Lauren Townsend

That's right. It was unlwaful then, and it's unlawful now.

Trump must stop his cruel attacks on our dedicated federal workforce.

"'I'm the leader of the Democratic party in the House. I support Zohran. I have some issues....We're gonna work that out as people within the party, but I'm focused on fighting Donald Trump.' Easy! Done!" Why not?

@timmiller.bsky.social and @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social talk Hakeem Jeffries:

Opinion | For Once, Some Good News About a Fragile Ecosystem

For Once, Some Good News About a Fragile Ecosystem www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/o...

Public Meeting of Friends of FDR Park is TOMORROW.
This is your park. Spread the word. Show up.
Tuesday, July 15, at 5pm at the Swedish Museum.
Open to the public. Please come.

🎼🎶
𝙄 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬 𝙖 𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙙𝙤𝙣’𝙩 𝙚𝙭𝙞𝙨𝙩
𝘼𝙣𝙙 𝙗𝙪𝙙𝙙𝙮 𝙨𝙤 𝙙𝙤 𝙮𝙤𝙪
𝙄𝙩’𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙀𝙥𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙞𝙣 𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙩
𝙄𝙩’𝙨 𝙖 𝙢𝙮𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙮 𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙩, 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙖 𝙩𝙬𝙞𝙨𝙩
𝙄𝙩’𝙨 𝙖 𝙢𝙮𝙩𝙝 𝙤𝙛 𝙖 𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙬𝙚 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙨𝙚𝙙 …
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My op-ed in today's LA Times is part rant, part plea, part love letter. (This link gets you past the paywall: archive.ph/K2vs3)

One man, thousands of trees and heaps of determination: how regreening Guatemala transformed a village Since 1999, Armando López Pocol and his team of volunteers have bucked the trend for deforestation, regenerating the landscape of the highlands with their Chico Mendes project

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Why the LA Dodgers Stood Up to ICE The ownership turned ICE away at the stadium and pledged $1 million to families of immigrants because of all the people protesting Trump’s immigration actions in LA.

This is a great piece by @edgeofsports.bsky.social on the attempted infiltration of Dodger stadium by our new secret police forces and thugs. He sets out the actual course of events which DHS tried to confuse yesterday with... gaslighting!!

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

As a four-decade veteran of the daily journalism business, let me tell you: Every competent political reporter in this country knows that Trump is trying to establish a dictatorship. The industry's shame is that so few journalists will say so, and the ones who do lose their jobs.

Here's another angle from Fox News reporter Bill Melugin of Sen. Alex Padilla getting roughed up by law enforcement after he tries to question Kristi Noem at her presser:

“I’m Senator Alex Padilla. I have questions for the secretary. Because the fact of the matter is, a half dozen... Hands off!”

In wake of deep cuts, NOAA says it will hire for 'mission-critical' weather service positions The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says it will hire for “mission-critical field positions” amid expert warnings that the weather service is too short-staffed to warn people of the da...

In wake of deep cuts, NOAA says it will hire for 'mission-critical' weather service positions

The Trump administration announced plans to eliminate federal protections for millions of acres of Alaskan wilderness, opening the door to drilling and mining in some of the nation’s last untouched landscapes.

@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social on Joni Ernst: "She must be having a nervous breakdown."

Sebastião Salgado: A Life in Pictures

Sebastião Salgado: A Life in Pictures www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/a...

Trump Officials Weigh Earth Day Move Against Green Groups White House officials are preparing executive orders that would strip some environmental nonprofits of their tax-exempt status, setting up a possible Earth Day strike against organizations seen as sta...

White House officials are preparing executive orders that would strip some enviro nonprofits of tax-exempt status for Earth Day, by @jendlouhy.bsky.social & @akshatrathi.bsky.social

🎁 Gift Link: Trump Officials Weigh Earth Day Move Against Green Groups www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Screenshot of a bird sound identification app in use. The screen shows an audio recording at 27.3 seconds, with a green pause button at the center. Above the timer is a spectrogram visualizing the bird sounds as a series of dark and light horizontal and vertical patterns on a gray background. Below the timer, the app provides a list of "Best suggestions" for bird species based on the recording. The top suggestion, highlighted in yellow, is "Common Chiffchaff," with a thumbnail image of a small brownish bird. Other suggestions include "Great Tit" (a black, yellow, and white bird perched on a branch), "Rose-ringed Parakeet" (a green parrot with a red beak), and "European Robin" (a small bird with an orange-red breast). Each entry includes a small arrow for more information.

