An appropriate birthday present on my uncle's birthday today. A federal judge ruled that President Trump and the Kennedy Center Board acted unlawfully in renaming the Kennedy Center. The judge held that only Congress can change the Center's name and blocked the planned two-year closure. I know they'll probably appeal and the story isn't over, but for today let’s celebrate a great birthday gift.
The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has one of the few labs in the world which can study Ebola virus.
In March 2025 RFK Jr had it shut down.
We now have a huge Ebola outbreak on our hands.
What a foolish move
🚨Republicans just voted 50-49 to hand the Boundary Waters to a foreign mining company that will pollute its headwaters & ship every last mineral to China.
Now it goes to Trump's desk, who has financial ties to the billionaire behind the deal. They're not even pretending anymore.
This is a milkweed plant.
Around this time of year, they're starting to sprout and grow.
If you see one in your yard, leave it be!
It's the host plant for Monarch caterpillars and will feed thousands of pollinators all summer long.
I want you all to remember John Thune struck a deal to fund TSA and Trump said No. He wants chaos. He wants crime. He wants fentanyl. He wants homeless people. He wants war. He doesn't want to fix anything, he just wants to stay in power.
Absolutely insane: Trump is taking a BILLION DOLLARS in tax money and giving it to a french conglomerate to kill off shore wind farms and subsidize natural gas production in Texas.
How stupid is it that we’re fighting even more wars over oil when we could have spent the same amount of money and transitioned the entire goddamn planet to renewables?
Last hope to save Apache sacred land fizzles out at Supreme Court
Trump has transferred the land to a private mining company that will obliterate this ancient land
A massive copper mining project to turn a sacred religious site into a 2-mile-wide crater
https://t.co/2S1hhgpeHb
Nature hater Trump bringing bear baiting back to Alaska
Baiting—along with a slew of other practices, such as killing mother bears, wolves and coyotes in their dens, with their cubs and pups—was first banned by the NPS in 2015.
https://t.co/UTlM4IQuRN
Trump to log billions of Trees in 2.5 million acres of western Oregon’s public forest lands
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It took Trump 10 days to create an energy crisis reminiscent of the 1970s, replace Ayatollah Khamenei with Ayatollah Khamenei, and weaken our alliances worldwide. He put American servicemembers in harm’s way, resulting in seven deaths. None of this made you safer or better off.
This is a picture of Tehran now. For you uneducated, untraveled, never-served, warhawks licking your chops of bombing it. It's not some low population desert. There are families, children, girls in schools, pets, regular working class people with dreams. You're sick to want war.
These toxic fumes are also in the path of migratory birds who will breath in this toxic air and die
But what the hell does Trump or Israel think about birds
Nothing of course
I don’t think you understand how catastrophic the oil refinery bombing in Tehran is.
Burning petroleum releases sulfur and nitrogen oxides that mix with rain to form sulfuric and nitric acid, essentially turning rainfall toxic.
When Saddam burned Kuwaiti oil wells in 1991, the fallout contributed to what became known as Gulf War Syndrome, with veterans developing chronic illness and cancer decades later.
The difference now: this isn’t a desert battlefield, it’s a city of 10 million people, most of which women and children.
Four House Democrats just killed a bi-partisan resolution that would have put the brakes on Trump's war on Iran:
Henry Cuellar
Jared Golden
Greg Landsman
Juan Vargas
Absolutely ridiculous. Call them out. Vote them out.
Bayer is threatening to pull Roundup from the U.S. market if Congress won’t give them total immunity to poison Americans with glyphosate.
Let’s be clear:
This is a foreign company waging a propaganda war to seize control over our food system and independent farmers.
For the sake of our farmers’ independence and the sovereignty of our food system, Congress cannot fall for it.
Bayer made $2.8B from U.S. glyphosate sales in 2024.
They’re unlikely to walk away from that cash flow.
Their threat to exit the U.S. market is likely a weapon to coerce lawmakers, not a genuine threat.
If glyphosate actually vanished, our food supply would not fall apart.
Organic farming provides real-world proof:
These systems never use synthetic herbicides, yet they still produce substantial amounts of food every year.
Organic corn yields tend to be around 25% lower than conventional yields, but even a sizable yield difference would not translate into empty grocery shelves.
Why?
Because most glyphosate-treated corn is not grown for human consumption.
Over two-thirds of U.S. corn yield goes to ethanol and livestock feed.
The bottom line is this:
Bayer’s threats to pull Roundup are about leverage, not a looming food crisis.
This is a political power play to tighten Bayer’s control over our food system.
Read our full blog exposing Bayer’s coercive propaganda campaign below:🧵