Woohoo! 🎉 The EPA grant to study the health impacts of refinery retirements and retrofits in partnership the incredible leading researchers at UCLA, UC Berkeley, and PSE Healthy Energy has been restored thanks to a class action lawsuit! @apen4ej.bsky.social

Going to print this on a t-shirt for the next EJ convening @kbvale.bsky.social

Astronaut meme for mid transition

The Supreme Court's disdain for Congress, the statutory design of agencies, and the public services they provide to millions truly astounds. Destroying a 50-year-old Cabinet-level department may be the biggest violation of the Take Care Clause in U.S. history—and six justices simply ... don't care.

The oil industry made this mess. Now, they want permission to continue fleecing California taxpayers and consumers – and, as a bonus, slash regulations, cut corners, and endanger Californians. We can’t let Big Oil shake down California on their way out.

We must follow the leadership of EJ groups in the Valley directly impacted by dirty drilling, and the many groups that have spent over a decade facing down threats of unchecked drilling expansion – groups like CRPE, CCEJN and CVAQ.

I said there’s no way to sugar coat it!

So my lawyer brain wants to explode because I could spend like 20 posts explaining this with graphs and citations, but it is 6PM on a Friday and my partner gets home soon, so I give you these two screenshots of a summary of a summary of a summary:

What’s happening: In the last year, two refineries in CA have announced plans to close – and Big Oil is taking the opportunity to shakedown taxpayers and maximize profits on their way out, making Californians foot the bill for their pollution ❌❌ stoptheoilshakedown.org

🧵🪡 A thread on my attempt to thread the needle at a @calenergy.bsky.social meeting in a two-minute high-level public comment and taken out of context on (to be fair) a complex subject. ⬇️

Who was MN Rep. Melissa Hortman in the MN Legislature? READ about her consequential leadership in this THREAD by @taniel.bsky.social. Take the time.

Dear lord, the full context of US Senator @padilla.senate.gov being forcibly removed, pinned down, and handcuffed? He tried to ask a question…when this regime rationalized the (unconstitutional) commandeering of National Guard troops as ~liberating~ people from their elected representatives.

Matching up to 2,500 USD to Immigrant Defenders Law Center, for the first people to DM or reply with receipts. They're EIN 47-4473312 for quickly looking up if you have a DAF.

Good night. #NazReid #Timberwolves #wolvesback #wolvesinsix #dogsforwolves

Just replaying this clip of Jaden McDaniels smiling before I go to sleep #wolvesinsix

Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald said from the bench that she would issue a temporary restraining order blocking immigration authorities from detaining 21-year-old Columbia junior Yunseo Chung for protesting on campus, per NY Post

We need way more of this type of accountability, but from the bigger outlets (lol I know 🙃).

This is the much more informed way to explain why John Roberts is actually the “Chief Fig Leaf.”

Last night’s article in the Washington Post about D.C. police responding to a 911 call by illegally letting DOGE onto private property is unlike any news story I have ever read. Every single person should read this article and think about where our society is going.

"The media+Democrats are suffering from different manifestations of the same problem. If they were to acknowledge the gravity of the political moment, they might be compelled to rise to meet it."

Honestly, foreign assistance for the rule of law doesn’t sound so bad. 🤷🏻‍♀️

“We will not take lectures on antisemitism from segregationists and neo-nazis.” @illdottore.bsky.social, a Columbia University professor, speaks out against the kidnapping of Mahmoud Khalil.

*mumbling to self, these corporations just ~hatched~ a conspiracy* 🐣

*whispers to self, those rotten eggs*

Anyone else breaking out trying to refrain from all the egg puns possible

Freaking hero LFGGGGG

Same, and someone who has been obsessively playing Wingspan for the last couple years…💔

Powerful in a moment of reckoning that transcends party line. #FreeMahmoudKhalil

It seems like when you write a decision giving the President king-like powers, you shouldn't be indignant when he acts like a king.

Critical: "deportation" does not apply here. It's abduction and trafficking.

Chief Roberts: “girl, we’ve been helping make your neo-Nazi fascist takeover dream come tru for like a decade, so chill on my judges, okay? I gotchu, just appeal it all up, k bb?”

Fun how it’s so relevant to today.

Fun fact: this is what my dad wrote his dissertation about. Bedtime stories were ~fun~ in my household.

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Alsup says FAFO 🔥

Excellent roundup of all the counter arguments to @schumer.senate.gov’s justification (and every other senator that also needs to be primaried) for signing on to the MAGA CR. therevolvingdoorproject.org/schumer-argu... 🧵

Perhaps the most disturbing attack on our democracy has been the brazenly illegal detention and cruel treatment of Mahmoud Khalil for having a political position that is contrary to the position of the current Administration.

Judge Alsup just said this👇 to the Justice Department about their refusal to let Charles Ezell testify about his (highly dubious) declaration that OPM did not illegally direct mass firings.

“I don’t want to hear any of that ~I’m waiting for the written order.~ This is The Order. FROM THE BENCH. Effective Immediately.” This man said constitutional crisis where, bring it, let me show you what the judiciary can do.

Judge Alsup basically saying, if you’re going to spew illegal trash and then refuse to come answer for it, then I will go right ahead order you to STFU. I am a motherf*cking federal judge. 💀💀💀

Been listening to the AFGE v. OPM hearing in Alsup’s chambers this morning about the legality of how probationary federal employees were fired. Incredibly satisfying. 🍿🍿🍿 If you’re missing it, some highlights in this thread. 🧵

Or, controlled opposition (hello, Silicon Valley Democratic Party donors).

10/ ✨ Find your lane and give them hell. Trump’s power grab only works if we give in and go along with it. Whether it’s organizing to stop ICE raids, participating in mutual aid projects, or making art for the movement, we need your talents, skills, and creativity.

9/ 🔥 Turn up the heat on your elected officials. Both Democrats and Republicans need to know that we have not given up our power. Start with the basics — call, email, visit — demand what matters to you. And always add: no deals without stopping the coup. workingfamilies.org/join-working...

8/ 🌱 Build community. Talk to your friends and neighbors. Hold space for what you’re feeling together. Make a plan for what you will do to get organized and support each other. We are more powerful together.

7/ Now is not the time to duck and cover, or to cut deals that the Trump regime has no pretense of honoring. We must reassert our power.

6/ If my father were still alive, he would say that Congress and we, the people, still hold an enormous amount of legal and political authority to check the executive branch.

5/ In the Gwangju Uprising of 1980, thousands of people sustained mass protests for 10 days, and were massacred by military forces. For decades, Koreans continued to organize, protest, and strike to build their democracy and determine their own future. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

4/ “My father often talked about how laws, lawmakers, and courts alone wouldn’t be enough to determine whether a democracy lives or dies. Throughout history, people have had to put their bodies on the line to transform the idea of democracy into a reality.”