John Cross
@johnfcross.bsky.social
Local + federal; climate + equity; running + hiking; science fiction + fantasy; Kansan + Washingtonian
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i just want to say that i wrote this exactly one year ago.
November 24, 2025 at 5:41 PM
i just want to say that i wrote this exactly one year ago.
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This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it.
Washington Post Columnist Says She Was Fired for Posts After Charlie Kirk Shooting
www.nytimes.com
September 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it.
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Incredibly important election this year in Georgia:
As Georgia Returns to Electing Its Utility Commission, Worries over Democracy Linger - Bolts
A pair of races are crystallizing issues with fair representation in Georgia: officials who stay in their seats years past their term, low-turnout runoffs, and the diluted power of Black voters.
boltsmag.org
September 16, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Incredibly important election this year in Georgia:
Trump's "Environmental Protection" Agency doesn't even want to know what polluters are putting into the air, and they don't want you to know either. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/c...
E.P.A. To Stop Collecting Emissions Data From Polluters
www.nytimes.com
September 12, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Trump's "Environmental Protection" Agency doesn't even want to know what polluters are putting into the air, and they don't want you to know either. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/c...
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This story has it all: aquaculture, Black Flag, Bernie Sanders, Star Trek as policy, John Hodgman, male tears, and a candidate citing Luthen’s monologue from Andor.
Meet Graham Platner, the Maine oysterman trying to crack the senate. @grahamformaine.bsky.social
newrepublic.com/article/1996...
Meet Graham Platner, the Maine oysterman trying to crack the senate. @grahamformaine.bsky.social
newrepublic.com/article/1996...
The Political Awakening of the Oyster Farmer Gunning for Susan Collins
Graham Platner’s campaign launch has been a sudden sensation. But what he’s building now is rooted in the work of a lifetime.
newrepublic.com
August 29, 2025 at 11:52 AM
This story has it all: aquaculture, Black Flag, Bernie Sanders, Star Trek as policy, John Hodgman, male tears, and a candidate citing Luthen’s monologue from Andor.
Meet Graham Platner, the Maine oysterman trying to crack the senate. @grahamformaine.bsky.social
newrepublic.com/article/1996...
Meet Graham Platner, the Maine oysterman trying to crack the senate. @grahamformaine.bsky.social
newrepublic.com/article/1996...
Do you want ants? Because that's how you get ants. www.wired.com/story/usda-a...
Government Staffing Cuts Have Fueled an Ant-Smuggling Boom
“It’s getting out of hand,” one seller says. “They realize the US market is a gold mine.”
www.wired.com
August 20, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Do you want ants? Because that's how you get ants. www.wired.com/story/usda-a...
Trump and his allies are doing everything they can to raise energy prices for the people who can least afford it. First the budget bill made energy dirtier, scarcer and more expensive. Then EPA started gutting clean vehicle standards, which will make gasoline more expensive. Now, this.
Breaking News: The Trump administration is preparing to terminate $7 billion in federal grants intended to help low- and moderate-income families install solar panels on their homes, according to people briefed on the matter.
E.P.A. Moves to Cancel $7 Billion in Grants for Solar Energy
If finalized, the move would escalate the Trump administration’s efforts to claw back billions of dollars in climate grants awarded under President Biden.
nyti.ms
August 5, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Trump and his allies are doing everything they can to raise energy prices for the people who can least afford it. First the budget bill made energy dirtier, scarcer and more expensive. Then EPA started gutting clean vehicle standards, which will make gasoline more expensive. Now, this.
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Welp, they're going to do it. They're revoking the 2009 “endangerment finding” that declared greenhouse gases a threat to public health and allowed the EPA to regulate emissions.
The next time Democrats are in charge, they need to pass a law to regulate greenhouse gases.
The next time Democrats are in charge, they need to pass a law to regulate greenhouse gases.
E.P.A. Plans to Revoke the Legal Basis for Tackling Climate Change
www.nytimes.com
July 29, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Welp, they're going to do it. They're revoking the 2009 “endangerment finding” that declared greenhouse gases a threat to public health and allowed the EPA to regulate emissions.
The next time Democrats are in charge, they need to pass a law to regulate greenhouse gases.
The next time Democrats are in charge, they need to pass a law to regulate greenhouse gases.
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Donald Trump and Republicans just passed a bill that will:
- Kick 17 million people off their health insurance.
- Shut down 338 rural hospitals.
- Close 579 nursing homes.
This is obscene. People will still get sick — they just won’t have anywhere to go.
- Kick 17 million people off their health insurance.
