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Tenant. Public is owner; Congress is landlord; you are tenant.
link:https://www.huffpost.com/entry/live-updates_n_6a705787e4b07f03214394c9/liveblog_6a766ce2e4b06ed7068207ec
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Buckle up.
link:https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/todd-blanche-narrowly-confirmed-as-trumps-attorney-general-in-overnight-vote
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Stupid tariffs bang the economy. Great Climate Insurance Collapse bangs the economy. Botched Iran War bangs the economy. Clean energy ban bangs the economy. Behind it all is incompetence, corruption, and a mad fixation on gilding things.
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/08/07/economy-shed-23000-jobs-july-labor-market-weakened/
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To Republicans claiming they want to save Social Security: put up or shut up.
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An interesting side-by-side in the news...
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:-)
link:https://www.eastbayri.com/stories/editorial-climate-change-has-its-benefits-apparently,141696
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Latest on Reflecting Pool Debacle: The falsely-charged “vandal” has just filed an important motion in the case after the U.S. Attorney dismissed his felony charges “without prejudice” — meaning they could charge him again.
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This is what happens when fossil fuel gets to fix prices around their international cartel.
link:https://www.theguardian.com/business/ng-interactive/2026/aug/04/revealed-major-oil-firms-make-93bn-profits-amid-war-and-climate-crisis
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When even Trump thinks Big Oil is “making too much money” off American consumers, you know it’s reached barf-worthy levels of excess profit.
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Republicans set their health care grenade to go off after the election. Don’t be fooled.
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Face it. The Court is captured by right-wing billionaire interests, just the way railroad barons used to capture the railroad rate commissions, or mining barons the mine safety commissions. Look up “regulatory capture” or “agency capture.” thehill.com/opinion/judi...
link:https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/supreme-court/6003166-public-distrust-scotus-partisanship/
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Good. Leave them alone. Ban the practice. Pass my OCTOPUS Act.
link:https://www.seafoodnews.com/Story/1350168/Nueva-Pescanova-Scraps-Worlds-First-Commercial-Octopus-Farm-Plan
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Senator Ron Johnson objected.
quote:at://did:plc:qqixzm5pwprzdnkbh2hglpax/app.bsky.feed.post/3msbv7glnfk26
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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-driven extreme weather events are increasing at the same time that the government is dismantling weather monitoring and alert systems.
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What’s clear is the discrepancy between what Trump officials say in places like Fox News where they are not accountable for lying, versus what they say when they get near a courtroom where they are accountable for lying. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/08/04/trump-attack-jeanine-pirro-over-reflecting-pool-was-unjustified/
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It’s a sad day for the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Gee, why might those insurance prices be going up? What might explain Oklahoma’s high volume of costly, destructive weather events, including heavy hail, high winds, and numerous tornadoes? Maybe a scientist might know? A CLIMATE scientist?
link:https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eenews/2026/07/31/oklahoma-republicans-attack-each-other-over-surging-insurance-prices-01018075
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This is how the fossil fuel industry takes away places and activities you love. Who should pay for that?
link:https://coloradosun.com/2026/08/03/colorado-fishing-bans-high-heat-2026/#:~:text=Wildlife%20officials%20are%20banning%20fishing,species%20including%20highly%2Dprized%20trout
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Why did the Reflecting Pool cases blow up? Thank Brady v. Maryland, a Supreme Court case requiring that any exculpatory information the government has be turned over to the defense. A Brady violation is a big deal at DOJ (See Justice Manual 9-5.001). ⬇️
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Interestinger and interestinger: Remember the Florida federal court inquiry into whether the crooked slush fund and sleazy Trump family tax fraud amnesty deal was a “fraud on the court”? Major development down there! 🧵
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The $1.776 billion Trump “Anti-Weaponization Fund” is dead! Whoopee!! Wait . . . . how long ‘til we see a $1.9 billion “Trump Justice Fund”? Or a special drive-up window for MAGA Federal Tort Claims Act claimants?
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The Great Climate Insurance Collapse is beginning before our eyes. How does it happen? Gradually, and then all at once. Buckle up. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...
link:https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eenews/2026/07/30/climate-change-is-turning-parts-of-europe-into-an-insurance-nightmare-01016037
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I’m no fan of Comey, but as of today a search for “8647” on Amazon shows 923 items. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
link:https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-outlandish-case-against-james-comey
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A decent industry would say, “this was money we didn’t earn, it’s a windfall we get from our cartel pricing scheme.” Not these corrupt, greedy and grasping rogues. apnews.com/article/oil-...
link:https://apnews.com/article/oil-companies-profits-exxon-chevron-9375fbf8f6f40426f7428e07d54000c7
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This is what makes Trump’s attacks on EVs so stupid. To salvage a failing industry that happens to include his big crooked donors, he’s sabotaging America’s auto industry in international competition. Everything else aside, EVs are just better vehicles. www.eenews.net/articles/dri...
link:https://www.eenews.net/articles/drivers-flock-to-evs-amid-rising-gas-prices-from-iran-war/
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Part brag about all the captured equipment; part exposure of Russia’s often-antiquated technology; part resource for countermeasures research — Ukraine goes open source with Putin’s military hardware. So cool that they do this. trophylab.mod.gov.ua/en/about-us
link:https://trophylab.mod.gov.ua/en/about-us
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Then you’d better stand by your CBAM against Trump’s corrupt fossil-fuel-funded attacks! Every remaining pathway to climate safety requires ending fossil fuel’s crooked free-to-pollute business model. CBAM is the best vehicle for that — it’s truly our last lifeboat. www.politico.eu/article/spai...
