Margot Pollans
@margotpollans.bsky.social
Law prof researching critical food and environmental studies. There must be another way. 🏳️🌈🍽️🌎
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.
February 20, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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.
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...
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Trump moves to stop congestion pricing tolls in New York City
The tolling program launched on Jan. 5 after years of delays.
gothamist.com
February 19, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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/news/trump-m...
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...
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.
www.nytimes.com
February 16, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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...
Maybe we are all Adrián Simancas, and Donald Trump is the humpback whale. Spit us out now please. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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.
www.bbc.com
February 15, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Maybe we are all Adrián Simancas, and Donald Trump is the humpback whale. Spit us out now please. www.bbc.com/news/article...
This is a remarkable letter for so many reasons www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Danielle Sassoon’s Letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, Annotated
www.nytimes.com
February 14, 2025 at 6:48 PM
This is a remarkable letter for so many reasons www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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?”
As lawyers righteously file multiple lawsuits against Trump & Musk’s coup, we must nonetheless recognize: the courts can’t “save” us. They won’t be the backstop protecting us from this takeover. The only thing that can save us is us.
The Courts Can’t Stop the Trump-Musk Coup
While the lawsuits being filed against the Trump-Musk administration are righteous, they will not “save” us from this nightmare.
www.thenation.com
February 8, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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?”
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...
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.
www.nytimes.com
February 6, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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...
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-...
www.propublica.org/article/epa-...
“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 ...
www.propublica.org
February 6, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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-...
www.propublica.org/article/epa-...
This is when New York decides: is it Denmark or Poland? gothamist.com/news/immigra...
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.
gothamist.com
February 6, 2025 at 3:33 AM
This is when New York decides: is it Denmark or Poland? gothamist.com/news/immigra...
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
@justinpidot.bsky.social @andrewmergen.bsky.social
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.
legal-planet.org
February 5, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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
@justinpidot.bsky.social @andrewmergen.bsky.social
It is only getting harder to listen.
February 5, 2025 at 2:06 PM
It is only getting harder to listen.