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Margaret Cooney

@savestomatopods.bsky.social
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Senior Campaign Manager of climate & conservation storytelling and extreme weather disasters for @americanprogress.bsky.social. A kid mom, cat mom, once-upon-a-time firefighter, reluctant panda inseminator, and thalassophile.

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Jasia Smith @jasia.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Offshore wind projects that were set to power over 1.3 million U.S. homes were traded for…zero added energy capacity, actually. 🤦🏽‍♀️ As Emily says in this article, “Americans’ side of the bargain appears to be worthless”. heatmap.news/energy/total...
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New Documents Undermine Trump Administration’s Claims About Offshore Wind Deal
There was no new investment required from TotalEnergies, according to newly disclosed terms.
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Angelo Villagomez @taotaotasi.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Gas prices hit $4 in March due to Trump’s war of choice in Iran, not whales in the Gulf of Mexico. www.americanprogress.org/article/trum...
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Trump’s ‘God Squad’ Is Killing Whales Under the Guise of National Security
Under the pretense of national security, and amid a self-inflicted energy crisis of President Trump’s own making, the administration’s “God Squad” has exempted all Gulf of Mexico oil and gas activitie...
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Margaret Cooney @savestomatopods.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Once the government decides extinction is an acceptable trade‑off for fossil fuel expansion, no environmental law is safe. @taotaotasi.bsky.social & I wrote about the administration's deadly double-standard when it comes to their self-inflicted energy crisis www.americanprogress.org/article/trum...
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Trump’s ‘God Squad’ Is Killing Whales Under the Guise of National Security
Under the pretense of national security, and amid a self-inflicted energy crisis of President Trump’s own making, the administration’s “God Squad” has exempted all Gulf of Mexico oil and gas activitie...
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CAP Action @americanprogressaction.org · 19/02/2026
These cats have had enough of grocery stores' greed.
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Margaret Cooney @savestomatopods.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Today is the 1-yr anniversary of the LA fires, & of Katie and Marco, losing everything. I tried many times (unsuccessfully) to hold in my tears while interviewing them. Sadly, their story is becoming way more common as fossil-fueled climate disasters are more frequent, powerful, & deadly
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Motherfucking wind farms…
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Margaret Cooney @savestomatopods.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
I had the privilege of joining @ricksmithshow.bsky.social earlier this week to talk about how the Trump administration is making it difficult for FEMA staff to do their jobs to help the survivors of the Central Texas floods. @altfema.bsky.social
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Angelo Villagomez @taotaotasi.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
We should fund @noaa.gov so they can save lives
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Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
What happened in Texas is a warning. Don't let the Trump administration defund FEMA when Americans need it most. CAP's @savestomatopods.bsky.social explains:
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Margaret Cooney @savestomatopods.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
NEW @americanprogress.bsky.social piece by me & my colleague @codyhankerson.bsky.social to highlight the dangers of cutting jobs, budgets, & research for NOAA and NWS, as climate disasters like the TX floods are getting more frequent, intense, & catastrophic: www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...
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The Lasting Threat of Trump’s Cuts to NOAA and NWS on American Communities
The Trump administration’s cuts to NOAA and NWS staffing and research capabilities are hindering the nation’s ability to prepare for and respond effectively to extreme weather events—such as the recen...
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Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
"They're leaving their own people out to dry." CAP's Cody Hankerson explains how the Trump administration is actively hurting agencies' abilities to prevent and respond to disasters like the Texas floods on @rolandsmartin.bsky.social's #RolandMartinUnfiltered show.
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Atima Omara @atimaomara.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Not taking anything away from Senator Padilla because he was treated atrociously But I JUST want to remind everyone that the Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, a Black woman, was just indicted for just asking questions at an ICE detention center in her state Keep that same energy of support for her
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Margaret Cooney @savestomatopods.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
A climate denier personally in charge of our disaster relief response, as fossil-fueled extreme weather disasters are becoming more frequent, more intense, and more dangerous. What could possibly go wrong? www.americanprogress.org/series/clima...
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Climate Disasters Everywhere: How Climate Change Is Fueling Extreme Weather
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Margaret Cooney @savestomatopods.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
🌪️Hurricane season is here🌪️ and they're becoming stronger, wetter, & more dangerous. Maybe we shouldn't cut jobs & resources for the agencies that help communities prepare & recover from these climate disasters? NEW from @americanprogress.bsky.social www.americanprogress.org/article/clim...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 09/06/2025
NEW: Hegseth is deploying Marines against U.S. citizens. Mayor Bass says to know your rights :
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Margaret Cooney @savestomatopods.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
My colleagues, @devonlespier.bsky.social & Kalina Gibson, wrote an brilliant piece on hurricanes & all the various ways they harm communities (w/ research from @cmkelly.bsky.social & graphic from Anh Nguyen!) www.americanprogress.org/article/clim... @rebelfema.altgov.info, @roguefema.altgov.info
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SEIU California @seiuca.org · 06/06/2025
Let’s be clear: ICE injured and detained the president of SEIU California for peacefully observing. ICE picked the wrong side. The wrong state. The wrong person. and the wrong union. David Huerta stood up. And now 750,000 SEIU workers are standing up behind him. seiuca.org/press-releas...
