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Hannah Story Brown

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nyc writer & deputy research director on climate and governance @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social big fan of the biosphere. writing a novel about love and grief on a changing planet.

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Hannah Story Brown @hannahstoryb.bsky.social · 10h
A beautiful perspective. "Galeno-Sánchez’s home has now become a resting stop for the butterflies as they seek nourishment during their annual migratory journey from the northern US and Canada to Mexico and back. It’s an experience she resonates with, having migrated to the US as a child..."
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As monarch butterflies migrate for the fall, meet the Chicago woman trying to protect them
Claudia Galeno-Sánchez has turned her garden into a sanctuary for the insects by planting native milkweed and wildflowers
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Jennifer Szalai @jenszalai.bsky.social · 17h
It was a short call, Carlberg said: All the poet would say was she
was "in Iceland," where she was
"listening to the wind."
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 15h
Our @hannahstoryb.bsky.social chats with Suze of @westernlaw.org about the permitting reform proposals targetting our bedrock environmental laws, and the onslaught of Silicon Valley abundance money joining forces with extractive industry to push for less process and more opportunity for profit.
storiesofkinship.substack.com
Ep. 8: Utopian Blueprint or Deal with the Devil? (Federal Permit Reform)
52 mins | In its current form, federal permit reform legislation jeopardizes environmental safeguards while gaining little in return. How do we counter dangerous deregulation with progress rooted in k...
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The new Roberts #SCOTUs term begins where the last one left off: corporate pleas for elite impunity … and the overwhelming body of work from this MAGA Court doing the bidding for dirty fossil fuel corps offer “little comfort.” @hannahstoryb.bsky.social
revolvingdoorproject.substack.com
Supreme Court Season Kicks Off With Big Oil’s Big Ask
The new term begins where the last one left off: corporate pleas for elite impunity.
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Today's newsletter from @hannahstoryb.bsky.social has a look at what we learned from Monday's oral arguments in major climate deception case Suncor v. Boulder, how Alito's last-minute recusal changed the calculus, and the outsized stakes of what the Court decides.
revolvingdoorproject.substack.com
Supreme Court Season Kicks Off With Big Oil’s Big Ask
The new term begins where the last one left off: corporate pleas for elite impunity.
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Rachel Rothschild @profrrothschild.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Ahead of the first Supreme Court oral arguments for the 2026 term, I have published an Essay in @yalelawjournal.bsky.social on the blockbuster Suncor v. Boulder case, which could decide whether states are able to hold fossil fuel companies liable for climate harms: yalelawjournal.org/essay/the-co...
yalelawjournal.org
The Collision of State Climate Tort Suits with Federal Deregulation | Yale Law Journal
For decades, state tort law has provided a mechanism for addressing environmental damage even if the cause is transboundary in nature. This Essay argues that...
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Our @hannahstoryb.bsky.social in @wsj.com with a response to the WSJ Editorial Board's lament that Alito recused from the upcoming climate deception case Suncor v. Boulder: "That is hardly a greater loss for the integrity of American federalism than a conflicted justice casting a deciding vote."
wsj.com
Opinion | A Recusal Question Justice Alito Can’t Avoid
We argued that he should recuse for the same reason that he previously recused from this case in 2023.
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEW: The Trump regime is eviscerating the federal workforce as escalating risks increase the need for civil servants. Undoing the Vought-led onslaught is a matter of life-and-death. It would also be good politics.
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Reversing Voughtism; or, Creating a Pro-Worker Government to Save Lives
The Trump regime is dismantling the federal government’s ability to protect you. Undoing the Vought-led onslaught is a matter of life-and-death, and it would be good politics.
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Hannah Story Brown @hannahstoryb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
WOOOO!
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Roberts Court is not accountable, but it is not untouchable either. This is a marked win for public pressure for compliance with ethical standards at our highest court. It is up to Congress to build on victories like this, and make them permanent through enforceable ethical rules.
