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Trump's EPA revokes scientific finding that underpinned US fight against climate change The Environmental Protection Agency has revoked a key scientific finding that supported U.S. regulations on greenhouse gas emissions.

"Environmental groups described the move as the single biggest attack in US history against federal authority to address climate change."

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#EndangermentFinding #ActOnClimate

The Librarians | Book Policies Documentary | Independent Lens The Librarians follows librarians and citizens responding to restrictions on library content across the United States.

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‘A Disaster Waiting to Happen’: How the Fracking Boom Put an Oil Field in the Guadalupe River Floodplain - Inside Climate News Lack of a state floodplain policy in Texas enabled oil companies to build in areas hit by an epic inundation less than 30 years ago.

"FEMA’s estimates for a 500-year flood understate present risk in many locations, research shows, as warming air and oceans continue to fuel an intensification of extreme rainfall."

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YouTube video by Rm Brown Joe Rogan is Now HIGHLY Suspicious

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YouTube video by Resistance History with Tad Stoermer Ken Burns Spent a Year Selling the American Revolution, Then 12 Hours Ignoring It

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817 Podcast - Fort Worth Tarrant County News on Instagram: "What does “The Fort Worth Way” really mean? We sat down with award-winning journalist Katie Sherrod — the author of the legendary 1995 D Ma... 22K likes, 738 comments - 817pod on November 24, 2025: "What does “The Fort Worth Way” really mean? We sat down with award-winning journalist Katie Sherrod — the author of the legendary 1995 D Magazi...

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#BadTakesSATX

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It’s time to push back the right-wing forces dismantling Texas’ history curriculum So far, the Texas State Board of Education's massive revamp of the social studies curriculum is driven by ideology, not an attempt to accurately convey history.

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The church became our community's last shelter against pollution – Scalawag Our church became the unspoken infrastructure of survival. We gathered there to organize against the incremental contamination of our water.

"Long before national headlines called it an 'environmental justice crisis', we were living it. ... Drinking water that tasted like old coins was normal in my childhood."

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#CleanWater

We should all be horrified by the deaths at the Bexar County jail A schizophrenic woman lost 136 pounds and died after languishing for five months on a criminal trespass charge.

Eighty-five inmate deaths at the Bexar County jail since 2020.

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#MassIncarceration

Federal Data Is Disappearing The Trump administration has disrupted data collection on everything from homeland security, maternal mortality, hunger, drug use, education, disaster preparation and the economy.

“Researchers estimate that well over 3,000 data sets have been removed from public access. ... These gaps in federal data are threatening the effectiveness of future public policies, researchers said.”

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#MemoryHole

Whaddaya mean, 'home'? "You can't go home again," Thomas Wolfe wrote, but he didn't have geopositioning tools on his cell phone. Chapter 1 Sorry about your luck, kids. So the president of these United States, one Donald ...

"Places with more home ownership were more likely to support Trump in 2024."

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YouTube video by UC Berkeley Events Can a Liberal Polity Survive the Politics of Grievance? - Jefferson Memorial Lecture - Mark Blyth

"If AI turns out to be less than advertised/can't find a profit model for essentially a talking Google on steroids, there's gonna be a whopping financial crash, hitting the top 20%. That's when you get an opening."

youtu.be/fLWhiugHkbQ?... via @mkblyth.bsky.social & @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social

Trump’s War on Child Care - The American Prospect The already struggling system faces more struggles from administration rule changes.

The "blow to SNAP and Medicaid could force states to spend less on childcare... The administration’s crackdown on immigrant communities also poses a threat to the childcare industry, where 20% of workers are immigrants."

prospect.org/2026/01/23/t... via @emmarjanssen.bsky.social & @prospect.org

ICE detained a 5-year-old Minnesota boy and used him as “bait” The preschooler is one of at least four children from the same school district who have been detained this month, according to school officials.

"According to reporting from ProPublica (@propublica.org) based on government data, ICE placed around 600 immigrant children in federal shelters in 2025. That’s more than the previous four years combined."

www.motherjones.com/politics/202... via @katieherchenroeder.bsky.social & @motherjones.com

Gov. Abbott’s Anti-Muslim Tactics Mirror Racist Governors of the 1960s. He, Too, Must Fail State opposition to American Muslims reminds a local community leader of the Civil Rights Movement.

"Although Americans now widely celebrate the Freedom Rides and marches of the 1960s, prominent racist leaders vehemently opposed our activism at the time. Several southern states, including Texas, even tried to shut down the NAACP."

www.dallasobserver.com/opinion/texa... via @dallasobserver.com

Islamic Games in Colleyville canceled for alleged ties to group Abbott calls terroristic School officials canceled the sporting event planned for May after politicians alleged CAIR was a sponsor.

"Those kids are trying to just play ball together... And these people won't allow us to even live peacefully in this country."
– Mustafaa Carroll of the Dallas-Fort Worth chapter of CAIR (@cairnational.bsky.social)

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#Islamophobia

Google’s AI Knows What You’ll Pay Google Gemini’s real business model isn’t chat. It’s price control.

"Google may be seeking to become our central planner and price setter."

www.levernews.com/googles-ai-k... via @matthewstoller.bsky.social & @thelever.bsky.social

Texas AG Paxton issues anti-DEI opinion Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued legal guidance, declaring many DEI programs in public and private spaces unconstitutional.

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YouTube video by Inside Climate News ICN Sunday Morning: The Reality of a Rapidly Warming World

"Scientists say that this is taking us out of a safe climate that provided for human development, that sustained ecosystems and food systems that we've relied on for thousands of years now."

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The Establishment Wants ICE to Survive As their Republican counterparts champion ICE, many Democrats are playing a much more insidious game to crack down on dissent on the ground and preserve the agency's existence for years to come

"Republicans want you to believe ICE agents are infallible moral soldiers waging war against societal malcontents and foreign parasites. Democrats want you to believe that ICE is an agency that simply needs to be reeled in with more funding and meaningless reforms."

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ICE Agents Are Even Worse At Being Cops Than You Think Videos of agents falling down and dropping their guns feel beyond parody. But under-trained law enforcement officers are a real danger to the public.

"Immigrant communities, already fearful, now see local cops and ICE as one big threat, which makes them less likely to report crimes or cooperate with investigations. That in turn makes cities less safe for everyone".

theintercept.com/2026/01/16/i... via @theintercept.com

Beware the motives of Joe Rogan and others who dismiss the importance of activism Mass movements often compel elected officials to act when they otherwise wouldn't.

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YouTube video by Trevor Noah John Oliver: Why Everything is a Scam: FIFA, Mergers, & Information Literacy

Fun convo: youtu.be/qnxiB39lJlo.

#WorldCup

"So the book is largely about cops. It's about the utter naturalization of a state of insurgent warfare against anything that looks like a Left, all the time."
-- Peter Coviello, author of 'Vineland Reread'

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#OneBattleAfterAnother

Bad Takes: Unpacking the truth around the University of Austin and its roster of 'cancelled' academics Allusions to collegiate totalitarianism are a delusionally bad take. Bad Takes is a periodic column of opinion and political analysis. "What a country,

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#BadTakesSATX

ICE Prosecutor Who Runs Racist X Account Returns to Dallas Immigration Court James Rodden, identified by the Observer last year as the operator of an account that routinely posted hateful statements, appeared to be back at work Tuesday.

"The account has over 17,000 followers and has routinely posted hateful statements, including that 'America is a White nation', in addition to posts with apparent praise of Adolf Hitler."

www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecut... via @stevanzetti.bsky.social & @texasobserver.org