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U.S. Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters | Climate Central Explore U.S. billion-dollar weather and climate disasters since 1980, including total costs, trends, and impacts.

Great news that @climatecentral.org has resurrected @noaa.gov’s Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters database after the Trump administration axed it!

Millions of Americans may not get their SNAP payments because of the government shut down

Millions are in the streets for No Kings protesting the rise of fascism

What are the tyrants doing? Spending $172 million on private jets for Noem

Sending funds to Argentia

Shooting missiles into California

Early voting in Connecticut starts Monday for 2025 election. Here's what to know Connecticut voters have two weeks to vote ahead of Election Day on Nov. 4.

Connecticut voters have two weeks to vote ahead of Election Day on Nov. 4.

🚨 @delauro.house.gov on #Project2025 that we warned about all thru 2024: “Russ Vought’s gleeful announcement [regime] will be canceling energy projects in Connecticut… is a direct partisan attack… reckless & betrays both common sense & public trust. democrats-appropriations.house.gov/news/press-r...

OMB Director Russ Vought announced that the Department of Energy would terminate $8 billion in energy projects, targeting 16 Democratic states.

Canceling these projects will increase energy prices, eliminate jobs, & weaken the energy grid.

The FULL list: bit.ly/46KSJvm

Do you know if your CT state legislator is an environmental champion?

Check out our 2025 Scorecard and find out!

Massive walkout underway at CDC.

RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.

Hey @chrismurphyct.bsky.social and @blumenthal.senate.gov, Connecticut native, constituent, and Yale public health professor here: this is the right moment. I will literally do anything. Make me wait 10 hours for a 2 minute walk and talk meeting with your lowliest intern, and I will make the case.

screenshot of ICE reposting a Libs of Tik Tok post and tagging Justice Dept

A CT state rep posted a story about reports of ICE activity in his district and asked neighbors to "look out for another" and contact advocacy groups.

Libs of TikTok posted it, calling for him to be charged and tagging ICE & DHS.

ICE shared it, tagging the Justice Dept.

This is protected speech.

The bills establish incentives and protections for CT farm owners, including a refundable tax credit and reimbursement for crop losses.

ctmirror.org/2025/07/09/f...

USDA claims it is “putting American farmers first” by cancelling $149 million in funds to young, beginning, LGBTQ+ farmers & farmers of color.

The reality is, #WeAreAmericanFarmers and #WeFeedYou! Terminating these programs undermines the future of our farm and food systems.

#youngfarmers #agsky

Abandoned by Trump, a farmer and a migrant search for a better future With grants canceled and billions of dollars in jeopardy, Trump’s cuts are devastating American farmers and plunging families into uncertainty.

The political lesson of stories like this isn't "Too bad, sucker, leopards ate your face." This is ammunition for a broader argument: Republicans and Trump suckered rural folk, and will keep doing it until those voters do something about it. Which they can.

www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Torrington, Connecticut showed UP today @ #NoKings #NoKingsDay #FlagDay 🇺🇸 1000 or more patriots 4/5 deep along Coe Park & across on the other side. 3x previous turnout & we are growing! #DefendDemocracy #Indivisible #IndivisibleNWCT @indivisible.org @chrismurphyct.bsky.social @blumenthal.senate.gov

NO KINGS Torrington · Mobilize **In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** NO KINGS is a national day of action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from Trump and his allie...

Thank you! We and many of our neighbors will be out at #NoKings in Torrington Saturday June 14 at Coe Park 1pm mobilize.us/s/VcMmGq

New Canaan high school student advocates for farm to school program legislation A push to make sure students have fresh food at school. That’s what the farm to school program does while also supporting our local farmers. A New Canaan High School student is a big advocate of it an...

Big thanks to @jeremychentv.bsky.social @nbcconnecticut.com for covering essential Connecticut farm-to-school legislation! We're hoping
State Senator Stephen Harding will vote TODAY Wed June 4 to move HB 7013 to the floor #farmtoschool www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/n...

Thank you for this episode, and for your work! cc @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social

They're joined by Wes Gillingham, organic farmer & board president of the @nofanewyork.bsky.social, the lawsuit’s lead plaintiff, who shares how the data purge has already harmed farmers, how they’re fighting this form of “thought control,” and what this has to do with the First Amendment.

We’re Suing to Stop the Trump Admin’s Climate Censorship that Threatens Farmers and Our Food Supply The Trump administration is removing climate-related information from government websites, many of which farmers rely on to adapt to increasingly extreme weather and access to funds.

Trump's USDA is violating the Freedom of Information Act, the Paperwork Reduction Act, and the Administrative Procedure Act.

