Food systems are under threat & can be a leading climate solution; Trump admin cutting access to weather data; extreme heat in Arctic waters; Congress aims to protect National Weather Service. navigatornews.substack.com/p/food-secur...

Trump may want to "supersize" the Development Finance Corporation—apparently to make it into a kind of sovereign wealth fund. Congress should require 100% restoration of USAID & immediate resumption of suspended aid, in exchange for starting such an experiment. www.devex.com/news/trump-h...

We live inside Earth’s climate system. Not understanding it precisely is costly and unwise, and could lead to major legal liability. The ICJ finding that all governments have a legal duty to act on climate & to reduce climate pollution reinforces this. navigatornews.substack.com/p/eliminatin...

Durbin Demands Tapes of Ghislaine Maxwell Interviews www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...

"Blue states will need to defeat more of Trump’s frivolous legal actions and block his impermissible executive edicts that attempt to bully them into carrying out his cruel, ineffective, and often illegal initiatives." @jenrubin.bsky.social

The International Court of Justice has issued a landmark Advisory Opinion, finding that all nations are obligated under customary international law, including human rights law, to act to prevent harm from industrial climate disruption. #ClimateJustice #ICJ navigatornews.substack.com/p/icj-finds-...

🚨NEW: @cbsnews.com reports ICE is arresting people who can't even legally be deported and holding them without enough food or water in a federal building BASEMENT in Los Angeles. Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.

Class-action suit filed at Court of Federal Claims on behalf of USAID Payne fellows, who contend Trump admin voided their contracts without any provision allowing for that. Effort to get waivers also seems a bit dubious. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Our #SB62 policy brief urges all nations to support local climate solutions, welcome citizens into policy processes, incentivize healthy, regenerative #FoodSystems & work to make #ClimateAction part of the everyday economy. Everyday #ClimateRescue is the future. climatecivics.org/2025/06/06/s...

The new Pope, Leo XIV, is offering a new tone for our troubled times, saying "Evil will not prevail" & reminding the faithful that "we are the times". Our choices can determine whether we live in a world of wisdom, dignity & justice. navigatornews.substack.com/p/a-new-tone...

Unsustainable land use interferes with Nature, disrupts the carbon and water cycles, and weaves hidden costs through the entire fabric of the everyday economy. Regenerative practices build value. navigatornews.substack.com/p/land-use-p...

There are five things that everyone needs to know about the climate, whatever their perspective or focus. navigatornews.substack.com/p/five-thing...

In 2020, during the first Trump admin, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission found that climate change poses a major risk to the stability of the U.S. financial system and to its ability to sustain the American economy. climatevalue.exchange/2024/04/02/c...

Latest: Trump’s national security adviser Mike Waltz and his deputy, Alex Wong, will be leaving their posts after they lost the confidence of other administration officials and found themselves without allies at the White House, per two people familiar www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Federal Court DISMISSES right wing lawsuit brought to force voter purges in Georgia. www.democracydocket.com/cases/georgi...

Today, UCS delivered a letter signed by over 3,300 scientific experts calling on Congress and Commerce Secretary Lutnick to stop the dismantling of & illegal attacks on #NOAA. www.ucs.org/about/news/o...

Intergovernmental meetings often take place in the midst of crisis. In 2025, this is a constant. Cooperation among allies is the bedrock of security & progress. Climate-smart trade, finance & food systems can free all nations from chaos & secure a livable future. climatecivics.org/2025/04/25/w...

Climate reporting provides clarity to reduce risks & harm. Having this information makes everyone smarter about investing to added value. Without that info, innovation will slow & the US will fall behind, saddled with devastating costs. navigatornews.substack.com/p/sec-climat...

USAID has built real & lasting influence for the US, while saving millions of lives & helping to fund important work at home that improves lives & livelihoods. Its sudden defunding is conservatively estimated to have taken at least 150,000 lives already. navigatornews.substack.com/p/usaid-deli...

Thousands of the best experts at FDA, NIH, and all across HHS are being terminated right now. These are the people who make sure the medications you and your children take are safe. These are the people who perform and oversee research on cancer, infant health, and so so so much more.

18 hours later, Sen. Booker is still standing. The New Jersey senator has stayed on message, providing detailed, poetic, historically rooted, and consequential messages, coming from fearful citizens, from veterans cut loose from jobs in public service, from core principles.

I have covered presidential politics for 40 years. This was the most juvenile display by a President and Vice President I have ever seen. Other presidents treated their enemies with more respect. This is a low point and a dark day for the US. Totally embarrassing.

Parsing Trump's words outisde the White House... It is obvious to everyone that Putin cannot be trusted. When Trump suggests Zelenskyy's demand for security guarantees means he wants US support to continue an endless war, he is *admitting* Putin cannot be trusted.

In what was supposed to be a press availability marking a breakthrough minerals deal btw US & Ukraine, VP Vance & then Pres Trump angrily berated Pres Zelenskyy of Ukraine with Kremlin falsehoods. Trump aided Putin, who followed w more atrocities. navigatornews.substack.com/p/breakthrou...

