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Environmental Lawyer @Earthjustice (views my own) working on air pollution and climate adaptation; lamenter of Cleveland sports; he/him/his.
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According to this rainbow, a pot of gold can be found in the Roaming Rooster at Nats Park.
Photo of a rainbow at the Nats baseball stadium in Washington DC, shining on a Roaming Rooster restaurant on the second deck of the park.
June 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Fantastic piece by Ben Ehrenreich on how the bipartisan repression of anti-genocide protests set the groundwork for Trump’s fascism.

www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Quote from article “You Don’t Get Trump Without Gaza” by Ben Ehrenreich “Like the devil, vampires, and the more timid varieties of ghost, fascism must be invited in. The Trump administration’s first political persecutions have all targeted individuals who were bold enough to believe that constitutional guarantees of free expression extended to solidarity with Palestine. This was hardly an accident. In the time-honored practice of predatory bullies everywhere, Trump’s minions went after the defenseless first, and specifically those made vulnerable not only by their immigration status but by a 15-month-and-running bipartisan campaign to repress opposition to the ongoing slaughter in Gaza, an effort in which nearly every political, educational, and cultural institution in American society has taken part.”
April 6, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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Among other horrors, this Executive Order seems like a subtle way of saying the Trump administration may use the Smithsonian to bring biological racism back into vogue.
Screenshot from Trump admin’s executive order, highlighting the following phrase in a sentence about an exhibit at the Smithsonian American Art Museum: “promotes the view that race is not a biological reality but a social construct, stating “Race is a human invention.”” Here is the full paragraph from the Executive Order: “For example, the Smithsonian American Art Museum today features “The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture,” an exhibit representing that “[s]ocieties including the United States have used race to establish and maintain systems of power, privilege, and disenfranchisement.” The exhibit further claims that “sculpture has been a powerful tool in promoting scientific racism” and promotes the view that race is not a biological reality but a social construct, stating “Race is a human invention.””
March 28, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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The Office of Research and Development (ORD) has saved hundreds of thousands of lives over the years. Cutting ORD will save little and it will cause thousands to die.
Clean Air Act retrospective study chart showing the reduction in risk of various air pollution-related health effects achieved by 1990 Clean Air Act Amendment programs, with each risk change expressed as the equivalent number of incidences avoided across the exposed population. For example, in 2010, as a result of the Clean Air Act 160,000 deaths were avoided from PM2.5 pollution. In 2020, 230,000 deaths were avoided. Exhibit comparing the costs of implementing the Clean Air Act compared to the benefits. The chart shows that the costs are overwhelmingly outweighed by the benefits.
March 18, 2025 at 1:57 PM