Ben Fulgencio-Turner

Trump's environmental policies are reshaping everyday life. Here's how. The president’s rollbacks and funding cuts are affecting your food, water, and air — even if you don’t realize it.

In a new guide, @grist.org examines the impact Trump's environmental rollbacks and funding cuts are having on the things we all do every day. Flipping on your lights. Turning on your faucet. Paying bills. Checking the weather forecast. Feeding yourself and your families. grist.org/politics/tru...

It was abundantly clear that the people working at the ICE facility in Baltimore have been instructed to hide the inhumane treatment of the people in their custody.

This morning, my MD Delegation colleagues & I were denied entry to the Baltimore Detention Facility. Let that sink in. If our constituents are being held in potentially inhumane conditions, we have a duty & a RIGHT to check on them.

Trump is making thousands of rule-abiding immigrants undocumented Inside the largest delegalization campaign in modern US history.

“You enter legally, and suddenly, because of someone else’s whim, you’re illegal. It doesn’t make sense.”

I wrote about the hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan TPS holders losing legal status overnight as a result of the Trump administration's mass deportation push.

This is twice as money much as the Department of Energy spends on solar power R&D. We could have more solar power but instead we’re paying to build detention camps.

Screenshot from Reddit. User is zensnapple, posting 6 months ago. Thread says "How to turn off Google AI Overview in Chrome SOLVED Open Chrome and put chrome://settings/searchEngines in the search box. A tab will open which brings you to Search Engine > Manage Search Engines and Site Search. Click on the Add button by the Site Search update. A box will open. Fill in the form with the following: Name: AI Free Web Shortcut: @web URL: {google:baseURL}search?q=%s&udm=14 You’ll now see AI Free Web in the list of search engines. Click on the three stacked dots on the right side of AI Free Web on the list. Select Make Default. From now on, google functions pretty much like it did back when it was good. Good luck out there."

A while ago, we started a #FixItFriday tradition. We keep a running list - large & small, digital & analog, anything broken or annoying - and work on it together.

Today's 30-second fix: to remove AI "preview" from search results, here's the setting for Chrome users: www.reddit.com/r/techsuppor...

Graphic for “The Summer Series: Episode 4” of the Healthy Climate America podcast. Title: “Extreme Heat and Pregnancy” Features photos of two speakers: Bruce Bekkar (Women's health physician) and Santosh Pandipati (Lovu and Silicon Valley Maternal-Fetal Medicine). A podcast play bar is shown below the speakers. At the bottom: “Listen now: bit.ly/HealthyClimateAmerica” with the Healthy Climate America logo in the corner. Background is orange with white and red text.

Extreme heat is putting pregnant people, fetuses, and newborns at risk. Guest host Dr. Bruce Bekkar talks with maternal-fetal medicine expert Dr. Santosh Pandipati about the health harms, the inequities that worsen them, and how health professionals can take action.

🎧 bit.ly/HealthyClimateAmerica

The tiny particles in wildfire smoke "can wreak havoc on health," says Nick Nassikas in ‪Harvard Gazette.

Learn about the @harvard.edu researchers studying the unique threats that wildfire smoke poses to human health: https://loom.ly/LOUMz0o

Did you know transit is 20 times safer than driving a car? Each year, public transportation prevents more than 2,500 injuries related to car accidents. Take Metro!

Talk about The Wire, Sopranos, Game of Thrones all you want, but the greatest US television program ever made is Sesame Street. It's not even close. 50+ years of treating kids across class, ethnicity, religion not as mini-consumers...but as citizens with a stake in this world.

Under Texas’ Abortion Ban, Where a Woman Lives Can Determine Her Risk of Developing Sepsis Our first-of-its-kind data analysis found that a seismic split emerged in how medical institutions in Texas' two largest metro areas, Houston and Dallas, treated miscarrying patients — and in their…

The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion.

In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose 29%.

(Published May)

We’ve compiled a few essential tips, drawn from the experiences of on-the-ground activists and immigrant rights groups.

Guide: lataco.com/documenting-...

DC folks

There is an urgent need to care for babies and young children in our community whose parents have been detained, deported, or otherwise snatched by our government. St Paul’s episcopal church is serving as a collection point for money, formula, and diapers.

