By Jeff Stein, Tony Romm, Daniel Gilbert · The Washington Post (c) 2024 Legislation to keep the government from shutting down has gotten smaller – but it still hasn’t passed. The original plan negotiated between House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) and Democrats in both chambers ran more than 1,500 pages, while the legislation that the House voted down […]
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8 policies stripped from GOP bill after Trump, Musk rebellion
By Jeff Stein, Tony Romm, Daniel Gilbert · The Washington Post (c) 2024 Legislation to keep the government from shutting down has gotten smaller – but it still hasn’t passed. The original plan negotiated between House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) and Democrats in both chambers ran more than 1,500 pages, while the legislation that the House voted down […]
Trump’s foes fear his retribution has already begun
By Hannah Knowles, Colby Itkowitz · The Washington Post (c) 2024 Since he was elected, President-elect Donald Trump has waffled on his campaign-season vow to punish his enemies when he returns to the White House, declaring this month that his “retribution will be through success.” But many of Trump’s critics – and targets – fear that his long-promised campaign […]
Trump’s foes fear his retribution has already begun
By Hannah Knowles, Colby Itkowitz · The Washington Post (c) 2024 Since he was elected, President-elect Donald Trump has waffled on his campaign-season vow to punish his enemies when he returns to the White House, declaring this month that his “retribution will be through success.” But many of Trump’s critics – and targets – fear that his long-promised campaign […]
Advocacy group plans to fight mega farms in New Mexico
By Jeanette DeDios, KUNM Over the past 20 years, New Mexico has lost half of its family-scale dairy farms to big factory farms. That’s according to Food & Water Watch, an advocacy group that argues this increasing reliance on these big farms is harmful to air, land, and water quality.The organization is seeking a moratorium on these […]
Advocacy group plans to fight mega farms in New Mexico
By Jeanette DeDios, KUNM Over the past 20 years, New Mexico has lost half of its family-scale dairy farms to big factory farms. That’s according to Food & Water Watch, an advocacy group that argues this increasing reliance on these big farms is harmful to air, land, and water quality.The organization is seeking a moratorium on these […]
Harmful gas billowing from Texas and New Mexico comes mostly from smaller leaks, researchers say
By Tammy Webber, Associated Press The blob on the satellite image is a rainbow of colors. An analyst digitally sharpens it and there, highlighted in red, is the source: a concrete oil pad spewing methane. In the 75,000-square-mile (194-square-kilometer) Permian Basin straddling Texas and New Mexico, the most productive oil and gas region in the […]
Harmful gas billowing from Texas and New Mexico comes mostly from smaller leaks, researchers say
By Tammy Webber, Associated Press The blob on the satellite image is a rainbow of colors. An analyst digitally sharpens it and there, highlighted in red, is the source: a concrete oil pad spewing methane. In the 75,000-square-mile (194-square-kilometer) Permian Basin straddling Texas and New Mexico, the most productive oil and gas region in the […]
Musk’s dangerous, exaggerated conflation of social media and democracy
By Philip Bump · The Washington Post (c) 2024 It’s been apparent for some time that Elon Musk and Donald Trump align on more than politics. Each has a, let’s say, robust sense of his own importance and an apparent need for others to recognize that importance. Both have a large fan base happy to offer […]
Musk’s dangerous, exaggerated conflation of social media and democracy
By Philip Bump · The Washington Post (c) 2024 It’s been apparent for some time that Elon Musk and Donald Trump align on more than politics. Each has a, let’s say, robust sense of his own importance and an apparent need for others to recognize that importance. Both have a large fan base happy to offer […]