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Huge win for NC at a time when the Trump admin is undoing water quality and public health protections.
NC Gov. Josh Stein announces major statewide investment in clean water - NC Voices
“When we invest in our infrastructure, we build a stronger and safer state for every North Carolinian,” said Governor Josh Stein in a press release. “This funding will help ensure more North Carolinia...
ncvoices.com
March 6, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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I’m somehow on a Heritage Foundation mailing list (😂) and they sent a survey to see what we think of DOGE.

Who wants to offer some m-fing feedback?!?

secured.heritage.org/the-heritage...

Please share with a friend or a thousand :)
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February 26, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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thegodpodcast.com
We should be writing Project 2029—defining the society we want, clearly and publicly.

Let’s start today.
Announcing Project 2029
The Progressive Blueprint for a Fairer, Stronger Future.
www.thegodpodcast.com
February 27, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
Trump and the GOP are trying to repeal a Biden admin rule that requires lead water pipes to be replaced.

Tens of millions of people, including children, would continue to have contaminated drinking water if the rules are revoked.

So the GOP is the party of lead poisoning now?
Republicans move to repeal lead limits imposed by Biden-era rules
US government would be prohibited from ever mandating lead pipe replacement or lowering lead limits in water
www.theguardian.com
February 3, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
NBC News is being kicked out of its space in the Pentagon and replaced by OANN.
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PENTAGON PRESS ASSOCIATION SUBJECT: New Annual Media Rotation Program for Pentagon Press Corps For over a half-century, the Pentagon Press Corps has benefited from working out of individual office spaces that provide coveted and open access to some of the Department's top military and civilian leaders. Known as the Correspondents' Corridor, this office space loaned to media outlets by the Secretary of Defense stands as a tribute to the importance the Department has long placed on informing the public about the U.S. military and all it does to project peace through strength. It also honors the many correspondents who put their lives on the line, and in many cases died, while covering our finest in battle. In order to broaden access to the limited space of the Correspondents' Corridor to outlets that have not previously enjoyed the privilege and journalistic value of working from physical office space in the Pentagon, beginning February 14, 2025, the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs will implement a new Annual Media Rotation Program for those dedicated media spaces. Each year, one outlet from each press medium - print, online, television and radio - that has enjoyed working from a physical office in the Pentagon will rotate out of the building to allow a new outlet from the same medium that has not had the unique opportunity to report as a resident member of the Pentagon Press Corps. This year, the following news outlets will begin their rotation by vacating their physical office space effective Friday, February 14, 2025: Print - The New York Times TV - NBC News Radio - National Public Radio Online News - POLITICO In their place, the following outlets from each medium will be invited to move into the Correspondents' Corridor workspaces formerly occupied by the above four outlets. Print - New York Post TV - One America News Network Radio - Breitbart News Network Online News - HuffPost News (aka The Huffington Post) To be clear, the outlets that vacate the spaces loaned to them by the Secretary will remain as full members of the Pentagon Press Corps. They will continue to enjoy the same media access to the Pentagon and will be able to attend and cover briefings and be considered for travel with civilian and military leaders in the Department as they have previously. The only change will be giving up their physical workspaces in the building to allow new outlets to have their turn to become resident members of the Pentagon Press Corps. Thank you in advance for participating in the Pentagon Press Corps Annual Media Rotation Program. By turning over the office space loaned to you by the Secretary, you will ensure that new outlets will have the same opportunity you have enjoyed covering our nation's finest up close from office spaces inside the walls of the Pentagon. (John Ullyot Acting
February 1, 2025 at 2:28 AM
elsweetwater.bsky.social
This gives industrial polluters a green light to discharge PFAS. What will it mean for us? Short term-significantly higher water bills for PFAS removal. Long term-a public health crisis & major contamination of our food system (chronic exposure toxic for livestock, bioaccumulation in food crops).
Trump administration scraps plan for stricter rules on PFAS
SPOKANE — As cleanup continues in the West Plains, the federal governments’ plans to strictly regulate PFAS was scrapped last week by the new administration of President Donald Trump.
www.columbian.com
January 28, 2025 at 4:03 PM
elsweetwater.bsky.social
EO cannot preempt DEI components in Broader Impacts-they are codified by Congress via 42 USC 1862p-14: “[NSF] shall apply a BI review criterion to identify & demonstrate project support of the following goals…(7) Expanding participation of women and individuals from underrepresented groups in STEM.”
NSF cancels grant reviews to comply with Trump EOs
Scheduled review panels for National Science Foundation grant applications are on pause until Feb. 1. Some researchers believe the pause may be connected to the new administration’s anti-DEI crusade.
www.insidehighered.com
January 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
elsweetwater.bsky.social
📍NC State this morning
January 20, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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aaronparnas.bsky.social
TikTok is banned. Now what?

Watch my latest YouTube video to find out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZy0...
TikTok Is Banned. Now What?
YouTube video by Aaron Parnas
www.youtube.com
January 19, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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mguariglia.bsky.social
The new few weeks, months, years, will likely not be pretty. Get this guide to surveillance self-defense to your communities. It has printable PDFs as well as tailored reccomendations for certain activities, types of people, etc.

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Surveillance Self-Defense
We’re the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an independent non-profit working to protect online privacy for over thirty years. This is Surveillance Self-Defense: our expert guide to protecting you and y...
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January 18, 2025 at 10:30 PM