Center for Progressive Reform
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Progressive policy for the public good
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Progressive policy for the public good
🌎 Climate Justice
🌐 Public Protections
🏛 Responsive Government
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Join us Tues, Feb. 24 at 1 p.m. ET for a webinar on using satellite imagery to track data centers & land use. Learn an open-source pipeline, core GIS concepts, and real-world case studies. 🌍🛰️
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This action "is a ringing alarm bell warning all of us of the extent to which this administration has succeeded in degrading our governing institutions in such a short period of time." My statement progressivereform.org/cpr-blog/epa...
February 12, 2026 at 6:48 PM
This action "is a ringing alarm bell warning all of us of the extent to which this administration has succeeded in degrading our governing institutions in such a short period of time." My statement progressivereform.org/cpr-blog/epa...
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In its first year, the Trump Administration did enormous damage to public health protections. The damage has accelerated in the last month.
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The Accelerating Decline of U.S. Public Health Policy - Legal Planet
It’s hard to believe how quickly a science-driven approach to protecting health has been replaced by ideology and quackery.
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February 12, 2026 at 4:11 PM
In its first year, the Trump Administration did enormous damage to public health protections. The damage has accelerated in the last month.
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"An analysis by Science found that federal agencies lost more than 10,000 doctoral-level STEM and health experts over 2025, 14 percent of the government’s STEM Ph.D." globalextremism.org/post/project...
Project 2025 February 10th Update
This week: the federal government strips the word “racist” from visitor brochures at the monument to a civil rights leader whose killer bragged about the murder; professors are fired for teaching chil...
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February 12, 2026 at 3:08 AM
"An analysis by Science found that federal agencies lost more than 10,000 doctoral-level STEM and health experts over 2025, 14 percent of the government’s STEM Ph.D." globalextremism.org/post/project...
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Impossible for me to fathom how a publication like the @washingtonpost.com could survive the revelation that propagandists in the administration literally feed it the stories and opinions they want it to print--and the Post just does it.
This all makes sense now: the “EPA press team”—given credit for ‘working’ the despicable Washington Post editorial that reads like a Daily Caller right-wing fever dream—literally includes the Daily Caller’s former editor-in-chief. www.eenews.net/articles/epa...
February 12, 2026 at 2:04 PM
Impossible for me to fathom how a publication like the @washingtonpost.com could survive the revelation that propagandists in the administration literally feed it the stories and opinions they want it to print--and the Post just does it.
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Maybe this goes without saying at this point, but in any other presidential administration, this one thing, by itself, would’ve made headlines for weeks, prompted multiple investigations, and been a potentially presidency-ending scandal.
According to multiple NYT sources, it wasn’t even military personnel at Fort Bliss that fired an anti-drone laser at alleged cartel drones. It was CBP who used the weapon on loan from DoD against a child’s party balloon they mistook for a drone. The Pentagon gave CBP an anti-aircraft weapon.
February 12, 2026 at 4:25 AM
Maybe this goes without saying at this point, but in any other presidential administration, this one thing, by itself, would’ve made headlines for weeks, prompted multiple investigations, and been a potentially presidency-ending scandal.
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“When we refuse our boldest arguments, quieter ones prevail, leaving doctrine already in motion to grind on. In doing so, we do not merely misjudge the moment; we actively participate in the steady undoing of the ground that legal protection is said to provide”
a beautifully written and powerful piece from University of Minnesota Law professor Emmanuel Mauleón on the stakes of how the legal profession responds in this moment.
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Whistling at the Edge of Law
The whistle is sounding in Minneapolis. The question before the legal profession is whether we will hear it, amplify it, and act accordingly, or instead insist that the ground eroding beneath our feet...
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February 12, 2026 at 3:11 PM
“When we refuse our boldest arguments, quieter ones prevail, leaving doctrine already in motion to grind on. In doing so, we do not merely misjudge the moment; we actively participate in the steady undoing of the ground that legal protection is said to provide”
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Trump is messing with our oceans again! The courts should not let him get away with it. 🌎🦑https://open.substack.com/pub/robverchick/p/trump-v-the-seamounts?r=7j5v2&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Trump v. The Seamounts
A Test of Presidential Power at Sea
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February 12, 2026 at 4:05 AM
Trump is messing with our oceans again! The courts should not let him get away with it. 🌎🦑https://open.substack.com/pub/robverchick/p/trump-v-the-seamounts?r=7j5v2&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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I see we're back to being concerned about clear legal authorization for major agency action. I wonder what could explain that.