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
And for @slate.com earlier this year, our @hannahstoryb.bsky.social called out Alito's failure to recuse when granting the oil companies' petition, exposing that his conflicts of interest in the case went even deeper than previously known:
slate.com
Sam Alito’s Latest Reversal at the Supreme Court Is an Absolute Embarrassment
Alito offered no justification for his reversal.
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Bad news for Exxon, and a win for the power of public pressure calling out the blatant corruption of the Roberts Court: Justice Alito is stepping down from further participating in Suncor v. Boulder, a week before oral arguments. We've been calling for his recusal from this case for YEARS: 🧵
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Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 28/09/2026
"This year’s El Niño is likely to be the largest in at least 1,000 years." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Concern mounts over slow-moving, planetary-scale ‘Kelvin’ wave heading for California
The ocean phenomenon could raise sea levels by up to a foot as El Niño keeps warm water trapped along the coast
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Hannah Story Brown @hannahstoryb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Dorothy writes powerfully in @dissentmag.bsky.social about nursing cancer patients in Cancer Alley, where gas-powered AI data centers are threatening a new wave of toxic air pollution. "It’s suffocating to know that clean air is not available for me, my patients, or any of the people I love."
dissentmagazine.org
Death by Data Centers - Dissent Magazine
I’m an oncology nurse in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley. My patients and I breathe the same polluted air, and we can’t afford the toxic exposure from the gas-fired plants set to power the state’s proposed A...
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Y’all are going to need a bigger hospital.” Already burdened by petrochemical plants, Louisiana is facing a wave of gas-powered AI data centers—and their pollution. Dorothy Slater, an oncology nurse, writes for @dissentmag.bsky.social about nursing her patients at the frontier of AI buildout.
dissentmagazine.org
Death by Data Centers - Dissent Magazine
I’m an oncology nurse in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley. My patients and I breathe the same polluted air, and we can’t afford the toxic exposure from the gas-fired plants set to power the state’s proposed A...
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Henry Burke @henryburke.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The so-called "Department of Government Efficiency" killed the IRS free file program in 2025. Now, the DOGE kids are building a new AI-driven website to do the same thing as the program they killed. A really neat summation of "government efficiency" in the Trump administration
washingtonsun.com
Trump Aides Are Prepping an AI Takeover of Government Services
Former DOGE operatives are working on a website that could offer services like direct tax filing — similar to a Biden-era program the Trump administration killed.
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Hannah Story Brown @hannahstoryb.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Wrote for @prospect.org about the EPA gutting its most humane work areas while supporting the anti-human AI industry. A former EPA employee said it best: “To have it all wiped away calling it waste, fraud, and abuse so that we can…provide more tax breaks to billionaires, it’s astonishing to me."
prospect.org
The EPA’s Dark Embrace of the AI Industry - The American Prospect
Under Zeldin’s leadership and Musk’s influence, an unlikely federal agency has become a key enabler of AI data centers.
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Out today, our @hannahstoryb.bsky.social for @prospect.org on the dark transformation of the Environmental Protection Agency, whose mission is to "protect human health and the environment," into an eager yes-man for AI, "an industry with both antisocial implications and a pollution problem."
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The EPA’s Dark Embrace of the AI Industry - The American Prospect
Under Zeldin’s leadership and Musk’s influence, an unlikely federal agency has become a key enabler of AI data centers.
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Jeff Hauser @jeffhauser.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Work from our @hannahstoryb.bsky.social going after Alito's corruption featured here: abovethelaw.com/2026/08/sam-...
abovethelaw.com
Sam Alito Delayed Financials Reveal Still Betting Big On Oil Companies As He Hears Climate Change Case - Above the Law
The justice who recused from this exact case in 2023 voted to grant cert in 2026 with the same portfolio.
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
As our @hannahstoryb.bsky.social told @nbcnews.com, “The oil company petitioners in these cases have been explicit in court filings that they view the cases as linked; there is no reason for Justice Alito to view them otherwise." Recusing from all the parallel cases is the only ethical option.
nbcnews.com
Justice Alito pushes back on calls to sit out a major Supreme Court climate case
The conservative justice has no financial conflict that would require him to recuse himself from the case, a court spokeswoman told NBC News.
