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Trump has proposed a $1.5 trillion defense budget — a 40% increase, the largest since WWII. In exchange for more war he wants to: -Cut the EPA budget by half -Cut $10.7 billion for housing -Cut $8.5 billion for K-12 programs -Cancel $15 billion for clean energy -Cut $2.5 billion for clean drinking water -Eliminate $1.6 billion for youth job training -Cut $3.5 billion from the Labor Department -Eliminate $395 million for senior employment -Eliminate $775 million in food assistance grants -Eliminate the National Endowment for Democracy -Cut $5 billion from the National Institutes of Health -Eliminate the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) In all, cuts to domestic programs would account for a 10% reduction in discretionary spending.

Speaker Julie Menin’s preliminary budget proposal would result in slashing billions of dollars from agency budgets, which would force the City to cut services. Double counting previously identified savings, overestimating revenues, and exaggerating debt service savings does nothing to close a deficit. This $6 billion proposal asks Albany for just one action – class size mandate relief. It refuses to address the deeper structural imbalance between the City and the State, or to increase taxes on the wealthiest New Yorkers and most profitable corporations. It effectively ensures this structural deficit will continue indefinitely. Any proposal that claims we can close this gap without significant new revenue is unrealistic.

New York City Council just released a budget proposal. Here's what New Yorkers should know:

We now have an answer to the question of "is NYC just doing good social media posts about service delivery, or is service delivery actually changing?"

Now it’s THIRTEEN hospitals and health centres, bombed by the US-Israel force. theguardian.com/global-develop…

“This is how the right defends the rights of Iranian women: by celebrating the murder of 160 girls.” This Spanish politician called out the hypocrisy in using feminist rhetoric to support the U.S. and Israeli bombing of Iran.

@PlasticPollutes @DylanBaddour @ciel_tweets @SDonziger

⚖️ Facing multiple lawsuits over its pollution, Dow Chemical’s Seadrift, Texas, has made an unprecedented request to legalize the discharge of microplastics from its massive petrochemical and plastics plant into waters feeding San Antonio Bay and the Gulf of Mexico. 💡 Why it matters: If its permit to discharge is approved, it could set a precedent for legalizing discharges of microplastics and plastic chemicals from other plastics manufacturing facilities. 📕 Context: In December 2025, Diane Wilson had filed a legal notice of intent to sue Dow for alleged large-scale discharges of plastic pellets from its 4,700-acre petrochemical complex outside Seadrift, Texas. She and a team of boatmen for her nonprofit, San Antonio Bay Estuarine Waterkeeper, have spent years collecting evidence of Dow’s continual plastic pollution in an industrial canal outside the facility. Learn more: ow.ly/MvB950YoeGF #PlasticPollutes #BreakFreeFromPlastic #Dow #Texas #PlasticPellets

The death toll from this air strike on an elementary school on Saturday is now nearly 180, and 95 injured. Most of those killed were girls aged between 7-12 years old. @UNESCO calling it “a grave violation of international law.”

Dow asks Texas to legalize plastic pollution from its Seadrift complex It could set a precedent for authorizing discharges of materials like polyethylene pellets and PVC powder from other plastics manufacturing facilities along the Gulf Coast texastribune.org/2026/03/02/tex…

Nine months after the Colorado Supreme Court ruled a climate impact lawsuit filed by city and county officials in Boulder against Suncor Energy and ExxonMobile could move forward, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear the fossil fuel companies’ appeal of that decision. insideclimatenews.org/news/23022026/…

Reef-building corals are disappearing faster than scientists can document them and proposed amendments to the Endangered Species Act will only make it worse, international researchers warn. insideclimatenews.org/news/26022026/…

More than 60,000 penguins starve to death near Africa!@Independent This is a tragedy but one that could have been prevented The overfishing of sardines and krill in their hunting grounds means they have no food - the fish however largely goes to feed factory farmed animals It never was sustainable #WakeUpWorld independent.co.uk/news/world/afr…

Fears grow that world's rarest apes were swept away in Sumatran floods @BBCNews “Ever since Cyclone Senyar devastated Sumatra on 25 November, the critically endangered primates have not been seen” 💔 bbc.com/news/articles/…

1. late November floods have been an “extinction-level disturbance” for the world’s rarest great ape theguardian.com/world/2025/dec…

icymi: Indonesia floods * ‘extinction level’ for Orangutan species left on brink of annihilation * >1000 dead * >900,000 displaced

@davidsirota FYI @SDonziger

🚨NEWS: Exxon is petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court to grant corporations a new First Amendment right to avoid disclosing how much toxic pollution they are spewing and how much they are incinerating the atmosphere that supports all life on the planet.

2.6 °C means crop failure, Amazon collapse, lethal heat, and millions dead. And that is still our trajectory. Emissions are rising, carbon sinks are failing, and COP pledges are a joke. This is criminal negligence on a global scale. theguardian.com/environment/20…