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Rhode Island and Minnesota were the two of the most welcoming states to Hmong refugees, and I’m proud to represent my Hmong constituents.
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Grateful officials who had served with them worked to expedite their passage from the camps to the U.S.
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Hundreds were rescued in that unauthorized airlift, but most had to flee into the mountains, hunted by the Pathet Lao, and work their way to camps across the border in Thailand to queue up for refuge in the United States.
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Legend has it that one pilot pointed his pistol at an airbase official trying to keep him from getting to the runway.
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Loyalty was mutual. When we abruptly left Laos, CIA and military pilots flew unauthorized missions from our Thai airbases in “borrowed” aircraft into Long Tieng to bring out their abandoned comrades-in-arms and their families.
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They were loyal and brave and effective. Our U.S. military attaché in Laos Gen. Dick Trefry said after the war that were it not for the Hmong troops operating in Northern Laos, “there’d be a thousand more names on the Vietnam Memorial” in Washington.
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They opposed the communist Pathet Lao, and fought to protect their territorial home. They helped rescue downed pilots and disrupt the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
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During the Vietnam conflict, the CIA supported a Hmong military force operating out of a base in Laos called Long Tieng, run by a general named Vang Pao.
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The gentleman who ICE hauled without cause out of his home in his underwear into the icy Minnesota winter (after terrifying his 5-year-old grandson) was from Laos, one of the Hmong hill tribes people of the then-Kingdom of Laos. You should know a bit about the background of those people. 🧵
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Representative De Luca’s legacy will be defined by his faith and bravery, which helped turned the tide in the fight for marriage equality in Rhode Island. We are all better off for his service.
link:https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/20/metro/advocate-rhode-island-catholics-marriage-equality/
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Putin is the only winner in the Greenland mess. America/NATO/Europe all losers. What does Putin have on Trump?
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The conclusion is worth reading in its entirety, but here’s the punchline: “this charade of Ms. Halligan [elsewhere in the order described as a “miscreant”!] masquerading as the United States Attorney for this District in direct defiance of binding court orders must come to an end.”
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/documents/468ef241-1f53-4af1-a8da-21ff0960a2fb.pdf
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
link:https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-025-02533-5
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXAV...
link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXAVnSG45mc&list=PLhyg5hj7I21jr7tP--id5EmMTmpTbdlw1&index=21
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Oceans keep setting new heat records (by the zettajoule), raising the cost to us of fossil fuel’s climate crisis.
link:https://insideclimatenews.org/news/09012026/ocean-warming-breaks-record-for-ninth-straight-year/
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The beloved Ocean Mist in 1991 (all that beach!) vs. today. Climate change is driving up RI sea levels faster and faster. Fossil fuel lying and denying can’t change these facts.
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Read my letter here:
link:https://www.whitehouse.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/2026-01-15-Speaker-Johnson-Letter.pdf
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My response to the claims in Senator Cruz’s recent letter:
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Time to reconsider Trump/Russia? Why Trump, who needs dominance in every relationship, goes submissive with Putin? Why everything Trump does helps, pleases, or goes easy on Putin? (War criminal on Board of Peace!)
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Russia’s greatest constraint is NATO. Russia fears NATO. Russia won’t touch Greenland because of NATO. Just look at Russia’s open celebrations of Trump’s Greenland gambit. They’ve figured this out. It’s not complicated.
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Trump’s argument makes no sense until you consider whom his nonsense helps. Not America; not NATO; not Denmark or Greenland — the person it helps is Vladimir Putin; the country it helps is Russia. Cui bono? Remember that principle: Cui bono.
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The greatest danger of Russia taking Greenland comes from a damaged NATO, precisely what Trump is doing. Trump is the threat he warns us about. Trump’s argument about that threat makes no sense. Almost.
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Trump says Denmark isn’t protected enough against this imaginary threat. Actually, Denmark has done the most powerful thing it can to protect against that supposed threat: join NATO (a founding member!).