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Excellent reporting from @katyaschwenk.bsky.social for @thelever.bsky.social on how Natural Allies for a Clean Energy Future, a gas industry front group deploying former Democratic politicians to seed pro-fossil fuel positions among electeds, influenced Hochul's recent anti-environmental decisions.
levernews.com
A Natural Gas Astroturf Group Says It Flipped NY Gov. Hochul
How a front for fossil fuel is using affordability fears, former Democratic officials, and dubious polling to turn establishment Democrats against the climate left.
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Hannah Story Brown @hannahstoryb.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The Trump administration's assault on the Arctic continues. In the latest hollowing out of meaning and intent behind environmental safeguards, the Interior Department aims to make it easier for oil and gas companies to scare female polar bears from their winter dens and disrupt caribou migrations.
publicdomain.media
SCOOP: Trump Team Moves To Fast-Track Arctic Drilling Without Environmental Review
The Interior Department will soon publish a “categorical exclusion” that will rubber stamp oil and gas development in Alaska’s remote National Petroleum Reserve.
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
If Oklahoma can do it, why aren't more states cracking down on Big Insurance? By challenging Allstate and State Farm's allegedly unfair claims handling practices, AG Gentner Drummond is opening the door to a broader crackdown. His counterparts elsewhere have no excuse to sit on the sidelines. 🧵⬇️
prospect.org
Cracking Down on Big Insurance in … Oklahoma? - The American Prospect
State Attorney General Gentner Drummond is leading a crackdown on Allstate and State Farm.
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molly taft @mollytaft.com · 25/08/2026
NEW: gas power in development in the US explicitly for data centers have nearly doubled in less than a year, soaring from 97GW at the end of 2025 to more than 189GW mid-2026, according to shocking new figures from @globalenergymon.bsky.social that's up from just 4 GW in 2024:
wired.com
Data Centers Are Driving an Alarming Gas Power Expansion in the US
There’s no clearer sign of the data center boom than rampant gas projects that have been proposed or that are already under construction.
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Spoiler alert: the extra month and a half in edits did little to fix Sean Duffy's ethics disaster. In the show's six episode run, the Secretary of Transportation often appears to be more of a company spokesman than a government regulator. New from our @henryburke.bsky.social in @thenation.com
thenation.com
Road Trip to Nowhere
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy's reality show is an ungainly mix of corporate corruption and MAGA agitprop.
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Alleen Brown @alleenbrown.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
100+ pages of WhatsApp chats & emails reveal the details of the propaganda effort waged by Energy Transfer's security contractor TigerSwan against the Indigenous led Standing Rock movement. 10 years later and new details continue to emerge www.hcn.org/issues/58-8/... w/ @drilledmedia.bsky.social
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Inside Standing Rock’s propaganda war - High Country News
Standing Rock increased division in North Dakota between Indigenous communities and nearby non-Indigenous communities. Propaganda made it worse.
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Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
And as we reported last year, foreign food inspections plummeted to a historic low after the Trump administration took over due to staffing cuts at the FDA. Food safety experts told us, “It’s only a matter of time before people die." www.propublica.org/article/fore...
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The Lever @levernews.com · 20/08/2026
Dark-money groups and Big Oil have quietly mobilized behind a Supreme Court case that could restrict when and how states can seek climate damages from fossil fuel companies. At the center of the case is an oil and gas company linked to a major Trump donor and personal ally of Justice Samuel Alito.
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Check out this excellent new mini-doc by @moreperfectunion.bsky.social featuring research from the Revolving Door Project, Public Citizen, and others.
youtube.com
We Uncovered Where Your Insurance Payments Are Really Going
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Today in @prospect.org, our @jeffhauser.bsky.social & @dylangyauchl.bsky.social explain why it's time to start thinking about an AI bailout--and realizing why it would be a huge mistake. Every bailout winds up strengthening industry elites who inevitably turn their wealth against progressive causes
prospect.org
An AI Bailout Will Be a ‘Which Side Are You On’ Moment - The American Prospect
If AI falls, Democrats can build an enduring political majority—but only if they reject handing a lifeline to Altman, Musk, and the rest of the industry.
