September 16, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Let's talk about mine safety real quick.
There have been 12 mine fatalities so far in 2025. In the same period in 2024, there were 5. So while the administration is making cuts at MSHA and delaying the implementation of the much-needed silica rule, the number of miners dying has more than doubled.
There have been 12 mine fatalities so far in 2025. In the same period in 2024, there were 5. So while the administration is making cuts at MSHA and delaying the implementation of the much-needed silica rule, the number of miners dying has more than doubled.
Fatality Reports | Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA)
www.msha.gov
May 2, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Let's talk about mine safety real quick.
There have been 12 mine fatalities so far in 2025. In the same period in 2024, there were 5. So while the administration is making cuts at MSHA and delaying the implementation of the much-needed silica rule, the number of miners dying has more than doubled.
There have been 12 mine fatalities so far in 2025. In the same period in 2024, there were 5. So while the administration is making cuts at MSHA and delaying the implementation of the much-needed silica rule, the number of miners dying has more than doubled.
Really thought MSHA was fucking better than this
April 21, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Really thought MSHA was fucking better than this
The children and grandchildren of these striking minors now vote for the bosses and bureaucrats trying to roll labor rights and OSHA and the MSHA back 100 years.
August 3, 2025 at 4:04 AM
The children and grandchildren of these striking minors now vote for the bosses and bureaucrats trying to roll labor rights and OSHA and the MSHA back 100 years.
Michael Lewis makes the case for MSHA, the agency that keeps America's miners safe - and why government has to solve the problems nobody else will - on
@weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social.
@weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social.
April 8, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Michael Lewis makes the case for MSHA, the agency that keeps America's miners safe - and why government has to solve the problems nobody else will - on
@weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social.
@weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social.
Holy shit as a former mine worker this is insane. Silicosis is just one of those things MSHA is fully aware of and fuck me man this is dire. Gonna lead to some terrifying slow miserable deaths years down the road
Last week, Trump signed an executive order promising to scrap environmental protections and supercharge coal production.
Within hours, the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) announced it would pause the enforcement of a life-saving silica dust rule—a direct attack on coal miners.
Within hours, the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) announced it would pause the enforcement of a life-saving silica dust rule—a direct attack on coal miners.
Trump Just Escalated His War on Coal Miners. Their Unions Are Fighting Back.
The Trump administration’s feckless business-first, workers-last approach is leaving the nation’s coal miners to die—and now their unions are taking him to court.
inthesetimes.com
April 21, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Holy shit as a former mine worker this is insane. Silicosis is just one of those things MSHA is fully aware of and fuck me man this is dire. Gonna lead to some terrifying slow miserable deaths years down the road
Pencils? The only people I’ve ever seen getting pencils for Christmas were the Depression-era TV Waltons. He would love to take us back there.
May 4, 2025 at 8:00 PM
i believe canonically Aperture Science is regulated by MSHA
February 20, 2026 at 4:01 AM
i believe canonically Aperture Science is regulated by MSHA
Congress Rejects Trump's OSHA & MSHA Cuts. Chemical Safety Board survives.
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Congress Rejects OSHA & MSHA Cuts - Confined Space
After Trump's proposal for significant cuts in the budgets of OSHA ,MSHA and NIOSH, Congress has provided full funding.
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January 22, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Congress Rejects Trump's OSHA & MSHA Cuts. Chemical Safety Board survives.
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It is really sad to see the birthbace of MSHA stuff MSHA in woodshed as union power wanes there.
August 14, 2026 at 3:51 AM
It is really sad to see the birthbace of MSHA stuff MSHA in woodshed as union power wanes there.
I don't know how to even explain to people who haven't been paying attention how devastating the loss of institutional knowledge and public confidence is.
We're not bringing back the CDC in my lifetime. Or NASA. Or the EPA. Or the FDA. Or NIOSH, OSHA, MSHA...
We're not bringing back the CDC in my lifetime. Or NASA. Or the EPA. Or the FDA. Or NIOSH, OSHA, MSHA...
September 7, 2025 at 3:57 AM
I don't know how to even explain to people who haven't been paying attention how devastating the loss of institutional knowledge and public confidence is.
We're not bringing back the CDC in my lifetime. Or NASA. Or the EPA. Or the FDA. Or NIOSH, OSHA, MSHA...
We're not bringing back the CDC in my lifetime. Or NASA. Or the EPA. Or the FDA. Or NIOSH, OSHA, MSHA...
+ McCarthismo pras universidades pesquisando desinformação
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Trump has vowed to crack down on universities involved in misinformation research, or what he dubs the "censorship cartel" - e.g. by curbing funds to those that have "flagged content for removal”, or legal threats
“I'm pretty fucking scared," one professor tells me.
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“I'm pretty fucking scared," one professor tells me.
www.ft.com/content/bfb4...
Donald Trump’s return sends shivers through the anti-misinformation world
Vow to crack down on the ‘censorship cartel’ has researchers worried — and Big Tech is on notice
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November 26, 2024 at 5:31 PM
+ McCarthismo pras universidades pesquisando desinformação
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Death by Deregulation: Trump declares war on coal miners. #MSHA will "revisit" and likely weaken silica standard that would prevent severe black lung diseases plaguing young miners.
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Death by Deregulation: MSHA to Roll Back Miners' Silica Protections - Confined Space
Trump administration announces that it will reconsider -- and likely weaken -- the new silica standard issued in 2024
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December 5, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Death by Deregulation: Trump declares war on coal miners. #MSHA will "revisit" and likely weaken silica standard that would prevent severe black lung diseases plaguing young miners.
