Do you like bikes? Trump's Department of Transportation plans to cut funding for safer streets. An internal memo called for a funding freeze and review of pedestrian safety projects, specifically those that “improve the condition for environmental justice communities."

These cuts target programs like Safe Streets and Roads for All, which make streets safer for everyone—right when pedestrian deaths are rising. Unlike other high-income countries, Americans were 50 percent more likely to die walking in 2022 than they were in 2013.

🚨Bureau of Land Management fire management staff across multiple states told me DOGE put a $1 limit on their credit cards this week, preventing them from buying time-sensitive supplies. It means if there were to be a fire, they potentially couldn’t travel to fight it.

I spoke to recently fired Forest Service concerned that the job cuts will prevent the agency from properly managing national forests and wildfire threats — and potentially be used as justification to weaken federal management and open the door to privatizing public lands.

🚨 AI is quietly reshaping the government. President Trump has said he wants to make the U.S. "the world capital of AI," but these systems are already wrongfully denying people health care, food, and housing at scale.🧵

6/ “Government exists to help facilitate a common well-being,” De Liban says. “Right now, it’s failing.” He's launched TechTonic Justice to build a coalition that can train lawyers, educate communities, and fight back against AI-driven harms. techtonicjustice.org/