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A future Democratic president will have to do more than rehire a competent civil service, they’ll have to cleanse the federal bureaucracy of its Trumpist stench.

As Ecuador and the U.S. continue their aggressive campaign in the Pacific, a lone judge and victims' families are trying to hold them accountable.

Hegseth is the most incompetent person in the Trump regime — with the exception of Trump himself — and a clear and present danger to the security of the United States and the world.

That land is a body and must be nourished. That we cannot cut it into fundable pieces and expect the pieces to bleed separately. The Farm Bill is a health bill. It cannot be cut into pieces without harming land and people.

The National Priorities Project (NPP) at the Institute for Policy Studies has estimated the federal government plans to spend $268.9 billion to undertake mass deportations throughout the second Trump administration.

This summer’s fires are more than just a wake-up call. They are a five-alarm emergency alert. The least we can demand of our political leaders is that they stop dismantling the only tools we have to fight the incineration of our world.

It’s unfortunate that we must ask the question: What happens when a good bill meets a seemingly indifferent administration?

Climate indifference and the denialism currently in power in Washington are showing up in more diluted forms in Europe. We have seen it during these days of record-breaking temperatures.