Maya Rommwatt
@rommwatt.bsky.social
Working for freedom from toxic exposure, Director of Campaigns and Programs at Defend Our Health | she/her
Trump Returns Coast Guard Helicopter to Oregon Fishing Town After Uproar
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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Somehow, even with deadlines & such, it is ~100% certain this is not how the Paper of Record would cover the TN-7 election result if it were the reverse in a D+22 district 🧐🤔
December 3, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Somehow, even with deadlines & such, it is ~100% certain this is not how the Paper of Record would cover the TN-7 election result if it were the reverse in a D+22 district 🧐🤔
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Please report ICE and share videos of their illegal actions here…
oversightdemocrats.house.gov/immigration-...
oversightdemocrats.house.gov/immigration-...
Oversight Immigration Enforcement Dashboard
To fulfill our oversight and legislative responsibilities to protect and defend the Constitution, Oversight Committee Democrats are compiling a verified public record of possible misconduct incidents ...
oversightdemocrats.house.gov
November 26, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Please report ICE and share videos of their illegal actions here…
oversightdemocrats.house.gov/immigration-...
oversightdemocrats.house.gov/immigration-...
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Our new research shows many of The Home Depot’s top suppliers are still using PVC in their packaging. Seriously?!
#PVC doesn’t make our homes better; it threatens our health, safety, and the environment. 🌎 The Home Depot can and must do more to phase it out of all packaging on store shelves.
#PVC doesn’t make our homes better; it threatens our health, safety, and the environment. 🌎 The Home Depot can and must do more to phase it out of all packaging on store shelves.
Packed in poison plastic: New research shows The Home Depot’s key suppliers are using PVC packaging - Toxic-Free Future
Our new research shows that The Home Depot can and must do more to rid their stores of PVC, the poison plastic, from packaging.
toxicfreefuture.org
November 21, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Our new research shows many of The Home Depot’s top suppliers are still using PVC in their packaging. Seriously?!
#PVC doesn’t make our homes better; it threatens our health, safety, and the environment. 🌎 The Home Depot can and must do more to phase it out of all packaging on store shelves.
#PVC doesn’t make our homes better; it threatens our health, safety, and the environment. 🌎 The Home Depot can and must do more to phase it out of all packaging on store shelves.
Excellent creative tactic!
In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
November 23, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Excellent creative tactic!
Oh hello North Korea. These people do know it’s a week before a major fall travel holiday and that the entire fashion industry is putting out sleepwear as aviation wear this year, right? Guess they have strong feelings about how we plebes look.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/t...
Sean Duffy Wants You to Stop Wearing PJs on the Plane
www.nytimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Oh hello North Korea. These people do know it’s a week before a major fall travel holiday and that the entire fashion industry is putting out sleepwear as aviation wear this year, right? Guess they have strong feelings about how we plebes look.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/t...
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Keep the good ideas rollin www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air.
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Keep the good ideas rollin www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
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NEW FINDINGS: We found sixteen pesticides linked to learning disabilities, autism and hormone disruption in Target-brand baby food.
foe.org/toxic-pestic...
foe.org/toxic-pestic...
Toxic Pesticides in Target’s Baby Food
Friends of the Earth found a cocktail of toxic pesticides in two non-organic baby food products made by Target’s house brand, Good & Gather.
foe.org
November 18, 2025 at 3:09 PM
NEW FINDINGS: We found sixteen pesticides linked to learning disabilities, autism and hormone disruption in Target-brand baby food.
foe.org/toxic-pestic...
foe.org/toxic-pestic...
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Democrats will focus on the House and Senate, but to me, the state legislatures are equally important. Democrats lost an entire generation of new leaders when they got wiped out in the state legislatures in 2010 and again in 2014. The Democrats need to build the next generation in the state leg. 1/3
Marist finds Democrats up 55/41 on the generic ballot: maristpoll.marist.edu/polls/a-look...
That may be a factor of an enthusiasm gap mixed with a serving of outlier, but also it’s not a shocker in light of the sheer extent of Democrats’ sweeping wins in November.
