Another way to write this headline is to simply state “Trump lied about Project 2025: Here are the policies from it he’s implemented” www.npr.org/2026/01/19/n...

Another 2024 study found that PM2.5 exposure explains half of the mortality gap between Black and white Americans doi.org/10.1038/s415...

This morning, we sued the Trump Administration over its unlawful freeze of $2.5 billion congressionally approved funding for charging infrastructure. People want and deserve reliable EV charging infrastructure and the administration is taking us backwards. earthjustice.org/press/2025/m...

The number of children injured or killed by cars while walking or riding a bike has fallen steadily since the 1970s, but CDC researcher note that this decline is not because streets are safer, but because fewer kids are out and about in the first place.

all this reporting on dc's challenges but no mention that congress voided our rewrite of the criminal code then a few years later cut a billion dollars from our budget.🤷🏾

The world is drowning in plastic. Experts say we need to stop making so much. But the plastics industry is peddling a "solution" that works like magic. Don't be fooled. (Published June 2024)

According to this rainbow, a pot of gold can be found in the Roaming Rooster at Nats Park.

Fantastic news, for both workers and residents, in Alexandria. As Jesse Maines from the city noted, "running a gas-powered leaf blower for one hour is comparable to driving from DC to Miami in a new car." Hopefully, the ban passes, but the key will be enforcement. www.alxnow.com/2025/05/14/a...

One of the most impressive parts of OKC basketball is their ability to get nearly everyone in their stadium to wear their free t-shirts game after game. Judging by other cities this year, OKC’s t-shirt compliance, even among the rich with floor seats, has got to be a modern NBA record.

Men are not constantly being told “you’re bad,” they are constantly being told “LEFT WING SJWS THINK YOU’RE BAD” by conservative propaganda. There’s a huge difference.

E-bikes consistently bring the type of joy and freedom that cars promise. wapo.st/42X6TZE

It’s hard to think of a more moving photo of a politician in recent memory. Legit brought tears to my eyes. Thank you Senator @vanhollen.senate.gov for not giving up on your constituent.

point access blocks in DC you love to see it

Over the past 20 years, Paris has undergone a major physical transformation, trading automotive arteries for bike lanes, adding green spaces and eliminating 50,000 parking spaces. Part of the payoff has been invisible — in the air itself.

Pushing for sprawl is the housing version of Trump’s “drill, baby, drill.” As with energy, we desperately need more housing. But the environmental effects of sprawl—like coal and oil—are well known. Building dense, walkable neighborhoods is the answer, not sprawl. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/m...

The retort here is simple: coal kills. "[B]etween 1999 and 2020, 460,000 deaths would not have occurred in the absence of emission from the coal power plants." www.nih.gov/news-events/...

Biking to work today was … “fun.”

I saw a version of this on here before but it's worth yelling: these institutions that Musk is illegally dismantling– the weather service, health system, climate & energy research, international aid, maybe the US mail(?)– they don't belong to him, they belong to us. We invested in them. They're ours

I would be making a big deal out of this if I were an elected Democrat

Fantastic piece by Ben Ehrenreich on how the bipartisan repression of anti-genocide protests set the groundwork for Trump’s fascism. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

“The carnage on our highways and roads is just intolerable, and I think the public wants to see real action. We need to make this a serious national priority, and not just something that every local government struggles with on its own.” - @raskin.house.gov usa.streetsblog.org/2025/04/01/t...

@booker.senate.gov dismantles a Confederate monument.

So, the DOGE kids intend to rewrite the social-security administration's COBOL code-base! and they want to do it ... ... in *a few months* I did a huge dive into COBOL a few years ago (www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/magazi...) ... ... so let me explain why DOGE is *way* over its skis here 1/9

One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.

DC Lawyers, please come to our office to meet Diane Seltzer on April 22, who will hopefully be our next DC Bar President!

I get the joke but presenting Donald Trump as if he's a degrowther is a bad faith association. The tenets of degrowth are obviously centred around equity and fairness (though you can nutpick accelerationist fools if you want to). Trump isn't degrowth: he's deeply capitalist eco-fascist.

Among other horrors, this Executive Order seems like a subtle way of saying the Trump administration may use the Smithsonian to bring biological racism back into vogue.

The wealthiest man in the world has fully purchased the federal government of the United States. This is one of the most extraordinary crises in the history of this country and you need to ask whether your elected representatives are acting like it.

One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss. grist.org/biking/one-m... #Bikes #Bicycle #Economy #GreenSky #Transportation

“…my detention is a testament to the strength of the student movement in shifting public opinion toward Palestinian liberation. Students have long been at the forefront of change …. Today, too, even if the public has yet to fully grasp it, it is students who steer us toward truth and justice.”

The Office of Research and Development (ORD) has saved hundreds of thousands of lives over the years. Cutting ORD will save little and it will cause thousands to die.

limiting housing to major roads, arterials, & highways is a massive public health nightmare air & noise pollution are associated w/ increased risk of numerous health issues: lung cancer cardiovascular disease stroke asthma COPD diabetes mental health effects ronpdavis.substack.com/p/mike-elias...

If this is Schumer’s calculus, then the problem is that he is assuming that the Court will rule in a certain way. Mitch McConnell made the same assumption and now we’re here. Who knows where we will be in September, or even what parts of the federal government will be left to save.

And as if we can instantly measure all results. "The tyranny of the quantifiable," an environmentalist said to me long ago, and so much of what matters most is not quantifiable or efficient or profitable in the narrow sense, and that's kind of what all this is about. So thank you Ms Kabas.

More evidence on the power of road pricing!

When I was in Pakistan over Christmas, the US Embassy’s air quality data was absolutely critical to understanding air pollution on any given day in Islamabad. A terrible loss in data transparency that only serves polluters interests over our health.

Call your R reps. If you have a regional accent, make the most of it. Tell them you didn't vote for CANCER and ask them what the hell they're gonna do to stop Musk and Trump. reps.fyi

This article by Bob Bauer and Jack Goldsmith does a great job of outlining the theory behind the chaos we’ve seen the past few weeks and its architect: Russ Vought. Stopping his confirmation to OMB should be a top priority of the Senate. open.substack.com/pub/executiv...

They want to ban the teaching of the unpleasant facts of American history because people might conclude injustices in the past that contribute to inequalities in the present should be rectified, instead of their belief, which is that some groups of people are inherently superior to others

When I was in law school, Fed Soc hosted an event on birthright citizenship. The question was so offensive, most of the students walked out of the event. We knew at the time that this wasn’t a “good faith” question but one of politics. A politics designed to strip our classmates of citizenship.

Such a good piece. I cannot really come to terms with how rare it is in journalism that Musk's action are being recognised for what they are. Few things have scared me more than seeing widespread active efforts to rationalise and deny Musk's expression of Nazi bigotry, in mainstream media

Years ago a coworker explained cycling to work to another coworker this way which was you're rarely going to be as comfortable as you are in a car but it's going to be a lot more fun and I wish we talked more honestly about the trade offs we have to face to keep this planet livable.

"Relying on a car for more than 50 percent of the time for out-of-home activities is associated with a decrease in life satisfaction." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Decarbonization is essential to achieving climate goals, but myopic decarb policies that ignore co-pollutants may leave Black and high-poverty communities up to 26–34% higher PM2.5 exposure than national averages over the energy transition. #EnergySky #EnergyJustice www.nature.com/articles/s41...

In thinking about what rich nations owe the developing world, here’s something to keep in mind: The average American emits more CO₂ in one week than an average person in low-income countries does in one year.