Corporate America’s mouthpieces claim the few limits on corporate influence we helped win during the Biden admin drove Big Business to board Trump’s tyrannical train. If so, how can Big Business ever be trustworthy participants in a democracy? Our @jeffhauser.bsky.social in the @wsj.com:

For 2 years of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, not one Palestinian voice has been featured on NBC, ABC or CNN’s Sunday shows. @ahjohnson.bsky.social writes about how the U.S. media has debated Palestinians’ annihilation without letting a single Palestinian speak. inthesetimes.com/article/gaza...

BREAKING: The Trump admin has installed 100+ fossil fuel insiders and corporate lobbyists to roles across federal agencies. These staffers are enacting a dirty energy agenda and destroying our public lands. Our new report with Revolving Door Project breaks it all down ⬇️

According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...

Further premeditated killing by the Trump administration. Labelling the victims of these strikes as "narco-terrorists" does not magically make these attacks legal.

NEW: Russell Vought aims to use the official government shutdown as pretext to continue his unlawful withholding of federal funds. But the budget chief's actions in the past few months amount to a stealthy shutdown of the federal government. It's time to put an end to that.

There’s something truly terrifying about how casually tech oligarchs now describe their plans to restructure society. They are publicly pitching to investors and governments a future where we are all obedient subjects under their control.

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

We've been in a slow-motion government shutdown for months, as the Trump administration withheld appropriated funds and engaged in mass firings. Now we're going to finally admit it. From me and @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social: prospect.org/politics/202...

Great WSJ reporting on the life-threatening effects of the Trump regime's evisceration of FEMA. Noteworthy: As tornado-ravaged St. Louis awaits federal recovery funds, Kristi Noem fast-tracked aid to a Florida tourist spot at the behest of a major donor. www.propublica.org/article/kris...

One of today's most crucial tasks is to connect the dots between the Trump regime's inhumane policy choices and the ensuing rise in mortality and infrastructure destruction. therevolvingdoorproject.org/trump-disast...

🚨 "Boeing is regaining authority from the Federal Aviation Administration to perform final safety checks on its 737 MAX." Rather than increase agency capacity to conduct independent inspections and improve aviation safety, Trump's FAA will allow Boeing to certify the safety of its own planes.

Noem's policy of personally reviewing grants over $100k has disrupted the flow of FEMA resources to disaster victims. But when one of her major donors got in touch, Noem rushed funds to a FL tourist spot. Team Trump looks out for its wealthy allies.

It’s rich that Jay Parsons, the 'economist' who literally pitched RealPage’s rent-setting software, is now scolding tenant advocates to work “in good faith” for accessible affordable housing. Where was that good faith when RealPage was squeezing every last penny out of renters?

As Texans dealt with deadly flooding, acting FEMA chief David Richardson didn't immediately end his vacation and return to his D.C. office. He stayed in his truck. Richardson claimed during his July 23 testimony that he was on the phone with officials the whole time. 🧵⬇️

But according to new reporting from The Washington Post, FEMA wasn't able to get in touch with Richardson until the night of July 6—more than 48 hours after the disaster began.

Richardson also told House lawmakers that DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's policy of personally approving any contract over $100k did not "cause any undue delay." But this claim has also been refuted by facts on the ground.

The Trump administration has thoroughly undermined our country's capacity to prepare for and respond to extreme weather disasters. We've been tracking that relentless assault here:

As one FEMA worker warned in the wake of the deadly Texas floods, "if this is how they are going to do a major hurricane response, people are fucked." The National Hurricane Center is currently monitoring tropical activity in the Atlantic.

Senator Bill Cassidy, a doctor, is 1 of only 100 Americans out of over 250 million adult citizens given the consequential responsibility to advise and consent on exec branch nominees. He used that to approve an antivax, anti-science conspiracy theorist as the nation's top public health official.

Hard to express to those not in the weeds just how much the current state of the immigration detention system is just utter chaos.

On September 20, the Department of Agriculture confirmed the cancelation of the annual Household Food Security Report, which for the past three decades has monitored low-income households' nutrition access. www.wsj.com/economy/trum...

NEW: For @prospect.org our @dylangyauchl.bsky.social writes about Ted Cruz's SANDBOX Act and how it could waive nearly all federal regulation for tech companies. 1/4 prospect.org/power/2025-0...

NEW: As Trump and his friends make deals, ordinary Americans are on the menu – to be divvied up proportionately to how well different oligarchs serve Trump. Catch up on the biggest corruption stories of this week with our latest Corruption Calendar newsletter:

Jocelyn’s concerns for her daughter’s health is unfortunately too common with cuts coming soon to Medicaid in President Trump’s big, ugly bill. Nobody should have to choose between paying the bills and the medication that keeps them healthy.

