Maya Rommwatt
@rommwatt.bsky.social
Working for freedom from toxic exposure, Director of Campaigns and Programs at Defend Our Health | she/her
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250+ public health & enviro groups sent Congress a clear message: protect public health & reject the chemical lobby’s push to weaken #TSCA, our nation’s chemical safety law.
Read the letter and TAKE ACTION!
#PolluterProtectionAct #PFAS #phthalates
Read the letter and TAKE ACTION!
#PolluterProtectionAct #PFAS #phthalates
250+ groups urge Congress to reject chemical lobby push to weaken TSCA - Toxic-Free Future
Toxic-Free Future, Safer States, and more than 250 state, local, and national public health and environmental groups sent a joint letter to Congress this week, urging lawmakers to reject the chemical ...
toxicfreefuture.org
December 17, 2025 at 8:07 PM
250+ public health & enviro groups sent Congress a clear message: protect public health & reject the chemical lobby’s push to weaken #TSCA, our nation’s chemical safety law.
Read the letter and TAKE ACTION!
#PolluterProtectionAct #PFAS #phthalates
Read the letter and TAKE ACTION!
#PolluterProtectionAct #PFAS #phthalates
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Washington’s refusal to regulate AI is a corruption story. Just ask Donald Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson.
December 17, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Washington’s refusal to regulate AI is a corruption story. Just ask Donald Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson.
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GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
December 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
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“To put it frankly, old white people have a lot of time, and they’re really angry,” Stauss said. “Having somebody that looks like your grandmother out there, shouting ‘shame’ or out there blowing her whistle, is really important.”
They’re the Heat on ICE
Stopping federal agents on Canal Street was just the start: Inside a resistance movement.
nymag.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:03 PM
“To put it frankly, old white people have a lot of time, and they’re really angry,” Stauss said. “Having somebody that looks like your grandmother out there, shouting ‘shame’ or out there blowing her whistle, is really important.”
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They also gifted us with this PRACTICAL TOOLKIT: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
1. How to schedule and run trainings for ICE Watch Patrols and other key volunteer roles
2. How to build out patrol shifts and zones, including the practical nuts and bolts of the technology and systems used in NC
1. How to schedule and run trainings for ICE Watch Patrols and other key volunteer roles
2. How to build out patrol shifts and zones, including the practical nuts and bolts of the technology and systems used in NC
Toolkit: how we dealt with Border Patrol
In November 2025, Border Patrol announced it would be coming to Charlotte, North Carolina. We only had a few days’ notice. Just like in Chicago and Los Angeles, they weren’t coming to “keep the peace....
docs.google.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:59 PM
They also gifted us with this PRACTICAL TOOLKIT: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
1. How to schedule and run trainings for ICE Watch Patrols and other key volunteer roles
2. How to build out patrol shifts and zones, including the practical nuts and bolts of the technology and systems used in NC
1. How to schedule and run trainings for ICE Watch Patrols and other key volunteer roles
2. How to build out patrol shifts and zones, including the practical nuts and bolts of the technology and systems used in NC
It would be hard to take this EPA seriously, if they weren't running breakneck to poison us all. www.propublica.org/article/epa-...
Under Former Chemical Industry Insiders, Trump EPA Nearly Doubles Amount of Formaldehyde Considered Safe to Inhale
Chemical industry lobbyists have long pushed the government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the cancer risk from chemicals, one that would help ease regulations on companies that make or...
www.propublica.org
December 8, 2025 at 4:38 PM
It would be hard to take this EPA seriously, if they weren't running breakneck to poison us all. www.propublica.org/article/epa-...
Trump Returns Coast Guard Helicopter to Oregon Fishing Town After Uproar
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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Somehow, even with deadlines & such, it is ~100% certain this is not how the Paper of Record would cover the TN-7 election result if it were the reverse in a D+22 district 🧐🤔
December 3, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Somehow, even with deadlines & such, it is ~100% certain this is not how the Paper of Record would cover the TN-7 election result if it were the reverse in a D+22 district 🧐🤔
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Please report ICE and share videos of their illegal actions here…
oversightdemocrats.house.gov/immigration-...
oversightdemocrats.house.gov/immigration-...
