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July 30, 2025
Harvard’s Former President Praises Trump’s Repression of Academic Freedom
Larry Summers has embraced Trump’s war on higher ed, backing the fascist takeover of Columbia and proposing the same thing for Harvard
July 28, 2025 | The American Prospect
Elon Musk's Secret Army of Progressive Lobbyists
Why are the people being paid to fix the problems DOGE created also taking money from Musk?
July 28, 2025
Resources for Combating Myths about NEPA
The National Environmental Policy Act is under attack by the Trump administration, the Supreme Court, and the Republican-majority Congress. Within the Democratic party as well, there is a faction that seeks to limit the scope of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) to usher in a so-called “abundance agenda” of more expedient building.
July 23, 2025 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter
Trump Hands Another Victory To Cancer’s Profiteers
A Dow Chemicals facility that exploded in a ball of fire in Plaquemines, Louisiana in 2023, releasing tens of thousands of pounds of carcinogens. A leaky medical sterilization plant in a Los Angeles County neighborhood being sued by local residents suffering from breast, blood, and stomach cancers. A coal-fired power plant in Colorado whose emissions have been tied to dozens of premature deaths a year. What do all of these facilities have in common? They’re among the approximately one hundred facilities with cancer-causing emissions that President Trump has exempted from hazardous air pollution limits.
July 16, 2025
Who’s To Blame For Texas’ Abysmal Flood Response?
The Trump administration is trying to sidestep questions of blame, but its finger prints are all over Texas’ awful flood response.
July 07, 2025
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We Need the Federal Government to Protect Us from Climate Chaos
The deadly Texas floods will not be the last manifestation of extreme weather turbocharged by fossil fuel pollution. In an era of escalating climate threats, we need a stronger public sector with more resources to mitigate risks, help people weather storms, and adapt for the future.
July 02, 2025
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RELEASE: Tracking Trump's Disastrous Disaster Policy
“It’s only a matter of time before Trump and Musk’s reckless assault on disaster response and preparedness kills people in the United States.”
July 02, 2025
Abundance Praise for Trump Appointees
Abundance supporters were big backers of Trump appointees including Chris Wright, Doug Burgum and Jay Bhattacharya. Now that the Trump administration has (predictably) engaged in blatantly destructive actions, they’re hoping you’ll forget their earlier support of these Trump toadies.
June 26, 2025
Oligarchs and the Trump Admin: Kelcy Warren
Oil baron Kelcy Warren made a multi-million dollar bet Trump after he got the Dakota Access Pipeline in the last administration. It is clear he will continue to reap the benefits of his relationship with Trump.
June 25, 2025 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter
Chatbot, Are We Cooked?
On Tuesday, as New Yorkers headed to the polls for the primaries—hours before Zohran Mamdani’s joyous triumph over Andrew Cuomo would be apparent—it was 100°F, the outdoor public pools were closed to the public, and my neighbors were barefoot in the spray of a fire hydrant. “Opening fire hydrants without spray caps is illegal, wasteful, and dangerous,” read the 12:34 pm email I received from the city. Also wasteful and dangerous was failing to open the city’s public pools in time for a record-breaking heat dome.
June 24, 2025
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Trump’s War on Public Data
Trump’s antagonistic relationship with facts is well documented. His most egregious attacks on reality aren’t just rhetorical. They threaten physical safety and American democracy. They target the ways we define what we know about the country and ourselves. Trump’s assault on public data is not a side project, it’s a core feature of his authoritarian approach to governance. By hollowing out federal statistics, limiting information gathering, and redacting inconvenient reports, the Trump administration is warping reality to suit its political narrative. The goal isn’t just to obscure the effects of the president’s policies, it’s to prevent the public from seeing them at all.
June 23, 2025
Attacks on Federal Climate Data Will Accelerate a Financial Crisis
The DOGE playbook for climate disasters: Gut federal climate data, let insurers jack up rates, and bury the financial results.
June 13, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly
Corruption Calendar Week 21: Trump Cuts the Corruption Cops
This week, nothing too unusual happened, which is to say that the Trump administration continued its crusade to further enrich the rich at the expense of everyone else.
June 11, 2025 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter
Is Brett Kavanaugh the new Ezra Klein?
After live-tweeting his fallout with the world’s richest man, the president has been soothing himself with the pageantry of control. Miles of tanks have rolled into D.C. in preparation for Trump’s military parade. ICE agents have raided workplaces and seized thousands of people across the country. Police have targeted journalists, medics, and protestors in Los Angeles with rubber bullets, tear gas, and smoke grenades. Now the latest escalation: the president has deployed Marines to Los Angeles, threatening martial law.
June 04, 2025
Personnel is Policy: The Faces Behind Trump 2.0’s Measles Mismanagement
For the first time in six years, confirmed measles cases in the United States have surged past 1,000, a grim milestone that has come to define Trump governance.