Susan Lamontagne
@slamont.bsky.social
Health and environment comms and policy changemaker working to protect public health and the planet. #climate #health #resist
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Veterans protected our country. They deserve to be protected from toxic chemicals.
TCE and PCE exposure have harmed countless service members and families.
This Veterans Day, let’s honor their service not just with words, but with action. EPA must stop delaying the bans on these toxic chemicals.
TCE and PCE exposure have harmed countless service members and families.
This Veterans Day, let’s honor their service not just with words, but with action. EPA must stop delaying the bans on these toxic chemicals.
November 11, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Veterans protected our country. They deserve to be protected from toxic chemicals.
TCE and PCE exposure have harmed countless service members and families.
This Veterans Day, let’s honor their service not just with words, but with action. EPA must stop delaying the bans on these toxic chemicals.
TCE and PCE exposure have harmed countless service members and families.
This Veterans Day, let’s honor their service not just with words, but with action. EPA must stop delaying the bans on these toxic chemicals.
Here’s a thought: instead of bargaining for ACA tax credits, Dems should demand that the GOP trade in tax relief for billionaires for Medicare for All!
October 14, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Here’s a thought: instead of bargaining for ACA tax credits, Dems should demand that the GOP trade in tax relief for billionaires for Medicare for All!
This is how it’s done.
A master class from MIT in responding to authoritarian overreach:
Your “premise … is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.
… America’s leadership in science & innovation depends on independent thinking & open competition for excellence.
Your “premise … is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.
… America’s leadership in science & innovation depends on independent thinking & open competition for excellence.
October 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM
This is how it’s done.
This is a corrupt grift by the Trump regime. Companies and hospitals (many of which rely on H1-B visas to staff hospitals) need to push back NOW!
Now is the time to contact your employers and rally to protect vulnerable colleagues. The administration is demanding that any valid H1-B visa holders outside the U.S. (or their employers) pay $100,000 for them to reenter the country, as of Sunday. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
September 20, 2025 at 10:34 PM
This is a corrupt grift by the Trump regime. Companies and hospitals (many of which rely on H1-B visas to staff hospitals) need to push back NOW!
If only people had listened to the women - and voted for a woman - we’d all be better off.
Whoa! Only 15% say they’re better off financially.
CBS News Analysis: Six months in, Trump’s approval among young people has cratered.
CBS News Analysis: Six months in, Trump’s approval among young people has cratered.
July 31, 2025 at 11:49 AM
If only people had listened to the women - and voted for a woman - we’d all be better off.
Ben Bradlee and Katharine Graham are rolling over in their graves.
The newspaper that told the truth about Watergate and the Pentagon Papers will now “communicate with optimism about this country” in its time of rising fascism
Here’s the full memo:
July 14, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Ben Bradlee and Katharine Graham are rolling over in their graves.
This is a bad political and economic choice.
The United States summed up in two headlines.
July 14, 2025 at 11:39 PM
This is a bad political and economic choice.
If you pitched this level of hypocrisy and willful incompetence for a Hollywood movie they’d say no one would buy it.
NEW: Sec. Noem has now admits "last mile" disaster communications weren't up to par in the Texas catastrophe. But while bodies were still being recovered on Tuesday DHS canceled a $3 million grant focused on improving precisely those kinds of "last mile" comms. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/dhs-c...
DHS Cancels Extreme Weather Comms Grant While Bodies Still Being Recovered in Texas
As more than a hundred fatalities have been confirmed in Texas flash...
talkingpointsmemo.com
July 10, 2025 at 7:59 PM
If you pitched this level of hypocrisy and willful incompetence for a Hollywood movie they’d say no one would buy it.
There will be food shortages before end of summer.
Brooke Rollins on farm laborers: "There will be no amnesty. The mass deportations continue, but in a strategic way. And we move the workforce toward automation and 100% American participation, which with 34 million able-bodied on Medicaid we should be able to do fairly quickly."
July 9, 2025 at 1:07 PM
There will be food shortages before end of summer.
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NEW: The number of extreme weather disasters has jumped fivefold worldwide over the past 50 years, and the number of deaths has nearly tripled.
The recent disaster in Texas is a grim omen of the climate chaos still to come.
By @abrahm.bsky.social @propublica.org
The recent disaster in Texas is a grim omen of the climate chaos still to come.
By @abrahm.bsky.social @propublica.org
The Texas Flash Flood Is a Preview of the Chaos to Come
Climate change is making disasters more common, more deadly and far more costly, even as the federal government is running away from the policies that might begin to protect the nation.
www.propublica.org
July 9, 2025 at 10:06 AM
NEW: The number of extreme weather disasters has jumped fivefold worldwide over the past 50 years, and the number of deaths has nearly tripled.
