Susan Lamontagne

Defending science, democracy, social justice, health and the environment.

[Susan Lamontagne @publicintmedia]

Art of the Steal

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

The plan is for this plane to be in service for two years and then Trump will take if for himself. No President has ever stolen an Air Force for himself.

And you paid for it. The total cost could be $1 billion of your money for a new luxury jet for Trump and his family.

[Susan Lamontagne @publicintmedia]

With all the speculation about why young people aren’t having kids, I’d put this at the top of the list.

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

icymi: over the next two decades, most of the planet is projected to shift into extreme conditions considered broadly unsurvivable for at least 25-50% of all Earth's species

[Susan Lamontagne @publicintmedia]

@IAmPoliticsGirl @DrTomMartinPhD You are a national treasure!

[PoliticsGirl @IAmPoliticsGirl]

I’m sorry?! We’re giving a 700 acre wildlife reserve to a trillionaire for free? Whyyyyy???

[Susan Lamontagne @publicintmedia]

If you weren’t clear who Trump is working for, read this. #unprecedentedcorruption #pay4pardons

[Fara Kaufman @justfara]

BREAKING📷 A woman donated $1 million to Trump's super PAC. Three weeks later, her son a convicted tax criminal was pardoned. His pardon application literally mentioned her donation.
Her name is Elizabeth Fago. Her son, Paul Walczak, had pleaded guilty to federal tax crimes. The pardon application filed on his behalf explicitly cited his mother's million-dollar donation to MAGA Inc. as a reason he deserved clemency. Trump signed the pardon. Walczak walked free and was relieved of more than $4 million in restitution he owed.
That is one entry on a donor list of 58 people who gave a million dollars or more.
MAGA Inc., Trump's super PAC, has now raised over $305 million since the 2024 election five times more than any presidential super PAC in history at this stage. The Brennan Center called it "completely unprecedented." Ninety-six percent of it came from donors giving $1 million or more. Sixty-two percent from those giving $5 million or more. This is not a grassroots operation. It is a pay-window.
Here's what the donor list actually shows.
https://t.co/s5GJV5zpIa's parent company, Foris Dax, gave $30 million — while it was under SEC investigation for allegedly trading unregistered securities. The SEC investigation was quietly dropped in March 2025, two months after the donation.
The Winklevoss twins gave $1 million — also while their crypto platform Gemini was under SEC investigation. That investigation was dropped in February 2025.
Energy Transfer, the Texas pipeline company, and its CEO Kelcy Warren gave a combined $25 million — while Energy Transfer was actively suing a federal regulatory agency in court.
OpenAI President Greg Brockman and his wife gave $25 million — as the Trump administration was actively shaping AI policy in Silicon Valley's favor.
Then there are the appointments. Benjamin Landa gave $5 million then became Trump's ambassador to Hungary. Kelly Loeffler and her husband gave $5 million she now runs the Small Business Administration. Warren Stephens gave $2 million now ambassador to the United Kingdom. Jared Isaacman gave $2 million now NASA administrator.
And Isabela Herrera, a 25-year-old self-employed financial consultant whose only prior political donation was $20 to Pete Buttigieg in 2020, somehow contributed $3.5 million to MAGA Inc. Her father a Venezuelan billionaire facing federal bribery charges was pardoned by Trump in January 2026. Campaign Legal Center has filed a formal complaint with the FEC alleging she was a straw donor for her father.
This is not dark money. This is public record.
Every dollar, every favor, every pardon. Filed with the FEC. Sitting in plain sight.
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[Fifty Shades of Whey @davenewworld_2]

The Trump admin is trying to eliminate the Chemical Safety Board, which is a federal agency that investigates chemical disasters and exposes what corporations and regulators missed.

They have a small budget so it's not about cost-cutting. The agency's core objective is to protect workers, communities, and the environment by issuing specific safety recommendations.

Eliminating the CSB makes disasters easier to bury. If the Trump admin gets their wish, it'd mean fewer investigations after leaks, explosions, deaths, and mass injuries.

This affects every American, especially ones who live near a refinery, chemical plant, fertilizer facility, plastics complex, or industrial corridor.

