Scientists at Trump’s EPA say they are being told to make chemical risks “disappear on paper.” Not to study or manage them, but to make them vanish.
When a safety test on a household chemical shows danger, supervisors reportedly ask to keep shrinking the scenario until the poison looks safe.
They have reassigned senior scientists to paperwork and handed life-and-death risk assessments to staff with less experience. They have installed former chemical industry lobbyists to run the very offices that are supposed to regulate the chemical industry.
A gift to industry, paid for with your family’s health.
They are even throwing out research on how certain chemicals hit certain communities harder, calling decades of established science “DEI.”
You can make risk disappear on paper.
The cancer does not disappear.
The birth defects do not disappear.
The infertility does not disappear.
The kids drinking the water and getting sick do not disappear.
The EPA exists to protect people, not to protect the profit margins of the people poisoning them.
Every American deserves to know what is happening. #TrumpMakesUsSick
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Judge Leo Sorokin blocked the Trump administration’s $100K H-1B visa charge, ruling it was an unlawful tax rather than a legitimate fee, and therefore exceeded executive authority under federal law.
https://t.co/3S7v7Ladbr
Mehdi Hasan, "We have the Geneva Convention"
"We have International Humanitarian Law"
"We have the Rome Statute and the International Criminal Court"
"We have these metrics that were built up over the years, by the UK and the US; they led the world in writing these documents, these conventions"
"The European Convention of Human Rights, which everyone on the British right wants to pull out of, it was written by British lawyers"
"Much of that architecture is now being burnt down to protect Netanyahu, it's kind of insane"
"When historians come back to write these history books, it will be amazing to see how these laws, these conventions, they survived genocides, they survived some of the worst post war era conflicts"
"But they couldn't survive Gaza"
SWEEPING REPORT just released by the Government Accountability Office finds the Trump administration spent millions more than necessary on Camp East Montana—and somehow still failed to meet its requirements in regard to health care, room & board, & safety. https://t.co/9PIycfSkxs
For those who don't know:
Gaza now has the highest rate of amputee children in modern history.
Something that leaves you with profound sadness and shock.
This is not just another news item.
New: The Trump administration has said immigration officers don’t target children with tear gas or pepper spray, but we found many children — in their homes, cars or walking to school — harmed by these chemicals, which pose a particular threat to kids. https://t.co/bKIylPiCni
Democratic politicians need to come clean about how Biden too (not just Trump) was complicit in Israel's genocide in Gaza. They must commit to end the US government's aiding and abetting of Israel's apartheid, systematic war crimes and endless occupation. https://t.co/OtHNhzJWoT
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres says 80 UN staff have been killed by the israelis, but without action they’re empty words https://t.co/sEuWIpmgG8
💢 Lebanese turtle conservationist attacked in Israeli airstrike on her home
Mona Khalil, a pioneering Lebanese marine turtle conservationist who founded the Orange House Project on Mansouri Beach in southern Lebanon, was wounded in an Israeli airstrike on her home Thursday.
Khalil underwent surgery for severe injuries, including a serious abdominal wound, before her condition stabilized Friday, according to Lebanese media and the NGO Green Southerners. “For more than two decades, her efforts helped transform this relatively small stretch of coastline into one of the most important sea turtle nesting sites on the eastern Mediterranean coast,” the NGO told the New Arab.
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Only some nations taking part in the World Cup are being targeted with extra security and visa denials for their fans – can you guess what they have in common?
It’s wild that a few missiles from Iran is getting more attention in media than Israel bombing Lebanon 3,500 times or the burning—by Israeli invaders “settlers”—of a village that is home to the oldest living Christian community in the world, where Jesus Christ once walked.
Both are a violation of international law, but focusing on only one side is not journalism.
Annual US inflation hit a three-year-high in May, according to new data, as many Americans struggle with elevated prices and high cost of living.
https://t.co/KNbyBYP50d
Israel Intensifies the Killing in Gaza as the World Looks Away
“They have taken everything from us. They have taken away the possibility for life.”
Report by @AbdSabbah91 from Gaza and @sharifkouddous
https://t.co/1PBEry2ETv