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A good piece by @senangusking.bsky.social.
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At $100/barrel that means EVs saved around $84 billion last year.
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Republicans stand by this foul man.
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Democrats have offered to pay the salaries — fully fund, no conditions — for TSA. It’s Republicans who keep blocking that.
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Democrats are willing to fund FEMA, no conditions attached, even with wackadoodles like this in supposedly grownup jobs. But Republicans want the hostage, and won’t accept “Yes, with no conditions” as our answer. It’s 100% on them.
link:https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/20/politics/fema-official-gregg-phillips-violent-rhetoric-teleported-kfile
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Shows how the oil industry runs the world, and the Trump administration for sure. Total stooges.
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/03/20/iran-oil-sanctions-trump/
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Remember the Democrats’ position on funding TSA: Yes. No conditions. Just yes. Hard for a minority party to offer more. Republicans won’t take yes for an answer because they want the hostage.
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2026/03/20/tsa-security-dhs-airports-lines/
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Republicans drive up home insurance costs by pretending climate change isn’t real — a service to their fossil fuel funders; a huge disservice to their constituents.
link:https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-18/us-home-insurance-prices-set-to-keep-rising-with-severe-weather
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My Big Oil Windfall Profits Tax Act would send any big windfall for Big Oil back to the hardworking people who paid for it at the gas pump.
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Trump is cheering on giant oil companies as they exploit world events to reel in massive profits. He couldn’t care less that you and your family are paying the price.
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Americans are getting squeezed at the gas pump as Trump’s War in Iran sends gas prices soaring and money flowing to his Big Oil donors. This week, @khanna.house.gov and I reintroduced a bill to curb this profiteering and provide relief to consumers.
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The MAGA system for intimidating judges.
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Her explanation was no explanation. Other than involving Trump in the mess.
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“Blocking permits for new clean energy keeps cheap supply off the system,” which forces grid to high-cost fossil units, revenue to Trump donors. Scam.
link:https://fortune.com/2026/03/17/electricity-prices-rising-how-to-fix-utility-regulation/
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Methane polluters should be held to account. Instead, Republicans help them pollute. Fossil fuel money corrupts America.
link:https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/17/revealed-world-worst-methane-leaks-global-heating
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Republicans don’t want to fund TSA.
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Fossil fuel flunkies go into panic mode over obvious fact that their energy is dangerous, polluting, and whacks consumers with huge price hikes.
link:https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/op-eds/4490218/strait-of-hormuz-choke-point-rotten-fruits-green-policies/
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Polluters, and freeloaders too — to the tune of a trillion dollars. How much political corruption protects that grift?
link:https://www.iea.org/topics/fossil-fuel-subsidies
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Here comes the Great Climate Insurance Collapse.
link:https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-15/california-insurance-crisis-hits-even-homes-facing-lower-wildfire-risk
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Whiz kid.
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The Trump administration not appealing the decision throwing out its “stop work” order is a good sign for permitting reform progress, as wild swings in oil prices remind us that inexpensive, homemade electrons that do not depend on foreign cartel pricing are a national security win.
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Getting rid of dark money would be one good start. Paying their damned taxes would be another. We can do both. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
link:https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/15/billionaire-curb-power-movement?CMP=oth_b-aplnews_d-1
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Is Epstein’s in-house accountant covering something up for Trump? These depositions are under oath. The Trump accuser’s lawyer disclosed to @postandcourier.bsky.social that she did indeed receive a settlement from Epstein’s estate, of which Mr. Kahn is both executor and beneficiary.