That may be a factor of an enthusiasm gap mixed with a serving of outlier, but also it’s not a shocker in light of the sheer extent of Democrats’ sweeping wins in November.
November 19, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Democrats will focus on the House and Senate, but to me, the state legislatures are equally important. Democrats lost an entire generation of new leaders when they got wiped out in the state legislatures in 2010 and again in 2014. The Democrats need to build the next generation in the state leg. 1/3
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After almost a decade of serving the #BreakFreeFromPlastic movement as its Global Coordinator, Von goes back to his roots in local campaigning as he leads Oceana’s Philippine team.
Read more 👇
www.breakfreefromplastic.org/2025/11/13/r...
#activism
Read more 👇
www.breakfreefromplastic.org/2025/11/13/r...
#activism
November 14, 2025 at 5:00 AM
After almost a decade of serving the #BreakFreeFromPlastic movement as its Global Coordinator, Von goes back to his roots in local campaigning as he leads Oceana’s Philippine team.
Read more 👇
www.breakfreefromplastic.org/2025/11/13/r...
#activism
Read more 👇
www.breakfreefromplastic.org/2025/11/13/r...
#activism
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DONATIONS PLEASE
You may have seen that 600+ detainees are eligible for release, which is amazing! BUT: you may not know that immigration detainees still have to pay for their freedom-- $1500 bond per person! The Midwest Immigration Bond Fund is raising money to help people get free, please donate: www.mibfc.org
Midwest Immigration Bond Fund
www.mibfc.org
November 13, 2025 at 6:54 PM
DONATIONS PLEASE
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The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
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They only like immigrants they can profit from. Everything is about enriching themselves and their family and friends.
All the culture war issues are to keep us distracted and divided as the oligarchy sucks up more and more and more money.
All the culture war issues are to keep us distracted and divided as the oligarchy sucks up more and more and more money.
November 12, 2025 at 1:46 PM
They only like immigrants they can profit from. Everything is about enriching themselves and their family and friends.
All the culture war issues are to keep us distracted and divided as the oligarchy sucks up more and more and more money.
All the culture war issues are to keep us distracted and divided as the oligarchy sucks up more and more and more money.
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JOIN US! This convo will feature Professor Roy Gardner, an internationally recognized expert in wetland law and policy and the author of Waters of the United States: POTUS, SCOTUS, WOTUS, and the Politics of a National Resource. Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
October 31, 2025 at 12:31 AM
JOIN US! This convo will feature Professor Roy Gardner, an internationally recognized expert in wetland law and policy and the author of Waters of the United States: POTUS, SCOTUS, WOTUS, and the Politics of a National Resource. Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Sadly, Island Press has been bought. But you can find lots of good deals on their going away sale.
📚 Don’t miss the final @islandpress 50% off simply everything sale! Nearly every Island Press print book is half off from Nov 10 – 16. Only at www.islandpress.org.
November 10, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Sadly, Island Press has been bought. But you can find lots of good deals on their going away sale.
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i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?
November 10, 2025 at 12:56 AM
i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
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🚨 New report shows @CocaCola increased its use of virgin plastic by 10% despite its commitment to tackle plastic pollution.
Learn more: https://www.breakfreefromplastic.org/2025/11/07/members-react-emf-2025-reports/
#BreakFreeFromPlastic #PlasticPollution #CorporateAccountability
Learn more: https://www.breakfreefromplastic.org/2025/11/07/members-react-emf-2025-reports/
#BreakFreeFromPlastic #PlasticPollution #CorporateAccountability
November 7, 2025 at 10:36 AM
🚨 New report shows @CocaCola increased its use of virgin plastic by 10% despite its commitment to tackle plastic pollution.