In case anyone's wondering how Jeff Bezos feels about climate policy these days, the Washington Post editorial board just heartily endorsed Trump ripping up the EPA's "endangerment finding," which allows the federal government to regulate greenhouse gases as pollutants.
February 11, 2026 at 7:44 PM
I see we're back to being concerned about clear legal authorization for major agency action. I wonder what could explain that.
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Ugh. Truly moronic.
Burgum: "CO2 was never a pollutant. When we breathe, we emit CO2. Plants need CO2 to survive and grow. They thrive with more CO2. So the whole endangerment thing opens up an opportunity for the revival of clean, beautiful, American coal."
February 11, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Ugh. Truly moronic.
A win in Maryland! 👇
House passes bill to stop utilities from charging customers for excessive executive salaries.
The state is right to limit how much state-granted monopolies can charge their customers for executive salaries.
More here: pirg.org/maryland/med...
House passes bill to stop utilities from charging customers for excessive executive salaries.
The state is right to limit how much state-granted monopolies can charge their customers for executive salaries.
More here: pirg.org/maryland/med...
February 11, 2026 at 7:54 PM
A win in Maryland! 👇
House passes bill to stop utilities from charging customers for excessive executive salaries.
The state is right to limit how much state-granted monopolies can charge their customers for executive salaries.
More here: pirg.org/maryland/med...
House passes bill to stop utilities from charging customers for excessive executive salaries.
The state is right to limit how much state-granted monopolies can charge their customers for executive salaries.
More here: pirg.org/maryland/med...
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Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.
February 11, 2026 at 3:54 AM
Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.
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Just when Trump is making a big push for "beautiful clean coal," solar energy is surging. Why put our money on a dirty 19th Century technology like coal?
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February 11, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Just when Trump is making a big push for "beautiful clean coal," solar energy is surging. Why put our money on a dirty 19th Century technology like coal?
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Over half the agenda. ONE year.
Our latest update shows the Trump administration has already implemented 53% of Project 2025’s recommended domestic policies.
Pay attention.
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Our latest update shows the Trump administration has already implemented 53% of Project 2025’s recommended domestic policies.
Pay attention.
progressivereform.org/publications...
One Year of Project 2025: 53 Percent of Authoritarian Agenda’s Domestic Policy Recommendations Completed or Underway - Center for Progressive Reform
The Trump administration has already initiated or completed 53 percent of Project 2025’s domestic administrative policy agenda in the 12 months following the inauguration, new analysis from the Center...
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February 11, 2026 at 6:53 PM
Over half the agenda. ONE year.
Our latest update shows the Trump administration has already implemented 53% of Project 2025’s recommended domestic policies.
Pay attention.
progressivereform.org/publications...
Our latest update shows the Trump administration has already implemented 53% of Project 2025’s recommended domestic policies.
Pay attention.
progressivereform.org/publications...
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Unfortunately, Trump‘s biggest attack on climate action. Fortunately, it’s on shaky scientific and legal grounds.
Turns out that enlisting a secret working group of climate skeptics is a bad way to make policy. Reaction from my @uclalawemmett.bsky.social colleagues Ann Carlson and @alejandrocamacho.bsky.social to this week's endangerment finding news. legal-planet.org/2026/02/11/t...
Trump Will Kill Climate Regulations, But How Exactly? - Legal Planet
The Drain is a weekly roundup of environmental and climate news from Legal Planet.
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February 11, 2026 at 5:18 PM
Unfortunately, Trump‘s biggest attack on climate action. Fortunately, it’s on shaky scientific and legal grounds.
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sorry but i thought land use was like paradigmatically a thing the feds cant constitutionally encroach upon as a classic state power?
Trump orders Federal takeover of LA wildfire rebuild permitting
President Donald Trump signed an executive order last week directing federal agencies to assume permitting authority for rebuilding homes and businesses destroyed in last year's Los Angeles wildfires,...
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February 11, 2026 at 3:23 PM
sorry but i thought land use was like paradigmatically a thing the feds cant constitutionally encroach upon as a classic state power?
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Reconstructing the administrative state will be one of the hardest but most important tasks facing this nation once we awake from this authoritarian nightmare.
February 11, 2026 at 2:29 PM
Reconstructing the administrative state will be one of the hardest but most important tasks facing this nation once we awake from this authoritarian nightmare.