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Nothing like your kiddo matter of factly reporting that the best friends of kids at camp left because their parents were deported.

a line of heavily armed federal agents in riot gear standing in a field surrounded by tomato plants

The UFW can confirm farm workers were critically injured yesterday during chaotic raids in Ventura County, CA. Other workers, including US citizens, remain unaccounted for.

UFW staff is on the ground supporting impacted families.

Our full statement below. ⬇️
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NEW POLL: As ICE terrorizes communities across the country, 79% of Americans—a record-high—say immigration is a good thing for the country.

More Republicans (64%) now hold a more positive view of immigration than they have since the very beginning of the Trump era.
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In Texas flood response, FEMA slowed by Noem’s cost controls | CNN Politics As monstrous floodwaters surged across central Texas late last week, officials at the Federal Emergency Management Agency leapt into action, preparing to deploy critical search and rescue teams and li...

Oh my God. “Even as Texas rescue crews raced to save lives, Noem didn’t authorize FEMA’s deployment of Search and Rescue teams until more than 72 hours after the flooding began.”

IMPORTANT NOTICE: The City of Takoma Park can confirm that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity occurred in the area of Carroll Avenue and Boyd Avenue during the morning hours of July 9, 2025. Several individuals were taken into custody by ICE agents at that location.

Opinion | Texas lawmakers could have funded emergency response systems — but they didn’t Even before dozens died in flood waters on July 4, Texas ranked first in the U.S. in number of deaths due to natural disasters.

Even with the increasing threat of natural disasters, Texas lawmakers and officials have been largely asleep at the wheel — unable or unwilling to take better precautions that, in hindsight, seem both necessary and painfully obvious.

My latest for @msnbc.com

www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Climate risks: no longer the tragedy of the horizon The European Central Bank (ECB) is the central bank of the European Union countries which have adopted the euro. Our main task is to maintain price stability in the euro area and so preserve the purch...

Influx of Chinese EVs along the lines of Japanese/Korean cars in the 80s: negligible overall GDP impact, acc to IMF calculations.

Climate change, natural disaster scenario, until 2030: -4.7% of GDP in the euro area.

Just to put that into perspective. www.ecb.europa.eu/press/blog/d...

The “Undeserving Poor” Deserve Medicaid Most able-bodied Medicaid recipients already have jobs, but those who don’t should receive health care too.

The United States, even when it’s governed humanely, lacks a truly universal health care system. So let’s not kid ourselves when we claim to be a decent society while we dispense health care according to merit.

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Know Your Rights - Resilience OC Learn about your rights with our comprehensive Know Your Rights resources. Find tools, guides, and multilingual materials to help you navigate housing, immigration, and other critical issues. Empower ...

And seek out and consume resources & guides before the worst happens, like: resilienceoc.org/know-your-ri...

Help your loved one obtain legal counsel, by contacting groups like @immdef.bsky.social & @chirla-org.bsky.social & equivalents both in Southern California and & beyond.

Make sure a trusted member of your loved one's inner circle has copies of their identity docs, including their A# (if available) - this can come in handy when attempting to locate them following an abduction: locator.ice.gov/odls/#/search

NOTE: this site can be VERY slow to update.

Find your local California Rapid Response hotline | CCIJ Find your local California Rapid Response Network and hotline to report immigration enforcement activity and keep our communities safe!

Have phone numbers ready for your local rapid response network once you hear of your loved one's disappearance: www.ccijustice.org/carrn

Have a plan to take care of the individuals that rely on your loved ones for care, & take that burden & stress off their plate should the worst happen.

Parents & caregivers are being abducted every day, so make sure the people that depend on them are taken care of.

If your loved one isn't comfortable with social media or English, then serve as a bridge for them - follow groups like @uniondelbarrio.bsky.social & @lataco.bsky.social for timely info on where ICE raids are happening.

If you think they're near the area of a raid, call/text & let them know.

If your loved one has a smartphone, have them turn on location services to share with a trusted, documented member of their inner circle.

If they're abducted by federal agents, being able to track their initial detention will be a tremendous help to you + potential/actual legal counsel.

Just finished up this dystopian tv interview regarding disappearances in LA/SoCal/beyond, & here are things YOU can do to help take care of the people in your life that are at high risk as ICE raids continue: