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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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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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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.
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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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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
New at Can We Still Govern?: At a time when other institutions have bent the knee, public sector unions have fought Trump, acting as canaries in the coalmine, warning us how cuts will lead to disasters like the explosion of food borne illnesses we've seen. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/unions-aga...
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Unions Against Voughtism
Federal unions can connect the dots to reveal the dangers of gutting government capacity.
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Attacks on the federal workforce are attacks on our collective well-being. Amid the Vought-led assault on civil servants, we must popularize that solidaristic notion. By our @kennystancil.bsky.social and Chris Dols of @fedworkersunited.bsky.social in @donmoyn.bsky.social's Can We Still Govern?
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Unions Against Voughtism
Federal unions can connect the dots to reveal the dangers of gutting government capacity.
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NEW in @prospect.org: @coldchrisfiles.bsky.social explains how the Trump administration is quietly dismantling the civil rights tool advocates use to protect students against discrimination. prospect.org/2026/09/22/e...
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This Office Was the Best Defense Against Discrimination in Schools. Trump Destroyed It. - The American Prospect
The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights once resolved issues before they became yearslong investigations.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Once upon a time, Congress had its own in-house think tank that would research and suggest remedies for technical problems politicians might not have a handle on. Might be a good resource now, ay? Here's @maxmoranhi.bsky.social on the long-lost Office of Technology Assessment:
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What Congress Actually Needs to Do About AI: Staff Up - The American Prospect
In 1995, Newt Gingrich lobotomized Congress’s technical brain trust. It should be rebuilt.
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Trump's pardons of white-collar criminals punish Americans already victimized by greed. Corporate fraudsters walk free and escape paying billions in restitution. Victims are denied justice and lose any hope that their life savings will be returned to them.
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Freedom For Sale
Trump’s unprecedented pardon spree has absolved corporate wrongdoers. The victims of white-collar crimes are the ones being punished.
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Big Tech's favorite think tank wants Democrats to focus oversight on the Trump admin and avoid investigating corporate collaborators. The Taylor Farms cyclospora saga shows why that would be a big mistake—Congress can (and should) investigate both admin incompetence and corporate malfeasance.
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Corruption is a Two-Way Street
The Taylor Farms Cyclospora Outbreak shows why Congress must Investigate both Trump and his Corporate Accomplices
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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. 🧵⬇️
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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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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
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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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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
We've been tracking stories of the Trump administration's accelerating use of AI. Bottom line: the rapid adoption of AI tools by an administration whose leaders disdain democratic accountability is causing problems big and small, and degrading the integrity of government activities.
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The Live, Dangerous, Lopsided Experiment of AI in Government
AI use is worsening problems of transparency and accountability in a government whose leaders are opposed to democracy.
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Timi @timi-iwayemi.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Shoutout to the inimitable @kennystancil.bsky.social for his important work tracking the trump admin’s delays and denials of federal relief assistance! therevolvingdoorproject.org/trump-disast...
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Map: Trump Has Often Delayed or Denied Disaster Aid | Revolving Door Project
The Trump administration has refused to allocate federal disaster aid in a timely manner. Check out our interactive map for more details on the White House's careless approach to major disaster declar...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Trump has gutted nearly 20% of FEMA's workforce and dragged his feet in granting natural disaster relief to blue states. With hurricane season on the horizon, it's a perfect storm of sabotage and cruelty.
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
New GAO report details how the Trump regime slashed FEMA's workforce with no regard for how it would affect disaster preparedness & response—incl. during the current hurricane season. For more on how Trump and Vought have left the U.S. vulnerable to catastrophic hurricane outcomes, see our report ⬇️
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How Trump Undermined Our Hurricane Readiness and Response Capacity | Revolving Door Project
The White House’s reactionary policy choices are leaving our society ill-equipped to plan for, withstand, and bounce back from worsening extreme weather, including hurricanes.
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
NEW in @slate.com Our @coldchrisfiles.bsky.social profiles Mark Paoletta—the lawyer behind Russ Vought and Trump’s bid for unchecked presidential power. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
"The groups argue that Gillibrand's son's involvement in the crypto industry leaves Democrats vulnerable to the very charge they are trying to level against President Trump."
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Scoop: Progressives scorch Gillibrand over crypto
The blistering — and deeply personal — attack from three groups complicates already delicate negotiations over the CLARITY Act.
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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:
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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 · 16/07/2026
Read our full Watchdog Weekly newsletter here: revolvingdoorproject.substack.com/p/trump-is-l...
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Trump Is Literally Making Your Life Shittier
Democrats ought to make him own it.
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
WATCHDOG WEEKLY The public is right to be worried about Cyclospora, but the real parasite threatening American food safety is Russell Vought.
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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.”
