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Margot Pollans

@margotpollans.bsky.social
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Law prof researching critical food and environmental studies. There must be another way. 🏳️‍🌈🍽️🌎

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Margot Pollans @margotpollans.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
What I can’t wrap my mind around right now is why so many of the people I interact with on a daily basis are carrying on as though nothing is happening.
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Margot Pollans @margotpollans.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
A small injustice in the context of other Trump administration moves, but this is such a huge mistake. Since congestion pricing went into effect, my commute has been 20-30 minutes shorter in each direction. This means more time to be with my kids. More time to work. gothamist.com/news/trump-m...
gothamist.com
Trump moves to stop congestion pricing tolls in New York City
The tolling program launched on Jan. 5 after years of delays.
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Margot Pollans @margotpollans.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
This is like parenting. You cant just tell your kids over and over that screens are bad. You have to offer them something else that’s better. Time to change the conversation. Imagine if we just all collectively stopped talking about Trump at all? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | The Barrage of Trump’s Awful Ideas Is Doing Exactly What It’s Supposed To
Amid an onslaught of bad ideas, Democrats need to muster a better vision for the future.
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Margot Pollans @margotpollans.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Maybe we are all Adrián Simancas, and Donald Trump is the humpback whale. Spit us out now please. www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Kayaker swallowed by whale recalls feeling 'slimy texture' in its mouth
Adrián Simancas, 23, was kayaking off Chilean Patagonia when he found himself inside a whale.
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Margot Pollans @margotpollans.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
This is a remarkable letter for so many reasons www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Danielle Sassoon’s Letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, Annotated
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Margot Pollans @margotpollans.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
An important reminder from @elienyc.bsky.social: “The problem is that the court has no enforcement mechanism. It has no army, no police force, no power to impose its will. Instead, the executive—in this case the president—is supposed to enforce the court’s orders. But what if Trump doesn’t?”
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Margot Pollans @margotpollans.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
What’s shocking about this is how seriously @nytimes.com is taking it as a policy proposal. This isnt a policy proposal to be debated. It’s a declaration of war and a threat of annihilation for the purposes of expanding real estate development opportunities. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/w...
nytimes.com
Trump’s Gaza Plan Has Many Pitfalls, Hamas Among the Biggest
President Trump’s proposal to “own” Gaza and transfer its population elsewhere has stirred condemnation and sarcasm, but it is an opening bid and could disrupt a tired diplomatic paradigm.
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Margot Pollans @margotpollans.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
I hope those who can decide to stay. While there are other ongoing horrors whose effects are more immediate, gutting the EPA will have long term devastating consequences for all of us. www.propublica.org/article/epa-...
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“We Feel Terrorized”: What EPA Employees Say About the Decision to Stay or Go Under Trump
More than 300 career employees at the Environmental Protection Agency have left. Those who remain face a painful decision: resign or work for an administration that plans to radically reshape the EPA ...
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Margot Pollans @margotpollans.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
This is when New York decides: is it Denmark or Poland? gothamist.com/news/immigra...
gothamist.com
New York’s fight over whether to aid ICE heats up in Albany
While federal officials lambast the state’s immigration protections, some legislators call to bolster them.
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Margot Pollans @margotpollans.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
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Margot Pollans @margotpollans.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Not to be lost in the onslaught against freedom and democracy, behind the scenes dismantling of federal agency capacity to do the important and laudable work of public service. legal-planet.org/2025/02/04/c... @justinpidot.bsky.social @andrewmergen.bsky.social
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Crisis at DOJ’s Environment & Natural Resources Division - Legal Planet
Dismantling ENRD will be disastrous for future administrations, the American people, and even for the Trump Administration.
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Margot Pollans @margotpollans.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
It is only getting harder to listen.
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