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Trump says US needs Greenland to protect Greenland from Russia. That is probably not in the top 100 national security threats we face. It is not a threat I have once ever heard mentioned, until now.
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69-22, Americans feel utility costs going up. They are. Believe your own eyes. Trump keeps inexpensive clean energy off the grid to pay off his big fossil fuel donors. It’s on purpose; a deliberate scam to make you pay more so his corrupt fossil fuel donors make more.
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Glad to join RIPTA this morning for the opening of the Pawtucket-Central Falls Transit Center Amenity Building.
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They all got big tax breaks, right? Billionaires will swallow a lot for more money. www.wsj.com/opinion/why-...
link:https://www.wsj.com/opinion/why-have-business-leaders-gone-silent-0a5a70ba
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Could the man be any smaller?
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Winter: Woonasquatucket to State House
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Even with Trump stooges cooking the books for his big fossil fuel donors, renewables still won — cheaper and cleaner. www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...
link:https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-energy/chart-how-the-us-electricity-mix-changed-last-year
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“It is midnight within the moral order … The most inspiring word … is that no midnight long remains. “Our eternal message of hope is that dawn will come.”
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Needs constant flattery. Submissive to Putin. The list goes on…
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Shall we go on? Wants someone else’s Nobel. Illegally adds name to Kennedy Center. Thinks there shouldn’t be elections. Stares out window at imaginary ballroom. Thirsts creepily for press secretary. Needs to put signs on White House rooms (so he knows where he is?).
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“Acting President” of Venezuela. Threatening more tariff costs on Americans to seize Greenland. Underwater on domestic issues. “Retribution” admitted at DOJ. Energy policies upside down. Whether or not he had a stroke, are we sure this man is mentally competent?
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Having captured the Supreme Court, corrupted the U.S. Congress, and occupied the executive branch from the inside, why would they not expand their corrupt ambitions overseas? www.somo.nl/the-secretiv...
link:https://www.somo.nl/the-secretive-cabal-of-us-polluters-that-is-rewriting-the-eus-human-rights-and-climate-law/
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Please join me in welcoming students back to Brown University. Students: it was an incredibly tough end to last year, but the state of Rhode Island is very happy to have you back for a productive semester.
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Long complaint, but interesting quotes re government’s reversal of prior positions; calls national security ruse a “pretext”; and alleges $13 million or more in cost savings for consumers this winter alone. media.wbur.org/wp/2026/01/0...
link:https://media.wbur.org/wp/2026/01/011526-Vineyard-Complaint.pdf
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Trump and minions lie that offshore wind power is more expensive, but don’t dare say that in court.
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“Made things worse” exceeds “made progress” in every category. 58% say he’s a “failure.”
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President Trump says he wants to cap credit card interest rates. I've got a bill ready that lets states protect their own citizens from predatory rates. Now let's see if he means it. www.axios.com/2026/01/12/t...
link:https://www.axios.com/2026/01/12/trump-10-credit-card-interest-rates
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www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/01/15/protesters-trump-administration-free-speech-violations/
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A headline you’d hope never to see. But that’s TrumpWorld.
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This article raises the interesting question: if Trump’s entire ethos is dominance, why does he become submissive around Putin? www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/o...
link:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/opinion/trump-presidential-power-addiction.html
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I have a bill to remedy the horrible Citizens United decision. And every time, Republicans vote it down.
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On top of the defeat for Trump on Revolution Wind, a Trump appointee just ruled for Equinor against Trump.
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You’ve heard me on zettajoules before; now it’s up to 23 — about 45 times more excess heat into oceans than mankind’s entire energy production.
link:https://www.wired.com/story/the-oceans-just-keep-getting-hotter/
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Could that “one other thing” be wondering why costs have gone up so much under Trump that Americans are supposed to follow a chicken/broccoli/tortilla diet? (Is that on the menu at Mar-a-Lago?)
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