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They should keep an eye out for side deals and “kompromat” that would explain the Trump Administration persistently favoring the corrupt murdering tyrant Putin. www.politico.eu/article/germ...
link:https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-friedrich-merz-blasts-donald-trump-lift-russian-energy-sanctions/
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Doofus doesn’t know I came on the board at the same time as his marauders. As for “silence,” who put public members on mute in board meetings? www.thedailybeast.com/richard-gren...
link:https://www.thedailybeast.com/richard-grenell-throws-a-fit-on-way-out-door-of-kennedy-center/
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Like a mob bust-out gone wrong, Trumpsters’ looting of the Kennedy Center has put it out of business, and now it needs to be “closed for renovations” as cover-up. No surprise he’s being replaced. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/2026/03/13/kennedy-center-richard-grenell-resigns/
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Republicans lose NOTHING by simply saying yes — except their ability to hold these agencies hostage for more ICE funding. It’s easy, just say YES!
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How is this not simple?? We are fighting over reforming an out-of-control ICE. We have agreed to fully fund, no conditions attached, TSA, FEMA, Coast Guard and more. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
link:https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/lawmakers-dig-in-on-dhs-funding-impasse-9452c4c9
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More Trump/Russia: Rubio went to stump for Orban; Orban is blocking Ukraine $$ for Putin. www.ft.com/content/34df...
link:https://www.ft.com/content/34df20f9-487b-4cb6-9dc9-d676d959d1ed
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Republicans ought to rename their “SAVE” Act.
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Recycling, when done right, is good for the planet and keeps local taxes down. I’m very pleased that the funding to replace Providence’s aging, hodgepodge recycling carts comes from my bipartisan Save Our Seas 2.0 Act.
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Homan can start by telling us what happened to the $50k the FBI reports paying to him in a CAVA bag in a bribery sting.
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Trump: “when oil prices go up, we make a lot of money.” Translation: “We” = Trump’s big fossil fuel donors.
link:https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5780543-us-oil-prices-trump/
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More freedom for Russia from sanctions; more revenue for Russia to slaughter Ukraine. Whatever Trump/Russia/Epstein is, and whatever Trump/Kushner/Witkoff side deals exist, this is a disgrace. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/u...
link:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/us/politics/trump-russia-oil-sanctions.html
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The FBI’s sloppy raid in Fulton County reeks of ulterior motives.
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Further mischief on offshore wind means further pause on permitting reform. Let’s hope we can go forward without further mischief.
link:https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/offshore-wind/offshore-wind-farms-race-toward-completion
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Their pollution compromises Earth’s natural systems, and their corruption compromises America’s political systems. We won’t be free until we’re rid of their power.
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They don’t want an America that works for anyone but them, and their main cause is to be able to pollute for free. They are dangerous.
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The fossil-fuel billionaire takeover makes a sham of America’s constitutional structure. Btw, they captured the Supreme Court as well.
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Fossil-fuel-funded Republican president and fossil-fuel-funded Republicans in Congress have no reason to quarrel; they answer to the same master.
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Fossil-fuel billionaires’ takeover of the Republican Party means they pull all the strings. 🧵
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This is good news. Let’s hope these calves do not become victims of vessel strikes or fishing gear entanglements, the two leading causes of death for these whales.
link:https://www.wpri.com/community/environment/critically-endangered-whale-calves-spotted-in-massachusetts-waters/
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Trump’s message is clear: polluters win; you lose.
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Trump's submissiveness to Putin is highly suspicious.
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Now they're insulting Trump, yet he stays submissive to Putin. Something’s up with Trump/Russia. Is it Trump/Russia/Epstein?
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/03/11/russia-ukraine-iran-trump-negotiations-trust/
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Watching Vladimir Kara-Murza deliver Marie Colvin Lecture and remind us that Mussolini said that he had seized power and destroyed democracy “by plucking the chicken feather by feather,” so no one notices. Let’s notice.
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What they understand is that the side deals matter more than the deals, and taking care of Trump CronyWorld matters more than outcomes. And, yep, you can’t get that from the professionals.
link:https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/10/how-jared-kushner-steve-witkoff-see-the-world-00820113
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After years of delay, look what's finally hanging in the Capitol. To the heroes who served on that dark day, thank you.
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