Our lawsuit is part of a longstanding push for climate-smart agriculture and reducing industrial agriculture’s climate impact. We're not backing down now.

Which one do you hope they get?

I know salmonella is easily treated and usually only lasts a few days so that’s out.

Here’s just a small part of right-wing extremist #Project2025 #DOGE in action, aiming to gut everything in the US, all to deliver massive tax cuts to billionaires & plunder public funds for Trump et al:
“‘For most of the last half century #NWS has been a 24/7 operation—not anymore,’ Mr. Fahy said.”

House Agriculture Committee Proposal Would Worsen Hunger, Hit State Budgets Hard | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities The House Agriculture Committee reconciliation bill would radically alter the structure of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits by requiring states to pay a portion of food benefi...

Under the House Ag Committee's extreme & unprecedented #SNAP cost-shift proposal, every state would face substantial new costs that would put food assistance for low-income families at risk.

See the impact in your state: www.cbpp.org/research/foo...

House Agriculture Committee Proposal Would Worsen Hunger, Hit State Budgets Hard | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities The House Agriculture Committee reconciliation bill would radically alter the structure of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits by requiring states to pay a portion of food benefi...

The cost shift to states from these SNAP and Medicaid cuts is terrible for the people who depend on them …. And bad news for anyone who depends on state funding for education, or public safety, or transportation. Which is everyone.

www.cbpp.org/research/foo...

Amazing turnout in #Torrington + #Winsted contingent in NWCT May 3 May Day #Mayday2025 rally! An early crowd of ~200 at Coe Park swelled to ~400 patriots by the finish #NoKings #NoDictators #RuleOfLaw and #DueProcess for ALL! No kidnappings! Great spirit & consensUS #BillionairesAreStealingFromYou

The moment in week one where he ordered a mass release of water into farmland was the moment it really sunk in what the death of expertise looks like.

YouTube video by CBS 13 News Maine farmers protest federal cuts in Augusta

Just last week, MOFGA helped organize a rally at the State House in Augusta, to protest the Trump Administration’s illegal funding freezes, reckless tariffs, and other policies that are hurting our farmers.

I was proud to be there—and thrilled to see so many familiar faces in the crowd. (8/9)

KEEP ON MARCHING This movement requires all of us to continue to show up in huge numbers! Let's keep on raising our voices by attending rallies across the state to defend our rights & demand social and economic justice! PRO TIP: CT WFP members are planning to show up in numbers at this year's May Day Rally! Join us in Hartford or New Haven on May 1st! RSVP at: linktr.ee/ctworkingfamilies MAY DAY RALLY MAY 1, 2025 UNITY MARCH FOR SOCIAL & ECONOMIC JUSTICE HARTFORD 10:30 AM BUSHNELL PARK NEW HAVEN 5:00 PM NEW HAVEN GREEN

CT WFP members are planning to show up in numbers at this year's May Day Rally! Join Hartford or New Haven on May 1st!
RSVP at: linktr.ee/ctworkingfamilies

MAY DAY RALLY
MAY 1, 2025
UNITY MARCH FOR SOCIAL & ECONOMIC JUSTICE
HARTFORD 10:30 AM
BUSHNELL PARK

NEW HAVEN
5:00 PM
NEW HAVEN GREEN

A photo from the March 31st "With These Hands" immigration march in Delano with the text overlay: immigrants are under attack. Write to your Congress Members today.

You see new examples of the Trump Admin's ongoing hate campaign daily in the news and your social media feed. We can't just stand by while our neighbors are terrorized, imprisoned or deported w/o due process. Email your congressmembers today. ufw.org/immigrants_ltc #WeFeedYou

Maine farmers call on USDA to restore funds and staff Those attending the rally, organized by the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association and other groups, said the funding cuts, contract suspensions and other changes are especially challenging f...

I was proud to support our great Maine Farm families yesterday! #Mofga #nofarmsnofood #Mainefarmers #fedsarecrookedgrifters And for those who are wondering that is Seth from Monroe up in Waldo County on that lil John Deer #tractor www.mainepublic.org/politics/202...

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Mainers Turn Out In Support
Of Farmers & MOFGA 4/16/25
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Volume UP!
One farmer drove his tractor for 3 hrs through morning chill to be in Augusta for FARMER DAY of ACTION. Approx 250 others turned out, many small organic farmers, part of Maine tradition.

Farmers riding in on tractors to protest Trump’s obliteration of their funds has been added to my very large 2025 Bingo card. #AbolishDOGE #FundOurFarmers