Learn more: https://www.breakfreefromplastic.org/2025/11/07/members-react-emf-2025-reports/
#BreakFreeFromPlastic #PlasticPollution #CorporateAccountability
Learn more: https://www.breakfreefromplastic.org/2025/11/07/members-react-emf-2025-reports/
#BreakFreeFromPlastic #PlasticPollution #CorporateAccountability
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Trump goes to court to starve kids should be a headline everywhere today
Trump administration seeks emergency stay of court's order to fund SNAP
Trump administration seeks emergency stay of court's order to fund SNAP
U.S. District Court Judge John McConnell Jr. ordered the Trump administration to pay full SNAP benefits by Friday.
dlvr.it
November 7, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Trump goes to court to starve kids should be a headline everywhere today
PFAS have come for the otters now. Enough is enough. www.biv.com/news/environ...
B.C. sea otters found to be contaminated with 'forever chemicals'
Contamination levels were about three times higher in animals found near shipping lanes and urban centres
www.biv.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:19 PM
PFAS have come for the otters now. Enough is enough. www.biv.com/news/environ...
"more deaths than jobs" can't get more clear than that. But also, are we saying that one life is equal to one job, or what here?
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Pollution from Ineos’s Antwerp plastic plant ‘could cause more deaths than jobs created’
Lawyers challenge €4bn Project One development, saying emissions and health impacts vastly underestimated
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
"more deaths than jobs" can't get more clear than that. But also, are we saying that one life is equal to one job, or what here?
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Never ever heat food in plastic. That includes coffee making (cough, pods, cough). Not only does the break up of plastic into ever-tinier particles that can get into our bodies happen more at high temps, but also what about all those chemicals used to make plastics?
time.com/7331064/coff...
time.com/7331064/coff...
What Happens to the Plastic in Single-Serve Coffee Pods?
Your morning brew may contain microscopic debris.
time.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Never ever heat food in plastic. That includes coffee making (cough, pods, cough). Not only does the break up of plastic into ever-tinier particles that can get into our bodies happen more at high temps, but also what about all those chemicals used to make plastics?
time.com/7331064/coff...
time.com/7331064/coff...
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All 6 Branches Of Armed Forces Present At Arrest Of Undocumented Nanny
All 6 Branches Of Armed Forces Present At Arrest Of Undocumented Nanny
BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MI—In what they described as a collaborative effort to share resources and information in defense of U.S. territory, Pentagon officials confirmed Monday that all six branches of the ...
theonion.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM
All 6 Branches Of Armed Forces Present At Arrest Of Undocumented Nanny
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One big lesson I drew from the elections is that electricity prices are a top-tier political issue. The 2 Dems who won seats on the utility regulatory panel in Georgia overperformed Kamala Harris by 28 points(!) Mikie Sherrill ran on freezing rates.
There's an agenda here for the Dems.
There's an agenda here for the Dems.
The Electric Bill Election - The American Prospect
On Tuesday, the soaring cost of power was a key factor in several races, including those in Georgia, Virginia, and New Jersey. Democrats have a plan that can match their economic populist rhetoric.
prospect.org
November 6, 2025 at 2:27 PM
One big lesson I drew from the elections is that electricity prices are a top-tier political issue. The 2 Dems who won seats on the utility regulatory panel in Georgia overperformed Kamala Harris by 28 points(!) Mikie Sherrill ran on freezing rates.
There's an agenda here for the Dems.
There's an agenda here for the Dems.
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Authoritarian regimes have one overarching goal: maintain power at any cost. President Trump this morning regarding the Senate filibuster: "Now, if we do what I'm saying, they'll most likely never obtain power." www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Trump Tells Republicans They’ll Never Lose Again if They Nuke Filibuster: ‘If We Do What I’m Saying’ Democrats Will ‘Most Likely Never Attain Power’
President Donald Trump amped up his push for GOP Senators to nuke the filibuster — vowing that, if they do so, Democrats will "likely never attain power."
www.yahoo.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Authoritarian regimes have one overarching goal: maintain power at any cost. President Trump this morning regarding the Senate filibuster: "Now, if we do what I'm saying, they'll most likely never obtain power." www.yahoo.com/news/article...