The EPA Was Considering a Massive Lead Cleanup in Omaha. Then Trump Shifted Guidance. The Trump administration says it will speed cleanups, but residents of the largest residential lead Superfund site worry fewer properties will be remediated.

NEW: For more than a century, a smelter spewed lead dust over Omaha.

For decades, the government cleaned it up.

But a shift in guidance from the Trump administration may stop thousands more from potential cleanup, exposing families to the harmful metal.

With @flatwaterfreep.bsky.social

I need you to listen to and share this story - of how Trump is preparing to abandon Ukraine in exchange for Russian money for his billionaire friends.

It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich.

Under Former Chemical Industry Insiders, Trump EPA Nearly Doubles Amount of Formaldehyde Considered Safe to Inhale Chemical industry lobbyists have long pushed the government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the cancer risk from chemicals, one that would help ease regulations on companies that make or...

The Trump EPA has nearly doubled the amount of formaldehyde considered safe to inhale compared with a Biden-era assessment, which had already significantly underestimated the dangers of the chemical, a ProPublica investigation found.

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The Erasure of “Women” Is Escalating The campaign to erase references to women has reached new levels of absurdity. In just the last few weeks, it’s made forays into social media, medical journals, and even federal legislation. For examp...

Absolutely incredible.

www.heritage.org/gender/comme...

Soooo... instead of going after criminal tax evaders and bringing millions of dollars into our tax revenues and putting THEM behind bars, the IRS is going to be deporting innocent people???

The first screenshot coming from Biden would have had an impeachment waiting for him in the morning.

This delusional old man has lost touch with reality as he spends every weekend lining his own pocket by charging the "special" rate to us so he can play golf and solicit more bribes at his club.

And he knows he can trust the leadership of the FDA to make political decisions, not scientific ones.

State Department to deny visas to fact checkers and others, citing 'censorship' The order is focused on applicants for H-1B visas, which are frequently used by tech companies and is part of a campaign by the Trump administration against online content moderation.

The State Department is instructing its staff to deny visas to those engaged in activities like combatting misinformation, disinformation or false narratives, fact-checking, content moderation, compliance, and trust and safety. 🫠

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Gas stoves are filling millions of homes with hidden toxic air Stanford researchers found that gas stoves expose Americans to surprisingly high levels of nitrogen dioxide—often matching or exceeding outdoor pollution. For millions, cooking alone pushes NO2 over l...

Researchers found that gas stoves expose Americans to surprisingly high levels of nitrogen dioxide—often matching or exceeding outdoor pollution. Smaller homes, renters, and rural households face the highest concentrations.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

WTAF, the cruelty and depravity knows no bounds.

Kids who have smartphones by age 12 have higher risk of depression, obesity: Study Children who own smartphones by age 12 are at higher risk of lack of sleep, obesity and depression, a new study published Monday finds.

Kids who have smartphones by age 12 have a higher risk of depression and obesity. Additionally, the earlier the age a child received a smartphone the greater the health risk. #RSNA25
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Teens may have come up with a new way to detect, treat Lyme disease using CRISPR gene editing To compete at iGEM, a sort of science Olympics, teens at a Georgia high school set their sights on finding a better way to detect and treat Lyme disease. Their approach uses CRISPR gene editing.

Remarkable story of a Georgia high school team who used CRISPR to make a rapid diagnostic test strip for Lyme disease, speeding dx from 2 weeks to days
www.cbsnews.com/news/teens-m...

COVID-19 as the Underlying Cause of Death Among Individuals Aged 0 to 19 Years in the US This cross-sectional study evaluates whether COVID-19 is among the top 10 causes of death in children and young people aged 0 to 19 years in the US.

🔔 Reminder: Covid-19 was a leading case of death among US children and young people during the pandemic with 821 deaths in the year from August 1, 2021, to July 31, 2022 @jamanetworkopen.com jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

2/ talcum powder and cosmetics made with talc for traces of asbestos, a highly carcinogenic contaminant."