I've been taking early walks in the park to watch and listen to birds for my sanity, and the Merlin Bird ID app has been indispensable for identifying bird songs.

Merlin was funded by a grant from the NSF, the science funding agency that Trump is trying to destroy.

www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...

Flyer for “School Budget 101” event with a photo of parents testifying in City Council and lots of community members holding signs about needing more joy in school. Event is April 21st at 7-8pm on Zoom, with Lift Every Voice Philly, Children First, and the Public Interest Law Center.

We fought for years & finally have fair funding in sight—but now our schools face massive threats.

Join Lift Every Voice + @childrenfirstpa.bsky.social + @pubintlawctr.bsky.social to find out what’s at stake and how you can help protect public ed.

📝 Sign up: secure.everyaction.com/nACYxIF2_k6u...

There we go. Support this man.

Trump admin reveals status of erroneously deported man as Bukele visits White House - UPI.com Attorneys for a Maryland man erroneously deported to El Salvador are calling for his return to the United States , as El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele is set to visit the White House.

Are you telling me that the President of El Salvador can fly to DC to meet with Trump, but the Trump administration can't get him to return a mistakenly deported Maryland man, Kilmar Armanda Abrego Garcia, to the US?

This is an insult to our intelligence and an act of contempt against the judge.

When this is over, U.S. rights abusers must be tried for crimes against humanity Escalating reports of human rights crimes from Kristi Noem's propaganda to ICE cruelty must be wiped clean with justice.

There's a reason ICE agents wear masks in the street. From Kristi Noem's war-crime propaganda to the airport officers harassing innocent tourists, the MAGA deportation regime is not just immoral but increasingly criminal

Someday, there must be justice. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...

“Not Just Measles”: Whooping Cough Cases Are Soaring as Vaccine Rates Decline While much of the country is focused on the spiraling measles outbreak, experts warn that whooping cough and other preventable diseases could get much worse with falling vaccination rates and Trump’s ...

NEW: Whooping cough is killing babies. It’s not just measles cases that are soaring as vaccine rates decline. And the Trump administration recently cut $11 billion from state and local agencies on the front lines of protecting Americans from outbreaks. www.propublica.org/article/whoo...

A federal appeals court in Washington ruled to reinstate the leaders of two independent agencies that handle labor disputes, blocking Trump’s attempt to remove them. These little-known boards protect the rights of federal employees and unionized workers, but they’ve come under the spotlight as

West Coast numbers are coming in, and estimates have now surpassed 5 million. People are still pouring into the streets—nearly 2% of the American population is rising up. America, we are so proud of you. You did it.

A Tale of Two Men Look at MAGA family values, in all its repellent splendor.

"The government took one of these individuals and shipped him to a foreign gulag at the same time that it was granting the other one permission to pillage the government itself. That’s America in 2025."

Today we march—nationwide! Join us and make some good trouble!

An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison The Trump administration says it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless to order his return.

This is horrific. An innocent man is being held in prison in a foreign country simply for being brown.

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Trump’s ‘climate’ purge deleted a new extreme weather risk tool. We recreated it The Guardian has recreated a searchable climate future risk tool developed by Fema but then deleted

This is cool. The Guardian recreated a searchable climate future risk tool (wildfire, extreme heat, drought, hurricane, and coastal flood) for the US that was developed by FEMA but deleted by the Trump administration’s ‘climate’ purge.

‘Inhumane:’ Overcrowding strains Krome detention center amid Trump’s immigrant crackdown Girl to police: “Don’t take my mom.”

NEW: As the Trump administration ramps up arrests and heavily limits releases on bond, conditions at ICE’s Krome detention facility in Miami have deteriorated into that of a third world prison, with people forced to sleep on concrete floors jammed in like sardines in appalling conditions.

The disappearing of Rumeysa Ozturk is something I never thought I’d see in America | Will Bunch Masked federal agents in an unmarked vehicle snatched a Tufts student off the street for an op-ed she wrote in a college newspaper.

I've been unable to think of little else since watching the video of masked secret police from ICE whisking away Rumeysa Ozturk - a shocking scene of police state repression I never hoped to see in America

What's even worse is why she was disappeared. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/rume...