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SEIU California | SEIU California President David Huerta Injured, Detained at ICE Raid in Los Angeles
We are proud of President Huerta’s righteous participation as a community observer, in keeping with his long history of advocating for immigrant workers and with the highest values of our movement…
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Margaret Cooney @savestomatopods.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Yesterday we released a video of veteran & farmer, Vickie Walsh, talking about how cuts to the VA will affect her and her family. Vickie is an amazing person and her story is sadly but one of many about how the current administration is failing our veterans: www.americanprogress.org/article/cuts...
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Cuts to the VA Will Leave Veterans Without the Benefits They Were Promised
Recent federal cuts threaten fundamental services and support for U.S. veterans, farmers, and communities at large.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/05/2025
“If you haven’t been poor, don’t legislate for the poor.” - Rep Lateefah Simon, CA-12
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Margaret Cooney @savestomatopods.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
As a former firefighter, it has been two worlds crashing for me to work on this project, and to lead our extreme weather work at @americanprogress.bsky.social in general. This wildfire piece is the first of more products to come, so stay tuned! www.americanprogress.org/topic/climat...
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Climate Disasters
From extreme heat waves and catastrophic flooding to devastating wildfires and hurricanes, human-induced climate change is making extreme weather events in the United States and its territories more f...
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CAP Action @americanprogressaction.org · 22/05/2025
@whitehouse.senate.gov with a warning we must pay attention to: "Climate change, in short, could prompt the next global property crash."
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Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
@neeratanden.bsky.social is spot on: Rolling back IRA climate investments won’t just pollute our communities. It’ll raise energy costs for American families. House Republicans should remember that gutting clean energy tax credits means higher bills for their constituents.
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Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Ready for your gas prices to go up? House Republicans are proposing to end almost all federal clean energy investments, which will drive up the cost of gas and line the pockets of Big Oil execs.
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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Tonight WSJ headline "FEMA Head Admits in Internal Meetings He Doesn’t Yet Have a Plan for Hurricane Season" But the Secretary of DHS, which includes FEMA, has other priorities
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Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
The Trump Administration already gutted the EPA, giving polluters a free pass to pollute. Now, Congressional Republicans are going further, eliminating all EPA programs from the IRA that cut pollution and protect public health. Like @vanhollen.senate.gov said: It's Big Oil’s wish list
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Angelo Villagomez @taotaotasi.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
State and local leadership can drive real change to protect kelp forests, coastal wetlands, oyster reefs, seagrass meadows, coral reefs, and beaches. www.americanprogress.org/article/exec...
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Akshay Thyagarajan @akshayt33.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Electricity bills are rising, and The Trump administration's policies are making it worse!! We need to go all in on clean and affordable sources of energy. Not polluting and expensive fossil fuels. Read more in our new report: www.americanprogress.org/article/10-t...
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Margaret Cooney @savestomatopods.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
I loved sitting in story with Vickie, and her farm is as amazing as she is! In addition to making a call for us to #ActOnClimate she had a lot to say on the recent funding and staffing cuts to the VA, so stay tuned for part two of Vickie's story later in May 🎥
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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Check out this photo the WH used to show off their connection to Earth Day on Tuesday, but look what they cropped out... the president is standing on a square of astroturf to make sure he doesn't actually have any contact with the Earth itself! 😂
Trump standing in the gardens of the White House looking like a gravedigger.The full photo shows the president is actually standing on a four square-foot pad of astroturf while he holds a shovel full of dirt in this act of "not virtue signaling", "not ineffective", definitely not a "scam", and totally "rooted" stewardship of nature. His connection to the Earth seems profound.

The White House used this photo to argue that "Unlike the previous administration, which wasted billions of taxpayer dollars on virtue signaling and ineffective grifts, the Trump Administration’s policies are rooted in the belief that Americans are the best stewards of our vast natural resources — no “Green New Scam” required."
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Jessica Ordóñez-Lancet @ordonezlancet.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
This Earth Day, let’s remember that protecting the environment also means protecting our health and family budgets. I spoke with La Opinión about how fossil fuel expansion and blocking clean energy drives up costs and harms public health. laopinion.com/2025/04/22/e...
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Expandir combustibles fósiles aumentará los precios y eliminará empleos - La Opinión
Aunque la energía limpia es menos costosa y contaminante, se está dejando a un lado en desmedro de los consumidores
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Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
ICYMI a massive storm brought tornados and deadly floods to 19 states this past week. And while families across these states need help recovering and rebuilding, DOGE is gutting FEMA—the backbone of disaster relief in the U.S. CAP's @ahidayat.bsky.social explains:
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Alex Wall @alexbwall.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
🚨Things you need to buy are about to get WAYYYY more expensive because of Trump's tariffs🚨 NEW analysis from @americanprogress.bsky.social: www.americanprogress.org/article/exam...
