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Look at Texas, where electricity generation has gotten cheaper over recent years because low-cost wind and solar surged onto its grid.
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Tell that story, or its wildfire sibling out West, and link it to the fraudulent climate denial operation Republicans run with their fossil fuel donors.
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Florida has a tottering insurance market, mortgages at risk of becoming unavailable unless they can be dumped on Fannie and Freddie, homes that can’t be sold, and the worst decline in property values of all fifty states.
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Add the many expert (often fiduciary) witnesses from my Budget Committee hearings — financial alarms are screaming.
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Fed Chair Powell is useless on climate, but even he sees a near future in which entire regions of the country are unmortgageable, with big hits to banking and the economy as a result of this cascade (look up “systemic”).
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In some places, it’s unobtainable without massive expense (like a new roof) or even at all, in which case your home value falls because no insurance means no mortgage means good luck finding a buyer.
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More powerful in many places is homeowners insurance, a big part of family budgets, one whose cost is skyrocketing.
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Our communications should explain this racket to ratepayers. Once they see the scheme, it’s hard to unsee it. Plus, no one likes being scammed.
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It’s a purposeful scheme to pay back Trump’s big fossil fuel donors using ratepayer money, hoping ratepayers won’t look past their utility bill and understand why that cost is going up.
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That raises the grid price, electricity rates go up, consumers pay more, but fossil fuel interests cash in big time, by billions.
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Start now with electricity rates, being purposefully driven up by Trump. Why? Because when they stall clean energy, the grid must reach up the “generation stack” to fossil plants that would not otherwise be running.
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Until his very last speech, there was no sense of combat, no talk of villains, no warning of consequences (use of “existential” doesn’t count). So we lost four years.
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The Biden administration was particularly bad, hoping to “friendly” its way through climate upheaval with “green jobs” talk, corporate tax incentives and squishy bromides about the environment.
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Let me offer a slight rebuttal on climate politics, beginning with us (enviros and Dems) having done a terrible job on climate communication for a long time. A legacy of bad work is not reason to stop work, it’s reason to do better work. 🧵
link:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/opinion/clean-green-energy.html
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it would ask him directly under oath about the tens of thousands of times he shows up in the Epstein files..."
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“If this committee is serious about learning the truth about Epstein's trafficking crimes, it would not rely on press gaggles to get answers from our current president on his involvement…
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"[Y]ou have compelled me to testify, fully aware that I have no knowledge that would assist your investigation, in order to distract attention from President Trump's actions and cover them up despite legitimate calls for answers.”
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Patel fires agents but won’t disclose his own grand jury testimony in that same matter, instead repeatedly lying to lay false trails.
link:https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/25/politics/fbi-agents-fired-classified-documents-kash-patel-toll-records
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Take a second look, why don’t you. apnews.com/article/epst...
link:https://apnews.com/article/epstein-justice-department-trump-793e47b09863f5a55e54040c891291d8
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The excess heat is coming on by the zettajoules. Look it up.
link:https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/25/chronic-ocean-heating-fuels-staggering-loss-marine-life-study
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Trump minions lie about cost and blockade clean energy. Result: your costs go up and fossil fuel makes more money. Crooked deal.
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Put battery and low-cost solar and wind together, and you have inexpensive clean energy fossil fuel can’t beat. So they cheat.
link:https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/batteries/chart-grid-battery-installations-soared-2025
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As President ‘Stop Work’ Trump brags about a year of chaos and corruption, he will be met by a dedicated union worker whose livelihood was upended to allow Trump to serve his fossil fuel billionaires.
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Rhode Island union workers like Mr. Kilday have done much to secure America’s clean, affordable energy future, even as the president does everything he can to keep families chained to dirty, expensive fossil fuels.
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Thomas Kilday, a union worker from the Revolution Wind project, was on a work boat the first time Trump halted the project. The second time, he was home awaiting his next four-week shift. Tonight, he’ll sit in the audience as Trump boasts his commitment to fossil fuels.
