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Trump administration decimates worker health oversight tinyurl.com/3kpx4fdf

US FDA authorises Juul e-cigarette marketing, imperilling youth #vaping declines
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Kennedy Cancels Nearly $500 Million in mRNA Vaccine Contracts

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Paging Doctor/Senator Bill Cassidy...Paging Doctor/Senator Bill Cassidy. America would like to know how your "unprecedently close collaborative working relationship" with Secretary Kennedy is going.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/h...

DOGE Is Bringing Back a Deadly Disease Cuts to agencies that protect workers’ lungs are going to result in the resurgence of a preventable illness.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv... #blacklung #occupationalhealth #NIOSH #MSHA #OSHA #doge

AP reports on immigrants in Texas delaying trips to the ER for fear of being grabbed by masked men working for the US government.

The Men Trump Deported to a Salvadoran Prison On March 15, President Donald Trump’s administration sent more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. Last week, the men were released as suddenly as they’d been t...

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U.S. deportees, freed from Salvadoran prison, describe ‘horror movie’ Three Venezuelans, released last week from the Terrorism Confinement Center, said they were repeatedly beaten and denied access to lawyers.

Sharing this GIFT LINK so people can’t say they didn’t know what’s been happening in our name.

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Four Years After Cop Was Filmed Slamming Black Woman to the Ground, Louisiana Passes Accountability Law Despite being caught in a 2021 video ripping out Shantel Arnold’s hair, sheriff’s Deputy Julio Alvarado failed to report the incident. A new law authored by Arnold’s attorney will mandate excessive-fo...

NEW: Despite being caught in a 2021 video ripping out Shantel Arnold’s hair, sheriff’s Deputy Julio Alvarado failed to report the incident.

A new law authored by Arnold’s attorney will mandate excessive-force reporting for all law enforcement agencies.

@richardawebster.bsky.social @veritenews.org

Amid Fear of Retaliation, N.S.F. Workers Sign Letter of Dissent

“More than 140 employees of the National Science Foundation have signed a letter denouncing what they described as efforts to undermine one of the country’s main science funding agencies.”

E.P.A. Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight Climate Change

The Trump administration has drafted a plan to repeal the EPA’s “endangerment finding,” which established greenhouse gases as a threat to human life. This finding serves as the basis for regulating greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles, power plants, and other industrial sources. 🤬

Accelerating increase in the duration of heatwaves under global warming Nature Geoscience - The duration of long heatwaves increases at an accelerating rate with warming such that a large increase in the risk of long-lasting heatwaves results from relatively modest...

As the planet warms, heatwaves don’t just increase — they increase in duration faster with each degree rise in temperature. Something to look forward to. 🥵

From ‘MMS’ to ‘aerobic oxygen’, why drinking bleach has become a dangerous wellness trend Chlorine dioxide, sold as a “miracle” cure under names like MMS, is not medicine. It’s toxic, unregulated and can be fatal. Here’s what you need to know.

Chlorine dioxide, sold as a “miracle” cure under names like MMS, is not medicine. It’s toxic, unregulated and can be fatal. Here’s what you need to know.

“Under the Microscope”: Activists Opposing a Nevada Lithium Mine Were Surveilled for Years, Records Show Law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, have collaborated with private security to surveil largely peaceful protesters opposed to the Thacker Pass mine, according to a ProPublica review of thousa...

Mine Protesters Surveilled by Law Enforcement for Years, Records Show www.propublica.org/article/thac...

Amid Fear of Retaliation, N.S.F. Workers Sign Letter of Dissent

"In the letter, the signatories warned that National Science Foundation grants now underwent a 'covert and ideologically driven secondary review process'...”

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/s...

Trump Isn’t Done Cutting Your Health Care Now it’s low-income kids that Republicans are targeting.

@citizencohn.bsky.social does an amazing job explaining how harmful a policy choice it was that the Trump Administration ended continuous coverage for babies and toddlers.

A truly terrible decision for America's families.

Trump Isn’t Done Cutting Your Health Care www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-isnt...

Constitutional crisis is here

RFK Jr. Wants to Overhaul a Vital System That Supports Childhood Immunization The Vaccine Injury Compensation Program stabilizes the nation’s childhood immunization system while paying those harmed by rare side effects. If the program topples, it could threaten access to vaccin...

RFK Jr. Wants to Overhaul a Vital System That Supports Childhood Immunization www.propublica.org/article/rfk-...

Today in Politics, Bulletin 171. 7/15/25 … Pam Bondi came out of hiding today, as the AG who spent seemingly every waking hour on Fox has kept a low profile since the Epstein Files controversy exploded last week.

"Trump admin has given the order to incinerate food... Nearly 500 metric tons of emergency food—enough to feed about 1.5 million children for a week—are set to expire tomorrow. Within weeks food meant for children in Afghanistan and Pakistan will be ash.”"

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Hey, things really are looking up!

As the World Confronts Climate Change, the US Leaves Our Future Behind Environment / StudentNation / As the World Confronts Climate Change, the US Leaves Our Future Behind While the White House takes a sledgehammer to critical climate policy, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights announced a landmark decision on climate change...

As the World Confronts Climate Change, the US Leaves Our Future Behind
->The Nation | #ClimateChange | More info from EcoSearch

Trump Administration Live Updates: Thousands of Layoffs at Federal Health Agency Finalized

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07...

REPORTER: Will you commit to include California in any disaster aid package?

MIKE JOHNSON: We've not seen the formal disaster relief request from California yet

REPORTER: The formal request was sent to your office in February

The Rapid Rise of Killings by Police in Rural America A 17-year-old shot and killed by a sheriff’s deputy on a New Mexico highway last summer was one in a growing number of cases.

A 17-year-old shot 22 times by a sheriff’s deputy, 18 of those shots coming after the boy had already fallen to the ground

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‘Profound concern’ as scientists say extreme heat ‘now the norm’ in UK Frequency of heatwaves and flooding raises fears over health, infrastructure and how society functions

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"Makary often seems to bring ideas to the table that seem sensical on the surface but less impressive upon closer inspection... he proposed moving Narcan, which is used to treat opioid overdoses, over the counter. That was a wonderful idea — except that the FDA had done it in 2023."

'Cried every night': 6-year-old cancer patient detained nearly 2 months by ICE A 6-year-old Honduran boy battling leukemia was detained — along with his family — by President Donald Trump's ICE agents despite following every immigration rule, the boy's lawyer told Salon.The fami...

www.rawstory.com/immigration-...

The Supreme Court allowed the Trump Administration to begin to shutter the Department of Education, preventing millions of students nationwide from receiving the educational services they need to succeed.

Our students and families deserve better.

It’s difficult to look at the climate science, & face up to what our current path means for our children’s futures.

It’s easy to ignore the science, & condemn our children to that future.

Here's a pie chart showing how much the world spends on immigration security. The US spends more than the rest of the world combined.