The recent disaster in Texas is a grim omen of the climate chaos still to come.
By @abrahm.bsky.social @propublica.org
The recent disaster in Texas is a grim omen of the climate chaos still to come.
By @abrahm.bsky.social @propublica.org
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Important essay by Stanford historian Jack Rakove:
It’s Not Just a Constitutional Crisis in the Trump Era. It’s Constitutional Failure washingtonmonthly.com/2025/06/27/i...
It’s Not Just a Constitutional Crisis in the Trump Era. It’s Constitutional Failure washingtonmonthly.com/2025/06/27/i...
It’s Not Just a Constitutional Crisis in the Trump Era. It’s Constitutional Failure | Washington Monthly
While Trump defies constitutional norms, Congress remains conspicuously silent and the Supreme Court has abdicated its responsibility.
washingtonmonthly.com
July 2, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Important essay by Stanford historian Jack Rakove:
It’s Not Just a Constitutional Crisis in the Trump Era. It’s Constitutional Failure washingtonmonthly.com/2025/06/27/i...
It’s Not Just a Constitutional Crisis in the Trump Era. It’s Constitutional Failure washingtonmonthly.com/2025/06/27/i...
Imagine if the founding fathers deported anyone who disagreed with them…
July 1, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Imagine if the founding fathers deported anyone who disagreed with them…
ICE needs to be stopped.
If you think ICE is bad now, just wait till they hire 10,000 more agents and open more concentration camps.
June 30, 2025 at 11:38 PM
ICE needs to be stopped.
The Trump administration is literally stealing or destroying taxpayer-paid public assets.
BREAKING: A source tells me that the Trump administration has shut down public access to every single National Climate Assessment, the Congressionally-mandated quadrennial report assessing how climate change is affecting the U.S.
This is what you get when you try to access them online
This is what you get when you try to access them online
June 30, 2025 at 11:37 PM
The Trump administration is literally stealing or destroying taxpayer-paid public assets.
This is a sad day in America when our highest court in the land says Trump can deport people to dangerous countries with which they have no connection and with no hearing. Utterly lawless and inhumane.
BREAKING: SCOTUS over liberals' dissent, blocks district court order requiring process before carrying out third country removals. SCOTUS's order allows Trump admin to carry out third country removals without the protections required—notice and opportunity to raise a challenge. No reason is given.
![SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
No. 24A1153
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, ET AL. U.
D.V.D., ET AL.
ON APPLICATION FOR STAY
[June 23, 2025]
The application for stay presented to JUSTICE JACKSON and by her referred to the Court is granted. The April 18, 2025, preliminary injunction of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, case No. 25-cv-10676, is stayed pending the disposition of the appeal in the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari, if such writ is timely sought. Should certiorari be denied, this stay shall terminate automatically. In the event certiorari is granted, the stay shall terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of the Court.
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR, with whom JUSTICE KAGAN and
JUSTICE JACKSON join, dissenting.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreifoqminp5wvt7kvocpmq5skngfptyflm6p3lj5rd5kjqjgityhzia@jpeg)
June 23, 2025 at 10:36 PM
This is a sad day in America when our highest court in the land says Trump can deport people to dangerous countries with which they have no connection and with no hearing. Utterly lawless and inhumane.
Why or why would wewant more cancer-causing asbestos? This BS needs to stop.
They are delaying a ban on asbestos. Read what this means for the future regulation of all toxic harms.
prheucsf.blog/2025/06/17/t...
prheucsf.blog/2025/06/17/t...
Trump’s proposed asbestos rollback is a warning sign for all toxic chemicals
Dr. Rashmi Joglekar, Associate Director of Science, Policy and Engagement at the Program on Reproductive Health at UCSF, issued the following statement today. On Monday, the Trump administration annou...
prheucsf.blog
June 18, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Why or why would wewant more cancer-causing asbestos? This BS needs to stop.
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Another big EPA ruling: A federal judge ruled that the EPA had broken the law in refusing to spend $600 million in environmental justice grants from the Biden administration,
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
Judge rules EPA termination of environmental justice grants was unlawful
EPA cannot "thumb its nose at Congress" by refusing to spend appropriated funds, the judge wrote.
www.politico.com
June 18, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Another big EPA ruling: A federal judge ruled that the EPA had broken the law in refusing to spend $600 million in environmental justice grants from the Biden administration,
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
This story line is the “Do Not Look Up” of chemical policy - so outrageous you’d think it was an SNL skit, but no. Trump’s EPA is poisoning people in more ways than one.