- Shut down 338 rural hospitals.
- Close 579 nursing homes.
This is obscene. People will still get sick — they just won’t have anywhere to go.
July 4, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Donald Trump and Republicans just passed a bill that will:
- Kick 17 million people off their health insurance.
- Shut down 338 rural hospitals.
- Close 579 nursing homes.
This is obscene. People will still get sick — they just won’t have anywhere to go.
- Kick 17 million people off their health insurance.
- Shut down 338 rural hospitals.
- Close 579 nursing homes.
This is obscene. People will still get sick — they just won’t have anywhere to go.
The 250th anniversary of the army is really the 250th anniversary of forcing kings out of America. Good luck out there today, and look out for each other!
June 14, 2025 at 7:45 PM
The 250th anniversary of the army is really the 250th anniversary of forcing kings out of America. Good luck out there today, and look out for each other!
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Here, from @energyinnovation.org, is a detailed modeling breakdown of the extensive economic damage that the [cough] "Big Beautiful Bill" will do on every individual US state. (Remarkably, yes, it would hurt *every single state*.)
Assessing Impacts Of "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" On U.S. Energy Costs, Jobs, Health, Emissions • Energy Innovation
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act would cut GDP $1.1 trillion, add $170 billion to household energy bills, and cut hundreds of thousands of jobs.
energyinnovation.org
June 11, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Here, from @energyinnovation.org, is a detailed modeling breakdown of the extensive economic damage that the [cough] "Big Beautiful Bill" will do on every individual US state. (Remarkably, yes, it would hurt *every single state*.)
Trump is trying to end EPA safeguards, and that will end tens of thousands of lives.
apnews.com/article/epa-...
apnews.com/article/epa-...
Trump EPA moves to roll back rules projected to save billions of dollars and thousands of lives
When the head of the Environmental Protection Agency earlier this year announced a massive rollback of environmental regulations, he said it would spark a “Golden Age” for the American economy.
apnews.com
June 5, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Trump is trying to end EPA safeguards, and that will end tens of thousands of lives.
apnews.com/article/epa-...
apnews.com/article/epa-...
As they accelerate the climate crisis, oil and gas companies are also fighting for the right to work their employees to death instead of giving them heat breaks. www.eenews.net/articles/hea...
Heat is killing oil workers. The industry is trying to kill a rule for that.
Opposition to a planned rule to limit heat deaths comes as oil and gas workers face increasingly dangerous conditions.
www.eenews.net
May 30, 2025 at 2:04 PM
As they accelerate the climate crisis, oil and gas companies are also fighting for the right to work their employees to death instead of giving them heat breaks. www.eenews.net/articles/hea...
On top of everything else, the House bill's cuts to clean energy will cost 830,000 jobs and raise household bills by hundreds of dollars as a favor to fossil fuel CEOs.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Trump’s tax bill to cost 830,000 jobs and drive up bills and pollution emissions, experts warn
Bill will unleash millions more tonnes of planet-heating pollution and couldn’t come at a worse time, say experts
www.theguardian.com
May 22, 2025 at 2:01 PM
On top of everything else, the House bill's cuts to clean energy will cost 830,000 jobs and raise household bills by hundreds of dollars as a favor to fossil fuel CEOs.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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House Republicans just passed Trump’s Tax Scam (the GOP’s Medicaid-slashing, billionaire-enriching megabill) in a 215-214 vote. The bill got even worse overnight, but the most important thing to know right now is this:
This fight isn’t over, and this bill can still be stopped. 🧵
This fight isn’t over, and this bill can still be stopped. 🧵
May 22, 2025 at 1:18 PM
House Republicans just passed Trump’s Tax Scam (the GOP’s Medicaid-slashing, billionaire-enriching megabill) in a 215-214 vote. The bill got even worse overnight, but the most important thing to know right now is this:
This fight isn’t over, and this bill can still be stopped. 🧵
This fight isn’t over, and this bill can still be stopped. 🧵
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The extra-extreme members of the House Budget Committee voted "present" tonight so that the Medicaid-cuts-to-fund-tax-giveaways-for-the-rich bill could pass out of committee 17-16.
Tomorrow, flood Capitol Hill switchboards to voice your opposition to this monstrosity.
202-224-3121.
Tomorrow, flood Capitol Hill switchboards to voice your opposition to this monstrosity.
202-224-3121.
May 19, 2025 at 4:26 AM
The extra-extreme members of the House Budget Committee voted "present" tonight so that the Medicaid-cuts-to-fund-tax-giveaways-for-the-rich bill could pass out of committee 17-16.