link:https://www.politico.eu/article/spain-france-uk-warn-megafires-show-climate-change-is-threatening-our-way-of-life/
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If the guy was deliberately trying to anger Republican senators, he couldn’t do much better than putting his despised slush fund front and center with elections looming for them. www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-...
link:https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-todd-blanche-attorney-general-confirmation-tillis-cornyn-anti-weaponization-fund/
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There’s an old-fashioned name for this: corruption. www.canarymedia.com/articles/fos...
link:https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/fossil-fuels/coal-industry-trump-wish-list
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As climate change takes out the places and activities people love . . . . buckrail.com/in-hot-water...
link:https://buckrail.com/in-hot-water-first-ever-voluntary-fishing-closure-takes-effect-on-snake/
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Subtraction is such a novel concept. Who could have predicted? www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/07/30/shrinking-weapons-stockpile-is-testing-pentagons-sweeping-new-strategy/
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They don’t want people to see what a wreck they’ve made of the place. Empty, echoing, failed — a mob bust-out gone wrong.* *What do I mean by that? Usually gangsters tried to keep the place going for a while as they looted it. This was a botched job. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...
link:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/us/politics/kennedy-center-tours.html
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Florida officials say it’s not climate change but their own citizens’ massive fraud that’s driving the home insurance crisis. Nice, huh? Here’s how many Floridians get zero dollars after an insurance claim:
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“Oh, what a tangled web we weave . . . .” AG nominee Todd Blanche is snarled deep in a tangled web of his own making, and he and Republicans are covering up the messy tangle. That won’t last. The mess is too thick. The stink is too rank. 🧵
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Sleepy Ol’ Trump wasn’t nodding off, he was checking his eyelids for leaks, ve-e-ery carefully. www.huffpost.com/entry/white-...
link:https://www.huffpost.com/entry/white-house-reacts-trump-nap-lindsey-graham-funeral_n_6a690f6de4b098352c2fb748
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Just what America needs: more billionaires spending more money on more political influence. Are we not sick of this yet? My DISCLOSE Act will help cure the billionaire-fueled rot. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...
link:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/us/politics/elon-musk-midterms-republicans.html?partner=slack&smid=sl-share&utm_source=semafor
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Looting consumers AND the planet. Such good people. www.fastcompany.com/91581113/big...
link:https://www.fastcompany.com/91581113/big-oil-profits-are-soaring-while-extreme-heatwaves-scorch-the-planet-this-summer
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Oh, my. The fossil fuel industry lying and dissembling and pretending it cares about its climate upheaval dangers — what a surprise. insideclimatenews.org/news/2807202...
link:https://insideclimatenews.org/news/28072026/exxonmobil-isds-challenge-eu-carbon-capture/
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So much for the ‘respect for precedent’ stuff they spout at confirmation — this is called auditioning. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
link:https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/ho-suggests-justices-should-reverse-same-sex-marriage-ruling
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This confirms how committed Corrupt Trump and Weasel Blanche are to defending their cop-beaters’ slush fund and Trump tax fraud amnesty. Should be easy to reassure those two senators, if Blanche were sincere about what’s dead.
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There are three big problems for Blanche with crooked Trump deal he incubated: (1) the slush fund for cop-beaters and MAGA-loons, (2) the Trump family tax fraud amnesty scam, and (3) they pulled it off through collusion and possible “fraud on the court.”
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Trump telling Zelenskyy to “end the war” is like telling the homeowner to “end the burglary.” Maybe it’s on the burglar?
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When polluters run EPA, this is what you get. Corruption. insideclimatenews.org/news/2807202...
link:https://insideclimatenews.org/news/28072026/justice-department-environmental-enforcement-has-collapsed/
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Republicans just took down the Blanche vote for tomorrow. Shows how truthful Blanche was about the slush fund deal being dead, that he couldn’t even convince Republicans. He’s a slippery weasel, and that was a slippery deal.
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Think how much dark money corruption and climate denial fraud Big Oil can get up to with this half-trillion-dollar windfall (from you, btw). www.woodmac.com/press-releas...
link:https://www.woodmac.com/press-releases/wood-mackenzie-mid-year-outlook-oil-and-gas-industry-cash-rich-but-capital-cautious-as-nearly-half-a-trillion-dollar-windfall-fails-to-trigger-a-spending-surge/
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Trump’s subservience to corrupt fossil fuel forces is killing our U.S. auto industry in international competition (spoiler alert: China is the big winner). www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
link:https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/trumps-isolationism-is-losing-the-great-ev-race
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My friend Dr. Ramos was a Townie legend. He touched so many lives over his many years as an educator and public servant in East Providence. Rest in peace, Izzy.
link:https://turnto10.com/news/local/dr-isadore-ramos-remembered-trailblazing-leader-devoted-east-providence-neighbor-educator-athlete-racial-justice-july-28-2026
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"Trump talks about “Trump Derangement Syndrome” but the real problem is “Trump Debasement Syndrome,” when his suck-ups debase themselves for office, power and loot. To wit, Blanche. youtu.be/kWaB6k8F824?...
link:https://youtu.be/kWaB6k8F824?si=QYHbnHVQyhSNQ139"