Reposted by Eric Corey FreedTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 02/07/2025I’m going to be very honest and clear. I am fully preparing myself to die under this new American regime. That’s not to say that it’s the end of the world. It isn’t. But I am almost 50 years old. It will take so long to do anything with this mess that this is the new normal for *me*. 784525654 0
Reposted by Eric Corey FreedMS Kohut @mskohut.bsky.social · 23/05/2025Fascism sets in EXACTLY like this. Days go by. Nothing improves. The people wait with bated breath for SOMETHING or SOMEONE to help. Court orders, but no enforcement. Time passes. We become desensitized. Life goes on. Rights are chipped away. Life goes on. People die. Life goes on. 1082747897 0
Reposted by Eric Corey FreedGovernor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 25/04/2025 569210796299 0
Reposted by Eric Corey FreedElizabeth Kolbert @elizkolbert.bsky.social · 21/04/2025Let them eat cake, I mean toxic chemicals. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/c...nytimes.comE.P.A. Set to Cancel Grants Aimed at Protecting Children From Toxic ChemicalsThe cancellations, set to apply to pending and active grants, also affect research into “forever chemicals” contaminating the food supply. 56227 0
Eric Corey Freed @ericcoreyfreed.bsky.social · 08/04/2025So we can’t afford clean air, or science, or cancer research, or weather tracking, or space exploration, or feeding the poor, or healthcare… but THIS we can afford?! Got it. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...nytimes.comTrump Administration Aims to Spend $45 Billion to Expand Immigrant DetentionA request for proposals for new detention facilities and other services would allow the government to expedite the contracting process and rapidly expand detention. 020 0
Eric Corey Freed @ericcoreyfreed.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Wow: “It took just 71 days for Donald Trump to wreck the American economy, mortally wound NATO, and destroy the American-led world order.” www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...thebulwark.comThe American Age Is OverEmergency Triad: The United States commits imperial suicide. 020 0
Eric Corey Freed @ericcoreyfreed.bsky.social · 10/03/2025I love Venn diagrams, so I attempted to create a literary Venn to describe where we are. 041 0
Eric Corey Freed @ericcoreyfreed.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Imagine hearing from your president that “we’re here for you” and not the usual performative, low class, ratings seeking, pathetic and weak messaging designed to solely divide Americans. 010 0
Eric Corey Freed @ericcoreyfreed.bsky.social · 13/02/2025So what happens if, sometime in the future, he decides to switch the name from “Washington DC” to “Trump DC”? Do Google and Apple Maps just blindly oblige? 020 0
Reposted by Eric Corey FreedAlessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 10/02/2025I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky 549129025479 0
Eric Corey Freed @ericcoreyfreed.bsky.social · 02/02/2025We import 60% of our oil from Canada. Trump slapped a 25% tariff on everything Canadian. Trump gutted incentives for renewables. Trump eliminated the incentives for Electric Vehicles. Explain to me how this plays out. 000 0
Reposted by Eric Corey FreedPaul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Department of Transportation orders all personnel to "identify and eliminate" every order, directive, rule, regulation, policy, notice, guidance document, funding arrangement, or program that even mentions climate change, diversity, or environmental justice www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.go... 1541163835 0
Eric Corey Freed @ericcoreyfreed.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Trump took down the HHS webpage on their Climate Pledge program that hundreds of our clients had enrolled. Maddening. Try it: www.hhs.gov/climate-chan...hhs.gov 010 0
Reposted by Eric Corey FreedChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 21/01/2025Unbelievably petty! The Spanish language version of the White House website was deleted after the inauguration yesterday. Look what happens when you hit the “go home” button! 1557145305184 0
Eric Corey Freed @ericcoreyfreed.bsky.social · 14/11/2024Seems a fitting first post given how Kafkaesque this week has been: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...washingtonpost.comWhat next? Activists on how to move past the grief of defeat.If the elections didn’t work out the way that you had hoped, you may feel depressed and lost. We asked longtime activists how they move forward. 031 0