"The unexpected move was a blow to public health advocates who have worked for decades to curb or eliminate asbestos, which can be found in talc and causes deadly cancers like mesothelioma and

Risk of rare heart complications in children higher after COVID-19 infection than after vaccination Children and young people faced long-lasting and higher risks of rare heart and inflammatory complications after COVID-19 infection, compared to before or

#CovidIsNotOver

#CovidCardiovascularDamage

#LongCovidKids

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Unreal: "The EPA is moving forward with approvals for pesticides containing 'forever chemicals' as an active ingredient... The agency also announced plans to relax a rule requiring companies to report products containing PFAS and has proposed weakening drinking water standards for the chemicals."

How *dare* you take this as a sign that Trump and Musk and Thiel are planning to steal state and national elections using AI tech

Not only is teacher pay far lower than it should be, educators spend their own 💰on their classrooms while billionaires and corporations get tax cuts. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

US federal workers would lose whistleblower safeguards under Trump rule President Donald Trump's administration is close to implementing a rule that would end long-standing legal protections for whistleblowers among senior federal employees, according to documents reviewed by Reuters, prompting backlash from lawyers representing government workers.

US federal workers would lose whistleblower safeguards under Trump rule reut.rs/446m2YM

Pardoned Capitol Rioter Tried to Hush Child Sex Victim With Promise of Jan. 6 Reparation Money, Police Say Pardoned Capitol rioter Andrew Johnson tried to keep a child sex abuse victim quiet with claimed $10 million Jan. 6 reparations, police say.

An incredibly Trump-era headline theintercept.com/2025/11/17/p...

Women Who Have Abortions Would Face Decades in Prison Under South Carolina Plan Women who get abortions could spend decades in prison and IUDs would be outlawed under proposed legislation in South Carolina.

Women who get an abortion and anyone who helps them could face up to 30 years in prison under the bill.

It appears to ban any contraception that prevents a fertilized egg from implanting. That would ban IUDs and could strictly limit in-vitro fertilization.

Trump is not smart enough to know anything about this. Who is behind this?

Conflicting Advice on Covid Shots Likely To Ding Already Low Vaccine Rates, Experts Warn - KFF Health News About 1 in 4 American adults got a covid vaccine shot during the 2024-25 virus season, a fraction health care experts warn could be smaller this year as millions wrestle with conflicting advice from t...

Covid remains a serious, potentially deadly health risk, listed as the primary cause of death on 31,400 death certificates last year. By comparison, flu killed about 6,500 people and pneumonia, a common complication of the flu, killed an additional 41,600.
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Quality Community Note on Troy Nehls.

FBI Director Kash Patel Waived Polygraph Security Screening for Dan Bongino, Two Other Senior Staff As the FBI’s deputy director, Bongino receives some of the country’s most sensitive secrets, including the President’s Daily Brief. His ascent to that position without passing a standard bureau backgr...

“FBI Director Kash Patel granted waivers to Deputy Director Dan Bongino and two other newly hired senior FBI staff members, exempting them from passing polygraph exams normally required to gain access to America’s most sensitive classified information…”

www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...

This sort of thing raises obvious ethical problems for lawyers & should lead to bar discipline.

But assuming regulators have an appetite for a case like this (do they, @gokp.bsky.social @dodrummond.bsky.social @badlawyerpod.bsky.social?), I imagine proof would be difficult.

This is actually kind of interesting.

On the one hand, the ACA *already* has absurdly strict Hyde protections, so that's clearly a poison pill stunt.

On the other hand, the fact that he's even talking about negotiating over an income cap suggests a tiny possibility that he's serious. 1/

🚨 HEADS UP

Washington State has reported a suspected human H5N1 case with no cattle exposure likely bird-linked (or from contaminated milk).

The patient is severely ill in hospital.

Clade pending (D1 vs B3). CDC confirmation awaited.

If confirmed, it will be Washington’s first H5N1 case of 2025.