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Time to Wake Up 308: 40 Years After Chafee’s Warning

Citizens United decision unleashed a vast fossil fuel-funded armada of front groups that spread climate disinformation

254th Anniversary of the “Gaspee” Raid

cargo and sold the ship and transferred the funds to the exchequer of Great Britain. What they

Time to Wake Up 307: The Mischief Continues

Nature.  The stakes are huge: the International Monetary Fund has calculated that the fossil fuel industry’s subsidy … year. That’s a lot of money, to fund a lot of mischief. The polluters deny the science

The Scheme #37: The Scheme Meets Time to Wake Up

decision. It was cooked up in fossil fuel-funded doctrine factories, massaged, maneuvered into conferences, propagated … fossil fuel-funded phony flotillas of front group amici who come into the Court to tell it what

Time to Wake Up 305: Lyin’ Lee Zeldin

Project 2025 blueprint—instructed agencies to cut off funding that his fossil fuel donors disfavored.  Remember, Candidate Trump … were Congressionally appropriated, and obligated to grantees, to fund projects in clean energy, coastal resilience, lead pipe removal

As Trump Tries to Take Over U.S. Elections, Reed Delivers Speech Opposing Anti-Voter SAVE Act

bill offers no additional federal support or funding for the new proof of citizenship requirements it would impose … longer provide Medicaid to children and seniors while funding yet another “forever war” in the Middle East

Trump/Russia, Trump/Epstein, Epstein/Russia

until that point, Trump paused an already-funded weapons shipment for Ukraine, including the Patriot interceptors that protect … sanctions loopholes, effectively allowing dummy corporations to send funds, chips, and military equipment to Russia. Leaked phone calls

Time to Wake Up #304: Global Economic Loss as Climate Danger Looms

selling to a hedge fund or a billionaire, you have to mark your property down; you have

Time to Wake Up 303: Recapping COP30

fossil fuel industry has propped up and funds to propagate its climate denial fraud operation–pretend that this … just gone off on a fossil fuel-funded excursion. If we don’t protect the CBAM

Time to Wake Up 302: Bought and Paid For

buttress the climate denial fraud, using unlimited funding— unleashed by Citizens United. Now we are in phase … visiting fellow at the climate denialist Heritage Foundation, funded—no surprise—by ExxonMobil, DonorsTrust, the Koch Foundation

Time to Wake Up 301: A Dangerous Precipice

Four Phases of Climate Denial, because fossil-fuel-funded climate denial is the root of the danger. Phase … free, has been calculated by the International Monetary Fund at north of $600 billion dollars, every year — every

Time to Wake Up 300: Wake Up and Fight

when tens of millions of dollars of secret funds can be dumped into an election by a billionaire … entire industry. So, they have an immense, well-funded, covert, purposeful operation; and we wait until the pollsters

Time to Wake Up 299: How Empty and Worthless is the Power of Kings

have those anymore, not when our polluter-funded Dear Leader says it’s all a hox. Or take

Senator Whitehouse Remembers Rhode Island’s Late Senate President Dominick Ruggerio

state’s opioid crisis.  He created a fund to support statewide opioid treatment, recovery, prevention and education programs

Scheme 35: The Real Weaponization of the Justice System

into one episode. It begins with a climate fund, duly created and appropriated by Congress, maintained after … funds were disbursed at a private bank, and overseen by EPA. But MAGA’s dear leader claims, falsely

Time to Wake Up 297: A Dagger in EPA’s Bipartisan Mission

industry’s carbon pollution.  The International Monetary Fund – not a green institution – pegs the costs the public bears

Reed Rebukes Trump’s Disruptive Blanket Suspension of Federal Funds for Rhode Island

Time to Wake Up 296: Looters and Polluters

fuel. Well, Trump won and the billionaires who funded Trump’s campaign want their payback. Payback began this