Oversight Immigration Enforcement Dashboard
To fulfill our oversight and legislative responsibilities to protect and defend the Constitution, Oversight Committee Democrats are compiling a verified public record of possible misconduct incidents ...
oversightdemocrats.house.gov
November 26, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Please report ICE and share videos of their illegal actions here…
oversightdemocrats.house.gov/immigration-...
oversightdemocrats.house.gov/immigration-...
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Our new research shows many of The Home Depot’s top suppliers are still using PVC in their packaging. Seriously?!
#PVC doesn’t make our homes better; it threatens our health, safety, and the environment. 🌎 The Home Depot can and must do more to phase it out of all packaging on store shelves.
#PVC doesn’t make our homes better; it threatens our health, safety, and the environment. 🌎 The Home Depot can and must do more to phase it out of all packaging on store shelves.
Packed in poison plastic: New research shows The Home Depot’s key suppliers are using PVC packaging - Toxic-Free Future
Our new research shows that The Home Depot can and must do more to rid their stores of PVC, the poison plastic, from packaging.
toxicfreefuture.org
November 21, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Our new research shows many of The Home Depot’s top suppliers are still using PVC in their packaging. Seriously?!
#PVC doesn’t make our homes better; it threatens our health, safety, and the environment. 🌎 The Home Depot can and must do more to phase it out of all packaging on store shelves.
#PVC doesn’t make our homes better; it threatens our health, safety, and the environment. 🌎 The Home Depot can and must do more to phase it out of all packaging on store shelves.
Excellent creative tactic!
In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
November 23, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Excellent creative tactic!
Oh hello North Korea. These people do know it’s a week before a major fall travel holiday and that the entire fashion industry is putting out sleepwear as aviation wear this year, right? Guess they have strong feelings about how we plebes look.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/t...
Sean Duffy Wants You to Stop Wearing PJs on the Plane
www.nytimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Oh hello North Korea. These people do know it’s a week before a major fall travel holiday and that the entire fashion industry is putting out sleepwear as aviation wear this year, right? Guess they have strong feelings about how we plebes look.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/t...
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Keep the good ideas rollin www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air.
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Keep the good ideas rollin www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
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NEW FINDINGS: We found sixteen pesticides linked to learning disabilities, autism and hormone disruption in Target-brand baby food.
foe.org/toxic-pestic...
foe.org/toxic-pestic...
Toxic Pesticides in Target’s Baby Food
Friends of the Earth found a cocktail of toxic pesticides in two non-organic baby food products made by Target’s house brand, Good & Gather.
foe.org
November 18, 2025 at 3:09 PM
NEW FINDINGS: We found sixteen pesticides linked to learning disabilities, autism and hormone disruption in Target-brand baby food.
foe.org/toxic-pestic...
foe.org/toxic-pestic...
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Democrats will focus on the House and Senate, but to me, the state legislatures are equally important. Democrats lost an entire generation of new leaders when they got wiped out in the state legislatures in 2010 and again in 2014. The Democrats need to build the next generation in the state leg. 1/3
Marist finds Democrats up 55/41 on the generic ballot: maristpoll.marist.edu/polls/a-look...
That may be a factor of an enthusiasm gap mixed with a serving of outlier, but also it’s not a shocker in light of the sheer extent of Democrats’ sweeping wins in November.
That may be a factor of an enthusiasm gap mixed with a serving of outlier, but also it’s not a shocker in light of the sheer extent of Democrats’ sweeping wins in November.
November 19, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Democrats will focus on the House and Senate, but to me, the state legislatures are equally important. Democrats lost an entire generation of new leaders when they got wiped out in the state legislatures in 2010 and again in 2014. The Democrats need to build the next generation in the state leg. 1/3
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After almost a decade of serving the #BreakFreeFromPlastic movement as its Global Coordinator, Von goes back to his roots in local campaigning as he leads Oceana’s Philippine team.
