aimoneywatch.org. prospect.org/2026/06/10/t...

At a time when resistance to AI data centers and economic populism are powering politics, Abundance Network is telling its donors that they can rebuild the Democratic Party in a more billionaire-positive vision.

There are hard lessons to be learned from Democrats' 2024 loss to Trump — but they aren’t the ones centrists are pushing.

ICYMI: Our @dylangyauchl.bsky.social joined @samseder.bsky.social and @emmavigeland.bsky.social on @majorityreport.bsky.social to discuss who's really behind the Abundance movement. www.youtube.com/live/cSqBWeq...

The crypto industry has given heavily to members on the powerful House Ways & Means Committee, which crafts tax policy.

Trump and his allies have seized control of America's 250th celebration, substituting it with a Trumpified series of events at the public’s expense.

America's home insurance crisis is only getting worse. Read our latest in-depth research on this crucial issue.

The under-the-radar cuts to federal agencies by Russ Vought and RFK Jr. will cause tremendous suffering in the coming years.

ICYMI: Last Friday, @dylangyauchl.bsky.social also went on the @deanobeidallah.bsky.social Show to talk Abundance Network, money in politics, and the Democratic Party with Joe Sudbay. Catch their conversation below: www.siriusxm.com/player/episo...

Had enough of @dylangyauchl.bsky.social 's Abundance reporting? Of course not! Today she appeared on an excellent Majority Report segment with @samseder.bsky.social and @emmavigeland.bsky.social to discuss why Zack Rosen thinks small-dollar donors make American politics "dumber"

ICYMI: Our @dylangyauchl.bsky.social went on Attitude with @nharnie.bsky.social to talk about documents from Zach Rosen's Abundance Network that detail the organization's anti-democratic agenda. Listen below: www.podomatic.com/podcasts/sta...

The Trump Administration's assault on federal capacity has taken a toll on the government's ability to protect us from foodborne illness and preventable diseases. In today's newsletter, we detail a few of the key policy and personnel changes responsible: therevolvingdoorproject.org/department-o...

RELEASE: Hal Duncan's testimony confirmed he'll be a Trump/Vought lackey as OMB Deputy Director. “Though they operate with a more polished veneer, Duncan and Vought’s continued chokehold of the federal government deserves the same scrutiny afforded to the DOGE bros during their deadly rampage.”

The property & casualty insurance industry's profit spree continued in 2025, new data shows. Underwriting income surged to $69 billion. Meanwhile, the industry raked in $112 billion in investment income, more than double what it saw in 2016. Analysis by @publiccitizen.bsky.social and RDP.

ICYMI: We reported for @prospect.org last week on documents obtained by @phoenixprojnow.bsky.social detailing how Silicon Valley elites view "abundance" as an avenue to advancing their political power. prospect.org/2026/06/12/n...

Sen. Merkley: Will you commit to keeping partisan influences out of grant allocations? Duncan: "I'll certainly commit to ensuring that grants are spent in accordance with the law, but fundamentally in accordance with the President's priorities as well."

Sen. Van Hollen asked Duncan whether he, like Russell Vought, wants to put civil servants "in trauma." Duncan refused to provide a direct response, instead choosing to run cover for his boss.

OMB nominee Hal Duncan claims the government is more efficient despite losing 300,000 federal workers under Trump.

Duncan dodges a questions about OMB's proposed rule to give political appointees power over the grant-making process. Murray: "Is there any language that places limits on cronyism?" Duncan: "We would move forward with the rule and the agencies in a manner that is consistent with applicable law."

Duncan declared his loyalty to Russell Vought in his opening statement. "It's been the honor of a lifetime serving alongside Director Vought at OMB."

Sen. Merkley kicks off the hearing criticizing OMB and Duncan's refusal to cooperate with congressional oversight. "OMB has essentially stonewalled Congress and this committee, not responding to a single letter I've sent."

If confirmed as OMB Deputy Director, Hal Duncan will be second in command to Russell Vought at perhaps the most powerful office in this administration. The public deserves to know whether Duncan is on board with Vought's villainy, from impoundment to the politicization of disaster aid.

"Previous administrations didn't use the disaster declaration process to settle partisan scores or punish perceived enemies for alleged disloyalty," our @kennystancil.bsky.social told the Chicago Tribune. For more on Trump's weaponization of federal disaster assistance, see our tracker:

Child care, Medicaid, and SNAP. All three have been swept up in OMB Director Russell Vought’s fiscal retaliation campaign against blue states, putting people’s lives on the line. Read more in our latest newsletter:

In new reporting for @prospect.org, our @dylangyauchl.bsky.social details internal documents from Bay Area abundance groups pitch the movement to tech elites as a way to take control of Democratic politics and describe a 9-figure funding stream from billionaires. (1/2) prospect.org/2026/06/12/n...

America's 250th was going to be nonpartisan. Then Trump took over. Now it's being run by Trump loyalists & funded by $100+ million in federal contracts sent to MAGA-fied events. New report from us + @publiccitizen.bsky.social

With Elon Musk's rocket company SpaceX about to go public, we looked back at how he used DOGE to undermine NASA's funding and capacity.

The progressive nonprofit Demand Progress has set up a new monitoring effort, called AI Money Watch, to follow one particular AI PAC called Leading the Future. prospect.org?p=139608

Execs from companies like OpenAI pumped millions into Leading the Future, a Super PAC that is trying to buy politicians who will kill AI safeguards and bury anyone who fights back. Go to aimoneywatch.org to see who's being bankrolled by them and who they're trying to stop.

OMB Director Russell Vought has weaponized federal funding for disaster aid & climate resilience programs to punish states that didn’t back Trump in 2024. Those who stand to suffer the most from Vought’s vindictiveness—average Americans—are being treated as disposable pawns.

Happening now: The industry-captured House Committee on Ways and Means is hosting a legislative hearing on Digital Asset Taxation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=trzf...

Perhaps no single group has better facilitated the Trump administration’s corruption than the crypto industry. So why did Democratic senators Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) and Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD) vote for the Clarity Act in committee? talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/why-are...

NEW: The House Committee on Ways and Means is one of the most powerful committees in all of Congress. This week, our analysis breaks down the crypto industry’s multi-million dollar power play to fill its seats with cronies. therevolvingdoorproject.org/crypto-corner/

A Congressional report explores how AI can compromise personal data, and reveals that federal agencies fall short in addressing privacy-related challenges. The report's concerns aren't just conjecture: real-world privacy failures show us the risk.

No one (save for centrist think tankers) is buying what Third Way is selling.

The narrative that Palantir’s billionaire CEO Alex Karp is or was ever a leftist is equally as inaccurate as it is dangerous.

Who's part of the Epstein Class? Find out on our new website.

As hurricane season approaches, Trump has gutted our disaster readiness and response capacity. Democrats must make him pay a political price.

The DNC autopsy debacle is an excellent window into the rotting core of Democratic party politics.

Russ Vought is holding federal funds for essential programs hostage in order to punish Trump’s political enemies — people's lives be damned.

In the late 2010s, nicotine use among teens spiked as companies like Juul targeted young people in advertising, hooking a new generation on their product. If you think this sounds similar to prediction markets, you aren't wrong. Juul's PR guy is even helping prediction markets run the same playbook

The latest indignity from the Supreme Court's conservative justices, who eroded decades of hard-won civil rights progress with a brief, unsigned decision that @paulblumenthal.bsky.social calls "so shoddy and partisan that it is hard to take the court’s conservative supermajority seriously anymore."