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I wish I didn’t feel that Trump’s team were the dumbest three in the room. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/04/12/iran-us-talks-ceasefire-vance/
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Great news! Fossil fuel corruption can’t stop cheaper, cleaner, more reliable renewables, even with Trump’s little orange thumb pressing down on the scales to pay off his big fossil fuel donors. www.newsweek.com/americas-pow...
link:https://www.newsweek.com/americas-power-supply-just-flipped-in-surprising-direction-11805184
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Hooo-weee, those creepy fossil fuel billionaires are going to take good care of this little stooge for life! I guess everyone has their price. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2026/04/08/epa-lee-zeldin-heartland-speech/
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Run into ground by incompetents and looters who now need to close the Center for “repairs” as cover. www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/04/10/kennedy-center-layoffs-trump-closure/
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And this needed to be brought up now because . . . ???
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Polluters celebrate “consequential” Trump EPA. “Consequences” are dirtier water and air and rapidly worsening economic dangers. Sick stuff.
link:https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/09/at-climate-contrarian-gathering-allies-urge-trump-to-keep-zeldin-at-epa-00864114
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Iran and our Gulf allies seem to think Iran won.
link:https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/gulf-states-fear-an-emboldened-iran-after-trumps-cease-fire-a7becf78?st=Sm4bL6&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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Well done, Brown! You can’t do better than that!! www.brown.edu/news/2026-04...
link:https://www.brown.edu/news/2026-04-08/hugh-clements-public-safety-chief
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Kash Patel’s “public” grand jury testimony was anything but.
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Enough climate hushing. Democrats need to fight.
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The fossil fuel industry is probably the biggest fraud apparatus in the history of mankind. It should be joyous to take that machine down. #EEODayRI
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Swap Putin for Orban here: “Orbán has been with the president for a very long time. He was with him through the trials and tribulations, through the entire campaign.”
link:https://www.politico.eu/article/last-throw-of-maga-dice-for-viktor-orban-jd-vance/
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An aged and compromised Commander-in-Chief is losing his grip on reality, increasing dangers at home and for our brave troops overseas. Threatening to inflict massive civilian casualties is un-American; the stuff of cruel dictators. Republicans should no longer stand idly by.
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An administration official is calling Trump "bloodthirsty, like a mad dog." When will Republican spines of foam stiffen?
link:https://www.axios.com/2026/04/07/trump-iran-deadline-bridges-power-plants
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When Putin is brought up on war crimes charges, he will be able to say, “The United States did it too.” Trump/Russia/Epstein.
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I wouldn’t put it past Trump to bomb a power station in Iran just to give Vladimir Putin cover for his relentless energy terror against Ukraine. s2.washingtonpost.com/473e494/69d4...
link:https://s2.washingtonpost.com/473e494/69d41fd3770ff71a44bacb68/5972c092ade4e21a8483291a/4/13/69d41fd3770ff71a44bacb68
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The East Bay Bike Path is a Rhode Island gem that was in need of some repair. @reed.senate.gov and I secured federal funding for new bridges that once again allow riders to smoothly traverse the entire East Bay.
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For Sale: Trump gives data centers “some PR help” with a “pledge” that has no binding enforcement mechanism.
link:https://www.latitudemedia.com/news/energy-industry-greets-white-house-data-center-deal-with-a-shrug/
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Trump is looking around at the mess that he’s made and is trying to figure out how to throw the election.
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Good article. I visited the same factory and was equally impressed.
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/03/30/ukraine-russia-putin-zelensky-drones/?utm_campaign=wp_week_in_ideas&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_content=week_in_ideas&utm_term=jtk-flex-day
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Pope Leo challenges “the abuses that crush the weakest among us, the idolatry of profit that plunders the Earth’s resources, the violence of war that kills and destroys.”
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My intel is that Trump administration used Orban to help sabotage the EU’s Russian-assets-to-Ukraine deal. More Trump/Russia.
link:https://www.politico.eu/article/operation-save-viktor-orban-us-donald-trump-deploys-jd-vance-hungary/
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Wishing a very happy and peaceful Easter to all who celebrate!