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Alex Says Stuff @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Trump is imposing a 10% tariff on the Heard and McDonald Islands. The Heard and McDonald Islands are uninhabited.
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Margaret Cooney @savestomatopods.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
"Not everything should be for sale. Not everything should be for profit...NOAA is about helping people...That is the job of the federal government, at the end of the day, it's helping people..." - @tarheeltodd.bsky.social making the statement of the day at a @americanprogress.bsky.social event
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Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
From the weather app on your phone to broadcasters on TV, the National Weather Service is essential for providing data that all Americans rely on. Yet, mass layoffs from DOGE now threaten their work. @CoveringClimatenow.org ’s @david-dickson.bsky.social explains:
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Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
The Trump administration and Musk-led DOGE are cutting the very resources and experts we need as extreme weather continues to worsen. We must demand action or keep paying the price. @lucerowx.bsky.social explains:
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Margaret Cooney @savestomatopods.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Monday (3/24) @americanprogress.bsky.social will kick off a series of virtual events on the #DOGE cuts. @lucerowx.bsky.social will be talking to guests about how the cuts to NOAA put us all at risk as fossil-fueled extreme weather events become more common. www.americanprogress.org/events/forec...
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Forecasting Disaster: How DOGE's Cuts to NOAA Will Affect Weather Awareness and Well-Being
Please join the Center for American Progress for the first in a series of virtual events highlighting the impact that DOGE’s cuts are having on the lives of everyday Americans; this event will focus o...
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Angelo Villagomez @taotaotasi.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Things we should have left in the 1980s: -Acid rain -Measles -Donald Trump www.americanprogress.org/press/statem...
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STATEMENT: Trump Administration’s Decision To Strip Away Clean Air and Water Protections Will Endanger Millions of Americans
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 11/03/2025
Americans: We’d like to afford basic necessities, keep vital programs, and not lose our retirement savings. Trump: Best I can do is a car commercial for the richest man on Earth.
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Margaret Cooney @savestomatopods.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Like me, do you want to know WTF is actually going on during a likely hate-spewed and lie-filled SOTU? Follow some of my colleagues as they break it all down using things like data, facts, & hopefully a little humor...we need something to light the darkness 🙏 go.bsky.app/3TC1naE
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
As someone who spends a lot time thinking about the values I want to teach my kid (besides PLEASE DON’T EAT DIRT), the thing I keep coming back to is this: I want him to believe that the strongest, bravest thing he can do is give a shit about other people—especially ones who aren’t like him at all.
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 02/03/2025
These sites might be useful: 1. HealthMap – Real-time disease tracking system developed by Boston Children’s Hospital. (healthmap.org) 2. Global Incident Map – Displays disease outbreaks worldwide with alert notifications. (outbreaks.globalincidentmap.com)
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Margaret Cooney @savestomatopods.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
I disturbed his nap when I laughed too hard; epic side-eye was given
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
All the folks who exited NBC today. Seen together, hoo boy. Message received.
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Mike Williams @mwilli.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
This asshole—Laurel Libby—doxxed a kid. Everyone should feel free let her know how you feel. #TransRightsAreHumanRights 442 Park Avenue, Auburn, ME 04210 (207) 632-7619 Laurel.Libby@legislature.maine.gov www.pressherald.com/2025/02/20/m...
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Maine lawmaker takes heat for posting photos of student athlete she identifies as transgender
Rep. Laurel Libby said she does not plan to take down her Facebook post, despite a request from the Maine House speaker, who said children should not be 'used to score political points.'
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Ryan Koronowski @koro-net.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Feds should reply with what Trump did for his daily schedule at the end of his first term “President Trump will work from early in the morning until late in the evening. He will make many calls and have many meetings.” theweek.com/speedreads/9...
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Trump's official schedule says he will 'make many calls and have many meetings' Monday
The latest Speed Read,/speed-reads,,speed-reads, breaking news, comment, reviews and features from the experts at The Week
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Mia Ives-Rublee @seemiaroll.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
The thing is that this was 100% purposeful. Dividing groups helps MAGA. I understand people's anger with these folks. For me, I just feel sad that the playbook continues to happen and it's so hard to stop.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 14/02/2025
REPOST if you support our federal workforce and know how dedicated they are to their jobs. Show them you appreciate them!
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Margaret Cooney @savestomatopods.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
I wrote an op-ed on ways we can help working families in the wake of extreme weather events like the #EatonFire. These disasters don’t honor state borders or party lines & right-wing opportunists' DEI finger pointing won’t help people rebuild their lives & livelihoods: dcjournal.com/prioritize-c...
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Prioritize Community Needs Over Politics – DC Journal - InsideSources
We’ve all been Californians these last few weeks. I was born and raised there. My experiences as a firefighter reached from the coastal redwoods of
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