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Trump Is Literally Making Your Life Shittier
Democrats ought to make him own it.
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The response to the proposed OMB federal financial assistance rule has been incredibly impressive. But our work is not done. Now that you’ve submitted your comment, it’s time to take the next steps. Because Vought has shown with prior proposed rules that he will not listen to our comments.
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Demand Progress @demandprogress.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Demand Progress Education Fund put up a billboard telling the CFTC: Prediction Markets Are Gambling. Companies like Kalshi & Polymarket offer gambling by another name. They should have to follow the state gambling laws that have set firm guardrails around these risky activities.
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
NEW in @prospect.org : Silicon Valley financiers are frothing at the mouth over a startup founded by Kirsten Gillibrand’s fresh-out-of-college son. Last month the company, APEC, was valued at $300 million.
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Not All Nepo Babies Are Trumps - The American Prospect
DSCC chair’s 22-year-old son strikes it big in pursuit of further gamifying finance.
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
The reflecting swamp monster strikes again: Donald Trump is stealing millions in funds from NPS' visitor fees to fund his pet projects in D.C. Our latest report, out today: therevolvingdoorproject.org/wp-content/u...
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
What did DOGE's destruction of USAID do to disease response and preparedness? What countries and programs were most affected? How should we rebuild foreign aid from the ashes of USAID? We spoke with Nicholas Enrich, USAID whistleblower and author of Into the Woodchipper, to find out.
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As Musk Melts Down, Read Our Timely Interview With USAID Whistleblower Nicholas Enrich
As Musk Melts Down, Read Our Timely Interview With USAID Whistleblower Nicholas Enrich
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Check out this new report we worked on with @cplusc.bsky.social. "The AI and data center buildout is not the spontaneous outcome of an imagined 'free market.'...We are witnessing a corporate takeover of state capacity."
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AI First: How the Federal Government is Prioritizing AI Over People and Planet
The data center boom shows that world-altering infrastructure can rapidly expand when the interests of state and capital are aligned.
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
NEW: From unleashing mining and oil extraction pollution on our communities, to letting monopolists tighten their stranglehold on our pockets and labor, Trump’s corruption is making all of our lives demonstrably worse. Read the latest Corruption Calendar entry:
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A New Watergate, Every Day
Welcome back to Revolving Door Project’s Corruption Calendar, where we provide in-depth explanations of the material consequences—real and potential—of the Trump administration’s corrupt policymaking,...
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Wondering what we've been up to lately? This week's newsletter takes us from Silicon Valley to Trump's July 4th "vanity cringefest" to the halls of the Supreme Court. The common thread across these disparate stories is elite impunity: powerful people rigging the game without fear of consequences.
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Elite Corruption, From Silicon Valley to the Supreme Court
A round-up of recent work from the Revolving Door Project team.
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
"Previous administrations didn't use the disaster declaration process to settle partisan scores or punish perceived enemies for alleged disloyalty," our @kennystancil.bsky.social told the Chicago Tribune. For more on Trump's weaponization of federal disaster assistance, see our tracker:
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Map: Trump Has Often Delayed or Denied Disaster Aid | Revolving Door Project
The Trump administration has refused to allocate federal disaster aid in a timely manner. Check out our interactive map for more details on the White House's careless approach to major disaster declar...
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
We obtained documents detailing the abundance movement's "capital stack." It's $260 million/year, including $100 million from former Microsoft CEO/LA Clippers owner Steve Ballmer, who hadn't been listed as an abundance donor before. The documents show Silicon Valley's role bankrolling the movement.
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New Documents Detail Nine-Figure, Silicon Valley–Funded Abundance Movement - The American Prospect
The Prospect has obtained a fundraising pitch and historical manifesto from inside the movement.
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
In new reporting for @prospect.org, our @dylangyauchl.bsky.social details internal documents from Bay Area abundance groups pitch the movement to tech elites as a way to take control of Democratic politics and describe a 9-figure funding stream from billionaires. (1/2) prospect.org/2026/06/12/n...
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New Documents Detail Nine-Figure, Silicon Valley–Funded Abundance Movement - The American Prospect
The Prospect has obtained a fundraising pitch and historical manifesto from inside the movement.
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Perhaps no single group has better facilitated the Trump administration’s corruption than the crypto industry. So why did Democratic senators Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) and Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD) vote for the Clarity Act in committee? talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/why-are...
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Why Are Any Democrats Supporting a Bill That Was Championed by the Crypto Industry?
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis....
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Jeff Hauser @jeffhauser.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Let's hope our Congress isn't campaign financed coerced into horrifying tax breaks for crypto.
