Today, a multistate coalition (led by MA, CA, and NY) released guidance affirming the necessity and legality of efforts to advance environmental justice. www.mass.gov/news/ag-camp...

The NAACP is re-mixing 1930s-era "don't buy where you can't work" campaigns to confront the neo-segregationists targeting DEI. apnews.com/article/blac...

Don’t know if anyone else read the letter and caught that it contradicts the majority opinion in SFFA, which allows discussion of racial identities in essays to be used as a factor in admissions. They’re trying to rewrite an already very conservative SCOTUS opinion www.ed.gov/media/docume...

I said something very similar in my talk yesterday. Even before this moment, lots of ostensibly liberal academics believed that "diversity hires" were both endemic (not true) and less qualified (also a lie). The current moment is going to amp this up 1000%.

Best moment of an otherwise excellent New Directions in Environmental Law conference: tag-teaming with @monicavisalam.bsky.social to recruit new listers for @harvilla.bsky.social’s 60 Songs That Explain the 90s. www.theringer.com/podcasts/60-...

Gay men. Straight women. Now is the appointed hour. They are distracted. They are slightly drunk. They are feeling nostalgic about (checks notes) mayonnaise for some reason. Go to the place agreed. Enact the ritual. Wrest the control they have so clumsily squandered. Abracadabra amoroonana.

NEW: Shortly after being sworn into office on Wednesday, Attorney General Pam Bondi went from the Oval Office to the Justice Department to do President Donald Trump’s bidding. In a series of orders, Bondi made clear, sometimes explicitly, that the independence of the Justice Department is gone.

Really important new lawsuit by @democracyforward.bsky.social and @publiccitizen.bsky.social , which are out there fighting the good fight.

GovWayback: access historical versions of U.S. government pages by replacing ".gov" in the URL with ".govwayback.com" https://govwayback.com/

Federal health workers are expressing fear and alarm after a website called “DEI Watch List” published the photos, names and public information of a number of workers across health agencies, describing them as “targets.”

Dear journalists: Now, more than ever, ✨The lawyers need to see the actual court filings.✨ Yes, I know you summarized. Yes, I know your non-attorney readers don't care. But we need to see the documents. The actual documents. If you're pulling docs from PACER, use RECAP & give us a link. Please.

Again: Trump just ordered 2 dams open to levels that would’ve flooded areas and farms, without warning, all to back up the lies he told about the fires — and the rivers don’t even flow to LA. Locals panicked and they backed off. sjvwater.org/decision-to-...

For a photo op & a bragging media post, Trump minions at the USACoE have thrown away millions of gals of #water farmers were relying on for later this year. This water will not be captured, will not be useful for cities or farms or firefighting. It is now lost. www.latimes.com/environment/...

Calling all civil servants and data nerds in the energy & climate space: if you were going to preemptively save any particular documents or data from websites (just in case, no reason), what would it be? (feel free to DM or hmu on Signal if you'd rather not reply publicly)

Employees from agencies and departments across the federal government told Law Dork about how Trump’s anti-trans orders are leading to government-wide censorship today. @chrisgeidner.bsky.social has the alarming report.

Over 100 JFREJ members gathered in a zoom just before Shabbat this evening to hear some words of Torah, courage, and care, before lighting Shabbat candles together. Thank you Rabbi @abbystein.bsky.social for leading us in this grounding ritual space.

NEWS: DOJ just withdrew its 11th Circuit brief supporting the plaintiff in a lawsuit over whether a health insurance provider can be held liable under Title VII for denying gender-affirming medical care coverage to an employee because they are transgender. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Environmental Justice Index is down

A new era of government censorship has begun. It started with the silencing of scientific speech, when the admin blocked release of research on bird flu. But MAGA has also cracked down on other wrongthink—on race, geography (!), and of course Trump himself www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

BREAKING: Judge McConnell blocks Trump administration temporarily from blocking grants/loans to 22 states and DC that sued over funding "pause." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Really, the only surprise here is that it took antiabortion prosecutors this long. The New York shield law will prevent this from going forward. She won't be extradited, and there will be nothing Louisiana can do about it. End of story.

I saw a post saying that ICE is pausing its tip line, so I decided to call myself to verify. The recorded voicemail said they are not currently accepting immigration status tips. Good job, friends.

And then this happened.

Here’s Judge AliKhan’s written order imposing an “administrative stay” on most of OMB’s spending freeze through Feb. 3: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25... courtesy of @joshgerstein.bsky.social

I see some suggestions, in the reporting regarding the OMB impoundment order, that a mere delay in spending appropriated funds is legal. But that's not really true. The delay OMB has ordered specifically contradicts the Impoundment Control Act. A thread.

“Those we serve” is doing a lot of work here.

And it’s been confirmed:

NEW — OMB temporarily pauses all agency grants and loans programs. Per copy of memo: "The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve."

Have others identified other early examples of grant programs being rewritten?

US DOT has renamed the competitive RAISE program back to BUILD & changed merit criteria for winning projects to: —Eliminate goal of increasing walking, biking for public health —Eliminate goal of engaging with unions —Eliminate goal of electrification www.transportation.gov/RAISEgrants/...

As expected, the Trump team is already deleting climate info from government websites. In anticipation, our team at Urban Ocean Lab created a permanent archive of 100+ key resources and published a permanent archive: www.urbanoceanlab.org/resource-hub 👩🏽‍💻

How is “this directly conflicts with federal legal requirements for removing IGs” not a part of your subhed? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Still can't get over this. PEPFAR is one of the best things the US has ever done, and we're doing this. Monstrous.

DEI is CIVIL RIGHTS just keep saying it

Heads up, the Biden-Harris White House websites are now archived! If you have an old link that gives an error, you can delete the www . whitehouse in the link (be sure to remove the www) and replace with bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/ [rest of your link] bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/ostp/news-up...

Justice Department issues freeze for civil rights division. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Many organizations did not value diversity or do much about it. But it is quite something else to openly disavow it and rescind long-accepted prohibitions against racial discrimination that weren't even considered controversial even five years ago.

SHARE WIDELY. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights. You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one. (1/3)

Environmental justice is no longer the policy of the federal government. It remains fundamental to states, cities, towns, & Tribal governments across the country. And the foundational principles remain as strong as ever, rooted in frontline & fenceline leadership. www.ejnet.org/ej/principle...

The Trump administration took a sledgehammer to DEI efforts, ordering federal agencies to dismantle DEI offices. A Tuesday memo demands all DEI staff be placed on leave by Wednesday and plans for permanent cuts finalized by January 31, gutting DEI across the government.

I will have more to say, but will start by honoring our movement elders who put bodies on the line to enshrine civil rights & environmental justice into federal law and policy. And by honoring the generations to come whose work is repair & transformation. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

By the way — if you're curious to learn more about the modern Religious Left, boy do I have the book for you: www.amazon.com/American-Pro...

Wow. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde fearlessly calls out Trump and Vance to their faces. This is heroic. (posting in 3 parts due to Bluesky's 1 minute limit)

Taught someone jab, cross, and hook, this morning. Might be the most impactful thing I do, today.

Trump’s White House just withdrew the US from the Paris Climate Agreement and World Health Organization. This shameful embrace of science denial puts the entire world at greater risk of climate catastrophe and deadly pandemics.

A thread 🧵of of threads of my initial reviews of the first batch of Trump EOs bsky.app/profile/jame...

I assume most people know this, but seems important to point out basic truths at this moment in time. There is no energy emergency in the U.S. The U.S. is the world's top producer of oil and gas at the moment, and the top exporter of gas, and U.S. oil and gas producers are making record profits.