Of all the harm this administration has done to US science, today's proposed changes to the way federal grants are awarded and administered is the most damaging yet. The text of the federal register document is impenetrably tedious by design, so here's an excellent summary of what it says.

Trump’s corruption is staggering. Where is the Fox rage machine about this?

She hits the nail on the head! Thank you @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social for articulating this insanity so beautifully. Words matter.

This article tells the story of what researchers have been going through over the past 14 months. As funding dries up, professors struggle to keep people employed and to keep doing the work. The Trump Administration is destroying so much science in this country. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/u...

Doing a media pitch on a great paper coming out next week and it’s depressing how many environmental health and #climate journalists at major news outlets are gone.

PFAS chemicals have contaminated about half of drinking water in the U.S. - and they're jeopardizing children's health. edition.cnn.com/2026/03/17/h...

No one has ever started a war over solar power.

The chemical lobby wants to gut America's chemical safety law, but fortunately scientists and health advocates are pushing back. And an overwhelming majority of Americans are on the side of science and health, according to a recent Pew Foundation survey. www.thenewlede.org/2026/02/heal...

Who benefits from this? Fossil fuel industries. Polluters. And we will all pay the price with an unhabitable planet.

The Trump regime is violating court orders and sending people to countries where they have no connection to be held indefinitely. This story should be getting a lot more attention. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/w...

Stop calling them detention centers. They are concentration camps and they need to be shut down.

Just called both my Senators to urge them to vote NO on ICE funding. Couldn’t reach a live person which I hope means lots of other voters are calling. #ShutdownICE

"These changes [to TSCA] are a wholesale destruction of the law."

Former EPA climate advisor Jeremy Symons, now a senior advisor for Environmental Protection Network of former EPA officials, said: “Ignoring fossil fuel pollution as the driving force behind the climate changes we have seen in our lifetime is like pretending cigarettes don’t cause lung cancer.”

When EPA political leaders say “gold standard science” they really mean “industry preferred science.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/c...

It’s time to call your member of Congress and let them know you do not want the chemical lobby rewriting the law. #HealthNotToxics

Signatures on this petition doubled in the last 24 hrs. Let’s increase that. Help stop Lee Zeldin from doing the chemical lobby’s bidding. #HealthNotToxics www.change.org/p/petition-t...

Do you want the chemical lobby deciding whether you are protected from toxic chemicals like asbestos and PFAS? I don’t think so.

Veterans protected our country. They deserve to be protected from toxic chemicals. TCE and PCE exposure have harmed countless service members and families. This Veterans Day, let’s honor their service not just with words, but with action. EPA must stop delaying the bans on these toxic chemicals.

Here’s a thought: instead of bargaining for ACA tax credits, Dems should demand that the GOP trade in tax relief for billionaires for Medicare for All!

This is how it’s done.

This is a corrupt grift by the Trump regime. Companies and hospitals (many of which rely on H1-B visas to staff hospitals) need to push back NOW!

If only people had listened to the women - and voted for a woman - we’d all be better off.

Ben Bradlee and Katharine Graham are rolling over in their graves.

This is a bad political and economic choice.

If you pitched this level of hypocrisy and willful incompetence for a Hollywood movie they’d say no one would buy it.

There will be food shortages before end of summer.

NEW: The number of extreme weather disasters has jumped fivefold worldwide over the past 50 years, and the number of deaths has nearly tripled. The recent disaster in Texas is a grim omen of the climate chaos still to come. By @abrahm.bsky.social @propublica.org

Important essay by Stanford historian Jack Rakove: It’s Not Just a Constitutional Crisis in the Trump Era. It’s Constitutional Failure washingtonmonthly.com/2025/06/27/i...

Imagine if the founding fathers deported anyone who disagreed with them…

ICE needs to be stopped.

The Trump administration is literally stealing or destroying taxpayer-paid public assets.

This is a sad day in America when our highest court in the land says Trump can deport people to dangerous countries with which they have no connection and with no hearing. Utterly lawless and inhumane.

Why or why would wewant more cancer-causing asbestos? This BS needs to stop.

Another big EPA ruling: A federal judge ruled that the EPA had broken the law in refusing to spend $600 million in environmental justice grants from the Biden administration, www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

This story line is the “Do Not Look Up” of chemical policy - so outrageous you’d think it was an SNL skit, but no. Trump’s EPA is poisoning people in more ways than one.

OFFS. ☠️☠️ www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...

Maybe throwing a Senator to the ground and handcuffing him for asking a question was designed to keep people from hearing about this???

Tanks in DC Troops in LA. A military parade on his birthday. Trump is done pretending. This is what authoritarianism looks like in America. My latest on why we must speak out now — before silence becomes complicity. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/authoritar...

The corporate media is failing to stand up to fascism.

This is insane.

This was a real and important commencement speech. The one we heard at my son’s graduation was some vanilla ice cream about teams. How can higher ed send graduates into a world where truth, democracy, diversity, humanity, education and free speech are under attack and fail to acknowledge it?

It’s more than in conflict with human trafficking. It is human trafficking and it makes human trafficking by non-government criminal actors easier.

"You can’t protect children from harmful chemicals while gutting EPA, cutting funding to NIEHS, and rolling back or eliminating environmental rules that protect people from toxic exposures." @traceywoodruff.bsky.social

You can’t improve children’s health while eliminating clean air and clean water laws and gutting EPA. More toxic chemicals and pollution = sicker people.

"Eliminating the science will not make the harms go away." @traceywoodruff.bsky.social @epw.senate.gov

This administration always does the opposite of what it says.

The chemical industry has a long list of "asks" from the new administration. These requests will leave people exposed to more toxic chemicals and pollutants in the air, water, homes, and workplaces. Read the list. What do you think? prheucsf.blog/2025/05/12/i...

From Jeffrey Toobin's 2008 book THE NINE, this remains the greatest Justice Souter anecdote I can possibly share. RIP.