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If Trump really wants peace, he should repurpose frozen Russian funds for Ukraine and disrupt the shadow fleet that fills Putin’s war coffers.
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As Trump betrays our longtime alliances to help the murderous aggressor, I went to Kyiv and Odesa last week to reaffirm our support of the people of Ukraine.
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Today marks four years since Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked assault on peaceful Ukraine. Allies and autocrats alike are watching how America will bring a just end to this war.
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Much credit to @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social sollenbergerrc.substack.com/p/doj-remove...
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“The Justice Department has withheld some Epstein files related to allegations that President Trump sexually abused a minor, an NPR investigation finds.” www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...
link:https://www.npr.org/2026/02/24/nx-s1-5723968/epstein-files-trump-accusation-maxwell
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The MAGA trifecta cover-up of report on Trump’s crimes: on one “side,” the MAGA DOJ; on the other “side,” defendant Donald J. Trump; presiding, a MAGA Trump judge. So much for the “adversary system.”
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This storm has officially topped the Blizzard of ‘78. For everyone’s safety, and to help our emergency management teams perform their duties, please stay home.
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Guess that was too stupid even for Trumpsters.
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23 years after the Station Nightclub fire, we remember the 100 victims lost far too soon and the many survivors and first responders who live with scars from that night.
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Obviously, the Court’s long delay on tariffs was to fuss internally over statutory construction and “major questions.” How grandiose they are!
link:https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/20/politics/supreme-court-tariffs
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Victory for the Koch-Leo apparatus that actually picked Trump's justices. Trump was the chump there.
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Are Witkoff and Kushner the only two people on the planet who believe Putin is sincere about peace? And did they reach this conclusion during negotiations over side deals with Russia? Smells really bad.
link:https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/amp/entry/zelenskyy-denies-trump-claim-that-ukraine-is-blocking-peace-talks_uk_699592fee4b0b353293617c9/
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Ukraine needs more than American applause.
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Trump’s fossil-fuel stooges claim that 9-cent KWhs from offshore wind will raise prices on a grid averaging 18-cents/KWh. Anything to prop up natural gas.
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That doesn’t surprise me.
link:https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/16/jeffrey-epstein-brett-kavanaugh-supreme-court
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Trump’s corrupt efforts to prop up his polluting fossil fuel donors can’t change the direction of our clean energy future.
link:https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-energy/chart-energy-transition-attracted-record-investment-2025
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Ports like this are essential to Ukrainian victory.
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The world is entitled to know if our negotiators are entertaining side deals with Russia while negotiating for the United States. www.politico.eu/article/surp...
link:https://www.politico.eu/article/surprise-surprise-russia-ukraine-talks-yield-no-peace-breakthrough/
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Even actuaries are concerned about insurance markets, and corrupt fossil fuel efforts to impede climate risk research. Consumers will pay.
link:https://www.riskmarketnews.com/trumps-climate-supercomputer-plans-threaten-us-insurance-market-actuaries/
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I travelled to Ukraine to show that Congress and the American people stand with Ukraine in its fight for freedom. Ukraine can win this war, and Vladimir Putin must pay for his barbaric invasion.
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Trump’s corrupt fossil fuel stooges pretend clean energy is expensive, but reality keeps intruding. Fossil fuel paid good money for those lies, so they’ll keep at it. www.newscientist.com/article/2514...
link:https://www.newscientist.com/article/2514985-this-states-power-prices-are-plummeting-as-it-nears-100-renewables/
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Trump in person, Trump MAGA judge, and Trump MAGA DOJ all scheme together to destroy Special Counsel report. youtu.be/IosHp7M707M?...
link:https://youtu.be/IosHp7M707M?si=vvs5tL4Eo2L0JwrP
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More unnecessary horror for kids — this time at a high school hockey game in Pawtucket. My heart is with the victims and the entire community. I am grateful to law enforcement for their swift response.
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Incompetent lawyers always blame the judge. That tactic is so stupid that it further illustrates the incompetence. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
link:https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/02/15/jeanine-pirro-indict-democrats-failure-column-00782313