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Post and Courier doing good work catching Trump/Epstein Files gaps. Well done. www.postandcourier.com/news/fbi-wit...
link:https://www.postandcourier.com/news/fbi-witness-jeffrey-epstein-sc/article_5a467072-e68c-44fa-91a5-7b509ff6949c.html
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TrumpSpeak: “hoax” means real for sure; “full confidence” means start packing; “obliterated” means still there.
link:https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/02/politics/iran-missiles-us-military-strikes-trump
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It would be nice to have a president who did NOT combine the mental acuity of a geezer and the temperament of a toddler. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/04/02/us-iran-war-strait-hormuz-future/
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Now will the press finally concede that this is and always has been a 100% Republican dysfunction-caused shutdown? Come on, folks. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/u...
link:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/us/politics/house-dhs-funding-shutdown.html
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My conclusion: Patel has skids under him, just as Noem and Bondi did. Start the clock.
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His baggage exceeds his utility. Blanche can protect Trump without Patel and likely wants rid of him. A new AG will want rid of him. Wiles must be sick of him.
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Also, multiple agent lawsuits loom and will oblige Patel to testify. He will be a train wreck under competent examination, and leave a big mess.
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My guess is that Patel is next to go. He is DOJ’s Lewandowski: jets and partying not popular; lying to Congress not resolved; astounding incompetence.
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Many of the worst-hit states are represented by fossil-fuel-funded Republicans who ignore climate perils, so local advocacy could matter.
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It’s easy to be out-muscled by the thug muscle of the fossil fuel industry, but it’s really a shame barely even to try. yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/03/the-...
link:https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/03/the-ski-industry-is-oddly-quiet-on-climate-change/
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No wonder people are fed up and Trump polling is collapsing into low 30s range. They can’t govern. Incompetence reigns. Gangster gong show.
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Republicans can’t get out of their own way, insist on an unnecessary shutdown, won’t challenge an unnecessary war, ignore epic corruption.
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This week, massive failure to execute on House side on the deal they had just orchestrated with Senate Republicans — it is truly the gang who couldn’t shoot straight, this time into own feet. Sadly, DHS employees must bear the cost.
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Plus, OMB says that ICE/CBP can be funded by the billions they put aside in the Beautiful for Billionaires bill. They had the money all along. cdn.sanity.io/files/ifn0l6...
link:https://cdn.sanity.io/files/ifn0l6bs/production/c670140bd16b1109f0ca9fcd450b5a671f5b88cc.pdf?utm_source=semafor
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House Republicans could have accepted the unanimous Senate end to the shutdown, but instead they prolonged it unnecessarily as they quarreled. And now fumbled the ball.
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Senate Republicans could have accepted our offer of “yes” on Day One. Instead they held TSA, FEMA, Coast Guard etc hostage, before coming to their senses.
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At the end, the whole shutdown was completely unnecessary and 100% caused by Republican dysfunction. 🧵
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Key text: the U.S. has “failed to sanction a single new tanker under the current administration.” More Trump/Russia.
link:https://kyivindependent.com/exclusive-inside-russias-shadow-fleet/
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Some rare good news. Kudos, Uber.
quote:at://did:plc:7exlcsle4mjfhu3wnhcgizz6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mij2yyy2ba2e
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Just like clockwork.
quote:at://did:plc:qqixzm5pwprzdnkbh2hglpax/app.bsky.feed.post/3mggeubf7ms27
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link:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/us/politics/trump-pam-bondi-future.html?unlocked_article_code=1.XlA.-PfY.Bu10eu5FkFWw&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Bondi fell into the Trump Trap, giving up her integrity to keep her job, and looks like she now will leave with neither.
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About time they figured it out. So much unnecessary pain and hassle when this was our offer all along. “Yes to everything except the ICE/CBP bits that everyone knows need reform” — what was so hard about that? What was the point of holding all the rest hostage? www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
link:https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/republicans-announce-plan-end-dhs-shutdown-tsa-airport-delays-rcna266286
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Someone ought to tell President Trump...
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This is the woman whose FBI 302s were “mistakenly” withheld by MAGA DOJ, and interview notes still withheld. Some transparency.
link:https://newrepublic.com/post/208341/new-details-13-year-old-donald-trump-accuser-epstein
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Begging the question whether Trump, 79, is in full control of his mental faculties.
link:https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/31/trump-words-iran-war-churchill