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Update: In our latest analysis, the @progressivereform.bsky.social and Governing for Impact Project 2025 tracker finds that the Trump administration has put in action 53% of the Project 2025's recommended domestic policy actions during the first year: progressivereform.org/publications...
One Year of Project 2025: 53 Percent of Authoritarian Agenda’s Domestic Policy Recommendations Completed or Underway - Center for Progressive Reform
The Trump administration has already initiated or completed 53 percent of Project 2025’s domestic administrative policy agenda in the 12 months following the inauguration, new analysis from the Center...
progressivereform.org
February 11, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Update: In our latest analysis, the @progressivereform.bsky.social and Governing for Impact Project 2025 tracker finds that the Trump administration has put in action 53% of the Project 2025's recommended domestic policy actions during the first year: progressivereform.org/publications...
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"'This CRA loophole is just going to go bigger and bigger and bigger until it functionally becomes lawmaking,' Goodwin said. 'In all practical matters, as long as you are creative, you can basically nullify the filibuster.'" www.eenews.net/articles/how...
How Republicans supercharged a Clinton rule-busting law
The effort to expand the bounds of the 1996 Congressional Review Act shows no signs of slowing down.
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February 10, 2026 at 12:26 PM
"'This CRA loophole is just going to go bigger and bigger and bigger until it functionally becomes lawmaking,' Goodwin said. 'In all practical matters, as long as you are creative, you can basically nullify the filibuster.'" www.eenews.net/articles/how...
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February 6, 2026 at 2:06 PM
Question that needs answering! ⬇️
What does justice look like if the judiciary becomes less representative over time?
What does justice look like if the judiciary becomes less representative over time?
The administration has equated race and gender diversity with professional incompetence, and the president has publicly praised judges who rule in his favor.
No women of color appointed to federal judgeships in Trump’s first year back
The Trump administration often equates race and gender diversity with professional incompetence.
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February 4, 2026 at 9:43 PM
Question that needs answering! ⬇️
What does justice look like if the judiciary becomes less representative over time?
What does justice look like if the judiciary becomes less representative over time?
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The administration has equated race and gender diversity with professional incompetence, and the president has publicly praised judges who rule in his favor.
No women of color appointed to federal judgeships in Trump’s first year back
The Trump administration often equates race and gender diversity with professional incompetence.
19thnews.org
February 3, 2026 at 5:12 PM
The administration has equated race and gender diversity with professional incompetence, and the president has publicly praised judges who rule in his favor.
“If that happens, you’re going to see a lot more litigation on many fronts,” as legislatures begin challenge federal actions a governor supports, said Member Scholar Dave Owen, of UC Law in San Francisco. @uclawsf.bsky.social
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Biden Monuments Case to Focus on State Lawmakers’ Ability to Sue
Upcoming arguments in a challenge to the White House’s ability to create national monuments could determine whether state legislatures can bring lawsuits over the objections of the state’s governor an...
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February 3, 2026 at 5:20 PM
“If that happens, you’re going to see a lot more litigation on many fronts,” as legislatures begin challenge federal actions a governor supports, said Member Scholar Dave Owen, of UC Law in San Francisco. @uclawsf.bsky.social
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“Basically, what this administration is saying, that trying to monetize the value of a human life is so complicated that it can’t really trust the numbers — so they’re just not going to include it,” said Board Member @robverchick.bsky.social, of Loyola Law.
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Bob Marshall: New EPA rule puts value of American lives at zero
Last month, President Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency issued this judgment on the American people: Our lives are worthless.
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February 3, 2026 at 2:46 PM
“Basically, what this administration is saying, that trying to monetize the value of a human life is so complicated that it can’t really trust the numbers — so they’re just not going to include it,” said Board Member @robverchick.bsky.social, of Loyola Law.
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The EPA just stopped counting the health benefits of reducing two of the deadliest air pollutants: fine particulate matter and ozone.
Find out why:
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✍️ @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social, CPR Interim Co-Executive Director and Policy Director
Find out why:
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✍️ @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social, CPR Interim Co-Executive Director and Policy Director
Trump Is Making It A Lot Easier for Polluters to Pollute
The Trump EPA’s new policy on Clean Air Act benefits, explained.
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February 3, 2026 at 2:34 PM
The EPA just stopped counting the health benefits of reducing two of the deadliest air pollutants: fine particulate matter and ozone.
Find out why:
newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/trump-is-m...
✍️ @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social, CPR Interim Co-Executive Director and Policy Director
Find out why:
newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/trump-is-m...
✍️ @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social, CPR Interim Co-Executive Director and Policy Director