A Denver pediatrician in Gaza: “The most dangerous place on Earth to live as a child”

Since 1994 childhood vaccines have prevented: 508M cases of illnesses 32M hospitalizations 1.3M deaths Every $1 spent on childhood vaccines, the US has saved $10.90, totaling $2.7 trillion in societal savings. Yet, tomorrow ACIP will consider changing the schedule based on no science or data.

Want a blueprint for pivoting from climate rollbacks to a strategic climate offense? That's my focus in a new article out today in Democracy Journal. The path forward is a new climate agenda written not about impacted workers & communities, but by them. democracyjournal.org/magazine/78/...

NEW: March 2025 was, by far, the worst month for federal hiring in at least 20 years. Breaking down attrition at federal agencies in the early months of the Trump admin, a thread 🧵: (Full piece here: therevolvingdoorproject.org/attrition-in...)

840,000 insurance policyholders in Florida are trapped in a mandatory arbitration system where the insurer almost always wins. Regular people are left to pick up the pieces and pay the settlements. We need a real investigation and accountability for this broken system.

NEW: Trump and his allies in Congress are continuing their war on the administrative state: 8 independent agencies now lack a quorum to fulfill key functions. Our @kjboyle.bsky.social writes in @prospect.org on how this puts the public’s safety, financial well-being, and civil rights at dire risk.

Trump and RFK Jr. cancelled more than $1 billion in grants to study, control and prevent deadly neglected tropical diseases, which afflict people living in poverty worldwide.

We’re tracking Trump’s disasters in the making, and who makes money from them. Check out today's newsletter for tools like maps, trackers, and interactive timelines we've made this year to understand the pandemonium of Trump’s second term.

At the House Natural Resources hearing, the Foundation of American Innovation's Thomas Hochman let it slip: constraining NEPA is about powering AI datacenters to fuel Silicon Valley's latest bubble. Hochman was a speaker at last week's abundance conference, and FAI was a co-host

🔥🔥🔥 The Tenant Union Federation is uniting tenants across state lines to confront the power of corporate landlords. TODAY, tenants in Connecticut, Michigan, Kentucky and Missouri launched a new campaign demanding better conditions from their landlord, Capital Realty Group:

In a big reversal from their usual faux-masculinity, ICE is now claiming that videotaping their actions is “violence.” That’s quite embarrassing, but it’s also a serious attack on the freedom of the press. From @matthewccook5.bsky.social with @exposedbycmd.bsky.social:

Big Oil spent nearly half a BILLION dollars in last year’s election cycle. Now, they’re coming to collect — and they’re getting a big return on investment. Watch. youtu.be/aDQXiNlM5iM?...

"[T]he federal government has turned its back on its own people," said Bob Griffin, an emergency preparedness expert from SUNY Albany. Great analysis from AP. See our tracker/map for more on Trump's delayed and incomplete allocation of disaster aid.

More than a dozen states and tribes are awaiting the next batch of Trump's (partial) approvals, including a pair of appeals. Crow Tribe of Montana has been waiting 54 days, ND (50), NE (48), Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate Tribe (41), NC (35), KS (35), and more.

Glad to share a new Public Citizen piece on Minnesota's insurance crisis. Authored by one of our climate & insurance interns, it proposes reforms for a new state task force and features maps from @kennystancil.bsky.social Article: www.citizen.org/article/clim... datawrapper.dwcdn.net/LkvOl/3/

POTUS and the VP come out in favor of war on a US city, and extrajudicial killing by the military of alleged criminals.

NEW Corruption Calendar - Weeks 32-33: An Administration Full of Grifters and Grim Reapers The Trump White House is increasing our risk of premature death while helping its wealthy allies get richer quicker.

Democrats must oppose the AI industry. Our @dylangyauchl.bsky.social and @maxmoranhi.bsky.social lay out the case this morning in a piece for @prospect.org 1/4 prospect.org/power/2025-0...

The "Abundance" people think it's okay to have a speaker from the Manhattan Institute promote "deportation abundance." The conference is filled with people like this, making it clear that the "Abundance" grift sits far to the right of the median voter. It exists to move the country farther right.

Unless this dangerous precedent is condemned and curtailed, it will enable US authorities to summarily shoot anyone they choose www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Big ups to @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social for publishing this tool showing who is behind the #Abundance movement to coincide with this week's conference: therevolvingdoorproject.org/who-is-behin... It's all the worst people, pretending to be liberals, pushing a tired right-wing deregulatory agenda.

The question is whether Democrats will have the guts to hold the Trump administration accountable if and when people die needlessly due to the MAGA assault on disaster preparedness and response.

A new GAO report warns that Trump's gutting of FEMA could have dire consequences. Last week, we detailed how Trump's attacks on FEMA and NOAA are likely to unleash preventable suffering and death.

The "abundance conference" starts today in Washington DC, headlined by the Republican Governor of Utah, Spencer Cox, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson. We just released our report on the people and orgs behind this movement, hopefully shedding some light on this mysterious bunch.