Good for the climate and good for our wallets. Let’s get it into law.

A great night.

No kings.

EPA to stop doing its job. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/c...

Last week, I spoke at a virtual hearing of the U.S. EPA against rescinding the 2009 endangerment finding, which would be reckless, dangerous, and contrary to the agency’s mission. My full statement here: ulstercountyny.gov/news/executi...

“This is the kind of thing you would only expect to see in a banana republic,” said Janet Yellen, former Treasury Secretary and Federal Reserve Chair. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/b...

Today I joined NYS Attorney-General Letitia James and other NY elected officials in demanding immediate and unfettered delivery of food, medicine, and other essential resources to address the staggering humanitarian crisis in Gaza. To allow such suffering and starvation is inhumane.

The recently signed federal budget law is potentially very harmful to Ulster County and our communities, but New York State has a path forward to reduce the harm, as I explain in an Op-ed published in the Albany Times Union today: www.timesunion.com/opinion/arti...

NOAA announced Thursday that it is decommissioning several databases, including its widely reported annual compilation of billion-dollar weather and climate disasters. cbsn.ws/4iUkkyp

Ulster County turned out big in Gardiner and around the county yesterday. #50501

You may be fearing your 401k is no longer enough for you to retire. But with all the cuts to NIH and Medicare you also won't live as long. So the policies are integrated.

🏳️‍⚧️Today I issued an Executive Order reaffirming the County government's commitment to prevent discrimination based on gender identity or expression. #TransDayofVisibility Read the Executive Order at tinyurl.com/EO1-2025.

"A terrified young student, snatched off the street by a masked police force taken thousands of miles across the country without anyone knowing. It is as flatly authoritarian as anything we have ever seen in this country," says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk's detention.

“There was no right answer to the predicament in which we found ourselves,” says Karp. Cowardice.

"The allegations come after two men at Krome died in custody on Jan. 23 and Feb. 20."

This is the 23-year-old gay hairdresser and makeup artist disappeared into a sadistic Salvadorian gulag because of his tattoos

“Todd Wolfson, the president of the American Association of University Professors, a nat’l faculty rights group, described the move as the greatest incursion into academic freedom & free speech since Sen Joseph R. McCarthy’s crusade against communism in the 1950s.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/n...

Shameful USDA cuts to farm-to-school and farm-to-pantry grant programs. These grant programs do so much good, nourishing our kids and food insecure families and seniors while also helping our local farmers. (www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

President Trump ordered federal employees to return to the office, repeatedly saying they couldn't be productive from home. But Trump has signed executive orders and a memorandum from his Mar-a-Lago mansion in Palm Beach, according to an NBC News tracker. In other words, he's worked from home.

72% of NYers & 66% of Americans support a 100% fossil fuel-free economy by 2050 (Yale Program on Climate Change Communication.) We’re working to do our part in Ulster Co but NYS needs to step it up to meet Climate Act requirements. And Trump & co need to keep their hands off the IRA and IIJA.

More keys to the federal government handed to the oil and gas industry

Stalinesque removal from public memory.

The closest Social Security Office to our county has been closed. A heartless move by DOGE affecting the elderly, the disabled, wounded veterans, and surviving spouses and children.

💥 BREAKING: At John Deere's annual shareholders meeting today, shareholders overwhelmingly rejected an anti-DEI proposal brought by the same group that targeted Costco and Apple. An anti-DEI proposal from the NCPPR received less than 1 percent of votes. Deere shareholders: DEI is in. Bigots are out