Tomorrow, flood Capitol Hill switchboards to voice your opposition to this monstrosity.
202-224-3121.
Tomorrow, flood Capitol Hill switchboards to voice your opposition to this monstrosity.
202-224-3121.
They want you to be too poorly informed to realize how much worse they are making your future. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/c...
The U.S. Under Trump: Alone in Its Climate Denial
www.nytimes.com
May 19, 2025 at 7:55 PM
They want you to be too poorly informed to realize how much worse they are making your future. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/c...
The Trump Administration is trying to hide the climate crisis from you. edition.cnn.com/2025/05/08/c...
Trump admin ends extreme weather database that has tracked cost of disasters since 1980 | CNN
Its discontinuation is another Trump-administration blow to the public’s view into how fossil fuel pollution is changing the world around them and making extreme weather more costly.
edition.cnn.com
May 9, 2025 at 1:42 PM
The Trump Administration is trying to hide the climate crisis from you. edition.cnn.com/2025/05/08/c...
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As of Friday, there have been 46 cases in which federal judges have blocked Trump policies.
The rulings in those cases have come from 39 different judges appointed by 5 different presidents (of both parties) to 11 different district courts across 7 different circuits.
Maybe it's not the judges?
The rulings in those cases have come from 39 different judges appointed by 5 different presidents (of both parties) to 11 different district courts across 7 different circuits.
Maybe it's not the judges?
March 30, 2025 at 1:15 PM
As of Friday, there have been 46 cases in which federal judges have blocked Trump policies.
The rulings in those cases have come from 39 different judges appointed by 5 different presidents (of both parties) to 11 different district courts across 7 different circuits.
Maybe it's not the judges?
The rulings in those cases have come from 39 different judges appointed by 5 different presidents (of both parties) to 11 different district courts across 7 different circuits.
Maybe it's not the judges?
“Go ahead and let the rest of the house burn. You won’t have to clean your home when you don’t have one.”
"Remove all the doors from their hinges and start a fire with the wood. Since you’re now using your savings to heat the house, you can stop paying your electricity bill. Take a photo of this to show your followers what incredible work you’re doing."
DOGE-Inspired Spring Cleaning
Start with your closet. Identify all the T-shirts you haven’t worn in three years. Then throw away all your clothes, including the ones you’re wear...
www.mcsweeneys.net
March 13, 2025 at 11:55 AM
“Go ahead and let the rest of the house burn. You won’t have to clean your home when you don’t have one.”
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Today, we’re filing in court to unfreeze our funds. This isn't a step we wanted to take.
We hope for a quick resolution so we can continue to do the job that we were hired for: deliver clean energy savings, jobs, and economic growth to communities across America.
We hope for a quick resolution so we can continue to do the job that we were hired for: deliver clean energy savings, jobs, and economic growth to communities across America.
March 8, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Today, we’re filing in court to unfreeze our funds. This isn't a step we wanted to take.
We hope for a quick resolution so we can continue to do the job that we were hired for: deliver clean energy savings, jobs, and economic growth to communities across America.
We hope for a quick resolution so we can continue to do the job that we were hired for: deliver clean energy savings, jobs, and economic growth to communities across America.
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"What's happening right now is that Republican elected officials are hiding from their constituents, and when they have to talk to them, they're telling them LA LA LA I'm sure it's going to be fine" - @maddow.msnbc.com
February 13, 2025 at 2:25 AM
"What's happening right now is that Republican elected officials are hiding from their constituents, and when they have to talk to them, they're telling them LA LA LA I'm sure it's going to be fine" - @maddow.msnbc.com
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The lawsuit alleges the migrants have been "disappeared into a black box" and are unable to communicate with attorneys.
ACLU and other advocates sue for access to migrants moved to Guantánamo Bay
The lawsuit alleges the migrants have been "disappeared into a black box" and are unable to communicate with attorneys
www.npr.org
February 13, 2025 at 1:11 PM
The lawsuit alleges the migrants have been "disappeared into a black box" and are unable to communicate with attorneys.
Messaging is important. Speak human, not agency.
You say: they shutdown USAID.
You mean: they illegally broke in to a secure facility over a weekend, hijacked sensitive data on vulnerable people and US businesses, destroyed property Americans paid for, cut off resources for sick and hungry families, and fired Americans across the country.
You mean: they illegally broke in to a secure facility over a weekend, hijacked sensitive data on vulnerable people and US businesses, destroyed property Americans paid for, cut off resources for sick and hungry families, and fired Americans across the country.
February 3, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Messaging is important. Speak human, not agency.