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Allyn West
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Allyn West
@allynwest
I write about climate change, energy policy, public health and the built environment. And feelings. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Kentucky, USA Katılım Haziran 2012
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Kash Patel’s colleagues are alarmed by what they say is erratic behavior and excessive drinking, Sarah Fitzpatrick reports. More than two dozen people she spoke with described his management failures and conduct that could harm national security. theatlantic.com/politics/2026/…
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@S_Fitzpatrick @Sulliview @TheAtlantic If I’m on Patel’s legal team I’m arguing that erratic behavior is not *really* a fireable offense in the Trump administration
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EXCLUSIVE: Kash Patel’s colleagues are alarmed by what they say is erratic behavior and excessive drinking. I spoke with more than 2 dozen people with knowledge of his conduct, some of whom described it as a national security vulnerability. @TheAtlantic theatlantic.com/politics/2026/…
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“ … more than 3,000 pending sexual assault and sexual misconduct lawsuits”
nytimes.com/2026/04/20/bus…
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Low-producing oil wells linger for years, causing headaches for Texas landowners texastribune.org/2026/04/20/tex…
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If you click through it's just a map of the entire 8-county region
Houston Chronicle@HoustonChron
As the Houston suburbs continue to grow, highway congestion is growing outside the Loop too. Suburban traffic hotspots like I-45 near The Woodlands, I-10 near Katy and SH-288 close to Pearland made TxDOT’s list of the 100 most congested highway segments in Texas. Here are the Houston freeways – both inside and outside the Loop – that can wreck your daily commute. houstonchronicle.com/projects/2026/…
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Last week, the #EPA proposed weakening landmark #coalash protections — an industry wishlist that would weaken cleanup standards, delay groundwater monitoring and make it easier to leave toxic coal ash in unlined ponds and dumps. ☠️ x.com/RepMikeLevin/s…
Rep. Mike Levin@RepMikeLevin
The Trump Administration just proposed gutting protections on toxic coal ash, a move that could contaminate our groundwater with heavy metals like mercury and lead. Let’s be clear: this is about letting polluters off the hook. These rules exist for a reason, and that reason is to protect public health and prevent this kind of dangerous contamination. Communities shouldn’t have to worry about what’s in their water because corporations don’t want to clean up their mess. pbs.org/newshour/polit…
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The Trump administration's approach to energy has me making the exact same gestures as @rosadelauro
EDF Action@EDFaction
Trump's Energy Department targeted states that didn't vote for him in 2024—and they conceded it in court. Now Secretary Chris Wright wants to walk that back?
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This hearing got fiery 🔥 Rep. Balint calls out the "vindictive and unlawful" ways that the Trump administration tried to play favorites and cancel energy grants to states that voted against him in 2024.
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@emilytakesnotes I bet it turns out that he didn’t look at the poll closely and also there never was a poll and it was a text someone sent him to complain
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Mayor Whitmire today: "I saw a poll by one of our major corporations [regarding WFH]. What would it take to get the workers to want to work back at their corporate headquarters? Their number one concern; they didn't want to engage with the homeless."
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Maybe there's a reason why young people are drawn to mutual aid networks and have intuited that the least painful way for them to endure contemporary life is to organize themselves into small communities of interest and trust
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Spending time on social media is no more or less apathetic than holding up a cardboard sign at an intersection asking people to honk if they don't like fascism
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Edsall would do well to wonder why this column is so old. The youngest person he quotes to get to the bottom of what is the matter with the youth is a 55-year-old professor with tenure.
nytimes.com/2026/04/14/opi…
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As the planet gets warmer and the rains fall harder, the future of flood control is looking less like a wall and something more like a park. Eric Klinenberg considers infrastructure that doesn’t just displace water but soaks it in. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/L8vP1f
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