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When climate change makes homeowners' insurance unattainable, houses unmortgageable, and reduces incomes, jobs, and economic growth, the costs of complacency become existential. I’m headed to the Senate Floor for my 304th Time to Wake Up speech.
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They may smell some disciplinary issues coming on.
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Former Senate Republican Leader Bill Frist joins the chorus on climate property risk.
link:https://www.forbes.com/sites/billfrist/2026/01/21/when-actuaries-see-the-future-climate-risk-insurance-and-your-wallet/
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“If you are somebody who has previously dismissed talk of election interference as overwrought, we understand where you are coming from. Yet we urge you not to assume that the past will repeat itself.”
link:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/opinion/trump-midterms-election-security.html
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If true, this could explain a lot: Epstein’s mysterious money; the wire transactions to former Soviet states; Trump’s submissiveness around Putin.
link:https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15516349/Epsteins-sex-empire-KGB-honeytrap-Paedophile-financier-Putin-Russian-girls.html
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America is facing a looming economic crisis that few people are talking about: a housing market collapse driven by increasingly devastating natural disasters. Senator Sheehy and I agree that preparedness should be bipartisan.
link:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/opinion/housing-market-extreme-weather-climate-change.html
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Bondi’s attack on Judge Boasberg summarily dismissed. This was one of several MAGA attack vectors: House impeachment filings; Senate “suspension” letter...
link:https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-justice-departments-misconduct-complaint-against-judge-boasberg-gets-tossed-2026-01-31/
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This Black History Month, we celebrate the contributions of Black Americans, who have long been at the forefront of our nation’s pursuit of equity and justice for all. There is much work ahead in that fight.
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When climate-driven insurance hikes and cancellations come to your door, who should pay?
link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOXUD9jzJgk&feature=youtu.be
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The Fulton County raid smells to high heaven of the dark work of Trump’s secretive Weaponization Working Group, which Tulsi Gabbard claims to have “stood up.” That would explain her improper presence at a supposedly domestic law enforcement scene.
link:https://www.reuters.com/world/us/wide-ranging-group-us-officials-pursues-trumps-fight-against-deep-state-2025-10-20/
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I would add to Will’s column that the risk of corruption grows explosively as unchecked executive power grows.
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/01/30/trump-firing-executive-branch-supreme-court/
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American businesses have for years propped up “worst climate obstructor” U.S. Chamber (aka #ChamberofCarbon). Corporate leadership now has to be found overseas. Way too many U.S. CEO lips on Trump’s rear end.
link:https://www.axios.com/2026/01/27/andrew-forrest-australia-fortescue-trump
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One thing to add to Carini’s column is that in the offshore litigation CT and RI AGs alleged in court filings hundreds of millions in consumer savings, with sworn affidavits. ecori.org/dont-blame-r...
link:https://ecori.org/dont-blame-renewable-energy-for-escalating-electricity-costs/
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$31 billion in extra utility costs, much of it driven by climate perils caused by fossil fuel pollution; much of it caused by fossil fuel minions in Trump administration blocking and delaying low-cost clean energy to reward Trump’s fossil fuel buddies.
link:https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eenews/2026/01/29/utilities-sought-a-record-31b-in-rate-increases-last-year-00752839
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Administration pretext of “national security” to stop offshore wind now 0-for-4 with 4 federal judges, including a Trump appointee. 0-for-5 if you count the first Revolution Wind “stop work” order thrown out months ago.
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Looking to Davos corporate elite for leadership is like looking to squid for spines.
link:https://time.com/7353478/davos-climate-leadership-end-fossil-fuel-era/
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What will lower energy bills is getting Revolution Wind up and operating, delivering 9.9 cent/kWhs into an 18 cent/kwh grid. Trump is messing with that to keep us buying higher-cost power from his big fossil-fuel-buddy donors.
link:https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/politics/state/2026/01/30/plan-to-lower-ri-energy-bills-puts-two-mckee-priorities-at-odds/88418997007/
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“Police chiefs who have spent half a decade trying to persuade a skeptical public that officers would curb their use of violence are contending with widespread alarm over federal officers ushering an innocent man into the snow in his shorts, arresting a 5-year-old and killing U.S. citizens.”
link:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/us/its-all-just-going-down-the-toilet-police-chiefs-fume-at-ice-tactics.html
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The Economist magazine, with a world-wide audience, steps in hard against Trump/Noem’s violent embarrassment of our country with ICE’s goon-squad behavior. It’s remarkable, and sad, that Trump’s America looks like this to the world.
link:https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/01/29/ices-impunity-is-a-formula-for-more-violence
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The overheated and false rhetoric from the right, likely designed to interfere with Judge Boasberg’s investigation of MAGA DOJ contempt of court, fell apart completely when reviewed by an independent judge.