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I'm just picturing one group of MSHA (Magic Safety and Hazards Administration) and one group who are, yknow, the magic equivalent of Germans building lead smelters with no ventilation
February 18, 2026 at 4:16 PM
I'm just picturing one group of MSHA (Magic Safety and Hazards Administration) and one group who are, yknow, the magic equivalent of Germans building lead smelters with no ventilation
*over 400 OSHA staff. There are also several hundred MSHA staff working without pay to handle issues related to mine safety and health.
October 1, 2025 at 3:13 PM
*over 400 OSHA staff. There are also several hundred MSHA staff working without pay to handle issues related to mine safety and health.
if i worked at Trader Joe's i would definitely change this to "Sorry, Trump Took Egg"
February 14, 2025 at 1:09 AM
New nominees for head of OSHA & MSHA just dropped. @jbarab.bsky.social's take.
February 13, 2025 at 1:26 PM
New nominees for head of OSHA & MSHA just dropped. @jbarab.bsky.social's take.
I have a real job so no, not from me. But if any enterprising fans want to set up a merch store I will repost the link to it bsky.app/profile/msha...
can i get a Trump Took Egg t-shirt
February 11, 2025 at 9:11 PM
I have a real job so no, not from me. But if any enterprising fans want to set up a merch store I will repost the link to it bsky.app/profile/msha...
The answer is simple:
1) Vote against it.
2) Dem candidates pledge to allocate an entire wings of the EPA and DOJ and MSHA to investigate every character in every document. Ensure regulatory hell for everyone involved to increase the cost beyond viability.
1) Vote against it.
2) Dem candidates pledge to allocate an entire wings of the EPA and DOJ and MSHA to investigate every character in every document. Ensure regulatory hell for everyone involved to increase the cost beyond viability.
Republican Senators will soon vote to allow a Chilean company to mine in the BWCA watershed.
Who asked for this? The billionaire owner of mining conglomerate Antofagasta – who happens to be Ivanka Trump’s former landlord.
Who asked for this? The billionaire owner of mining conglomerate Antofagasta – who happens to be Ivanka Trump’s former landlord.
NYT: Ivanka Trump, Kushner have ‘unusual connection’ with owner of Chilean company that worked with administration to secure Minnesota mining lease | CNN Politics
A Chilean mining company whose owner has business ties to President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump and his son-in-law Jared Kushner was able to clear significant “roadblocks” in the early days o...
www.cnn.com
April 15, 2026 at 11:51 PM
The answer is simple:
1) Vote against it.
2) Dem candidates pledge to allocate an entire wings of the EPA and DOJ and MSHA to investigate every character in every document. Ensure regulatory hell for everyone involved to increase the cost beyond viability.
1) Vote against it.
2) Dem candidates pledge to allocate an entire wings of the EPA and DOJ and MSHA to investigate every character in every document. Ensure regulatory hell for everyone involved to increase the cost beyond viability.
NIOSH aren't regulators OSHA& MSHA are.
NIOSH conducts & supports research about what causes & efficiently reduces workplace risks.
Without it, evidence of harms will be harder to come by meaning less regulation & worker safety.
NIOSH conducts & supports research about what causes & efficiently reduces workplace risks.
Without it, evidence of harms will be harder to come by meaning less regulation & worker safety.
April 1, 2025 at 3:02 AM
NIOSH aren't regulators OSHA& MSHA are.
NIOSH conducts & supports research about what causes & efficiently reduces workplace risks.
Without it, evidence of harms will be harder to come by meaning less regulation & worker safety.
NIOSH conducts & supports research about what causes & efficiently reduces workplace risks.
Without it, evidence of harms will be harder to come by meaning less regulation & worker safety.
But the MSHA and Department of Labor were hardly without blame too. They had inspected Upper Big Branch several times. And sure, Blankenship was ignoring the law. But MSHA fines simply were not big enough. In the previous five years, MSHA had found 1,300 violations!!!!!
April 5, 2025 at 1:42 PM
But the MSHA and Department of Labor were hardly without blame too. They had inspected Upper Big Branch several times. And sure, Blankenship was ignoring the law. But MSHA fines simply were not big enough. In the previous five years, MSHA had found 1,300 violations!!!!!
Without the federal inspections, coal operations will just run rampant,” said Tony Oppegard, a former Kentucky mine safety prosecutor and MSHA legal adviser. “There won’t be any accountability.”
Which is precisely what the right wing oligarchs want- a return to Dystopian Industrial factories.
Which is precisely what the right wing oligarchs want- a return to Dystopian Industrial factories.
March 31, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Without the federal inspections, coal operations will just run rampant,” said Tony Oppegard, a former Kentucky mine safety prosecutor and MSHA legal adviser. “There won’t be any accountability.”
Which is precisely what the right wing oligarchs want- a return to Dystopian Industrial factories.
Which is precisely what the right wing oligarchs want- a return to Dystopian Industrial factories.
Federal standards exist for respirable dust exposure under the Mine Safety & Health Administration (MSHA).
It is mine management’s responsibility to provide the respirator devices, implement mandatory use in certain conditions and enforce the rules. MSHA is supposed to hold companies accountable.
It is mine management’s responsibility to provide the respirator devices, implement mandatory use in certain conditions and enforce the rules. MSHA is supposed to hold companies accountable.
September 23, 2026 at 1:01 AM
Federal standards exist for respirable dust exposure under the Mine Safety & Health Administration (MSHA).
It is mine management’s responsibility to provide the respirator devices, implement mandatory use in certain conditions and enforce the rules. MSHA is supposed to hold companies accountable.
It is mine management’s responsibility to provide the respirator devices, implement mandatory use in certain conditions and enforce the rules. MSHA is supposed to hold companies accountable.