In a shocking & historic breakdown in negotiations, US Pres Donald Trump & his VP accosted the Pres of Ukraine, using known Kremlin lies & shouting him down as he seeks to secure his nation’s freedom & sovereignty. Putin reacted by bombing civilians. navigatornews.substack.com/p/breakthrou...

Meanwhile Trump is firing people in the Epidemic Intelligence Service, a legendary training program run by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. EIS officers investigate disease outbreaks and health threats in the U.S. and abroad www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t...

Senators are alleging the Treasury Secretary misled Congress about DOGE access to sensitive payment systems & other data. They are demanding a full, detailed, transparent accounting of all DOGE activities inside Treasury. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

DOGE/Musk suffered a potentially big loss Friday night. Below is Musk celebrating Judge's ruling. Pro tip: The ruling allowing DOGE access to Labor Dept is predicated on idea that DOGE is acting as federal AGENCY. That's a boost to litigants saying Musk's very status violates Appointments Clause

DOGE has fed sensitive personal & financial information into AI systems, which transfer data to private servers; plans for AI decision-making in government create grave risks to rights, security, accountability & the everyday functioning of vital services. navigatornews.substack.com/p/doge-plans...

Elon Musk — an unchecked, unelected oligarch — is yanking wires out of the machinery that powers American life — and there’s no telling how many people will get hurt.

As the world gathers to discuss financing for development (& with all the counterproductive actions of a lawless few) @climatecivics.bsky.social & @climatevalue.bsky.social have released a new #CapitalToCommunities report. We are all future-builders. climatevalue.exchange/2025/02/11/l...

Yes. “People are doing things. You will meet them when YOU start doing things.” Lots of information and resources in this one. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

BREAKING: In response to our motion, the court has required CDC, FDA, and HHS to immediately restore critical health info and data that the Trump administration ordered the agencies to remove. This is a huge win for doctors, researchers, and patients.

Fed Powell climate observation: "If you fast forward 10 or 15 years, they're going to be regions of the country where you can't get a mortgage, there won't be ATMs. There won't, you know, the banks won't have branches, things like that. That's, that's a possibility coming up down the road."

"The enormity of Defendants’ actions cannot be overstated." Please read this paragraph in court case filed on Monday.⬇️ Details the devastating, immediate and far-reaching, real-world impacts of the #USAID funding freeze. From famine to counternarcotics and counter-terrorism programs, more.

Many Americans, including political leaders, do not understand the vital importance of USAID, for people around the world and for US interests. USAID saves lives, prevents conflict, and builds the clout and security of the country that funds it. navigatornews.substack.com/p/why-usaid-...

"DOGE does not have power over established government agencies, and Musk has no role in government. It does not matter that he is an ally of the President. Musk is a private citizen taking control of established government offices. That is not efficiency; that is a coup."

Trump is removing everyone positioned to protect the American people from his lawless aggressions against the Constitution & the rule of law. He is setting conditions for an autocratic mafia government. Meanwhile: Congress & the Courts are bound to defend the Constitution.

BEWARE THE TECHNOZOMBIE APOCALYPSE: Elon Musk’s stormtroopers are hollowing out and replacing the innards of the DOJ, FBI, Office of Personnel Management, Treasury Department, and dozens of other federal agencies with technocrats loyal to him and his frontman Donald Trump. It’s an inside coup.

Bloomberg reports Elon Musk’s SpaceX secretly built up $3.5 billion in wealth for a sanctioned Russian oligarch. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

“Doctors take an oath to ‘do no harm.’ That sadly doesn’t apply to the Trump administration officials who have thrown America’s medical research into chaos by freezing funds, halting grants and banning travel.” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

I just want to say for the record that when the history books are written centuries from now, I believe the election of Donald Trump in a free and fair election in 2024 will go down as one of the most senseless and self-destructive own goals in human history

“Granting DOGE staff, many of whom aren't government employees, unfettered access to internal government systems and sensitive data poses a huge security risk to the federal government and to the American public.” www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

Donald Trump’s “war on science & scientists” is an unlawful material attack on the rights & welfare of the American people. He does not have lawful authority to destroy careers & erase scientific evidence in a quest to impose his perverse personal views on the country.

The carefully managed water systems in California's Central Valley saw a sudden deluge after the Army Corps of Engineers unexpectedly released reservoir water. “In 25 years, I’ve never seen anything like this. I was given no explanation at all.”

BREAKING: Nat'l intelligence experts are ringing the alarm on the politicization of the FBI and other intelligence agencies. Hear from three of them now. **This post is free, and we urge you to share it with those who may not otherwise have access to the information revealed.**

This week’s AI panic raises serious questions about financial governance & also about whether markets will favor safer, human-centered AI or whether they will embrace lower quality, less verifiable services, including those controlled by autocrats. navigatornews.substack.com/p/ai-panic-c...

The first ever US national nature assessment has been terminated and its USGCRP and DOI webpages have been removed. A PDF of the zeroth order draft is still available here: review.globalchange.gov/system/files...

NATIONAL SECURITY NEWS ALERT open.substack.com/pub/contrari...