The EPA cancels regulations to limit PFAS, rolls back asbestos limits, stops regulation of fossil fuel emissions...
Can rethinking laws on tobacco be far behind?
Unbelievable and inexcusable.
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www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...
Can rethinking laws on tobacco be far behind?
Unbelievable and inexcusable.
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www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...
E.P.A. Plans to Reconsider a Ban on Cancer-Causing Asbestos
www.nytimes.com
June 17, 2025 at 11:23 AM
This story line is the “Do Not Look Up” of chemical policy - so outrageous you’d think it was an SNL skit, but no. Trump’s EPA is poisoning people in more ways than one.
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E.P.A. Plans to Reconsider a Ban on Cancer-Causing Asbestos
www.nytimes.com
June 17, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Maybe throwing a Senator to the ground and handcuffing him for asking a question was designed to keep people from hearing about this???
PUBLIC LANDS EMERGENCY!
If there ever was a time to call your Senators, this is it.
#publiclands #parkchat #protectpubliclands
If there ever was a time to call your Senators, this is it.
#publiclands #parkchat #protectpubliclands
Senate Announces Plan to Sell At Least 2,100,000 Acres of Public Lands
The time to contact your Senators is now.
thenationalparksexperience.substack.com
June 12, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Maybe throwing a Senator to the ground and handcuffing him for asking a question was designed to keep people from hearing about this???
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Tanks in DC Troops in LA. A military parade on his birthday.
Trump is done pretending. This is what authoritarianism looks like in America.
My latest on why we must speak out now — before silence becomes complicity.
adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/authoritar...
Trump is done pretending. This is what authoritarianism looks like in America.
My latest on why we must speak out now — before silence becomes complicity.
adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/authoritar...
Authoritarian on Parade
Deploying soldiers against American cities while parading tanks through D.C.? This is the dictator playbook, page by page.
adamkinzinger.substack.com
June 11, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Tanks in DC Troops in LA. A military parade on his birthday.
Trump is done pretending. This is what authoritarianism looks like in America.
My latest on why we must speak out now — before silence becomes complicity.
adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/authoritar...
Trump is done pretending. This is what authoritarianism looks like in America.
My latest on why we must speak out now — before silence becomes complicity.
adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/authoritar...
The corporate media is failing to stand up to fascism.
Terry Moran worked at ABC for 28 years. Now, for calling Stephen Miller “hateful,” (which he 💯 is per his own family), ABC fired him to appease an authoritarian hypocrite who ran on “free speech.” This will have a chilling effect on all journalists. Fourth Estate fails. Authoritarianism advances.
June 11, 2025 at 9:56 AM
The corporate media is failing to stand up to fascism.
This is insane.
Louisiana has some of the most toxic air in the U.S.—and a new law makes it illegal for communities to use their own air data to prove it.
Environmental groups sue over Louisiana’s ban on community air monitoring
Meanwhile, a state task force’s call for beefed up air monitoring in areas affected by industrial pollution appears to be falling on deaf ears.
floodlightnews.org
June 6, 2025 at 1:02 AM
This is insane.
This was a real and important commencement speech. The one we heard at my son’s graduation was some vanilla ice cream about teams. How can higher ed send graduates into a world where truth, democracy, diversity, humanity, education and free speech are under attack and fail to acknowledge it?
“Diversity is now described as ‘illegal.’ Equity is to be shunned. Inclusion is a dirty word. This is an old playbook, my friends.” https://trib.al/BUDJaZT
Scott Pelley Warns Graduates About the Threats to American Democracy
The “60 Minutes” correspondent never mentioned Trump by name, but his call to defend democratic institutions was apparently too much for the MAGA crowd to handle.
trib.al
May 28, 2025 at 12:24 PM
This was a real and important commencement speech. The one we heard at my son’s graduation was some vanilla ice cream about teams. How can higher ed send graduates into a world where truth, democracy, diversity, humanity, education and free speech are under attack and fail to acknowledge it?
It’s more than in conflict with human trafficking. It is human trafficking and it makes human trafficking by non-government criminal actors easier.
The administration’s “mass deportations” policy is in conflict with other priorities they claim, especially human trafficking. People suffer if our commitment lags. substack.com/home/post/p-...
May 25, 2025 at 3:36 PM
It’s more than in conflict with human trafficking. It is human trafficking and it makes human trafficking by non-government criminal actors easier.