[Matthew Gross @HurricaneAddict]

I really don't think enough people fully comprehend the worlds that are about to collide here.

You already have people in geopolitical circles warning about the threat of famine based on surging prices / availability of fertilizer components, and you also have long-term weather modeling all converging on a worst case scenario for a building El Nino event, which will peak near the end of the year. These are two slow moving but entirely predictable disasters that when coupled together will each make the other orders of magnitude worse. (This will take months to fully unfold, but at this point, the die is cast.)

There's no event in our history books that combines the current global population with the impending fertilizer shortage and the strength of the El Nino that's coming. We are about to witness an unprecedented event that will push crops around the globe to their limit.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Trump’s budget director Russ Vought is the most dangerous person you’ve never heard of.

And he just proposed turning every federal grant into a loyalty test.

His plan would make funding for cancer research, housing, transportation, and public health depend on one thing: whether it “advances the President’s policy priorities.”

Not whether it works.

Not whether Congress authorized it.

Whether it pleases Trump.

This is the appropriations power. It belongs to Congress and to the people.
To my Republican colleagues: where are you?

Congress passed this funding. You voted for it.

Vought is telling you to your faces that your votes do not matter, that he and his enablers will override the law whenever it suits them. Every day you stay silent, you give away the institution you were elected to defend.

Grow a spine.

This is not about left or right.

It is about whether Congress still exists as a coequal branch, or whether we have quietly surrendered the purse to an unelected hack who holds the Constitution in contempt.

History will remember who stood up and who looked away.
https://t.co/2yHKBTNLbj

[Climate Dad @ClimateDad77]

F*ck

Deafened by the silence from journalists & politicians as our world sets about changing beyond recognition.

[Susan Lamontagne @publicintmedia]

If ABC or NBC is smart, they’ll hire the fired 60 Mins reporters and crew and launch The Hour.

[Jonathan Reiner @JReinerMD]

I’m glad Dr. Barbabella’s overall assessment is that the president is well. A few questions.
1. Why did the president have another coronary artery CT? He was last scanned in Oct. We don’t typically scan patients 6 months later unless we are concerned about a finding on the initial scan. What prompted the repeat CT?
2. The report notes that the president’s ankle edema is improved compared with last year, but at the president’s last annual exam he had no edema.
3. Dr. Barbabella attributes the president’s bruising to his aspirin and handshaking. But what about his left hand? Also, why is the president, taking a dose of aspirin 4x higher than recommended for cardiovascular protection?
4. Why was the president again given a MOCA dementia screening test? He’s had 3 in the recent past.
5. Did the WH medical team address the patient’s apparent daytime fatigue and sleepiness?
6. AI assessment the president’s “heart age” is that of a much younger 66-year old man is not a clinically utilized tool.
7. The president himself called this visit a semi-annual physical. Going forward, is the new schedule every 6 months? Why more frequent than the traditional yearly exam?

[Susan Lamontagne @publicintmedia]

People seem to have forgotten that Trump’s ignorance and incompetence let covid rip. Those same qualities are now letting Ebola spread. Dismantling USAID and our public health infrastructure and abandoning WHO doesn’t save money. It kills people.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

This Ebola outbreak has been a slow motion disaster - 900 cases and and now threatening the U.S..

We know how to stop outbreaks like this. But Trump chose not to stop it. He destroyed our global health team, deliberately exposing us.

1/ Here's the story of how this happened.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

Here's how the corruption works:

Thursday: RJ Reynolds donates $5M to Trump

Saturday: Trump invites RJR execs to Mar a Lago; execs ask to loosen regs on flavored vapes; Trump calls up RFK Jr. and tells him to change it

Friday: FDA changes the policy
https://t.co/Udu1RhYtKI

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🇺🇸BREAKING: Someone placed a $920 million crude oil short at 3:40 AM.

70 minutes later Axios reported the US and Iran were close to a deal.

Oil dropped 12%.

The trade made $125 million in profit.

Minutes after that Iran launched the “Persian Gulf Strait Authority” and oil surged 8%.

$760 million placed before Trump’s last announcement.

$920 million placed before this one.

Every major announcement in this war has been front-run by someone who knew it was coming.

