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My Budget reform proposal got rid of the debt ceiling, and instead required regular reporting of Debt-to-GDP ratios. The information is more useful, and it’s not a dangerous “bear trap in the bedroom” ready to go off and cause harm. time.com/article/2026...
link:https://time.com/article/2026/09/23/how-democrats-could-work-with-trump-to-eliminate-the-debt-ceiling-for-good/"
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Senator Rick Scott objected.
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I’m headed to the Senate Floor to ask my colleagues if we can all agree on this one, simple truth: climate change is making wildfires more frequent, more intense, and more destructive.
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More lawbreaking by captured EPA. Fossil fuel thugs lurking in background are cool with their stooges’ lawbreaking, so long as it helps them. apnews.com/article/clim...
link:https://apnews.com/article/climate-solar-for-all-trump-biden-lawsuit-0bae42fcf85906ea48ee0f6f4d6c83a9"
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Twenty-five losses and counting. news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/w...
link:https://news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/washington-state-voter-rolls-off-limits-to-doj-judge-rules?taid=6ab312386c6dc70001a5b119&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
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Trump’s mental incapacity is a serious problem for the world. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/o...
link:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/opinion/trump-september-11-fantasy-reality.html
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Paying the Russian back answers zero questions about this. abcnews.com/Politics/tru...
link:https://abcnews.com/Politics/trump-donald-trump-jr-repaid-russian-oligarch-wedding/story?id=136571775
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We made the mistake of accepting “ambitions” instead of actions (like making polluters pay as they should) and we’re now paying the price for that. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/u...
link:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/upshot/states-carbon-emissions-goals.html
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Basic truths as we head into Climate Week: 1. Trumpsters lie and fossil fuel corrupts. 2. Free-to-pollute is lethal to climate safety. 3. The CBAM is vital to safety.
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Big Orange Crybaby only wants “Natalie News”?
link:https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/18/trump-bans-cnn-msnow-politico-white-house
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I have a different view. Fossil fuel funded Trump’s campaign. They’re on his team. Blocking low-cost clean energy drives grids to their expensive power plants, sending billions in ratepayer dollars to big Trump donors. It’s a massive scam pumping money from ratepayers to donors.
link:https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/17/trump-fossil-fuels-industry
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Poodle Patel is a walking embarrassment.
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Two ways we can fight corruption: 💰Rein in dark money in politics 👨⚖️Establish enforceable ethics rules at SCOTUS I’ve introduced bills to do both. Glad to see my SCERT and DISCLOSE Acts featured in @democracydefendersaction.org's anti-corruption scorecard.
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As debt hits 40 trillion and bond rate hits 5% will Republicans let big corporations and billionaires be taxed like normal people?
link:https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/wall-street-confronts-prospect-of-new-era-after-treasury-yield-hits-5-e3f05b38
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@brown.edu research shows that on top of the $38 billion Trump’s madcap war has cost us as taxpayers, Americans have already paid another $107 billion extra for gasoline and diesel. Both numbers will go up, up, up. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
link:https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/15/iran-war-cbo-01077533
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European cities look to Phoenix to deal with heat. ALL these extra costs should be in the price of fossil fuel. Free-to-pollute must end.
link:https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/07/heat-climate-crisis-paris-milan-phoenix
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Can we NOW wake up to the reality of Trump/Russia?
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Illegally making electric consumers pay off Trump’s corrupt fossil fuel donors is now standard practice for Trump scoundrels. apnews.com/article/mich...
link:https://apnews.com/article/michigan-coal-plant-trump-energy-climate-a9bc050527d58ed501a5498cbf0411d5"
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Climate issues raising family costs: the cost of insurance for the typical homeowner jumped by 24 percent between 2021 and 2024, according to research by the Consumer Federation of America. Free-to-pollute isn’t free to you.
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As diesel breaks through $6 a gallon for farmers, Trump wings off in his Qatari “Grift Force One” 747 to Ireland, and: “The real point of Trump’s visit is to showcase his Irish resort.”
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"Trumpism is the lowest stage of imperialism." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
link:https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/11/trump-carney-canada-imperialism
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Trump’s psychology drives him to tear down his party so he doesn’t fail alone. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
link:https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/09/trump-miderm-strategy-convention/688559/"
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You mean the Court that indicted war criminal Putin? More Trump/Russia? subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2026...
link:https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2026/09/us-pressures-nato-allies-to-destroy-international-criminal-court-01068664
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Only every major university teaches climate science, but fossil fuel thugs wanted West Point to stop?
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/09/08/judge-rules-west-point-policy-restricting-professors-speech-is-unconstitutional/
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Climate dangers: In the Rockies it’s impossible to miss the grey belts of what were green forest, killed by pine beetles. Wildfire fodder now.
link:https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a73634704/climate-change-forests/
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It’s been 25 years since the September 11 attacks, but we will never forget the victims, the families forever changed, and the brave heroes who ran toward danger. I am eternally grateful to the first responders who risked their lives to save others. They are the best of humanity.