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
NEW: The House Committee on Ways and Means is one of the most powerful committees in all of Congress. This week, our analysis breaks down the crypto industry’s multi-million dollar power play to fill its seats with cronies. therevolvingdoorproject.org/crypto-corner/
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Who's in Crypto's Corner? | Revolving Door Project
Analysis of the crypto industry’s contributions to the House Committee on Ways & Means
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Ben McKenzie @benmckenzie.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I wonder if it had anything to do with the $10 million Gallego’s campaign got from from the crypto lobby in 2024.
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Timi @timi-iwayemi.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
"The legislation would hand regulation of most digital assets to a Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) captured by private interests. The CFTC spent 2025 dropping cases against crypto companies at the behest of acting chair Caroline Pham..." talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/why-are...
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Why Are Any Democrats Supporting a Bill That Was Championed by the Crypto Industry?
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis....
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
A Congressional report explores how AI can compromise personal data, and reveals that federal agencies fall short in addressing privacy-related challenges. The report's concerns aren't just conjecture: real-world privacy failures show us the risk.
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The U.S. Government Isn’t Prepared To Protect Us From Artificial Intelligence | Revolving Door Project
A Congressional report explores how AI can compromise personal data, and reveals that federal agencies fall short in addressing privacy-related challenges.  In March 2026, the Government Accountabilit...
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Prediction markets are finally receiving some real scrutiny. Even a Republican-controlled Congress seems to be wary of some of the industry's more outlandish behavior. So they're turning to people who know how to deal with this pressure: gambling and vape executives. New in @newrepublic.com
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Prediction Markets Are Learning From the Addiction Industry
A new coalition of industry influence-peddlers is forming, tasked with defending these nascent businesses from regulation at all cost.
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
OMB Director Russell Vought is waging a war on “wokeism” and “fraud” as a sham justification for freezing, cutting, or withholding federal funding for essential programs like public health to punish Trump’s political enemies, risking the collapse of the entire system.
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Timi @timi-iwayemi.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Weather-related disasters are inherently political—they’re the byproducts of collisions between environmental hazards and socially produced patterns of uneven vulnerability. Robust investments in disaster risk reduction and preparedness save lives. revolvingdoorproject.substack.com/p/democrats-...
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Democrats Can’t Let Trump Off the Hook When the Next Big Hurricane Hits
The White House has relentlessly undermined disaster readiness and response capacity. When things go wrong, the opposition should make the president and his GOP accomplices pay a political price.
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
NEW: Revolving Door Project calls on Justice Alito to recuse from Trump Treasury proceedings:
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
NEW: Our latest report breaks down how OMB Director Russell Vought is weaponizing federal funding for disaster aid, education, food, health, transportation, and other essential programs to punish and coerce Trump’s political enemies, hurting millions of people in the process. Read it here⬇️
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V for Vampire Vought's Vendetta | Revolving Door Project
This report summarizes how OMB Director Russell Vought is weaponizing federal funding for education, food, health, transportation, and other life-affirming programs to punish and coerce Trump’s politi...
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 22/05/2026
"Meetings are held, emails are sent, phone calls are made, and something like 520,000 children die of malnutrition, diarrhea, tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV." prospect.org/2026/05/22/w...
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Who Died When Elon Musk Killed USAID? - The American Prospect
Nicholas Enrich’s new memoir details the human toll of the agency’s dismantling.
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Senate Democrats might elevate the most compelling examples from their states, and they could also assemble statewide and nationwide data to ensure that an individual’s suffering is properly contextualized as part of a broader phenomenon affecting millions of people.
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Because they represent geographically limited areas, House Democrats are especially well-positioned to identify specific Vought victims living in their districts. From there, it should be possible to recruit ordinary people who are willing to talk about how Vought’s policies harmed their lives.
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Popular education aimed at exposing the mortal impacts of Voughtism needs to become a priority for federal Democratic lawmakers, who can connect the dots between the OMB director’s actions and their constituents’ preventable suffering.
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Despite being the nerve center of Trump 2.0, OMB Director Russell Vought continues to fly under the radar. Vought’s lack of notoriety reflects a failure by Democrats to consistently and effectively communicate to the public how he is orchestrating the Trump regime’s assault on the common good. 🧵⬇️
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Democrats Shouldn’t Let Russell Vought Fly Under the Radar
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Hannah Story Brown @hannahstoryb.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Alito should recuse from Suncor v. Boulder, along with the parallel cases, as he has before. What I 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."
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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 · 15/05/2026
Americans are fighting for their lives against this administration. Corruption Calendar is back with deadly air pollution, tainted baby formula, and soft regulation on cancer-causing chemicals. Plus corporate tax evasion and a costly war. It's all here:
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Poison and Plunder
From gutting clean air rules to waging a war no one asked for, the Trump administration is showing that human suffering is a core feature of this regime.
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