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New England offshore wind isn’t “eventually,” it’s now. Vineyard already sends energy to the grid; Revolution weeks away after weeks of illegal blockage by Trump; and it’s less expensive. Revolution is 9-cent/kwh power into an average 18-cent/kwh grid. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/o...
link:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/opinion/cold-weather-power-outages.html"
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Mens Sana watch: Slovakia’s MAGA-leaning prime minister warned EU leaders about Trump’s ‘psychological state’ and used the word ‘dangerous.’
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They wear masks; here’s more on how they spy on you.
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2026/ice-surveillance-immigrants-protesters/
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The courage of ordinary Minnesotans also stands in stark contrast to America’s pusillanimous corporate “leadership.” Thank you, @smith.senate.gov.
link:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/opinion/ice-trump-good-pretti.html
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ICE agents are scanning your face while hiding theirs.
link:https://www.wired.com/story/mobile-fortify-face-recognition-nec-ice-cbp/
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I know bad police work when I see it.
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I hear that the price of Trump’s attendance was downplaying fossil fuel pollution dangers, and business “leaders” went spinelessly along.
link:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/climate/davos-climate-change-trump.html
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Dept. of Not Keeping Stories Straight: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/01/28/trump-pretti-shooting-noem-bovino/
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“Key figures in the administration are pointing fingers at one another. Trump is blaming Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino. Bovino’s boss Kristi Noem is blaming Stephen Miller, per Axios. Miller is blaming Border Patrol. And Border Patrol is big mad at ICE, per POLITICO’s Myah Ward and colleagues.”
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Bush appointee (and Scalia clerk) demands ICE chief in court: “ICE’s violation of court orders is … extraordinary, and lesser measures have been tried and failed.”
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A small community newspaper from a rural area with traditionally conservative leanings lets them have it.
link:https://www.caledonianrecord.com/opinion/editorial/editorial-above-the-law/article_a862db8b-2e48-5d97-9243-868ecb716aa6.html
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Noem needs to go, too.
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When the government is lying to you, watch out. “The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting,” Alex Pretti’s parents, Susan and Michael, said in a statement.
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Leader Thune must keep DHS $$ separate, like House did, so we can pass all other appropriations. Everyone sees DHS needs work.
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Reads a lot like “hand over sensitive voter information or the chaos continues.”
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Even the WSJ editorial page calls out the lies! “The Trump Administration spin on this simply isn’t believable. Stephen Miller, the political architect of the mass deportation policy, called Pretti a ‘domestic terrorist.’ He was a nurse without a criminal record.”
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Some get it, but will they do anything?
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Pretty stunning to think that the subject of an order to block destruction of evidence is the U.S. government. It’s TrumpWorld.
link:https://www.wsj.com/us-news/in-battle-for-evidence-minnesota-sues-feds-over-fatal-border-patrol-shooting-52be59ba
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MAGA DAG Blanche on Pretti killing: “make no mistake about it, you cannot look at a ten-second video and judge what happened.” So will you do a legit investigation, or sweep it under the rug like Renee Good killing?
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The Wall Street Journal questions the Trump administration version of events. Pretty soon, no one will believe them.
link:https://www.wsj.com/us-news/videos-contradict-u-s-account-of-minneapolis-shooting-by-federal-agents-fbe1e488?st=swiyai&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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Here’s another Bellingcat series on an agent using “less lethal” munitions.
link:https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/01/16/border-patrol-minneapolis/
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David Brooks is joined by Reagan alum Peggy Noonan, questioning the mental condition that drives Trump to disrupt things to entertain himself. More and more, the question of his mental condition moves to the forefront.
link:https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-cant-tolerate-peace-and-quiet-1b916fd6
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I developed the INFRA program to support projects like the reconstruction of the Providence Viaduct, the heart of RI’s highway system. Thrilled to celebrate the completion of RI’s first INFRA-funded project at the Viaduct, with more ribbon cuttings to come!
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The Trump administration is losing because the Trump administration is lying. Courts don’t appreciate that.
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This is the cascade I warn of: climate risk crashes insurance markets, which crashes mortgage markets, which crashes home values, tanking the economy.
link:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/opinion/housing-market-extreme-weather-climate-change.html
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As we adapt to the climate crisis, funding from my National Coastal Resilience Fund will help strengthen infrastructure for communities like Johnston and New Shoreham facing frequent floods. Glad to announce ~$1.2M in funding to further resiliency initiatives across the state.
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