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This happens with a costume party Cabinet of Idiots. Hard to plug the “billionaires and big corporations don’t have to pay taxes” hole with buybacks. Time for an honest tax code.
link:https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-09/us-more-than-doubles-long-dated-debt-buyback-size-to-6-billion
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Nice try, but if you run up huge deficits by exempting big corporations and billionaires from taxes, markets will react. People collectively worth trillions, and corporations worth tens of trillions, and corrupt Trump, pay virtually no taxes.
link:https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/09/treasury-bessent-bond-buybacks-borrowing-costs-01068655
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Calling out an “idiocracy” at the Pentagon “of corruption, stupidity and sycophancy.” Don’t we deserve better?
link:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/opinion/hegseth-national-security-military-generals.html
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Think this is a normal mind? Has he lost it? Any attention to people’s concerns about corruption and costs?
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/09/07/trump-suggests-renaming-new-mexico-amid-torrent-online-memes-taunts/
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Even Russia’s submarines benefit from Trump/Russia, yet the press has more or less stopped noticing the rhinoceros in the living room.
link:https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/05/nato-iceland-allies-trump-us-01065450
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American workers are the backbone of our country, driving our economy and pushing us to innovate. I’ll continue to fight for safe conditions, fair pay, and protections in the workplace. Happy Labor Day!
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Eeeew. Do their positions come with kneepads? Maybe gilded ones? Trumpsters all have to be uber-macho, until it comes to Putin. Then it’s submission. Too creepy. One day we’ll know what Trump/Russia was.
link:https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/2636dae3d65268e1
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Watch this case scissoring with the Florida “fraud on the court” case. “Fraud on the court” is super-rare; unheard-of for senior government officials. This case exposing how the crooked scheme was cooked up could nail “fraud on the court.”
link:https://wapo.st/4zTsCAl
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The through-line for this billionaire-captured Supreme Court is that its election-related decisions always help Republicans, with the “reasoning” backfilled in to get there.
link:https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/04/election-tv-ad-rate-supreme-court-decision-01066038
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Admiral Stavridis is too nice to say it, but the problem is a Costume Cabinet of in-over-their-heads incompetents, if not outright crooks.
link:https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-09-04/hegseth-is-gutting-the-army-amid-war-with-iran
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This was the problem with “goals” and “ambition” rather than actually doing stuff that works. Now, we’re down to a simple equation: put a price on carbon pollution or fail at climate safety.
link:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/upshot/states-carbon-emissions-goals.html
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Ukraine has MacGyvered the Flamingo in a defense tech surge the U.S. DIB should emulate. The cutting edge of defense tech is in Ukraine. U.S. tech whizzes are investing big $$ there, learning how to innovate around our stultified DIB. But Trump/Russia is a problem.
link:https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a69062501/ukraine-missile-flamingo/
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Right. Not Trump’s stupid Iran War, stuck in Horm-ooze. Not Trump’s corrupt war on clean energy, jacking electric costs. It’s Ukraine. Who profits from that nonsense? Putin and fossil fuel.
link:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/business/bessent-energy-prices-ukraine.html
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Lots of downstream Republicans need that water just as badly as the Republican Party needs fossil fuel money! The tension builds...
link:https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25082026/attribution-study-links-carbon-majors-to-colorado-river-crisis/
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Here we go. Buckle up. Don’t believe Trump/fossil fuel lies. This gets bumpy.
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Trump’s Venezuelan Oil Grab looks doomed against market prices. For reference, Saudis can produce at $10-15 per barrel. Behind the curtain, look out for Trump cronies finding things to steal.
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The thing that will work is ending fossil fuel’s “we get to pollute for free” business model, a model without moral or economic justification, but one defended by fossil fuel with its massive campaign of fraudulent lies and dark-money corruption. apnews.com/article/clim...
link:https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-threshold-catastrophe-overshoot-un-warming-1b2d126e8359ba77e5546f27d8f4a4e1"
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Great progress made on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial! Providence will soon have a dedicated space to honor those who bravely served in Vietnam, and remember the 197 Rhode Islanders who made the ultimate sacrifice. www.providencejournal.com/story/news/m...
link:https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/military/veterans/2026/09/01/vietnam-memorial-in-rhode-island-takes-a-major-step-forward/91559081007/"
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“Trump wants to be the bully who humiliates others and forces them into submission.” His “[need] to assert his dominance” has one notable exception: with Vladimir Putin, Trump is the submissive. What is Trump/Russia, and why does it cause Trump submission? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
link:https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/02/trump-canada-tariffs-trade-war-backfiring
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You get energy affordability by getting off fossil fuel. Clean energy is least expensive on the grid. Clean energy has less “negative externalities” (pollution). Get enough clean energy and you get free electricity periods of the day. Our offshore is 9 cents/kwh in 18-cent grid.
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The Trump cabinet is like a Halloween party, dressed up as firefighters and nurses but not firefighters or nurses — just costume. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
link:https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-31/bessent-takes-us-growth-agenda-message-to-g20-summit-in-asheville
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Whatever Trump/Russia is, it’s facilitating this behavior by Putin, putting troops and allies in peril. Must be big. www.ft.com/content/6cf3...
link:https://www.ft.com/content/6cf367bc-95b0-4f1f-b149-a25684adefc3?shareType=nongift&syn-25a6b1a6=1"