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Hannah Story Brown @hannahstoryb.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
A deeply reported banger of an article from @desmog.com's Edward Donnelly, tracking how the "nauseating" collaboration between state officials and a data center + gas plant developer yielded to the force of public opposition.
desmog.com
How Pennsylvania Governor’s Office Helped Push for Huge Data Centers in the Philadelphia Suburbs
Emails reveal how state officials worked behind the scenes to clear the way for projects in Upper Merion Township.
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Corrupt judiciary and climate obstruction www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Samuel Alito gained up to $2.9m from oil and gas assets since joining supreme court, analysis shows
Critics argue US high court justice should recuse himself from upcoming fossil fuel firms’ climate accountability case
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molly taft @mollytaft.com · 04/08/2026
for months, ive been trying to map out the ways the right and the left were uniting against data centers and AI both here's my story on my efforts, featuring steve bannon's anti-tech prophet, my girlfriend's high school english class, and the unabomber:
wired.com
How Data Centers Broke American Politics
What the Unabomber, Steve Bannon’s tech guy, and Bernie Sanders taught me about the great data center backlash of 2026.
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Hannah Story Brown @hannahstoryb.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I don't know how you could justify avoiding talk of climate change while wildfires scar the nation, and toxic smoke makes it harder to breathe for millions, and drought threatens drinking water and farmland, unless you WANT an inert politics, disconnected from people's actual experiences and fears.
Screenshot of a Watch Duty map showing where wildfires are raging in the American west. From the Pacific Ocean to the Rockies, major wildfires are burning.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 06/08/2026
In July, on ABC, CBS, and NBC, there were 194 segments on the extreme heat waves rolling across the US. Number that mentioned climate change: 0.
mediamatters.org
ABC, CBS, and NBC aired nearly 200 segments about three U.S. heat events without mentioning climate change
From late June through July, successive heat waves swept across large portions of the United States, breaking temperature records and placing more than 100 million people at a time under heat alerts. ...
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
User of the web, have you ever asked yourself, "where is this coming from?" I have. We all know this, of course, but it is well described here by Siva Vaidhyanathan. "Having organized the web, Google now proposes to replace it." www.bostonreview.net/articles/wha...
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
💯Trump's vindictive rejections of blue state requests for major disaster declarations are jeopardizing people's lives and municipal budgets. Under any other circumstances, these requests would have yielded federal aid, but Trump has turned disaster relief into a political weapon. Indefensible.
prospect.org
FEMA’s Summer Snowpocalypse - The American Prospect
The Trump administration’s partisan warfare leaves the emergency management agency skidding into bureaucratic snowbanks and confronting angry Democratic lawmakers.
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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
keep thinking about the evil of this. It's not just destroying the physical books, bad as that is. They are trying to remove the underpinnings of knowledge, destroy all the accumulated wisdom - and silliness, and creativity, and whatever else humans have thought worthy of writing down.
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Matthew Haugen @mjhaugen.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Excellent piece from @hannahstoryb.bsky.social revolvingdoorproject.substack.com/p/talking-ab...
revolvingdoorproject.substack.com
Talking About A World on Fire
While Trump threatened Canada over wildfire smoke, climate-hushing Democrats missed the moment.
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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Insane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.* Details in today's newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...
climatecoloredgoggles.com
Researchers used electric stoves to treat asthma. It worked.
The latest evidence that gas is bad for your health.
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Hannah Story Brown @hannahstoryb.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Scientists estimated that the wildfire smoke in June 2023 prematurely killed over 82,000 people. Last week's toxic smoke plume will be deadly for tens of thousands of people. This is the slow violence of the climate crisis, which is much deadlier than homicides, but much less covered by media.
revolvingdoorproject.substack.com
Talking About A World on Fire
While Trump threatened Canada over wildfire smoke, climate-hushing Democrats missed the moment.