What kind of war is this?

This is more like a trading desk with an army.

Never stop connecting the dots.

[Elias Al @iam_elias1]

Two economists just published a mathematical proof that AI will destroy the economy.

Not might. Not could. Will — if nothing changes.

The paper is called "The AI Layoff Trap." Published March 2, 2026. Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Boston University. Peer reviewed. Mathematically modeled.
The conclusion is one sentence.
"At the limit, firms automate their way to boundless productivity and zero demand."

An economy that produces everything. And sells it to nobody.
Here is how you get there.
A company fires 500 workers and replaces them with AI. A competitor fires 700 to keep up. Another fires 1,000. Every company is behaving rationally. Every company is following the incentives correctly. And every company is building a trap for itself.

Because the workers who were fired were also customers.
When they lose their jobs faster than the economy can absorb them, they stop spending. Consumer demand falls. Companies respond by cutting costs — which means automating more workers — which means less spending — which means more falling demand — which means more automation.

The loop has no natural exit.
The researchers tested every proposed solution. Universal basic income. Capital income taxes. Worker equity participation. Upskilling programs. Corporate coordination agreements.
Every single one failed in the model.
The only intervention that worked: a Pigouvian automation tax — a per-task levy charged every time a company replaces a human with AI, forcing them to price in the demand they are destroying before they pull the trigger.

No government has implemented this. No major economy is seriously discussing it.
Meanwhile the numbers are already tracking the curve. 100,000 tech workers laid off in 2025. 92,000 more in the first months of 2026. Jack Dorsey fired half of Block's workforce and said publicly: "Within the next year, the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion."
Nobody is doing anything wrong. Companies are following their incentives perfectly. That is exactly the problem.

Rational behavior. At scale. Simultaneously. With no mechanism to stop it.
Two economists built the math. The math leads to one place.

Source: Falk & Tsoukalas · Wharton School + Boston University ·
https://t.co/4m8E9jQNYm

[Susan Lamontagne @publicintmedia]

Who stands to gain from dismantling EPA’s independent science team? Polluters and corrupt profiteers. Congress must stop this assault on our health.

[Trip Gabriel @tripgabriel]

The EPA's independent science arm did groundbreaking research to save lives. It studied fertility, asthma, wildfires, drinking water, climate change etc etc

In just one year, it has been almost completely dismantled

Of 1500 scientists, only 124 remain

https://t.co/05bluCvI2c

[Susan Lamontagne @publicintmedia]

What I don’t understand is why the MAHA voters supported Trump, who has been in the pocket of polluters and toxic chemical manufacturers since day 1.

[Lauren Lee @laurenlee]

🚨 “WE’RE DONE PRETENDING THIS IS NORMAL” Vani Hari Just Slammed Trump on Behalf of MAHA, Says the Administration is Protecting Bayer/Monsanto:

“You cannot tell Americans to eat “real food” while protecting the cancer-causing chemicals sprayed on it.

You cannot stand with families and side with one of the most evil corporations in the world.

Let's be honest. We wouldn't be here right now if President Trump didn't sign that executive order.

We wouldn't be here right now if they weren't inside this building arguing on Monsanto's behalf.

We wouldn't be here right now if they didn't submit that amicus brief and that recommendation to the Supreme Court to look at this case when they've lost all over this country.

You cannot stand with families and do that.”

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[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

ICE has violated almost 100 court orders.

Let me say that another way. 100 times ICE was caught brazenly ignoring the law. 100 times a court told them to immediately stop. And 100 times they ignored the order.

That's an out of control agency that shouldn't get another dime.

[Dr. Catharine Young @DrCatharineY]

A 31% drop in NIH grants focused on women in 2025.

Behind that number are labs, scientists, and diseases like endometriosis and ovarian cancer - areas that have long been misunderstood, underfunded, and deprioritized.

inequity reinforced by science in real time.

[Tom Malinowski @Malinowski]

Most Americans still haven't realized how the Trump administration has defunded every aspect of criminal law enforcement -- anti-terrorism, drugs, fraud, organized crime, human trafficking, etc. -- to go after immigrants with no criminal records.