Our analysis of EPA air monitoring data shows that companies have far underestimated the pollution caused by their facilities. At a U.S. Steel plant outside Pittsburgh, monitors found benzene levels 37 times higher than estimated emissions. @lisalsong.bsky.social, 📸: @annie-flanagan.bsky.social

Really looking forward to the Speaker of the House claiming to be unaware of the election results.

Congratulations to all the Democratic candidates who won tonight. It’s a reminder that when we come together around strong, forward-looking leaders who care about the issues that matter, we can win. We’ve still got plenty of work to do, but the future looks a little bit brighter.

The administration keeps framing these strike as counterterrorism and comparing the supposed “narco-terrorists” to AQ. But after 9/11, Congress actually affirmatively voted to use military force. That hasn’t happened here. Instead Congress is trying to figure out what the executive is doing.

Remember, they're currently arguing that Biden's pardons are illegitimate because he signed the actual forms with an autopen. Trump, meanwhile, repeatedly insists he knows nothing at all about one of his very controversial pardons. Never heard of the guy! Sorta seems like a problem.

Never in the history of the US has any president openly and repeatedly called for the investigation, arrest & prosecution of his political opponents. While many continue to shrug these things off and normalize them, I will never stop pointing out that this is what autocrats do.

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“Babcock said having an address has helped him while he lives on the streets. He has received mail from the Social Security Administration, replacement identification cards about five times and chocolate chip cookies from his mother.”

When I saw images of the East Wing of the White House being demolished, I could barely contain myself. It’s happening, I thought. President Trump is finally acting on the one issue that matters: BALLROOM! My column: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

The "Secretary of War" and the "War Department" are not real things. Shouldn't that nullify this presidential order?

A nicer story to start your day (should be a gift link). wapo.st/4qgJ5K0

‘Did I as a reporter solicit information? Of course. It's called journalism: finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says.’ www.npr.org/2025/10/14/g...

Have any drugs been recovered from any of these vessels? Any identification of their cargo or people?

American University is offering free professional training for fired and furloughed federal workers.

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

The ones really in charge are President Miller and Vice President Vought.

Our nation's federal employees are more than just numbers on a spreadsheet. They make sure we have clean water. They protect us from financial fraud. They provide healthcare to our communities. They make our government actually work for people. Do not forget this.

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Hegseth sucks. The Qataris suck. But we aren’t giving Qatar an airbase in Idaho. It’s building dorms etc. at an existing base to train them on F-15s we sold them, just like Singapore already has there. Common arrangement we have with lots of countries. This one was already being planned under Biden.

$12 billion deal may bring hundreds of Qatar, US Air Force members to Idaho base By SALLY KRUTZIG IDAHO STATESMAN • January 18, 2022 Read more at: www.stripes.com/branches/air... Source - Stars and Stripes

This is what courage in the face of authoritarianism looks like. No university should take Trump's bribe & surrender their integrity — bending the knee to a bully only feeds the beast & puts ALL our rights at risk. Others should follows MIT’s example ASAP.

NEW: Trump Wants to Take Over Cities. Influencers Are Giving Him the Fuel to Do It Wrote a bit about the content mill for consensus the Trump administration has created to justify its law-and-order immigration agenda. More here: www.wired.com/story/trump-...

Nevada state regulators have accused Elon Musk’s Boring Co. of digging without approval, releasing untreated water onto city streets and spilling muck from its trucks, according to a new document obtained by @citycastvegas.bsky.social and @propublica.org.

If you are a federal worker, there are several credit unions and other financial institutions that are offering zero interest loans during the government shutdown. Please go to my website for more information: www.sanders.senate.gov/resources-fo...

No one signs up for the National Guard thinking, “One day, I’ll invade Oregon.”

Merrick Garland green-lit the search of Mar-a-Lago. It happened in August 2022 three months before Jack Smith was appointed. Jack Smith was in the Netherlands at the Hauge prosecuting Kosovo war crimes when Mar-a-Lago was searched. Eric should have listened to my podcast.

Update from the war zone in Portland.

Alarming news this morning that Social Security head Frank Bisignano has been named “CEO” of IRS, a move that raises 3 major concerns: www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Sounds like Republicans ought to get all the Republicans who form the Republican majorities in the Republican-led House and the Republican-led Senate together to pass the budget that Republicans wrote with the Republican White House and that Republicans now insist absolutely must be passed.

1/ In August 2020, the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, made an extraordinary request to President Trump’s ambassador, Ronald Johnson. A previously undisclosed report tells what happened next, according to a new ProPublica investigation. 🧵 ⬇️

These individual call-outs of judges by DOJ officials are essentially unprecedented and are best understood as intended to cause threats and violence like this

So the U.S. government made a huge show about the alleged threat posed by TikTok's Chinese ownership.... Meanwhile a major American military contractor owned by Elon Musk has quietly accepted direct and indirect investment from China.

Federal workers are being told to blame Democrats for the shutdown in their OOO auto-responders, complete with suggested language. from @telliotter.bsky.social

Russ Vought, the architect of Project 2025, is trying to use the shutdown to illegally fire even more federal workers, threatening deeper cuts to essential services. From @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social: trib.al/YVrfE2R

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I work with Veterans. If I told them that they "killed people and broke things for a living" they would (rightfully) tell me to go to hell. Those that have had to kill someone in the line of duty most often view it with sadness, regret, and one of the worst experiences of their lives.

A building at Utah State University is being evacuated due to a suspicious package. Turning Point USA is set to hold an event on campus this evening.

Yes, he didn't limit it to just day 1. Totally saw this coming.

A disgrace. Border Patrol “commander” on who gets detained in Chicago. “‘Then, obviously, the particular characteristics of an individual, how they look. How do they look compared to, say, you?’ he said to the reporter, a middle-aged man of Anglo descent.” chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

When companies like Aetna or UnitedHealthcare want to rein in costs, they turn to EviCore, whose business model depends on turning down payments for care recommended by doctors for their patients. (Published Oct. 2024 w/ @capitolforum.bsky.social)

Kamala Harris: "It feels chaotic, but what I would offer you is what we are witnessing is the swift implementation of a plan that was decades in the making. Project 2025 didn't just drop out of thin air. That's a product of decades of work. Federalist Society, Heritage Foundation ... "

So we learned today from medical experts Trump and RFK Jr that people in CA are more likely to get autism and Amish people are immune but I’m not sure what happens if an Amish person goes to CA.

Sounds like the US is about to bail out Trump’s pal Javier Milei. ‘America First’ always has lots of exceptions.

The Right’s Insidious New “Manhattan Project for Babies” newrepublic.com/article/2004... via @newrepublic.com

Posts claim Charlie Kirk once introduced Kyle Rittenhouse as "a hero to millions." That's true. ✅ www.snopes.com/fact-check/c...