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Hannah Story Brown @hannahstoryb.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
"...the attacks on wilderness are existential acts. The end of habitat protection in favor of oil drilling and mining goes to the very heart of the conservation movement. In a sense, it is a battle for the very soul of the country: wilderness vs. oil." More screaming is needed.
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Screaming in the Wilderness - Legal Planet
It is no surprise that, in the past couple of weeks, the Trump Administration has moved to gut habitat protection under the Endangered Species Act, opening wilderness areas to mining and oil drilling,...
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Jessica McKenzie @jessimckenzi.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
"Harrowing" @thebulletin.org article mentioned in a recent NYT op-ed www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/o...
The most harrowing report about Iran’s future was put out seven months ago by analysts writing in the highly regarded Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists — and it never mentioned nuclear weapons. It mentioned only the nation’s acute water crisis, which may have shut down more Iranian institutions than Israel and America combined.

“During the summer of 2025, Iran experienced an exceptional heat wave, with daytime temperatures across several regions, including Tehran, approaching 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit) and forcing the temporary closure of public offices and banks,” the analysts said. “During this period, major reservoirs supplying the Tehran region reached record-low levels. … Officials warned that the capital city may even have to be evacuated if water supplies fail to recover.”
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
While over 100 million Americans looked out their windows last week at the dangerous haze of a fossil-fueled world, for now, the consensus among political elites appears to be "Don't Look Up."
revolvingdoorproject.substack.com
Talking About A World on Fire
While Trump threatened Canada over wildfire smoke, climate-hushing Democrats missed the moment.
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
How did our electeds respond to the toxic smoke last week? While Trump and other Republicans threatened Canada with tariffs and sanctions, "climate hushing" Dems offered no counter-narrative, letting Trump's blame game define the moment. We have some ideas for what they could have done instead:
revolvingdoorproject.substack.com
Talking About A World on Fire
While Trump threatened Canada over wildfire smoke, climate-hushing Democrats missed the moment.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Dow and other petrochemical firms complained about a rule that might keep their workers from dying when falling off of ladders. The rule then got deleted by OSHA. Big business talks, Trump walks. Our partners at @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social have more. prospect.org/2026/07/16/o...
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After Industry Request, OSHA Moves to Roll Back Ladder Safety Regulation - The American Prospect
There’s a simple way to prevent most workplace falls off ladders. Corporations don’t want to do it.
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Trump diarrhea brought by ↘️ “Trump administration’s health policies deserve far more blame for why public health investigators are flailing in the dark. And the individuals who have to spend this summer doubled over with diarrhea blame White House OMB Director Russell Vought for their pain.”
open.substack.com
Trump Is Literally Making Your Life Shittier
Democrats ought to make him own it.
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Hannah Story Brown @hannahstoryb.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
"Trump’s proclamations on Monday strip a combined 2.9 million acres from monument protection, with the boundaries of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante each being cut approximately 90%. It is the largest rollback of public land protections in American history."
publicdomain.media
The Trump Team Lies To The Public About Utah National Monuments
"You can virtually not even walk on it," Trump falsely claimed before slashing nearly 3 million acres from Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante.
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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Trump just shrunk Bears Ears by 91% and Grand Staircase-Escalante by 90%. Bears Ears was the first national monument co-managed by tribes. Five tribes spent years building that partnership. It's been walked back. 100,000+ archeological sites now exposed to mining and drilling.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Silicon Valley’s founders believed they didn’t need government. Then they believed they could demolish it. They are now discovering that the best way to extend their power is to partner with the state—the libertarian’s worst nightmare. Here's Chris Hughes on tech's changing predilections:
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Silicon Valley Needs Washington After All - The American Prospect
The industry that spent 50 years insisting it didn’t need the state has discovered it can’t do without it.
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