Read more 👇
www.breakfreefromplastic.org/2025/11/13/r...
#activism
Read more 👇
www.breakfreefromplastic.org/2025/11/13/r...
#activism
November 14, 2025 at 5:00 AM
After almost a decade of serving the #BreakFreeFromPlastic movement as its Global Coordinator, Von goes back to his roots in local campaigning as he leads Oceana’s Philippine team.
Read more 👇
www.breakfreefromplastic.org/2025/11/13/r...
#activism
Read more 👇
www.breakfreefromplastic.org/2025/11/13/r...
#activism
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DONATIONS PLEASE
You may have seen that 600+ detainees are eligible for release, which is amazing! BUT: you may not know that immigration detainees still have to pay for their freedom-- $1500 bond per person! The Midwest Immigration Bond Fund is raising money to help people get free, please donate: www.mibfc.org
Midwest Immigration Bond Fund
www.mibfc.org
November 13, 2025 at 6:54 PM
DONATIONS PLEASE
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The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
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They only like immigrants they can profit from. Everything is about enriching themselves and their family and friends.
All the culture war issues are to keep us distracted and divided as the oligarchy sucks up more and more and more money.
All the culture war issues are to keep us distracted and divided as the oligarchy sucks up more and more and more money.
November 12, 2025 at 1:46 PM
They only like immigrants they can profit from. Everything is about enriching themselves and their family and friends.
All the culture war issues are to keep us distracted and divided as the oligarchy sucks up more and more and more money.
All the culture war issues are to keep us distracted and divided as the oligarchy sucks up more and more and more money.
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JOIN US! This convo will feature Professor Roy Gardner, an internationally recognized expert in wetland law and policy and the author of Waters of the United States: POTUS, SCOTUS, WOTUS, and the Politics of a National Resource. Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
October 31, 2025 at 12:31 AM
JOIN US! This convo will feature Professor Roy Gardner, an internationally recognized expert in wetland law and policy and the author of Waters of the United States: POTUS, SCOTUS, WOTUS, and the Politics of a National Resource. Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Sadly, Island Press has been bought. But you can find lots of good deals on their going away sale.
📚 Don’t miss the final @islandpress 50% off simply everything sale! Nearly every Island Press print book is half off from Nov 10 – 16. Only at www.islandpress.org.
November 10, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Sadly, Island Press has been bought. But you can find lots of good deals on their going away sale.
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i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?
November 10, 2025 at 12:56 AM
i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
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🚨 New report shows @CocaCola increased its use of virgin plastic by 10% despite its commitment to tackle plastic pollution.
Learn more: https://www.breakfreefromplastic.org/2025/11/07/members-react-emf-2025-reports/
#BreakFreeFromPlastic #PlasticPollution #CorporateAccountability
Learn more: https://www.breakfreefromplastic.org/2025/11/07/members-react-emf-2025-reports/
#BreakFreeFromPlastic #PlasticPollution #CorporateAccountability
November 7, 2025 at 10:36 AM
🚨 New report shows @CocaCola increased its use of virgin plastic by 10% despite its commitment to tackle plastic pollution.
Learn more: https://www.breakfreefromplastic.org/2025/11/07/members-react-emf-2025-reports/
#BreakFreeFromPlastic #PlasticPollution #CorporateAccountability
Learn more: https://www.breakfreefromplastic.org/2025/11/07/members-react-emf-2025-reports/
#BreakFreeFromPlastic #PlasticPollution #CorporateAccountability
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Trump goes to court to starve kids should be a headline everywhere today
Trump administration seeks emergency stay of court's order to fund SNAP
Trump administration seeks emergency stay of court's order to fund SNAP
U.S. District Court Judge John McConnell Jr. ordered the Trump administration to pay full SNAP benefits by Friday.
dlvr.it
November 7, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Trump goes to court to starve kids should be a headline everywhere today