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Under Trump's Big Ugly Bill, America's poorest families lose about $1600 per year.
The richest households gain about $12,000 per year.
It's Reverse Robin Hood. (Via CBO)
We need an investment in the NYS Dept of Environmental Conservation so it can develop modern regs to turn off the tap on toxics, especially given the huge challenge of #PFAS. www.timesunion.com/capitol/arti...
Until then, we need product bans. In 2025 the Assembly again missed the mark. #nontoxicny
@bobbiwilding.bsky.social @kate-donovan.bsky.social @cpferrante.bsky.social @cleanhealthyny.bsky.social @weact4ej.bsky.social @nrdc.org @greenwatchdogny.bsky.social @amannakelles.bsky.social @deborahjglick.bsky.social
If there is no birthright citizenship there are no citizens. If citizenship is required for the constitution to apply, the constitution has no meaning, and no one has rights. If you're not an immigrant, how are you a citizen except by birth in a country? WTH is the Supreme Court doing?!
A beautiful, devastating piece about a small Swedish town grappling with severe forever chemical contamination. It’s heartbreaking to watch variations of this story play out over and over. #PFAS www.theguardian.com/environment/...
An alarming sign of this moment: political assassinations and use of police costume
1984 is the book of our time
A colleague asked me for this old gif. It seems apropos as the NYS legislature considers a bill on packaging that has restrictions on #toxics. I took the Ellen McArthur Fdn circular economy chart & showed that if you put toxics in... you get toxics out, over and over and over and over and over....
We just have a few weeks to go in the NYS legislative session - plenty of time for the @nyassemblymajority.bsky.social and @nysenate.bsky.social to pass bills that ban #pfas #foreverchemicals in common products most of us use daily. #pfasfreeny #nontoxicny
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🧫 Microplastics & early-onset cancer?
A new perspective links rising cases of colorectal cancer in young people to microplastic exposure – suggesting a gut–environment connection worth urgent attention.
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#SciComm #Microplastics #Cancer 🧪
Join us and Consumer Reports & @cleanhealthyny.bsky.social and learn how you can help get #ToxicChemicals out of #Beauty products harming people of color. Friday, May 23 at 5 PM at Bronx Community Board 12, 4101 White Plains Road in the Bronx. RSVP: action.consumerreports.org/community_co...
“Recycled” packaging? Not quite.
This new Grist piece breaks down how "chemical recycling" and fuzzy math are being used to greenwash plastic.
We need safer, non-toxic, reusable packaging—not more plastic and misleading claims. #SaferSolutions
grist.org/accountabili...
Does no one remember the Swill Milk Scandal? 8000 babies died in New York State in one year. EIGHT THOUSAND BABIES.
They don't want us to learn history. Or science. Then it's easier to get away with cutting consumer protections to increase their profit margins by selling contaminated food.
Never too late for an uprising. It's only over when everyone gives up on it continuing.
It's not just a cat door...
Post, repost, comment. Why this factual hugely beneficial result doesn’t sway our approaches in the USA is beyond me.
People can’t thrive when they have noplace to lay their head, get clean, feel whole.
This was made by a former board member of mine!
This is no surprise. It doesn't matter how marginally profitable to billionaires deregulation or firing public servants is, even compared to the devastating harm that causes - This administration is clearly committed to extracting everything it can for the very few who already have too much.
We're in there somewhere! #HandsOff #nofascism
Lost power and Internet this afternoon when a tree in our yard fell on the lines. Also we'll now but ...
So much for lower prices day 1.
JD Vance slams Demark for not doing enough for its citizens, when it provides universal healthcare for all of them when the US does not, and they're ranked the "Happiest Country In the World." The US ranks at the bottom of that list.
America is a delusional country that got high on its own supply.
As I posted the article I noticed they didn't even spell her name correctly in the headline.
White House pulls Elisa Stefanik's U.N. nomination
www.timesunion.com/capitol/arti...
I'm stuck with Stefanik, I guess.
Nothing says "I don't have a mandate" like being scared of a special election in an incredibly red district.
From NYT: E.P.A. Offers a Way to Avoid Clean-Air Rules: Send an Email, Referring to a little-known provision, it said power plants and others could write to seek exemptions to mercury and other restrictions and that “the president will make a decision.”
No one I ever talked to wanted dirtier air.
Here's a bit of good news! The NYS Assembly unanimously passed Assemblymember @lindabrosenthal.bsky.social 's bill to ban #PFAS and other toxic chemicals in period products! Thank you so much, Assm. Rosenthal for pushing it across the finish line! Now we just need @governor.ny.gov to sign it!
