The Trump EPA Official in Charge of Methane Regulations Helped Write Oil Industry Argument Against Those Rules Before becoming a top official at the Environmental Protection Agency, Aaron Szabo was a lobbyist for the oil and gas industry. Metadata shows he helped draft a trade group’s 2022 letter to the EPA ob...

infuriating must-read piece by my colleague @alexcuadros.bsky.social
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New U.S. Missile Hit Iranian Sports Hall and School, Analysis Shows

Since the headline is a bit confusing, the NYT is reporting that on the same day we hit the girl's school in Minab, we also sent a missile full of tungsten steel pellets at a girl's volleyball tournament hundreds of miles away in Lamerd. Twenty one dead.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/w...

An Open Letter to the Inspectors General Community If you work in or have recently left the office of a federal inspector general, we need your insights to do important journalism.

I'm asking for help covering the IG community. Please reach out if you have info and/or share with anyone you think might be receptive.

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Nothing says "pro life" as much as willingly exposing your born child unnecessarily to life-threatening diseases.

I had chicken-pox and measles as a child in the 50s. My cousin had polio (I got away with a fever). When the vaccines became available, it was like liberation from oppression.

How Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Vaccine Agenda Risks a Resurgence of Deadly Childhood Plagues The health secretary is spreading doubts about vaccine safety and considering changes that could prompt manufacturers to flee the U.S. market. History has shown how plagues from the past can roar back...

This story by @sheinvestigates.bsky.social is so so good and so so upsetting. Get ready to have your head explode

www.propublica.org/article/rfk-...

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The U.S. Built a Blueprint to Avoid Civilian War Casualties. Trump Officials Scrapped It. The Pentagon dismantled its civilian protection mission as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made “lethality” a top priority and the Trump administration reorganized national security around two principl...

Dismantling the fledgling harm-reduction effort, defense analysts say, is among several ways the Trump administration has reorganized national security around two principles: more aggression, less accountability

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Explore Financial Disclosures From President Trump and 1,500 of His Appointees - ProPublica Use this database to explore potential conflicts of interest for President Donald Trump and his team. The documents disclose positions officials have held outside government, their assets and their de...

NEW: Use our database to explore the financial disclosures of President Donald Trump and more than 1,500 of his appointees.

Aaron Rupar (@aaron.rupar) on Threads Jayapal to Noem: "None of these four US citizens were charged with a crime, none had their citizenship questioned, and all were lawfully exercising their First Amendment rights. Do you have anything y...

wowza. And kudos to ProPublica's @nicolefoy.bsky.social www.threads.com/@aaron.rupar...

Federal judge says Trump administration can't kill NYC's congestion pricing tolls The order undermines President Donald Trump's 2024 campaign promise to "TERMINATE" congestion pricing.

And more much-needed good news..

gothamist.com/news/federal...

The Paraquat Poisoning Problem A former Syngenta scientist calls the failure to heed his warnings about the deadly pesticide paraquat “a conspiracy within the company to keep this quiet.”

And now some good news - Syngenta is stopping making paraquat. www.syngenta.com/media/syngen... @stephanehorel.bsky.social
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Nick Fuentes: “The number one political enemy in America is women. … They have to be imprisoned.”

Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”

"This is Mia, 7 years old -- 'I don't want to be in this place. I want to be in my school'" -- Walkinshaw confronts Lyons with letters written by kids being detained by ICE

The Real Story Behind the Midnight Immigration Raid on a Chicago Apartment Building The Trump administration has claimed the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua had taken over the building. But new documents make no mention of the gang and reveal federal agents had information about “ille...

www.propublica.org/article/chic...

What We Saw in Minneapolis Our visual journalists documented the days surrounding Alex Pretti’s killing in Minneapolis.

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Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...

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Migration of bisphenol A from commercially available pacifiers: HPLC-FLD analysis and exposure assessment in infants and toddlers - Environmental Science and Pollution Research Bisphenol A (BPA) is an endocrine-disrupting compound widely used in plastics and resins and associated with metabolic, reproductive, and neurodevelopmental disorders. Infants and toddlers are particu...

I've long wondered about this - whether infants sucking on pacifiers are ingesting toxic chemicals. Turns out they are 😞

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

US carbon pollution rose in 2025 in reversal of previous years’ reductions Study from research firm finds that US greenhouse gas emissions grew faster than economic activity last year

US carbon pollution rose in 2025 by 2.4% over the previous year.

The increase in greenhouse gas emissions is attributable to a combination of a cool winter, the explosive growth of datacenters and cryptocurrency mining, and higher natural gas prices.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

NEW: The Trump administration is planning to use AI to write federal regulations despite the risk of hallucinations.

“We don't even need a very good rule,” the Transportation Department’s top lawyer said of the plan, per meeting notes reviewed by ProPublica. “We want good enough.”🧵

Half the world’s 100 largest cities are in high water stress areas, analysis finds Exclusive: Beijing, Delhi, Los Angeles and Rio de Janeiro among worst affected, with demand close to exceeding supply

Half the world’s 100 largest cities are experiencing high levels of water stress, with 38 of these in regions of “extremely high water stress”, new analysis and mapping has shown.

About 1.1 billion people live in metropolitan areas experiencing long-term drying.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"ICE will leave Minnesota if you hand over your voter rolls" tells you everything you need to know.

This was never about immigration or fraud. It was always about rigging elections.

Statistic: 2/3rds of murders in Minneapolis so far in 2026 have been committed by DHS agents

Screenshot of a TikTok video with error message at top saying “your video is under review and can’t be shared right now.”

This morning, I recorded a video on TikTok about why DHS’s arguments for the power to enter homes without judicial warrants in immigration cases are bunk.

Nine hours later, TikTok still says my video is “under review,” and can’t be shared.

Well, here’s a link:

georgetown.box.com/v/Vladeck-IC...

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

LIVE NOW: Our reporters Brett Murphy and @annamaria.bsky.social and photographer @peterdicampo.bsky.social are taking your questions on Reddit about how Trump’s gutting of USAID exacerbated a cholera epidemic and created an American-made hunger crisis 👇

Tylenol in Pregnancy Not Tied to Autism, Rigorous Review Shows Study debunks fears about prenatal acetaminophen and child development

Tylenol in Pregnancy Not Tied to Autism, Rigorous Review Shows www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/au...

But we do know that high fevers in pregnancy are associated with autism

“Asking scientists to spy on and report on their fellow co-authors” is a “classic hallmark of authoritarianism,” said Jennifer Jones, director for the Center for Science and Democracy at the Union of Concerned Scientists

A Black Teen Died Over a $12 Shoplifting Attempt. 13 Years Later, Two Men Plead Guilty in His Killing. 16-year-old Corey Stingley died from asphyxiation after being pinned down by customers in a convenience store. Under a special agreement, the family of the teen finally feels that “truth, understandin...

I’ve been following this case for several years. Finally, a judge in Milwaukee brought a grieving father’s 13-year quest for justice to a close, accepting a plea deal for two men who were criminally charged for their role in the 2012 killing of teenager Corey Stingley at a convenience store.

Trump Administration Orders USDA Employees to Investigate Foreign Researchers They Work With The new directive asks workers to check the backgrounds of foreign nationals collaborating with the department’s scientists for evidence of “subversive or criminal activity.” Their names are being sen...

NEW from @lisalsong.bsky.social and me:

The Trump administration is now asking USDA workers to check the backgrounds of foreign nationals collaborating with the department’s scientists for evidence of “subversive or criminal activity.”

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